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Voi. 4.— No. 185.
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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-
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land, where horticultural and agri thing is going
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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
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