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Devoted to the Mining, Lumbering and Farming Interests of this Community.
VOL. VI
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1 1, igos.
NO. sx
GAME WARDEN'S REPORT
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GRKyT KASTKKN MKKTING
T tlm molding of HlockholdorH
mid board u( directors of t ho
(lrmt UnMlnrii Mining Company
liuld lit tlio llrnt National IJnuk, Cor
vnllix, tlm (iKjiijiiK of Jim, .'lil. Tlio
ful!ovliij wt'ro ulootoil directors for
tlmywir limn:
1 .1. Ilnril, itiitiiit(jr of tlio Vohu
vIiih, Oregon-Colorado nml Jtlvur
Hliln Mining' CouipntiicA in tlio llo.
lioiulii DiHlrict, Lwln Hailly, n well
known uiiiiiiiK innn nmiriiiiK in Cor
vrtllin, AiiKHHt l'luclicr, tnniinrr of
tlm UorviillU 1'lourMilln, A. K. Mil
nor nml T. II. WolHhtir, niurehniitii
in CorviilllH,
I'. J. Hard mum clnclod prosidont;
Augutd J'iHolior, vico proHidurit; O.
1'.. hilly,rnHlilurI''irHt National bank,
ncrottiry mid tiendiror; Hornco
Lilly, awtintnnt hdcrotiiry,
t ). Hard wim rot proHdiit nt tlio
maoting mid lind rMjticntoil tlio gon
tluuien mil to plnco liim on tlio board,
owing to IiIh time nml ntruiiflli
buiug fully rotiiirod ou tlio propor
tion bo Iiiim long heun connected with
mid but ilio onliro inminuomont of.
Mr. Hnrd dooH not Hlnto tlmtho in
UiiiIh to di'olinn tlio proMduncy of
tbu company, but for hi inability to
In of hoi vice to them now, ho fools
tbut n innn bIioiiIiI occupy tbo post
lion who ran pormumlly identify
hlnmoK with tliu uurkingN.
Ho HtntoH that tbo Ureal KiHtorn
Company owiih splendid property.
Iwvn (rv milling oro in night in nt
leant two voiiiH, tlio Hotelier and
Miiiontl Hpu'iiKH, good work wns
douu tbo punt bOiiMui nml nnotbor !
ytfiir idiould pWc tbo compnny woll
iiiuh tbo tirodiioinu ulni'o.
board am nil btminiWH men mid lofc
mou to mnimno tlio nITnira of l lie
ciuipan.v.
THE OLD AND NEW.
of Oregon, a further coincident
Ih tbut both mill are ou the name
property and owned by the Vesu
vius Gold MlnliiR Company.
CRYSTAL, CONSOLIDATED
ONDAY, nows was rocolvod
from tlio workinon nt tbo
Cryntnl ioinilidatnd In Bohomin, of
it good mi iUo In tbo tipper tunuol.
Tbo i I roforrod to ban boon
drivnti n distanco of some four bun
died foot and linn gained n dopth 'of
nbout two hundred foot.
Tbo working hnro boon in oro
tbo moHt of tbo wny but tlio report
now Is It in much bottor than nt nny
proviuus timo.
Tbero is nbout tbroo foot of n rail-
linn oro nml now located by thoBldo
of tbi lodgo hah nppnnrod nn oro of
n lmno naturo, which linn nil tlm np-
puaranco of orm liorotoforo found in
tbo otbor largo properties. Wblln
It Id know thorn in qui to a body of
thin baso oro tlm full width is not
dotorminod oh Ibo mou hnto uotyot
oroHN-cut to tbo wall. Tlio oflbers
of tbo compnuy nro Tory much
plcnsod with tbo improvement ro
contly shown in tbodooporirorkingH.
Eastern Oregon
Notes.
W. IIAWI.EY, now a res
ident of Star called nttbe
Nugget office recently. Mr. Haw
lew came to Oregon in 1867 nud
was in Bohemia ns early ns 1868.
lie Hays hi faith never wavered in
the future outcome of the district
which was at that date 175 miles
from the nearest railway.
Mr. Hnwlcy tells an interesting
story of the Betting the first mill
into the district. It was first used
ou the old N'ott urine and came
from Kan Francisco via Portland
by water and brought up the Wil
lamette river by boat to Eugene,
thence by wagon and pack train to
Grouse mountain, Hohemia. He is
of the opinion it was the first stamp
mill set up in Oregon. That being
a fact, Dohcmia can claim at the
present time the oldest as well as
the newest stamp mills in the state
Sumpter starts off the new year
with new mayor and council and a
cash balance uf 3856.40 cents in its
treasury.
The Highland Mining Company
is planning to have a 200 ton plant
In thencnr fiiture.
An injunction has beat granted
by the court, restraining the direc
tors ol the Golconda mine from
selling the property.
The big ore hotly recently found
in l'latt's ci ou, has been proven
to be 180 feet in length and 30 feet
wide.
A little over one year ago H. M.
While, an Easlcuer, bought the
"Maid of the Mist," 011 Thompson
creek, paying $.150 for it. The pros
pector who sold it had taken out
several hundred dollars from the
surface ores, nud he believed he
was getting rid of a pinched out
proposition when ho sold. Hut Mr.
White went bravely to work, ruu
new nud deeper tunnels, and in due
time uncovered the main ledge.
One shipment of ore netted him a
clean $rc.i, til now he is negoti
otiug to sell for $15,000. This is
oneway to make money in the mill
ing business in Southern Oregon.
Mineral Monthly.
LEGITIMATE MINING.
LKOITIMATK mining is the
investment ol money and
brains in the development and
equipment of promising prospects,
whether these ventures be profita
ble or not. Uccnus: a mining vent
ure fails is no reason to class it as
Illegitimate if the business has been
carefully and honestly conducted.
If goes without saying that the
management of the operation must
be in experienced hands, though
unfortunately for the industry this
is not always the case. Illegitimate
mining is that class of mining
where other people's money is ob
tained through the medium of mis
representation and expended usu
ally iu an extravagant manner ou
a worthless proposition, and by
men who have little knowledge of
practical raining or just enough to
enable them to hoodwink their
dupes into the belie that their
great expectations arc just about to
lie realized. Mining nnd Scientific
Press.
GOOD SHOWING
ECKIPTS of gold and silver
iu 1904 at Denver Mint.;
Gold, Jnn. 1 to Nov. 1 ...$13,H0,SS'I.ai
Silver. Jan. 1 to Nov. 1.. 4B.MI7.SII
Total fWI.CS2,761.S9
Kxtlmnted olJ nnd silver
for Dcccmlwr $l,noo,o00.00
Totnl reeelptM for HH)l.$ir,,18L',7Cl.S9
Estimates of the amount of gold
nud silver purchased at the Denver
mint and made into bullion during
the it months ot the year up to
December 1 have been completed
by Chief Clerk Edward P. Leech
and show an increase of over $1,
500,000 over the amount purchased
m 1903.
Although this is not quite as
large as in some former years, the
record is considered very good con
sidering the general business and
mining conditions of the state. The
amount purchased last year was
$13,606,625.13.
The first of the new coinage ma
chinery for the mint has arrived
from St. Louis and will be put in
place immediately. Machinery from
St. Louis will continue to arrive for
the next two or three weeks, and it
is believed that the entire exhibit
at the fair is now ou its road to
Denver. That part of the coinage
machinery which will be shipped
direct from the East liar not been
completed, and final shipment of it
will not be made until sprint;
Al Churchill wont to Bohemia
Tuesday to resume work on tbo Dig
Four group.
GREAT CLEARANCE
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During the Next Two Weeks
Wc will offer bargains in all lines carried
in our stock
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Garman, Hemenway Co.
TATEGame ami I'octstry War
ded J. W. llaker, has made
is annual report to the Governor for
he years 1903 and 1901 which hire
been printed and a large number
distributed. The reports are very
complete containing many valuable
suggestions and recommendations.
There nre a number ol fine cuts,
showing some Oregon scenery, also
of game birds, etc.
The following are some of the
suggestions made by the Warden:
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The law protecting the killing of J
elk expires September ifi, 1904,
and should be re-enacted as soon as
possible. Many persons have ap-1
plied at this oflicc for information
as to when the .season opens for
killing elk and if the law is not re
enacted only a few years will pass
by when the elk of Oregon will be
an animal of the past.
I) I! UK
The law prohibiting the sole of
deer meat has done more to protect
them than all tho deputy game war
dens in Oregon could do. Deer iu 1
Oregon are ou tbc increase, their ;
slaughter iu Southern Orcgou is not
as extensive as iu years past
MONGOLIAN OK CHINA I'HKASANTS
In some localities these birds arc,
Of Interest to Miners
fifty ducks iu one day, or ten China
pheasants. Since July 1, 1903,
eleven arrests have been made and
ten convictions. In one instance
by order of the District Attorney
the case was dismissed.
CAPITALIZATION PARVALUE
HERE is a class of promoters
who are constantly taking
advantage of the fact that the aver
age, investor knows little or nothing
about capitalization and par value
of company shares. These pro
moters will advertise stock of com
panies with five or ten million
shares at two, three or four dollars
per thousand shares, and by infer
ence lead the ignorant investor to
believe that he is getting a valua
ble interest in the company at a
trifling figure. It is only the fool
ish investor the man or woman who
never investigates before investing,
who is a victim of the "catch
penny" schemes of these modern
"financiers." If a company is cap
italized for one million shares, a
block of one thousand shares repr
ized for ono million shares with a
par value of oncj dollar a share,
value of one dollar when ih reality
the stock has a par value of one or
ten cents a share. The mining
publications of the country should
compel advertisers to give, In their
advertisements, the capitalization,
par value of stock and number of
shares of every company advertised.
This would, to a certain extent,
protect the investor against this
fraudulent practice. Bonds and
Mortgages.
LEADVILL'S PROMISE.
EASTERN MONEY
Boston, Mass., January 3d, 1905.
Mil. Wm. B. Root,
'Editor and Manager,
Bohemia Nugget,
Cottaok Grove, Ore.
Dear Sir: 1 cannot resist the impulse to compli
ment you on the very interesting number of the
"Nugget" which came to hand this morning.
There has "uccn'a marked improvement in the
whole "get-up" of the paper within the past few
weeks and it is now much more valuable to those in
tlie East who have friends and money interests in
the PAR WEST.
When your people complain that too much
space is given to the mining interests they should
be reminded that considerable of the money which
goes to buiid up Cottage Grove, the District and
State comes from the East and is greatly influenced
to seek investment therein through the information
gained prom your columns.
Very truly yours,
Geo. B. French,
Boston, Mass.
plentiful; iu others they have been
slaughtered in great numbers. Many
farmers In the Willamette Valley
are becoming interested in their pro
tection and will not allow hunters
and dogs on their farms. They have
also rendered good assistance in fur
nishing evidence in a few cases of
violations. The number of China
pheasants shipped out of this Stale
since July 1, 1903, is very small, a
list of which is hereto attached.
GKOUSK
The Origon grouse are largely
ou the decrease. As soon as the
young ones are old enough the
shotgun and the dbg, backed by a
good shot, are great destroyers of
Oregon's upland birds.
OUHGON P1IKASANT
The native pheasants of this State
are fast passing away.
QUAIL
This bird is largely on the in
crease in most parts of the State.
The Bob White quail will soon be
plentiful if the sportsmen will guard
them iu the future as they have in
the past.
DUCKS AND GlUtS It
Iu southeastern Otegoti the ducks
and geese are abundant. I am
glad to report the fact that Deputy
Game Warden Hutchinson, of Kla
math Falls, has been very vigilant
in watchiug violators ol the game
law in that locality; he has warned
the California hunters to ' 'keep off. "
Ducks and geese are plentiful on
the Columbia River also. Some
hunters are in the habit ot shooting
geese on islands in the Columbia
River contrary to law. One viola
tor was arrested by a county deputy
at Arlington and fined. The limit
of each hunter Is I think too great.
What use can quo mau have with
seii ts just one one-thousandth pait
of the capital of the company. If
a company has a capital stock of
ten million shares, a block of one
thousand shares represents one ten
thousandth part of the capital of
the company. There are some
people who seem to think that every
mining and oil company is capital
These are the people win think
they are getting shares with a par
IT is now some 25 years since
Leadville surprised the mining
world with its carbonate discoveries
and drew to its confines the enter
prising miners and capitalists from
the ends of the earth. During 1904,
in a series of marvelous ore strikes,
the carbonate era has been revived,
the ore in sight in such properties
as the Iron Silver group, the Yak
Tunnel group, the Coronado and
the Reindeer consolidations cbal
lending belief. Yet the ore is
there. From each and all of these
properties it is being hoisted daily,
and each is paying handsome divi
dends to the owners of the shares.
Leadville today, after 27 years of
active mining, is producing more
ore than at any time in hor wonder
ful history. In 1890 the daily ton
nage was 800 tons; today it is 2,400
tons. In the year just closed new
discoveries of mineral have been!
made that insure the perrnanency
of the camp, for another quarter of
a century. The most important of
the new discoveries arc Jp be found
at the Coronado and Penrose, in
the downtown section, opening a
body of lead siltcious ore that is
100 feet deep by 145 feet wide, ex
tending from East Tenth street to
East Fourth street, Leadville.
Then comes the Reindeer on Rock
hill, with a body of old-fashioned
lead carbonate ore that has been
opened for 100 feet in thickness and
over 600 feet long, with two other
distinct ore shoots being developed.
The drill holes on the Mike and
Little Sister claims, on lower Rock
hill, prove the existence of the
Leadville formation and of mineral,
opening up an immense territory
for future development. The Sun
day mine, at the head of California
gulch, a neglected district, opened
up a ten-foot vein of gold lead ore
running 64 per cent lead and from
two to five ounces gold per ton.
The Moyer ore shoot of the Iron
Silver Miniug Company has devel
oped the ore channel to such an ex
tent that the management makes
the statement that 750 tons daily
can be hoisted for the next 25
years. The Tucson, belonging to
the same company, will be devel
oped during 1905 and will open the
Moyer shoot to the cast. The New
Monarch Company has opened up
an immense body of low-grade gold
ore, which will be worked at the
mine in a mill to be erected for the
purpose.
One of the greatest improvements
of the past year was the installation
of an electric plant at the Yak tun
nel, enabling the company to more
than double the output. With the
improved methods now employed
the company is in position to ship
12,000 tons of mineral monthly
from the great ore channels in the
Silver Cord, Tankerstown, Bob In
gersoll, Mike and Starr and other
mines. Other properties along the
trend of the tunnel on Iron, Breech
and Johnny hills will be worked
during the coming year by the
owners. In addition to this then
company is completing one of the
rnoU modsrn coventrating mills i
the state, at a cost of $180,000.
In the outlying districts, Sugar
Loaf St. Kevin, Mosqnito range,
Half Moon, Alicante, Lake Park
creek and Twin Lakes, a numbsr
of mines have been added to the
shipping list during the year, and
more work has been accomplished
than for many years. The result
of this work is visible in the large
number of men employed in all of
the districts and the extra tonnage
that is being shipped.
In Leadville proper a number of
new enterprises are mapped out for
1905, especially in the down town
section Rock hill, Iron, Breece
rand Jonny 'bills arid Bfg Sojlth
Evans gulches. The outlook for
the prosperity of the camp never
was brighter. The output for 1904
amounted in values to over $11,
000,000, an increase of a little over
$1,000,000 as compared to that of
the preceeding year. This brings
the grand total up to a little over
$316,000,000. Rocky Mountain
News.
Thou. Awbrey returned from Port
land .Monday when) be wns called to
tbo bodstdo of bmbrottier-lD-law, who
Is dangerously III. Mr. Segel'a con
dition remains unchanged.
It seems to the Nugget man that
perhnpa It would not be out ot place
for the people of Cottngo Grove to
provide 8oni place for the lofrgcra
nnd miners to sit and rend It they so
desire on SundayH. Until recently
they bad tlio uso of tho back rooms
ot the saloons where they could keep
warm by tbo stoves, but now that
the saloons nro closed on Sunday
ninny have not place where they can
comfortably nietid the day. Is this
mutter worthy tho attention of tho
citizens ?
t A SALE TO SELL ALL
weaters
A T
ONE-THIRD OFF I
DETERMINED TO CLOSE THEM ALL OUT
See the: "values at 75c, $1.00 and $1.50 .
WOODS