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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1906)
HUGO in'.. ? 'f.'j Devoted to the Mining, Lumbering and Farming Interests of this Community. VOL. VIII COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1906. NO. 1 BOHEMIA MIN ING NOTES And General Mining News (lathered Prom Exchanges. VVm. Merkell of Lodi. California, was a visitor in town Monday, lie baa recently purchased some in terest iu Ilobemia mining properties. Tbe boys at the Oregon Colorado are busy blocking out big amount of copper ore. The oto ii better than ever ami the boy are nnxinu for summer. Wm. Higgm is in to vn fom the Itultimore Mining Company and ic porta that tbe work i goiirj h I nioely. While comitu; i r he slip tied anl badly strained hi back. John Cox has just Htl. I hi 1-3 in terest in the Shult.uiH, and M.i'x l to A. M. Humphrey f Portland, who now own 2-3 of iIicho rh'iniM, the remainder beiug owned by Hud Gillespie. VESUVIUS TUNNKL IN FINK OKK. Til IC boys working in th Wild Ilog tunnel of I lie Vesuvius have opened up an additional ore body, that In of much greater value and richness than any hereto fore opened up. The or looks liim and the boys are much plcaned nud are working steadily to get tnoro of the ore exposed. Tbe manage ment is greatly encouraged with the abowiog and are looking tor tdl better ore lo be opened up soon TIIK R1VKKSIDF. TUNNKU IS (JOING f OR.WARI) ALKX Lundbcrg reports that tbe tunnel is being driven straight forward, and that the ledge is increaaing in size and value, anil the valuea in copper are Increasing rapidly. He says they are going to show the boys tbinga. New Colln Saw Cvitter. Geo. Cox of Wildwood has just received a new gasoliuo crosscut aaw, mounted ou a slod, with drum and cable for drawing tbe sled along tbe logs. The outfit ia n good one and repreaents quits a little expenditure. Mr. Cox is going in the business to make some money. Snow Vrv Dp In th MounUlm. J. P. Anderson, foreman of the Great Northern mine," arrived down iron Hlue river this morning and left on the afternoon train for Woodburu for a few days' stay. Mr. Anderaon states that when be left tbe unties yesterday the suow at the Great Northern v as eight feet deep and coming across Die divide be attempted to measure the depth with a polo be had but it was too short to reach the bottom of the snow. It appeared to be about fifteen feet deep. Tbe heavy snowfall has interfrr rep with the operation of tbe mill at the Great Northern, but it is thought everything will be running as before within a few daya. Guard. Wl Da A Cra.l Ocvalopar In tbe future of tbe Willamette valley the Democrat predicts that no single institution will play a greater part as a developing power than the electric railway, with its frequent car service passing up and , down the valley, doing a big ser vice for a Hinall consideration. It will do great things in bringing the cities and country together and making th.e suburban life a pleas ure and conyenience. Thie is an ideal valley for the running of elec tric cars summer abd winter, in the conveyance of not only passengers but freight. Iok out for grent car is heard in the land. Albany DinriArat Tl. Chtmbtri Lumber Co Monday , the Chambers Lumber with the Secretary of State". The Incorporators are Fred ltussel and W. II. ltogers of San Francisco, and t .r it f Vl t a ta ( 1 rnv h capital stook Is fieo.ooo nd the property owned by tbe company in the ( baml'fiM- mill t Dorrti't with i t h various mdM and timber landn. Mi. 'hnnbcis will coiitinuu to givo u part of bin time to the new company. In tubing so imiHi capi tal in tbe company It is the iutcn- tfon to r iitly nun, in- the plant,' and i itHtii 1 1 Hiillici' iit equipment lo j ruako a j'rr-at output, i ot cn.i is be-j coming n viy liwly place these! days with all tin; 1 n going on t and the ptoHpwts d' micIi improve-! luenls in tl mid. ' BLUK LF.IXiK MINK IS PIR CIIASKI) Ml-DFORI), On-., Jan. 20. The iioteil Hlue L',lgo cop per nunc ni I -1 1 lot CKfdi, in the Sil.io'i ian(.oof timiiiituiiiM, on tl,! C'dil' i "iu-Uii'i,'iiH lui', H'in week ( and lot' tin: control of UoheitS T'.vii of Js'ow York. This ti 1 1 iiom' 1'. ' . Cainaliim, re cently from MeMio'mm appointed etipi ti ll' 1 l ti' 11 1 1 !( ;'i:i)!ed f r the mine '' i:-1 'in tidii , to flit 5O m u 1! '.ill I 'iiiiii.' as.i' ai'd miivc o!)ire i.ju,ol'is nud a largo fmee o? m 11 io run n tiiinul on the lower Vm.I o the mine to deter mine I lie ultimate value, picpunt lory t" riHotnu ting a lailroad to eoiilnet llie Sollthcin i'acilic and Med lord . All unl.taodiil.: ligations of tlie old company ait- paid i'i lull by the putclncii i :iiid the i ul t losed. All stoekhi-'dtis 1 . Ini'pn-li their beddings ti tli1 lon- rompuny. Negotiations went n.nihi ted fertile properly by .bdm K Allen ol New Vuik, who i I li'-r-'iiglil v Iminliar with the uiO'C I' V. l-'rotlniigbani acted asiutoiiHy 01 fact for Towjie. l''rothingliain i now at tbe mine elo,illg coiihtiuetiou (.ontlliel. H. I.. JoncR Will have 1 liaise of the tunneling n"uu. vvh" will at once Ijcgin the woik of driving llm lower tiiinu l to d-teimiiie the elent of the ore lu'd.v. Out.mlc tb" I"i hI stoi Uohlers, I he piimip;t1 inteiests have been held nt fusei.l t'iM lr. J. l' Heddy ol Mcdiohl, who bad unlim ited conlidciue in th" mine induced the pre nt owneiH to pmchaae tbu ptopeity Ti e e'liiHiderution in un- dei stood to In' J17.r,,ooo. 1 ho iiiiue wa onee bonded to I'alsy t'luik of Spokane. Tbo new ownera may tndd a railroad !lo miles to Medimd. Plltkburtf Svndlt-nlA Itviya) lilnlr Mlro. Famous A ritUburg syudicatc, at tbo bend ol which is Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnale, has closed a deal for tbe purcluiKo of the famous Hlair gold mineH on Silver l'cak, lo mileH( west of Tonopah. The price jiaid 1 k ,"10,000. The old Hlair mines wne almoat as famouH in the early days of Ne vada mining as tbe Comstocfc. They have a iccord of 7. 000,000 in production and are credited with having paid more than Js.OOO.UOU a . fMM 111 tliviuemis. i tie mines suow hundreds of thousands of tons of mining oro of fine grade. A DIG SMELTING COMPANY. ANNOVN'CFMl'NT has beau made of the incorporation of the Uuitcd States Smelt ing, Itcfining and Mining Company under the laws of Maine, with an authorized capital of f,7o,ooo,ooo. The company is formed for general mining purposes in tho west, and will he controlled lurgoly by the same persons who own a controll. ing interest in the United Statos Mining Company. It will bo n formidable rival to the American Smelting and Itelitiing company on the Pacific Coast. Property is al ready owned by the organization in Utah and California and it is pro poHed to extend operations in other Stales of the west as well as, in tho souxh. C. A. Night, bf Hrooklin.' Mans , is president and Kdwin C. Rrunsdell of Hofitou is treasurer. The fifteen promoters all reside. iu or near Boston. At a meeting of the new cotapuny for orgauizatiou recently, the offer to the stockhold ers of the ' United States Mining Company to exchange that com pany's stocks for-shares of the new corporation was approveu. The friends of Mr. W. T. Kayser are urging him to present his name as a candidate for commissioner Irota South Lane county and it is probably that he will listen to them and that before long be may make such announceoieut, ' WILL RUN ONCE MORE Cottage drove Will be Full of Activity Soon The ttrown Lumber Co. of Kugene baa begun work repairing tbe old Long iV Hingbam mill at this place and in lcn than 30 daya will begin active work. The incorporators of the mill are W. Iv. Hrown and F. W-Ofbum, of the Loan and Sav ings Hank ; Uto. II. Kelly, of tbe Jiooth-Kelly Lumber Co., and Henry Fischer of the Fischer Lum ber Co-, at Marcola. Tbe capital stock is $40,000, and the principal oflicH and place of business is at lingerie. Mr. Henry Fischer is the man iger, and bus moved here with his family and will mak bin borne here. Me i actively nt work superintend ing the repairing of the mill, and in getting it ready for use. The mill will bo run about to its former ca pacity for a time, and later will be enlarged. The small planer which lias been operated heretofore back of the an, has been moved over next to I he other planer in front of of the drier, ho that they tvill both Le run side I, y side. A number of minor cliaugia will be made in the general overhauling of the mill. No coutractfl lor logging had l-ecii made yesterday but it was ex pected that they would be signed up shortly and that just as soon as the logging outfits could be gotten out, and logs gotten down here, that the mill would stat. The mill will have to do some sawing for fts own use, before it will be ready to do custom work. Two men have been busy since Saturday cleaning up and adjust ing the machinery, and will have everything ready so that the mill could Hart up iu about a or eo if the logs were on baud. Just what will be done with the old pond is not decided. - The men were at work trying to blow a big log that was in the pond up with dynamite, but had a hard time of it as it was a tough and knotty log. The towu will soon hear the whistles, and then some' of tbe people will have to slop their knocking sure Don't knock, boost. Son of Indapaixdanoa Farmar la Found Utad on Kaft of Lota Shot in Uody. Independence, Or., Jan., 20. While hunting ducks early this morning Willie Helmick, aged 16, son of James Helmick, a farmer liv ing on the I.uckiamute river, about six milce south, from this place, ac cidentally shot and killed himself. He bad gone hunting before break fast, and when he did not return hia mother, growing uneasy, sent her eon-iu-law, Clay Bush, to look for him. Bush found him about 10 o'clock about a quarter o('a mile from the house on a raft of logs, shot in the right side. It is pre sumed he had been dead about three hours, as a neighbor beard a shot in that direction about 7 o'clock in the morning, and it was the only shot reported as having been heard by anyone. He was carrying a repeating shotgun. It is not known bow the accident occurred, but it is supposed that be dropped, the gun in some way whilo it was cocked, and the jar when falling set it off, as he re ceived the full charge in his side and must have died almost instantly. He was an only son. So.tr.-Tha Only Sam Janaa, Sara Jones is in Portland, and as usual drawing the largest of audi ences to him. Us is a powerful and forceful Bpeaker. He has many a funny anecdote and ouu remark with which to keep hia listeners keyed up. Mr. Jones told what he thought of scientists and theories, and also what he thought of preachers who tried to take up with advanced or . . w a a "new-fangled ideas, lie declared that he always despised theology and botany, but loved religion and Hewers. Poetors were good fellows he said, but iu order to be advanc ed professionally they must express skepticism. But I wouldn't want to go to Leaven,," he said, 'if that ia a sickly country and there is nted of doctors, for I don't believe there will be enough doctors there to look after the ailing ones." Science is all right in a way, be said, but science should not at tempt to teach that more than C, 000 yean were necessary for the world to reaeb its pretent state of development. An eight-weeks-old child knows ss much about tbe heavens as tbe most learned astrol oger who scans the skies each night with a telescope. "Colleges are turning ont scien tists and doctors, and preachers and lawyers like sausage mills," he said." "Every year they are turn ing out A. B s, I. D's, L. L. t', F. R. S'e, A. S. S. V. S and so ou: Look out for the man that wears an alphabet at the end of his name." Sam Jones says that Christian Science is good for fools. "A Christian Scientist told me there was no pain and I told him he lied, for I had stayed up all Dight with it." Mr. Jones declared the proposed amendment to the Joral option law was framed by the saloon interests to serve tbe liquor people. He cautioned the audience against the amendment Haw Switch Do&rd Tbe local telephone station is be ing rearranged and the sew switch board ij being installed. David Griggs is much pleased at the in stallation of the new board, which gives accomodation of 80 pairi of lines, and 10 toll lines. The board can be enlarged to just double this capacity however. The old board was arranged for 50 pairs at its full capacity. The new board is placed right by the window of the room so as to give much better light on the board. The wires are being brought into tbe room in covered cables, which makes the arrangement much neater and compact. Mr. Griggs informs us that tbe Supt. Mr. Cur rin is going to put the toll lines iu separate cables to run into the booth, and that the local telephone lines will all be run in a cable clear up beyond tbe bridge on Main street, which will remove all the un sightly wires and many cross arms from the poles along the streets. Tbe citT should appreciate such an action in the company, as it helps to make the street" loot much better Mr. Griggs says that the-e are IS new subscribers now waiting for the new switch board to be put in tefore they can be connected up. Eby & Markley are building a fine new market waeon for II. D. Miller, the butcher. The wagon will be a dandy and will be built es pecially for the meat market busi ness. Jm NEXT LEAGUE MEETING HERE Slogan of Commercial Club Del egates to Albany Devel opment League Meet ing is "Next Meeting for Cottage Grove. At tho Commercial Cbi' Monday night, tbe club appointed as dele gates to tho League meeting at Al bany Wednesday and Thursday, J. II. Chaml eis, I 1). Wheeler, T. K. Campbell, Jeo Comer, Oliver Veatch, H. MUcalf Ji. Lurch, R. Welch. C. P. Hansen. C. Burkhold er and J. M. Fisher, and instructed them to work to secure the next meeting of the league here, the club guarantirig to entprtain the meu. The next meeting will be either in March or June. If tbe committee is successful in landing the meeting the town must get to gUherand rustle to entertain the mn well and to give them reason to remember Cottage Grove. It will be a meeting of lasting t enefit to the entire community. The committee that h"s been working on the programme for the Farmers and Dairymens. Institute to be held Feb. 2y is getting up a fine programme and will be ready for a fine days work. Don't forget to set aside Friday Feb. 23d. A numl-er of able speeches were made by sonin of the new members, and Levi Goer matlo a strung talk about the inlluenc aud the good that the club eouhi and was accom plishing throughout this section. He felt that the club should ulways try to woik for the best interests of the whole community and spare no labor nor effort t accomplish such ends. James Ilemcnwa;. of the Grants Pass store of Garmnn-Hemenway Co. was a visitor at the club, and spoke of the failure to ik up such a dub at Grants Pass & d that the Development League th ie did not get a very enthncinstic Kipport and that the club here was mai inj; Cot tage Grove known nil over the w j,t by its progressivei-es-s a 'id lorceful workings. Mr. llf menway is clos ing out the store thee and prob ably will soon be heated her? once more. Kevolutlon Due to Steam, Washington, Jan. 18. 1 he United States leads tbo world both in the present mileage and tho re cent growth of it- railways. This is shown in a report on ''the trans- CLEAN UP SALE On December 26th we will commence to sell our entire stock ol goods at re duced prices! We want to clean up all odds ends to have every thing new for Spring. Nothing will be sold on credit at reducedprices cash . over the counter and we will do you good. GARMAN, IIEMENWAY CO. Leaders in Merchandising. portation rontes and systoms of the world," issued by the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. It points out that of the total railway mile age of the world, aggregating ia l'-'4 5M 000 miles, ther: were 211, 075 miles in the United States, .35,-( 323 miles in Ivuropenn Russia. 32, 'JG7 miles in Germany; 2N.102 ia France, 26950 iu India, 24,120 in Austria-Hungary, 22,631 in the United Kingdom, i'.VIii in Canada, 15,560 in Alrica, I5.IHJ in Aus tralia, il,5.r in Argentine, 10,356 in Mexico, D951 in Italy, 93(18 in Brazil 7 6'.) 7 in Sweden, 7322 in Si beria, Manchuria and other former Asiatic possessions of Itussia, 4495 in Japan and 1176 in China. The growth of the railways in the United States has been very rapid. Beginning in 1835 with rooo miles, the number steadily grew aud in the decade 1865-1875 it doubled and then rapidly came up to tbe prment number, which represents an outlay qf $11,600, 000 out of an aggregate cost ol 3 7 ,000,000 .000 for the entire world. The tonuage of vessels engaged in tbo foreign trade fell from 2,318', in I855 to 943,700 tons in 1005. Freight rates on both land and sea have decreased. The rate per bushel on wheat from New York to Liverpool was about 10 cents in I973 and about 1 cent iu i!k5. The amount of passengers and freight transported has increased considerably. During tbe last year the railways transported 719,654, 95 r passengers and 1,300,000,000, tons of freight. In i885 tbe num ber of passengers carried was 351, 427,688 and freight 437. 000,000 tons, The influence the improvement of means of transportation on land and eea has on the trade of the world is discussed. "Under the newly created trans portation systems of the last century which have developed the interior of continents ahd made merchantable commodities which formerly would not bear the cost of transportation," the report says, ''the international commerce of the world is today about 15 times as much as at the beginning of the last century, while the world's population is but 1 two and oue-half times aa much as at that time, the commerce of the world's population as a whole hav ing grown from less thau $2.50 per capita in 1800 to nearly $14 per capita at tbe present time." Read the Bazaar's new ad today. John Cochran is getting in a fine stock of furniture. He has been busy since Monday morning un packing and sotting it up. but it will be several days before he will be any where near ready for business.