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COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY a8, 1908
January 9. ,90H
A d v e r t is e In
THE LEADER.
That is W h a t B rin g s
B u s in e ss a n d g iv e s
a P a p er L ife .
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VOL. XIX. NO. 46
gratt modern fruit scions therein. <
much attention iu the display win
He next visited the .Taylor place j
dow of W. A. Hemenway’ s store
recently purchas 'd by S. W . Boyd
this week. A great deal of this
and sou of Jackson «ouuty, and I
work was exeouted by Hev. Elkins
found that the old gentleman had ¡
while he was in Manila and it demon-
planted out 5 acres of Newtown
strates the fact that ho is possessed
Pippin apples and that his son hns
I ol much taleut in this liue of work.
set out 5 acres of Spitzetibergs, and
Roseburg is to send out 30,000
both will increase their fruit acre
| booklets, to cost $2750, a 04-page
age later. The TruDnels' had just
affair, to be gotten out under the
finished spraying th<>i: orchards
direction of the Harrimau bureau.
and aunounce that they will set
out quite a large acreage to winter
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Jackson, who
pears this fall. The fruit industry
In the 1906 volume o f “ Min- crushing plaut composed of the have been keeping a boarding
will be no small factor in South eral Resources of the United | buildings and ore bins, arranged on house at Springfield, left Tuesday
PLANTING PfAR ORCHARDS Lane's resources iu a few years.
States” just issued by the United j the gravity plan, having a storage for Cottage Grove, where they will VANADIUM IS DISCOVERED
States Geological survey, the fol capacity o f 600 tons, and crushing go into the same bnsiness.— Reg
J. V. Foster, an enterprising Silk
lowing is said regarding the quick capacity of 200 tons per day of 12 J ister.
Creek farmer has act out an orchard
Flag Day at Public Schools. Coming
hours, equipped with a Sturtevant
silver resources ot Oregon.
of 500 Comice pears and will set
K. S. Rozeubeek, a wealthy Wis }re Said to be Worth $200 to the
“ Oregon has been a small pro coarse ore crusher and a Gates Cy- i
Back to Lane. More Coyote
Ton Rich Galena Found in
out more winter pears later on. He
consin lumberman spent Monday
ducer for severat years, but in 1906 I ratory fine ore crusher; a new
Scalps.
is satisfied that this locality will
and Tuesday in this city looking
Grizzly Mine.
had it not been for a new produc special designer! dryer built of |
produce just as good pears, apples
over tbe timber and lumber in
brick,
concrete
and
iron,
having
a
;
ing property, its production would
and other frnits an Medford, or
dustry ,of this vicinity. He was
have been nothing. The main op- j capacity of 125 tons; aud a condens- 1
Hood
river
with
the
same
care,
and
very favorably impressed with what
Fanners are rushing early spring
Tunnelling is progressing in the
erator in 11106 was the Almaden I ing plant, constructed and arranged
it has already been demonstrated
lie saw here.
seeding.
Grizzly mine in which rich Galena
after
the
special
design
of
the
man-
i
I
Gold
and
Quicksilver
Company,
at
that he is right.
has been encountered.
Salem has raised a “ boosting”
Howard, Crook county. The most ager ol the property, which stic-
A. C. Dixon and J. N, Teal, at
The building ot a smelter on
fund of $15,000. Trying to beat
R. W. Vcatch, who is in business extensively developed property in oesstully discharges the furnace torney for Western Oregon Lumber
at Waldo
nr .1.1,. wtites that 1 lie hopes to the state, the Black Butte mine, gases at or below atmospheric tem- Manufacturing Association, left tor Ooos B-iy or near Portland would
Eugene o f e jurse.
be of much importance to the Bo
, . i peratures, thereby insuring perfect Washington, D. C. last week to be hemia district.
S. R. Crouch of Oakland, Ore be back ill Lane county by. July 1 which also has a thorough equip-
and
says
it
is
the
only
place
in
Ore
ment with a special furnace and | condensation aud no loss of silver, present at the final argument before
gon, was in this city the first of the
W. H. -Shane was down trom Bo
week in the interest of his wire gon. Mr. Veatch then tells the retort, is understood to have re-, either chemically or mechanically. interstate Commerce Commission
hemia
this week
He thinks there
fencing. The Page Woven wire following hog story: ” 1 butchered mained idle. Considerable pros The old Scott furnace on the prop regarding the California Bay point
will he some big returns from the
two
hogs
11
couple
o
f
weeks
ago
atyd
pecting was carried on iu Jackson, erty has been remodeled aud further railroad case, in which all lumber
fence peoplo will open a store here,
mines this Beasou.
when a suitable building can be se one of them dressed 403 and the Josephine and Douglas counties, improved by the addition of a men are much interested. These
Albert Ziniker aud wife returned
other
one
^536
pounds
How
is
cured.
and several occurrences o f ore of specially designed wood-gas pro arguments will he heard March 4th,
to
the Mayflower mine in Bohemia
that
for
Southern
Oregon?
I
got
good grade are reported. The \ ducer. The draft is produced by nnd a decision will be rendered soon
D. T . Awbrey, returned home
this week and anticipate a hard
432
pounds
of
lard
out
of
them.”
greatest
activity
was
in
t
h
e
i
two
No.
70
Sturtevant
exhausters
thereafter, upon which depends
Sunday from a combined business
trip owing to the deep snow.
Andy Nelson returned home from Meadows district mines, in Jackson ¡direct connected to a 35 h. p. vari- largely the future of the mills of
and pleasure trip to Eugene and
It is stated that some very fine
Portland. Mrs. Awbrey has pro Creswell late last week where he county, where a depth of 400 feet able-speed motor, and so arranged this country.
ore
has been uncovered iu the Ore-
is
stated
to
ltavo
been
reached
and
|
that
one
or
both
con
he
operated
at
longed her visit at Portlaud. It is went to install the new electric uy-
Mr. E. E. Bright, the well knowu gon-Colorado mine in Bohemia.
one time.
believed that Tom grew homesick namu and switch board in Tunuell’s a furnace and retort erected.”
poultry fancier is doing a fine busi The ore is said to be refractory but
“ At the Black Butte quicksilver
to see those fancy White Minorcas, mill for Creswell’ s electric light
The entire plant is constructed
ness in his line already this seasou. carries good values.
which he pii/us so highly.
system. However, when every mine in Lane county, Oregon, an i ami arranged after the design of the
He recently sold a pretty trio of
A fresh fall ot snow is reported
New steei bridge material con thing was apparently in readiness experimental furnace, designed by ^ parents recently granted by the Golden Wyandottes to C. S. Frauk
tinues to arrive almost daily for the to make a test run it was found and known as the Dennis roasting United States aud all important at Eugene for $10. He also in Bohemia this week, a depth of
ten feet being recorded at the
Dennis, the
Drain-Coos Bay railroad and several that the big endless belt was too furnace, was built in 11105, but was j countries, to W E
shipped 100 Silver Gray Dorking
Musick mine. This is more snow
not
operated
in
19o0,
as
the
mine
j
manager
o
f”
the
property,
which
long
and
it
had
to
be
tent
to
Port
acres in South Drain are now cov
eggs to Creswell and 50 Houdati
ered with it. There is material land to be cut down or exchanged was not producing. It was con- j was the outgrowth o f the experi- eggs to Cornelius this week and thau usual, but it insures plenty of
there already fo r twenty bridges. for a shorter one. As soou as it structcd to secure, at minimum cost mental work referred to by the has orders for eight settings of water lor operations next summer.
A. P. Churchill returned to Bo
F'orty-nine carloads of it has ar- i returns Creswell’s lights will be perfect combustion for a large tou- j above quotation from the IJ. S. gov-
Houdans and three settings of
hemia this week and will take up
rived for the l<ig bridge across Elk 1 turned on, while in the meantime nage of low grade ore. The small ernmeivt^eport.
Dorkings for which he receives $2
omprised a series of pri -; Tbe new p,a|)t at Black Blltte
tbe matter o f making an experi
wiring aud installing new lights in furnace comprised
creek at Elkton.
per setting.
This is what can be
mary and secondary combustion was started up February 1st and
mental shipment of a quantity of
Flag day exercises were held at stores and resiliences has been g o
accomplished in the poultry busi
chambers and a number o f other its operation up to the present is
refractory
ore to the Oswego
ing
on.
the east side school building Friday
ness when handled in a practical
special devices, including one tor said to have been most satisfactory.
smelter, with tbe Bohemia Mine
afternoon, the program consisting
| manner.
Last Friday Messrs G. W. Mc preventing loss by the escape of
Owners Association.
Quicksilver is reduced from the
o f patriotic songs, recitations uod Farland and Dave Mosby with their
raw ore dust. In test runs it is re crude ore into pure metal in market
J.
B-ebe,
Lane
county’s
fruit
in
flag drills. The local post G. A. coyote hounds enjoyed a fine chase
A recent analysis of ores from
ported to have afforded a thorough form aud is., shipped in wrought spector, was in Cottage Grove and
U. attended and a number of in on the farm of J. H. Spray, south
the Crystal mine iu Bohemia is
roast of ore and volitilization of iron bottles in carload lots to New viciuity this week looking after the
teresting speeches were made by of this city and in less than an
said to he rich in Vauadium, a min
values in four hours, and to have 'York.
orchards of South Lane. H<> says
the old comrades. T hero was also hour they had Mr. Coyote’s scalp
eral resembling lead but much
v
| eliminated pinctically a l l loss I
a good attendance of patrons of dangling at their girjjle, John
Quite an imposing looking vil- that, from his observarious on bis more valuable, assays from tunnel
through flue dust.”
travels lie is convinced that Lane
the schools.
No. 3, running as high as $200 to
; lage has grown up at Black Butte,
Barker and the Whitsett boys being
! r. A T K R » K V K L O P M K N T S A N D OP KK - 21 miles south o f Cottage Grove, as county is taking as much or more the ton.
The operators have been
the
executjpuers
of
the
coyote.
J. Beebe, the Lane county fruit
TIONS.
a result of this industry The mine interest in the improvement of its ignorant ot the character aud value
inspector,
visited some o f the Mr. Spray was so well pleased that
Later information may be added J is owned largely by Mr. Dennis orchards, and development of its of this mineral heretofore. For
farmers and fruit growers south of he personally paid those doing the
beQefit Qf Vauadium prospect
to
the above as follows. During and Portland and Seattle associa- fruit industry ns any other county
this city Wednesday. He found shooting $5 and $2.50 extra to the j
in the Willamette valley. He was ors herewith find quotations taken
1907,
the
Black
Butte
tions.
It
is
one
of
the
heavy
tax-
Vear
that J. F. Spray had set out a owners of the flogs, while the I
mine
referred to above, was payers o f Lane county, and is be- pleased to note the activity of the from the “ Mining World” of Feb.
tw enty'acre orchard last fall and owners of the dogs in the chase
orchardists about Cottage Grove in
.
, .
I equipped with a new and extensive
22; Vanadium Ferro, 25 per cent,
this winter consisting of ten ncres received the $9 club bounty. On|plan|. consi8tiDg o f a hydro-elec- <'om,nS one ° f ,he 'tnportant in
spraying their orchards
He says $2.50 per pound. 40 to 70 per
of winter apples, 8 acres of Comice Monday of this week a coyote scalp I trie power nnd lighting plant; a dustries of the state.
he observes that many of the old
cent $4 25 to $7.50 per pound. 5O
- - .....
pears and 2 acres of mixed fruit. was received from H. Renne, a club I .....
tnoss covered orchards north of this per cent $3.80 to $4. per pound.
member
at
Creswell,
and
he
re
He will also cut the tops out of the
News of the Cityv in Brief.
Bounty on Varmints.
city are being grubbed up, and new Ore 12 to 15 per cent 35 cents per
old trees in the old orchard on his received the usual $9 bounty. This
pound.
Johu Sherwood is home from a trees planted.
A McKenzie Lridge correspondent
place and the White place and is 25 coyotes to the club’s credit.
makes tbe following sensible com sojourn in Portland.
LOCAL NEWS
OF INTEREST
j
BLACK BUTTE QUICKSILVER MINES
Report of United States Geological Survey From
Of
MINING NEWS
j
1906 Edition of Mineral Resources of United
Material for Coos Bay
Railroad.
Much Snow in Bohemia
This Winter.
States. Late Operations at Black Butte.
j
j
Now is The Time
To Order Your
SPRING SUIT
1000
SAMPLES
1000
Finest Fabricks ever
Shown-Style, Quality
Fit GUARANTEED.
B e st $1 H o g s k in
G lo v e s o n E a r t h
N
IfiEI LEI1 -TH DM PSDN CO.
ment through the Register regard
George Whitsett lias recovered
ing placing a bounty on varmint from an attack of mumps and is
Ucalps: The number o f deer killed seen on the streets again.
Fate Long returned to Portland
annually by hunters is nothing
compared to those killed by the Wednesday after a brief visit witli
varmints. A year ago a cougar his parents and friends here.
was active in my range and to pro-
Ed Jenks, a prominent Bohemia
; tect my stock I went after him with mining man, has been spending the
a dog and gun and in the chase I week in town. He reports condi-
heard a deer brawl. Coming on to tions normal in Bohemia and thinks I
a flat I saw the cougar and a deer that a lively season is in prospect, j
bolliu g over and over. The cougar
Henry Long has purchased about|
I ran up a tree and the deer ran for 100 acres of the Bob Martin place
liberty.
near Dorena, paying therefor $2000.
I noticed an item in the paper The deal was made through the O.
stating that coyotes bad damaged O Yealoti & Co. real estate ex- j
tbe wool iudustry of Eastern Ore- change.
gon to the extent of one million of
The report ot the condition of 1
dollars in one year through the kill
the
Find. National Bank of Cottage-
ing of sheep. .Should not our law
m aker help to put a stop to this. Grove at the close o f business Feb. j
| Varmints are great destroyers of 14, 1908, is pub'islied in today’s
our game. Anyone who lives in Lender. The showing made is one 1
the back woods like I do aud sees of great atreugth, the percentage o il
the destruction of game and stock ! »vadable cash t*ing unusually large I
by those wild animals is surely of iewn ter.th‘# conservatively man !
tbe opinion that either a bounty ! " Ke<* institution,
A beautiful collection of art work
should be put on wolves, cougais
| and the like, or some other method comprising pen sketches, cartoons
and other work executed by Itev.
employed in getting rid of them.
W A. Elkins, pastor of the Chris
Subscribe for the Leader.
tian church, has been attracting
j
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SPECIAL
SALE
SHOES
Bargains in Footwear which
cannot be duplicated any
where. Many of our liest
brands o f shoes included in
our Sacrifice Sale.
-
Eamily
FRESH
STOCK
: Groceries
BEST BRANDS
L O W E S T P R IC E S
Examine our China iV Glass
ware.
Heavy, serviceable
Gloves, Shirts, Overalls, Sus
penders, Socks and other
work clothes for Lumbermen,
Loggers and Miners.
F IN E H A N D -M A D E L O G G IN G
S H O E S $ 4 .0 0 T O $ 7 .0 0
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