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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1937)
Illinois Valley News, Thursday, September 2, 1937 THE LAST OF THE CHINESE HERE Copper, Waldo Is I ’ Çfîll Iti Liltie» situ by and finally to Grants Pass com pleted the unsettling of the neighborhood about Waldo, to gether with the falling off of the production of gold. , Even so there is something to see at Waldo. store There is the McElwain erected in 1863 and next year will be the Diamond Jubilee of that event, It is planned to have a most fitting recognition of that achievement and to memorialize in a permanent form the spirit of the prospecting pioneers. The character of the Waldo store building and the nature of the doors and windows tell a story that must be known by fu ture generations. While it served the purpose of a general store and vast sums of gold passed through its portals yet the structure was builded really to withstand a siege; and in the basement there was a room prepared to sustain the people who then lived under the possible attack by Indians who resented the coming of the white men. The Mgn with the Inquiring BvwUl A fti Mind has a fondness for the Chi nese and asking suestions as is his wont he came upon stories of their coming to the Illinois Valley and mining gold and living ac ceptably, and leaving behind them Partial Review of Mineral Re A tourist was all packed up at their going such remembrances and ready to take his departure • ource» of Southwestern Oregon of their stay as sets the soul sing from an Auto Court for one of Compiled by Wm. F. Hayden ing. the truly historic spots in souih- Consulting Mining Engineer There is a store a rancher tells ern Oregon when the man with From the Grants Pass Courier of the rose bush they planted in the inquiring mind overheard the In reviewing the mineral re another man's yard—a bush that manager say “there is nothing sources of southwestern Oregon bore roses of almost extravagant there now”:—and the 1935 gol we find that the principal miner luxuriance and beauty—a bush den jubilee edition of an afternoon als are gold, with copper and that an unknowing man cut down paper in a near town reported the Chromite occupying about equal when he thought he was merely same thing—“there is nothing proportions as to magnitude. trimming it that it might bear there now but a ghost town.” The non-metallic minerals such more roses. If we only knew the And the ghost town this partic- as lime, marble, silica, etc., are variety of that beautful rose it ular tourist was inquiring about more or less abundant, particul would be a capital idea to secure is Waldo where gold w’as first arly the lime. specimens of it for the State Park discovered in Oregon, as the leg Southwestern Oregon is prom- which is to be formed out of the end tells in the picturesque phras hiently known as a gold-producing former site at Waldo. ing« of the remembering men area where many gold strikes And once again these Chinese among the former generation of have been made. Evidence of did a good turn by giving a man miners. many profitable finds has caused •o a cork elm—and it is living still. The tourist should have been in an influx of miners over the That might be transplanted or a formed that there is something years (seeking gold) from all the MUTUALITY shoot secured for the environs of well worth while at Waldo for parts of the country. Whenever Miners ’ Historical Mu- the Waldo Bill saw Miss Sue at church one the man with the seeing eye and a large gold strike is made any seum. eve, she was pretty as could be, the discerning spirit. And when where on the face of this old globe But the best stories of all are the vision which is capturing a but Sue was awful bashful and of ours the announcement of the the stories a «laughter of the Va) growing group of the descendants so was Bill, you see. Bill wanted place of discovery has alway* ley pioneers told the man with of the early Illnois Valley Oregon much to see her home, but his drawn hundreds of fortune hunt the inquiring mind as he sat at pioneers is finally carried out courage ran so loW that he hadn't era. This was true in the Calif twilight the other day and heard there will be ever so much more ornia forties when thousands of her tell of the little girl with the to see at the site of Sailor’s Dig men traversed the great mountain two large dogs her consant cam gings. and plains, crossed the Rockies FAIRBANKS- panions—-and how these great Waldo was the first county before transcontinental transpor dogs would bark at the missing MORSE seat of Josephine County and the tation was made possible, endur Chinese going and coming from first session of court was held in ing untold hardships. The same PUMPS their most productive mine — 1856. It was a flourishing town was true of the discovery of gold known as ^he Leonard mine up in the most prosperous years of in the Klondyke This has always Althouse creek, and the little jjirl the early mining of gold. From been true. Gobi will always be so lived with her dogs that she 1855 to 1860 the town maintain man’s greatest lure. GASOLINE barked just like them: and would ed an even population, although Nature has chosen to deposit her join in with them as the barked many miners left to stake theii ENGINES treasure of gold in out of-the-way friendly like at the Chinese. And future in the Frazer development places, many times down deep in the passing Chinese would smile —their places being taken by the sons1 mountain mass or in beds of at both the dogs and the little Chinese. abandoned water courses filled BULLOCK girl for they knew neither meant The name Waldo was given the with loam and gravels forced any harm. And the Chinese too community it. honor of a prom down by glacial or erosive action ELECTRIC passed away with the shifting of inent Californian politician—the from the mountain reaches, many the mining to other wheres and first settlers in the vicinity wrong COMPANY many ages ago. The mining of with the draining of the golden ly thnking the town site was in gold ore (quartz), is comparative tirants Pass treasure from the silt settled in California rather than in Oregon ly new but washing gold from the the creek bottoms and washed Moving the county seat to Ker- earth's beds and from banks of down from the hills—and the Chi streams is as ancient as biblical 0 nese were all gone then one day history, which portrays the fact in the later years when the little that the gold in Solomon's tem girl w’as grown into voung wo- ple was recovered from placer manhood a Chinese miner retur- Grants Pass gold deposits. neil for a day to the scenes of his First, therefore, let us consider earlier diggings and as he walked Presents what constitutes placer mines am1 along the road he saw a young as to what would be a favorable COMPLETE SHOWING woman approaching and he saw situation in this respect. in her the little girl grown big of Placer mines are the places and recognizing her and remem- where gold is obtained by wash bering her childish exploit he ing an alluvial or glacial deposit barked like a dog and she re of sand or gravel containing par called her childhood ami thè Chi ticularly, or more usually, par ticles of gold or other minerals. nese: and they met and smilingly A placer claim is a mining claim renewed the recollections of great days. He was the last of located upon gravel or ground whose mineral contents a re ex- nese seen in what was Diggings. traded or mined by use of hy- The last of the : draulicking oi sluicing of th< away smiling. gravels The deposits consist of -------------- o— grave), sand or similar materials resulting from the crumbling or Oregon Traffic Accidents It costs so little you cannot afford to be erosion of country rock, vein ma terials, etc, which may contain without this protection. Could you re A Series of Weekly Article» particles of gold of a sizt ami on the Problem of Highway place your furniture if lost by fire? Be value that may be garnered by Safety — By F.arl Snell, Sec the use of hydraulic equipment retary of State. protected and don’t take chances. property installed. The mining of same is that form of mining ir which the superficious detritu is washed to obtain the gold or other valuable minerals. 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Then Sue spoke in trembling voice that reached Bill thru the gloam, “Say, Billie, don’t you ever tell anyone as how you saw me home.” Bill was much reliev- ed and straightw-ay says, “Now look a here, Miss Sue, don’t you go for to worry none, for I'm as 'shamed of it as you.” BYRD shop : service T- “Heelers of Soles” Next to Redwoods Hotel I PHIL SNORT 0 MINERS... We Won’t Insure your Whiskers, hut we can SAVE YOU 25% On Fire, Theft, Automobile and other types INSURANCE ♦ ♦ CLARKS' INSURANCE AGENCY Del Rogue Hotel Bldg. Grants Pass Whiskers. • • on the Bathroom Floor! HERE’S TO YOUR MINERS' JUBILEE ♦ ♦ Remember Us for the PERFECT in HOME FURNISHINGS ♦ ♦ Linkhart & Thielen (Successors to Powell & Linkhart) GRANTS PASS, OREGON
