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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner V olume 1 Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, May 13, 1932 M’GUIRE OPENS ASSAY OFFICE L. H. McGuire, foimerly identi fied with the Jacksonville Gold Mining company uh vice president, trustee ami assayer, *has opened a commercial assay office in Jackson ville und already is busily engaged in running through samples for both the new mine and other in- dependnets. McGuire came here several months buck from Seattle, Wash., where hi* had been ussayer for the University of Washington for sev eral years. He is u graduate mining engineer of many years practicul experience and has worked in fa mous locations all over the Pacific coust His assays are reputed to be the height of accuracy, all sumples being run in duplicate to eliminate uny possibility of error. Equipment of the Jacksonville Gold Mining compuny in the transformer house in buck of the meat market is being utilized in this work and exper ienced miners declure this to be a very up-to-dute and complete lay out. McGuire, along with his wife, mother and father, moved here at the inception of active work on the Old Town mine and plans to make ■iis permanent home here. He an nounces new low prices for all as say work, which will mean quite a saving, both in time and money, for miners of the southern Oregon field. Gold assays will be run, in duplicate, for the modest sum of $1, while A gold and silver assay totals but $1.25. GEORGE SUHUMl* DIES; ’ BURIED HERE MONDAY George Francis Schump, a native of Jacksonville, bom .December 3, 18X5, died here Saturday atttKdaffe of 46 years. For several years he resided in California and returned here about three years ago. He leaves besides his wife, Gena Schump, two daugh ters, Thelrha’Currigdti^YAKu City*, CaUf., and Julia Lewis of Oakland, Calif. Also his mother, Mrs. E. Band, two brothers and two sistiys, Charles and John Schump; Mrs. w. I .arson and Agnes Banff, all of Medford. Funeral services were in charge of Conger Funeral parlors, and were held at Sacred Heart Catholic church in Medford at 9 an m. Mon day. Rev. Father Black ¿>ffiaiatad and interment was in the Jackson ville cemetery. LEGIONNAIRES WIN SECOND GAME; WITH TALENT HERE The second American Legion fbn- Jor league game for the Jackson ville nine ended Thursday in a sig nal victory for the loculs, score be ing at the end of the fifth in ning, when Talent walked off the field disgusted, 36-2. The lead was so great that Joe Beach was sent in to relieve Hess for an inning, Joe permitting the losers to make their two lone scores» HIGH SCHOOL TROMPS E.P. By ALVIN REINKING Jacksonville high school nine de feated the Eagle Point high school nine Tuesday afterndon on the Jacksonville diamond, 14-9. Andy Smith pitched for the local team and was relieved by Paul Hess in the sixth inning. Both boys had the visitors guessing. Miller of Eagle Point started in the box but was replaced by Walton after al lowing many hits. The box score: Jacksonville Ab H R Reinking, shortstop.......... 5 4 4 Card, R., center field.. ..... 6 4 4 Gilbert, left field................ 5 1 1 Hess, third base................ 5 3 2 Ward, second base............ 5 1 0 Smith, pitcher .................. 5 3 0 Card, P., first base............ 4 1 0 Forbes, right field.............. 4 0 0 Norman, catcher .............. 4 2 3 Totals................. .'...........37 Eagle Point Ab Ashpole, second base . 4 Dinsmur, catcher..... . 4 Grow, shortstop....... . 4 Walton, left field ..... . 3 . 4 Tingleaf, third base.. Young, first base ..... 2 Miller, pitcher . 3 Stanley, right field 3 Myer, center field . 3 19 14 R 8 3 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 II Totals ............................. 30 10 9 'Try 'This One On Your Front Porch SENATE SNIFFS BEAR RAID PIRATES PLAY EAGLES HERE By MAI DE POOL The latest wrinkle in getting rid of peddlers is to announce that a reporter is around, which is what an Applegate housewife did on the spur of the moment recently. “Well, won’t you let me in?” the salesman madobold to de mand as he fumbled at the screen door. Upon gaining ad mittance, he handed his prob able customer a book, with the familiar “anything in my line today ?” “No, I have a reporter here, and I am busy now.” “Oh, alright,” and away he went with greater haste than has ever been known of ped dlers. (This scheme probably would work vise versa, but it has never been tried yet.) Ben Coffman Turn« in Suit; To Hurl for Visitors PROSPECTORS USE COOK; WIN By running in what was reported to be a hired pitcher on the Jack sonville Gold Diggers last Sunday the Prospect nine won a game played in that resort town with a score of 16-7. It has been undeter mined as to whether they really earned the victory or were donated the heavy score by the inability of Jacksonville’s men to support their pitcher, “Doc” Gillis, who looked well ir. the box to his own men and rather difficult to the Prospectors, who got possibly two or three gen uine hits in the entire game. The pitcher started for the upper reaches but was knocked out of the box in a couple of innings and left with Jacksonville in the lead, 3-2. It was a different story, however, when L. Cook, who hurled for the championship Eagle Point team last fej^r, wjis run in on the boys. His fast ball*proved a stickler until the last Inning, when the local ites staged a rally, got five runs and a number- of hits; but fell short of catching -up with the Crater Lake neighbors. The Gold Diggers, however, com pared favorably with the Prospec tors and for a few innings it ap peared ttiat this city’s second vic- tore of the reason w«ji coming up. So*4taltars»»*>fans fYdmAere were prp^enL.to witness the affray and the Ra.v Hunsaker family, not be ing satisfied'U ith chaking i»aD- all over the ball diamond there, halted for a fishing spree on tfte waj home. “Mu” Hunsaker reports the only catch of the day, with both her minnows getting away. Oh yes, the baseball game.TTat- teries for Jacksonville were Dor othy, catcher; Gillis, pitcher; Ray- Hunsaker, first; Chuck Ward, sec ond; Ray Ward, third; Bud Rein king, shortstop; Michael Burdell, left field; Harlan Clark, ceAter, afid Leonard Hall, right. Homer Lontz relieved Dorothy in the latter part of the game, as did Bud Reinking the pitcher. Alfred and Emerson Babb and Albert Johnson the out fielders. To date there has been no game scheduled for this Sunday. ENRIGHT MAKING FIGHT T. J. Enright is making a deter mined fight to win the republican nomination for district attorney of Jackson county and has spent many hours campaigning through the county the past week. He has been very active in the trial practice during his 11 years of practice and during this time has actually tried, in court, upwards of 200 lawsuits. He has thereby gained experience and will be able to handle the posi tion without assistance. Enright is a past commander of the American Legion and a mem ber of Medford post at the present time. His also is a member of the Elks and Eagles lodges. An interesting accomplishment of the well-known candidate is his le gal schooling, which was secured without financial aid and entirely through his own effort and ambi tion. He attended Georgetown uni versity in Washington, D. C., grad uating therefrom in. 1921, and has been very actively practicing his profession ever since. Enright asks for the support of the republican voters at the primary election to be held May 20. Go to Nugget for magazines. N umber 20 Above photo, first and exclusive in The Miner, expertly exposed by Verne Shangle, staff photographer, reveals the senate gesture commit tee investigating a bear raid in Jacksonville’s Wall alley last week. Particularly note the evident boldness and complete abandon of the mean ways committee speaker as he prods Bad Bruin with a long pole to see if he is ticklish. (Note: The bear was not ticklish and senators ran pell-mell for cover.) The Editor Speaking THE POLITICAL CLEANUP The Jacksonville Pirates, so- called because they are furnished suits and equipment by the local chamber of commerce but which embrace only one or two local play ers, are scheduled to meet with the Medford Eagles Sunday afternoon at 2 p. m. for the third Rogue val ley league game of the season on the home diamond. The Pirates lost their first two encounters with the Grants Pass Climateers and their standing in the league lineup so far might be recorded with a handful of doughnuts. As result of last Sunday’s game, ending 8-6 with Grants Pass the owners of the heavy score, Ben Coffman, Jacksonvillian who has had much experience in Los An geles and southern California in dustrial and professional baseball leagues, turned in his suit and re signed. He will pitch for the Med ford Eagles against his former bud dies in the coming game and much interest has been evidenced in the unique situation. Coffman, accord ing to information, was to have been started in the box this last game, having been promised the week before that if he would warm the bench for that day he would be the delivery end of the battery on the home field. It seems that the promises turned out to be stalls and when the game was called last week-end Coffman was not on the lineup. Hughes, Medfordite who was used instead, lost the game for Jacksonville, allowing five runs in one inning. There has been much dissatis faction expressed by townsmen over the situation, as intention of the commerce body had been to sup port a team composed of local play ers. The real team of local players, the Jacksonville Gold Diggers, how ever, is entirely without equipment, having to furnish its own mitts, bats and whatever can be scraped together on the spur of the mo ment. But one or two bonafide natives of this historic and loyal old town are ever on the Pirate lineup and it is suspected that they are used an inning or so to keep up appearances and as a lever to hang onto several hundred dollars worth of equipment. The managers of the Pirate outfit on the one hand claim there are not sufficient players who will turn out for the nine while on the other hand the Gold Digger ag gregation is having di/ficulty in finding berths for the large num ber of local basebailers who aver they’ve never been given a chaace on the alleged Jacksonville team. No doubt Sunday’s encounter will do much to bring the controversy to a head and some action in the matter one way or another is ex pected in the very near future. At least the supposed mismanagement of the Pirate team will furnish in tense interest for the tilt on the local diamond at 2 <^:lock in the afternoon this week-end and a large crowd is anticipated to witness Ben Coffman, now Eagleite, show the Pirate crew baseball as is baseball, having to quit to get off the bench, where it was intimated friendship and not lack of ability kept him. Coffman himself would make no statement except that he was look ing forward to the encounter and liked to play baseball. Do you ever stop to think of the vast difference be tween passion and the mind? We don’t mean that ga-ga hooey that comes in short pants, according to the younger generation, but that flaming hot, soul stirring emotion that causes people to forget wisdom learned through years of struggle and toil and tear down overnight what has taken countless months of effort, thought and money to build. We refer to the contrast between acting as the result of sane, careful thqyght and carrying out some blanket urge which sweeps over us periodically. < We httrtians are peculiar critters anyway—sweet tunes and rhythmic melodies take us on wings to •ptfflSSTTt thoughts and happy moods; a crashing march thrills our martial sense and brings to mind waving flags, marching men and booming cannon, with all the accompanying willingness to offer our lives in battle: arthrilling ball game stirs us to thoughts of how we’d rock in the pitcher’s box, and what home run drives we’d like to pole out whencthe score is tied in the ninth inning; witnessing a moyie we imagine ourselves in the leading roles and, with the characters, live the parts for an hpur, ui’j help catch the villain and kiss the heroine. out; But? aiiw' Ift^h our waves of emotion have stirred iieruuie. us and our mina again a f motions we realize that, as ordinary people, we can’ , soar on wings, don’t par- par ticularly like to die on tattlefields, couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with* a baseball, slap a dead cow with an oar, give re Greta Garbo.,a big smack and get SQUATTERS FLOCK TO away with it or empty < 40j oulfets from a six-gun into UPPER CREEK AREAS some viper at one sitting. The Applegate country possesses Yes, our minds were donated to us for the express strong reminders of the depression purpose of controlling and directing passions and to era. It has been said that there is not a vacant shack of any descrip keep them from engulfing sanity and messing up our tion left, which is not exaggerating, lives in general. And now the nation inswept with a owing to the numerous people who have come from the towns to es passion of discontent, unrest and dissausfaetfon as a cape the eternal demand for money result of generally rotten conditions. Our passrons yell to pay the light, wood and water Tents are numerous and some at us to make a change, to uproot the present sy,st;em bills. have built shanties in which to take and trade in our political equipment on a new model. refuge until the world in general Thoughts that everyone is crooked, that all politicians gets back to normal. Particularly in the Star gulch, should be drowned and that it’s hell to be an American Sterling and Forest creek sections sweep over us like powder over a maiden’s shiny nose. are the depression-struck people with 35 new families re But then, when we cool off a bit and crawl under prevalent, ported in the latter vicinity some some friendly tree, lazily gaze away into space and time ago, the number having in creased since. All of these people notice the little birds chirpingly hop around after fat have brought their picks and shov worms and see the warm sun high in the heavens the els and rockers and are seeking living from the soil, which thought dawns on us that maybe we’ve been overly their they think might be gold strewn. serious in our politics and that it’s rather nice to be In many cases they are said to be (Continued on page two) able to survive on their findings.