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WEEKLY ROGl'B RIVER COURIER PAG3 T23 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1911. DELINQUENTTAX LIST. (Continued from Page 2.) Sec. 36, T. 36 S., R. 6 W.,- 40 acres 4.40 Alice Woodson, Lot 8, Block 0. T. S ... 36.23 D. M. Woodson. Lots 1, 2 and 3, Sec. 22, T. 37 S., R. S W., 49 acres 11.66 C. E. Woolfolk, Ntt of NW Sec. 36, T. 36 S., R. 6 W.f 80 acre8 - 11.00 Albert E. Zentner, Stf of NE and .NE of NE V Sec. 32", T. 37 S R. 5 W., 120 acres 35.91 WILL C. SMITH, Sheriff nnd'Tax Collector. GROSSCVP M ILL RESIGN'. , V CHICAGO, Sept. 19. Judge Peter 8. Qrosscup of the United States cir cuit court of appeals announced here today his Intention of resigning on October 15. GENERAL MANAGER O'BRIEN TO TRAVERSE RIGHT-OF-WAY PORTLAND, Sept. 19. J. P. O' Brien, general manager of the Har rlman lines In the northwest, will leave Portland tomorrow for an in spection of the route of the propos ed line between Eugene and Coos bay. . After spending a day investigating at Marshfleld, the western terminus, the officials will travel over the right of way, to Eugene in wagons and automobiles. TO FRUIT GROWERS AND DEALERS. I wish to caution the merchants in the city against buying fruit infested with pests and also to warn the grow ers that it is useless to bring such fruit to town to sell. The stores will be closely watched and all diseased fruit destroyed. Notwithstanding the fact that there is. a fine attached to either buying or selling pest infected fruit in the county, I found several such boxes in the stores this week and destroyed them. Save yourself trouble, friends, and keep unclean fruit at home to feed up to your stock. The law is going to be en forced strictly and everyone will re ceive the same treatment without partiality. Unless orchardlsts keep a strict pa trol of their orchards, we are going to have a lot of trouble with pear blight. There Is considerable in th valley. Go over your trees carefully at least onre a week and cut out all cases promptly and burn the cuttings. If it once gets a good start in your orchard, there will be great difficulty In getting rid of it. This is on'e In stance where the truth of the old say ing: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," is brought to our remembrance with double force. I am doing all I can to keep In touch with growers but, if I fall to get to you, Just phone for me and In work ing together we can keep the orch ards in this county in good condi tion. Every orchardlst must do his part. Don't wait until someone else points out your trouble to you. Go after It yourself and see to It that your neighbor takes care of his trees. J. F. BURKE. County Fruit Inspector. On account of the Illness of D. E. Olson, lecturer, evangelist, elocution ist, etc., who was to speak at the Christian church this evening, .the lec ture will necessarily have to be post poned. TBI First National Bank of Southern Oregon GRANTS PASS. IT. 8. Depository. Capital, Surplus and l.iidlvided Profit IIOO.OOO. We invite the public to call on us In our new baking quar ters and consider our ability properly to care for the bauking needs of the community. Our fire-proof and burglar proof Safe Deposit Vault is now rralr fcr ue, snd off" for rent Safety Depoult Bows, rent als ranging from $2.00 to I1C. 00 per year. Interim Paid On 'linn- Ifc'i"!'" I- II. Hall, Prudent J. C. Campbell 'fire Ir H. I- (iilt.cy. Counter P.. K. Ifatki'tt. Am!. Cahlc .1. T. fry. AMltant CaihW OLDTIHER SAYS THAT CROSSCUTTING IS WRONG Written for The Courier. Amid ' smoke from big and little forest fires the sun was sinking down the horizon like a picturesque ball of red fire, and the Oregon hills glinted as the rare colored shadows played in kaleidoscopic fashion in and out of gulches and canyons. Coming down the slope of a hill in old Josephine county, whose hills are rich in gold, If you know "where to dig," slowly walked the Oldtimer and the Youngone, Indian file, each bear ing, pick and pan. "Down in that little open space is a grassy plot and a spring," said the Oldtimer. "and I remember it well, for Tom Kidd of Amarillo, Tex., and I camped there for a week seven years ago when we were prospecting for placer gold." "Good place for us to camp," said the Youngone. "Yes, just what I've been drifting to since the sun began on its last lap today," said the Oldtimer. Arrived at the camp spot It was not long before the Oldtimer had built a fire, the smoke of which ascended in a straight, slender shaft to a long dis tance, then drifted westward toward the Bea. "Get out those mountain trout," said the Oldtimer to the Youngone, "and we will soon have chuck ready; and I'm as hungry as a she bear." "Mountain trout? We've got no mountain trout' or any other kind of trout," said the surprised Youngone, who. despite his ignorance of the mys teries of geology and the mining game, was somewhat independent in speech and manner. "No mountain trout," haw-hawed the Oldtimer? "Why we bought four pounds at Wonder this morning," and the veteran gold hunter looked into the chuck sack and yanked out a slab of sowbosom, and with hunting knife, began to slice off several trout. "OK," said the Youngone. "Yes. oh!" sarcastically growled the Oldtimer. Then a chunk of burning wood fell from the fire and the smoke drifted around and caught the Oldtimer in one eye and he dropped the "trout" and the hunting knife and "cussed" a verse or two. "He, he," snickered the Youngone. "He, he," sneered the Oldtimer, "why don't you laugh like a man and not sneeze like a chicken?" Supper was soon cooked and the coffee was beginning to boll over when the Oldtimer said to the Young one, "Sit up and go to it." "Looks as If that forest fire over to the west was licadln' this way." said the Oldtimer, as he placed an open hand above his eyes as a shield from the setting sun and looked far to the westward, "but I hope It won't eat lta fiery way this far, because we will need this timber on that quartz claim we staked today, the one run ning along the ridge of this hill; and if fire gets into these trees we will later be compelled to make a couple of burros drag up mine timber from down the gulch yonder." "Do you think we've got a good one In that ledge," piped the Youngone as both sat back to enjoy a smoke? "Looks like It. Nobody can see under the ground but a water witch, yet I like the looks of that ledge so much that I believe we had better hang up here and cut Into It." "Just as you say," said the Young one, who, despite the Intermittent sarcasm of the Oldtimer, had much admiration for his friend as a man. and respect for his ability as a min ing geologist, as the Oldtimer was one of the brightest stars of a graduating class 20 years before, and since then had bad charge of several of the big gest mining properties In the land of the setting Bun. And the Oldtimer loved the Youngone, for the Young one was gritty If he was green. But they broke the monotony often with a duel of sarcasm which would make figurative sparks fly from figurative swords. "I am glad you believe It Is a good property," said the Youngone, "for ttilH Is a steep hill and we enn begin down here and run a crosscut tunnel and lap the vein at great depth." . The Oldtimer slowly took his pipe out of his month, looked straight at the Youngone and with a sneer said: "Crosscut be hanged. Have you got the crosscut dlfoaso Hlrendy? If you sny crosscut to me ncnln I'll send you Imik to the state and go It alone." and the Oldtimer gavn n fnort whl'h mail' n coyote In the nearby liruc'i liov iij, and fit down stain. The ()1 1-tlti-cr contlmii A: "Now as long an you have brought up thl rray subjc't I'll read you a !et'ir', and lien I erf 'hrongh with '. ... 'crosscut' again. The hills are full of fool crosscuts which have busted more Ignoramuses like you and have robbed more trusting innocents among men and women than all the road agents since the days of the buccaneers. You talk with about as much Intelligence as a chambermaid in a livery stable. "Now Jet me tell you something about that crosscut foolishness. A man who will stake out a property and then go down the hill and begin to crosscut to the ledge is a man Ig norant of correct metal mining. This type of man, if he finds ore mixed In the gauge of a ledge, imagines that the ore body will increase with depth and be a whopper in width, where he will cut it with his crosscut tunnel. And this improving with depth is an other fallacy which I will explode for your benefit before I get through with y6u. A ledge may or niay not improve with depth, and there are good mlneraloglcal and geological reasons why. i'Yes, your man goes down the hill and begins to crosscut. He saw the leflge had a certain pitch as it went down and he figures he can cut It with a tunnel 200 feet long.' . He works and sweats himself and puts two other miners at work, and when he has got In about 100 feet his pocketbook begins to get a scare. But he keeps on until he Is nearly to the magic 200-foot mark where he will cut into the big ledge and then be rich. He dreams of yachts and tours and European spa? and whatnot. He continues to burn dyn amite and wear out steel, muscle and good money. He measures again. Just 10 feet from the ledge! Good. 'Go after It boys,' says he. Five feet more, then three feet and then no feet, and still in granite or gneiss as hard as the hull of a battleship. No ledge. 'What's the matter?' you say. Why matter enough. The ledge changed its dip before it got to that depth and has dipped far away from the point it would have attained had It kept Its course as it started down from the surface; and not only that but H may have been faulted and the lower part removed a quarter of a mile further back Into the hills, buried where no man will ever find It. But suppose, for the sake of this so-called miner, that It has not fault ed, but has dipped away ns I snld in the first place. Then he must con tinue that costly crosscut tunnel pos sibly 80 or 100 feet further before he cuts his precious ledge. He raises more money from among a bunch thnt knows about as much as he does and continues hl8 tunnel, which, by this time is about as straight us a calf path through a brier patch. This kind of business keeps up until one day he swabs some red or black mud out of a drill hole and he begins to prick up his ears and strain his eyes. He fires a round of shots and when the smoke and gas drift out of the tunnel In he rushes to find that he has cut the long sought ledge. And what has he got? A narrow Btrlnger, perhaps six Inches wide that assnys a dollar or two n ton. Now what? Well, he sits down and cusses min ing all the way from Butte to Sonora and from grass roots to hell. He makfH a mistake, however, when he abuses mining, He should cuss his fool self. Then he quits and gets a Job In a grocery store. "What this creature should have done In the first place was to have sunk a prospect shaft on the ore, l( the ledge was running along the hill ' and he couldn't send In a tunnel on ! the ore body He should have sunk; a shaft and followed the ore no mnt-i ter If It wound like a corkscrew fol- j low the ore. Then If the ore petered j out, he could pull out and not have' wasted one fourth the money and i time he did In driving that long croFs cut. "This Is one danger In driving a crosscut tunnel. There l another danger, and that Is: crosscut tunnels often are tho cause of a man aban doning a valuable property. And thnt Is this way: He may run his tunnel 1 like the Individual I have Just been describing, cut the oro In a lean plm e like that fellow did and quit, when a short distance above was a flue body of oro and j itttt below hlrn wits another. He had simply rut the lodi'it In a narrow 'pinch' and lid not haw gumption enough to send up a r.il" or sink a winze. This kind of a gold miner Imagines that an oro boity grows wider as It goes down and nl ; so growi richer. He tins no knowl edge as to how tho ore got Into tli fUsure or contact crevice In tho first place and " , "Why It was suuecrid up while It wa hot. wasn't It?" queried th Youngone, who hlftcd ready tc dodge. "Anofhir break like that nm I'll you i uo not oeneve you wm say recommend you as good material for a professor in a 'College' in a prairie state where they turn out mining en gineers by using the elevator shaft In the dormitory to illustrate the bus iness. No it isn't 'squeezed' up, Mr. Freshy. When, in ancient geological days, some subterrean disturbance or lateral pressure ripped open the earth for a dozen or 50 miles, imprisoned heated water bearing mineral in solu tion came roaring upward and the ores were deposited on one wall or the other, pr both, by precipitation. The crevice may not have been but a few Inches wide to begin with, but the superheated solution, also heavily charged with acids, would eat away the walls and substitute metal for rock. In their passage up the solu tons would come In contact with strata of varying hardness. A strat um of gneiss wouldn't give away as easily as one of limestone, hence the ore body when all was done and cold after some thousands or millions of years would be of varying thickness. And in some lean spot Is Just where some man with about as much gump tion as you would cut it with your fool crosscut tunnels. "In addition to the 'characteristic method of hot solutions precipitating mineral on one or both walls, there are other methods of vein filling adopted by nature, all of which you will learn In time, maybe. "These ore shoots would be in lenses or bodlesof varying thickness as a result of the varying hardness of the inclosing strata, and not a peak on the surface and widening as a wedge down into the regions in the center of the earth as such blokes as you Imagine to be the case. Now 1 am hitting this question of ore de position only In the high spots. Books can be written on this subject, and many books have been written on It and will continue to be written as nature's secrets are unfolded. "No sir, a ledge where you cut It may be narrow and lean or may be rich and wide. It all depends on how nature worked in the crevice at that particular spot. "And then this thing of ore grow ing richer with depth: Where you find an ,ore body cropping on the surface it may be al a point a mile below where the original outcrop was, That is to say that through the aeons of time erosion and surface chemical action has worn thnt ledge, together with the surrounding coun try, a mile helow where those hills once reared their heads; and In this thought you realize thnt the Creator of this old world has no regard for time. Yet with this story of erosion written all over the race of moun tains there are men who Imagine that the earth on the surface la Just as It was when It was created, and that the ledges bearing precious metals begin with a certain value at the surface and increase with depth.' A ledge may see Its palmiest days for the first 100 fret, then grow poor; nr It may be poor at the surface and grow richer with depth. There are hun- with etrnnth and eat they always pleas" TWO HbRSE OVERALLS MADC IV LEVI STBAU5S (D. CO. Nursery Stock Having secured the agency for The Ballygreen Nursery Co. of Hartford, Wash., for the counties of Josephine and Jack son, I am In a better position than ever before to give my customers satisfaction. They re the originators of certified Pedigree nursery stock, and growers are finding that certi fied pedigree Is ns necessary In nur-ery stock as In dairy stock. I also handle common stork of he bent grade. All kinds of gropes n specialty. AIo asent for the Frost Pre vention Co.'s orchard heater. Geo. H. Parker 10,1 WIIHT U STIll-, r.Ryis pass, oiii gov. Ww mm. o BAKING P'OIVDER Ahsoluiety Pure The only Baking Powder mado f ro m Roya I C ra pe C ream of Ta rta r NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE dreds of cases either way. Where you find a ledge on the surface it may be at Its widest part, the upper portion worn away, and when you sink on It, It wilt begin to grow har row until it gets Into a knife blade streak all ready to be cut by some halrbralned gink like you who has the crosscut disease. "Now there are times when a cross cut should be run, and that Is when you have proved that a valuable ore body exists, proved it with shafts, drifts, raises nnd winzes, and proved Its value per ton. Then you go down the hill, run a crosscut or adit to the ore zone and use It as a drainage tun nel and as a transportation tunnel. Then you are mining. "Now this talk J have been giving you is of the kindergarten variety, the only kind you and the other cross cut fiends could understand; and had a real mining man been here with us arourtd this fire he would have groan ed and gone to bed. And I believe RIFLES & GUNS There's no use hunting deer, with a poor gun. 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