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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1908)
INDUSTRIES AND I U M K K S . C O T T A G E G R O V E . OREGON Located on the upper W illamette River 144 miles south of l*oi Hand on Southern Pa cific and Oregon Jk South F.antrrn Railroads. Population 1300 two hanks public and high schools, live churches, water, light and sew er systems, creamery . dour m ill; two brick yards, saw mills; wood work factory, match factory; steam laundry and the Great forests of tim ber tributary to Cottage'! Orovc; fifteen saw mills, three shingle mills, w ithin a radius of IS miles. H eadquarters for Hohemia gold mines am i Black Butte quicksilver m ines; valleys and foot hills well adapted to fruit growing, iarm ing and dairying. For inform ation regardini th is great country aubscritie for the WEEKLY b S h e M IA N U G G E TL C A I> C " AND S E M I-W E E K L Y C O T T A G E G RO VE, OREGON, T U E SD A Y , O CTO BER 13, 1908. ¡ C . M o l H . I . d J a g u a r , s,. 1 9 0 » VOL. XX. NO. 36 Or« Hletsricel Society JOSEPHINE JUDGE RULES SOME FACTS CONCERNING MOR IE FACTS ABOUT THE BIG QUICKSILVER LANE’S RAILROAD ASSESSMENT MINE AT BLACK BOTTE, SOUTH OF THIS CITY AGAINST ROSEBURG BEER Valuation Raised $400,000 Over Should the New Dennis Smelter Prove a Success, as “Near” Beer Analysis Proved it to Last Year-Delinquent Tax Tests Seem to Indicate it Will, Oregon will Be Too Near Beer and Grants Pass will Prohibit its Sale. List Smaller than Usual Become a Regular Quicksilver Producer Assessor B. F. Keeney informs high. Heretofore the assessment the Register that his books show rolls had not been made up on the 302,947 acres of land in I.ane day fixed by statute for the meet county belonging to the railroad ing of the lioard o f equalization, company, which does not include so the county could uot enforce right of way land, depot grounds its assessment to the letter. The or contract land. It has l»een as price of $30,(XX) pe rmile can either sessed this year the same as last, stand or fall on its merits. $2,418,030, which is al>out $8 per Turns Over $ 1 9 .0 0 0 Tax Money. acre, which is thought to be a fair Sheriff Bown, by his deputy, M. valuation compared with other as sessments. Mr. Keeney also states S. Wallis, will turn over to County that the assessment on roadbed i Treasurer R. R. Kastland today and rolling slock will l>e $.10,000 $19,(XX), being for the most part per mile, or al>out $400,000 higher the last half of the 1907 tax, de in the aggregate oil this item ! linquent October 4. There is than last year, this being only on ; aliout $9(XH) still uncollected, but this will be bid off without adver 40.70 miles. There are 16 miles tising, in fact a good part o f it on the Wendling branch and 19 will be paid before it goes to sale miles on the Natron-Woodburu by other parties bidding it in un branch, which is not assessed so der the new law. — Register. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR A DOUGLAS ORCHARD WILL SPEAK HERE BEARS RECORD CROP Hon. R. R. Butler, one of the the miles republican presidential electors, south o f Roseburg is a Spitenlierg will speak at Cottage Grove on Saturday evening October 17tli, at apple orchard grown by Jas. B. the armory hall. Mr. Butler is a Smith at his fruit farm. Mr. lawyer and is an orator of more Smith is now picking his apples, than average ability. His home is and from a measured quarter of at Condon where he is associated an acre of ground will pick over with Mr. Jay Bowerman, attorney 300 boxes o f choice marketable at law. Mr. Butler is a Southerner Spitzenberg apples. In fact the and a graduate o f a Tennessee fruit is o f such excellent size and college. He is a grandson of fine color that he has lieen offered Hon. R. R. Butler who represented $2 to $2.50 per box for it at the one of the Tennessee districts in orchard, this being a return o f Congress for more than twenty $2400 per acre for this one crop. years. So far as we Tiave ever heard The state republican secretary this is a new record in the fruit says: "1 have received demands business, far outclassing Hood from all parts o f the state for Mr. river, Rogue river or anywhere Butler’s services, and you can else, so far as we have ever had assure your people that they are any information.— Roseburg Re- very fortunate in having an op portunity to hear him .” Located at W inston’s, oil South Umpqua river, six The 1907 edition o f “ The Min one huge lode of cinnabar-bearing eral Industry,” a statistical book rock. The richer portions of the o f the highest authority, contains lode usually lie along the walls of the following article by William B. the fractures, forming payable ore- Dennis, manager o f the Black bodies ranging from 8 to 80 feet Butte Quicksilver mine, of Laue wide, and carrying an average of from 25 per cent to 95 j>er cent, county, Oregon: The reduction plant at Black mercury. The rocks of the regions are of Butte mine, Lane county, was not ojierated during 1907. The year volcanic origin, ash-rocks being was consumed iu installing a new the most abundant. The extent of plant. Some underground work alteration is so great that it is diffi was done, chiefly preparations for cult to determine the original com stopiug. The mine itself had been position, but geologists who have extensively developed during the examined the district have gener years previous and large ore re ally agreed that they were origin serves established. The property ally andesites. The problem in the operation of includes about 2000 acres o f tim bered lauds and lies in the foot the Black Butte mine has been lo hills o f the Calipooia range, at treat the large low-grade ore-bodies the southern extremity o f the Coast at a profit. Former owners had erected a 40-ton Scott-IIuttner fur Fork o f the Willamette valley. Several clearly defined lodes of nace o f the California ty|>e. The cinnabar-bearing rock have been operation of this plant proved un proved. The ore occurs chiefly profitable, as it saved only about along strongly defined fracture 33 per cent o f the metal. The planes, which show marked per fir wood o f the district used for sistency in lineal and vertical e x fuel produced an enormous amount tension. A long these fractures the of soot, which retarded condensa ore-E>earing solutions have pene tion and made a second treatment trated the walls laterally for a necessary in order to free the en- great distance, forming wide ore- tangled quicksilver from the soot, bodies. In 1906 I erected an experiment- One main central fracture, out ; furnace on new and original lines, cropping along the apex, virtually and conducted a series of experi- cuts the mountain in two longi meuts covering the period of a tudinally. This fracture has been year. At the end of this time «T 1 traced iu a continuous line for two patents were taken out, perfect - 'r miles, showing ore-bearing rocks combustion was accomplished, soot at every exposture. Considering entirely dispensed with and a high the system o f parallel and tangen percentage of recovery secured. tial fractures as a whole, it may be The roasting period was cut down said that the entire region forms from 24 to 6 hours, thereby greatly incrcasing the furnace capacity per unit of hearth area. Along the lilies of the new process a plant, including alterations to por tions of the old plant was erected during 1907, and on Feb. 1, 1908, the fires were lighted. The ulti mate success o f the new plant still remains to be demonstrated but iu tile early part of March the outlook was favorable. The new plant is equipped with a hydro-electric power plant which supplies current for lighting the buildings and mine, and power for the oj>eratioii of the crushers and tile two 70-inch Sturtevant e x haust fans. These fans furnish artificial draft for the furnace, as well as for the wood-gas producer, which is also one of the new features of the plaut. A Sturte vant coarse ore steel breaker and a fine ore Gates crusher have l>een installed and bin capacity for 700 tons has been provided. The ore is delivered to the furnace by au aerial tram 3000 feet long. The condensing plant has been erected along new lines and forms one of the novel features of the plant. The new dryer, constructed of concrete, steel and brick, has a net capacity of 125 tons. The management declines to furnish any estimates of the ca- paei.lyx>f the plant, probably out- put, or treatment costs, preferring to wait until the end o f the year for the finished record. Should it prove successful, Oregon will be come one o f the regular producers of quicksilver. D. D. SHELTON TAKES ISSUE WITH MR. “ SOCIALIST.” DRIED SEVEN TONS OF PRUNES PER DAY J. M. Coiner has returned home from the Tate prune Every M a n a Philanthropist. *y G o v e rn o r HUGHES o f N ew York. W O U L D not be unmindful o f the great foundations o f philan thropy which wealth hn9 established nor what the community owes to the philanthropic instincts and benevolence of those who have been favored by fortune or successful in the various activities o f life. But better than the impulse o f any ono man are the sympathy and generosity o f a community o f men organized together to H E L P E A C H O T H E R to better living. It ¡3 that feeling upon which we rest the destiny o f this republic. 1 W H E N IN A N Y L I N E O F P H I L A N T H R O P I C E F F O R T W E T R U S T T O A F E W T O B E N E F I T T H E MANY, IN S T E A D OF R EALIZING T H A T E A C H O N E IS U N D E R O B L I G A T I O N T O H E L P HIS B R O T H E R , A T T H A T T IM E T H E S TA R OF T H E R EP U B L IC T U R N S T O W A R D ITS S E TT IN G . GREAT REDUCTION SUMMER SHOES IN 25 ----- --------- p e r cent off. All lines of Ladies and Gents Oxfords Also fine stock of Children’s Shoes going at the same reduction. Best $4.00 Shoes now $3.00. Best $3.00 Shoes now $2.25. Best $2.00 Shoes now $1.50. PEARCE BROTHERS. Phone Main 643— Our own Delivery. Coast Fork, Oregon, Oct., 9, ’08. head full of wheels. This brings us to a very imjxirt Kditors Leader:— Noticing an article in W ednesday’s issue o f the Leader, a socialist being the author, would like to present the other side, providing I am not trespassing upon the rules o f your paper. He states that co-operation is the foundation stone of socialism. I would like to ask if co-operation is not the foundation stone of every political party, the same be ing true o f every government. The ballot makes every man, or rather every voter a sovereign- lie can abolish or he can continue in power any party that he chooses. If the present or any subsequent administration does not throw the arm o f protection around the masses o f the people it is the peoples place to say they desire a change and their desire will be la” ' and authority. He states further that each iu a just society should have equal op portunities, equal rights and equal privileges. W e will admit that this is true as far as it goes, but he continues that this then would an nul the right to take profit. Yes, indeed, this is a lovely theory for a person or persons who wish to build air castles instead of permitting their talents or abilities to flow in more practical channels. If we are to be guided by this theory the m a n with brains is no lietter off t ita n t h e m a n w it h a Our Commercial Club should lend its endorsement to the Cottage Grove harvest fair; the Grange fair at Springfield and'tbe eastern Lane irrigation project. W e are boosting for all of Lane county.— I Register. dryers be tween this city and Creswell and Grants l ’ass, Oct. 10.— The first of the secret service, who prose o f several cases o f illegal selling cuted Davis iu tiehalf of the tem of liquor was tried today in the perance peojile, will also prosecute Josephine county court, resulting iu conviction. The jury was out only a few minutes, returning with a verdict o f guilty. R. A. Davis, jiroprietor of the Josephine hotel bar was the defendant. Sentence will lie pronounced by Judge Hanna Monday. An interesting feature of the case was that Davis claimed to have sold only near lieer. Iixjiert testimony o f a chemist, Earl Ingles, proved that the near lieer coutaiued almost four jier cent alcohol. The lieer was brewed by the Roseburg brewery, and as quantities of it are being shipjied here it is likely that action will be taken against that establishment. Davis was defended by Attorney Robert Smith of this city. Sena tor Harry Norton had charge of the prosecution and will direct all cases on the docket for the state. Josejih McKinney, proprietor of the Palace hotel will lie tried next. Private Prosecutor J. O. Bachelder McKinney, having on several o c casions, so it is alleged, obtained liquor at the Palace. Miles aud Carter, their partners, proprietors o f the Layton hotel, will also be tried. The conviction of Davis will no doubt result in stopping the sale of near lieer and all alcoholic “ tem- jierauce” drinks iti Josephine county, as the analysis of the chemist, admitted in court, proved conclusively that such drinks con tain alcohol. Judge Hanna’s in structions to the jury, which are precedent in this jurisdiction, were that any appreciable jierceutage of alcohol make a drink intoxicating, therefore it is jirohibitive under the law. Soft drink establish ments occupying places formerly saloons must therefore close their doors, as their business has con sisted mainly o f selling near beer. The trials are the result o f a long still hunt conducted by De tective Bachelder for the temper ance people. C. A. SMITH’ KRIBS BIG LAND DEAL S. A. 1). l’ uter had a long con ference lately with Assistant A t torney-General Woodruff, of the Interior department, with refer ence to the C. A. Smith-Kribs land deal iu Linn and Laue counties, Oregon, and succeeded in impress ing ujxm him the imjx>rtance of making a determined fight iu court to recover title to $1,500,000 worth of timl>er land which is in volved . Puter went into great detail ex plaining how Smith acquired title to upwards o f 100 quarter sections and informed Woodruff that if proj>er attention were given to the case the Government could ujiset Smith’:: title and recover this land. The value o f this land alone, said Puter, would more than comjien- sate the government for the money it has already exjiended in jjrose- cut ion of land-fraud cases in Ore g O ll. When Secretary Garfield returns next Friday, Mr. Woodruff will lay the matter before him and be fore Attorney-General Bonaparte. He told Puter that he could send Assistant Attorney A . B. Pugh, a specialist on land cases, to assist District Attorney McCourt iu col lecting aud preparing evidence in this case, aud if Garfield aud Bon aparte approved, would eudeavor to induce Ileuey to handle the case in court. If Heney’s ser vices cannot lie secured, Woodruff said that some other comjieteut counsel would probably be em ployed and that the case would not be allowed to go by default. Miss Bernice Am y, of Salem, was today apjioiuted clerk in the office o f the United States Attor ney at Portland.— Oregon News Bureau, Washington. D. C. is busy with his loom again. The four dryers ojierated by Fred ant point where Deity plays th e 1 Wright for whom Mr. Comer was most important role. I working have been turning out As long as Deity allows the na- j about 7 tons of dried fruit jier day, tural law of heredity to exist (and f„r the past two weeks. This pro- we have no evidence that I le is go- duct includes that of the Tate and ing to annul the law ) just th at, nearby orchards. The prune crop long the master minds will coil was large and of excellent quality trol the industries of the universe, in this county this year and is Receipts at the Albany— dry— I You can get 40 pounds of hard It is as impossible to legislate bringing a fair jirice, with a good jxjstoffice show a big iucrease over | wheat flour for a bushel of wheat brains into a man’s crainuni as it profit to the growers. last year. at Spray & C o’s. is to build a ladder to the moon, or __ _ to enact laws that will keep the man with a Sujierior mind down oil a par with the inferior. 1 do not wish to lie understood as defending the corrupt ¡»active that is and has lieen successfully | carried on under our past admitiis trations, for we all know that a great many o f our government o f ficials have not chosen the golden rule for their guiding star, but I j 2 Pair for Every Man W oman and Child in Cottage G rove do wish to state that the ballot box I is the place where the voter can eti j joy his sweet revenge by putting a i party in power that stands for the j moral betterment of the nation as W E CHALLENGE COMPETITION well as equal opportunities, equal j rights and equal privileges so far i Ladies’ Utz * Dunn Patent leather........ $5 (X) Ladies’ Uti & Dunn Famous SL £ d elia ....$ 3 50 as a m an’s intellect will allow him 1 ,, . ,, *••••■ 4 00 P “ “ " Nanaimo....... 3 00 to compete with the superior brain: 1 Famous Cushion...... 4 ( X ) 11 “ • “ “ - 50 -- Vici **-•- Bals....... 2 so long as the sujierior brain does j not trample ujxm the rights of the , IN M E N ’S SHOES W E C A R R Y weaker. The Famous Pacific lo g g e r ................. ixj I, for one, prefer a sane govern Fugit........ »............................... . 6 50 Famous Strong ment in preference to turning our I Pacific Cruiser......................... 6 50 Copeland " “ 6 institution over to the rabble. Gotziau ..............>...................... f, 50 •t > J* 6 Very truly yours, Strong «t Garfield.... $ 8 (Ml t o 10 (X) " 'Ease ” “ 5 Putman .'.V!......... 5 oo to 9 .50 I). I). S h elt o n . H'nlkovcr Dress ........... 5 Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! 5000—PHIRS—5000 QUALITY IS THE TRUE TEST OF VALUE Hen's ft-hxfii Top Work Shoe«. .$2 5o to $4 “ flt’Garfield Dress Shoe 6 Rider '(_'ushio,i Soles Dr. Shoe A National apple show will lie held in Spokane. W ash., Decem ber 7th to 12th at which $25,0(X) will lie given iu prizes. $1500 of this amount will be awarded to the owner o f the best carload of apples. 00 00 00 00 00 00 A Complete Line of Men’s Dress Shoes from $2 .40 to $3 50. Th^ Famous Holland Shoe for Boys Where can yoi. find a Bigger and Better List tej Select From ? WBEELER-TBOMPSON COMPANY HAVE THEM FOR LESS
