T he J acksonville M iner
Plays Make Hit Discovery of Gold in
At Applegate
Jacksonville in 1851
The two-hour program prepared
by Applegate grange and Beaver
Creek Community club was pre
sented before a large audience at
the grange hall Saturday evening.
“Who’s Who in the Home,” short
comedy, particularly interested the
audience in that it was proved un
safe for a married man to bet on a
race horse beaiing a woman’s
name. "Pearl” all but caused do
mestic trouble in two happy homes,
wherein neither the man nor the
woman was willing to submit to
the whims of the other. After an
episode with revolvers in the hands
of the women, the men easily Avon
their point when it was discovered
that the guns were loaded.
The program opened with a
piano solo, “When You and 1 Were
Young Maggie,” by Miss Francis
Port, which was followed by the
one-act play entitled “Hiram’s
Peddlers,” given by Beaver people.
“The Proposal,” dialogue by
Miss Leah McKee and Morris
Byrne, showed the terrible diffi
culties of two young lovers, the
girl anxiously waiting for the
question and the boy too bashful
to ask it.
“I Am an American” was given
a beautiful interpretation by Miss
Jeanette McKee of Malin, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mc
Kee. Miss McKee gave this read
ing in a declamatory contest in
the Klamath county grade schools,
winning first prize.
Ben Ellis, representing a coun
try boy, told all of the tragedies
and humorous incidents of the
family from a bedbug crawling be
tween the ticks of paw’s watch, to
the antics of the family baseball
“daw g” in “Gosh, I Thought I'd |
I
Die.”
Music was furnished by Hansen’s'
orchestra for the dance which fol
lowed the program. Cake ind cof-
fee were served during the eve-
ning.
Incendiary fires in or near the
national forests of Oregon and
Washington in 1931 caused damage
totaling $173,637. The number of
these blazes was 309, burning over
48,408 acres. Suppression costs
amounted to $161,369, according to
the report of the district forester,
Portland.
.4 True Story By
A lice A pplegate S argent
Although 1 am not a pioneer,
but a native daughter of Ore
gon, ami notwithstanding the
fact that gold was discovered
in Jacksonville before 1 was
born, I give to the readers of
this little paper the true story
of the discovery, as it was re
lated to me some years ago by
the pioneer banker, C. C. Beek
man.
C. C. Beekman came to Jack
sonville in the first gold rush
in 1851. He was born in the
city of New York, but came to
Jacksonville from Dundee, N.
Y., where his parents were liv
ing at that time. He was then
only 21 years of age.
For some time after his ar
rival in Jacksonville he rode
for Wells, Fargo and company,
traveling the narrow, steep and
rocky trail across the Siskiyou
mountains at night, for
“These were the days of the
trail and the footlog
And the flying pony express.”
He told me he could not give
me in round numbers just how
much gold he had handled.
The story of the discovery
follows.
In 1851 two men, Cluggage and
Pool by name, equipped a pack
train at the mining town of Yreka,
California, and carried supplies be
tween Yreka and towns in the Wil
lamette valley. They followed a
narrow trail across the Siskiyou
mountains and along the bank of
Bear creek. It was their custom
when they reached this valley to
stop to rest and recuperate their
animals. The wild grass grew so
high in the valley that the man
who herded the mules had to stand
on the back of his horse in order to
locate the rest of the herd.
Cluggage had worked at mining
and one day while they were in
camp in the valley, went up into
the hills where Jacksonville now is.
Following up a gulch or ravine, he
came to a place where the heavy
rains had washed the soil entirely
away, leaving a ledge of rock ex-1
posed. Taking his bowie knife from
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A burst of tourists to Jackson- [
I ville in recent weeks, annually co
incident with the advent of summer
vacation time and warmer weather,
has ennabled Frank Zell, operator
of the Jacksonville Antique shop,
i to make wry faces at depression I
howlers. Zell’s business has been !
, comparatively brisk the past sev
eral days, concentrating chiefly on
! old bottles, antiques of various
sorts and curios.
The veteran cow-puncher has been
having untold difficulty, however,
in finding bodily comfort the past
spring and early summer. First;
toothache hounded the antique col-
' lector endlessly. Hard on the heels !
[ of this affliction came one knowm i
as flu, and now lumbago shoots ex
cruciating pains through Frank’s
body. A cane has become necessary
and life, despite the revival of al
most extinct business, has been any
thing but pleasant.
Zell has constantly added to the
assortment of wonderment dis- •
played in the California street gal
lery and most prominent among re
cent acquisitions are a huge grizzly
bear skin, early day gambling ma
chine and the first fire bell of
Jacksonville. An interesting story
is connected with the eight-foot
long hide of Bruin, shipped here a
few weeks ago from the Big Hole
country of Wyoming. The marks
man who bagged the immense ani
mal came upon his victim just after
it had killed a deer and was pre
paring to feast his gigantic innards.
At sight of the huntsman Bruin
whirled and made for the man. A
single rifle shot started the animal
toward Zell’s emporium, the bullet
breaking its neck.
Frank Zell plans to journey to
the Silver lake district in about a
month in quest of additional relics
and curios, most of which probably
will be shipped direct to New York
connections.
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of Grants Pass and Robert T. Nich
ols of Roseburg. Open air meetings
are a feature of the work and the
opening day the latter part of this
month probably will see several
outside agencies assisting in the
dedication. Complete details, ac-
cording to Sparrow, will be un-
nounced next week.
aforethought safely within proper
ty lines and will not be discovered,
about time it yields nuggets, to be
in one of Jacksonville’s thorough
fares as was an eurlier effort.) Ike
Coffman is better known as a man
of the forest, who knows every <I<<^R
in Jackson and Josephine countiAV
by their first numes.
his belt he dug around in the rocks
and sand and found nuggets of BEAVER CLASS GIVES
gold. He returned to camp and re
SUNDAY PROGRAM
ported his discovery to Pool; to
gether they went back to the spot
and staked out their mining claims. | Beaver Creek Sunday school pre
Returning to Yreka they bought sented a Children’s day program
a camp outfit and mining tools and last Sunday at the .schoolhouse.
returned to work their claims. They The room was tastefully decorated
had kept quiet in regard to their for the» occasion with flowers, fir
discovery, but in some way it be boughs and flags of foreign nu
came known, and in two months tions. The usual Sunday school was
from the time James Cluggage held at 10:30, with 43 persons in
found the nuggets of gold a thous attendance.
and men were on the spot. Claims
The following program was pre
were staked out and every man sented: Opening exercise by pri
went to work to dig out the gold. mary class; recitation, «« “What Can
No time was spent in building cab I Do,” by Evelyne Byrne; oxer-
ins; a man would throw his saddle cise, “ The Message of the Flow
blanket over a manzanita bush and era,” by primary class; song,
put his bed under it; some built “Near When We Need Him,” by
shelters of bark and brush while junior girls; responsive reading,
others put up tents.
Psalm 100; Lord’s prayer by all;
The winter of 1852 was an ex recitation, “Then Laugh,” by l.<
ceptionally hard one. Snow fell un ter Andersen; song, “Can A Little
til all trails were completely Child Like Me,” by primary class;
blocked; flour rose to one dollar a recitation, “Thank You, God,” by
pound and salt was priceless. Some Clara Faye McKee; duct, "I L’<-
adventurous men went to Califor long to the King,” by Mrs. Lee
nia on snow shoes to buy salt. Pro Port and Mrs. Lance Offenbacher;
visions gave out and towards spring reading, “Christ and the Children,"
the miners had to live on wild by Ix'ah McKee; "Old Rugged
game—meat cooked without salt.
Cross,” by all. Benediction.
Fortunes were taken out that
winter and many who had families
in the east and elsewhere went back
PAIR FILE CLAIM
and brought them to Jacksonville.
When the covered wagons rolled
Saturday Arne Carlsen and Ike
into Jacksonville in the fall of 1852 Coffman,
of repute and ex
they brought the first white wo perience in miners
these
parts, returned
men, but with strong hearts, undis from a six-weeks stay
Star gulch
mayed, they established their homes where the two staked on
out
a quartz
in a wild land.
claim
which
was
filed
Monday
of
When the first cabins were built
week. An eight-inch ledge was
there was no glass for the windows this
by the pair.
and muslin was tacked over the uncovered
Despite
good
indications and fav
openings instead.
orable
prospecting
and Ike
This was the beginning of the ran out of patience Arne
and
food,
the
settlement. Some took up land in former being caused by the inter
the valley, while others settled in mittent
cloudbursts,
drenching
Jacksonville and Ashland.
rains and constant downpour of
And now, as the years roll on, good
old Oregon climate.
the old town sits serenely in the
Carlsen,
who will be remembered
shelter of the surrounding hills, for as the philanthropic
of
nothing can take from Jacksonville the former Goose Egg instigator
mining
com
the historic past. Nothing
_ can dim pany, plans to assist George Camp-
the glory of those olden, golden
in sinking a new shaft on the
days, when Jacksonville was the tell
Campbell
property adjoining the
richest town in Oregon.
old depot. (This newer digging,
however, has been located with
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residence in this city and has been
pushing work on the Table Rock
saloon, wherein services are to be
held.
The Solid Rock mission, so
named because of the novel idea of
converting the old saloon of a simi
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has been aided by Earl McIntosh
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