T he J acksonville M iner Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, January 1, 1932 V olumi I Ä EDITOR SPEAKING happy new year! 4) And if this is a happy new year we’ve been laughing ever since joining the unemployed. 4* If the recent rains continue, miners will soon be able to trace the course of Jackson creek • These Jacksonville Ix’drock miners have to go to a lot of work to get to the bottom so they can work it up 4* Now that a new year is here we can all watch a lot of resolutions go to the same place Hoover’s popularity went 4) The depression will be over the min ute we can gel money to circulate as fast as the numbers turn on an electric meter. 4* K ,s It is said we can always I m - sure of . death and taxes. But death doesn’t get more painful every year or harder to accomplish Believe it or not START WORK SOON ON WATER SYS FEM As soon as Ixmds arc printed and sold that were voted by Jacksonville for water improvement, work will begin on new water mains and tunnel Six thousand five hundred dollars were alloted for the new pipe line to lx- installed and $3500 set aside for con struction of a tunnel through the pyrite dike that is said to I m - withholding water from Jacksonville’s reservoir. The total bond issue of $10.(XX) was passed with a good majority of votes recently and assures this city an ample supply of water during the dry summer montlis. It has been estimated the Ixmds will I m - disposed of and active construction work Ix-gun by February 1. About 12 men will I m - steadily employed until completion of the project. N umber 1 JACKSONVILLE BIDDING FOR CUSTOM GOLD MILL A representative of parties interested NEW PROCESS MEN HERE LOOKING EOK DRY SITES in erecting a custom mill for obtaining gold from quartz spent some time in The past week has seen several new Jacksonville the earlier part of the developments in Jacksonville s gold week looking over prospects and pos mining industry, prominent among sible building sites. which was the presence here of two This promoter is the same who put men interested in locating good proper over the Blue Ledge mine and shows ty where no water is available encouraging enthusiasm towards opera They are reported to have a new gold tion of tin- null and feels that, if enough saving process which reclaims t) e metal ore could I m - guaranteed the company he repri M-nts, success of the venture from mines where sufficient water is would I m - certain However no definite not available for operation. Their iden information could I m - obtained as to the tity was not learned. progress of negotiations between city official* and tin- interested parties. Jacksonville has long been needing such a custom null as it would offer a ready method of converting the hun dreds of quartz prospects in the hills liack of town into paying mines. At present, although these ledges hav*- profitable risk, it is necessary to ship The "Goose Egg” mining company, as to Spokane for nulling, with freight Whitney, Carson and Winningham term rates absorbing the bulk oí the income A block of charcoal, estimated by icthei this back-yard gold mining their digging clan, have abandoned their from them Such a mill here would spell George Little, caretaker of the South n uniformly successful or not is well-paying hole in back of the old the difference between success and fail ern Oregon museum, to be no less than •matical, but it has reduced a lot depot not because of lack of color, as ure for the hundreds of prospectors the 20.(MX) years old, was added to the in liepression has sent to the mountains jgtlines, and that's something. teresting colleciton of relics of older they were hoisting out as much as a 4? Interests Want Guarantee days by the donation of J. S. Arm dollar’s worth of gold with every bucket Id mining and politics aren’t so If it can I m - determined how much ore strong different both get a lot of pan- of gravel, but because their picks struck could lx- assured a custom mill and that Mr. Armstrong stated this tree carbon •’ nfing But around J’ville there’s usually a hard property line that couldn't be enough is available, Jacksonville will lx- was found under 35 feet of lava by the a little color left in the bottom when the pierced. The shaft was started near the suplied with a new and healthful indus construction crew of the California fence and, as the pay drifted toward Worthless material is sifted out Oregon Power company vorking at try that is bound to build the district the neighbor's place on the south, they • Meanwhile, the city of Jacksonville Prospect. The charcoal. measuring Necessity may be the mother of in soon reached the surveyor’s limits has guaranteed the buyers of the Old about 12 by 12 inches, is in jierfect con vention, but we haven't noticed so many Being still industrious and having al Town mine, George Shump's former dition despite its great age and shows new patents this winter. Nor a new ready s-pent their earnings on Christ property, site for a quartz mill. It is the annual rings of the tree that formed doodad that will remove hard times mas, they started a new shaft on their reported that as soon as the abstract has it and appears to have been burned out • back porch and are down about 15 feet Ix-en cleared the buyers, a Seattle syn but a few days ago. 1 And this sales tax Hoover is propos- At this location bedrock is reached at dicate, will lx- ready to go ahead with Mr. Little explained that this oddity ’ mg. We suggest, as a a depth of 17 feet, so they are not far development of the property. It is the undoubtedly was formed by lava from to raise the necessary funds, that we from putting their new diggings on a same shaft from waith Snump took one of the first eruptions of the ancient put a tax on presidents putting a tax paying basis. several rich pockets of gold in tne past Mt. Mazama thousands of years ago. on us. When the molten rock reached the tree year. Nuggets for the Taking 4) it instantly converted the trunk into Opp Mine Developed Messrs. Whitney, Carson and Win And if we could only place a revenue charcoal, one of the most stable forms of Work on the Opp mine is progressing on wealthy people telling us how pros ningham have become so accustomed carbon. Being protected from erosion by perity is just around the corner we’d to handling the yellow metal that the steadily with a crew of about six men its covering of cooled lava, the action develop a national surplus instead of a other day, while deepening through retimbering the hole and cleaning out of the years left the chunk unchanged. gravel, they ran out some oi the dirt the shafts. Mr. Price, local representa deficit. Biblical Type Lamp Added in their sluice box. After washing the tive of the company which took an op 4» Also Mr. Little is displaying to visit About the only nuggets this writer box down a dozen or so n iggets as tion on the property, states the crew has ever came across were in the dentist’s large as pinheads, or larger, .{fared up Ix-en active for the past three weeks ors at the museum a lamp of the sort office—and now whenever he laughs at them. But as they had run out as and it is expected the old quartz mill used in biblical times described in the openly his observers usually grin at much as $47 worth a day in their other will lx- remodeled and new equipment Bible. It is of brass, of queer design, each other and say “there’s gold in venture they were not at all excited installed. They plan, he said, to start op with an open vessel for carrying oil and a tongue to lay the wick in. It has a them thar mountings.” Which is correct. and let the gold lay there, unprotected, erations by February 1 if possible. long, upright handle and ring for either over night They plan to give all th<-ir •> carrying in the hand as the Good Book Which reminds us of the oil struck in nuggets larger than goose eggs to char mentions, or for fastening to the ceiling a mine shaft up Applegate highway. It ity, hence the name. or wall. seems one of our residents decided to Taylor and Muriel, after cast ng about It is welded entirely of brass and, as sink a shaft and do a little panning on for a diving I m .-11 without luck, gave up near as can be determined, is of a de his own. After digging down several temporarily their operations over on the sign not manufactured for several hun- feet he found the soil saturated with south side of Jacksonville and have ■ dreds of years. Mr. O. A. Manning of crude oil, which of course wrecked any moved their pump back to their first , c three mines grouped around the i Talent contributed this interesting f f hopes of sifting out the yellow metal. love, where they are getting color ,p, Jacksonville service station are produc curio. Investigation revealed that several enough pay to keep them working hari*. Mr. Little reports the museum is years before while oiling the Applegate This said first love is in the group back ing gold in moderate quantities and show indications of good pay from the growing in popularity and that often he road the contractor had stored crude of the depot and down by the railroad bedrock in that neighborhood. spends hours describing its contents to above this shaft and that much of it i tracks. Hodges, Bartlett and Severance are interested visitors from all over the had seeped into the ground. Our in Strike Boil Hump operating their mine in Severance’s world. formant added that people drinking And just across these same tracks from the wells below his place had to George Campbell and Cleve Neathamer back yard and have about 50 feet of endure an oily flavor and enjoyed (?) struck a boil hump, or high point in the drift on the solid rock. The past week MEDFORD MAN FINED has seen much pumping but production all the benefits of Lithia water. I bedrock, and have started a new well continues with color in dependable pro (at least that’s how it looked during the In a short session of court held here portions. Severance has been prospect big rain) and are down on the way to Wednesday at which Ray Coleman, jus pay dirt. Their boil hump showed color ing in his hack yard for the past year. tice of the peace president, Homer Stev Perry and Moore, cast of the station, enson, Medford, was handed a hundred but they moved operations in order to were the last of the trio to get started, dollar fine and 30-day jail sentence. hit the old channel more direct. After your correspondent watched but have been taking out gold since Stevenson pleaded guilty to a charge of ui two weeks wiinb ago. | • possession of liquor. He is serving out these successful prospectors get milk reaching bedrock about Up to date they have 1 lost little time due . both the sentence and fine in the county ‘ Granges of the valley have called a and honey out of their back yards he to water seeping in. jail. decided that when the weather is warm becial meeting for next Tuesday night Burdeil and Farley, of the “Gopher” Two other cases which were sched and he feels like it he ’ ll dig up his own i the basement of the Hotel Medford mining company, are working in about uled for action Wednesday were post back yard. And maybe sooner if times hat city at 7:30 o’clock for the pur- 18 feet of drift and have found the prec poned. Ernest Stevenson, also up on a get much harder. * of organizing a group to discuss ious metal in paying quantities with liquor charge, obtained delay of his proposed sales tax and to point out regularity. Two men are kept busy in case until arrangements are made for L'vils of such a taxation scheme to NEW STRIKE REPORTED the shaft and they are washing a quan an attorney. W H. Spaur, also from Voters of this district. A new quartz strike has been re- tity of dirt every day. Their mine has Medford, was scheduled to appear be ials of the granges invited organ- ported on Bishop creek. It is said the been paying rich dividends in publicity fore Justice Coleman to face charges of bor and all bodies interested to ore is very rich, but it is not known the for recently photographs were taken non-support. This case was postponed (em next Tuesday evening in exact amount of gold found. The mine and a story written by Dick Chappel to until Justice of the Peace Taylor, Med opposition to the new measure. is located six miles from Jacksonville. be published in the Oregon Journal. ford, returns from his holiday vacation. ‘COOSE EGG’MINES FIND PAY GRAVEL ANCIENTCHARCOAL GIVEN TO MUSEUM SERVICE STATION MINES PRODUCING GOOD COLOR GRANGE ORGANIZES TO FIGHT SALES TAXATION fl