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About Gold Hill news. (Gold Hill, Jackson County, Or.) 1897-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1910)
The Gold Hill News Published t w o SeturAay »1 Gold Mill U tlao n County, Ore<on — ----- *T ~ - RtX M, LAMPMAN “THE TOWN WITH A FUTURE” is a city of destiny. Nature made the site for a G OLD city HILL here, at the natural entrance to the Rogue river valley proper.' and when the final adjustment occurs, the best that puny man can do is to conform to nature’s plans. Not only is t i i r m l at «be » o ld M i l l p orto«*» tor » » » » o il» Gold Hill the natural gateway to the best part of southern Ore •ton throueb (he t’nlu-d state» m ail» u »eeaad e l l » -natter gon, but Crater Lake and the national park and all tie scen.c SubM nplion $1.50 Per Annum, in Advnnce beauties of the upper Rogue lie just beyond. An amazing list of natural resources has been placed con S avcrpay , J anvamy i . 1911 tiguous to Gold Hill, and so placed that the industries resulting from their development must be located here. Gold, iron, copper Professional Cards lime cement, brick-clay, timber, waterpower-all in abundance- lie right at the very gates of the city-to-be. The scenes are A. E. KELLOGG set and the plot has been laid by nature. It remains for man to enact a drama the unfolding of which means the biggest and EMBALMER AND FUNERAL best town between Portland ano Sacramento—perhaps the DIRECTOR greatest interior town on the whole Pacihc Coast Gold Hill is Complete Ime ol burini robes. , a - k e la , e t c . _______ _ Vnderataking room« oppoaiie I. 0 . 0 F a city of destiny. hui ü p -oor ’*6 Main The editor of the Medford Sun raises a hoarse hee-haw over GOLD HILL. OREGON the article wl ich appeared in The News last week, entitled “A Vision of the New Year.” He seems to think the idea that Gold CLEMENT H. SMITH. M. D. Hill is to be a a l metropolis is ^ust it is. As he is H ill IS t o De i i c i i v y u i i a la lu o i « a joke. Perhaps -- GENERAL PRACTITIONER a ioke of purest ray serene himself, one is constrained to trust Engagements for obstetrical implicitly to his instinct in the matter, even in the face of facts visits must be made indicative of the contrary in advance JOHN H . CAKKIN C.LKSS O. TAYLOK CARKIN & TAYLOR LAWYERS A T T E N T IO N is called to our double - page advertisement in this issue of The News. It is perhaps the largest ever printed in a town the size of Gold Hill | Takes Homestead on Railroad LanJ] rec.nl date tells telle earn- samw thing. The Oregonian of reo-nt * a i g T I a» I la«y lawyer aak The last . . . I . I k *. » e . ■ * « •« * t ■0«H* 1 7-19 OVKB JACKSON COUNTY HASH in the following intereeting way ed me if I would u-e a shotgun if how one man has taken poseeasion he trespassed on the land. 1 told MEDFORD, OREGON of a quarter lection ol railroad land him I would not, but that I would and is improving it, despite orders arreel him myself, il I Could t o PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON of the company official, to vacate, get other proces«, and lake him be O FFICB AT R E 8IDBN CB His plan raav lead to a wholesale fore the court. WOODVILLE, OREGON settlement of railroad grant land. “Up to the present tin.. I have and may help to solve the problem out 150,000 feet of timber have J. L. HAMMERSLY of ownership of same. The Ore- 100,000 feet stacked up; a t d pro ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR got.ian save: pose to cut more. I have cleared o r m c c IN BANK BUILDING W. R Smith and the norihwe-t live acres of land and set out an (GOLD HILL, OREGON quarter of section 27, township 7 orchard and now I »tn going to get south, of range 1 east. Willamette title to the land. The railroad A. E. KELLOGG meridian, conjunctively make a big company has refused tender of pay- NOTARY PUBLIC thorn in the Hde of tbe Southern menl for the land twice ar.d this PbODe 38 Main Pacific company. Smith has per- time I am going into court to com- GOLD HILL, OREGON sistently bed down the 160 acres pel the company lotake my money DR. ARTEMAS W. DEANE oi land, as technically described, and give me title ” DENTIST laughed at threats of the Southern Smith has not only been a eel- GAB A I I M I N I B T U B D Pacific to oust him, parried the in tier, but has m ade considerable RIALTO BUILDING, MEDFORD nuendoes and suggestions of astute money locating other settlers on i ttorneys and field agents of the the railroad company’, land grant, Notice to Water Liner» railway company, and not only has furnished lumber to build their Water w ill be cut ofl January continues holding his homestead homes trom tim Ur cut on hie land, 15lh if all buck rente are not paid down but says be will sue the big and has sold what he had left in Oregon Wa'er it Power Co. corporation to compel it to accept t he open market or to sawmill». $400 in gold as payment for th- There are now fifteen settlers in his Cow Wanted neighborhood, who are joking to Freeh hr Boon to frerhen; part or land and give him title. Smith on July 18, 1907, located Smith to pilot them through, and foil Jrtwy preferred. Also eorae bay end a dozen cbickrns. W no. on 160 acres eight miles ea9t of he came to Portland this week to Silverton on tbe Cedar Camp road bring suit and set a precedent to H. Seerle, at Gold Hill Bank. between Silver Lake and Abaqua. ' give others encouragement. Sunday thicken Dinner It was a portion of the land grant "Represent..ive elect L a f f e r t y T h - Gold H ill Cafe serves usual to the Oregon & California Rail- has brought suit against the South dinner order at 30c every Sunday, road company, which car ied with ern Pacific to return tbe land tn alro Sunday chicken dinner at 50c. it a contract to sell the 6,000,000 the government,” said Smith, “but Freeh oysters in cans. acres given tbe railroad company that does not alter my status. If I am getting a large shipment at a maximum rate of $2 50 an the land goes back to the govern- of Tokay grapts and can quote acre. Smith began chopping trees menl my claim is still good. I prices for small either in large or and clearing land and erected a took the land io good faith, under house. He then made a trip to the provisions of the government email quantities. J. E. Day, Woodville or 216 Front St. North San Francisco and tenoered the contract with the Oregon & Cali Southern Pacific company, sue- fornia Railroad company, and the Medford. cessors to the Oregon & California government is back of me.” Stray Notice There came to my place on Mays Railroad company, $400 in gold I Smith is not an ordinary settler, creek in December, 1909, one red iupatm eut for the land, or the as representatives of the Southern He is bull altoutihieeyears old ; no mark; maximum rate specified in the | Pacific have recognized. land grant. The company refused quiet-mannered, but determination brand either “ J V” or “ I U ; ’ emali bell; one brres rivet in tbe collar. to accept the money and told ! is written across his countenance. He has shown no violent temper Owner can have same, by prov Smith to vacate. Instead ol vacating, Smith re and has been calm under fire. ing animal, and paying all charges. turned to the homestead and beRan During the controversy, Smith has L. E. Neathamer. cutting more timber. About a consulted lawyers and judges of R. F. D. No. 1 Woodville, Oregon year after he located a field agent the superior and supreme bench, Stolen of tbe Southern Pacific called up and conducted a voluminous cor Sometime between November 26th on him and suggeeted that be va respondence with various depart and December 25th, one set of six cate. ment» of tbe government. In this “I told the agent”, eaid Smith, way he has gathered an abundance new, silver filled, pie forks. Des cription—eweet pea p a t t e r n , bo is in Portland to institute pro- of legal information with which be •smooth place on bandies for initial, «seedings to compel tbe railroad haa backed his definace of the big «a tbs ba< k is printed. “Paragon company to take bis money and corporation. TWpls.’’ Valued as a keep-eake. give him title to tbe laud, “that ha “I have a right Io the lend; It ie |8 j OC reward for inlormatlon lead waa a private citizen, and, aa such, mine,” continued Smith, “or tbe ing to tbs return of same. Address bad no right to even interview me railroad eompany would have Mrs. J. W. Milkens, about my private affaire. I told brought legal proceedings long ago Foot* Creek, Oregon. bim not to treapaea on my property, to make me get ofl. J have InviU that it be did I would cause hie ed all the suite threatened, and Stowy Notice arrest. I also told bias that if none were'brought. If the compa There earn« to my plane on tbe Southern Pacific bad any claim ny had legal statu* it would uaa it. Evans creek in January, 1907, one on tbe land the proper place to pre The fact that no legal effort ha* red oar, marked Swallow fork out ■ant i( would be in tbe coarts. I ever been made to compel mo to va tbe right ear and under bit; the defied him and tba railway oompa cate is sufficient evidence that I left ear Swallow fork and under bit; ny to bring proceedings to oast me a a right." Brand on tbe left big W. and the or have me arreated for holding •aid cow it now a coming five year possession of the land. A* that old. time I bad cut 50,000 feet of tun Owner can have same by proving bar and buik a bouee. He told me DECORATOR anianl and paying all chargee. to atop cutting the timber, and I Sign and D. I . Neathamer. told bim I would continue cutting Carriage R. F. D. Mo. 1 Woodville, Oregon timber, and I have done so. 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