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TU I' <’<>*' Ki hit. — w J WIMER ' "'W~ Publisher srn>< •RiPTiox 1:1 Ti:s. IJ JA fl 16 75c •10c one Year .in advance Six Month*. Three Month* Single Copies ROGUE RIVER COURIER ---------------------- y- ■ ...................................................... ................... ................... TO ADVERTISERS Grant'» Pass. so named after General Grant, is a county »eat eentrally located in Southern Oregon. It in a progressiva railroad town of non inhabitants, and i* the main »apply point for a large portion of country deivted to mining, luuilwring agriculture und fniit-raiaing. Climate uu- exixslled Tim Cot her living the only p.i|x-r jaib- lislusl in Joaephiiie county, with a good circulation in JackMon county, euaLlea it to I k * one ui the beat advertising iiitxliuma in Southern Oregon. For rate*, address T he Cot bier , Grant'» I'aex, Oregon. ------------------------------------------------ An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. Job Printing of all Kinds —IN THE.— Very Latest and Best Styles, —AND AT TH®— I.<)\v«• -tt I .iviuir R:tf<“.- raorrSMoXAL—LEU AL. VOI .*• NO. 35. •2 '• SUGAR PINE DOOR & LUMBER CO WIIAT HF. SAW IN HKK“ ( /■’ om tlif < h C'fiini t *i. ] neatly north and south, and obliques through the country rock. The thickness of the vein varies from nothing to three feet, averaging ¡»erliaps seven inhees. The vein matter is white, splintery quartz, aecomp uiied by much talc, with oc casional deposits of calc sj»ar. The metallic constituent“ are chiefly iron py rites, copper ¡writes, and a very- little galena, which last is regarded at the mine as an infallible indica tion of "pay nick." The sulphurets of copper and iron occasionally oc cur in large masses, forming a considerable pail of the vein at the point, and these massive pyrites carry a very high percentage of g >ld. the assavs of solid specimens of cop ¡»er pyrites reaching $2.000 per ton Part of the quartz assays from $30 to $80 |'Cr ton, .1 portion falling I k low $20 and another portion, con taining too little gold to pay forex trading, is waste rock. The work ings include four tm.nels, the long est 550 feet in length, and four ag gregating over I2OO feet; a shaft sixty feet deep, a winze sixty-five and many yards of stopes. The amount of pay rock extracted has not much exceeded 1000 tons, whose y ield probably averaged $25 ¡»er ton, as worked in an artastre, with a loss of nearly all the rich sulphurets, ot which but a small part was saved. from forty to sixty feet deep. They will require a decade or two to ex haust the gravel iti the partial ab A Roview of Gold and Silver Mines Attorney at Law & Notary Public of Josephina. sence of water. In Scott's gulch i> Gaurr’« P as », - - - - O heuos . a fine claim that has been opened X IRTIIERX JOSKI’IHXI'.. since early days, when the prelimi Will practice in all the < ou.ts of the Rugged mountains altern. ling nary work cost $25,000. They have Stale. Office on Sixth street, near post- with sleet» canyons and narrow val twenty acres of ground and use the office. leys make up the northern ¡xirtion hydraulic method. The gold is S. I'. MITCHELL, of Josephine county, a region that tine, but the yield is not known. It is good for little besides mining. is thought the combined ¡»roduct of ATTORNEY AT LAW. The rocks contain auriferous quartz the two claims, with that of Bybee G rast '» P ass , .... (» higos . veins, and placers are found tqxm & Newman, was $35,000 in 1S82. nearly all tile streams, The watcr- We have again Mr. Nickerson's Will practice in all State ami l ederai courses connect with Rogue river re(x»rt for 1882: Waldo Hydraulic Courts. < »ilice on Main street. the streams flowing a westerly Co.. $16.000; Scott's gulch claim, SAM WHITE, course. Toward the north is Wolf $4<-xx.; Bybee & Newman, $4000; N. De Lantatter & Co., $5000; Gal creek. u]x»n which there are some ATTORNEY AT I.AW. eight or ten gravel miners employed. ice creek, including Sugar Pine G bast ’ m P ass , - - - - O keuox . On Coyote creek is the noted Ruble mine. $13,000; Althouse creek, claim, which gives employment to $p».<x>.»; Canyon and Josephine Will pra tier in all tliel’oiirls of the State creeks, $40,oc«; Williams creek. a dozen men in the season when H. KELLEY. water is plenty, and lias enough $2O.:iuo; total, $142,000. There is no means of knowing good pay dirt to last for twenty ATTORNEY AT LAW. years. By some this claim is held just how much auriferous gravel J acksonville . ----- O xeuosi . to lx* the most valuable in Southern still remains to be washed, but it seems that if anything, the annual Oregon. Its yearly output is not Will practice in all the Courts of the product from deep mines is increas known, but there is no doubt that State. (.»Ilice in Court lions.“. ing slightlv, with a tolerable chance it is being worked with judgment H. K. HANNAH, and energy. O11 Tom East creek, of a more rapid increase for the im mediate future. There is opportu Joe Dicer took out $1000 in the ATTORNEY AT LAW. nity for large hydraulic operations middle of last season before it was < I rei ;. \ . similar to those of California, with time to clean up. Again no figure the unquestionable advantage of of production can l»e given, but it Office in Orth building, Oregon street having ample ground on which de is probably fair to credit these creeks bris may be dumped without injur and their tributaries of Northern ing any body. No debris law will Josephine with an average annual yield of $20,000. The placers, ¡»ai ever afflict the mines of this state. THE YANK I.EIXIE. THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH. We will advert totin' topic <’f the ticularly the deep ones, are not by No greater quartz vein has ever Progress of the Line-A Vexatious any means exhausted, and experi- extent of placer deposits in another been discovered than the Yank ledge and Annoying Injunction. 1 enccd miners tell of many locations which crosses the Rogue river three connection. Colleetions .i Specialty Legal Instru Quart« mining has been even less G. II. McDougall, Superintend where pay dirt exists in great quan miles l»elow Galicc creek. It is 250 ments promptly executed. ent of construction for the Postal tities and only requires the intro- feet thick and has been traced for a permanent interest than in the j MKI1IC It.. Ou their Cheap Counters in all such lines a* Telegraph Company, arrived back j duction of water in older to produce twenty or more miles, north ami northern part of the country. A from Tacoma Sunday, where he has 1 a great deal of gold. But unfortu south. It is a contact vein, with a few mines have l>een opened, one DRY GOODS, been for ths past week. He reports nately the construction of a ditch slate hanging wall, and hyposyenit»“ only with encouraging results. DRESS GOODS, that all but about forty miles of the I would prove very expensive, as 011- on the foot. The vein nutter is ’ Thus, the Enleipiisi mine, cast of CLOTHING, line between Seattle and Port Moody 1 ly the Rogue river itself is thought mainly a bluish quartz colored by Waldo, lias an eightcen-inch vein is completed. The line between Ta to be capable of supplying the re copper, which is plentiful, existing in quartzite. The quartz yielding HATS AND CAPS, coma and Seattle is progressing quireil amount of fluid, and. Mi case as copper pyrites, and near the sur $26 ] ki ton in the arrastra, This ( Tills respoiuLhl to at ail hour?*, day or BOOTS AND SHOES. satisfactorily. Between Portland its supplies were drawn upon, a face there are oxidized compounds, claim was located in i860, and night. GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, and Tacoma nothing is lieing done, ditch fully fifty miles long would such as chrysocolla, azurite, etc. ' abandoned in 1867. It has been awaiting the decision of Judge Hoyt, be required. In its course the flume The soluble salts of copper have relocated several times since. Its GROCERIES, which will I k ’ rendered on Thurs would cross Evans' creek, Jacksor coated the interior of lately con-, production is not known. PROVISIONS, 1‘. M. Nickerson, the author of day next. The Postal Telegraph county, another stream of past re structcd tunnqls with a deposit over people are confident that they have nown. There are no present means a quarter of an inch thick. Numer the above rejxirt, calls our attention CROCKERY, law and justice on their side, and of knowing for a certainty whether ous wide crcTiccs occur in the quail/ to the errors contained in the above TOBACCOS, await a favorable decision with the such a ditch would be a pecuniary which are mainly filled with a soft For instance, he says CIGARS, ETC. utmost confidence. In the mean success, but its construction is ad material containing much oxide of showing. *> while their large force of line build vocated warmly, and is under con iron and resembling the "gouge" of that his report for 1883 should read “O in“-ti .i<l of $3000. Another ers are lying inactive, under ¡»ay, sideration by capitalists. Should ordinary veins. Assays of the $ All our goods are entirely new and will lx exchanged for cash and arc amusing themselves play it be built, it will render productive quartz show from $2 to $36 per ton error in the alxive statement lies in G rart » P ass - - O heoon . some hundreds or ¡xrhaj»s thousands in gold and silver, with a small ¡ter or farm produce. CAMPBELL »t TUFFS, ing foot ball and other games. of acres of auriferous gravels lying cent, of copper. A part of the vein the fact that Mr. Nickerson’s re John Turner, one of the employes Grant ’ s Pass, .Josephine County, Oregon English an 1 German Spoken. port as published by the director of of the Postal Telegraph Company, upon Evans', Sardine, Grave. Wolf, is occupied by a shout of heavy spar the mint says: "The Waldo Hy Coyote, Jump- oft' Joe ami Whisky Office on Main street, near drug.- is accused by the officials of the some twenty or more feet wide; Northern Pacific of having worked creeks, and will transform the lone which forms an inqxirtant part of draulic mining Co., Scotts Gulch on the telegraph line after the in ly region, where now a few dozen the vein matter. This is not thought Mining Co., and Messrs. By-lxc &. junction restraining the Telegraph miners eke out an uncertain exist to carry valuable minerals. Newman have taken out about $35- Conqiany from building its line over ence, into an active mining region, C. M. STONE, Pitor’i!, Such is the magnitude of the vein 000 worth of gold." The Oregon and increase its production probably the Northern Pacific right of way that an immense sum of money Grant’s Pass, Oregon, was issued. He has been cited to to millions instead of thousands. must necessarily lx- expended in or- ■ ian confounds the Waldo Hydraulic Maine Street, appear lx fore Judge Hoyt on Thurs The attention of capitalists is strong der to prospect it, and no one pos Mining Co., v. ith the claim of Ennis ------ DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY,------ day next and show cause why he ly called to the feasibility of this sessed of the requisite capital has as it Simmons. The claim of Ennis should not l»e punished for con project ami its probable great re yet shown a sufficient interest in & Simmons is a new claim which is turns. Within the domain of hj the matter to invest therein. It is tempt of court. not yet entirely open -o that it is -o- About 115 miles of the line be-1 draulic mining there is hardly a quite within the domain of the pos < I kegon . more promising enterprise. The sibilities that the great Yank ledge not y ielding dividends yet, tween Portland and Roseburg is ill BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS AND TORACI (I working order, leaving about seven- total number of placer miners in may lx- found to contain immensely THE 0 R.A N. CO. All work warranted. Oilice at Coni- , ty-five miles to be finished. By the this part is about eighty, half of valuable ores, and certain^;, the School I Books. ' Books I and Stationery iniini.il Hofei. whom are working on Grave creek. Contemplates Transferring Tlvolr 5th of December, it is thought mess \vorth of the claims would be very- --------- o--------- Sound Steamers to tho N. P. DGIXGS IN QUARTZ. ages can lx sent from Portland to great if only low grade rix-k existed. mi . meli . \ ni : oi >. San Francisco. Should the injunc As for quartz mines, this ¡xirtion It will probably be many years be It is repot te<l on good authority tion lx- removed by Judge Hoyt, of Josephine possesses few of value. fore its value is demonstrated. Not that the (). R & N. Co. will soon NEW TIN SHOP; the whole line from San Francisco Only two, the Lucky Queen ami faraway in fact within a league's transfer iti entire fleet of steamers to Port Moody will be finished by the Esther have ever lx-en workc I distance lies the Mammoth, nnoth cm Puget Sound, to the Northern PIISKTANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COM POUNDED. O. II. STARR, P roprietor , December 15th. [News. to any extent, while the latter only er incredibly thick vein, which is Pacific. Mes;rs. James l.otan and —Dealer In— has ever ¡»aid expenses for even the exactly parallel with the Yank. Of J. J. Holland, of this city, returned THE CORKER MURDER. Stoves, I in-Wui v, Pumps, Pipes. shortest length of time. The Luck} it less even is known than of its Saturday from the Sound, when“ KOB i: K T W EMT KOI’, Th© Feeling at Lafayette is Very Queen is upon Jump-ofT Joe creek, neighbor, for no prospecting <»f mo they have been inspecting the I • Etc., Etc. Srong Against Marple. —I’KOPRIETOH— a few miles from Grants Pass, ami ment has as yet taken place, though steamers Welcome, Isabel. Alida, Detective Singleton, who has re belonged to and was worked by a the indications are not less favora Emma Hayward, George I Starr, JOB WORK DONE ON SHORT turned from Lafayette, affirms the joint stock company, who excavated ble than of the otlu-r. Below the Idaho and North Pacific, belonging NOTICE. statement in yesterday's News that over a thousand feet of shafts and Yank is the Bybee quartz claim, a to the (). R. »t N. If the sale is Prices Moderate. public feeling is very strong against tunnels, erected a ten stamp mill, vein seamed with talc, in which, and m ide, the Olympian and Alaskan Marple, the murderer of 1» I Cor with pans, etc., and for several not in the quartz, some gold in the will lie included. Messrs. Holland, OREGON. GRANTS PASS, < J regon . (Jacknon County) C entral P oint , ker. The oldest and most respect years endeavored to make the pro thinnest possible leaf form is dcjxi*- Lotan and John Fox. of Astoria, WILL Q. BROWN. ed residents of the town openly talk perty pay. After “pending $25,000 ited. Such rock is apt to I k very will rcjMirt their finding to the com of lynching Marple. He is now in or more, their patience gave out in deceptive, for a very little gold in pany. The object of the purchase Assayer à Analytical Chemist, jail at Lafayette. Detective Single 1879 and tho mine was abandoned. this form will make a great show by the Northern Pacific is to com ton fears that when Marple is ar It has lately been relocated. Its ore ing in a specimen, such is the ex ¡xtc with the Canadian Pacific for OREOoX Nt< KKI. MINE, raigned before the committing ma is base containing a large percent treme tenuity with which it may be the British Columbia trad.-. [ New s. RIPPLE, DOUGLAS COCNTY, OGN. gistrate, and the convincing proof age of metallic sulphides, with gold drawn out. Powii.riy Give» I rat rustic ns t.’ *t the of his guilt brought out. that the and silver in unequal proportion, sot*TII ER X JOSKI’IllN E. Anal,.«. lA.nlr of Compie« sub.tunr««. Strike be Orcfarod 0". To Hay .ami Gran l’or Ilencl, Over Nijglit. T.'i < 'is. people will save the county expense and was not successfully worked, 'flic mines of Southern Josephine MISES EXAMINED AND REPORTED t PON. because the processes were doubt The sto by hanging the prisoner firm the chief resources of the peo HORSES. •BEST OF ACCOMMODATIONS FURNISHED FOR C hicago . N ov . 11. It i. under- ry that Marple pos red jewelry less not adapted to the condition of ple of that isolated but pleasant 1<> stood that the stock yards strike will Assay for Gold and Silver ♦ 3 fit) the ore. belonging to the murdered woman. Assay for Ni kel or t'.dwlt »• 00 cality. In former times much pla l»e closed to in »rrow or Saturday . Aaeav for Ia»d or Copper » 00 The Esther is likewise abandoned, nr work was done, which has left Emma Merlotin, is a mistake. It Giaml Mader Workman Powderly J. S. HOUCK, arose from the fact that Marple was although it is said to still contain its traces in scarred hillsides, ami has, it is stated, instructed lk-lc- some g<»»d rock fit for crushing CHANGE IN| MANAGEMENT in this city at the time that Emma creek md ri»er l»cds turned topsy gate.- Barry and Carlton, of the Ex Merlotin was butchered, and that The total output of this mine has turvy. Some work of the sort is ceulive Committee of the Knights i»r THE— Marple had Ixen implicated in set probably reached $25,000, while the .till done, and the average yearly of Labor. who arc now here, to de eral roblxries here. Marple ad expenses for working it were not product of the region may be reck clare the trike off, and order the Central Point Hotel. mits tint he has a kit of burglar's less. The five-stamp mill, with its oned at $70,000 more or les*. Til'- men to work as soon as the ¡»ackers —DEALER IN— Propr LEWIS l'ANKEY. water power, three amalgamating best resource is the huge and cn 1- agree to take all the old men back. tools ill California. pant, boiler, etc., cost over $7,000, k- >. gravel I k -H - like tbM* m ar The packers h • .-e not as yet agreed Marple is a Mason, and the Ma 25 Cents, S T O V E S T I N W A R E, sons of the towns adjoining Lafay and was lately sold for $200. \N’l) Waldo, which arc every to this, but then appears very little The nv»st noted placer mining trading more and ette are highly incensed at his ac doubt that they will do so. In case ---- JOB WORK, Stilt A localities in Josephine are in the ami will ultimately tion. the old men arc taken back the tv w Having lately taken barge ,4 this hotel southern ¡»art. lying upon those scale Ix-fitting their imjiortaiK-e and men w ho have come here will be Roofing, Spouting, and Repairing of ail kinds a sjxti dty, the undesigned would respectfully inform Stat A,,«»»ment. streams which flow into the Illinois extent. I11 a satisticr.l way there i > given transportation to their Jumies the public that the table, will be supplied river, being Althouse ami Sucker nothing worth saying about the Il and extra compe"sation. The feci AND DONE AT REASONABLE RATES The total taxable property of the with the l>e«t the market afford« state of Oregon t> hown by the as creeks. Galice creek, likewise a linois. Althouse. Snake creek, and ing among the strikers unfavorable Lewis P ankey ( Iregon. sessunent roil for 1SX6 is $79,122,- once important distric t, is near the other mines of Southern Josephine. to a return to work, as the majority J. S Houck, Jackson Co.. Central Point, 973, an increase of $3,317,044 over western edge of the county, the The product for 1883, a dry ami believe for the present they cannot the a.ssessnieiit of 18H »5. Multno- creek flowing into Rogue river ten therefore unfortunate year, was succeed in the struggle for eight LEWIS l’ANKEY. Proprietor. tnali county returns $18,761,610. or twelve miles lielow the mouth of' stated thus by Mr. Nickerson, of hours a day. No disturbance Kerby: Waldo. $3000: Althouse. reported to-day at the yards. and Lin»t county comes next with Juiup-off-Joe creek. C extrai . Pourr • • O broos The quartz mines of Galic •e creek $25000; Kerby. $6<irjrj; Galicc creek, $5,235,39*. Marion county is third Yank $3oor>; Williams creek, $3000; to Henry Villard isticgot it ugwidi H M 1 T H HKO'S I’roprii toTs. Horse-Shoeing a Specialty. on the list, with $4.957.396. and embrace the Green ami the to- tal $45,<xx>. One company, the C. P. Huntington for the final unii- ledges, which arc parallel, but Umatilla county has about a half Sixth Street, < >r**gon. 1 would re«pectfnl!y inform the publir Grant'» Pass. Waldo Hydraulic, reported their fer of the Oregon X. California jail million less. , Jackson county re- Lally dissimilar lode-». that havinit lately taken charge <4 <>>•• THE GRKXX MIXUS. yield as $14.000. a considerable va road company. t'.uaigii it was 16, $65,867 less than turns $2,21131 Rl»»'k-«mith Hli.»p at ( entral Point I ---- u,h ar,. r.f the |.“ib!i.- riation from the sum given. The tl tight thi 11 :db: 11 <•< n .r.min,“t;*d Josephine county h. called also the Sugar Pine, was last would a liberal WE ARE HAVING COMPLETED ' OUR NEW STAHLE.- L cwin I amki . y . • time a; •. Villard w as a bill patrol» ait* 1 principal claim increase of $65, 95 'covered twenty yean ago. and $613 tier for $ <>o wort Ennis mine, half 1>een worked mote extensively, PREPARED T<> Railway vigalion Subset ibe dor the CotRlER. 1 which sometime« haps thananv other claim mSu by Eb la I iml works th< ern < >n gon THE PI0XEE2 AMD ONLY NEWSPAPER -t.ni'ls mar! ai i ; eas ’» nabll F.Ahthei in fe DAVIS BROWER. Whatever could ho have »een in her? She isn't the least bit pretty; --MANVFACTt’RKRS OF — S!.< isn't Ktvlsli, she isn't rich. She is neither nine uor witty. Whatever e«i d.i he liav ■ sfii in her? Lumber, Doors, Windows, She is only a fanner'» daughter; Yet you would have thought her a prin Brackets, and Mouldings. cess, From tlie letters that he wrote her. — AMI VI. L KIM»* ul— Whatever e.sild lie have Heen in her? A plain, little. honi““»|>un . rvatiire, A N» Without a single accomplishment. And scarcely a decent feature. Whatever "'Id he have seen in her '.' Something far Idler than beauty ; An innocent soul, a loviug heart* And a life all set to duty. -The Introduction of— He saw a woman wll.wni pleasure lay In the jieaee of her household way»; Who was happv to win her father's »mile And proud of her mother’s praise. Thels'st little sister in all the world : HAS ENABLED THEM TO REDUCE PRICES FIFTY PER As helpful in deed as in word; As ehaorful and guy as the sunshine; CENT «ELOW ALL FORMER RATES. As busy and bright a* a bird. Crf For Price List, address, S. P. D, &. L. Co. Soho passed by the belle« of th.’ season. The maidens both stylish and prettv; Grant's Pass. Oregon. II" passed by the highly aeeoniplished. The clever, the Wise and the witty; I And for the wife of his heart FOR GRANT’S PASS, HURRA!” The ehixMC "HUBKA dear little homespun cieature ; Whose worth w is far l»“ttcr than gold. Than beauty of form or of feature. CAMPBELL à TUFF Whatever the worl 1 may see m her Is beyond his worry or car,“; CAN NOW ROAST OF HAVING THE To him she is rich and good and true. To him she is sweet and fair. —[lallie F. Barr, in N.Y. Ledger. FINEST STORE ROOM IN SOUTHERN OREGON. Utilise and Store Finishings The Latest Improved Machinery, OUR MINES. Baronins! Bargains i -¿ECITY DRUG ST0RF.EE- A Full Line of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Brushes. -New Feed and Sale Stallie,: FURNISH THE BEST OF HAY AND GRAIN. -Central Point Tin Shop.=— New Blacksmith Shop, * zXcW Feed Stable! Furnish the B< st of Accommodations for Horses, A