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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1905)
XT ...... Devoted to the Mining, Limbering and Farming Interest of this Community. VOL. VII COTTAQE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25, 1905. NO. 40 MU GGBT, BOHEMIA MIN ING NOTES And (icncral Minlnir News (lathered l:rom hchanges. Geo. W. Lloyd went on Thurs diiy to ()llin;;liotiHK, Nevada, to be gone f"r spfiif weeks 011 mining business. i:m . n ars ji noticuiia wm iu town Wednesday and reports that things ate going nicely on hit Grouse Muuntain propetty. II. V'.. P h. ring of l'ottlaud was visitor in Bohemia tliis week. He returned to 1'oitlntnl Friday. Mr. Docriiifj wiiH lunch plenmd with i lie kiw and wi'.l return. The piTl'iirm.'twv of an amount of woik 01 it 11 t 1 vciiic-1 ts in excess of J t h 1 din in); auy ye: I oil nil unpat ented mining 1 tiiii dors not per tuit the claim lioKK i to (any this ovi'i and haigc it ion lollowirtg llsn.oo wink of work were limn- 'In-, vi 'l. O' h l) of it wouli! u h iutlu ' cur, an I no , e to tllf f 1 1 V leg M-.it Str.i lli'oi u linn chang ing its plant m 1 1 io cud ol a jcar in tile i liaiij'r in lie plan l ('. A. Si'hiciin, tl'i- gii.itrst of he t inanu I act u iri win ifxnilly tlnew out nil t'n I i 't i in tin it own phtiit, in Mallieg in lie ii pl.e e directly con net t''l -1 1 1 i motors. Th went and t . 1 1 , tin .mi in po-er In this means wll --.ie I In- I'll II) $'J000 a vcai ;i 1 -!-. The Oiiyu.i S'i milieu Company are miking good In ad way with the mil, and hope i t itn caly date to have the onecntiuior, which was sent up the lii st ol tho wrek con nected np. Mre machinery will he iuMullcd s.xjii to crush the ore The ttanmnv is cinplctcd nnd wait ing fur tin- i-ti inking of the wires, tobeieady for operation. A nuall ri'toit was brought down the other day for fisjx-riiiirutnl purposes. J. II. Baker and his helper Al Hamloth are tliiuking they ought to have gold mr-dalx awarded them for sprcil in their business. Sun day they drov) up to the Red bridge and shod 20 horses before night, driving back the same even ing. Mr. linker says that for an old man it i not so bad. The boys up there want to K'c the feat down in black ami white, ho that they chii let tluir friends know about it. a Welch Woods tho 4) W. II. Suaditb Is King II. C. Mahon and J, W. Cook for Co,ooo Lares in the Great Northern Da velopment Co. which operates the Great Northern Mint in the Blue River District. The presidents of the twin dis reputable life insurance jokes, say they positively don't know a thing about the liner workings of their companies Apd from the war they naveratUd those loner workine.v It is possible that they are right! Record. The Ticket Creek Minit.tr dis trict, below Grants Pass is having quite boetn these days. The Golden Standard mine recently changed bands at good figure and imico new development work is being done. The new owners will install a large reduction works after doing more development work, and expect to do a large business. rbe Maid of the Mist mine wan also sold recently to some Colorado people who are old miners, nnd will make it no. The ore sent to the Kxpositiou by the Bohrtnia Mine Owners Asso ciation, iiw k large part of the ipai-e in tlo annex to the Mining building. It was wo located that vinitori" could tnt well pass through th building without seeing it. The relief map was an attractive feature. Several awarda were given the in dividual exhibits from the Itohernia district. Now that the Fair is over the ore will be divided into a number of rahinets and placed in conspicuous Kaitione with other collections in rtland, Eugene, Cottage Grovo and elsewhere. The Bohemia Mine Owners Association did the district nnd themselves great credit. Croitoa Smeller Will Resume Work Soon Vancouver, D. C. Mr. Kiddie, manager of the Crofton smelter, staled that tho outlook for British Columbia mining is better than it has been for aorae time. The Crof ton smelUr which was closed for six mouths this year will blow in in about a month and will treat the Britannia mine's ores thereafter, Custom work will be taken and the amount of ore gradually increased. The Britannia output is about 500 tons per day, and should the smelter be unable te handle so much, it will be increased. The University of Oregon team pretty nearly walked over Wills mette University's tesm Monday, but the playing on both teams was very poor, ragged, rough work. The teams both need lota of hard practice. Carry the ip to date goods and best goods we Reliable Merchandise Is what you want. DEEP GOLD MINING At What Depth Do Gold Mines Quit? The Mining and Scientific Press presents an article on deep gold mining, that is of much interest to Bohemia miners, where great depths can be obtained at compara tiveiy small cost of construction and operation, by tunnels. The article says in part: mere is a growing tendency 011 . f m me pari ot exicricuced mining en gineers to discover Home relations, or connection, between the enriched portions of veins and ore deposits and the topography of the country. In many instances the richest por tions of veins are found at and near th surface, and particularly 011 the elevated giound through which a vein pasMcs, while those portions lying iu the canonn or ulong the lower ground do nut, as a rule, af ford eipially satisfactory results. There are exccptioiiH. and these are numerous, but without doubt the greater number of the character nlove indicated. For many years mining engineers and geologists have tried to estab lish the theory that there is 110 ap parent relation between the occur rence ol payable mineral and the topography of the country, but the more extensive the development of mining legions, the more noticeable the fact Incomes, that there is ap parently Mich relation. in some districts it is much more noticeable than in others, but in a general way Mich relation can 1 traced out. The causes for this condition are, as yet, speculative. but are presumed ta be due to sec ondary enrichment, caused by the downward flow of suiface waters. Nearly all veins carry more or less iron sulphide, which, decomposing, partly becomes altered to iron anl phate. A solution of iron sulphate is said to have the power to dis solve gold iu much the same man ner as solutions of potassium cya nide. If this be true in nature (as it is known to be in the laboratory) then the iron sulphnte solutions slowly dissolve to very fine gold, and reprecipitate ft at convenient places iu its downward How at the intersect ion of the vein with floors, trucks. se.iniH, with other veins. 1 he pocket hunter is fa miliar with these accumulations of f 2r-' , t gold, at what he knows as "cross ings." A floor or fault in a vein usually results in enriching that portion of the vein immediately above the floor or fault plane, and often there is little or nothing be low it. Instances of this character are particularly numerous. Another focus of enrichment is in those por tions of the vein where there is a flattening in the dip, forming a sort I of roll or floor, on which there is often an accumulation of richer ore, and sometimes a pocket. A careful study of the occurrence of gold in pocket mines would prob ably throw much light on the sub ject of ore disposition and particu larly on the secondary enrichment of gold-bearing veins and deposits. The richest pockets ever obtained from California mines were found near the surface, or at least in tho oxidized zone. The noted mass of gold found on Carson hill, in Cala veras couuiiy, at the Morgan mine, in 1850, occured at the sur'ace, the entire amount coming froai the sur face pit not over 30 feet deep Other large pockets were found near the surface. The largest pocket found in the Bonanza mice at So nora, in Xuolumtie county, was 00 tained within 100 feet of the sur facevertical measurement. Other noted pockets in other mines have been found at or near the surface, while comparatively few and no very large ones have been discov ered at great depth. A noted writer stated recently in a current publication that it was loubtful if any gold mine was as rich below 1000 feet from the sur face as it hnd been above it. There are many instances to prove that this statement is not borne out by the facts, for in California there are numerous mines which have proved to be richer below looo feet than above that depth. Among the mines illustrating the fallacy of this supposition are the Kennedy mine and Argonaut, near Jackson, the Central Eureka and Kureka mines, near Sutter Creek, and some of the mines of the Grass Valley region. Then there are mines which con tinue to be largely profitable below 1000 feet which have also been good above it, but it cannot be said that this richness, nor that of the mines previously mentioned as being better below the 1000-foot level than above it, are due to secondary enrichment. In these cases the condition seems to be normal, lo what depth the payable ore (or ore of the same grade as that now being mined) will continue, it is, of course, impossible to predict, as mining operations go deeper, the Continued te4th page CITF PUBLIC SCHOOLS Are Doinjj Good Work Reports of Various Grades. The attendance is a little smaller than for tho corresponding month last year but it is increasing daily and it will probably be at the fouj bundled mark by the end of the second month. The tardinesses for the past month has been much larger than is necessary, in fact, it seems as if tardiLcss tool''. ' -. eliminated en tirely. Tli'- parents should see that their .' i i i re n rue prompt in getting ready for school. Kxcupcs nre required for all ab ser.ceH, t tdirtrses or for scholars being Jismiss'-d before the eud of a session of school. The latter must be biought before the scholar can be excused. Stven days unex eused abse nce means expulsion, un exeiised tardinesH counts as a half day of absence. Several students have been trans ferred from outside districts to this district which indicates that the Cottage Grove schools are of a good grade. Miss Kelly was sick and not able to attend to her work for the last two weeks of the past month. She is buck this month. The loading magazines and one daily paper are kept filed in one of the High School rooms for the use of the students in the study of current events. Miss White has charge of this department in the morning aseniblies and they are found very helpful Miss Mundy has charge of the music and as soon as the song books arrive, there will be music in the air. . Prof. Struuge . addresses the scholars several times each week 011 the eveuts of the world at large, national ouestioj.s, important hup- pollings and discusses with them on the merits of the books of the day ind interest them in keeping abreast of tho times in everything. His talks are gretly appreciated as he is well versed. There are fifty-four enrolled in tho High School and there are twelve members in the graduating class, who,, if they all finish, will make up the largest class in the history of the High School. Fxamiuations will be given every two months in the High School and promotion will depend upon the general average of these. FU IKS FURS FURS WIr ii you sec our line and get our prices that is all that is necessary, providing you want to buy. Those who Me n them are surprised at the low price we ate selling them for. Gannan,HenienwayCo Leaders In V wchandise I3y a unanimous vote of the student body in the High School at the first of the year recesses were discontinued and the students aae dismissed at 3:30 p. m. West Side School Notes. KIOHTH GK ADS. Mabel Mackie, Edith Alfred, Etta Owen and Ralph Hawley have en tered for the full years work. The first months tests were finished Oct. 10th. These written tests assist the teachers materially, as they show how much each indi vidual pupil is getting from the work. The new heating and ventilating apparatus is giving good satisfaction and is much appreciated by pupils and teachers. The eighth grade has foimed a literary society with the following officers. President, Mabel Veatch; vice-president Nelson Durham; sec retary, Fnos Crowley; treasurer. Louis McKibben; program commit tee, Gertrude Hogate, Mabel Veatch and Maud Hooper. Committee on constitution and by-laws, Phillip Casebeer, Lester Turpin and Harvey Dyer.. PROGkAM OK EIGHTU GRADE LITER ARY SOCIETY FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 20. Song Star Spangled banner, school. Recitation The Forward Duster, Luella Dixon. Song Little feet be Careful, Marion Hooper. Dialogue Behind the scenes, Mattie Bartels, Vera Cochran, Mary McGilvray, Elva Warner and Phillip Casebeer. Song Oregon. Composition James Atkinson. Recitation Music hath charms, Alice Carpenter. Song Red; White and Blue, school. Dialogue The Gypsy fortune teller, Jesse Heath, Nellie Patton, Hazel Hemenway, Vernie Brown. Recitation Graceful Bachelor Bill, Lester Turpin. Song America, school. Cottage Grove Public Schools Monthly Keport. Months ending Oct. 13, 1905. Boys Girls Total Enrollment... 172 195 New ... 172 195 Days Attendance.. ..2859 3244 i Days Absence 1 54 'a 178 Average Daily Att 1 142.95 162.23 " No. Belonging 150. t8 171. 15 Times Tardy 46 33 C. L- Stranoe, Supt. V IMP