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About Gold Hill news. (Gold Hill, Jackson County, Or.) 1897-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1900)
' 11 Î w ■ w GOLD HILL NE A Voi. 4.— No. 185. N EW SPA PER , NOT AN ORGAN. GOLD HILL, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1900. Subscription 81 The hopeful view of affairs, the of the land company for the pur- operated a two stamp quartz mill ambition to dare and to do great chase of the property. He was for the accommodation of prospect things, impulses attendant upon disappointed to find that the tract ors. He put in no concentrator, mining enterprises, create an invit- covering his finds bad been bonded and consequently there was a los» Gandies, N uts, ing social atmosphere in the towns by Portland parties. Humason in low grade ores, but it has been C igars ano of Jackson and Josephine counties, took in the ledge and 320 acres of a great convenience to prospectors T obaccos Two rich strikes have been made adjacent ground and employed within a radius of 15 miles. during the last week in quartz Graham as foreman of the mine, Both quarts mills are within mines, each within two miles of Graham went directh to the zich sight and hearing of Gold H ill, on hid you know we have opened up a first-class Gobi H ill. A chute carrying free quarts for the new owners, so that opposite banks of the Rogue river. tirocery Store in Gold Hill, opposite the Livery gold in large quantities has been they are in pay weeks before they Their noise day and night is an in- Stable, on the South side ? tup|«d in the old Braden mine, had hoped to be when they bought spiration to the little city to pro- and another of the same character; the mine. mote every mining and manufact- ha s been found in the Blackwell I There are twenty well developed uring enterprise. and we wapt to let you know that we have a H ills Mining Company. The writer pay chutes on the ledge. By sur- ' A brickyard, which is employed line stock of absolutely frenh good», which we visited the Blackwell mine and in face excavation these are known to to its full capacity to supply local want to »ell you, with the undendanding, that 20 minutes picked out of the ledge, have yichled over $50,000, the si..- demands, is an industry which ha» you-getyour MONEY BACK if they are not crustled in a mortar, and panned gle firm of Beekman <fc Reames, of been added to Gold H ill within tht exactly ok represented. out about $3 in coarse gold. Jacksonville, having bought from last few months. The fine new V e don’t intend to keep Groceries. We The Braden mine is one of the the early owners and operators of residence of Mrs. Dekum in the intend to well them. Come in and take r look When north end of town has started a oldest quartz properties in this part the mine *40,000 in gold. at our »tore anyway, whether you buy or not. the Oro Fino excitement broke out building boom in that direction. Jof the state. It has yielded thous Alway» remember you will get good fre»h ands in free milling gold. It was in the 60s this property was aband Gold H ill has doubled in business recently {»urchased by Dr. C. R. oned, as were many other good and population since last this hand Ray for $14,000. The stamp mill mines in Southern Oregon. The guided a pencil in making note of at the lowest possible prices. at this mine has been run until it old and primitive arasta employed its advantages and development. Dr. James Braden has given ' is worn out and out of data. The in separating the values from -the Your« for trade new owner has ordered improved ore still stand at the foot of the Gold H ill a fine power for manu ledge, as a monument to early en facturing purposes by constructing machinery for its modernization. Being advanced in years and de deavor in quartz mining in this a conduit two miles long down the N. B. If you can’t read, it makes no difference, this is 'south side of Rogue river. The siring to retire from the activity region. already red.—If you don’t understand it, bring it over and The ledge in which the high val fiume and ditch now carries about and and anxiety peculiar to the Reed will read it for you. management of a large property, ues occur is narrow, as are all of 2500 inches of water. It furnisher Dr. Braden let his mine and farm the quartz veins in this country about 60 horse power to the Cheney go at a low figure. The transact where free gold is found in quanti & Humason quartz mill. It is ion is a benefit to this locality, as ties. Sometimes it pinches from good for 400 horse power and can the purchasers are progressive and two feet to four inches in thickness. be enlarged to supply power for a h ive means with which to carry on At the Nye mine where it is said manufacturing city of 5000 inhab development. While tbe mill has that $25,000 4n ore is blocked out, itants. Gold H ill offers the best bean shut down until the new ma the miners are picking away at a water power and facilities for man AI BTBMCTIM LSTTER II TIK OREGONAR tain of returns as farming. And chinery is installed, work in tbe quartz seam which runs from three ufacturing of any town in Southern towns which build up on it liecome mine goes ahead just the same. to five inches in width. In this Oregon on the Southern Pacific By Wilksr Fmk Bntk. IWrenitsg tbe Gnwtk as pemanently prosperous as those There is now enough rich ore on eection rich p a y is eweountered at railroad. The berme of the High Line asd (■prsiesMik Tke ('ester sfa kick which depend entirely upon the the dump to keep five stamps busy the pointe of contact between tbe Ditch Company lines the hills for products of the soil. The placer day and night for two months. main ledge or fissure vein and cross Ib ia g Swtíss. about twelve miles above Gold mints in this locality, which will The free m illing chnte, which stringers. A heavy ledge of bull quartz, which can be traced across Hill, and gives some evidence that not be exhausted for several gen Gold H ill, November. 6 .-A I1 the (er, y on, Mntribote year, y w , b. was struck this week, shows greater the country for several miles, cots the great waterway may be built. depth than any other part of the towns of the Rogue River Valley gold output. Money which comes This irrigating, mining and trans mine. Dr. Ray believes that he the Blackwell vein at right angles, portation scheme is entirely practi in Southern Oregon have proepered directly or indirectly from the has found the original fissure thro’ but the contact fails to produce cal. When accomplished, it will quartz ledges is seen in the stores values such as are found at the in during the last year, but, in pro which was shot up the large de Bags of tersection of the stringers with the I,>e the most extensive canal in the portion to population, Gold H ill of Gold H ill every day. posit of quartz and yellow metal Northwest. It should pay better placer gold put in an appearance ehows the greatest growth. During which has made this mine famous fissure vein. thau any other that has ever been Humason and his associates are this time Ashland has erected as only during and after the wet sea as a producer. built on the Pacific Coast because many new buildings as comprise son. The product of the placers is Interested . in investments in opening up another ledge on a 40 of tbe several profitable uses it will entire structural landscape of Gold to this country what the wheat Southern Oregon with Dr. Ray is foot tract two miles north of Gold serve. Any one of the purpose“ The H ill. But Ashland was alread so crop is to Eastern Oregon. his brother, of New York, manu Hill. They have on this property named is sufficient to justify con quartz gives the every day use of a 14 foot ledge of ore assaying from large that the new houses were not facturer of the Raycycle and pro struction. noticeable. And Grants Pass, with coin, which is provided by cattle to moter of trust corporations. These $3.25 to $51 per ton. In doing 100 in the last twelve months, has rear herders of Central and Southern gentlemen may become an import feet of development they have piled The News Art Department up about 20 tons of millieg ore. is up-to-date. There is none ed half a dozen bricks, any one of Oregon. ant medium between the unde The placer miner, however, diff which cost as much as the com veloped resources of this country Fifteen tons of this ore will make better in Southern Oregon. bined improvements of Gold Hill. ers from the wheat farmer in a and the idle capital of the Eastern one ton of concentrates, a value of Give ns a call. $775.13 in gold and $3 in silver. Gold Hill does not claim to be n matter of habit, which is import metropolis. full grown city. It puts on the ant to the prosperity of his trading Tne new five stamp mill of Che Ivan Humason, well known in uirs of a healthy little town, and it point. When the placer miner has Portland, is manager of the Black- ney & Humason was started up Dr. CHAS. E. MORRILL, lives up to all of its professions. exhausted the year’s clean-up he well H ills Mining Company. He this week. After a continuous run PHT8I0IAK AND 8UBGÄ0N. It is supported almost wholly by hies himself back to the mountains is very much elated over the dis of 72 hours it proves to be one of He keeps miners. There is not another min to dig for more gold. covery in the 45-foot shaft at the the best plans for saving values Office at Residence, GOLD HILL, OREGON ing ctimp in Oregon where trade is out of sight and out of hearing un end of their 200-foot tunnel. The which has come into Southern Or so even and so steady. Character til he has again filled his pouches. mine is in such shape now that egon. The machidery was all istic of its leading industry, it is Then he reappears in town with work can be done on three pay manufactured in Portland and is J . M. KEENE, D. D. 8. an importer and consumer of raw confidence in liis step and hope in chutes, all of which go hundreds of particularly adapted to treating and manufactured products. For his countenance. He inspires ev dollars to the ton. The quartz in this kind of ore. The mill has every carload of exports there are erybody about him with the feeling these chutes is so rich that the free about 2000 tons of custom work in Office Adkln-Duel Block. M kdpord , O h , that the country is alright. The gold is in sight when a candle is sight. It is a boon to the tanners three of imports. There is nothing which can be stranger who is in the locality held up to it. of this region, who heretofore have HAMMERSLEY & CARTER, seen from the streets of Gold Hill catches the infection and goes away The property -belonged to the been isolated from a modern mill Counsellors and Attorneys-at-Liw. which shows how the people make advertising the place with more Jackson County Land Association plant. A number of prospectors Will practice in ail the courts o( their living. The town is situated success than a subsidized immigra up to a few weeks ago. This cor have now gone to work on their the state. Office in Beeman building, tion agent. in the canyon of Rogue River, poration owns several thousand ledges hoping to mill enough ore Gold Hill, Oregon. The average wheat farmer, on acres of land in this part of the as they go along to defray the ex where the Southern Pacific crosses the other hand, after disposing of state, which it has been accumu penses of development. the stream by that name, and the As many C. B. WATSON, site is barren of vegetation. Still his crop for European gold, com- lating for speculative purposes. of the prospects in this locality ATTORNEY AT-LAW, the stranger sees money circulating plains for several months of hard Graham^ the lessee, began work on mve paid without careful treat times. n If anyone in his hearing the ledge without capital and pick ment of the ore, it is to be assumed Offiece—Up staiis, Opera House Block, freely. In respect to its visible, times, backing, Gold Hill differs from ¡ expresses« optimistic views he be- ASHLAND, OREGON. ed, pounded out and panned out that there are very few which will Medford, Jacksonville and Ash come« savage in proving that every for himself, by the most primitive fail to give returns with milling to ruin. The stran- . » land, where horticultural and agri thing is going 7 . , i means, a snug grubstake. In one and scientific treatment. The fol- FOR AN EASY SHAVE, cultural wealth is very much in ger who bears this tirade against Rpot of the pay chute ,1# fcook jg jgQQ, lowing prices are named for custom farming goes away suspicious of all {rom two cubi(J fee| of u s work: for 10 tons, $5 per ton; for a Stylish hair cut, evidence. • m go to Deboy’s Shav , , hat bc bad accum„ ,ald jSO tona. »3 par ton; lor 100 tona or The epoch of quartz mining has real a ita t, value, in the agriaultur-I ing Parlor, 6 doors Grab. more, »2 per ton. been uehered in in Southern Ore a diamela. The result I. a mata- ¡u l e„„ug„ u buy west of the Post gon. This form of the mining rial and spiritual depression in the am covered up his finds and For several years Jesse Houck, Office. business is as scientfic and purely agricultural community. Up negotiations with SAY! z H. D. REED D E N T IS T « •o n I n a in f A t in llln a . A o . • 4 . 'X’j - •«.<
