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Of Oregon, April 30-May 2 ,
Oregon mothers will be honored
on the campus at U. of O. in Eugene
at the l«th annual Mothers' Week­
end, April 30 to May 2, in conjunc­
tion with Junior Week-end. They
will be entertained at special af­
fairs and will be guests of Junior
Week-end events, including the cam­
pus luncheon and all-campus sing
on Friday and the junior prom Sat­
urday evening.
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__ every rusty rock, and handy stump
in sight, and then fell back on their
M -haunches” to wait for some one to
,e come and place the “golden horn” in
their hand. Well, the years roiled by,
and Squaw creek and Pine creek were
“gh'oet town«” proper, even the
.» Chinks had flown to new fields and j
J the place returned to its original
owners, the chapparal cock and the
rattle snake, and what transpired in
that ghastly, old ghoet town for
a great many years is not on
the records; but for all this. Bully
' ffill did blossom again and the towns
340 W. Front, Coquille, Tel. 270
Broadway at Curtis, Marshfield, Tel. «52
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of Delemar, Circle City, Bully Hill,
* grew up oa the ashes of the once
-ghoet towns,” whore hundreds of
men earned a livlihood and carloads
of high grade bullion were shipped
out to markets. 8uch a thing is pos-
sible here tn our own district, but it (
seems that these old camps must be (
J doomed for a period of years, before (
' they are allowed to some to life again.
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. However, it boils down to the fact, j
' gloeas A from long experience, that (
’ the Johnson creek district is a flat <
1 failure, as far as quarts mining is
‘ concerned, hut when it comes to the ,
, awwy «wry iww“) ■*
•hute "Ud‘ to *** P
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is also true concerning the
to Porphyries, which to very
light and floats away very
i muddy water, along with
• black sand happens to be
> with it, which during the
•ion period
W,y
ocean beach, to make some
in Ines.
placers it to quite different as the (
district has stood out for years as a .
producer of placer geld, and if it
was possible to recover all the yel-l,
low that still remain» In the bad of a
Johnson creek, it would swell the
output of gold from the southwestern
Oregon to an alarming extent.
We have recently examined a great
number of mining location notices on
record hare, most of which are quarts
locations and seme of which date
back aa far as 18M, which with one
or two exceptions, have never gone
u patent. This fact alone would sue.
t*in Dr- Mier’s contention, that* this
jg
a placer, or low grade base
ope dirtrict which if proven as «ueh
brlj|f |n pUnty
wh<> >r<
anxloo, u
mon<y |, a,r<toping
the minvB1
of the country.
Jn the
of chTome
<lu‘te • plenty, but of a lower grade,
whj).h
require concentrating ma­
chinery, as well as some kind of
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personal contact with Dr. transportation, other than the -mule
found that he was never back” system.
i enthused about the quarts
In the matter of copper and cinnabar
the district, as toe rteeesed there ar* wry favorable surface
<ly that all he had seen showings, in quite a number of places,
re to be persistent, and all and like the chrome, they too need
in what he had examined machinery and transportation. The
be at the surface, aa he simple fact of just going out and
ned the Dtvelbise mine on hanging up a piece of paper, and then
ask, the Big Jo*, and Little loading the mining records with
m on Mary* c ree k , the another -headache,” will never get
s on Rusty Butte, the St. anyone to first base snd. too, we find
ine on Rusty creek, the on the mining records, locations that
nine on Star Mountain, all have been bald for around 40 years,
had pinched out at that without developing anything that re-
at this ho wee net dis- actable* a mine, or even a win of ore,
he often remarked that the and In this we wonder what the joke
uld have te quit looking to, It may be like the old h*n that
ly rich ore, and turn to the sat on a door knob with the hope of
stuff if they ever expected hatching out a door,
success of mining in thst
The mining laws are very explicit
iming to the placers again, «nd easily understood and in a re­
nt the Johnson crook dis- cent Circular No. 127«, from the Do­
ry similar to that of the partment of Interior, it says in A. 10,
lly Hill mines, in Shasta “except placer claims described by
lifomla, where the early legal sub-divisions, all mining claims
i found very rich diggins must be distinctly marked on the
aw snd Pine creeks, which grounds so that their boundaries may
sndaomely in ooarse gold, be readily traced and all notices must
a generous sprinkling of contain the name or names of the
jets, some of which would locators, the date of location and
to several pounds, which such a description of the claim by
as they ran very high in reference to some natural object or
it. These diggin’s were permanent monument as will servo to
reworked by the white*, identify the claim."
results, and were. finally
Very few of the mining locations
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|y polished every boulder,
small stream* headed up
ly Hill and we«* worked
the grass roots and then
ple|ely o»4, with no trace
of any toad, lode or **>". u «how
whew the gold hod tete* from, the
common Ida* prevailing that the In.
dians had taken it there and scat-
tered it about. Meantine all of the
oid -grubstakers" and “paperhang-
held because po one to interested
enough to make a contest against
them,
Haphazard and indiscriminate kn
cations In a mining district never did
. the district any good, as It to sort of
I* scarecrow te keep bongfide miner,
out at the oountry, aa weU aa to add
to the difficulty of ironing out legal
wrinkles when it comes to legal trans­
artions,
ers” got busy and swarmed ever the (
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top of Bully Hill and hung paper on |
Calling eanta.
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321 W. Front St
Phone «8
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