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THE SUNDAY OBEGOLTAN, POBTLAOT, DECEMBER IS, 1904.
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FIRST CARLOAD SHIPMENT ' TO THE PACKARD PORTLAND STORE, 109 SIXTH STREET, NEAR WASHINGTON, OF THE
Famous Packard Shoe
ALL STYLES ONE PRICE ALL LEATHERS
for Men $3.50
The Packard Shoe people extend a cor
dial invitation to the good people of Portland
and vicinity to call and see the rieTwhome of
the PACKARD SHOE, PRICE ALWAYS
3.50.
The Packard Shoe differs from other
ready-to-wear Shoes in as much as it is the
only Shoe that resembles and equals the
regular custom Shoo. In other words, the
PACKARD SHOE IS A REGULAR $6.00
SHOE for 3.50.
The PACKARD SHOE has reached this
perfection after years of experience, and like
Rome, the reputation of the PACKARD
SHOE was not built in a day.
The PACKARD SHOE lasts, patterns
and styles are in advance of other makes and
can only be found outside of the Packard
Shoe in the custom bootshops of the larger
Eastern centers.
The .leathers that go in the PACKARD
SHOES combine elegance and endurance
and are a special tannage for this celebrated
and world-famed 3.50 SHOE.
The PACKARD SHOfe is made in all
weights of sole to meet the requirements of.
all occasions, climate and weather.
The PACKARD SHOE in the workman
ship excels other makes, carrying with it the
finish that only goes with a custom-made
Shoe. '
The PACKARD SHOE pedple employ
the most skillful union shoemakers in the
construction of the FAMOUS PACKAS,
SHOE, and not a single item is slighted in
making the PACKARD SHOE the king of -all
3.50 SHOES.
"We again ask you to call and see the
PACKARD SHOE in its new home, and we
can safely boast that Portland has the finest
exclusive Men's Shoe Store on the Pacific
Coast, devoted to the sale o the PACKARD
3.50 SHOE.
Store Ready for Business
Monday, December 20th.
Portland
Store
Store Ready for Business
Monday, December 20th.
PHILLIPS SHOE CO,
109 Sixth-Street, Near Washington
DREDGERS REVOLUTIONIZE PLACER MINING
Mammoth Machines Dig Their Way Through Gravel
Beds and Little Gold Escapes
THE GOLDSHir, FLOATING in its portable sea.
THE TAILINGS ELEVATOR AND THE TRAIL OF THE MONSTER THROUGH A ONCE FERTILE FIELD.
v N the olden days the ancients had a
i fable oJ a fish that lived on land and
climbed trees la quest of food. In
these modern and commercial days Into
-which no breath of fable or touch of ro
laaaoe finds Its way, we have the story
of mobster ships -which sail on land and,
saftllag. form the seas in -which they sail.
A weird and uncanny tale it is, kin to the
story of the devastating dragon whose
white-hot breath swept the prehistoric
plalas and left thorn, burst and baked, a
desert for all time to come.
The day of the gold ship Is come, and
that vast monster who has been striding
through the plains of California, uproot
ing with Its iron nose the fertile valleys,
the blossoming orchards and the waving
fields, has begun lis march in Oregon,
and, digging deep down, like the ranging
swine te search of acorns hidden under
ground, has begun to lick the golden
sands from off the bedrock of Eastern
Oregon valleys, and passing on to new
fields, leave behind a wreck of tumbled
rook and gravel.
It is an unlikely-looking thing, this gold
ship monster, which is coming to devour,
with its insatiable appetite, the fertile
roil of our valleys and leave in its wake
the bleaching bones of the land. A great
square hulk lies upon the breast of the
b&cked-up waters of the little mountain
streams. From its belching stacks come
night and day the soot and smoke of a
never-dying fire. Down from the" front
into the bottom of the river dips a. snout
cf solid steel up which marches an end
less precession of bobbing, hump-backed
buckets bearing the age-old treasures of
golden sand torn from tne bosom, of' the
valleys. High in the center whirl and
rumble giant drums Into which the obedi
ent and tireless buckets pour their bur
dens in the face of innumerable jets of
water, which wash the sand and dirt from
the gravel and carries the half-liquid mass
down through many devices onto the mats
and sluices set to trap the golden grains
as they pass. Out at the back points a
giant arm of crossed and bolted steel,
along which runs an endless belt bearing
away the gravel and debris, and casting
the worthless rock in great heaps- of -un-slghtllness
in the track of the monster
as it marches steadily onward, ever-hungry
and ever-eating.
The history of placer mining, if It were
to be written out, would show that or all
the 511,000,000,000 worth of gold mined in
the world since the discovery of Amer
ica, fully nine-tenths would have been
taken out by ,the aid of water in one
form or another. The old-time prospector
of '49, with his pick and shovel and pan;
the rocker-box. the cradle and the sluice
have had each its time, and all are -still
to be seen In many, parts of the world.
The mile-long ditches emptying Into the
bulging pipes, led down the mountain
sides into the workings of the Wg hy
draulic companies, have been seen and
plotured. but it remained for the gold
dredge to come before the placer miner
could reap his harvest in any field and
in any clime.
In the old days the placer miner washed
the gold out of the benches, reaching
above the mountain streams, and sluiced
the dust from out the too layers of the
valley lands, but there his labors ended.
"Whenever in his search for gold he went
, down into the earth and found the water
rising around him. his efforts had to be
' abandoned and new fields sought,
i Mining engineers have gazed longingly
j at the golden sands dragged up from the
bottoms of rivers, but have found no way
, to work the fiolds In a practical manner.
I On every hand the waters closed over
j the treasures and protected them. Many
j dredges had been made and tried and aban
; doned. but the secret still remained. Ail
I the Ingenuity of man was turned towards
finding some way of getting at the gold
along the bedrock, down 20, SO and some
times 50 feet underground. -but Jo no pur
pose. Shafts were dug ,and" Immense
numps installed to drag the sand and
golden dust to the surface, hut they
proved to be failures. Airtight tubes were
sunk into the ground to great depths and
powerful engines forced compressed air
Into them, pushing back the water so that
tl miners could work out the sand along
the salid face of the bedrock. But the
waters, beaten, for a time, rushed back
upon the miners and drowned them at
the bottom of their airtight graves, and
that plan was abadnoned.
It seemed as though no one would ever
find a way to get at the vast riches of the
undcrworid. when two orchardlsts of the
Feather Klver "Valley in Northern Cali
fornia lilt upon the plan which bids fair
to rcvolutioni2 the placer mining Indus
try and bring thousands of acres of here
tofore unthought-of land Into the lists of
the gold fields. These two men had ono
of the largest and most productive olive
orchards In the state and were laboring
earnestly to increase it both In yield and
extent. One day, while digging a new well
to furnish water for the trees, the men
found that the sand brought up by the
drill was laden with gold. Other holes
wore" drilled and the experiment ended by
the two men who had been fighting-the
orchard pests to save their orchards, buy-
j lng a thousand acres cf the land adjoln-
! ing. This? secured, they went to work to
perfect some machine which would be able
to raise the golden sands to the surface,
j where their glittering dust could be sop-
i arated for the Use of man.
A novel plan was hatched between them.
A "big hole, as large as a house, was dug
in the middle of their land and in this a
monster dredge was built. One hundred
thousand dollars were spent In perfecting
this before the thought of "return came
Into the minds of the experimenters, but
at last the dredge was -done. Then the
irrigating ditches which had In the past
fed the fruits of the orchard were diverted
Into the bed where reclined the newly
born monster, which soon floated in an in
land sea.
Now began the harvest. Down deep un
der the dying orchards the iron miner
reached Its steel tipped hands and scooped
from the surface of the bed rock. SO and
more feet below, the long hidden gold.
Since that time. ' now three years past.
j many changes havo been made In the
Gold-Ship, until it works with only the
watching of a singlo man, and carves out
fortunes for Its owner ln"a day. It is
estimated that land bearing 40 cents of
gold to the cubic yard will yield, through
tho efforts of one"-ef these mechanical
miners. $270,000 net income on an invest
ment of 51COt0OO. One of moderate size wjll
dig 2000 cubic yards of land In 24 hours.
That means a gross output, of ?8G0 a day,
or $24,000 per month. The expenses are
about JU00' monthly, which would give
the approximate Income quoted above.
Down In Oroville. Cal., there are now 23
Gold Ships running night and day. In all
the Pacific Coast fleet there are more than
100 of these uncanny ships floating in their
portable seas. Each one is eating up one
acre of Innd every month and leaving, be
hind a heap of uneven gravel, dragged up
from deep below, while down along the
bedrock Is" being placed the soil in which
once .grew trees and flowers and grain.
What the -end will be Is a matter that Is
beginning to bring alarm to men and to.
cities. Qroville is facing a line of the eri
croaching ships which are slowly circling
the town and devouring the orchards and
the fields. Farms have seen the approach
Of the never-stopping laborers of steel
and are now barren wastos of rock. Thou
sands of acres of the richest valley lands
in California are marked as food for the
ever-hungry tollers. In China and Africa,
across the ocean, the strange animals have
begun to forage. Nearer home. In Mexico
they can be found. Idaho. Montana arid
other of the mining states hear the breath
of the engines through day and night
And now they have come to Oregon!
Nestling In one of the valleys of the
Blue Mountains the first of the Oregon
fleet is taking hitherto inaccessible riches
from the bedo of the mountain streams.
Gastern men are writing to 'agents In
Portland, as well as to those in Eastern
ciUes of the state, directing them to buy
up these little mountain valleys reaching
along the Burnt River, North Powder and
the John. Day. All through those moun
tains, where in the past years the humble
prospector ha3 panned out his dally wage,
are little dales and valleys along- the
i banks of the mountain creeks and
streams. For years It has been known
that the soli of these places bore paying
! quantities of gold, while hero and there
i are rifts of unthinkable wealth. The ever
; present water has kept the miner to the
; upper levels and only the advent of the
! deep-ranging dredge has made It possible
' to scoop out the gold hiding along the
1 bedrcck.
In Southern Oregon, where for many
years the placer miner has been at home,
are to be found pasture lands for the for
age ground of the new Invader. Another
era Is coming to the mining Industry of
the state and before many months havo
passed the rumble of the revolving cyl
inders as they separate the dross from the
yellow gold will mingle with the creak of
the chains, and the groan of the never
stopping procession of buckets, as the
steel miner digs 4eep Into the heart of the
Oregon mountains in search of the treas
ures sleeping there R. A. WATSON.
Leaves on Extended Trip.
W. C. Puffer left last evening over the
Southern Pacific on Rn extended vaca
tion trip. As he could not get away in
the Summer, he Is going where there-is
Summer weather now. He will visit
Southern California, and thence make
an excursion Into Mexico; and after look
ing over the princfpal cities and most In
teresting part3 of that country, will
travel across Texas to New Orleam
whence he will proceed to Cuba. Aftei
seeing all he wants to of this island,
he will visit the principal cities In th
Southern and Eastern States before re
turning home. He Intends to take hli
time and enjoy his vacation thoroughly
and expects to be gone six or eigh
weeks.
PLACING FERE HYDEAHT3.
Unprotected Districts Are Remem
bered in the Distribution.
District Engineer Holden reports thi,
fire hydrants are being placed In many
unprotected districts on the East Side.
Those asked for in Hawthorne Park Ad
dition were placed, and also in Holladay
Addition. Hydrants were planted near
the Central and Thompson schoolhouses,
which adds greatly to the protection of
these buildings. Hydrants are now to
be placed on East Twenty-eighth street,
where they have long been desired.
The East Side gets 50 Are hydrants out
of the recent contract for 100. and these
are being planted where they will do the
most good. Owing to the constant spread
ing of the suburbs, 50 hydrants do not go
very far.
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BUSINESS ITEMS.
If Baby I Cnttlse 'Tetlb.
B sure and use th&c old and vrsIl-trUd react?.
Mn. TVlmlow'a Boothlar Syrup, for ebildr
teething. It soothes tho child, softens th anas,
Hays all pals, curt wind colic and dlarraa