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ROGUE RIVER COURIER. GRANTS PASS. OREGON, JULY 20. 1906. J. Pardee Groceries Flour and Feed Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Picnic and Lunch Goods All Freeh and New. Creamery But'ter. A HILL SEAMED WITH GOLD BEARING VEINS 1 hcxt la lh Cm at tha Opp Min Plenty ol Cold But LlttU Wafer Gunnall Raaigna. Front St., Near Palace Hotel Grants pass, - Oregon Telephone 863 A. H. Gunnell, who with bit par tner, Harry E. Foiter, has charge of the Opp mine near Jacksonville, was in Granta Pass this Thursday and Fri day attending to business and pnr chaiing supplies for nee at the mine. Mr. Gunnell stated that the Opp as developement work progressed, was showing np better and is now demon strated to be the biggest and best producing mine in Southern Oregon. The very extensve develop. ment work that has been done the past year has deinoimtrated the proof of the opinion of many mining men that the hills about the Opp property are seam e a with veins of gold bearing rock carry ing good values, for the twelfth vein has been opened np at thtt famoos mine, tin last strike made in Timber gulch np the hill from the original vein. The mine being toward the head of Jackson creek a shortage of water LOTS ! RESIDENCE LOTS! For Sale in Nelson's Addition Prices From $10.00 Up. Terms: Cash, easy. payments, installments or work any aid terms. : : : : Come and see me and the lots, too. If we cannot make a deal, you must be hard in deed to suit. : : : : : : Office at residence on East A Street. JOSE X. NELSON. takes plaoe each dry season.; Manager Gunnell states that they are now able to run but 10 to IS of the 20 stamps and if excessive dry weather comes on may have to close down later in the season. It is the plan of the company before the neit dry season to seoare a supply of water. Tbe present work ing on the mine is by tnnnel and the lowest level is 100 feet above the bed of Jackson creek. There is some water in tbe mine and it is tbngbt by opening levels below the bed of tbe creek that ample water can be had for the mill by pnmplng. If that plan does not afford the required water supply then a well will be drilled in the expectation of securing artesian water. The Opp mine is bnt seven miles io an airline from the artesian well at Talent, and is on the same formation and slope of the Sisklyon mountains as the famous Talent gusher and it is thought thtt flowing wells can be readily had. Mr. Gnnoell has 'placed his regie nation with tbe Opp Company and after the first of August the mine will be under the sole ohargd of H. E. Fos ter. Mr. Gnnnell will then devote his entire time to other mining prop erties that he and Mr. Foster are in terested in. One of these properties is the Henry Booth copper claims on Pickett creek, and to its development and equipment with a smelter will be the first effort of Mr. Gonnell. He is confident that this pioperty will be come one of tbe great copper pro dncers of the West. Mr. Gunnell will move bis famly back to Grants Pass, he owning one of the finest residences in this city. A New Dry House. Tbe work was began last week of erecting a dry bonse 22x32 feet and warehouse 20x40 feet at the big hop yard on O. C. English's farm st New Hope. This hop yard which embraces 42 acres was planted last year and is owned jointly by C. O. English, J. B. Burrows. It is located on rich Apple gate bottom land and is ono of the best hop yards in Josephine county. The vines have made a fine growth and the yield promises to be big this season. Tbe dryer now being constructed is the second one for this yard, a large one having been bnilt last Fall to handle the crop of last year. Fine commercial printing at the Courier oftice. ALASKA MINERS RETURN HOME Dug Plenty of Gold But Expenses Took It Ail-Now Satisfied With Southern Oregon. John 8cribner was in Grants Pass Wednesday bnying tools and supplies to be need in the working of a qnartz mine that he and George Henderson own on Manhattan gulch at the head of Wolf Creek. Mr. Soribner and bis partner went to Alaska three years ago not oootent with the gold mines of Southern Oregon and they bad bright hopes oi making a big stake in the land of the midnight sun. Ihey made some money, but no more than they could have in the lets famous but more certain mines of Josephine county. Daring the past year they have worked a rich placer claim in the Tanna Valley. Their trading point was Rampart City and their supplies crime high. Potatoes oost $22 a sack, eggs never lower than $1.75 a dozen and bacon 35 cents a pound aud Son: was the cheapest food at $1.60 a ban dred. Thug it took a very rich mine to even pay' expenses. Tbe weather in the Summer is fairly pleasant in the Tanua Valley but in the Winter it is truly arctic in its rigor. Last January tbe thermometer never got np to 50 degrees below zero aud it stood most of the time AO degrees and lower going as low as 74 degrees. One whole week they were not able to get ont of their cabin because of the fear fol cold. Mr. Scribner arrived home in Wolf Creek on the Fourth, but bis partner. George Henderson will not leave Alaska until in September as be stayed to collect a balance doe on the sale of their mine. They operated their Wolf Creek mine before going to Alaska and made good wages witb the two-tab arrastre witb whicb it is equipped. Mr. Scribner will hire two men to assist him and will get the mine opened np and ore on the dump and the mill in order by tbe time bis partner gets back and the Winter rains have set in to afford power for the arrastre. They have 200 'feet of tunnel and their mine has a well de vevloped vein carrying high values. No sensational or questionable mat ter allowed in the Courier. FRUIT GROWERS MEETING j POSTPONED A WEEK Will Meet Saturday. July 28 Orchardists to V an Im proved Picking Sack Th mnetinir of the Grants Pass Fruit Growers Union will not be beld this Saturday, but hss been postponed nntil Saturday, July 28, at 2 p. tn. sharp at the Courier. The reason for the nostDonement was that nearly all the members were busy with their hay and conld not attend. It is expected that every member of the Union will be present next Saturday as also all others who are interested in the fruit industry, for at that time the complete estimate will be made of the quantity or boxes, paper and nails reqnired for the crop of this season. President Eismann has left at the Courier offloe, for inspection by or chardists, one of the sacks that all Dickers in the Eismann orchard are required to use. These picking sacks are used very extensively in the or ange and lemon districts of California, where, they were invented, and they are coming into use in Jackson county and Hood River where the beBt or chardists have adopted them. It is the plan of President Eismann to get all the members of the Union to hereafter use only this sack for their pickers. These sacks are made of heavy canvass and will last for years a nd ate (added and arranged so that witb ordinary care a picker need never bruise an apple. Tbe sack opens at the bottom when it is necessary to e mpty it and tbe fruit slides into the box without the slightest braise. These picking racks are not expensive and every grower who intends to bave bis apples and pears grade as fancy pack should use them otherwise bis fine fruit may be so braised as to fall below grade and bring only a cheap price. Fine Stock in Illinois Valley. W. H. Carter who owns a fine 600 sere ranch in the Illinois Valley near Eerby, was in Grants Pass Thursday and Friday, Mr. Carter had drove'in 50 head of stock bogs from hlB place that are to be shipped to California to be fattened in grain fields. Two loads of fat hogs where brought for the Grants rasa local market by James Parks and George Mathewson also brought in a load of fat hogs. ' Illinois Valley is one ot the chief hog raising sections of Josephine county and the farmers of that Valley kAfln larcft nnmbers of ' ocrs. man nf them thoroughbreds. Mr. Carter has about 200 head on his farm, among them being a number of registered Poland-China aud the ethers being ?;raden. With the large water supply rom the various streams ' for irriga tion and the large tracts of tillable land and the readiness with which al falfa, corn and other feed can be grown tie time is not distant when the Illinois Valley will be one of tbe great stock districts of Oregon. 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