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likened to the tides of a major business
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON
cycle. There comes a time of the year
when the tides are with us and our
sails efforts will carry us farther on our
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Editor and Publisher journey -carry us to new records per
haps it we take advantage of the ele
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M iner
THE JACKSONVILLE MINER
SBall of ^irefiNothing
to ‘‘Ploy Atfiith
By R CLAY CHAPPELL
It is hard to vision the rock-strewn
gravel beds that mar the beauty of
In the fell clutch of circumstance
headquarters : the nugget confectionery
Jacksonville as lovely meadow lands.
I
have
not
wept
or
cried
aloud
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And, yet, the townsite was a verdant
Under the bludgeonings of chance
cove where wild flowers grew until the
My head is bloody but unbowed
white men came and made a mess of it.
It matters not how straight the gait
Daisy and Jackson creeks were rip
How charged with punishment the scroll pling mountain brooks streams such
I am the master of my fate
as Ray Coleman or Vivian Beach would
love to sit beside and fish, and fish, and
If gold is where you find it. The I am the captain of my soul.
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Miner has panned out just what it was
Here came the creatures of the wild
Sturdy trees grow slowly.
looking for in Jacksonville. The first
to
graze the luscious grass or quench
issue was a sellout the opening day It
The best way out of a difficulty is their thirst Here, too, the savage tribes
was even necessary to print 200 addi
men pitched their wickiups and many
tional copies and these were exhausted through it.
a dusky Indian maid knelt by the
before the end of the week.
laughing waters and picked the cooties
Which demonstrates not particularly
from her raven locks.
the interest in the paper but rather the
At times these peaceful streams have
attraction of the city of Jacksonville it
sought revenge for the ugly scars made
self both in mining activities and his
by the miners m their lust for gold.
torical interest. We believe, and did
Their angry waters have swept the
before the first issue, that the very na
The Miner’s mail box has been re town with devastating floods
ture of the town and its inhabitants
Perhaps the most spectacular of these
furnishes a fertile field for a newspaper ceiving numerous congratulatory letters
that would make an effort to direct its from the entire coast region and. as rampages was in July, 1869 The sky
endeavor in harmony with the charac concrete evidence of sincerity, the bulk was cloudless. The air was calm -un-
of them contain checks for subscrip i usually calm
teristics of the district.
Suddenly far to the southwest a little
The wealth of thrilling history, the tions.
From Chehalis, Wash . and Redding, cloud appeared seemingly no larger
abundance of mineral here, chief among
them gold and copper, and the many Calif., have come letters asking for than one’s hand. As the curious towns-
old residents who have lived and par yearly rates and copies of the paper i men watched, it gradually increased in
The two referred to have read an ' size, advancing straight toward the
ticipated in as thrilling a past history
as ever took place in the west account nouncements of publication in other town. On and on it came, its dark
masses illumined by flashing fire;
for the success The Jacksonville Miner papers.
One of Medford's prominent lawyers, larger it grew and the crackle and roar
has been accorded. We believe The
Miner has only to recognize the treas head of the Southern Oregon-Northern of thunder echoed among the hills.
Now it was directly above the settle-
ures Jacksonville and this country hold, California Mining bureau, has taken an
and to earnestly endeavor to reflect interest in the progress of The Miner : ment. The town was shrouded in dark-
them in its pages, to go on to a perma and commented on the need for such a ; ness, save for the lightning flashes, and
I the sharp blasting claps of thunder
nent niche in the community life and publication.
It seems that the very nature of the ' were deafening.
development that is already taking
district this paper serves gives it coast
place.
Ensued a death-like calm: the air was
wise interest and broadens its scope.
As we mentioned in the first issue, And you may be certain The Jack stifling, and an unearthly silence
we are trying to make The Miner a sonville Miner will progress and de reigned—then with a mighty crash of
credit to the town both in content and velop its entire field rapidly as possible. thunder and the tremendous roar of
falling waters the storm broke!
appearance. We aim to give you the
As the air rushed in to equalize the
best printed weekly paper on the coast.
THANKS TO CHEER LEADERS.’
pressure terrific winds arose. West of
The small, tabloid size page is to be
The boys who have tried to cheer us town a narrow lane was mowed through
adhered to because we believe it will
up during the last year are having a the heavy timbe; as if cut with a
help to set The Miner apart as being
hard time. But didn’t they comfort us? mighty scythe.
representative of a locality that is to
Wasn’t their work worth while?
Meanwhile Daisy creek and the lesser
tally unlike any other in the United
It is true prosperity was just around gulches became raging torrents and
States.
the corner. A long way around.
Jackson creek a mad. tumultous river
Jacksonville, a city having that which
It is true that there were signs of a that bore destruction on its crest.
size, money or great buildings can never turn for the better, and still are. But
Miner's shacks were torn from their
duplicate, we give you our sincerest who believes in signs?
mooring to go careening down the
thanks for our place in your sun of
It is true that we Americans were stream; flumes and rockers and sluices
romance and possibilities and dedicate electrified with prospects of a fortune were frisked away like chips, and even
The Miner to your service.
in the summer of 1929. Temporarily we cattle were sucked, helpless, into the
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have short-circuited, but let 1932 begin racing currents.
A recent news dispatch tells how to show signs of good sport, and we’ll
The streets of the town stood knee
miners in the Arkansas region had all get out raccoon coats, blazers, rattles deep in angry, swirling waters and
gone to farming for a living. In Jack and go at it all over again.
buildings near the main channels were
Then the boys we want to choke now totally wrecked.
sonville farmers have started mining.
And they’re raising a fair crop of gold, —the cheer-leaders- will receive our
Luckily, the main fury of the storm
congratulations. We’ll say, “Boys, pros struck a short distance west of town
too.
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perity was just where you said it was, Had it made a direct hit serious loss
Experience seems to be about the we are around the corner.”
of life must have resulted and property
Then, in 1939, when someone rises damages would have run into the
only thing many of us can carry
through a depression. It’s the only pos up and threatens, “depression is just thousands.
session that can’t go with a market around the corner,” we'll throw vege
As it was the Wetterer residence, the
crash, be stolen or bought when times tables at him and double our order for same house where the family now re
are good. And there’s nothing in the steel at 290.
sides, was struck by lightning.
The way of the transgressor is okay.
world to take its place or to pinch hit
Mrs. Wetterer was sitting on a lat
for lack of it.
ticed porch with a group of friends but
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Diamonds are chunks of coal that when the crash came she ran inside in
If the mining industry could only stuck to their jobs.
time to witness a strange scene. As
adopt the thoroughness of the packing
she entered the front room a great bal1
Notice that two-thirds of “promotion” of fire came gliding slowly toward her,
houses and develop some use for excess
gravel, sand, strained backs and pro consists of “motion.”
but even as she started back in alarm
fanity it is estimated the byproducts
it turned and darted erratically about
A dose of adversity is often as needful the room. Zigzagging here and there, it
would make us all rich.
as a dose of medicine.
gradually grew smaller and finally
melted away.
SAILING BUSINESS
With one exception, the human race
Little damage was done to the house
As the intricacies of business and is crazy . . . one’s self is the exception. but the lightning bolt did not neglect
market trends is far too complicated for
to enact a freakish stunt.
JUNGLE LAW IN BUSINESS
our undeveloped mind, we have bor
The room was decorated with a heav
rowed this short essay and pass it on
During every depression sellers re ily embossed paper on which the design
to you.
sent the manner in which certain buy was outlined in gilt. Every particle of
“Go out on the ebb tide—come in on ers take advantage of them, resent it gilt was gone! And the lines where it
the flood tide.” Good, sound, common in silence. Possibly the purchasing de had been were cut through as if with
sense of the old sailing ship days. No partments of these same sellers are a sharp knife while the spaces between
good captain would set sail with the causing similar resentment among other were not even scorched.
tide coming in against him, but would sellers.
Many years after this strange ball of
confidently weigh the anchor and set
And in the present era of vast pro fire danced the hula-hula in that r iom,
the sails with the tide going out to duction facilities, sellers at times try Joseph, only son of the house, became
help him on a successful voyage.
to unhorse one another without waiting fire chief of Jacksonville, holding the
position, with honor, for years. Was
So it is today Efforts to stem the tide for buyers to come into the fray.
The safest business today is the one that ball of fire prophetic? Was it an
are of little avail. The seasoned mariner
of a business enterprise dropped his with a reputation for its brands, or for omen?
anchors and furled the sails' when the its engineering talent, or its advanced
tide was against him. At the first sign practices, or its square-deal policies.
If you build a better mouse trap,
Even in a jungle, the individual wants so the saying goes, the world will beat
of the changing tide he will cry, “An
a path to your door—to get caught.
chors aweigh” and the masts of his to keep near some sort of path.
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EDITORIAL
¿Material Evidence oj
approval
The hardest man in the world to han-
' die is the logical thinker with deckle-
edged nerve*.
Pretty boon the political hokum -
slogans will break loose "Don t change
noodles m the middle of the soup, "he
kept us out of dividends
The man who has done his levrl best,
and who is conscious that hi- has done
his liest, is a success, even though the
world may write him down a failure
The twins had been brought to be
eh l istened
“What names’.’” asked the minister of
the husband
“Steak and kidney," he answered
"Bill,” cried the mother, ‘it’s Kate
and Sidney "
It was an arduous task for the teacher
t<> drum into her youthful pupils the
principles of arithmetic
"Now listen,” she said, "In order to
subtract, things have to lx- in the same
denomination. This is what I mean:
Now, you couldn't take three apples
from four peaches, nor eight marbles
from eight buttons It must I m - three ap
ples from four apples, and so on Do
you understand?”
The majority seemed to grasp the
idea One perky little youngster in the
rear, however, raised a timid hand
“Please, ma’am,” he inquired, "could
you take three quarts of milk from two
cows?
^Pencil (Sketches
No matter how thin it is sliced, it’»
still called a sandwich
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What ls Ilf«- without a joke and wh) ,
were so many of us born one’’
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Even though it's an ill wind that
blows nobody good campaigning will
bring a lot of it upon us.
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The woman who lived in a shoe was
lucky. We can’t even find one of the
darned things on a cold morning
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And we can remember when we got
soaked one Saturday, when there was
not a cloud in the sky, by a smooth
tongued orator.
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Which reminds us of the old wheeze
about the miner who claimed that, after
taking three bottles of electric latter»,
he had electric lights.
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We think the guy that invented spin
ach should be sent to live with the one
that discovered it was g<x>d for us And
the two of them stricken from the
record.
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When a fellow pan* and pans and
pans without getting any color it’s a
heck of a rotten administration. But
when he runs onto a sizeable chunk of
gold he can’t even see the hole in his
pants seat.