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LESS THAN ONE YEAR IN OPERA­
Medford, Ore., Feb. 24.— In a gun
TION AND BOOKS SHOW' NEAT buttle here Inst night shots were ex­
PROFIT. IMPROVEMENTS FOR changed between Audley Eggers,
transfer man, and nn unidentified
1926 INDICATE PROSPERITY.
Monday of Ibis week a meeting of
the owners of (lie Lively Lime Pro­
ducts Corporation met in Gold Hill
and went over the events of the past
eight months and made their plans
for the coining year’s, (1920.) activi­
ty at the plunt on Kanes Creek.
K. V. Lively, of Portland, J. M.
I-lvely and James W. Lively and M
S. Johnson, the latter three residents
o f Gold Hill, constitute the owners
o f this proposition.
While James
W. Lively is the youngest member
o f the organization, he is well train­
ed in engineering and is directly
res|>onsible for the splendid con­
struction of the plant.
He is the
largest slock holder in the enter­
prise and is in personal charge of
the operation of the industry both in
inanuging the plants and in the
inarkrting of the company’s pro­
ducts.
About 915,000.00 was spent nt the
plant during the eight months of
operation in 1925. Farther Improve
ments planned for 1920 will cost
about $6,000.00 more.
During the
period of operation in 1925 the cor­
poration manufactured nnd shipped
about 3,000 bnrrcls of commercial
lim»> of n test of 9S.30 calcium car­
bonate nnd the plans for 1920 esti­
mate that about 10,000 barrels will
be produced. During the past year
3,000 tons of paper rock,(Limestone
used by the paper mills In the man­
ufacture of paper,) and in the com­
ing year they plan to quarry nnd
•sell 10,000 tons. While the indus­
try received around $20,000.00 in the
past eight or ten months for their
products of lime nnd paper rock,
the plans of the coining year will
easily reach the $50,000.00 mark.
Even though the industry is in its
Infancy in Oregon, nnd found a very
up-hill job of getting started, the
operation, we understand, showed
n nent mnrgin of profit the very first
year.
As to the future of the industry,
there Is no guess work. The result
o f the very first season assures the
future beyond a doubt. To further
augment the usefulness of the Indus
try, the news of the additional pro-
slucts to be manufactured look very
promising. Hydrated lime, Balanc­
ed I.ime-sulphur Fertilizer, nnd
orchard spray are the lenders for
immediate exploitation.
This fer-
Izer will be n distinct improvement
over the ground lime-stone fertiliz­
er produced by the Oregon Stnte
Lime plant nt Gold Hill, because it
is composed of about 20% of pure
EVERY GREAT ACHIEVE­
MENT.
THB COLD HILL NEWS, JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON THUR8DAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1926.
Local Lime Plant Former Speed Cop
Shows Progress Shoots A t Burgler
The property of the company on
Kanes creek, is composed of the old
lime plant und quarries well known
as the Hughes Quarries. Abandon­
ing the old type of kiln, the first
act of the corporation was the erec­
tion of a new and modern steel kiln
along original lines that are very
efficient.
Not only is the kiln n
new departure from similar furnac­
es, hut, the loading devise for the
economical handling of Pn|»er Itock
from the quarry to the trucks for
transportation is novel and remark­
able.
Here a story hinges that is
interesting to say the least.
In
the main Hughes quarry, a hole,
burrowed out of the bowls of the
earth by water centuries post, mak­
ing a series of renyirkable natural
caves, passegeswnys, chambers and
aupplied with a rivulet of the most
alkaline of lime waters, runs for
u distance (explored for only about
a quarter of a mile) back into the
mountain.
*t the opening of this
natural caves system a straight drop
o f some thirty feel in the formation
permits the construction of what
quarrymen nnd miners call a ‘glory
bole’. Running n tunnel on a level
■with the bottom of this natural pit,
the company has provided a means
o f loading rock from the quarry
into little cars which by gravity
haul the rock out of the tunnel to
bunkers some four hundred feet,
to the road where trucks are londed
automatically without waste of
time, labor or money.
ENERGY 18 THE SOUL OP
burglar in the transfer office, where
he nttempted to open the safe. The
burglar, believed to have been slight
lywounded, lied.
Eggers’ face and
nock were badly )*owder-burned
from the only shot fired at him,
while he hud fired two shots at the
prowler.
Last night marked the fourth time
the Eggers safe had been tampered
with in the past week but no large
amounts of money were lost. The
burglar had two confederates wait­
ing outside and wus apparently fam­
iliar with the premises.
Grants Pass Courier.
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Radio Reception
► Now Improving
Radio reception in Gold Hill is
steudily improving under the con­
stant efforts of Martin Bowers, C.
W. Martin, Lloyd Miller, Floyd
Lance aixl others.
The interfer­
ence caused by the Copco power
lines is reported whenever any in­
terference is located and the com­
pany has always been very prompt
to res|M>n<l and apparently is doing
all it can to better conditions. A
crew of Copco trouble shooters in
Gold Hill Tuesday located a nail in
behind u light fuse ut Floyd Lances
that was nearly burned in two and
the noise from which hud been very
annoying to several receiving sets.
The noise caused by motors, vibrat­
ors und other electrical appliances
can and is being prevented by the
installation of condensers that pre­
vent the static created by the ap­
pliances from kicking back dnto
the lines and thus onto the air.
NUMBER 4$
Backers to Push
G. Pass Booster
Page A ll Local
Cave Road Plans Wants Gold H ill
Crater L. Road
Boosters Quick
♦ ♦ ♦
To you, local busines man, who
has put your all into merchandise
here in an effort to earn a just re­
turn from your business.
To the Service Station and Auto
Cunjp business people, who have
sunk your last dollar in your busi­
ness in the hope that the tourist
game will promote peace and inde­
pendence in the rainy duys at the
end of your life.
To you restaurant and hotel keep
ers, who would be greatly benefited
by any improvement in the highway
truffic should that improvement
cause one tenth of the tourists to
linger here.
To you tax payers, who depend
entirely on the prosperity of the
community for your sustenance.
To the farmers in the Gold Hill,
community who depend on a de­
mand for farm produce for your
prosperity.
WE HAVE A MESSAGE!
1926 is the greatest year in the
history of the valley so far. There
is more actual activity in progres­
sive development on foot in the val­
ley this season than ever known be­
fore.
Gold Hill is in the swim;
making noticable strides ahead, but
without a leader.
New buildings,
active realeatate dealers, enlarge­
ments in the stock in trade at the
stores, new people coming in week­
ly, new mines organizing and open­
ing up.
Everyone boosting, rush­
ing to keep up with the other fel­
low and the whole bunch tearing
around in a circle, that is bound to
narrow down to a point of certain
stagnation sooner or later with the
other communities forging a h e a d -
eating our pudding while we stand
on the side lines looking on.
WHERE IS THE COMMERCIAL
CLUB?
Gold Hill can this season take a
place on the highway nuip that is
second to none. We have the one
and only real gateway to Crater
Lake Park because we are the near­
est, by a route along the shaded
banks of beautiful Hogue River,
through the heart of the most fertile
side of Sams Valley, at a point
where Fisbing is the best on the en­
tire river, where hunting is not
bested by any, in the very heart of
a world’s supply of undevelopjed
natural resources, and already rec­
ognized as the ‘hub of industry in
Oregon.’
Gold Hill can get more results by
less effort than any point on the
highway system on the Pacific
const. We need archwtays over the
highway showing the tourists a
welcome when they arrive and a
hearty farewell when they leave.
An urchway that will properly dir­
ect travel through Sams Valley to
the meca of thousands of sight­
seers annually—Crater Lake.
We need one hundred signs that
will attract the tourist to Gold Hill
and its entertainment and invest-
ment possibilities.
Its supplies for
tourist’s needs, shows, hotels, res-
taurants, homes for sale, and sports,
and then along Sams Valley road to
make the trip convenient and quick.
Why can’t we round up the Cham­
ber of Commerce this spring and get
to work? It will cost us all a little
but the returns will more than re­
pay. Let’s Go!
Medford, Feb. 20,—Although de­
prived of a highly efficient working
organization by the defeat of the
proposed Siskiyou Highway Im­
provement district at the polls
Tuesday, backers of the plan to se­
cure a road from Williams to the
Oregon Caves will go on with their
work, it is announced by Robert A.
Boyl, secretary of the local Chamber
of Commerce.
The original plan of building the
road through the co-operation of the
Jackson
and Josephine county
courts, with possible state and na­
tional aid will be followed, said
Boyl.
The only difference is that
there will be no directors to bead
the work, as would have been the
case had the election carried.
“An erroneous impression that
they were voting to bond the pro-
I>osed district was responsible for
the defeat,” declared Boyl. “A pro­
vision in the law under which we
were operating in seeking to form
the district permitted bonding, but
this was never intended.”
To substantiate his belief that the
road w ill be built, Boyl pointed out
that opponents of the measure were
all opposed to bonding, but admit­
ted the road would be desirable. The
Grants Pass paper which fought the
formation of the district repeatedly
declared the road was needed, but
not at the cost of bonding lands, Jo­
sephine county court, said Boyl, has
offered to help complete the road to
provide Applegate and Williams val­
leys with an outlet on the west, and
by means of county co-operation,
the road will be built.
—Courier,
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SAMS
VALLEY
CUT-OFF
FROM
PACIFIC HIGHWAY AT GOLD
HILL TO NATIONAL PARK IS
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.
By O. S. Blsn'hard, Attorney
The cut-off from Gold Hill to the
Crater Lake road is absolutely nec­
essary, logical, and will be of great
benefit to the community. It is al­
ways a distinct advantage to be at
the forks of a road.
If there is
any sensible reason why tourists
should not travel the shortest dis­
tance between two pmrRs, other!
conditions being equal, we have
never heard of it. A saving of six­
teen miles means thousands of miles
saved each year.
Grants Pass citizens quite fre­
quently use the cut-off, but its condi
tion in the past has been bad in wet
weather; and the road has been
poorly signed in good weather.
These conditions are to be remedied,
as I understand it, by the construc­
tion of a market road this spring,
and by the posting of signs by the
Highway Department. Your splen­
did community, and the people of
Sams Valley are to be congratulat­
ed upon their determination to fin­
ish this much needed improvement.
With the Redwood Highway in
good shape, this cut-off is going to
put you on a through line of com-
a,unication from San Francisco to
Crater Lake, and give you the ad­
vantage of a junction point.
Next week we are going to an­
nounce the first meeting of the Gold
Hill Chamber of Commerce for 1926
If I might be permitted to make a
nnd you are all going to be there to
suggestion, it would be that Gold
help put Gold Hill high and dry “on
Hill display promptly along the
Top of the World.” ' The business
Pacific Highway in Ihe City of Gold
man, the lodges, the churches and
Hill, neat, conspicuous sign< direct­
the schools, the private citizen, the
ing tourists to take the cut-off.
I
farmer and the orchardist, the labor­
am sure Grants Pass people w ill
er and the knocker, and w e’re all
One of the young men in Gold
The new theatre in Gold Hill in cooperate in giving the necessary
going to pull together for once and
Hill with a small regerntive set had
the
Childers building on the high­ information.
see how far we can go.
been trying to lune up on a distant
way announces this week, its open­
Inasmuch as the interest of
station Sunday night and the oscil­
ing date of Saturday, March 6 with Grants Pass and Gold Hili are identi
lation from his set proved very bad
Help ns help you. Boost the Gold
a Zane Grey special production,
for nil the other receivers trying to
Hill booster. Subscribe to the News “Wild Horse Mesa,” and a rousing cal along this line, closer coopera­
tion between the two communities
get the same station. The boy at
$2.00 per year.
good comedy.
The music for this through leading citizens, could well
nn early hour in the evening learned
show will be furnished by Harold be fostered. As the Redwood Hotel
of his interference and took the
Fields on both organ and piano and at Grants Pass is nearing completion
mailer as joke, returning to his set
will follow the pictures from start it will be only a short time until
nnd deliberately killed off the even­
to finish.
Grants PasS will be able to enter­
ings enjoyment for everyone in the
This announcement comes as a tain in a manner brfltting the occa­
town by attempting to operate his
THE
very pleasant bit of news to the sion, and frequent joint meetings
set.
This would easily be termed
Gold Hill theatre loving public.
of the Chambers of Commerce of
ns deliberately committing n public
The owners of the Beaver Theatre the two towns are things to look
nuisance and could be punishable
Clarence Shaver and E. H. Radtke, forward to with a great deal of
by a fine should anyone offer a com­
have been put to great expense in pleasure.
O. S. BLANCHARD.
plaint to the police judge in Gold
fitting up the new show house and
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Hill.
are taking great pains in planning
Martin Bowers is the second
OF THE NEW
entertainment that will please as
known person in Gold Hill to listen
well as prove profitable to them.
in to Honolulu over the air with a
The new theatre will be completed
receiver operated here.
The set
in all its details in the very near
he used was a Kellogg. The other
future,
and visitors to the new show
reception from Honolulu was gain­
are welcome at any hour when the
ed by H. E. Whnrton with a Crosley
One day last week, the barn yard
building is open.
nt two different times.
of Chas Kell Was robbed of a large
Among the production^ booked
quantity of aluminum cable.
A
Radio messages from the ship
for the entertainment of the public
Junk Dealer who was in town that
Arctic, frozen in the ice north of
by the theatre management are to
day was seen in the barn yard, and
Baffin Land in the Arctic circle
be found such pictures as: Arizona
is supposed to know where the ’junk
were picked up Saturday night be­
Sweepstakes,” Phantom of the Opera
aluminum’ went.
The City Re­
tween 12 nnd 1 o’clock by F. L.
Spook Ranch, California Straight
corder has passed the word that in
Adams, of Evans creek. The mes­
Ahead, Storm Breakers, Merry wid­
the future any one dealing in junk
sages were voice transmission, the
ow,
Beverley of Graustark, The Un­ in Gold Hill will have to take out a
AT GOLD HILL ON HIGHWAY IN
operator attempting to pick up
holy Three, “Sally, Irene and Mary,”
license so that they can be control­
headquarters at Montreal. The rec
Lights of Old Broadway, Zander led. The junk man in question last
CHILDER’S
BLOCK
eption was good, Mr. Adams listen­
the great, The Lost World and as year was found in possession of sev­
ing for some time to the talk.
WITH
for comedies the Century and Blue
eral brass caps off of the Gold Hill
The message w-as transmitted on
Bird comedies w ill keep the audi- fire hydrants and when faced with
291 meters.
The ship -will be on
ancc roaring all the time.
the charge of rempving same swore
the air again next Saturday night
Gold Hill needs a place of amuse­ he purchased same from small boys.
nt the same time.
SPECIAL PICTURE ’
ment where the boys and girls can Under a license his purchases can
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spend an evening instead of in the be controlled, for then he will be
pool and card rooms or in ’necking under inspection and receipt of any
Mrs. W. P. Chisholm, leaves Gold
parties’ in a flivver parked along stollen goods w ill work forfeiture
Hill this evening for Redwood City,
side a dark roadway at night. Give of his license.
Another junk man
Calif., where she expects to make
fun-lovers something to do and they operating here regularly has readily
her home for the immediate future.
won’t get into mischief. (We have consented to pay a license if the
She has offered her home nnd timb­
er properties for sale. Her address A L S O G O O D C O M E D Y and N E W S R E E L S enough mischief and the right kind City w ill compell all the others in
of a show here w ill prove a great that line of work to do likewise.
nnd particulars can be secured nt
benefit in taking care of the idle
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the News’ office in Gold Hill.
evenings. Beside, a good show here By Home Trade Is Gold Hill Made.
will bring many people to Gold Hill.
burned lime nnd a good portion of
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sulphur ns well ns the ground lime
The way to have a good, benefi­
The regular meeting of the Gold
SPECIAL
MUSIC------------
STARTS
AT
7:30
P.M.
stone which is crushed to pass thru
cial show in Gold Hill is for every­ Hill City Council will take place as
a 30-mesh screen.
one to boost for the theatre. The usual on the first Monday in the
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very least anyone can do is to at­ ntonth, this next meeting falling on
The company own its own motor contractor at the quarry where a
the report of chemists over the U. S. tend. There are just 300 seats in March 1, when it is hoped a good
truck for transporting their lime, crew of between three and five men that Lively Lime will lay from three
the new show and something like number of local well wishers for
lime rock and barrels to nnd from are employed.
hundred to four hundred more brick a thousand people in the Gold Hill the community will be present and
Gold IHI1 warehouse and the plant.
|Onc of the most remarkable feat­ per barrel of time than any other community—lets pack the house on
assist in managing the affairs of the
Ed Shoemaker, will continue ns ures of the Lively Quick Lime, I? lime produced on the Pacific coast. opening night
municipality.
Beaver Theatre
Announces Dates
ANNOUNCING
OPENING
BEAVER-
Theatre
Zane Gray’s New
Wild Horse Mesa
Saturday, March 6
Junk Dealer
Robs Barn Yard