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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1905)
NUGG Devoted to the Mining, Lumbering anl Farming Interests of this Community. COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1905. VOL. VII NO. 22 BOHEMIA MINING NOTES And (Icucral Mining News (lathered l-roni ;x-changes. Gil Meadows came Im in ini.i last week LONDON ITEMS. family visitcl at Lift; or a mink Ralph Bohemia I'm. I (). Bohemia ' KugCllC. Whipple Monday. aimed lioni I Stafford relumed I loin ,'ncsd.iy and went on to Ceo. Kiiowk-N, tin; met chant o( Bohemia is in Eugene this week, attending '"tiit. Mr. 1 . J. Ciow, who is at the Vesuvius mine ami mill icpoits hy 'phone that every thing is looking well nhoul that and cither properties lie has recently visited . The Bohemia TchiihoUr line has heen changed from the old trail route to along the wagon mad, making it hetter Im mi!m i i! r s as well as much easier to niake repairs. Charles l;inneitv, recently injured in tin Champion mine- lv a caving of rock was brought to the c ity last week. Ho was badly biuised hut as no bones were broken he will be nil right in a few weeks. Prof. (). V. StalTord, who has beetl engaged to t tke charge of the Lane County Oie. exhibit at the Exposition is visiting Bohemia, in order to familiarize himself w ith the mines of the district so that he may be able to tell the vjsitois ubont the ores and mines up there. Mr. Chas. Lang, who is mining in" Bohemia, has his mail deposited in a box near the load by the carrier. Recently a letter contain ing a check for $500. was placi d in the box but was taken away by an unknown party. A few days ago the check was found by the road side. Prof Owen is assistant geologist for the Southern Pacific, while, visit ing at the Nugget office he was shown samples of Bohemia ore and expressed himself as being much pleased with their appearance. 1 1 0 waH compelled to take the Saturday train for San Francisco, but his wife and daughters remained in tho city until Monday afternoon. Mr. Neal and Weber Sunday The JJlack Unite mines have a large force of men at work now. The telephone- line from Cot tar ei , - - - r. Grove- to I,ondoii will he c inpK t' d in a shoi I ti me. A run-away occiii red in London Saturday eve but foi Innately 110 one was injured. The Grange is hd tin ir meeting I a. it Saturd ly. A number of the Loudon people belong. The crops look well. The fann ers are beginning to cut their hay. The c lop is cjuite good, bnl not as good as some cxpe;ted. i he cat boualot in kept running most of the time trying to get 'a supply of wal T carbonated lor the maiket. It it being sluppi-d out nearly ns fast as the tenrn can haul it into town. Busine-'s is good now, an 1 London Mineral Springs expects to be rushed this Miinnier. A by A The Wallace s; h"oI taught Miss Smith wdl close Friday. program wni prepared for the sc holars parents whic h was inte r esting for all. and those; who at tended sin-ii' a pleasant afternoon. Miss Smith h.is returned to Jukbir.d with lnr friends. The boys in London aie practic ing for a match game of ball to be played the fourth of Ju;y. They are going to celebrate at I,o:id"U this year and owing to tin sc enery and accommodations, i good t inn- is in store for ad Amusements of all kinds will be furnished. Among the- other visitor, of lute were: K. I:. Myers. Ness C.itv. Kani, J. II. Keeney, Brownsville, Chas. II. Kelson and wife. Scott. Kansas, Virgil rinckley, Cincin nati, Ohio, and many others too numerous to mention at this time. There- were several visitors from Cottage Grove on Sunday. Dr. McAlister and wile were nnioug the pleasant guests at Lou don hint week. The de ctor preached a sermon at Liberty church which was appreciated by all and a large audience was in attendance. He reported having a pleasant time while in London and says he ex pects to return .some time in July. Mrs. J. I. Hart will start for Portland to attend the Imposition Wednesday. She will be absent 1 week or ten clays, and will bring her daughters Mary and Dinah with her when she returns. J hey will spend the remainder of the sum mer with lur Mrs. E. M. Bisbec will take charge- of the hotel during her absence. I11K I'Ol'ULAK HupnrHtilion crod itH mincrM with an average bfo of five yearn. Hum 19 about an eloHc to iIih truth hh othe-r enrront beliefs of a nimilar c.har- acler. One. iniL'ht an well talk of th nveruge life of 11 building' Th-r nrci fihelterR erected for f night to be abandoned in the morn ing. There are Htrueturcn of Htono or coiK re-te- that fttand century after century hardly nlTeicted by tho at tae:ki cf time. To r eason about tho average life of a building would bo to employ u rncQiiinglcHs term. In ttiiH c:oiiri''cttin an average haft no Hi'rnifieitiiec-. The- name is true of the life of milieu. A ri'h pocket may be worked out in a few hour 1 afte r its discoye-ry. Some great ejie elei'c,HilM Imve b"-n worked for a score or ee-ntuMe-H ami arc nun pro ductive'. . Age 1 not it factor in determin ing the value of a mine An old uiino may haw; a capacity for pro ducing more ore ut lower coBta than a uiiii'" that bus just bei:ii developed. Indee d, the hint hinge- in tho life- of a mine may be the most profitable. As an example the milieu of Lead may bo cited. Up to about a )cnr ago the; prevailing opinion among mining men uh that Load ille wan 11 t; u r 1 1 whoNO history had l.ee ii wr itten. It wan fctill produc ing a large tonnage, but the; ore was of he) b,w a grade that tho bullion output .li I not comparo with that of former years. Then came the now of the surprising developments by the Campions on tho lie indetr and tint ( juggciihcimti on the Colonial.; and I'enrose. The ex istciiiee.- of ore elepowits more exten sive than tho oiiom that yielded $:!(io,0(M),(i(Ml during the first epiar ter of a c entury of the cami waa proved, and the lifo of the milieu wan lengthuiied indefinitely. And tho end will nut come with tho ex huustion of the grout bods of uul phido and etubonato oroB recently oponod. Tho construction of a drainage tunnel to uuwater tho depths beneath tho Cloud Camp, al though in can be accomplished only by the expenditure of millions, in bound to bo undertaken and com pleted in the years to come. Very likely it win Oo driven uy asso ciated effort made compulsory uu dor a ciraiBae-o district law. it is not im probable that, with tho ex eeution of a comprthoiifcive develop ment Hchemo under such a law, mak ing proutable a greater vertical as well as lateral extentiou of the pro areo, the mines of Leadville will continue to A rank for centuries among the greatest of the world In tho San J nun and in the sul phide bolt of northern Colorado, where the conditions" are more favorable, the development of the mines is already entering upon the final stge of groat pcrm-ine'iicei and profit. For nearly half a century tho mines of Clear Croc k and (lil pin eounfie-H haves been making largo annual contributions to the Precious me.lal treasures of tho country, the alternation of uoun- tain and canyon, ih such as to make tho deep ore bodies accessible by tunnels, there aro opportunities that will make mining a groat in dustry in the old camps of the natioriH. At first tho gold was 1 Kooky mountains lor generation!. taken from tho placers, ami from j The above interesting article tho oxidized surface ores from which brings out satisfactory points for tho values, or a considerable part of . the. skeptical, as to the permanency them, could bo recovered by the comparatively simple process of 1 tamp milling and amalgamation, liven now tho stamp battery and of mines and continued production ofthe precious metals. The Dohomia district being cpial to tho reeiuiiements in high rnoun- asseit that the for 1905 will arniilo-ainatiriL' plain play impor- tains and deep canyons, is attract tant inntK in Ok. unr.inc one-rations ive to the mining man wno nas 1 of the two counties. 'Operated m thot-e sections where ex- I'.e foro many years had elapsed, pensive hoisting and pumping plants bow-ever, after the discovery of tho I art the only methods to be ern- easily worked surface ores, tho ployed. A"l work in 1ohemia is shafts of tho miner encountered the i lole by tunnel, some ol them at- level of the ground water, and lie- taining a depth of more than a thou- low that level most of the gold was -nel 'eet oarm el iv unaltered sniptipies rpnn ; ... tthifh it e.M.1,1 not be. Heimriite.l bv ' -"'--lllg experts I - J , . , , . , . . fl.r. ,.llu in P., ,(.,! P. t lie ovi,be,1 w-"-d 8 gold OUtpUl . '. . .. ' .. LvoaoiI ll.rtf .f l it-t tuiir In lOf) - ores, 'l the- miiie is c-r that time - j- - j these or.H were refractory, and they, ow f,11H mining of remain so until they we re forced to api.roximatfcly $100,000,000 , all told. yield up their sec ret and their troas i lIJ,s ,s ' yar 1U WU1C iwoeri uro to tho practical KcniuH of the ! "V'"' r 11 ' " 0 JUU "-"' J- ato X. I. Hill, the dcKifne r an.l KUKn""' bail dor of the; lir.it successful smelt ing plants in this part of Colorado, ""iitaiii Heights Fui ther puking from tho surface Jr. Kelsev has been verv sick deve lope d anothe r problem. Tho t again, but is now able to work in water that set the limit of oxi la- ' lne nav field. tion added to the eo.-t of mining as! ,-..,, ,, ,c -i the depth increase d. Finally in ; -r. w. -aiuca a iu wniuy sj-ciii many mines the expenno of pu.np-1 'M,nla' at Olenwootl Heights. in' became so croat that tho lower I Country lower workings weie abandoned. Ap- larently the limit of profitabl oper ations had been reached. Iiut tho difficulty ei;counter'.d in uuwatering the deep levels was merely tho dividing lino between one period of gieat production and another that will undoubtedly bo of much greater duration and much more prolific. It marked tho initia Mr. Tompkin's strawberry patch is turning out an immense lot of strawberries and he has new pota toes as large as turkey eggs. Forest Tompkins was so unfortu uate as to cut his foot Saturday while chopping down a tree. It was cut so badly that Mrs Tompkins, iu the absence of a NOW People WHO WANT UP-TO- UATIJ TOG WESHOW f M New Goods for Summer Wear Ladies' low shoes in Tan and Black. Men's Oxfords in Patent and Tans. . Wo are showing any kind ol a baby shoe you want fir I WELCH ii WOODS ! tion of the era of the drainage tun- "-". io.jK several siucnes mine nel or udit. The pioneer enter- wound and it is doing nicely. This prise of the kind in Colorado was 1 iSt ?ot the rst u she as acted in the great Nowhouso bore. This i hls capacity. When Forest was has already penetrated nearly three J.ess than he y"rf ,f age' he feU miles into tho divide lMwt-en Hear i Tom cha,lr and brok,e an arni n,,-.i, ,., ,t n;i,.. ..nnt:. n..,r ;n I Mrs. Tompkins was alone at the additiou to providing deep drainage and transportation in place ot ex pensive pumping and hoisting for the mines intorsectcil, it has opened stoping ground of vastly greater extent than that accessible by means of shafts sunk from the surface. Since the Newhouse tunuel was started, numerous other enterprises time and she set and splintered the arm and it grew as straight and strong as if never broken. Mr. Ileury Douglas, an Iowa friend of F. B. Phillips and who last fall purchased the W. II. Martin farm near Creswell, called at the Nugget office last Saturday. Mr. Douglas is an experienced of a similar character have beon ; farmer and is well pleased with his launched. They are making new : purchase and the country in general, miues, and giving to the old mines j Mr. Douglas states that on June jist a new lease of life that is certain to i two coach load of people will be far longer than the one they ' leave Inwood, Iowa, for Portland to have previously enjoyed. j visit the lixposition and that man' What has been said of Clear ! of them have signified their inten Creck county, may bo repeated with I tion tof visiting this portion of the equal truth of the San Juan, j valley, some of them with the view Wherever the natural relief of the of locating here. WATER BONDS BRING PREMIUM Twenty Thousand Dollars Worth of City Water Bonds Sold --Wafer Works to be Enlarged. On Saturday night the city council met as per adjournment of Monday night to open bids for the water bonds which were voted by the people some time since. There was but one direct bid re ceived, although there was prac tically an offer if the bids did not reach par to take them at that price. The bonds are for $20,000 to run 20 years drawing interest at the rate of five per cent per annum. Morris and Christianson Brothers of Portlaud, were the successful pur chasers, their bid being $20,212.50. While this matter has been pend ing the council has been investiga ting the best material for the pipe line to be laid from the city to the source of supply. While it is not yet fully decided, it is probable wooden pipes will be used. The main now in use is but fouT inches in diameter and is found to be inadequate for the needs of the citv. It is proposed to begin the changing of the pipe and the build ing of a reservoir as soon as it can properly be done. Fr; liitertaimncut Given by the Ladies Aid Society of fhe M. E. Church at Jones and Phillips hall Tuesday June 27th. All invited. Entertainment will begin at 8 o'clock. PKOGRAM Anthem Choir. Prayer Pastor. Song Four little girls. Recitation Allie Phillips. - Quartette Mixed. x Recitation Eber Brown. Recitation Daniel Thomas. Duet Mrs. H. Brehaut and J. M. Isham. Oration "Power of Music," Georgetta Berg. Song Choir. Recitation Gertrude Palmer. Recitation Nettie Burdick. Solo Mrs. II. Brehaut. Exercise Three young People. Remarks Rev. Grant Stewart. Following program the ladies will serve ice cream and cake in the banquet hall at 10 cents per dish. Mrs. J. T. Guivin of Spokaife, visited Mr. and Mrs. Sears several days last week. STORE IS FILLKL) WITH New Clothing, New Dry Goods, jj New Shoes, New Furnishing Goods for Ladies' and Gentlemen j Come and inspect our goods before buying f elsewhere and you will find what you want, f Our prices are strictly honest. We charge rou a $t fair profit only. 5r Garman,Hemenway COc, I LEADERS IN MERCHANDISING Br " V;