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th E cor K I Eu. W J. WIMER. Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES, One Year (in advance) Six Months. Three Months Single Copies 42 25 »1.25 75c 10c ROGUE RIVER COURIER. AnJndependent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. Job Printing of all Kinds —IN THE— Very Latest and Best Styles, —AND AT THE— X«oweat IAvinir Rates. PROFESSION \L—LEGAL. VOI 9 *” • GRANT’S PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OR., FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19, 1886 SUGAR PINE DOOR & LUMBER CO (/’n .n osr Regular CorrtrpOHd'nt.) I From Althouse. NO. 34. TO .ADVERTISERS. (■rant’s 15 um . ho named after General Grant, in a county »eal centrally loca’^d in Southi rn Oregon. It in a progressive railroad town of (UK) inhabitants, and is the main supply point for a laeae [«»rtion of country Jevnted to wining. Imulwring agriculture mid fruit-raising. Climate un excelled Tlie Cot ku k being the only paper pub lished in Josephine county, with a good : circulation in Jackson county, enables it to h’one of tho lx*st advertising mediums in Southern Oregon. For rates, address T he Cot hier , Grunt's Pass. Oregon. his early successes, is located on the pounds; value, at 6 cents per pound hill between No. 7 and No. 8 gulches for concentrated, $480,000. While A lthousk , N ov . i , 1886. where he expects to winter. In the the ¡Toeluct increased try r,000,000, W ashington , N ov . i , 86. Attorney at Law & Notary Public You will have thought that old spring he proposes to explore and the fall in price lowered the total —MANUFACTURERS OF— There are no sensations here this Prospector had passed in his checks G rant ' s P ass , - - • • O regon . week. The-Congressional districts and yet he still lives, moA-es and prospect for a silver lode, which was value by $io,ooo. Lumber, Dbors, Windows, have monopolized them for the time. takes his regular bacon and beans. first discovered in the early days of Sulphur.—The production was Will practice in all the courts of the only about 700 tons, worth about Washington is about the only city Silence is gold when one sees noth gold digging here. State. Office on Sixth street, near post- Gilmore, at Ceaser diggings is, I $18,000. Brackets, and Mouldings. office. in the United States which doesnot ing that would interest the readers Pyrites.—About 49,000 long tons resound just now with battle yells of your paper to write about. We believe, making arrangements with 8. U. MITCHELL, — ANI» ALL KINDS OF— and wild huzzahs. The noise of old miners are, taking us all in all, parties to put a pipe on his claim. were mined, valued at $220, 5go. Iu ATTORNEY AT LAW. the fray does not reach it. The a stranger, and some may call us a I believe he has some good ground. addition 47,500tons were imported. W. Clark, at the head of No. 8 Barites.—The production was streets are silent, and one can sally wild set, never the less, we are like <■ G rant ’ s P ass , - - - - O regon . forth on business or pleasure with all other mortals, have our feelings gulch is ready for anything which about 15,000 tons, valued at $75,- c out being over-run by a frantic nioh. and sympathies.. We live and may turn up. Above all, feels sure 000, in the unground condition, as Will practice in ali State and Federal taken from the mines. The |H.ople are mostly sober too, in breath, we toil, think and dream of of a chunk not over 100 pounds. Courte Office on Main street. Mica. The production decreased Gorman and Ihxlgden each have toxicated neither with spirituous BAM. WHITE, our childhoods home and the smiles claims on the head waters of Walker in the West, owing to tlie inferior 4 —The Introduction of— liquor nor with excitement. They loving words which make the gulch, which when they have water value of the sheets obtained. The ATTORNEY AT LAW. do not have handfuls of electioneer and of that home so dear. to wotk, yields some very pretty- whole product, excluding waste, ing documents stuck under their memories G rant ’ s P ass , - - - - O regon . Yet how few us, living in this gold and some not so pretty, it l>e- was 92,000 pounds, valued at $161,- doors every hour during the day. far ofT section of of the world, dare ing black and full of quartz. , 000. and their morning papers are not Will practice in all th«1 Court* of the State Feldspar.— Production, 13,600 HAS ENABLED THEM TO REDUCE PRICES FIFTY l’ER ■ entirely filled up with denuncia hope to tread the well known beat Johnson Bros, with I.. E. Nelson, II. KELLEY, tions, flagellations, imprecations, | en track of our boy-hood’s days have fixed up their hydraulic on long tons, valued, liefore grinding, again. 1 see the many who have Tarter gulch where they have op- at $6,8,000. CENT. BELOW ALL FORMER RATES. ATTORNEY AT LAW. adulations, and defamations. not yet numbered the years of my ; eued up a deposit of decomjxwed Asbestus.—The amount mined To-morrow, however, the politi J acksonville . - - - - O regon . Wrer For Price List, address, S, P. D. &. L. Co. I By wlmt I have been told was about 300 short tons, valued at cal complexion of the Fiftieth Con own life, yet they have passed away, ¡quartz. Grant's Pass, Oregon. gress will l>e determined and public their actions in life for gixxl or evil, ' they have a very favorable location $9,000. Will practice in all the Courts of the Asphaltum.—The production re . interest and public men will at once are soon forgotten and a new gen and will give a good account of State. Office in Court House. eration have taken their places 011 themselves in the spring. They mained constant at about 3000 tons, , turn again towards Washington, H. K. HANNAH, “HURRA FOR GRANT'S. PASS, HURRA I’’ in every direction there is busy pre the stage of life, the seasons come have the best water privilege in this with a spot value of $10,000. go, giving us the fruits and section and are hard working men. Mineral waters.—Sales amounted ATTORNEY AT LAW. paration here for Congress and the and flowers in their due season, and the Beach & Platter have all they to $1,312,845, from 9,148,401 gal coming season. There is a smell of CAMPBELL à TUFF O regon . J acksonville , new paint in the corridors of the clouds and storms of winter to rest can do with their pack train running lons; the value is slightly less than Capitol, the postoffice of the House the earth; all nature except frail day after day steady. The end of in 1884. The great decrease in the CAN NOW 1IOAHT OF HAVING THE Office in Orth building, Oregon street Nov. will come before they will be number of gallons is due to the ex of Representatives is filled with man is satisfied. Man wants but little here below, able to fill all the orders on their clusion of the water from artisian S. W. FORBES, scafiblding, and the desks of the. i FINEST STORE ROOM IN' SOUTHERN OREGON'. Nor wants that little long. wells in Madison, Wisconsin, which books. members are packed in a heap in the NOTARY PUBLIC. On the whole the health of our is used as the regular city supply. Whence comes that thirst, that Speaker's room. Order will soon ----- o- K e KBV’ILI.E AND A l THOISR, JOSEPHINE come out of this chaos, but there greed for wealth which is to-day the citizens on the creek is g<xxl and A large local consumption is also CoiNTY, O regon . will lx.* no special difference in the greatest curse in the world to the they are all hopeful and trustful excluded. appearance of the Capitol when human family, it is the father of de for a g<xxl seasons work and plenty METALLIC PRODUCTS OF THE UNIT Collections a Specialty. Legal Instru Congress convenes. Everything scase, the destroyer of every moral of «lust to square themselves with ED STATES IN 1885. ments promptly executed. will be fresh auu clean .*s usual, but and social tye, undermining the the world in the springtime. So Value. , Quantity On their Cheap Counters in all such lines as medic \i.. no appropriation was made except great and God-like* fabric of our may it be with all, even the print- (,. ’ron. spot val ersd ----- 1. P rospector . 1 IK ' ue long tons 4,014,525 I 64,712,400 for the annual renovation and re common humanity. How foolish DRY GOODS, W. 1. KREMER M. D , Silver, coining val pair, and there can be no extensive men are, when we come to think of From Gold Hill. ue, troy ors 39,910,279 51 ,600,090 DRESS GOODS, him as we see him, living in the changes. Physician and Surgeon, Gold, coining val G old H ili ., N ov . Sth, ’86. world. Scarcely one of the many The Department clerks seem to 31,«01,000 CLOTHING, ue, troy om 1,.538,37(5 G rant ' s P ass , - - - - O regon . men who have died.rich, have lx*en E d . C ourier : I have just been Copper, value at take less interest in the Congression HATS -AND CAPS, al elections this year than ever be permitted to dispose of their wealth looking over the Courier and notice N. Y. including Calls responded to at all hours, day or from ini- BOOTS AND SHOES. fore, and the number who have gone as they desired. Tilden himself, that you still mention me as the copper nialit. |K>rted pyrites #■ 170.962,607 smalt and able lawyer though he GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, business man of Gold Hill. I can home to vote can easily be counted. Iatad, value at N. W. H. FLANAGAN, M. D. 120,412 10,400,431 Y. short tons Indeed, none of those who live at was, did not dispose of the accuinu not do otherwise than appreciate GROCERIES, any great distance went home for lations of a life time without leaving your favorable mention, and will Zinc, value at N. Physician and Surgeon, 3.539,856 40,OSS York short tons PROVISIONS. the purpose. In every Department a loop hole through which the legal endeavor to reciprocate to some ex Quicksilver, value G rant ' s P ass , .... O regon except one, employes who had leave fraternity are today trying to crawl tent this evening by dropping yon S. F , Husks 970, ISO 32,073 CROCKERY, due them had permission to go at and so overturn all the good which a few items of news. Since my last Nickel, value at TOBACCOS, J residence, comer Main and 191,753 277,904 this time. The exception was the Tilden aimed to accomplish at his correspondence to the C ourier , a 1’hiladelp'a, H s TV Call attended any hour, vid. at new residence and barn belonging Aluminum, CIGARS, ETC. Post Office Department. The Post death. 2,. m O 3,4.10 I'litl, troy o»s - But you wish for news from this to our mail contractor lias Ireen Platinum, value, master General requires that there J ami “ 3V A imer — ,. , ,Y l - v shall always be on duty 30 per cent camp, yet I have nothing of a start- , completed. Several thousand dol crude, at N. V. «••.mujuiiu Sulky KE All our goods are entirely new and will lie exchanged for cash of the working force of each bureau ling nature to speak about. The lars has been exjiended by Mr. !50 187 ounces . G rant »P ax » - • O regon . <>r farm produce. CAMPBELL >V TUFFS, miners of Althottse and Sucker I Ganiard on his flouring mills which and division of his Department. Total, »181,589,335 Washington is growing now with creek are, on the whole, a stay it- will soon lx? running tinder the Grant’s Pass, Josephine County, Oregon English and German Spoken. marvellous rapidity. Hundreds of home set of men, who have been management of Mr. Lamb, who has non metallic mineral rKiiixcTs or rnr. Office on Main wtroot, near druj£More. handsome residences have been built hard at work fixing up their flumes had charge of the Ashland flour «KITED STATES IN 1885 (sl’OT VALVES.) Value. Quantity. since last Spring. The absentee of and ditches for their winters run. mill seven years and has an estab BituminoUA coal, three months sees changes and im Each one hopeful and cheerful, all lished reputation as a miller. brown coal, lig provements on every side. Since be it the fall rains have not yet wet Quartz mining is moving right nite and anthra the ground enough to start the ahead. Three large transfers of the long drouth and devastation of cite, ininvtl else C. M STONE, P rop ’ r , the trees by caterpillars, residents springs. Many new faces can be j mining property have Ireen made in where than in Calls reponded to at all hours, dav or Maine Street, Grant’s Pass, Oregon, think the streets never looked so seen up and down the creek, some the pa3t few months, amounting to 1’enn’nia, long night Office opiH.sjte Slover’s hotel. tonn, a 64,M0C6’< * untidy and ill kept as now, but from the South and others from the $1,500, $5,000, $5,000, respectively. Pennsylvania an- • Jacksonville, Oregon. ------DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY,------ visitors insist that it is still the North, who appear willing to try The Gold Hill Mining and Milling thracite, do 6 34.228,548 DR. CHAS. W. BEACOM, cleanest and most beautiful city in their luck amongst us for a time, company have their 10-stanip mill Petroleum, bar’la 21,842,041 Drugs, Patent Medicines. Perfumery. Toilet Articles. Shoulder Braces. Trusses, Etc. the country. i and I hope they may find it profita at work, anti h ive alxmt 500 tons of Building nton<* 49,000,000 Detntist, Lime, barrel# o One of the largest projected im ble to remain with us. A company ' ore at the mill ready to crush. 7.038,6.58 Salt, barrel# .O regon . G rant ’ s P ass provements is the building to l»e of three men from Eureka have Burrage & Pomeroy contemplate Cement, barrels, 4,150,000 BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO erected by the Mexican government commenced work in what was Mike erecting lime kilns at their quarry, S. Carolina phos phate rock, long All work warranted. Office at Com for its representatives in this coun Purcel’s drift claim before he was and will give out contracts for bar-1 ionn School I Books. ' I Books I and I Stationery 2,846,064 ... 437, <0 mercial Hotel. murdered. Speaking of this |xx>r rel staves and hoops, and also a try. Thinking men of the com LimeRtone for iron munity have long predicted that fellow, reminds me of a scrap which large quantity of wood They ex flux 1,604,656 MIS« KI LANROl’M. foreign nations would recognize the I read in one of the Portland papers pect to burn alx>ut 4,000 cords per Mineral water#, A Full Line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushes. advantage to l>e derived from the a short time ago, which spoke of year. These •gentlemen are also gallon# Hold 0.1 18,401 Natural ga# ■ , Q- ■— possession of a legation building in an application by petition for the driving a tunnel into their iron Hine, NEW TIN SHOP; white, ehort 15,000 1.050,000 PHSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED. Washington. The British govern pardon for M. Mackey. Surely they ledge, to strike it alxrut 150 feet ton# O. II. STARR, I’ hoi ' rietor , Concontrrtcd l*>- ment was the first to take the step, would not accept of any petition from the surface. t —Dealer In— 480,000 rax, .8,000,000 Socially our town is lively again New and her substantial structure on which did not contain the names of Jcrm»y inarl#, Connecticut avenue has lx.*en a the people who best knew each of with church twice every Sunday and rhort ton# Stoves, Tin-Ware, Pumps, Pipes 137.500 875.000 K O B K K T W EST K O P, source of pride to her ministers, and the men, and are most fully ac Sunday school once. The literary Mica lol,ooo 92,000 Etc.,* Etc., Etc. 220.500 49,000 quainted with all the circumstances s’x iety meets every week, and the Pyr.t«'» also to visiting Englishmen. —PROPRIETOR— tenqierance workers have organized Gohl quartz, sou The estimated cost of the Mexi and the parties. venirs, jewelry. JOB WORK DONE ON SHORT Mining companies which have a blue ribbon club on the Murphy etc can building is $50,000. It will be 14'1,000 NOTICE. fixed up and are all ready for work plan There is at present no tx-ca located on I street, near the residence Manuaiu'si* ore, 190,281 23,«58 ¡of Chief Justice Waite, and in ar from the head of the creek down to sion for any able-lxxiied jx.*rson to I0114 tons Prices Moderate. Crude barytes, J. H. g . be idle here. chitecture it is to lx? of French re Tarter Gulch: 15.000 long tans GRANTS PASS, - - - OREGON. Miller and Scisel have got their naissance. It will embrace the res O regon . (Jackson County) C entral P oint , (Continued from last week.) H,9l() < lehr«1, long tons ditch and new self shooter in good idence of the Minister and the bus Precious stones WILL Q. BROWN. MINERAL PRODUCTS. 310,000 Bromine, fl s iness offices of the legation. Since working order and exjx-ct to aston )o( long a lead has l>een taken in this direc ish us next spring when they bring Statement of th« Amount and Val Feldspar, Assayer & Analytical Chemist, «4,000 tons . . 13,000 ue of th» Mineral Products of —Having Completed my new Stable I am prepared to— tion, it is probable that other foreign the slugs down. So may it be. tho U. S. for IB85. Chrome iron ore, OREGON NICKEL’ MINE, Russell Si Deacon have some good legations, Russia, China, and Japan ft,000 2,7'M) long tons RIDDLE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OGN. will soon l>e provided with hand ground on the right bank of the The Estimate of the U. S. Geological Asbestus, short FURNISH THE BEST OF HAY AND GRAIN. some Survey-Classification of Pro 300 tons buildings owned by their re left hand fork, and are waiting for ducts and Values. Hlate ground as a Analyses mnrfe of Complex Rubatane»». the rain and snow to fall. To Hay an<l < Iran I’er I lead, < >ver Nijght, 7.5 <'t*. spective Governments. pigment, long The Geradelli Bros, have put in The city has.lxen full of new Phosphates. With the exception 24.887 MINK» KXAMINKD AND REPORTED VPOM. J ,976 BEST OF ACCOMMODATIONS FURNISHED FOR HORSES. |>eople during the week. The A11 a new flume and shooter and are of a local consumption of about iooo Hti tons 17,8.6 715 1 plinr, short tns I 3 00 Away for Gold and Kilver 10,5» 10 3,001) A.splialtuni. ilo waiting for more moisture. taimn races attracted many, despite tons in North Carolina, the total Away for Ni< k»*l nr Cobalt « 00 «5,373 t olialt oxide, fl s «8.723 Thompson & Klync are pushing the w-eather, and then there are al production of phosphate rock came Away for Ideaci or Copi »er 2 00 J. S. HOUCK, ways scores of bridal tourists here their tunnel ahead with gisxl indi from south Carolina, and amounted $230.431 /HH Total at this season. They come in great cations of sexm striking the old pay to 437,856 long tons of washed rtx*k a TI ih rollini»-* nil |»n shirt, th nt i*. th», CHANGE IN| MANAGEMENT proprietor er numbers every fall. At this mo streak. for the calendar year 1885, valued imioiiiit in irkrhril. was only 63,569,284 —or ’ tre — Trimby & Gheradelli arc work at $2,846,064, at an average value ton#, valued nt 189.640,804. ment there are just twenty-one of 6 Th»* connu» rci.il product, that in, th«’ these interesting couples stopping ing steady in their old ground. of $6.50 [x-r ton. amount marketed, wmm <»nly Central Point Hotel, Nels. Johnson is sluicing off the at the Ebbitt House alone They Gypsum The estimated prodtic ton«, vnliK“! nt 172,274,544. always go over to the White House west point of his old ground, and tioti of land plaster in 1885 w.i. i< ■■ KEPI ME or TIIK > AM KM —DEALER in — LEWIS PANKEY, - Propr to see the President and the suite after working this he will run back 600 short tons, of calcined plaster, < >i the in«‘talli«' an i non-inrtallic mineral Meals, • • 25 Cents. s T O V E S |»rodu<*e«i in the United Stale» T I N \V A II E, of handsome parlors, and they are into the hill where he has gtxxl in 72,200 tons; total, 172,800 tons, stdmtaiKfs AND always anxious, of course, to see dieations of pay gravel. valued at $<>59,600. The above in . o IM M<*tah. Il Ml, >**» .»i.'». —JOB WORK, St < H A»— Mrs. Cleveland Few of them catch Janies Turnbull still keeps at eludes 75,100 tons from native stone, Mineral s'lbrlAfH tm imiued Having lately taken charge of this hotel a glimpse of her these days except work in his old tunnel, Press on the remainder being imported from in the i»r« /*»mg tabk* 239,43!,1*01. RtK)fing, Spouting, and Repairing of all kinds a specialty. the undesigned would respectfully inform by accident. She has held no re back, Janies. Nova Scotia. the public that the tables will he supplied ceptions since alxntt the middle of Henry Drew works next l>elow Salt. The total production in AND DONE AT REASONABLE RATES. with the beat the market affords July, and is much absorbed now in Turnbull, but he ha.s stu b poor barrels of 280 pounds was 7.038. L ewis P axket the work of planning and superin health that he makes but little 653. exceeding the yield of |88| hi J. S. Hour-k. Jackson Co . • fregón. t'entrai Point, tending improvements at the coun headway. 52 3.716 barrels. 'Pile total value of New Blacksmith Shop, MtLaughlan is, when he has all salt produced wa>$| 930.621. an try house. On Saturday afternoon, promc water, working on the east side of increase of $732,887 which was due fort Helletk to be Abandoned. LEWIS PANKEY. Proprietor. naders on Pennsylvania avenue ob the creek. I am not informed as to partly to the increased value of the C entral P oint . • • O regon S an F rancisco . N ov r I. served the ¡'resident's coujie. drawn it'« richness. Michigan product, and partly to the by the seal brown* dashing towar Is Henry Ehman who is now sole large increase ir. the production of By authority of the Secretary <«f S M IT II B K O'H Proprietor*«, Horse-Shoeing a Specialty. the Capital. Within sat Mrs. Clev owner of the Run claim all fixed western New York. War. Fort Halleck, in Nevada, wilt Sixth Street. Oregon. Grant's Pass. I would respectfully intorm the public eland and her poodle. Hector, his and ready to run when the water Bromine The production in lie abanóme«! and the public pro that having lately taken charge <4 the fore paws resting on the front of the comes creased slightly, being about 310, petty thereat disposed of under di ■o- Black-smith Shop at Central Point, I carriage and a bow of yellow ribbon Felt Sc Burnett on Morse’s Point '»00 pounds, against 281,100111 188; I rection of th< Chiefs'»f Supply De would ask a liberal share of ’be public around his neck. Everybody turned west side ol the creek, have put in The total value, at an average of 2 *9 partment* at these headquarter*. HAVING COMPLETED ' OUR NEW STABLES, WE ARE |«tn»nagv F a KKKV to look at the President’s wife, and ' a new sh<x>ter and ate ready aiid cents per |x>tmd, wan $89,800, All PREPARED TO the ladies thoiignt she was very be anxio .“-¡bt water. increase of $23,436 above the pre Subscribe for the C ourier . comingly dressed in her tight fit Johnson and partner, the former an vions year. Furnish the Best of Accommodations for Horses, ting Mill of grey cloth and hat to old time Althousc min- who h ’-> cxten-i 'n Borax THE PIONEEÎ AMD ONLY NEWSPAPER mat h. ; • Wnlu found his way back to the ciks of California -------------AT REASONABLE KATE---------- DAVIS BROWER, : Finis The Latest Improved Machinery, Bargains ! Bargains! Bargains! CITY JG Central Point Tin Shop.' Feed Stallie! PabusLe-l in Joaephjx Ceint WASHINGTON LETTER.