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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1926)
PACE FOUR THURSDAY. APRIL 29. 1926 CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN MINING NEWS Editad by S outhw estern Oregon Mining B ureau S T A T E M A R K ET N EW S Reliability and H onesty Co-operative organizations which , hope to secure high prices for poor products won’t get very far or last very long, thinks State M arket Agent | Spence. Top prices these days are I secured only by the best products, graded, uniform, reliable. And Mr. Spence believes ihat producers would I get better prices for such graded pro- | ducts and would find more ready I markets if they would put their names and addresses on the contain ers as a sort of a guarantee or in- I surance of quality. Local visitors this week include (By Swn. Ore. Mining Bureau) At thi» w riting the big pump at Messrs. Boswell of Holland, How the Sleepy Hollow placer on Sardine land, Robinson and Sordy of Galice, cree l near Gold Hill is ju»t turning Hogg, Van Horn, Olson and Lively over. It is too early to give detail? of Gold Hill and Dr. Reddy of Med aa to the efficiency developed. The ford. engineer in charge, Dr. ilogg. form "m>e decline in gold production in erly of Elmer & Hogg of Portland, the United States, which, like the W h at of the Coming Y ear? is loo competent for any one to be reduction in area of tim ber, has at at all skeptical of the outcome. The last aroused the interest of the en It is yet too early to get reliable only unknown quantity ia nature, tire country. This decline, however estim ates on this year’s acreage of | which sometimea has a way of not is not due, as in the ease of timber, potatoes, but indications are there to a decrease of the available raw will be considerable increase in O re living up to specifications. That a fresh mind can often per material, but to a decrease in the gon over last year, due to the high ceive what one too close to the ob availability of it. Timber is a vis prices of last year’s crop. The State ject cannot, was dem onstrated last ible asset, and is measurable in its Market Agent says it has become week when Messrs. Richardson and entirety. Ores, on the other hand, farm er history that a big crop fol O rm ack of Salem examined the are hidden and their quantity cannot lows high prices of the preceding Young & Flaherty mine on Evans be determ ined except by analogy and year on any product, the natural creek. A high grade shoot which had comparison. The ancient theory tendency bein j to overproduce the been mislaid for two years, although that the valuable metals were .boiled next year, “i.n average crop of po anxiously hunted for, was pointed up to the top of the molden rock tatoes this year will be worth far out by the visitors, almost at once, mass, and when the scum, so to more than a bum per crop,” says he. much to the surprise and delight of speak was all skimmed off nothing W atch Your A lfalfa the owners. The oi*e runs several of value was left, has been thor If alfalfa not well cured in the oughly exploded. Under what con field and in is proper hundreds of dollars to the ton. condition to go The tunnel work at Mt. Reuben ditions the heavier m atter should into the barn, it is more dangerous will close down for the season next have risen to thw top and there re to combustion and fire than week due to shortage of water. This mained against all laws of physics other hay crop, says the S tate M any ar year’s work, while it leaves the tun has never been explained. However ket Agent, and he cautions farm ers nel fare still eight hundred feet from difficulties of any kind have always to watch the harvesting closely. He I the objective, has been most encour daunted the lazy or the timid, and says the hay should be leveled and I aging in the character of the form a when lean streaks were encountered evently pled in the mow and not I tion. Practically the entire forty- in an ore body a phrase was coined left as it tram falls from the fork or sling. | five hundred feet of the tunnel is to excuse further effort, and the Some advise that salt be used, one in mineralized rock, with eight well mine was said to have been “bottom pail to the load— is combustion ed.” It is now pretty well acknowl preventative and is it palatable defined veins cross cut. to the Charles Derwatcher is again back edged that no ore body has ever been stock. on the Wedge. He suffered a very actually bottomed. On persistence serious injury in an auto spill re through the lean zone, the rule has C a n a d a ’s Best C ustom er cently, but they patched him up as been that the values increase in Canada sold more goods to the depth. Of course a time comes United States last year than any good as new. Dr. George Codding of the office when the labor necessary in the other country in the world. Her ex of the Corporation Commissioner at handling of the ore is so great that ports totaled $454,762,560, while we Salem was in the district last week. the operation is no longer profitable. sold to her $650,672,508. Judge Crews is very anxious that But ordinarily th at does not occur A fte r B etter W h eat when he leaves the office, there shall until a depth of approxim ately a grain growers of Oregon and be some provision for the protection mile has been reached. W hat we the The are alive to the m at of the mining interests, which he has need here, is a more generally ac ter Northwest smut control and clean seed personally so freely given during his cepted -knowledeg of the importance and of Federal state that more of mineral, and a readjustm ent of seed cleaning officials incumbency. machinery is being | labor and money that may be sold in the northw The Metals Extraction company, the est now than at used in its production. better known locally as the black profitably other tim e since wheat has been There is much propaganda with re any sand plant is about to move to the gard Growers are realizing that it to agriculture. Mining is almost grown. coast where there are large possi lost sight not pay to grow smut and weed | of and even its importance does bilities in the recoveries from the belittled by and to pay the expenses of har financial interests. It seeds beach sands. While their departure is fair to inquire vesting, handling, freight and insur why investm ents ance is to be regretted, it is very evident in on the foul material. should be so persistently that the volume of possible business und mines even passionately decried. Is it Mint Growing Increasing here is not great enough to w arrant because of the public spirit, the gen Mint growing in favored sections I remaining, when so much better op erous broad minded charity of the of Oregon is fast increasing and it portunities are to be had on the financier? If so, he is a much mis is becoming a recognized industry. beach. They have done a great deal understood and maligned individual. Douglas county is well adapted to for the district while they were here, He generally poses as a cold hlooded the product and a large acreage is in dem onstrating a practical recovery self seeking, business first and last being planted this year. The lower method. person, whose excuse for hi»- occu Columbia and several sections of the P. B. Wickham, of the W estern pation is that he makes money. This W illamette valley are increasing the Metals is still in Portland on the validly excuses practices which acreage. business of his company, and on his otherwise be regarded as un return will again start work on the feeling. It would is a ju st conclusion, Why take your cars to M edford holdings of the company at Galice. therefore, that unfav when you can get a better job for Time for assessment work has orably criticised any by business the financial less a t the Independent Gar about rolled around again. Anyone interests, is one in which the op age a money t Central Point. adv desiring help can secure good men portunities for control and exploita by getting in touch with the Bur tion are not favorable to the finan T he Am erican docs ail kinds oi eau. cial interests, but on the contrary printing. If it can be printed—we A. W alker reports the largest spread the returns am ong many can do it. single chunk of free gold bearing channels, and in such a way that quartz in captivity as being on exhi they cannot be controlled. Agricul bition in the bank at Etna Mills. It ture may be the first necessary in is ns large as an ordinary safe, with dustry. W ithout mining, it is im gold scattered all over it. A similar possible, as the products of the mines chunk from some local mine, would are absolutely essential to any kind, he very much in place in the rooms any degree, and any form of agricul of the local chamber of commerce. tural industry. M ED FO R D N EW S torn away part of the path leading to the rim. (Bliss Heine) On Monday evening Talisman District Attorney Newton . C Lodge No. 31, Knights of Pythias Chaney has been reappointed to a was entertained a splendid mov five-year term as a first Lieutenant ing picture show with by Horace Bromley RAY MILLARD Q uarterm aster in the O fficers' Re of the California Oregon Power Co. serve Corps. and some very interesting slides hy Bob Poyl has been re-elected sec John Palm er after which a sump — T eam W ork of AM K inds— retary of the Chamber of Commerce tuous repast was served in the ban- with E. C. Gaddis, president and iuet room. , P R O M PT S E R V IC E Paul Scherer, J. I'..Russell and C. C. la s t Thursday E. O. W assen, prop I-cmon as vice-presidents. Miss la>r rietor the Medford Egg Farm, de nine stoltz, who has been filling the livered of three Phone 541 broilers to Hu position of assistant secretary left man Brothers. hunred Mr. and Mrs. Was- vacant by the resignation of Miss -<m came here from Fowler, Colo- . C en tral Point • • O re fo n Frances Perry, was recommended to rado, a year ago, settling in Sun- continue in that position. *et Park southwest of Medford and I The A1 Barnes Wild Animal Cir going into the poultry business on a 1 cus, which has been quite a favorite big scale. They now have about with Southern Oregon people for a three thousand chicks and are fig num ber of years past, is scheduled uring on twelve hundred laying pul to show in Medford May 12 . lets for next winter. T heir stock is At the Medford Armory last week S. C. W hite Leghorns, some of which Joe Gorman of Grants Pass knocked were purchased from the famous out Bud Oliver of Spokane with a Hollywood Farm s of W ashington. shock punch to the chin in the lat C. W. Pursell, who was injured ter part of the first round. In the some time ago when he was pulled prelim inaries Young O'Brian nnd from a truck and dragged on the Young “Gunboat” Smith, Medford pavement on the Pacific Highway, youths, fought four rounds over has returned from spending several Morris of Everett. W ashington; and weeks in a Portland Hospital and is Mike Cassidy of Everett, W ashing now in a very much improved con ton won over Chick Kennedy. dition. M illiam A. C arter, Republican Last Sunday Clarence Phillips. candidate for nom ination for gover Frank Hubbard and Grover Medley GRADUATION TIME nor. gave a short and impressive talk hiked ten miles ever hard snow to at the United Artisans party last C rater Lake from near W hite Horse Friday evening. W. D. Fleck of Camp making the hike In four hours. Portland accompanies Mr. Carter. They saw the big land slide that oc APPROACHES! They are camnaigning throughout curred recently. 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