$500,000 CEMENT PLANT ASSURED FOR CITY
SALEM, Ore., April 10.—The Beaver Portland Cement
WATER GULCH MOUNTAIN
company has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary NELLIE WRIGHT MINE TO
of state. The capital stock is $600,000 and Portland is the prin-
IS MASS OF VALUABLE ORE cipal
INSTALL NEW QUARTZ MILL
place of business. The articles state the company will en­
Iron and Copper De­
posits May Soon
Be Worked
POPE PIUS X.
Mlilwny up W ater G n ld i, sloping to
tlx- left, Ilea n titani*' m ound th a t in la
m iliar In loeal parlance aa "th e iron
iiiountuln." T hat it iu nut u ................. in
tliu contention of competent mining men,
* ho are inclined to tin* opinion, however,
tliut tlu> iron orc ho profusely apparent la
merely the rapping to a tn-tnenduoua
«upper deposit. Speculation has always
la-eii rife aa to the day when the ]H>u»il*il-
iliea of thia vuut and valuable mountain
of on* would 1« realized and capital In-
U'reaietl in it* development. For it num ­
ber of years the tract I iuh laa-ii owned by
tlie Garfield Iron A Lime Company, of
Portland.
It ia now curmuUy rum ored tliut the
vlait of Dr. II. E. French and F. #W.
Hollis, of Medford, to thia city tin-tlrut id
tile present week, ia tin* pnliin iiiary at* p
Pope Plua X. whose condition was
toward a development of tin' property in reported Improved, suffered a relapse,
th e m a r future. It 1« understood tliut due to reluctance to cubm it to s tric t
these gentlemen were hen- a» repreaen- j medical regime.
tut Ivin of a Medford coterie of linaciera
wlio have secured a bond upon tin- pro­
perty and will undertake to d ev elo p 't.
It ia alao stated. witli dam e rum or
again as sponsor, tliut tie- principals
propose to utilize natural gun from the
bitum inous coal fiilila near Mi dford
to operate the pruap<*i'tive plum. So
great I h the Hitppiy of gas from tliiu
source t l i u t dillieiilly ia ox|>ericuccd
T lie newly elected III* iillwra of tile city
In freeing the workingM of the accum ­ council as-iiiu* *1 otlice til III** regular
ulations and the proposal to give it a molltlily meeting Monday evening, when
commercial tine in generating jaiwer ia the oath of office was adm inistered fol
an expedient and fcMaihlc one.
lowing th e adjournm ent <>t tlie old coun­
Mewra. French and Ilollia made a |a-r- cil. Tlie ¡a r -o n n e l of tlie council ia now
annul survey of the ground and n o ried as follow: \ >w members, Mra. w . W.
specimens witli them upon limit; depart­ T ruax, second w ard; It. D. Cameron,
ure. W ater Gulch, upon which tin* tie. second w i l d ; I, W . K.iy. lira! w tn l; old
jxiui* ia situated, ia two und one liulf liicinla-ra, I, it. Cardwell, llr-t w ard; J,
miles east of tliiu city.
It. Palm* r. - ■ nil ward ; F. It. WiUmarh,
tlrat ward. Tlie retiring meniliers an*,
W. It. W alker, G. A. I-an*lia, and .1. F.
Dietrich. Tin* new council organized by
tlie election o f I,. It. Cardwell as ch air­
m an, lifter tin' nom ination hud I mvii de­
cline*! by councilman Palmer.
Contrary to ex|s * tution, in view of the
George Iverson, prenidlug genius of th e fact dial city attorney I*. ,1. Nell' bail
Model bakery, lias found time during (he ruled tliut tli*' actually elected chairmaif
pant winter, la'tweeu batches of hlllia and should pn -ideal council meetings instead
paatriea, to anmae himself with the crea­ of llic mayor, as heretofore, the subject
tion of a novel and handsome library whh not broached and Mayor Kelai*y con­
table. While stoking (lie big oven Mr. tinued to ceiiduet tlie proceedings of the
Iverson, at one tim e s fancy woodworker, board.
was much impressed witli the Is-siity of
A iH'tition from various indignant citi­
certain native woods of tin- section as zens, very evidently those who culti­
Imterngeiicoualy represented in the bake- vate sum mer gardens, praying for the en ­
ahop woodpile. From this hum ble origin actm ent of au ordinance forbidding the
sprang lioth the idea and the e iiiplctcd m im ing at large of chickens or otla'r
table—die latter taking over five m onths domestic fowl la'twccn tlie first day of
interm ittent lala>r to complete.
May ami the first day of October, was
Tiie frame and base of the table arc of u,am motion consigned to th e tabic; tlie
Oregon fir, Is anti fully graiiasl ami finish- council holding tliut until tin* settlem ent
«si witli green stain, while the top ia in- of the case now pending in the supreme
laid in an intricate pattern witli 1320 hits court, they would Is- unable to enact any
of selected stove-wood, highly polished ordtnancea.
and finished with a dozen coats of fine
Tin- appointive term of city police of­
varnish to tlie smoothness id piano eas­ ficer Dave N'«' having expired, Mayor
ing. In dimension the table ia -IH by 32 Ki l-s y named It I,. Darling as tem|s>rary
Indies. The pattern is without tiaw, officer, tlie council to act ii | miii a per­
fine'y conceived and executed, and is a m anent appointm ent at tlie next, session,
real memorial to Mr. Iverson's p ainstak­ called for tin* following Monday. Mr.
ing ability ami ingenuity. The native Purling declining to serve, Irvin Kay re­
woods witli which the inlaid work was ceived tin' tem porary appointm ent.
executed are the m adrona or laurel, mail-
zaiiita, m ountain mahogany, maple, fir,
| I. W . W .’s Jailed by Denver Police,
ash, walnut, alder, black oak. white oak,
D enver.—E ighty-seven
In d u strial
am i sap oak, and their in I roil usage liy
Mr. Iverson is ample testimony to their W orkers of th e W orld w ere u rrested
possibilities in the construction of ls<auti- j h ere by tlie police. T he Jails a re over-
j crow ded w ith them . C hief of Police
ful furniture and woisiwork.
Witli regard to tlie handsome d iam eter | O’Neill declared th a t th e e n tire “arm y ”
of certain native wimm I s , they have I hs - ii | of Industrial W orkers would be held
aforetime discoved by others, and tlie in ­ in Jail, no m a tte r w hat th e sa n ita ry
genuous baker i. no pioneer in tlie exploi­ Conditions m ight become. T h e “W ork­
tation, although liis method of utilizing ers" did not resist a rre st, b an terin g
is unique. S. \ . MeFarren, of tills d ty , tho officers w ith declaratio n s th a t
possesses u valuable collection of eaties, ev entually they would speak on th e
selected and liui-licd by Idins* if, in all of s tre e ts of Denver.
New Council Sworn
Into Office Mon­
day Evening
gage in anything from digging of certain kinds of clay to oper- i
ating logging roads and the establisnment of rel ay yards. At­
torneys for the company appear as the first trustees.
With the incorporation of the Beaver Cement Company as
indicated above, the erection of a $600,000 cement plant near
Gold Hill is practically assured. The site of the quarry and the
factory will be closely adjacent to the city. 500 men will be em­
ploye*] in the construction work, which is to be completed by
January 1st, 1914. When completed the big plant will employ
70 operatives.
For over a year the project has been unremittingly pushed
by local parties who believed in the superior advantages of this
location, and to such purpose that sufficient capital was finally
interested, and the formation of the Beaver Cement Company
carried o u t Southern Oregon capital is represented to some
extent, but the major portion of the stock has been taken by
a large eastern cement o|>erator and Portland capitalists.
In next week’s issue The News will doubtless be in a posi­
tion to give a complete account of the great industry, which will
mark a new era for Gold Hill and Southern Oregon.
POSTMASTER RESIGNS POSITION
tZSZ1
Native Woods as
Novel Furniture
tlie inon- handsome varieties of loeal
woods, while tin- ev r versatile jack-knife
Frost and H is Four Associates Free.
lias long Isa n bit .ad in tlie lo n d iu etio n
Chicago.—A lbert C. F rost, form er
of those dec iralive curios of the home,
presid en t and p rom oter of th e A laska
largely classified as “ knick-knacks.”
C en tral railroad, and his four co-de­
fendants, George M. Sew ard, P ie rre O.
Company A, Oregon N ational Guard, Beach, Frank W atson and George C.
will he disbanded about May 10. W hile Ball, all in terested in th e developm ent
no official notice has been sen t out hy of the road, w ere found not guilty tn
the d ep artm en t ail Indications a re that the federal co u rt h ere of conspiracy
B aker will lose Its m ilitia. Tho cauBo to obtain illegally m illions of d o llars’
is due to lack of efficiency and non- w orth of coal lands in th e M atanuska
Valley, Alaska.
alten d an ce of m em bers,
WALTER H. PAGE
Mine Said to Be One
o f Best in Entire
Local District
W ithin a abort tim e tie- * latter of a
fifteen-ton rapacity quartz mill will be <le-
term ing wiiether or no the X. llic W right
mine, two miles east of this * ity, is to lie
a paying producer. Mining men who
, have looked the property nv-r, and in-
, vestigated the showing med since Henry
Ray freed tlie old workings of water and
i reopened tlie vein, are certain th a t the
! Nellie W right possesses all tlie * ssentials
tiiat go to m ake a steadily paying prop­
erty, and an- unanim ous in listing the
mine witli tlie best in this district.
Assays taki-n from the mine run high
in free milling goi<l, being variously de­
termined at from $12 to $]« per ton. The
property is easily accessible and well lo­
cated
for the contem plated improvements.
W a lte r H. Page, the Magazine Editor,
who was named Am erican Ambassa­ M anager Kay, whose faith in the Nellie
W right brought about the present activ­
dor to G reat B rita in .
ity, announces th at the shaft will im m ed­
iately be pushed to a depth of 200 feet.
W ith the arrival of the new milling m a­
chinery the mine will commence active
operatiotfk
Dr. P. C. Donovan, of W innipeg, C an­
ada, who purchased tlie mine during a
former visit to Gold H ill, resum ed to his
home city (lie fore part of tne week, hav­
ing spent tie- past ten days in personally
The Mays Creek school has attained supervising work at the mine and prepa­
the required points of excellence entitling rations for improvements.
it to the “ B” Standard certificate of
Tin- Nellie W right is located upon a
honor. The school board, pupils and liillside tract of forty acres, comm anding
teacher all have tieen striving loyally to a splendid view, and Dr. Donovan is
attain this position and have been very contem plating clearing tlie rem ainder of
near tlie required standing for some the land and erecting a modest little
; weeks, having m etevery requirem ent but bungalow, for the accomialation of him ­
I tiiat relating to tardy attendance. Dis- self and family upon tlie occasional visits
: tance, weather and habit all taken to- which are planned for the future. Dr.
, gether seemed alm ost insurm ountable ob­ Donovan will return to Gold Hill, not
stacles, but tliis after many weeks of ef- later th an June, by which time it is ex-
i fort has been overcome, anil the Mays pected th a t the Nellie W right will be
Creek school becomes “ B ” Standard. earning good dividends.
This is not the first honor secured by
| tliis little seh<x)l which is situated about
fifteen miles from Rogueriver on Evans
creek. I-ast year it won the School Pen-
; n ant in the Spelling-Arithmetic Contest, ;
I ami the Sixth grade won the grade pen­
n an t of its class over like grades in tlie
county.
Failing to m ake g o a l tlie perjury
The Pine Grove school now lacks only
charge preferred by ex-city officer David
five points for tlie “ B” Standardization.
Noe against J. H. Beeman, of this city,
When theseare attained, the Evan- creek
arraigned in Justice Tayor’s court at
trio, W imer, Mays Creek and Pine Grove
Medford, Saturday afternoon last, the
will be complete. This school has an
costs of the action were upon motion of
, easy road to meet all lacking require­
prosecuting attorney, E. E. Kelly, as-
m ents, these being only a m atter of jaek-
’ sessed against the com plainant.
! eting, transferring and blackening the
The case, which occasioned great local
¡stove; adjusting the seats, repairing the
interest, was the outgrowth of trouble
! maps, and cleaning tlie grounds, und
which occm red on Christm as night, when
these improvements will make this school
Officer Noe attem pted tlie arrest of Dixie
one of the most attractive in the county, j
) Shoemaker. As a result of the m ethods
The Mount P itt school east of Butte
' employed Noe was subsequently given a
Falls has the unique distintion in Super­
hearing on the charge of assault w ith a
visory District No. 2 of having m aintain­
dangerous weapon, and bound over to
ed an average attendance of ninety-six
the grand jury. Governed by the failure
r cent, with not a single case of tardiness
, of th e complaining witness, Shoemaker,
dill
uring this school year.
to appear the grand jury refused to in­
The Rock Point school which has sev­
dict. Mr. Beeman, who was present a t
eral times been mentioned relative to
the encounter, was summoned as a wit­
(Xiints of excellence has now attained all
ness both in tlie original hearing ami tlie
the points entitling it to a “ B " Standard
rendering of evidence to the grand jury,
certificate.
j Alleging that tliis witness was elsewhere
f at tlie tim e of the encounter, and in no­
Belgian Workmen Protest by Striking
wise a witness, Officer Noe institute'1 the
B russels.—T he g re a t strik e of w ork­ perjury proceedings against Mr. Beeman.
At tlie hearing of the ease on Saturday
ingm en in Belgium to force th e gov­
ern m en t to g ra n t m anhood suffrage last several witnesses were called to testi­
began quietly, and it w as estim ated fy to Mr. Beeman’s presence elsewhere at
th a t 200,000 m en th ro u g h o u t th e coun­ the tim e of the affray, lint as the testi­
try had quit w ork. T his num ber is at mony of others who witnessed the affair
least 100,000 sh o rt of th e S ocialist and conversed with Mr. Beeman at the
predictions. N evertheless, th e strik e time, was conclusive as to his presence
has show n g re a te r stre n g th th a n w as when Officer Noe attem pted the arrest,
expected by im p artial observers. It is the testim ony to the contrary was con­
believed generally th e strik e rs will be strued to be of a m istaken nature and the
reinforced by several thousand.
case was sum m arily dismissed, the court
T housands of women and children completely exonerating Mr. Beeman of
have been se n t out of tlie cou n try by the charge.
th e w orkm en so th a t they m ay not
So conclusive was the evidence, th a t
suffer. T he strik e leaders say they upon the conclusion of the ease the pros­
have $3,000.000 w ith w hich to caTry on ecuting attorney offered as a m otion,
the m ovem ent
I which was adopted by tlie court, th at the
I costs of tlie ection be assessed against the
Montenegro L eft to B attle Alone
' com plainant, Mr. Noe.
C ettinje, M ontenegro.—P lucky little
B. F. Mulkey, of Medford, served as
M ontenegro has been left to fight its special prosecutor.
b a ttle w ith th e pow ers alone. The
S ervian arm y th a t h a s been assistin g
A ccording to advices re " I
hr
th e M ontenegrins in th e siege of Scu­ S en ato r L ane from S ecretary T um ul­
tari has been w ithdraw n and Is m arch ­ ty, P re sid e n t W ilson wi ,
b* able
ing hack to Servta. Much b ittern ess to accep t various i n v i * t o visit
is felt throughout M ontenegro.
Oregon th is sum m er.
Evans Creek Schools
Attain Excellent
Standard
Beeman Ereed of
Perjury Charge
JOHN B. HAMMERSLY
IO11N BARTHOLOMEW HAMM ERSLY, whose likeness appears above,
■* ami who is the subject of thia sketch, was la,rn in Baker City, Oregon, in
IStM. He lias been a resident of Gold Hill during the past tw enty-three years,
and is widely famed for ilia pertinacity on tlie trail, ami his ability to outwit
the crafty cougar, and to Ixdlle Bruin of the Deep Woods—frequently bringing
liome the pelts of lioth to his tepee.
I t lias been said of Jo h n , that given a (lint lock ami a horn of powder,
he could take to his native hills ami bring in more frolicksome fauna in the
w ay of venison, eats, cougar, ami others of our wild cousins, th an an autom o­
bile load of Medford sports turned loose in the National Park witli ail restric­
tions removed. It lias even been claimed by the enthusiastic, th a t in two years
time so congenially occupied lie would revert to typi— although this contention
is generally considered to ia* carrying adm iration to au extrem e.
Mr. Hammersly lias passed four years in his country’s service; two years
being spent as commissary sergeant of4ho 3oth I'. S. Volunteers, stationed in
th e Islands; ami two years in tlie ranks of federal oilier holders under tlie late
adm inistration, as purveyor of ixistagv at Gold Hill.
Tlie above photograph, tlie only one available, purports to la' a likeness
of Mr. Hammersly upon liis discharge from tin' service in 1001. At th a t time
lie set aside a promising military career for tlie editorial d sk of Tlie Gold Hill
News, which paper he managed in an able m anner for three years.
Ill March of tlie prostkit year Postmaster Hatnmeraly forwarded his res­
ignation to tlie departm ent—to take effect following tlie civil service exam ina­
tion to be held a t Medford Io determ ine Ids successor. He lias not, definitely
announced his future plans, but it is understood th a t lie will devote the next
few years to testing out some plausible prospecting theories, while renewing his
acquaintance witli tlie woods ami waters of tlie western coast.
Tlie retirem ent of Postm aster Hammersly will lie accompanied by tlie
sincere regret of every patron of the Gold Hill otlice, where liis uniform cour­
tesy ami attention to detail constitute as nearly no ideal tenure of tlie oilin' as
is possible. Among other good works wliiie in tin- local office, Postmaster
H ammersly is prim arily responsible for tlie rural free delivery service to Foots
creek.
•
Possessing an enviable record witli tlie departm ent. with liis townspeople,
and witli hi* companions of the trail and campfire, the retiring postmaster
may well la' wislied,
“ Good luck and good h u n tin g !'’