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(£oïî» » I I Gold Hill C r a o t t t l N a tu r a l R t t o u r t t t a ! S a u th tm O r tg o n i t On b a a u tifu l N o g u t N iu tr NO. 37 GOLD HILL, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915 VOL. 17 Today is Sugar Beet Day; Work for Record in New Acreage #- FABULOUS LOST CHANNEL OF JACKSON CREEK FOUND $ 3 5 PER PAN IS R CM STRIKE A fter Years of Search Prospector f in d s /a it h Rewarded by End / of Golden Quest ” f Lo, She is Everywhere! Rgx Lam pm un, in N ew York Sun BILL NYE MINE TO INCOR PORATE MINING COMPANY BLUE SKY LAW DISCUSSED . b i. U t . --------------------- C u i. i i A X '' ------- )rf>dlnrd, Or , Ja n . 12.—W hat la lie- U i I ip the liiiiK-MittKhl-ltirliiat chau- M o f Jackson creek haa tss'ii located, after years of fruitless tunneling ami pro specting by A. If. E nyart, of Jackson ville, a placer miner, engaged in pruapcct work upon the lim n er place, a quarter I of a mile eaat of Jacksonville, and adjoin- i lug the right of way of the Barnum rail m ad. Saturday afternoon in- struck tiie «1 I creek bed al a itcpth of 43 feet, and it ia thought to iw the lost channel th at yielded forty millions In gold in pioneer days. A nugget worth $3» was taken from the pan Saturday, and according to report the oilier |ians washed netted $3o each in gold. If early expectations in crease, a gold strike can lie expected. Aiii«.r <uii Pre»» A»»<>clAllon In liis development Work Euyearl pro- M ita Genevieve C la rk , daughter of gresevd upon the theory th at the original bed, or one of the forks of Jacknoii creek, Speaker C la rk , who ia reported en was pi Lite south of its present location. gaged to J a m e i M. Thompson. He also believed th at a landslide a cen tu ry or so ago buried tlda channel and Nina Q u aket Shake C alifo rn ia C ity. Sauta Barbara. C al.-—Nine d istinct rich gold bearing earth . Tile develop ment« of last week justify in a measure earth q u ak e shocks w ere felt h ere a t In I e r i a la u t a acconti. this theory. Saturday Euyearl c u t through t h e stone capping covering (lie channel and found bedrock, amt is now preparing Pi pierce this section. Yellow atone was first found umler the recent (geographic ally s|s-akiug) soil covering. Then came a streak of blue gravel, similar to the pay d irt at Yreka, that lias for years yielded a golden revenue every m onth. For Public Service Tender for City years prospectors have worked upon the tla-ory th at the lost channel was to the Ligh ¡ng Much Less Than st. It was this channel th at in early C -O . Proposal •¿¿hues m ade Jacksonville o n e of t h e World’s greatest gold camps. Tile trend of the Enycart findings is in a northeast Two bills for the,street lighting contract erly direction. were considered by the city council at the When interviewed this morning, Mr. special meeting of Monday evening —one Enyeart refused Pi divulge any inform a hindered by the California-Oregon Power tion on his discovery, saying that he was company, th - other b y the Rogue River not ready pi give any details. Before lie- Public Service corporation. Gwinn to a ginning work on the present dum p he desire for thorough investigation by tiie sank a shaft on the north side of the B ar lighting comm ittee the m atter of definite num road. This m orning lie was engag ly acting upon tin? projaisals was deferred ed in putting in a casing and has installed until Saturday evening, tonight. a gasoline engine. Three men are at Baaed upon t h e installation o f 100 street lights, covered by ideutlcal specifi work. The report of the find created hut little cations, the bids of the rival companies excitem ent ill the county scat. A half w elt'as follows: By tiie California-Ore dozen old miners were out this morning gon company, lot) lights installed and surveying tiie ground adjacent to the E n m aintained, $55 per m onth, -50 cent» ad yeart work. Enyeart lias a contract for ditional for each ex tra light of 40 w atts; the mineral rights t o t h e land he is by tiie Bogne River Public Service, 10») lights installed and m aintained, identical working. equipm ent, $48 per m onth, 40 cents ad ditional for each ex tra lig h t. Tiie latter Naco Peace Pact la F in a lly Signed. company also presented a counter bid, Naco, A rls .-B rlg a d le r-G e n e ra l Hugh L. Scott, chief of sta ff of th e U nited specifying wooden poles a n d difl'erent S tates arm y, successfully concluded equipm ent, same num ber and candle- the negotiations for peace along the power of lights, a t $30 per m outh. The California-Oregon Power company Mexican border. Both G overnor May- lorcna, th e V illistä com m ander, and was represented a t the meeting by sever G eneral I*. Ellas C alles, com m anding al im portant officials; II. C. Stoddard, tho C arranxa troops in Naco, Sonora, division superintendent; Sidney P ro u t, have signed the a g ie e m e n t elim inating consulting engineer; Alex. Roaeborough, factional w arfare along the Sonora general m anager, and C. 5V. M artin, of the field force. The Rogue River Public border. Service corporation wus represented sole ly by F. 5V. Dodge, local m anager and Emden's Captain ia Held. engineer, and A. A. Flynn, chief elec London.—C aptain von Muller, com LOW LIGHT BID MADE BY LOCAL POWER PEOPLE m ander of the G erm an cru iser Emden, trician. has arriv ed in E ngland and is a p ris Some comm ent of an adverse nature lias oner in one of the officers' detention been made locally upon the installation cam ps In W ales. T he place of his In of the iron standard three-light ty|>e, suggested in the first place by the Cali tern m e n t Is being k ep t secret. fornia-Oregon company, which placed a sample light in the city. Many citizens M other-Teacher Victor. A lbany, N. Y,—A' teac h er may not however, favor this type of light and it be dism issed because she ftbnents h er was to meet this dual dem and and con ■elf from the public schools to bear a form to sim ilar specifications th at the child. C om m issioner John II. Elnley, Public Service corporation tendered t wo ‘ -of the s ta te d ep artm en t of education, 'Kids. decided. The O regon Irrig atio n congress W hile Itoum aifla h as n6t tak en l h ' closed Its fourth and larg est annual fateful step, the belief' ex ists In th sosslon at P ortland. T h e following co u n tries o f the n in es th a t she soot officers w ere elected: P resid en t, Asn will do so. O th er developm ents arc n. T hom son, Echo; secretary . F red N. expected. The relation» betw een W allace, I.nldlaw ; vice presid en ts, J. Greeco and T urkey have reached tti. 5V. B rew er, P o rtlan d ; John Rigby, breaking point ovfer th e alleged 111 Vale. nnd A. M. Craw ford, Salem. treatm en t of G reeks In Asia Minor. .County Ju d g e Maloney, who could Italy Is grow ing restlesii over T u rk ey ’s have held office two y ears longer, In delay in giving satisfactio n fo r the accordance with a ruling of the su violation of the Italian consulate at prem e co u rt, resigned in favor of H odelda, from which th e B ritish con C harles W. Mnrsh, who defeated T. sul, who sought refuge th ere, w as for P. G illiland for the office In tho No cibly rem oved. vem ber election, and who w as ap p o in t ed to tho position by G overnor W est. % -tp Beauty walks not on the heights. Nor lurks in the caverned sea: She slips not forth to dance o’ nights On some sequestered lea. S. B. Vincent, Examiner, Points Out Merits of Local Mine and Discusses State Law To her the weed is as the rose, The turbine as the sail; The sculpture doth not her enclose— Her house is not her jail. 8. B. V incent, examim-r for tiie Cor poration Departm ent, visited the Bill Nye mine last Week, prelim inary to the is suance of a perm it for tiie sale o f the stock of the Bee Hive Mining A Milling company, t h e corporation which haa taken over the old Bill Xye property. As a result of Mr. V incent's exam ination of the property it is expected th a t a per m it will issue almost immediately. “ The Bill N ye," said Mr. Vincent, “ ought to pay well with com petent m an agement and scientific ore treatm ent, and will» depth large bodies of ore should I» opened np. The veins are not wide and while the work already done lias been rather expensive, the attainm ent of depth may show th a t these widely seperatfld and narrow veins will come together, in wbicii case it is possible th a t the vaine» will increase. 5Vith the installation of some additional machinery, th e develop ment of this property ought to be rapid i and productive of good profits.” There is no use to quest for her In places old or new; There is no East or West for her; She hath no chosen crew. She hath no time, nor any place, She knows no foul nor fair; Look where you will, there is her face— Lo, she is everywhere! ( £ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ■ lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllU IIIIIIIIIIIIIH IIIin illlllllllllllllllU IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIU IIIIIIIIIIIIU IIIH B Southern Oregon’s Shortstories News Brevities of the Week From Rogue River Valley Cities I T he legislative com m ittee of the P re m ie r Rene V lv ia n l, the French sta te editorial association m et in P o rt statesman who Is reported to havs land and decided to recom m end to the said th e re will compro* 8o mu h misinform ation l i a s been w ill be no peace compro. association th a t it approve a law re mise. spread regarding the Blue Sky law, by quiring a uniform ra te on all publica opponent» of the same, th at the New - ob tions required by law, and th a t the tained the following statem ent from Mr. unit of charge be the line of type, Vincent, who is thoroughly conversant ra th e r than th e lin ear m easurem ent. with both the intent anil application of Innocent purch asers of lands w ithin that muchly maligned measure. the Benson and Hyde school sections “ It is peculiar that so m any false re will be given confirm atory deeds to ports have been spread regarding tiie the property on paym ent to th e s ta te Blue Sky law. Of course crooked pro of $2 50 an acre if the provisions of a — - —-------- - moters and persons who live from day to resolution adopted by the s ta te land Gold Hill Gathering Enthused day and from year to year l>y fleecing tiie board become effective. T he in terio r public through the sale of fake stocks,, By Sugar Beet Prospect; d ep artm en t will be asked to approve and bonds are against the law, but the th e plan. 5 00 Acres is Goal work of tiie Corporation D epartm ent for R epresentative Hawley, since h is re the past year has more than justified tiie tu rn to W ashington, has been labor 5Vhat is characterized by the Medford j enactm ent of the law. Millions of dol- ing with th e forest service try in g to expedite action on th e classification ■ press as “ the most successful sugar beet : *a™ have been saved to tiie people of Or- of lands In the various forest reserv es meeting held so far In tiie county,” con e«on through the refusal of the C orpora- in his d istrict, and especially th e Sius- vened at the Wego theater in this city ,ion Departm ent to perm it the sale of law reserve, from w hich he hopes to Wednesday afternoon. Despite the al- . fake bond» » n J stocks, but no legitimate have elim inated a considerable area i most continuous dow npour of rain sever- industry, mining or industrial, has had J al score of farmers braved the weather to j anJ difficulty obtaining a perm it under tn Lincoln county. i be present a t the local launching of the j tbe Blue Sky law for the sale of their se- | campaign which is destined to mean a ■ curities. Bold Burglar Fnters Beeman I greater prosperity for the entire valley. I “ As you are more particularly interes- Home While Folks Sleep; Loot j By c o m p a ris o n w i t h et*w « W ® th e a c re j te d in m in i n g in ibis section it may 1-e j age signed was not large—am ounting to I interesting for you to know that tiie Cor is Jewelry and $ 2 5 In Gold n s aorua—but tiie spirit of willingness to i poration Departm ent, as at present com- I cooperate w as s tro n g ly evident, and th e j posed, is friendly to the m ining industry. Early Wednesday m orning th e rest- caniPai>-’n will be earned by a personal ' No m iner »1... a denceof J . H. Beeman was burglarized c' ,m," Utet‘ «»ms Valley and the ad- wh . does not wish to overcapitalise bis l.y an unknow n craftsm an, who looted a . j1“* " 1 creek valleys- " line wiU have troub,e » * ‘‘"8 a bedcham ber of valuables while members Chairm an J . 11. Beeman, who conduc- m lt from the Corporation D epartm ent for of the family slept. The thief ransacked tetl t,ie rat* tin8' introduced W. H. Gore, the sale ot stock. All that we ask is th a t t iie various toilet articles upon the dres- i of Medlord, as tiie first speaker. Mr. the company give investors in their stock ser, and was rewarded by tiie discovery I ^ ° re sP °ke a t length upon the manifold a square deal. Any person who invests ■of a jewel case, containing among other advantages of t h e project, f r o n the in mining stock, or any other stock, is trinkets a costly gold locket. 5\'itliin the 1 standpoint of the practical fanner alone, entitled to a fair deal; he must know locket rejxired $25 in gold coin The ani' b'8 rem arks w e r e attended with that the cards are not stacked against jewel care was taken to the kitchen and (treat interest. In concluding he touched him. I f the company is dealing the its contents scattered about the floor as uP°n t b e companion industries t h a t ■ cards from a “ ohoney” deck a perm it the fellow rejected th at which he appar- mU8t evolve from t'ne location of the will n it issue. .511 that we ask is th a t ently considered n o t easy of disposal. Plal]t in t,li9 valley, statin g th at 1,000,000 the good faith of the prom oter be shown. The locket, however, with its m inted br’ck would be required for construction, “ Any honest miner will be encouraged contents, m e t with approval and was 16,000 cords of wood burned annually by , o develop his mine through the sale of numbered among the subsequently miss the factory, and thousands of tons of lime i stock to tl»e public. He need have no required in the sugar extracting process. I fear if in his own heart he knows he is ing articles. “ Y ou have,” said Mr. Gore, “ the best honest and that he has a good prospect, Tiie apprehension of tiie thief may rest lime in the world for this purpose, right but if in his heart he knows he is not go upon this particular piece of loot, as it here at Gold H ill.” ing to give the public a fair run for its was of peculiar design, oval in shape and H . Van Hovenburg, a Hams Valley money, he had better not ask for a per bearing in relief an emblematic moose- rancher, exhibited specimens of the sugar m it for the sale of stock. I am a pro head. beet-mangle, grown by him for stock spector myself. I have always treated E ntran«! to the dwelling was made feed the past season, and described the through t h e kitchen door, which was process o f planting and growth. This the m ining company which incorporates cracked near the l o c k by jimmying. beet, although not identical with the su as I would like to be treated were I to Pliers had also apparently been used to gar beet, is of sim ilar type. Despite the incorporate my properties. T hat is all there is to it. seize tiie key, and it is probable th a t thia unusuully dry season, and entirely w ith “ I have heard m iners say that they was the method which gave adm ittance. out irrigation, the grower claimed a yield had been told that a m ining company Mrs. Beeman awakened a t 3:30, at whiclt of 25 tons per acre. conld not. get a perm it for tiie sale of its time the house was dark and seemingly George E. Carpenter and Mr. Perry, unmolested. Later she states th at she Ixitii well known ranchers of the Medford stock unless it had a 'producing mine. thought someone was moving alxiut else district, gave brief and interesting talks Isn’t th a t silly? No m ine ever was a where in the house, and called out. Re upon the local possibilities of sugar beet«, mine at the beginning. All mines had ceiving no answer she dismissed the sus together with the certain stim ulus of to go through the prospecting stage. If picion ns nervousness and returned to cattle raising and dairying to be brought a company had to have a producing mine before it could sell stock there would ia? sleep. . j about by die excellent cheap feed afford little stock sold, as producing mines do In the morning it was found th a t the ed by die tops and pulp. not often have to sell stock. No mining early visitor had turned on liglrfS in both Samuel Storey, soil expert for the sugar j dining room and kitchefi, also- thought-1 beet company, answered all questions company will be ham pered by the Cor- j poration D epartm ent if th a t m ining com- fully shutting off the alarm clock d n the die th interested ro o « where severe! m em ber, of th e lam , | asked assured by them at the signing“ up lan.i “H'’ “ “ “ ' ,O" eHt " " Jo cC . 'in lth , former county commis sioner from the western district, haa been appointed roadinasn-r b y t h e county court The position pays a salary of $125 per m onth, including expenses and trans portation. Tiie office ia th a t of g-neral chief to the various road supervisors. Alleging incompetency, the school dist- I rict of Wolf Creek in Josephine county, is seeking tiie removal of tiie teacher h ir 'd last fall. A “ strik e " of pupils leaves tin' instructor with but two scholars, and tiie case is now before the uounty super intendent for decision. An oiler of $100,boo for the Buzzard group of claims on 1.1k Creek, tendered by E. B. H anley, ol Medford, has been refused by the Peail Mining company. E xperts say th a t from $2.5,000 to $30,000 will be taken out by * pril 1st. Mossbackism won tiie day in Medford Tuesday by defeating the proposed char ter, which contained many im portant improvements. V. J . Emerick was elec ted mayor over C. E. Gates by a m ajo r-' dy "'**"'*' Federal Commission to Study Gigantic Philanthropies: May Result In Government Control New York.—W hether reso u rces of approxim ately a q u arter of a billion d ollars controlled by four g reat phil an thropic in s ’itu tlo n s should be em ployed w ithout governm ent regulation In the prom otion of e n te rp rise s af fecting public w elfare, especially th a t of wage ea rn e rs. Is one of th e ques tions which th e F ederal In d u strial R elations Com m ission will bring to th e front h ere during Its forthcom ing hearings. In v estig ato rs for th e last tw o w eeks have been p rep arin g d ata on which to base th e exam ination of w itnesses. T he four in stitu tio n s a re th e Rocke feller, Sage, C leveland and B aron de H lrsch foundations, th e la tte r rep re sented In th is country by Jacob H. Schiff. T h eir chief officers have been sum m oned to testify and w llkpe asked, it w as said a t th e com m ission head q u arters. to tell w hat policies govern the d istrib u tio n of th eir ch arities, th eir attitu d e tow ard labor problem s, .¿he n atu re of th e ir schem es for social b e tterm en t; in sum, to disclose In de tail the c h a ra c te r of all th e ir activ i ties. W et Act to Be Voted Upon. Olympia, W ash.— S ecretary of S tate Howell com pleted th e official canvass of petitio n s for in itiativ e m easu re No. 18, the hotel m en's anti-prohibition law, finding 45.361 valid sig n atu res, 13,625 more th an th e num ber p re scribed by law. Chapin Qets Pardon From Governor. j Salem .—W. H. Chapin, convicted of larceny by bailee in P o rtlan d for ap p ropriation to hla own use of $3500 be longing to Marion Annie G race, was ily slept. given a full pardon by G overnor W est, No r trange™ or vagrant* were known who executed th e in stru m en t upon re to be in the city the previons evening. ceiving a bond, signed by C hapin's but an early morning freight could have friends, g u aran teein g th a t he would brought tiie nervy prowler to the scene m ake restitu tio n , I ,,f his labors, and doubtless did. 115 ACRES EOR SUGAR BEETS IS SIGNED AT MEET m eant its thorough investigation for j fitness, and th at tinder no oircumstances i . °U te , t )e readcrs of tiie News would he advise tiie planting of is-ete 1 !*"“ the Bl,,e Sky Uw is thl‘ friend ,,f th,‘ . . . ,, . ,, j honest m iner everywhere ami it has al- where th e crop would not yield success- rea(ly done a great ,,ca, miui fully to the grower. IT,or to the me. t- Oregon on a good basis, it wiU do more ing Mr. Storey also investigated various L , n >. (Continued on local page) «• time goes on.
