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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1926)
T H U R S D A Y , APRIL 15, 1926 CENTRAL POINT AM ER IC AN ITEM S ,H2A8 -CL fl MINING NEWS by Southwestern Oregon Mining Bnrcan Work is in progress at this time It i* rtpdited that the develop ment at Wedge Mine, at Rogue at the Osgood and the Llano de Oro River ha« tapped the vein at depth, at Waldo, at the Mt. Reuben at Le- aluivunuM'j/not o f very rich ore. Mil- I land, at the Wedge and the Pleasant li S t t a U i o n a are »till being carried Creek at Rogue River, at the Bates on aVtTi’ Spark* mill at Rogue Riv- on Foots Creek, at the Kilmar and cifl «U t'lhe work ia in charge of Mr. the Apex at Gold Hill, and at Galice have tapped their very rich vein at Charles Derwachter of Seattle. Yate*, a mining engineer of depth, and Wickham of the Western In Grant* Pa** for some time, Metals, and Thane at the Oriole are ______ over some possibilities. F. R. preparing to get their summer devel Backus, M. E., is in Ashland on the opment under way. There are three certain parties working on the Sil same errand. Sanies Donovan, of Waldo, Messrs. ver creek side of the mountain. Lull Olsen Lively and VanHorn of Gold is going ahead with the program o f Hill, John Breeding o f Rogue River, recovery "he has been working on for Lewis Kiump of the Greenback, some months, enlarging the capacity J. W. Farleigh of W olf Creek, were o f his plant. There are promises o f work in the near future in the Happy callers at the Bureau this week. At the regular meeting o f the bur Thought, the Red Boy, and several eau, last Saturday, George W. Sor- other locations. anson, secretary of the bureau since It is very essenential that all min its organization, resigned his office, ers give some thought to the repre A committee was appointed to draft sentation in the next legislature. a suitable minute with reference to While Senator Miller is a tower o f the long and valuable service of this strength in the Senate, we need some officer, which will be presented and one in the House who will back up published later. Mr. Soranson has his work. devoted practically his entire time There is a letter in the office o f to the work o f the Bureau for some the Bureau from Corporation Com months past, but the circumstances missioner Crews, of very great inter did not appear to warrant his contin est to all miners of htis district. It uing to do that definitely, and he was refers to the promotion schemes of obliged to give his time to his pri a certain out o f town, out o f state, vate affairs. The meeting was at an in fact, concern, which carries its utter loss to fill his place at this prospects from points north to the time, and it will be filled by appoint property, finds in their presence val ments pro tern. ues which any practical miner would The work of Van Hook, of Sardine laugh at, and makes sales on the Creek is being watched with great strength o f such findings. One of interest by placer miners throughout their prospects asked the Bureau, the district. It is the first real at which is not known to be enthusias tempt to do placer mining by means tic about their work, if it was not of pumps, and if it shall prove suc commonly known that they had gra cessful, will doubtless be the fore vel in the placer which would run runner of several similar enterprises. seven thousand dollars to the yard. The short season of all placers de It is hard to protect such innocents pendent on local rainfall, his been a from their own folly, but for own potent factor in retarding much pro sakes, and the reputation o f the dis gress that would otherwise prove trict, it must be done as far as is pos profitable. sible. OREGON W E E K L Y INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Salem— Work begins on addition to paper mill. Silverton— Food Products plant Biggest cherry crop in history, pre dicted for Willamette Valley orch here being doubled in capacity. ards. California-Oregon Power Co. will spend $700,000 in improvements in Portland— Volunteers o f America Klamath County, this year. plan $300,000 home for girls. Salem— Kastman Brothers, of Sil Toledo— C. H. Bogert plans to verton, buy property to establish build modern 50— roof hotel. sheet metnl plant. Gresham— Multnomah County will Albany— Linn County begins work on new $18,000 county machine shop. huild $17,000 fairgrounds pavilion. Adventists will establish 12th- Cochran— Trainloads of "Jap siiuares” shipped from Wheeler mills, grade schools at Sutherlin, Medford and either Marshfield or Eugene. for Japan. Salem— Work begins on $640,000 Albany— March building permits regon Linen Mills project. reach $00,000, $52,000 for Southern Cottage Grove— Several school Pacific shops. districts vote for union high school Fifteen Oregon and Washington here. towns form Lower Columbia Com Sheep shearing begins in Central mercial Association. Oregon, to last until June 20 or lat Coquille— Four carloads of cattle er. Klamath Falls will lay ninety shipped to California, averaging sev blocks o f pavement this year. enty-five dollars a head. New potatoes are being shipped Three new paper and pulp mills from Douglas County, earliest on re being built or projected in Oregon; mill at Salem rapidly increasing its cord. Klamath Fall*— $175,035 building permits issued during March. Corvallis— Contract let for grad ing 7.3-mile Gellatly road and store building. Klamath Falls— Forest Lumber Company will build $45,000 mill ho tel at Tine Ridge. Part o f Cascade National Forest closed to smokers, because o f fire hazard. State lets bridge and grading con tracts, on Roosevelt Highway in Til lamook County, to cost $250,000. Medford— Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. will build $45,000 building and spend $135,000 for equipment. prosper if he will work as they do out there in most places.” Arkansas will yield a settler fam ily to Oregon when Mr. and Mrs. Baum o f Pine Bluff dispose o f their holdings. In the meantime writes Mrs. Baum, “ People are coming fast on their return from Florida. I have given all the west coast literature in my possession to them and to those going that way last fall.” Gleaning the fields for our settler crop promises a rich yield for Ore gon. Gleaning the harvest the reapers left is no modern farm process. As of old it yielded returns, so it is found valuable in measuring results o f the land settlement work o f the state and Portland chambers o f com merce. In addition to the 1500 settlers placed on farm lands by the land set tlement department, bringing the state an investment of $5,000,000, other people numbering 1500 signed questionnaires a year ago declaring their intention to come to Oregon. WANTED TO TRADE— Good town Convinced that many of these pros property for small, improved tract o f land near Central Point. pective Oregonians have actually ar 4p rived without taking time to stop in Woodbum. A man can’t help but Inquire up this office. the Portland office, W. G. Ide, exec utive director of the land settlement work, inaugurated in the last few weeks a follow-up campaign sending a personal letter to the old home ad dress o f each one who signified his intentoin o f coming to Oregon but I who has not yet reported his arrival. 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"Oregon is an ideal coun try,” they wr^te, "and it has such courteous and friendly people. We stopped at Bend four days and at $50,000 Salem— Plans under way for Lib Carlton— New broomstick factory erty Street bridge and fill, to cost ships first carload. $50,000 or more. Cottage Grove— Anderson & Mid Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. added $2, dleton Co. will start Mill B, to cut 40,000,000 {eet government timber 458,184.81 to its regon investments in 1925. a year. rapacity. OF LAND SETTLEM ENT DEPARTMENT nnr S 3 vsga* i\€>