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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner V olume 1 Jocktonrille, Orcyou, Friday, July 1, /.9.;? N umber 27 X / btmiihi mil .hili th GOLD SALES ON INCREASE OVER FORMER YEARS i i * < i < r. i i « ó 11 1 1» 11111 h » i mt «/,. HAMILTON MUSIC TO FEATURE 9-2 PLEASURE ORGY G. W. Godward, manager of the Jack tonville Mercantile company and the Rogue river valley's only gold buyer, announced this week that already gold receipts have fai exceeded those for the entire year of 1931. First five months of 1932 saw more gold weighed up in this city than any like season in this section since the last great rush re membered by the oldest of pion- <•11 Moro than $10,000 worti: the mineral has been recovered by small operators nearby and deliv ered to the local store already this year. As was estimated earlier in the season, Godward receives probably one-third of the gold produced in the neighboring hills and the ag gregate, coming in from 50-cent amounts up into the hundreds and in a few reported cases even great er, represents a large chunk of new wealth for southern Oregon. As has been commented by Delroy Getchell, president of the Farmers and Fruitgrowers bank of Medford, each ounce of gold produced is like finding that much money in the district. It represents added buying power, foodstuffs and clothing that would have shown up missing had it not been for the natural mineral assets of the region. In addition to the Jacksonville gauge of gold produced, which al ready the first five months approx imates $30,000, John Pernoil has been busy all spring and early summer buying lesser amounts of the mineral while Grants Pass banks arc reported as handling huge quantities of the precious metal. Mining represents this part of the state’s heaviest back to-the- soil movement and, although many eke but the barest of necessities through the search for the stand ard of nations, the merest pittance recovered invariably represents that much which otherwise would have remained useless and of no value to humanity. Despite the growing shortage of water in the hills prospectors are Quick work b> The Miner’s star reporter. Halftruth Exaggerate, saved Ray Coleman’s hardware store busy as swarms of ants combing from certain destruction this week when the Jacksonville youth, shown above, planned to give vent to the surrounding mountains and the his emotions regarding the sale of a new hoe and lawnmower to his maw. Halftruth, ever on the alert, ^ftback yards of Jacksonville continue removed the fuse, opened one end of the giant cracker and stuck his head in, discovering it was full of J<H' Canyon’s sawdust (we mean the cracker). reverberate with the ceaseless ' putt-putt of gasoline engines as the search continues. And trim waistlines among the miners con tinue to be the vogue, no doubt caused in part by the eager bend ing process of ascertaining whether all that glitters is not gold. u HARRIET BIEGE, 79, DIES;BURIAL TODAY Harriet Biege, wife of William Biege, died at her home here at 8:40 p. m. Saturday, June 25, 1932, at the age of 79 years. She was born at Fort Covington, N. Y., August 12, 1852, was mar ried to Mr. Biege at Corey, Pa., August 5, 1873 and came west to California in 1910. Eight years ago the couple settled in Jacksonville. She leaves beside her husband, one son, Jess Biege of Long Beach, Calif., who arrived Tuesday to be present at the last rites of his mother. The aged couple, well known in this city, had the enviable record of having been married 59 years, which is a feat quite uncommon these days. Mr. Biege, for years an expert oil field driller, has worked in the major pools of the continent ami has earned for him- ^Melf in Jacksonville and Medford reputation of being one of the ^^^most thorough and diligent work men, despite his many years. Sym pathy of the entire community is extended to him in his bereave ment of his life-long partner and companion. Burial will be in Jacksonville cemetery today, Friday, at 2 p. m. Conger funeral parlors are in l^^dharge of arrangements. 30-Ton Mill forOldTown The Jacksonville Gold Mining company, organised to develop and operate the former Gt rge Schump holding, the Old Town mine, an nounced this week completion of arrangements for the building and installation of a latest model stamp mill. The outfit is to be manufactured in Medford and will be used to handle ore from the mine, which is fast filling storage bins. Capacity of the mill is to be 30 tons of ore for each 24-hour sh i it An additional unit, to be used | for recovering gold from concen trates, a by-product of the mill it self, also is under construction and will be installed in the near future. FIND ELEPHANT BONES Recent discovery of the bones of an eocene elephant in the gravel on the west bank of the Snake river four miles from Nyssa gives addi tional proof that Oregon at one time was the habitat of tropical animals. The bones were found by Farnham Sills, a workman on the Owyhee irrigation dam. The dis covery, identified by Harold Tucker, professor of biology in the College of Idaho, who went over from Caldwell, only a few miles from the find, included teeth, pieces of tusk, foot joints, fragments of tail and skull, and a knee or hip joint. The bones have been taken to the college at Caldwell. The Editor Speaking A Frying Pan for A Country Hints and promptings appearing in a few of the newspapers of the land would lead us tp believe that the two major party conventions are holding their presidential year sessions for the last time in the United States. There have been suggestions that de mocracy has proven a failure and that some new, modern system will have to be worked out entirely different from that which we have labored under ever since the founding of this nation, which event is to be ~ commcmoi ated again next Monday. All this talk, threat and warning arouses in us sus picion of the motives actuating the press to such rabid statements and far-fetched suggestions. We recall that often, when such predictions are made, the wish is father of the thought. And the philosoplfy involved, or lack of it perhaps, reminds us of a family we know. It seems that this family, a familiar example of a common type in this country, is wont to load up the old gas buggy and hie themselves for gre^per pasture^ when things get a bit tough or life has lost its allure and charm for the moment. There is always some place where the necessities will come with a little less work and in greater abundance. When they are in the prairie country they long for the mountains. In the 1 • -W W 1 (Continued on page two) ^7 Announcement was made late this week that Jacksonville will, as its pait in the annual Fourth of July celebrations, present one of its popular dances in the U. S. ho tel hall next Monday evening, in addition to the regular Saturday night affair, which has proven the most popular shindig in valley en tertainment circles. II. H. Farley, floor manager and publicity director for the famous affair, which is known wherever dancing feet respond to music, stated that every possible effort is being directed toward the conven ience and pleasure of the pat rons of Jacksonville’s week-ends and that it has always been the policy of the chamber of com merce, the orchestra and himself to meet conditions as they exist to the best of their ability. The alertness and complete wil- lii guess of the dance group to co operate with dancers of this sec tim is to be commended, as also i. their plan to enable Jacksonville to entertain its just share of the holiday celebrants the first of the week. It is predicted the Monday dance will meet with the favor of patrons and that attendance, which has been steadily mounting since early in the spring, will continue to increase and general evidence of thorough enjoyment of the affairs will continue as in the past. Dancing both Saturday and Mon day evenings will commence promptly at 9 p. m. and continue till 2 a. m. SKSL FEMMES TO PLAY J’VILLE 17TH The Southern Kansas Stage lines girls team, known from coast to coast as one of the fastest aggre gations of women ever to enter baseball competition, is scheduled to fight a pitched battle with the Jacksonville Pirates Sunday after noon, July 17. The girls hail from Wichita, Kansas, and play a. fast game with horsehide and hickory. Louis C. Puhi, secretary of the Rogue River Valley baseball league and co-manager of the local nine, expects one of the hardest battles of the year when the corn-fed lad ies line up on the Medford fair grounds diamond for the game. It so happens that Wichita, a city of slightly more than 100,000 souls, has had the honor of presenting also the professional men’s and wo men’s national champion basketball teams, and also on one occasion the national high school champions in that sport. Your correspondent used to attend school in the air capitol and can vouch for the ath letic prowess of Kansas ma’idens. Another feature game, following within a few days, will be the scramble for high score between Jacksonville and Gilkerson’s Un ion Giants, colored team from Chi cago, Thursday afternoon, July 28, commencing at 5 p. m. To anyone who has ever witnessed a game where the darkies are concerned the whooping, hollering, grinning rows of white teeth and casual home runs are familiar. The Afri cans are noted for their baseball technique, and even the tiniest of negroes, when able to lift a bat, find it no trouble at all to lose the old apple on a long diamond. Their baseball skill is generally excelled only by their natural aptness for sharp razors and jigging. Last Sunday the game played on the local diamond with Hilt proved another victory for Jacksonville, final score being 6-1. There has been no game arranged for this week-end, and a tentative encoun ter has been set with Medford for the following Sunday. Tardy recognition of good work is sometimes worse than none at all.
