T H U R S D A Y , APRIL 15, 1926
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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
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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.
Preliminary results indicate that
many eastern and middlewestem I
farmers who corresponded with the
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summer we will raise about three
thousand white leghorn chickens
which are now doing well.
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Kalamazoo, Michigan, was the old
home of O. V. Hawthorne who came
to Oregon seeking mountains, timber
land, good water and recreation for
the sportsman. He has located in
Harney County according to his cor
respondence.
Among the many who say they
have notgiven up plans to come to
Oregon permanently are a father and
son in Colorado who visited here last
summer. "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.
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