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TO ADVERTISERS TH e rot li I Eli. Publisher. WIMER /;li’Tl'>y K ITES, L,,„. Year in ivli tm e) $1 ».”> F x Montis 75c fr| r.-e Month» Hk- f.intle Copie» VV J Lob Printing of nil Kinds An Independent Paper, Devoted Especially to the Interests of Southern Oregon. —IX THE— Aery Latest and Best Shlcs, (¡RANTS PASS, J(I>|]P1IINE (’DI N ! Y. OR.. FRIDAY J AM AR\ 21. lss? — ixn at tub — ;u<>w< -i u:»i- ". DAVIS BROWER, [Attorney at Law & Notary Public E G rist ’» P a »», - - - - O regon . Will practice in all the court» of the stat '. < mice on Sixth streut, near |>o»t- :<>tli<e. S. r. MITCHELL, ATTORNEY Al' LAW. G rant '» P a »», - - - • O regon . Will practice in ah State and Federal Courts Office on Main street. SAM WHITE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. G rant ’» l’i*», . - - - O regon . Will practice in all tire Courts of the State H. KELLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. J acksonville . - - - - O regon . Will practice in all the Courts of the State. Oltiee in Court House. II. K. HANNAH, ATTORNEY AT LAW. J.u O regon . - - - - kvonvii . i . e , o.liee in Orth building, Oregon street S. W. FOP.P.ES, NOTARY PUBLIC. Kutuvn.ii- inh Ami. u se , JosEruiNE Cot ntv . O regon . (' .’lections a Specialty. Legal Instru ment« promptly executed. MKl'U AL. W. F. KREMER, M. I'., Physician anil Snrucon. .... G rant '» P ash , O reg ' N. Calls resjKinde 1 tout all hours, day or night. W II. FLANAGAN, M. I». Physician and Surgeon, O regon . - G rant ’» P ass , Office at residence, corner .Main and Third streets. Cail attended any heir, • lay or nigh. 1»R. 1 . W. VAN !>YKE Git\ n rs r.'.rs *• - O regon . English and ’> rnian Spoken, office on Main street, near drugstore. C. I.EMI’ERT, M. 1> , < raduatc Leipsic I niversity.Ger. ('ills repuitili'J to at all hours, dav or ni,-lit O.Ii op|s.site Slvver's hotel. .1 tcksonville, Oregon. 1>R. CHAS. W. BE t< <>M, - - O regon . - All work warranted. Oilice on Main s re't, above l’*U Olliee. MH.il.i inixu s. NEW i > Il STARR P rohui run, --PeaJer In— Sit’d s. I in Ware, rump'. Pipes. JOB WORK DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. Prices JVlotlci.ito. - - - OREGON. WILL. o. BROWN, ,\s*ayer à Analytical Chemist. («REGON M( KEL MINE. KIPP! I . IMCGLAS COVNTY, <MiN. Jlnaly**«*» not«’»» of ComplM Siibotacces. MINE« EXAMINED AND REPORTED I rON. Away for (¡»»bl and Silver .Way for Nickel or Cobalt Away for I ami « I or Copper I 3 00 <» Oo 2 00 New Store New Goods. J. B. MARSHALL & SON Wi«h to inf. rni the people <4 Grant s Pass aud surrounding country that they have c>|»-ned a new stock of Gfaceries. Candies, Tobaccos, ------ AND CIGARS Glas' -ware and Ouetns-warc. They have also in Connection a FIR S T-C LASS R EST AIR A N T where they will feed the hungry. ICE CREAM ' ICE CREAM Once. Twi e or Three times a " - k. aud will furnish 1ee-< team for Fentiv»!» ami all Public < .Athrnngs. Subscribe for the C ockier ‘HE P1ÖNFEK AND OILY NEWSPAFEB nihle-lie PLOWS! OUR WALKING PLOWS ’ECONOMIST" Have Reversible Points and Shares. ALL I'w’t) I kivs’ ^Pest ^rrinl. WIMER & MEE, \shland Citv Roller Mills Snow-Flake Brand — The Besr in the Market. E. C. LANDERS. SUGAR PINE DOOR & LUMBER CO TIN SHOP; GRANTS PASS. ECONOMIST SULKi White, Light, diid Sweet Bread, Ik'iltist, G iiant :• 1’ ass nrg to know that some of her oldest aad leading capitalist« are inter I never shill forget the day 1 HtsrteJ into Herbert Lang m discussing the The Oregon City Locke and Water Pow ested. It is high time we were mine er Bought by a Syndicate—Intention ------ FOR THE CELEBRATED.------ 1 arning to do these tilings ourselves I tell you after two day» work I did not mining question ill the Oregonian, of the Purchaser» Power to be instead of looking abroad for help. feel so tine. says : Given Free to Manufactories ♦ ♦- Thev put me 011 a »1 ie hill to dig a ditch It follow - front the nature of the on time. for Ten Year» Detail» A Card. But with pi k and shovel my bae\ wa» ores of Southern Oregoi w hich ate of the Transfer. broke, gold quartz < » g tug sulphuret», G rants P ass , Or., Jan. 10. ’87. From work ill Wimer’s mine (OiTJUMUl.l. ) that tiie appropriate process for E d . E cho : I understand that their treatment is that known as the Ciioav»:— Within the past week uegotia parties tn your town have reported S , bring along tbeiu crowbar», < ioorge wet crushitfc battery—amalgania tions have been concluded whereby that I wa« sick of ntv move to this Wimer lie will say, tion process, or more simply, gold l'ut your shoulder to this Giant and milting, with subsequent concen a sy ndicate of Oregon City and Port place and that I did not like Grants land capitalists w ill acquire posses, Pa". I wish to say through your pa. k it right away; Take that I,rust, out of that .lit, li and tration and treatment of the sulphu sion of the Willamette fills and the colutns that, as had as I need money have it done on time; rets Accordingly the mill' which locks at Oregon City. The O. R. 1 would not lie set back in Drain in You «'at yout dinner just at twelve, at various times have lieett intri - & N. Co. has heretofore held all my old place, tor one thousand dol when vou work al M inter’» mine. duced into that country partook but a feyv shares of the slock of the lar«. When I left Drain, some gave For live long days in water, 1 worke 1 with generally of these feature', with the Willamette Trati'port.ition and me one mouth aud one man said 1 alt my might, exception that the concentration of And af’er w< rking half a day. I d pray for sulphurets, not lieing understood or Locks company, ami the \V. T ¿t would not l»e gone more than three I, Co. own the locks at Oregon City, months at the outside. Well, I it to be night ; They scut me to tie age Wimer’s hulls.', much practiced until within a few the canal, basin, attd yvarehouse on have been away seven months and further»’ 1 waste dine. years, was not in most cases at the cast side of the falls, anti the have not the faintest idea of going But I tell you there is lots of htwtlth, Work tempted. Twenty years ago, and locks and all the water power of the back. I don’t know what I would ing at Wimer’s mine. even much less, the extraction of Willamette falls, and all the land go back for. As far as business is There is a jolly fellow that work» along gold from quartz, in reality one of adjoining the falls on both sides. concerned, there is more business with me, the simplest and easiest problems «sé*- A company of Oregon City peo done here in a day than there is in His name it is L>i»k A latus, lie’s Irish do which has ever been solved by me ple had acquired about 750 shares Drain in a month; amt for schools, you see ; But yet with allliis Irish ways, for a jolly tallurgists. was far differently un of land on the west side of the falls, churches and society, we have them boy he’s line, derstood from now. Pans, settlers, including all the land on that side as good as there is in the state. Our -------------------- (000) He tells a bully story to the boys at Wi and furnaces, and a whole host of not owned by the W. T. ,Si I.,. Co., climate is unsurpassed. Our fruits mer’» mine. 1 utensils and apparatus which are and available for manufacturing ami vegetables cannot lie lieateti in There's am.tlier man I’ll mention, hi» now only regarded as essential in purposes. the state. name is Walter Strong, silver extraction alone, were set A new organization has now l>e- Now, Mr. Editor, do not under With the fiddle and aceordeon. he'd play tip to overcome the supposed rebel e corne the owner of all the land, pro stand that I wish to run down my the whole night long; Blithe is like th- rest of us, and alter lious tendencies of the gold, and the perty, stix'ks and water power above oid home, far front it. Drain is a work, fix I« line. art was in a chaotic state indeed. mentioned, for the purpose of utili gixid place to live, and this reminds When with his dinner pail and coat, he Now the tendency is to simple ami zing the water power. The O. R. me of what a friend told me who comes home from Wimer's mine. cheap process. Instead of pans, ¿k N. Co. sells the whole of its stock resides there: he said there was pleti There is a little lady I will mention in my baths of mercury, revolving barrels, in the canal company, and all its ty of quiet there. I think so too. song, and magical contrivances of all Yes, I w ish Drain prosperity and tn I she is like the miners, she will work kinds, the ordinary stamp battery is interest at the falls, so that if the : lease to the Union Pacific of its success and I expect to visit my the whole day long ; She'll put you tip i dandy meal, ami have alone used, it doing amalgamating transportation lines shall be cott 1 ■ friend« there; but to say that 1 am as well as crushing, aud the gold 'Uinmated it will hold no Oregon sick of my new hottie or that I re it just on time, For she knows you w ill feol hungry, when amalgam being caught up 011 sur ■ property. gret the move to this place, is erro you come from Wimer's mine. face-amalgamated copiier plates, One great difficulty in the way of neous in the extreme. The Boss, he isa gis»l one, and of him the over which the pulp of crushed ore utilizing the water power on the Wishing Drain a pros|X‘rous New boys talk well, mixed with water flows. No one east or Oregon City side heretofore Year, I remain, yours with resp’t., ------------------------------- 1 < KJ. > )-------------------------------- lie never has an migrv word, and the now thinks of amalgamating free has been the limited quantity avail ' E A E stes truth to you I’ll tell; The above reminds us that Mr. GOODS SHIPPED DIRECT FROM THE FACTORY and sold II.' pitches otf his coat and vest, if the gold in pans, or indeed in any con able, and the high price of land ad trivance save the mortar of a stamp Isiys nint there on time, t 1 the farmer at from 25 to 50 per cent, less than similar Goods And with th ’ giant, h» link s dirt fly, in batteiy, nor are there any cases in joining the poyver. Land suitably 1 Estes is one of ottr honest, uptight 'ituated on the Oregon City side, the ditch at tt itner's mine. are sold at. Our PLOWS are given to the Farmer on a which free gold quartz demands any and sufficient for the purposes of a citizen', and we hope to have him S<> now I think I'll close my Hung, and other treatment. good mill would cost front $to,ooo' remain among us. hope yon will excuse Concentration, aslrefore remarked lo $30,000. This was of itself suf After the Murderer. l’he libetlies that I just took, w ith no per is an art that lias grown up within ficient to prevent development. The mission vour name to use; t-p- For further particular« of Prices Etc., call upon our local agents, Front I. N. Jacobs, of Lake City . 1 only lmpo that all my friends, when comparatively recent years. “Ore ' new company propose to give the GEO. W. RIDDLE, at Riddle and Grant' Pass. dressing” is the name by which it necessary laud on the west side fiee, we learn that the citizens of Fort tin y are drinkin,: wine, DR. L HINKLE, Central Point. Will tire out a licar'j toast forthe Ixr.’.i at is known in foreign parts, a more and water power for ten years lent Bidwell have offered a reward of Wimer's mill'.. A. DUNLAP, Phoenix. suitable designation than the other free to any person or persons who 5650 for the capture, dead or alive, C. I ARNHAM. Ashland. term. The problem of ore dressing will build mills 01 manufaetoric' of Ouiay Reed, who shot aud killed Celebration of the rertiath Anniversary is to get rid of worthless quartz, If thi' will not stimulate growth in James Rimi on Christmas night, Or Address of Iowa’s Statehood by Native heavy spar, slate, calc spar, or oth that direction i< is difficult to see Mr. Jacob . states that after commit- Iowan». er gangue or vein stuff, leaving the vvliat _ the lird tew ting the murder, Reed stole a horse what will. During Murphy, Josephine County, Or. metalic ores which accompanied the years they expect to rely for income from McConnaughy.s stable and (/«frr-Oeeen ) gangue in a pure or concentrated on sales of lands, which sales they made his ectpe. (in the following T D es M oines , Lt. Dec. 2y. 'Pile form. The winnowing action of expect t<> be rapid or otherwise in Monday morning Reed ap|>eared natives of Iowa had a big feast on running water is the agent which is proportion as manufacturers avail it the ’ Dugout,, ranch in Warner the 28th inst.. and it was a surprise relied upon to do the work, and .1 themselves of the offer of free land I \ alley where \V. P. Gaby and a to sec so many men among them great many devices tor applying the aud free power. At atty rate, if boy were stopping. Reed, with w ho have reached the meridian of water have been invented. The they cannot give power away on pistol in hand, told Gaby- that he life, whose beards are sprinkled with United State-, patent records contain these term» they cannot sell it on ' “wanted that horse in the stable.’’ white. The date of the banquet descriptions of above a thousand any terms. Ask your G'ocers for it. Dont be put off by being Gaby acceded to the demantd, but was appropriately selected, being the “useful,” “novel" 01 otherwise, in told that a- .'ting else i' as good. Everv sack of The majority of the stewk of the about this time they hear I some fortieth anniversary of Iowa's state ventions of this kind, and their new concern is held by < Iregon City one coming, and Red took to the thi' Flour warranted to make hood. Some of the natives present nttmlxi is daily increasing. If a and Portland people, most of the brush. The person who interrupt were born in the Territorial period, ................ mill titan need' <1 concentrator he leading men of (Itegoti City and a ed them proved to be William but the larger numlyer were juniors lias a wj,|e ¡attitude of choice, The numlierof Portland capitalists lieing Olley, who after talking w ith Gaby- tare Fac-siniili of Brand displayed where on sale. ’r* of the State. Among the honored kind most in repute for the concen interested. for awhile rode off, without Gaby' guests front abroad was Lieutenant tration of sulphurets front gobi It is projtosed, as a part of the having told him anything about Governor Shedd, oi Nebraska, a quartz, veins is th< 1 'rm Winner, so- new enterprise, to build a sttspen what had just txvurred. After Ashland, Or. 43-3in] native of Lee county, whose father called. an instrument that costs 550. > sion bridge 1 toll bridge) acro-s the 1 night Reed t..ine back and stole the was widely known in the early day.«. and does its work with almost hu Willamette at < Iregon City, provid , hot sc from the stable. Gaby, in the Addresses were made by the Presi man intelligence and more than hu cd the local authorities will give meantime, had sent the boy to .1 dent. T. S. Wright, Esq.. Lieuten man certainty and dispatch. The 'uch encouragement ami a »¡stance ■ ranch some seven miles distant, ant Governor Shedd, and Governor concentration of galeittt, and all sul as has already !>een suggested to' telling hint to get a horse and go Larraliee. The governor is a New phides whatever it is not necessary them, and provided the authorities | to Fort Bidwell and notify the IANV1 ACTt'RERS Ot Englander by' birth, but he can to break the pieces finely, a'in free- d<> not see their way clear to build] authorities, 'Flic boy got lost in a speak for Iowa from an acquaint gold milling, is best carried on by a free bridge at present, as they ' snowstorm, and some twenty four ance of over thirty y ears, and an jigs—contrivances for separating, should if possible. Lumber, Doors, Windows, hours had elapsed before he reached active participation in public life. arranged to take advantage of vary In order to deal with the O. R. it Bidwell and told his story. In the Brackets, and Mouldings. He said Iowa is a pirtion of a licit ing velocities of fall through water, N. Co. forthe water power, it was meantime, a party of men from Bid of the finest land on the glolie. In which particles of the satm size but found necessary to buy the lock», well had found the track of the INI! At: kings or— every adjoining State the land near of different specific gravities have. xs they declined to sell a part of horse stolen front McConnaughy's est Iowa is the best. The State now The jig deals with comparatively their holding without selling all, \table. the track leading down Sur- supports thirty jieople to the square large partick .. from one third to and licsides, in order to use water prise \ alley. on the East side of mile, ami there is nothing to prevent one-twentieth of an im h in diameter; power at once ami cheaply it is nec the lakes. 'Phis was followed to our graudchildn-n seeing twenty to while the Frue machine jierformes essary to use the canal, which can the lower end of the valley, where thirty millions living within the l>est iljxri» fine ptllp or sat id from the be done without in any manner in it was ascertained that a man riding The Introduction of- Ixmndaries of the State. "Its «nil battery. The pulverization of met terfering with the passage of boats, a hot -<• inswcringto the description can sitppirt as large a population as als to la treat. 1 by jigs is performed ’¡'lie state, however, has by law a of the one stolen, had stopped at a Belgium, and in traveling through by the Cornish rolls, while stamps light and option to buv the lock' ranch in the neighborhood for .1 that country.” said tin G .vernor, arc generally in use to pulverize tb<- on the 1st day of January, 1S93. six short time. He was subsequently HAS ENABLED THEM TO REDUCE PRICES FIFTY PER "I was more reminded of Iowa soil auriferous ores which contain free years from now. at their then value; heard of at Painter Flat. Il is now and scenery than in any • omitry I gold ami lUUst I k - atnalg limit' d in a and it is feared that this may coni the opinion that Reed met with a CENT. BELOW ALL FORMER RATES. visited." Iowa is wonderful in her battery and pas.-«ed through a lint plicate matters somewhat, as peo friend, and exchanging horses with tkt> For Price List, addies«, S. P. D. &. L Co. present prorhtets and wealth. The screen, say of forty ojK-rtures to the pie proposing to build mills on the him. got him to take the route de products of its soil are more valuable linear inch. canal might fear that the state may may ; scribed, in order to throw hi* pur Giant’s Pas«, Oregon. than the whole cotton crop of the The typical fret-gold mill has condemn nt the time stated and suers on the w.-ong track. If this country. Cotton Ls no longer king. readied its highest state of develop •lint their water off. It isliclicved, be tire caw. the friend or accomplice GRANT’S PASS, HURRA!” We have 3,'» k > churches, about ment tn California ami the Black however, •HURRA FOR that this difficulty may lx should be hunted down, ami held 15,000 school h'lU'es. 8,000mile-, of hills, where results almost pheno ov< rcome by proper legislation. to answer for his assi.taiice. Mr. CAM railroad, am! other things in pro menal in the history of milling have 'l’he details are all arranged and Jacobs states that quite a number of portion. There are evidently great I k - cii recorded. To crush thequailz legal documents drawn and agreed white men. and a large party of NOW HOIST OF HAVIN«. THE < things in ' lore for this common amalgamate and save a fair percent- on, and a stockho*tiers im ting of Indian- are scouring the country. wealth. It was 1 feast of reason, age of gold (alxmt 60 per cent.) and the \V. T. & L. Co. called for J 1:1 We hop. so ;i to hear of the capture FINEST >T<»RE ROOM IS SiH TURKS' OREGON. and a fitting celebration lor Iowa’s to concentrate the sulphurets.co.it 29, inst., twenty days’ notice Ix-itt,: of the • rar lei er. [,M rloc Indepen ---- —V birthday. in the I’luma Eureka mill, Califor necessary, at which the formal dent. nia, but (x> cents per ton; and this transfers will lw made. The communication from Grants result is str passe I ill tit' 1 .tiller I )e WHAT TRUE MERIT WlLU DO. In making the trade the pi .ver Pass reminds us of what a "cont- Smet mill Bia. k Hills, where the and the land were pooled. <1 equal Th. unprcccdcnt.'d saP «*f I hwc I wc ’ s mercial traveler" said »bout that work cmLt but 40 odd c« nts. These terms without refer'-mv to \ tluc < i. rii'itti Sy ritp » itimi a Pw year», lui» a«- On their Cheap Counter» in ¡u enterpri ing town not long since. mills are driven by < heap <<>t gratis) and the locks were <--: exited .-t !oui"h' d ih.' wi r!4 It i» withont donbt men asked Some of our I DRY GOODS, water jxiwer, and use xty and ^1400,000. This i* paid bx 1 mort tfi »af.'M and f> ri fmih -.I v i v<-r discov- was out in tfie Hp< ixly nnd etfci'timl cure of him how ever DRESS GOODS. tamps respectively, weigh gage on the whole |>t'.p rft of the 1 <,ld» and ih.' se.ervst Limi; liead. dead. Southern < Ireg ing al/out 800 |>ounds each, TW newcompan 1 » It H.'ls <.ii un entirvly «iiiTi>r..nl CLOTHING, Ire replied. dead, very d< fr n Ilio ti'iml prescliutivlis rock ‘’mill- 'that is, returns >7 »1 bearing rntc “Oh, Well, how’« Grants Pa-' HATS AND CAI’S, l ’ hv'i. iatiH. ns il tloes iu.< dry tip the Pluma. Eureka and $5 at the |ier cent., ai link-.!" Drain may' may I* rather 1 and Ica.e tho .iiscasie stili in II»- BOOTS AND SHOES !T stinks!" De Smet The other expen l - s arc 1 m. on un- coiitrary rvuiov.-» Ilw iet.” but it has not been dead •’quid on a corresjxjndingly <1 ’¡ip scale, ili.* tro.iiile, beai» tbc p..rt' ai- GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, long e High to b gin to stink vet . am" ’ both properties arc paving large- fc-t. I mi b-uve* Ifn in In :i l'Urel • heai- GROCERIES, til >r buzzard iy. in the following table the num hti.in t lioltP kepi in ti»’hi>uw Edward, thats of rliy . for um e '.1 :i thr di*c.i ‘.*» ninbe tl»ir »p- PROVISIONS. theory. tiers in the sec. nd column »land for rent enterprise. Tiie Oiegc CHI pearni >, sii' tato .i H tor*» bill» un.! u A trial »»•• the monthly duty of each stamp in water power is 011c of the lar> (ROCKERY, R1 li -4 Hcrio'iH ¡liner» !• ¡..,- sccoticl cLis.< ton»; the third, tlr e cont of milling, 1 yoit of Ilic*e f.n-t a the United States, am! it I« uii.l Relier»! TOBACCl »S. f.| hy »11 'IniMÌsta 11 » <■ ¡0 Titianioolc milling, dead wo irk and manage- '•tie of the mo-’t available t! in ttie loitd. ¡’fico. 75 < U , l*rg.' nd the No. i inent; the fourth, the itttniber of and batik- of the rivut f'**t’i CIG A RS, ET• . b4 I l bn. . inside Shoal stamp- used; basalt, and finely situated t< from horse-facing IV V» ns Mierra Butte». < »1 ling site The distance ftotu ill ■■ r i ■■ i« ar-’ entirely mw and »ill ex. hanged for cash :> r»7 ♦’>-) V. s the dispairiug class I'lmm Euruka, * ’al land -twelve mil«- renders its thw other (hr»’ i'".“' . ■k". I><k I ill U or farm produce. CAMPBELL A* TUFFS y dv development of the highest I »if I m r !>» « »!.*»!«. i ’tame I" her. «ml :l : gi »tih Grant’» l’a«« -I •* phi« 1 .»tiriti f J HIP. HIP. HURRAH!!! |»B‘ •FE’».»!« »X AL—LEG AL. NO. IB Grant’» l’a»«, »<> mined after General Grant, is a county neut centrally located in Southern Oregon. It is a progressive railroad town i4 liMM) inhabitants, and is the main sut'ply |»>iut for a large |Hirti.ei of eountrv devoted to ntini-g, Ttunbering izri. ultme and fruit-raising. t'Hinatn un- exeell.Hi Tiie l ot kikk being die only paper pub lished in Josephine county, with a ^<»»1 circulation in Jacksou cisinty, enables it to be one of the l>e»t advertk»iiig mediums in StMillierr Oregon. For rates, address T he Cot kieh . Grant’s I’aas, Oregon. FIOUSE and STORE FINISHINGS. The Latesi improved Machinery, PBELL à TUFF vains ! Bartiains! Barmins! W I'It It’s MINI Milling Operation» in Southern Oregon. A GREAT FALLS SOLD.