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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1903)
COTTAGE (R O V E . Xane County Xeabet. OREGON. The headquarters for three uirat Uiiiiuerim; companies. Only gateway to the rich Bo hemia «old mines, and the Black Butte cinuabar mines VO L. X IV IN VESTO RS and H O H E S E C K E R S will here find opportcpities nowhere else aCorded Hi Ore gon. The Leader will give you the news and facts con cerning this favored locality NO. 49 C O T T A G E G R O V E , L A N E C O U N T Y , O REG O N , M A R C H 27, 1903. director takes the same position. “ We must husband our resources,” Mr. Corbett Las said. The sum recommended by Super intendent Huder for improving the Fuir grounds is $100,OOU, and for {erecting buildings $400,000. The directors will expend only the funds of the corporation. The state Com- { mission will expend the state ap Citizens of That Neighbor propriation independently, and yet in close co-operation with the direct- hood Organize a Co- ! ors. Other states will use their I funds the same way as the Oregon Operative Concern. Commission. The committee on manufactures has submitted an estimate of the buildings it will need, as follows: TELEPHONE OFFICERS Elected- Both Enterprises W ill be Incorporated Under Oregon Laws Floor space, Building, square feet. Manufactures. . . . 300x125 Machinery and elec tricity ..........300x140 Liberal arts. .280x125 47,500 42,000 35,000 W ord comes to this city that the farmers and citizens of Lorane and ■vicinity met last Saturday and proceeded to organize a co-operative creamery. . The capital stock of the concern was placed at $1000 and steps will be taken immediately to ■corporate the company. More than half the stock was subscribed at the first meeting, and it will be no task at all to secure takers for the remaining stock. I f there is any one thing the ~rane people are noted for, it is heir get-up-and-get, their enter- rise and desire to grasp oppor tunities and accomplish for them elves and their community such -ndertakings as will result to the best possible good for all. It is such enterprise as this which make towns, and their example in this lin. could be followed by other neighborhoods with profit. T o ta l.....................................124,500 “ These estimates.” says the com mittee. “ are merely tentative, I f it shall be found necessary to modify them so that our buildings shall conform to the general plan and scope of the Exposition, the deoision of the committee on grounds and | buildings on this point will be satis factory. “ W e would respectfully recom- m e n that a charge of not less than $1 per square foot be made for all exhibits. I f this rule is followed, the buildings we recommend will net $124,500 to the funds of the ex position.” The mining exhibit will probably be left to the State Commission, which has signified its willingness to work up this attraction. A large part of this exhibit will be collected at once and sent by the commission to St. Louis for the Exposition there next year. ' ■ The subscribers to the stock of The committees on legislation, the telephone company also met at grounds and buildings, press and that place Saturday and proceeded publicity, and agriculture, thus far to elect officers as follows: I. P. have been the most active. By the Inman, president and manager; M. grounds and buildings committee B. Stone, vice-president and treas the site lor the F.xposition has been ure; W. B. Howley, secretary. Steps leased and is being improved. This Will be taken at once also to incor committee will very soon begin con porato this concern and the work of struction of a fence to inclose the ang the poles will begin in a entire grounds The committee on r y short time. agriculture is plnntiug trees on the 1 2 pOU Dil w a s b o m t o site, and has established a temporary ainf Mrs Moore last Sunday nursery in which are about 1000 Irning. choice trees and 1000 fine shrubs. . . ------------- A special attraction will be made of | L E W I S A .M ) C L A R K F A I R . roses. Hop vines will climb over the fence along its entire length. am mi t tees o f tlie F a ir Corpor Landscape architects will be employ ation A ctively at W o rk . ed to draw up plans for laying off I the grounds. i Just now the directors are on Appropriations for the fair have savoring to make out the general already been made by Washington, sopo of the Fair. Committees have | Idaho, Utah, North Dakota, Nebraska Bn instructed to submit estimates ! and California. 1 the money they will need and of buildings they will require, A “ real live possum” attracted ishen all these estimates have been considerable attention at the express spared the Board will make out a office on Tuesday, as it was the first idget of expenses and will create a opossum many of the people had erve for an emergency fund, seen. The animal was shipped here ssident Corbett has frequently from St Paul, Arkansas, for William hnounced that expenses must not Anderson of the Lowe Valley— kceed revenues, and every other W allowa News. Our Spring Goods HAVE JUST AR R I V E D A ll of the latest dress fabrics in all the new weavesiind choice patterns :: Colored Wh i t e W a s h GOODS L a te s t C re atio n s fo r 1 90 3 Gentlemen and Ladies summer underwear. The very latest in men’s hats. Ladies, Misses and Children? shoes. Men's and boys shoes in light and heavy soles, viol and box calf, and miners’ shoes : : : : : 2ft 2 ft 2 ft 2ft 2ft 2ft 2ft 2ft 2 ft 2ft 2 ft 2 ft 2 ft 2 ft 2 ft 2 ft 2ft 2 ft 2 ft 2 ft 2 ft 2ft 2ft 2 ft 2 ft 2 ft I This is the Second Strike in this California Mine in Past Few Months USE FORCE OF ARMS To Prevent Imported Men From Taking the Place of Those on Strike A Portland dispatch says: Walter McAlpin, a laborer, now in this city had an experience in Northern California which be will long remember. In company with seven other laborers he was en route to Iron Mountain to work in the copper mines. The striking miners at Keswick heard of the affair and intercepted the stage the laborers were in and at the points of rifles made the laborers get out. “ No violence was offered us,” said McAlpin, “ further than that we were given to understand that our hide wasn't worth the price of shoe leather as it would be filled so full of holes unless we obeyed. There were about 25, all well armed. One of the strikers told us to tell all our friends that they had better briDg their coffins if they intended to work in that part of the country before the trouble is settled. Everybody | seems to be afraid o f the miners, for j they inarched us in a body back to middle Station, then to Keswick, and no one interfered, although we saw lots of people. A t Keswick they made us board the train, giving us tickets to San Francisco.'' I jumped the train at Reddiug and came north to Portland. I am not “ han kering” after a job in that part of the country. Those fellows looked like they meant business and I am positive would have killed us as they threatened to do if we had refused to return. “ It looked like they bad men pa trolling the whole country. Our escort several times met other arm ed men with whom they exchanged a few words and passed on. Some of them were a pretty tough looking lot.” In answer to a question, the laborer said that the stage was stop ped a week ago last Monday. He said he didn’t know much about tbe situation or tbe cause of the trouble as be was a stranger, hired by an agent in San Francisco, who paid bis fare and offered him $3 per day. From what he picked up, however, he understood that the strike has been in progress for some time and that tbe miners have been carrying things with a high band, at one time having taken possession of the hotel at Keswick, and some other places of business. He said the officers were all either afraid of them or else stood in with them. “I can tell you one thing” said McAlpin, “ and that is that I shall never bother them again.” n tfP g S § P ™ P o r t Pout A vuj York. i j ilffom rr-y W a rd t CUo 'Thm F la t i . r a n ' m‘iXlcLirtg. Chicago JVcu> Ybrk Frock B u i ld in g ' f t efoòu rg . • SO M E O F A M E R IC A S B IG G E S T B U IL D IN G S . This i* the era of the skyscraper in the big cities. la the out st the left is the Park Row building, New York, the greatest office structure in the world. It rises ^0 stones and is 449 feet high, from the street to the top of it* twin ilagitaffs. Other notable buildings are also pictured. To be Established in Cot- trge Grove to do Cus tom W o rk MACHINERY ARRIVING And W ill be Installed in Conjunction W ith the N ew Shingle Mill down tbe Rogue from this city, below tbe mouth of the Illinois. A lot of new machinery for the -Mule mine has arrived at tbe mouth of the river am! will be put in. A stamp mill of larger battery than tbe one now doing duty at tbe mine will be in stalled. The mule is the property of tbe Rogue River Packing & N avi gation Company, of which Captain E. B. Burns is manager. This same company is also at work building a sfeamer to take the place of the Rogue River that was wreck ed while attempting to make the rapids just below the mouth of the Illinois a few months ago. The new boat is being built especially for tire rapids and treacherous current of the Rogue. I t will be 50 feet over all and 12-foot beam. A second boat somewhat smaller than the Rogue River is also being construct ed. Engineers and machinery for each of these boats are now on the way from San Francisco. The Rogue River Packing & Navigation Company have secured permission from the United States Government to erect a wharf on the Gold Beach side, near the mouth of Rogue. The two new boats will be ready for service in a few week?, and will be found of great benefit and service, not only to the company owing them but to the farmers and miners of the Low er Rogue country. A very large power drill and lathe arrived at this place lately and was sidetracked on the Pacific Timber Co.’s new spur near the railroad bridge above town. The b ig drill has since been placed in position in the company’ s building at that point, which was formerly used as a flour mill by Squire Vaughn, but which has been com pletely overhauled and will be con verted into a first-class machiue shop, with a shingle mill in connec tion. Tbe lathe, which arrived Fri S T IC K J O E W A S L O Y A L . day is a mammoth piece of machin ery aud made a car load in itself. P assin g A w a y o f Indian Scout The machinery being installed in o f ltoguc Itlver W a r . both the shiugle mill and machine shops by this enterprising company N o r t h Y a k i m a , March 25.— An is all first-class and modern in every old landmark of the Yakima tribe respect and will add two more very passed away at Fort Simcoe this valuable institutions to our rapidly j week in the person of Stick Joe, tho growing list of new industries. famous judge of the Indian court of Splendid water power facilities is offences. He was 90 years old and supplied for these new enterprises, was well known throughout the a large turbine wheel being installed Northwest. for the motive power. When fully- He took part in the Rogue River equipped any ordinary repairs to wars and the troubles of 1855-6. the milliug machinery of our mines He was a scout for the United and mills can be made promptly at States Army in the days when Grant this new machine shop, thus over and Sheridan held sway in this part coming the usual long dolays in of the country. He knew those two sending to Portland or Eugene for men well and was always a loyal these repairs, or new parts needed. friend of the white men. In his ly n a l i kao of-puillfiml This new shingle mill will ulsu ivil)Z>a prove a piontabfe and much needed Calvin Hale to preside at the court enterprise as the greater part of the of justice. shingles used in this vicinity are shipped in here from Jong distances. Discovered an Old Mine, This new mill will not only be able to supply tho local market, but will G rants P ass , Ore., March 25.— also fill outside orders, thus consid While prospeotiug in the Upper erably increasi g the output of fin ished products from the fine forests Grave Creek district of Northeast tributary to Cottage Grove. Wo ern Josephine county, George and expect to see many mòre similar John Hall, two miners of this city, profitable and valuable like enter discovered the abandoned cut or prises established in and about this “ coyote bole” of a pioDeor mine. place in the next few years. The two miners went to work on ------ «♦ • — -- tbe abandoned claim and were sur IÌO A T S F O R H O G U E K IV E K . prised not only in uncovering a large and remarkably rich quartz T w o Sternwlicelers are B eing vein, but also a long underground tunnel, which had caved in at fre B u ilt for that Stream. quent points along its course. The G r a n t s P ass , Ore, Mnrch 25.— A miners are at work uncovering the vast amount of improvement and old tunnel aud have still to reach development work is being done [ its end. HOTEL PB 0 PEBTÏ 4 BEI LUMBER The Kayser House Changes Hands— Composed of Local Capital is Organiz- Nebraska People the New Own- ed— Will Build Saw Mill Six Miles ers— Take Charge This Week South of Cottage Grove Delicacies in Cans A CASH TRANSACTION WORK ALREADY BEGUN I I I A real estate deal of no small im The Phillip Hohl— Chapman & portance took place in this city the Son Lumber Co is a new concern, first of this week when Mr. and Mrs. composed of Cottage Grove people, TV. T. Kayser sold their hotel pro ! which has begun work preparatory perty to Frank and Josie Korinek, | to building a saw mill on the South- the consideration being $4200 cash. ] ern Pacific railroad at a point six The Kayser House was erected by [ miles south of Cottage Gorve. The Mr. Kayser last fall. I t contains 20 ' mill will be equipped with modern rooms and is plastered throughout, and improved machinery and will be in operation about Mav 1st and making it one of the most comfort have a capacity of 15,000 feet of able bostelries in tbe city. lumber per day. A contract has Mr. and Sirs. Korinek are new i been let to Simpson A Smith to comers, having arrived recently from ! furnish the mill 15000 feet of logs Lexington, Neb., and will take charge ! per day and these gentlemen i the hotel in a few days. ! are now busily engaged making Mr. and Mrs. Kayser already have ' skid roads and otherwise preparing considerable real estate holdings in { to get in fthape to keep the mill | Cottage Grove, but their confidence 1 going when it is ready for business, in the future of the town is so great j The lumber company is composed of j they will buy more property here Phillip Hohl and C. 1’. and Frank I and continue to make this their home. jChapman, men well known locally { Mr. Kayser contemplates the erec for their business sagacity and tion of a number of neat cottages that this ventnre will prove a for rent purposes, which in our | paying one, there is no donbt. judgement, would be a capital in vestment as vacant houses are Advertise in t h e L e a d e r . I t will j scarce here and rent readily at fair ! bring you good results. T ry it a | figures. | month and be convinced. Tho season hasn’t a (I v a n c o (I far onoujrh to ” i v o y o u Fresh Fruits and VEGETABLES butourcannod del icacies are as near like tho freshness of nature a* skill am can make Vm Under I ........ ....... Odd F e l l o w s Hall