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
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C O T T A G E G RO VE, OREGON, T U E SD A Y , O CTO BER 13, 1908.
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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
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traced iu a continuous line for two patents were taken out, perfect
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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held in Spokane. W ash., Decem
ber 7th to 12th at which $25,0(X) will
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amount will be awarded to the
owner o f the best carload of
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