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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1904)
5R""5.r"1r"'-S ir r tj rr i7TT tt dju&. . iu T 1 frs OT 5g? -sr""? a? as M HIHAIIVICIITIHINU MKIIIUM H 1 B J) E! N " I I I fM !U&' I I J I J 1 1 i " 1 " NKATJOll PRINTING S Devoted tn the Mining, Lumbering nnd Farming Interests of tills Community, to Good Government, nnd Hustling for a Grub Stake. COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1904. VOL. I BOSTON MAN VISITS BOHEMIA And Mr Mass in tin Interview gives his Impressions of Hint Minim; District. I Howard Mason, of Boston, mid supervisor ol music in day night for l'ni.idcna, Calif,, and have yet been made it looks well to other points and will soon leliirn to 1 the eye. One year tlie I.aniless the Hast to re.stuue bis work in tlic 1 family lulled to do the annua as schools, scssinctit work, and Scott Cbrisman ; . "jumped" it. Subsequently lie I 'Mifi'i rt'i'T m1 I also failed in bis work anil the, nYlXYI: Iijtr 01 j former owners got it back and1 IMPH ffW K'tve it the name of the liven I IVItll UHL Chance. They now feel that its1 1 .1..... .. .... J, ItVI 1 III II II till tttll (.IjlllllW :!A STORY Phils & Took Cut IIIjc Ledge on Ituland Creek. Ili'liuv lUvnr Cimrlrr on MP.UTINO OF CITV COUNCIL. Council mot In regular Hetwluii, (iurrhi, Mayor Itoll call. CoiiiiclbnHn Prconl: Councilman Currin. Watch, IIIukIkiiii, I IIIikIh, Chumlx-rllii, unil llecorder I Wlni'ler. AliHont roiiiiellnmn, Willi, j nnil Mayor J. S. Medley. .MlnutCH ot ( prvvliiH meutbiKH rrad nnd approaved. 1 Petition ol .Inlin .Stouchiirg ami I others for 11 Htniuhird nidi-walk In j front of the Weber property on A. Htiet't on inotlou wiih ri-fered to the Tlie l'latts (itinrt. nroncrtv ....... . .. ........ ... ,.,. ' " . the public schools ol l'lamlilgliam, , ' - September fi, IOOI. and wiih culled to isspeililing 111s vacation on me, ,, . h "order by councilman Pacific coast. He attended the 1 '" la now Iwimb carried nti. 1 p,.,,,.,;,. Mining Congress in Portland and ', " ; P" ,lc,w 1WCCK!' "wiiem upon the Invitation of V. J. Hard 1 have crossed ,,c tH!Scof nimrtr. and visited the 11 heinia mining district, porphyry 15 feet in width, carrying where he spent about 11 week h, ' ec gold values ranging from $10 looking over the counliy and visit- 10 , An average of Sev ille mining piopertics. He came cral general samples of the ledge, down Monday ami in an interview exclusive of the richest streaks, said: "I was very much pleased Klves a test value of $15 5 to the with what I saw during my visit to , t0 " "CL' KId. llohcnua. It Is a very rugged! 1 he ow;ncrs ol the mine expect to country and one that is interesting ! Imt " ful1 equipment or machin to an Kastem man. While 1 cry in the near future 1 lie extent visited several other properties mylnml richness of the ore make this time was principally taken up bc. ""e of t,c best appearing properties tweeii the Vesuvius, Oregon-Col- i"1,m,1!u,r" Jo'fphine orado and Riverside, nianaged by' , 1 P "" mine is located near Mr i;mi the mouth of Ilolaud creek -which Ic.ii .say that I was very much ""' of he large tributaries of surprised at the showing of these dicker creek. Ho and creek heads properties. At the Vesuvius there on lloland Peak which is one of the has been the greatest amount of culm nati.ig points of the long ridge development work done and nat- which scaratcs Sucker creek from urallv larger ore bodies exposed. A,' !ou?.u, , ... The io-stainp- mill Is about com- 1 "rlRRs bonanza is located on pletcd and the ariel tram is ready )"e of the spurs of the same ridge, for the buckets which I passed on Hobind creek is lanioits both for the way down. Wlnlel do not,r,cl 'lat nll(1 for llcav' claim lobe a mining man yei I could ' P''ccr gold, sec the bodies of ore and could . , In Six Parts IJy Warner. Horace I:. Part IV. Tllfi MAKING" OF A MINE. insures vein surface for indefinite 'able milling proposition. Samples I years. It gives large opportunity taken with persistence and care I , to mine from the net-work of feed- show In very many nlaces ore of, crs generally attendant upon a great excellent quality, while in a few AE DAHPuVI I A Ic(1Kcofore- It reduces the liabil-, spots assays ot startling figures jL DUllLilili i,y "f complicated litigation Hud have been made. There is thus, , ' high-lMtided extortion on the part by tunnel and drift and up-raise, i 1 of small claim-lioldi;rs. It elves blocked out a verv larie ouantitv I unstinted facilities for mill and tun- of Sne milling ore. Such demon-, , uei sues as tne development 01 tlie istration ot the ore-body is a most .property extends its demands in ! essential feature in tlie making of a these imperative respects. The mine. What probabilities it opens! 1 main and most important part of What conclusions as to the future this area has been patented and is productions of the property it war- 111 inuispuiaoic possession 01 tne rants: wneii tne ledges and veins 1'or unnumbered multitudes there company. The remaining claims , of this large acreage are opened up is magic in the word. The mention , may be patented as time passes and who will undertake to state its of a mine draws them like the mag- need requires. This permanent set-1 productiveness? nclism of a load-stone. It matters tlemcn of title is a very essential; I'acilities of extraction and re not where it is located, or what safeguard against future trodble duction of the ore must now be may be its nature, or who may be and loss. Area, title, accessibility, provided. The value of the prop its managers, ouly so it bears the , availibity as a working proposiiion Jerty has demonstrated the propriety mystic name. They become its such as the possession of steep , of large out lay in putting in the ready devotees and pour their hard-' slopes liavinggood mill and tunnel facilities for handling the ore now earned coin into the hands of its. sites, sufficient water supply, ad- known to exist. Along tunnel is voluble representative and pro- equate timber, all of these are vital . now being run on a cross-vein low moter. j factors in the making of a mine, , down on the mountain, many A genuine mine, one that de- none of which have been ommitted hundreds of feet below all the other Hired coimnltlu with tlio power tolserves Ulat technical title, that mine great property we nave under i workings. It will penetrate the to llL.t, I possesses all the qualities that be- , consideration ledge fully fifteen hundred feet be- IVtlllou of TIioh. IVnieh nnd ' ,0I1K lo such property, is a great After all the foregoing has been ' low the highest out croppings. It 1.1 hcTM fi.r 11 lluhi mi lilvcr Htm-t. 01. 'mid invaluable possession. There said, the superficial or surface con-! will open up a quantity of ore motion wiih n-fered to the Light coin-l is 'ittle to-be wondered at in the re- 1 dllions are only of minor impor- sufficient to keep a score of stamps marKaoie lascinauon u nas acquired ' tance m the making of a mine. All pounding away tor years to come over the thought and wealth of real worth, in such a property, without extending the exploitation men. Hut its counterfeit is legion. 1 centers lorever about the ore1 "it beyond the present superficial area The deplorable fact is that multi- holds and the process of getting at , examined. Adjacent to the mouth NO.- BOHEMIA MINING DIST. initio with power to net Petition of C. .1. Howard and otliri'x, pnyltiK the waiving of the wilier runt to the I'oimiicreliil club, wiih on motion refcrcd to the water committee with power to net. The following IiIIIh were rend nnd refered to the l'limiice commute. Miiinuiey HroK $ K!l:i. .1. i:. Young 2 .10 11. II. Urcgory.... U 'Si II. P.. I'mlorwood Cl 10 Hides do not distinguish. They know not how to differentiate. They confer upon every nonde script aspirant for the title all the and removing that ore. The ledges this long tunnel a stamp-mill, and veins must be exploited. They having a maximum capacity of fountt must be located without the shadow I ntteen stamps, ts in process of con of a mistake. It is the easiest struction, under contract to be NOTICE. There will be a meeting of the llohemi.i Mine Ownirs Association at the )ost office Ilohetnia. Monday understand the practical work done to make 11 mine of the Vesuvius.' I was one of a party to pass the first time by wagon over the new road to the Oregon Colorado. This is a 11 ..-..I...I ...! ...,.n t...:i, 1 .....1 1 ... wn ..11.. inn '.mil I...... mi., jjept. 13, at 7 o clock p. m. Is a great benefit to thut property. Al Ciit'Rcmu., Secty. At the Oregon-Colorado I found 11 force of men at work, one on the ' Krankic tunnel where the vein is showing well. At Hie lower tunnel CTll I A WATHCD on what Is called the Confidence J j Anil 1 llCK vein is the most attractive place. , On the dump are piled hundtcds of f A AI fI T f tons of a fine copper ore mid at the IliBilll I-4 1 !) 1 1 breast of the tunnel, which is some j 1JJU I 1LU aoo icct into I lie moit nl'iiii . men qualities of the genuine articles, 1 thing in the world to lose a vein, i completed by the first of Septem- all tlie charm of expectanc, all , A fault, or a "horse," may throw her of this current year. Then the spell of golden certainty with development off for years and sink ' UP" the proven ore of this great which men may and do justly vast. amounts in vain search for thelody, now practically blocked out. IJ..I. .Moore n 4o 'clothe the real thing. livery lost lead. The main vein of the i the work of extraction and reduc- LewU LntHon :i 15 1 claimant of that great and dignified 1 Vesuvius has been demonstrated tion can begin at once. The pro- Ncws Prom Bohemia and the Various Alining Camps at Oregon and Other States. I. B. Hammond went up to Bo hemia Wednesday. C. II. Jones has gone to look over the Bohemia district. J. L LeRoy and Mark Weddeli went up so Bohemia on Monday to visit the LeRoy Mining properties. Edward L. Haff, the mining en gineer, in company with David H, Sicca, passed through the city Monday morning enroute to Bo hemia. Lewis J. Hartley.wife and sister-in-law came down from Bohemia on Tuesday. They are on their way to Corvallts. Mr. Hartley states they had done considerable work on the Twin Rock property this season. In one tunnel driven on a vein for some 65 feet they have cross-cut 15 feet and no wall I he ore is largely free mill ing although one .portion of the vein shows considerable ore of a concentrating nature. WITH A SILVER SPOON IN HIS MOUTH. To go out camping for the sum mer and dig out some $600 or $700 II. II. Gregory. Percy Itogurx.... P. I. Whit-tor.. U. A. Wll-iin A. I'. Turner II M 11 00 0 .s 1 Mi a so title amonc human possessions to be a snlendid ledire. Thousands viduiE of ample facilities to net at'i" gold between times speut in should be faced with stern and of feet of work have been done up-! the ore, to r;move it from the mine J hunting deer and big game, is not merciless challenge, should be made on it. Tunnels have been run ! and properly treat it is the culmin- the luck that falls to every lover of to prove that it is worthy the' unou it from its verv too. under ating factor in the making of a the mountains, but that was the talismaiiie name it bears, should ! be made to demonstrate that it is I I I '1'nulnKUi.ll.w U1 IUl' Lhiu.ln Taylor nmt 3ti as 1101 masquerading under a cogno- Itolorl Martin WJ w, men to which it has not the re- II. Foroator 1 in ,1,0,,.?sl " t .1 . K . Itnrwtt 5 00 , lle. 11?rk,,1,K of ,"1,,,e ls a reat ,v ,,,,. r,,. . , , and dignified undertaking. It is ir'iiii,, a- v'ii, 4',, j'n the establishment of one of the , Xoi an ounce of ore has been t'ottimo Drove K. Co 171 00 , '""V s-"- ,wu. iNO Kreal auo uas ueen mane. .ported favorable j"' Aflcr Some Years Ore Body Found in Old Tunnel on liven Chance Claim. 1 1 were nreaKiiig uowu ore tuny lour leet 111 widtii. as we passed over the mountain from the O'egou Colorado to the Riverside gioup oil Horse Heaven Creek, we could see along the trail tlie huge croppings of the vein. At the Riverside group tlie men are diiviug the tun-,. I;or some years past Win I.an liel on the vein and are now in dess and sens have been the owners some fn feet from the mouth. 1 1 of the liven Chance claim located was informed that ore had been 1 just below Judsou Rock in the Ho encountered nearly all the way. - heinia district. Certainly at the breast there is a j There is a good surface showing large body ot oie much larger at j but it was decided to reach the ote least than the tunnel, as short cross- lower down by means ol a cross cuts have been driven mid no sign cut tunnel. The distance to be of walls. This ore is heavily ini- run was estimated and the work preguated with galena and copper Ibegunr Much to their carrying gold ami silver. I also the point where the ore visited tlie Utopian, Baltimore, .peeled was unseed but none (omul. Crystal Consolidated and other properties, which impressed me very favorably. I am very glad I made this trip as it has been very interesting nnd instructive. I would say the great progress that is being made under the able manage ment ol F. J. Hard will in due time bring rich icturus to many stockholders." Mr. Mason took the tiain Mon- Recently one of the Landess boys concluded to do some work on the claim and finding a small seam which had been crossed by the tunnel, proceeded to follow it. Only a few s'.iots had been put in when the ore began to show and in a short distance it filled the face of the drilt, with one wall not ex posed. The ore is a quartz with iron sulphides and while no assays The committee ivi mi nil liilln, ami on motion tlie report with adopted nnd tlio Hit-order In Htriicted to draw ntirrautHfor the re Hpit'tlveamoimtH. Ordinance No. Mi. An ordinance entitled an ordli'auco miming the StreetH of the city of Cottago drove, was presented and read the HrHt time. The ruloH be Hiinpondod and moved and Hccoudcd that ordinance No. Ml bo read the Hecond time by title. Motion carried by the unani mous coin-cut of all councilman prcs ent. and ordinance No. Ml wiih read the M-eund time by title. Motion duly made and Ht-coiided that the rules bo Htixpciidcri and ordi nance. No. Ml bo rend the third time and placed on Its tlnal pannage. Mo tion carried by the iiimuliuous cou- surprisc iHOIlt f tlu memiK-rii of the Council Was ex- , ,,p K,,it. jiiwl ,11'iltiintu'e 'iv Sll wnu read the third time ami placed 011 Its llual piiHHagc. The Hull being called the vote upon tlio pax-iage of ordinance No. MJ rcHiilted uh follows AycH, Vcatch, IIIiiiIh, Ilinghani, Cliamlierlln and there upon the Mayor declared ordinance No. OS duly piiNHeil. On motion Council adjourned to meet Monday Sept 12th, lltOI. I1'. H. Wheeler. Hit-order ami ex otllce Clerk of the Common Council. Its 1 Vo false hones have been stirred in isuccessful accoirnUshmeut is no nle body of stock-holders. No pastime. It is no fortunate happy , spurious dividends have been de incident of an hour. A rich crop-'dared from the sale of stock. Th ping of mineral-bearing rock may ' uncovering and blocking out of be the lucky find of .monient. But 'ore-bodies has beeu the supreme such an incident is very far from business of the management. The the making of a mine. The one result is that, to a most gratifying is the turn of a stone under a measure, this company now knows stumbling step: the other is a con- what it has in this splendid prop tinuous, intelligent, arduous work erty. It has been about the one of years This great task needs to enterprise of making a mine. 1 oe more careiuuy consiuereu oy the great world of wealth and com Gar man Hemenway Co. West Side, Eakin & Ki'istow ISuildin. Line of Staple 4 Fancy firocerii Meats, Lards, Vegetables, fruits Etc., Etc. - F ESH EVSV DAY - CROCKERY, G1 ASSWARE the verv neak of Fairview. down mine. Patient owners should good lortune ot L,. O. Higgins, an to the valley bottom; crosscuts then wait until a proper reserve can assayer of Grants PassrIr. Hig have been pushed out Irom side '.o 1 be accumulated to provide against gins has jnst returned from- the side; upraises have been made, with emergencies. Then let the regular mountains of Chetco River, on the many levels putting off therefrom, j disbursements of dividends begin; , dividing line between Josephine The company lias crowded this i and another mine has been added j and Curry counties, relentless work of exoloitation. I to the great productive resources of! He has been absent several weeks shin- tue worm s wealth. The Vesuvius ana una nis wne ana ooys wuu mine ot tne uonemia .Mining Uls- , aim. t lew years ago ue toon up trict is a most excellent, typical :a claim out there ana ms visit tuis example ot the great enterprise ot the making of a genuine mine. MOULTON MINE. merce. the best way to consider it is under the illustration of con crete examples. 1 he Bohemia Mining District holds some such instances. Prom the larger number that might be used, the writer, in Last Thursday J. W. Currin came from the Moulton property located on the east ridge of Grouse Mountain where he has been at work for some months pa-,t. This property has had a trood surface It is neither within the province 1 showing but the owners decided to nor the ability of this writer to g tin depth on the vein and there enter into a technical discussion of fore have been driving a tunnel on the nature of the ores found in the 1 the vein lower down the mountain. Vesuvius mine. In most instances' Recently a fine body of ore has probabiy, the reader would be little! been encountered and the further wiser at the end of such a discuss-i the tunnel was driven the better ion than at the beginning. J he , the showing. Mr. Curnu reports binds Bohemia and Pairview peaks together, one is at the head waters of two creeks. City creek flows to the east toward the Cascades; Glen- wood creek flows to the west start- 1 Km ! I At the Store of Baroains I RIGHT PRICKS. W. W. MeFmIm,d, Mitr. mis arucie ana iiieune inn iu iu, kild ofore it, no way determine the solid ore which carries a good will confine himselfto twoor three, ',,. iM A .:,.. u nrnn, 1 -Kr r mnn ,-c ,. because of the special information i.mv lr, ,: r,r ;,i i,;ii, ,in,m;,i. o n at hand concerning these particular vaiuable ore. It remains a mine ! of a oartiallv oxidized o the properties. M i while its management keeps such whole vein being four feet in width oiuuuuit, ui. tut. bodies! o ore in evidence. The The saniD es broucbt out bv Mr. Vesuvius mine is such a property. J Currin are certainly very fine. Be lt has a ledge ot ore, varying in sides Mr. Currin, Frank Jorden, F. width from two feet to eight and I D. Wheeler and H. D. Scott are ten feet, sometimes widening out owners in the Moulton property, a tr, unnl, nvli.nl tlinl lr1 li i.ifillc lifit'A fact wn iiIhogao Oiaca nantlamDn ing from the springs breaking out I not t bee lail, bare- In much very much just at present, from the sides of both of the ad-' 0f the distance penetrated the en-, jacent mouutaius. I lie latter tj ore.botlv is ,ineral-beari ue in , ,...,..... streamlet separates the parallel suffieient value t0 ,nake it a profit-1 cha igij Uestai r m t. slopes of Bohemia and I-airview peaks as they drop gradually to-; ward the west in long, precipitous 1 ridges. One look from "The Sad dle" down the long, dark valley of Glen wood creek. Its dense forest ties block and thick below you. The slope of Fair view rises and re cedes to the right. You are over looking one of the best mines of the district. A group of claims running down from "The Saddle" covering the head and bed of the creek valley and the slope of Fairview, almost to its very peak and reaching well down its westward ridge, including a combined surface of over two hundred and fifty acres, comprises the property of the Vesuvius Con solidated Quartz Mining Company. This property has been a growth. The original location is the Vesu vius claim, high, up under the peak of P'airview. To this, claim after claim has been added until the present magnificent area has been amassed under the one manage ment. Irregular surfaces not in cluded iu the original locations Have b;en discovered and located until a solid block of ground has been acquired. It is indeed a magnificent superficial area. It sweeps dowii Fairview, from, its very top, along its steep slope to the creek bottom and beyond. It embraces large areas of splendid timber. It includes exhaustless springs of pure cold water, It holds long distances ou both sides of the main county wagon road leading to the railroad. . This acquisition of large solid areas of surface is un exceedingly important summer was as much to inspect it as to enjoy an outing. He made the discovery that there is a '-wide porphry dike on the claim, and from this dike or rich stringers on the dike he and his boys took out ! several hundred dollars by a few days' work with shovel, rocker and ' sluice. Only a shallow cut was i made, and the gold was separated j from the soft rock by a crude rocker I and sluice fashioned out of fir ! poles. Telegram. UTOPIAN GROUP. From a reliable source it is learned thpt the developments be ing made on the Utopian group of claims under the management of Mr Roberts, are proving of value to that property. It is stated that in driving a tunnel on the Plato claim the vein which has been fol lowed has opened to Several feet in width nnd the ore which is oxidized pans well in gold and frequently free gold can be seen in the rock. FARMERS A TTEXTIOX. We have n large supply of cheap lumber. Just what you want on iv ranch, price very cheap, must be sold to mnke room for other tock. The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., SiiKlnaw, Ore. OUR FAMILY brand kLINE i v. 8 M lie For this week We will sell Ladies Shoes, dull finish at $1.00 pair. Ladies Vice Pat tip, Extension Sole $1.50 " Misses District 7G button at $1.00 pair Or lot of Mens, Some high cut others regular Lace tip and plain toe $2.50. $2.25, $2.00 Sells at $1 .50. Just the articles for Outing and Hop Pickers. fgOur new clothing is in the Store and a dandy line all on hand from M Old Stock Go Out at Reduced Prices. Welch & Woods part in the making ot a mine. It A