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GRANTS PASS, JOSEPH INK COUNTY. OREGON, Fill DAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1009.
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DEVELOPMENT 0
THE ORIOLE NINE
0,000 EXPENDED FOH LABOR
AXI MACHINERY THIS YEAR
EXCEEDINGLY RICH GRI
KA Company TImt Has Shipped V
' loiuls of Ore Avcr;t;;i!i'; $2T,Q
per Ton.
i:ei :Co. 3 has just cut the ledge and
the same character of rock is found
ia it as lu those above.
The management Is now consider
ing tjse host method possible of
treating the ore found in the ledge
and it Is possible that a cyanide
plant will bo Installed.
The management of this property
are a unit in agreeing that there
shall never be any debts incurred
unle-j:
for tl
H JfW.s a if tho commnv wmiM
i worry much iw-1
'i-'U it can ship i
a r il-nt '.
P-r t. is by nr-
tVe money is in t!: treasury
; purpose of paying them, and
never be
fern in::
ro'-k to
aver
as
oM
20 to 30 of his eastern
Investing in Josephine
ed from
friends in
county property; has been the cause
of several families moving here, and
has several other families contem
plating coming to locate.
GRANTS PASS NEEDS
BITULITHIC PAVEMENT
So Says Councilman J. G. Rlggs of
the First Ward After In-ventilation.
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of ih
The Oriole mine, one of the great
pines of the Pacific Coast, if lo. cted
In Nevada would be known the
--country over and its existence would
be apt to stampede a mluin:; rora
'nunity, but being located in the
."Caliee. district of Southern Oregon,
' is seldom heard of outside the state.
i This property bids fair to bciome
the greatest gold producer of Ore
gon, and, if this were the only rich
quartz mine of Josephine county, it
"would be sufficient to stamp this
eectlon of the state as the richest
n mineral bearing rock.
The mine is located about 27V6
tnllcs from Grants Pass and is
reached partly by railway and part
ly by stage. The last two and one
talf miles of the distance being made
over the company's wagon road, built
at a cost of upwards of $3000, lead
ing from the mouth of Rocky Gulch,
near Gallce, to the mine. Active
operations and development com
menced on a large scale last March,
and since that time the property has
been opened up to such an extent
that it can well be Bald that the com
pany has millions of dollars of gold
bearing rock blocked out and part
ly in sight. Tunnel No. 1 is 70 feet
long; tunnel No. 2 is 425 feet long,
and tunnel No. 3 is 315 feet long,
and a winze has been sunk In tun
nel No. 2 a distance of 40 feet on
.high-grade ore. There are three
drifts in tunnel No. 2 and ore taken
out of this tunnel has been shipped
,'to the Tacoma smelter, and In car
load lots this ore has yielded to the
: company about $250.00 per ton.
' The vein is from forty to forty-five
, feet In width and Is considered by
r geologists to be a true fissure vein,
and average samples taken in many
r places ncross the whole width of the
,; vein show an average value of $23.00
; per ton.
The management has spent ap
proximately $20,000.00 in the last
5 few months for labor, material and
supplies, all of which has its Influ
v emee in the development and the up
; building of Josephine county, and
' the company Is at present spending
from $2000 to $3000 per month for
i labor and material. Recently a Pel
ton water wheel system, which Is to
connect a three-drill compressor In
the gulch below, has been Installed
and the mine will bo lighted with
electrielty. This property is part leu
and
r-liy
u rer.
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ROGUE
RIVER APPLES
AT COUNCIL BLUFFS
X. Parsons Sends 5 Roxes of
Choice Fruit for Exhibition
Purposes.
The National Horticultural con
gress, which convened at Council
Bluff3 on November the 15th, and
will close on the 20th, was one, of
the great events in the fruit growing
world. There were $35,000 in pre
miums and there was a daily arrival
of large numbers of fruit growers
from all parts of the country. The
leading agricultural colleges of the
country have been taking a deep In
terest In this congress and thous
ands of students gathered In Council
Bluffs from the various state in
stitutions. This was a thoroughly
practical horticultural meeting, as It
Included the packing of apples and
every part of handling of the com
mercial apple. Excursions were run
from all lines into Council Bluffs
and the gathering was one which will
long be remembered by those who
participated. Our townsman, A. N.
Parsons, sent 25 boxes of the Yellow
Newtown pippins and and Spitzen
berg apples to the show and also for
warded a large nnmler of the Grants
Pass and Josephine county booklets
for distribution among the fruit
growers of the Middle West. In ad
dition to the booklet, Mr. Parsons
forwarded a large amount of special
information in regard to opportuni
ties for investment In and around
Grants Tnss.
Because of Mr. Parson's having an
extensive personal acquaintance In
that district while representing the
American Express company at
Omaha, Kansas City and St. Joseph,
Mo., we anticipate many newcomers
next season from that section, after
showing them the quality of fruit we
raise here. Mr. Blrchard, of Omaha,
who Invested In one of the lnrge
ranches on the Applegate, will be In
personal charge of the exhibit, and
after his thorough Investigation hero
last summer, will be able to tell them
GREELY, COLORADO
AND GRANTS PASS
GEORGE H. WEST TELLS INTER
EST! XG STORY OF IRRIGATION
WATER MORE THAN LAND
I m ii... 1 it, Itwra nfinilt thlfl
larly fortunate in having above tun- many oi me gu.,.. m.h
nel No. 4 about six hundred feet on locality. ... ,
the vein for sloping purposes. Tun. Mr. Parsons has already Interest-
O'NEILL'S
ThanKsgiving Sale
Dining Tables Chairs
Bullets China Closets
p some of the special features at our
' oro fortheiK'M week. Our lino of
CA11PETS, 1UX.S, ART W I AllES,
and CUKTAINS are complete and
worthy of inaction by tho closest
buyer. Now i tho time to have them
set aside beforo it is too late.
R, H. O'NEILL-:-Home Furnisher
Councilman J. G. Rlggs, who ro
'rued Monday from a week's visit
i Portland, is enthusiastic over the
l ulithle pavement which he saw on
'' streets of that city. In discuss
; r? this subject with a representa
tive of the Courier he said:
"While In Portland I took occa
sion to make careful examination
of the various kinds of pavement
now In use in that city. I had an op
portunity .to see bltulithle, Hassam,
asphalt and wood block pavements.
I made a careful and critical exam
ination of all of these various pave
ments and am fully convinced in my
own mind that the bltulithle Is by
far the most practical pavement for
Grants Pass.
"The Hassam, which is used quite
extensively there, is nothing more
than a concrete pavement, mid, like
the concrete walks, the pavement
will crack, giving water a chance to
work down through it and to disin
tegrate the cement, sand and gravel,
and then the passing over of vehicles,
such as heavily loaded wagons, au
tomobiles, etc., grinds up the pave
ment, causing holes, which become
more worn with every passinj? team,
and within a very short tiro'1 It bo
comes necessary to applv to "patch;.
which leaves a rough surface angi H
very apt to soon break up a'afh.
So far as wood block pavement Is
concerned, It soon becomes rough
and uneven and is very slippery, and
personally I would not think It a
good pavement at all for the streets
of Grants Pass. '
"The nsnhaltum, as is genernlly
well known, lu not suitable for
streets where there is heavy traffic
as In the summer It becomes very
soft and cuts up badly.
"The bltulithle pavement, In my
opinion, Is far superior to any other
In use. Tn the first place, the streets
In Portland where the heaviest, traf
fic Is carried on are paved with this
material. It does not cut nn nor
wear and Is casv, so far as foothold
Is concerned, for teams. This style
of pavement Is the process of one
parent company and thev allow only
certain companies in certain sections
of the United States to construct
this pnvement. and they are under
bond to lay It according to their spe
clflcntlons. If Grants Pass were to
use the bltulithle pnvement, It would
be done In exactly the same manner,
the same material would be used, the
same thickness and foundation as on
the heaviest traveled streets In the
large cities. The secret of the suc
cess of this pnvement Is that they
use a bituminous product In their
mixing which has a tendency to con
geal and cement tho rock and gravel
thus making a perfectly tight cover
Ing over their foundation, which Is
of concrete.
"I hnd an opportunity of seeing
Btreet workers attempting to take
nn some of the bltulithle pavement
on Washington street In Portland.
It wbr like attempting to take tip
the solid bed rock.
"In my opinion there Is no pave
ment thnt will romnare with this
kind and I hope that It will be used
in this city."
whiia r.rnnU Pass Is about to
nave its streets I believe that In
asmuch as the telephone poles and
electric light poles will be removed
from the streets, an effort shouid
ba made on the part of the citizens
to prevail upon the electric light
rompany to use the cluster light
system of lighting the city. By thli
method the overhanging arc lights
are done away with and Iron stand
ards with a cluHter of five white
lights on each standard take their
place, there being one on enh corn
er and one In the center of tn
block. There Is nothing that will
add more to the beauty of the city
than Ihls system of lighting, in
many of the smaller cities of the
pact these standards are being used
and why shouldn't Grants Pass !
the first to adopt this syBtem In the
Rogue River valley.
We Have Groat Opportunities Says
This Colorado Ranker and
lrrlgntlonist.
Pass. You will have abundance of;,ns to "timient by tho Installs-
water aad can ralae many things In
tlon of an electro-chemical amalgam-
your climate which we cannot. Your I """K l""'88. Pruon oi wnu n
water supply Is really unlimited. lady tn place at the mill and the
Why, the Rogue river furnishes more which includes the electrical
apparatus, has been shipped rroin
Pittsburg and Is expected to arrive
soon. This process Is new to the
coast, the Mountain Lion being tho
first to Install a plant. There are
four plants now In successful opera-
water at its lowest stage than Is sup
plied by all the streams in eastern
Colorado combined at flood stage.
"You have great advantages here:
abundance of water, longer growing
season and many crops which we can
not raise and they are all profitable !Uon ,n Colorado, all having been in-
The present year has been rich in
that kind of corner stone laying
which is to Inaugurate remarkable
prosperity in Josephine county. First
came the irrigation enterprise which
made all other things possible. It
was the one great event of more than
fifty years of civilization around
Grants Pass. This brought that bet
ter class of homeseekers who have
.nade farming an occupation where
by fortunes are made, and close In
their wake came men of large cap
ital; notably such as compose the
Pennsylvanlnn syndicate who pur
chased the Rlggs ranch at the mouth
of the Applegate, and that other
syndicate of Kansas City, the pur
chasers of several thousand . acres
extending from a point three miles
north of Grants Pass to Merlin;
also the purchase made by the Alas
ka syndicate, and many smaller ones
by enterprising men of means who
ate developing alfalfa farms, apple
and pear orchards and vineyards. All
these things remind us of thnt pros
perity which is dawning on Josephine
county! The writer Is reminded of
these things by an interview had with
George II. West, one of the pioneer
bankers of Greeley, Colo., and a
man of many years' experience in
Irrigation who has been visiting
Grants Pas.
Mr. West Is thoroughly familiar
with the Rogue River valley, having
been here a number of times and his
extensive knowledge of farming and
fruit growing In Colorado enables
him to Judge with great accuracy of
conditions here. Ho saw Greeley
grow from an arid, waste to the best
farming Bectlon In tho United States
and with Its growth and prosperity
he had much to do. Truly ho was
one of the men who helped to make
the desert blossom as the rose. For
ninny years Mr. West has been Inter-
sted in Irrigation in tho Arkansas
vnlley as well as around Greeley, and
his opinions are worthy of the high
est consideration. Ho has for the
oast vear been a subscriber to the
Courier and hns kept himself posted
regarding matters In this city and
ounty. Below we give a careful
repor of an Interview with Mr.
West on Tuesday of this week by the
editor of the Courier. Ills talk about
Greeley Is an object lesson as to what
may be done at Grants Pass.
Greeley has a population of 9000
enterprising people," said Mr. West
and he continued: "It has three na
tional banks and a savings bank. The
deposits of the four banks amount
to more than is.uuu.uuu. jne
town of Greeley sends moro produce
of all kinds to market than Is ship
ped by all the towns on the Southern
Pacific between San Francisco and
Portland. The people of that com
munlty send to market annually from
8000 to 12,000 carloads of potatoes
and other produce In proportion. The
best farmers market every year from
$5000 to $12,000 worth of produce
I notice In a local paper that they
have 210 automobiles In the town
and In addition to these there are
many runabouts on the farms of the
surrounding country. I may as well
mention here for the sake of show
Ing how general the uso of these
machines are that the woman who
supplies my family with butter
brings It to the city In an automobile.
"All this prosperity was brought
about by water and Intelligent
farming. The former was scarce and
this necessitated cultivation to go
hnnd In hand with It. This accounts
for the success of tho Greeley farm
ers, who have grown to be men of
science as far as the use of water In
crop growing Is concerned. I have
said this much for the encourage
ment of Irrigation around Grants
that Is, find a ready market at
top prices. I have been in Oregon
many times and never saw a good
potato In this state until I saw it at
Grants Pass. You have as fine po
tatoes as can bo grown, even at
Greeley. They are large, mealy and
very choice. You only need to have
some of our practical potato men to
teach you tho art of cultivating those
tubers. If I was going to criticize
your potatoes I wquUI say that your
best ones have too deep eyes and lack
that smoothness so desirable.
come i
stalled by Mr. Maler. It is expected
that this process will revolutionize
quartz mining, as by Its use every
particle of free gold will lie recovered
and tho cost of operation Is practical
ly nothing nfter the Installation. Tho
Mountain l.lon will be equipped with
apparatus capable of handlinsr 100
tons per day, but with the pre"nt
f-stump3 only "3 tons will bo
handled.
This pi'ocess practically eliminate?!
cyatildallou tn nine cases out of ten,.
feW'n,H In many Instances will recover
values where .the cyanide process
of our practical growers will
here and become producers of this j i-'1"3-
crop which has made Greeley famous! '"'tro-chemlcal nmaHrnnintlon is
and you will then commence to sup- ''1 vos;.io throughout Western Aus
ply the whole Pacific No; (Invest ! ,!';,U:l p0,lt'1 Africa and has been
coast with this popular product of , Bn-cecsful wherever tried. Mr. Maler
th, fm-ni (has been an ardent student of Elec-
"Your rainfall, which comes In tho
winter, when taken together with
your mild winters, which keep every
thing green, gives crops a good start
In tho spring and if you have water
to j ut on your land when the dry
season commences will make Ideal
farming. Your people have not, I
fenr, a full appreciation of water.
With us a permnnent water right
cofts about $(10 to which Is added a
$o maintenance fee. Around Grand
Junction, where they pump water,
$10 Is tho maintenance feo. That Is
nothing when people take from tho
land $2000 an acre. Why, If It
should happen that the maintenance
feo should go up to to $100 an acre,
our fruit growers and some farmers
would give the price quickly rather
than not have It. Potato growers
If they had to could afford tho price.
They get from 200 to 240 two-bushel
sacks per acre, with a general aver
age of ISO sacks. That would make
at present prlcos $lf0 to $f00 per
acre. With your apples, pears and
other hlKh-prlced fruits, the cost of
IitImhIIoii will out little figure.
"Let me say a word about Grants
'hsb and the' lands nround It. Yon
avo a great future If you will push
Irrigation. There is plenty of lnnd
ere which can be bought at $50 an
acre whl' h will In ten years sell read
ily at $r00 an acre. I have pur
chased some and will clenn up some
holdings In our state and Invest the
proceeds In these lands. They are
tho best thing I have seen. I am
going home today, but will be back
shortly after Thanksgiving. I am In
love with your mild climate which
Ives me perfect rest and refreshing
sleep. This should in the not dis
tant future become a city of 25,000
Inhabitants. Your one need, ns I seo
It, Is pnvlug and ns soon ns you have
It on your streets the town will begin
to grow rapidly."
II should lyivo ben snld that Mr.
West has an KO-ncro apple orchard
near Greeley, which is In bearing and
this year had a largo crop. lie sold
$,000 worth and then had what
seemed like a full crop still In heaps
on tho ground. In that country they
pick apples there ns onr hop growers
do hops, that Is they employ a small
army of pickers and rush the Job
through. One hundred pickers were
employed to pick the apples In this
orchard this season. It Is Mr. West's
purpose to sell this orchard at once
and come with his family to Grants
Pass to live. His residence In
Greeley was sold last week.
tro-Mctallurgy for tho past seven
years, with a practical experience la
Colorado and Idaho. Ho expressea
himself ns much pleased with the
mining outlook for Southern Oregon,
and after a thorough Inspection of
this district he is convinced that a
great number of idle mines could be
put on a paying basis by the Installa
tion of this process.
THE BIG FOUR PLACER
HAS CHANGED HANDS
NEW EQUIPMENT FOR
THE MOUNTAIN LION
C. D. Crane went to Portland two
weeks ago to Interest parties In
the Dig Four placer, a vary promis
ing property at the mouth of Pickett
crook, near the Booth ferry. He re
turned last week with I. J. Merrill,
president of the Modern Mining
Machinery Co., who wished to look
over the property. After a careful
and thorough examination and pros-
pectlng of the ground Mr. Merrill,
who Is a practical miner with years'
of exnerlence. was so favorably Ira- ,
pressed with the prospects that he
has made arrangements to take over
the proxrty. This mine was former
ly known as tho Judson Plncer and
hns had a series of ownerships with
vnrylng success as to productiveness.
It Is supplied with a small hydraulic
equipment which will be replaced
Ith larger pipes and giants, con
centrating machinery and everything
necessary for a first-class hydraullfl
proposition. Tho work of equipping
and operating will bo In charge of
C. D. Crano, who has had many
ears' of experience lu the Southern
Oregon mines. Work commenced at
the Big Kour Monday with a crew
and within 30 days the mine will be
lu operation with a complete equipment.
Mr. Merrill, who Is constantly In
touch with the mining men of vari
ous sections of the country, says that
tho Southern Oregon section has not
received its proper share of attention
simply becauso It has been consider
ed a pocket country. This sentiment,
ho says, Is rapidly giving place to the
feeling of confldenco In the section,
and he predicts that Josephine coun
ty will experience a greater activity
In mining during tho next 12 month!
than ever before.
Before returning home Mr. Morrill
visited the property of the 8ykM
Mining Co. on 8ykes creek, abort
Wlmcr, In which he Is Interested.
This Is a quarts property and It will
be equipped with machinery as soon
as the development will warrant.
T. J. Rrlnkerhoff, superintendent
and Adolph Maler, metallurgist and
chemist, of the Mountain Hon mine,
on Missouri Flat, seven miles due
enst from Murnhy. were In Qrants
Pass the fore part of tho week and
left on Tuesday for the Kerby conn
try to Inspect the Gold King mine
for Mr. Kvans, who resides In Texas
The Mountain Lion Is now owned by
ilolman, Foskett Mlit'v vo., naving
secured the properly from the Grants
Pass Banking Trust Co. In March
Tho mine Is equipped with a five
stamp mill and has been a steady
producer for the past 20 years or
more. Tho present owners are add-
A delegation of Grants Pass busl '
ness men will go to Portland Sun
day night on matters of Importance
to this community. If you bar
business In that city arrange with
the secretary of the Commercial
Club to go at that time as your pres
ence will bo of value.
Ingersoll Watches at Cramer Droi.
State Superintendent J. H. Acker
man visited the city schools of
Grants Pass Wednesday on his re
gular tour of Inspection. He mad
short talks to the pupils of each of
tho schools, and spoke highly of the
school work being done here. H
camn to this city through Protolt,
and Laurel Grove and he compli
ments these schools highly.
Garland Ptove rf Cramer 'l-of,