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TUB GOLD HILL NBW8, JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1926
Medford Paper Publishes
Gold Hill Cement Figures
A Montreal, the Historic and the Picturesque
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An article appearing in the Med­
ford paper under u Gold Hill dute
line, undoubtedly written by A. E.
Kellogg, give» some very Interest­
ing information to the public. Sev­
eral of the statements given were
quite common topics during the re­
cent election in Gold Hill, but in us
much us spoken statements do not
look the same in print, and lest the
iMkostcrs of Gold Hill forget, we ure
printing sunie in purl:
To be trusted in a much bet­
ter remit'ment fban io be
loved.
NUMBER 14.
Sleepy Hollow
Placer Mine Is
In Onerabion
early days of the region for the
great wealth of gold, which was
Work at the Sleepy Hollow Mine
vicinity, since the coming of ce­
at the mouth of Sardine creek is in
ment is now the limestone center of
progress.
Much trouble has been
the state of Oregon. 'Hint the Bea­
encountered at the mine.
Break­
ver Purllund plunt is ideuly situat­
age of machinery; the fact that
ed In this region is evidenced by
when the first ground was broken,
bring located on the inuin line of
several hundred feet up the channel
the Southern Pacific railway, para-
from the mouth of the creek, a high
lelled by the Pacific highway, ad­
rim of rock was not anticipated and
joining the city limits of Gold Hill,
a channel for the sluice boxes had
uml within a few hundred feet from
to be blasted and dug out to drain
Bogue Biver for wuter supply.
the works without literally having
Beginning ut the second paragraph While udjoining the plant ut its back
to drive the gold up hill, and the
“The property consists of two sep­ doors is a mountain of inexliuustable
burning out of expensive motors
arate wuter rights on Bogue Biver, supply of high-grade limestone,
have delayed the mine and worried
Sixty acres extending for u mile on shale, clay and silica, which is be­
the owners. Even with the motor
the west aide of the river from the ing quarried to supply the plunt.
on the big dredge bucket burned out
highway bridge crossing the river Just across the river is another im­
mining has continued during the
ut (iold Hill, including diversion mense deposit nt high-grade lime­
week by driving the sand and gravel
works, cunals, spillways and 400 stone, a mile below this deposit is
into the sluice-way with a 5-inch
horsepower hydro-electric plant. another immense deposit of litne-
‘giant’ and in that way prevent a
The other properly is on the rust , stone, the site of the state limestone
dead delay in activity. Ju?i how
side of Rogue Bivcr, consist of « j plant, while three miles below the
long it will be necessary to operate
controlling in te re s t in the Gold H ill cement plant is the company’s old
in this handicapped way depends
irrigation district's iliversion work time quarry, which supplied thg
entirely upon when the armature of
»n Bogue Biver three miles above p|gm with limestone for a number
the burned-out motor will be re­
told Hill, control works, ditch o f years until the principal quurry
paired. The armature of the motor
rights, and power site on the river was removed to Marble mountain.
had been rewound at an earlier
opposite (iold Hill.
Each of the The limestone from all three of the
period and is thus considered as de­
(wo proposition^ car riisi with it immense limestone deposits can be
fective. This motor and the hoist
plans of an outlay of nearly a mil­ conveyed to Gold Hill plunt by grav­
machinery it was operating is the
lion dollars for the improvement of ity aerial tramway ut a very low
one that was taken from the old
the |H)Wcr plant and their respective cost.
Centennial mine on the Willow
plants at Gold Hill.
These deposits are a series of high
Springs road.
“The new owner of the city’s prop grade limestone lenses in the (iold
The placer mine is unique in that
erty will immediately remodel and Hill districts, where the transporta­
it is different to common practice in
improve the present equipment at tion question is settled. They arc
this part of the country.
Instead
an expense of $2(),IMH) anil supply ,.s a rule elongated or lenselike mass
of starting at the mouth of the creek
the city with power for pumping usually less than a mile in length
and working up stream making a
water into its wuter system and and but a few hundred feet in thick­
channel and natural dump as they
street lighting system, and supply ness.
went, the engineers in charge of the
"Satisfactory operation was start­
the local cement plant with power.
work opened the mine up the chan­
In the mean lime the cement com­ ed in 1U14 by war conditions. Ce­
Montreal, which is only an over­ Westmount;—McGill University and
nel and drove the dirt into the boxes
pany will begin doubling the ca­ ment was in demand and the mills
forcing the issue, so to speak, and
pacity of its plant at Gold Hill at an were prepared to supply it, when, night journey from Boston, New the Universite de Montreal; the Art
with a change of engineers, the new
expense of $750,000 and follow with because of the war, the government York and Buffalo, and but once Gallery, the Civic Library, and the
deep channel was dug permitting
increasing capacity of the power reservations on oil tank curs were around the clock from Chicago, is new City Hall.
gravity drain on the pit where the
plant sullicient to meet all demands imposed nnd prevented the company Canada’s largest city, with a popu­ to the Gulf of Mexico.
water is pumped by a 12-inch cen­
Its manufacturing plant will require from obtaining the fuel oil requir­ lation of nearly 1.000,000. Montreal
While Montreal has a wonderful
trifugal electric drrve pump and the
ed.
[These and other difficulties is also the fifth largest city in North historic past, it is a great manufac­
The Approximate annual produc­ beset the original members of the America. It is a favorite place for
to capture Quebec. Here, too, Ben­ values washed into the boxes with
tion of the Beaver Portland Cement couqiany during the first few years conventions from the United States, turing city, and the greatest grain jamin Franklin set up one of his the sand.
A large drag line and
exporting port in the world as well
company's plnnt at (iold Hill for the of Its existence.
bucket brings the gravel to the in­
Ultimately the and attracts a vast number of visit­ as one of the greatest ports for gen­ first printing presses.
past several years have been 200,000 conditions led to n complete reor­ ors during the winter as well in the
The old and new are strikingly take of the sluices and a giant does
eral business.
barrels of cement.
This produc­ ganization in 1918. New men and summer when winter ¿ports are
blended in Montreal, and the visitor the rest.
The gravel passes over
Montreal is extremely picturesque finds buildings erected two and one- about seventy feet of ‘riffles” where
tion requires about KOI) cars of lime­ new capital wus introduced into the popular.
and is dominated by Mount Royal half centuries ago side by side with the values are retained. At the end
stone which is brought to Gold Hill business. Today there is an invest­
When Jacques Cartier first sight­
from the company's quarries at ment of $1,500,000 in the company’s ed Montreal nearly four centuries which rises 600 feet above the St. structures which are the product of of the sluice boxes another electric
Lawrence. At its top is a beauti­
Marble Mountain.
Of the driven hoist rig operates a dragline
plant and quarries. Many additions ago, it bore the name of “Hochelaga, ful park and throughout the city modern engineering skill.
numberless
spots
in
Montreal
which and bucket that picks up the washed
to
the
plnnt
nnd
improvements
in
meaning Beaver Meadow, and was are many historical relics of the past
"It also requires about half that
are worth a visit, these few may be
quantity of shale clay and silica the method of production and the an Indian village. 'It was actually including the Chateau de Ramezay, cited: Chateau de Ramezay, built gravel and carries it off at right
quarried directly from behind the product have been made since the founded in 1642, and since then has w-hich was the headquarters of the in 17415; Seminary of St Sulpice, angles to the sluice boxes and
plant at Gold Hill, and about 30 cars present oflicers took control, be­ been the scene of some of the most British and French Colonial govern­ built in 1685; Notre Dame Church, dumps it in a huge pile. The fine
of gypsum imported from Mound cause they recognized the value to romantic episodes of North America ments, and which is now a miost in­ over one hundred years old; St. material is carried on down the old
Sardine channel into the river.
From Montreal the great teresting and picturesque museum.
House, Nevada.
In calcining dur­ the state of the development of the history.
Joseph’s Oratory, the scene of many
property
and
saw
financial
promise
LaSalle
passed
through
the
Great
ing the course of the mnnufaeturc
The ground being worked has been
From the Chateau de Ramezay Gen­ pilgrimages and some remarkable
the company uses some 800 cars of in preparing to supply the constant­ Lakes and found the headwaters of eral Richard Montgomery, of New cures; the city’s three principal carefully tested nnd shown to be
the Mississippi, down which he went York left on his ill-fated expedition
fuel oil imported from the Califor­ ly increasing demand for cement.
parks—Mount Royal, Lafontaine and rich enough to make a handsome
"Because this couqiany has forged
nia Helds.
Electric power, which
profit if handled properly. Several
costs the company annually approxi­ ahead overcoming obstacles in a new
big papers were wrong we reprint hundred acres of, land is available
mately $.'>0,000 is employed in driv­ Held of production, these are facts
a
paragraph regarding the death of for this dredge in that locality and
ing the equipment at the Gold Hill of interest nbout it. It is the only
Miss Foley and those who knew her the preliminary clean-up of a few
plant and quarries nt Mnrble moun­ cement producing plnnt in Oregon
can easily draw the right conclu­ days past indicates that the process
tain. The finished product in the outside of Portland nnd Huntington
sions: "Country folk don’t realize is saving part of the gold even in the
shape of sacked cement is shipped districts, far separated from the re­
the hurry and struggle under which experimental stage.
A fight card of considerable in­
"It has mode Gold Hill for
out In box cars, requiring almut 800 gion.
FOLEY—Katherine G. Foley, well
city
people live. They don’t know
The property is controlled by C.
cars per year of an average capacity a number of years one of the busiest terest has been arranged by M. D. known resident of this community,
how,
in the city, the girl from up­ G. Van Hook who is president of
Bowers,
promoter
here,
for
next
little
industrial
communities
with
a
of 250 barrels each,
died at a hospital in Portland on
state is a stranger and often remains the company operating the mine, but
Friday night.
large pay roll in the state.
Sunday, July 11, after a sickness
"These figures give some idea of
“Being strictly an all-Oregon in­
A piece in a Medford paper says: that dates back to a nervous break­ through years a stranger, and how, the actual operation of the nunc is
the importance of this Gold Hill dustry, owned and managed by “In an effort to stage a comeback,
for country girls who come to the in the hands of engineers employed
down of two years past.
Miss
enterprise as a producer of tratlie Oregonians, the disbursements by Joe Gorman, Grants Pass pugilist
city, there mlay be a hall bedroom, by the company, who is now repre­
Foley was born near Gold Hill on
nnd trade, nnd now the company this company to iron foundnries, will meet Bud Thomas of Portland
a meagre salary, barely enough to sented by Engineer Myers, of Port­
February 27, 1893, and has made
keep soul and body together, frugal land.
proposes to double the present ca­ machinery Imuses nnd afliliated lines in an eight-round headliner bout in
this her home.
For the past 12
meals, few friends, all of which
pacity of the Gold Hill plant, which ape a considerable item of income to a five-event smoker to be staged at
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years she has tnught school in vari­
will likewise double these shipments the state.
The couqinny follows Gold Hill next Friday evening. Joe ous parts of Oregon and California. makes an isolation and solitude far
Hard and Soft wood any time at
worse than the quiet walks, the cool
nnd operating expenses.
It is nt the unvarying practice of buying in Gormun lost a decision to Thomas
She has attained a wonderful edu­
pd ad—»7
shades, the crystal streams, the bird Ritter’s.
present one of the big industries in Oregon for all its needs which can in a smoker held here several weeks
cation, being a graduate of Mon­
Oregon, and it is probable that it be supplied here on fair terms. The ago after ten rounds of gruelling
choruses, all nature in her lovliness
mouth Normal, Humbolt State Nor­
and the warm hearted folk, in the town mode of selfish living and con­
ships a larger quantity of freight oflicers of the company are D. L. battle.
mal in California, the Slate Normal
country.*
Again another paragr­
than any other company on the Carpenter, Portland, president; W.
“Lex Johnson of Portland, who of San Jose and the State Teacher» aph points to Katherine Foley ns a duct had anything to do with her
Southern Pacific line south of Port­ II. Muirhend, Medford, vice-presi­
ideas.
bested Kenneth Padleforod, former college of San Francisco.
lamb going to the slaughter: “And
land.
With these shipments and dent nnd general manager; L. H.
local booxer, after ten rounds on
Just because the big town has had
th<« shijlment of other concerns Adams, Portland, secretary nnd C.
She leaves five brothers and one so they come, and so they go—these
the same card, will fight four rounds
“thousands of them”, coming to the
shipping limestone nnd lime pro­ W. Martin, Gold Hill, engineer and
sister. Miss Margaret Foley of Gold girls wlho walk into the grinding,
with Frankie Howe of Los Angeles.
bright lights like moth in the night,
ducts, timber, stock and fruit ship­ superintendent of the plant and
Hill, Frank of Medford, William and toiling, rushing city from the beau-
Johnson showed clever style when
is no reason or excuse for the sob-
ments, Gold Hill for several years quarries.
Harry of Central Point, Lester and ful, placid country farms nnd small
he appeared here.
Sonny Austin,
sister editors of the big papers to
towns.”
past has been the banner shipping
"Il was only a few days ago tlint local dusky slugger, will meet the Chester of Gold Hill.
belittle and besmirch anyone by not
point on the main line of the South­ it was reported that the Boss Islnnd
The body arrived nt the Conger
Finnish amateur champion, Emil
We in the ’placid country’ know securing the real facts before they
ern Pncilc rnilway in Oregon out­ Sand and Gravel company, a Port­
Peukbriume, in four rounds of fast Funeral parlors in Medford Tuesday Katie Foley to be oce of the best publish their ‘masterpieces’.
side of Portland.
land corporation, capitalized in the ighting. In addition, two prelimin morning end services in charge of educated girls in the state of Ore­
We do not know the reason for
millions
of dollars has become as­ inaries have been arranged.
Rev. Temple of Medford were con­ gon. We know that she was not Katherine Foley to destroy her own
The cement company employs
sociated
with
the
Beaver
Portland
about 100 men at the Gold Hill plnnt
“The card will be held in the ducted at the grave in the Rock in Portland seeking the brand of life; that is entirely between her and
and Marble mountain quarries nnd Cement company by buying a con lewly completed dance pavilion Point cemetery near Gold Hill at fame the crush and competition of the Creator.
Poor health is un­
trolling Interest in tin1 cement com­
the city educational instutions afford doubtedly basically therealcause.
and under the direction of Doc. 10:30 o’clock Wednesday morning.
has a pny roll of nenrly $20,000 n pany.
Mr. Carpenter is likewise
The articles appearing in the
month besides disbursing a tremen­ president of the associated rom- Bowers well known Gold Hill box­ Portland papers regarding the death We know that she had had city ex­ Closer contact with intimate rela­
perience sufficient to be disgusted tives might have robbed the river of
ing promoter.”
dous sum of money annually for pan".
This combination will give
of Miss Foley were very much to be with the City. Her failing health, [ a victim, but Katherine was never
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miscellaneous supplies nnd equip­ the ir-o| company unlimited cap­
criticised.
Miss Foley was not "a due to overwork in trying to lift a person to give up, to despare, and
ital to enlarge the local cement
FOB SAI.F,—Good 6 room house country girl in the big city." as in­ others to a higher plane of intelec­ became famous in this country for
ment.
plant and the power plant acquired in Gold Hill. This is a bargain.
dicated by the big town "sob-sister’ tual life was the cause of untimely her cheerfulness in the times of the
“Gold Hill made famous in the from the city.”
Box 126, Jacksonville.
writer. To show just bow far the end. We do not believe the bigger most trying situations.
Thomas-Gorman Katherine Foley
Fight Friday Fanerai Wednes.