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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner Volume 1 Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, July 29, 1932 Number 31 Io R EVI VE OLDDAYSAUGUST20 LOCATION MILL NOT SET; MAY BUILD IN TOWN Seattle Outfit Surveying New Site at Edge of City MINER REPEATS BELIEVE IT OR NOT Popularity of c o u pons which saved readers real money last week was so marked that arrangements have been made with John Neldermeyer, manager of the Holly theater, to repeat the guest ticker offer. If you would like to attend another good show as guest of The Jacksonville Miner, turn to page three, dip the coupon printed and follow Instruc tions for a pleasant evening next Monday or Tuesday, HELP MEDFORD LEGION CERTAIN LOCAL BACKERS Committees Appointed, Work Underway for Overnight Celebration Here Developments the pant week "Time, o time, turn back in thy would Indicate that perhaps a more flight”—a thought cherished by desirable quartz mill nite for the J man the world over, will become a Jacksonville Cold Mining company reality August 20 in Jacksonville, might be located than the prefer when the old town will rip 50 years red tract belonging to Emil Britt, from calendars and live again in tentatively agreed upon a few days the glory, glamour and customs of ago. 1882. Old fashioned dress, vehicles, Raining of purchase price to the dancing, gambling devices and The newest method of booming city from $200 to $250 by Britt at biasB-railed bars will revive days u council meeting last week pre business and at the same time re- ' that have passed and from after cipitated the suggestion that other pairing a dam good fishing line noon till the following morning locations be Investigated and repre was devised early this week by two Jacksonville will again be a tear of the city ’ s most Illustrious per sentatives of the Seat 11«; operators ing, swearing, blazing mining town kf the Old Town have been busy sonages, Vivian Beach, Jeweler, of the exciting eighties. A sleep and ills Honor, Short Circuit Judge The past few days surveying city ing, peaceful Oregon landmark will ownwl and private property along Ray Coleman. The two, who repre suddenly leap from lethargy and sent much local business acumen, Jackson creek at the edge of town modernism to the colorful days of and a definite decision is expected ingenuity and fish yarns, attacked its prime and will again live and 1 a broken fishing line, endeavoring soon. throb to the pulsations of a healthy It Is understood the mill to be to splice the broach ere the next young pioneer town for a brief day. Installed, ball type of 30-ton daily Waltonian expedition departed. Standing in one of the most his It seems that the intricate task cupacity. Is ready for delivery and toric and oldest city halls in the awaits erection of foundation. The required the use of four hands, sup northwest, a group of representa Medford Iron works were awarded plied by Ray and Viv, and that tive Jacksonville city officials, Le contract for construction of not • very time they got securely and gion club members and citizens only the reduction and recovery hopelessly tangled in the strands | Saturday night formed an organiza equipment but also machinery for in would walk a customer seeking tion determined to not only raise either hardware or jewelry, and handling concentrates. $200 necessary for the purchase of Vivian Beach, who owns a tract one of the pair would have to a quartz mill site here but also put writhe and guess until free to at of Jackson creek land at the upper the town on front pages all over end of town, has offered city of tend to the trade. the state and, from sundown till Naturally enough, at first this ficials as much area as will be dawn for one day, center the in needed for the original sum of $200, annoyance bothered the pair till terest of thousands of people on and another location, including the the happy coincidence suggested a the second city to rise from the old rock quarry adjoining the Ruch temporary release from inactivity, wilderness now called Oregon. highway. Is being surveyed. The of cash registers during those de-1 The group, banding together un Like a message latter ground Includes some creek pressed times. der the sponsorship of the local Le gravel owned by the city. Consid dropped from a carrier pigeon, the gion club, made plans and laid the erable space will be required for thought struck them full in the foundation for the celebration, the dumping of tailings from the face that, to encourage buying, all ideally suited to the nature of Jack they must do was to become help mill, which has promised contin Verne Shangle, The Miner’s staff photographer, this week submitted sonville, and Bet date for August uous operation for 12 months in ex lessly entang’ed In fish line and the above picture as proof o'. Art Perry’s contention that a steamship 20. A rapid succession of meetings change for a quitclaim title to the in would walk another customer. route from the valley to the sea is practicable. The schooner is shown a visit of a special committee to So back to their laborious task of site. plunging through Bear creek sludge bound for Port Medford, terminus the Medford post of the American City officials last winter agreed splicing—hnd In came another for ships that never come in. I>egion and assurance of full co to furnish ground necessary for a customer. The plan was a success! operation of that body in putting It is not known definitely Just quartz mill site to encourage de- over the project has followed birth velopment hero and a few days ago what total receipts were for the of the idea and already committees L, Houghton, general manager of day. Wednesday, but had the fish have been appointed, a tentative the concern which has taken over ing line hold out it is expected sum program arranged and publicity the Schump property, notified the would almost have been enough to launched. I rovtde a sinking fund for boating council his company was ready to At the initial meeting last week erect the mill. It was at this time fishermen. Not counting the fool end—including the following inter It has been our story that this is the greatest nation on controversy developed because of salesmen who proved to be false ested citizens, Ray Wilson, Clint the “raising of the ante” on the alarms. 42 new customers were earth, and we guess we’re stuck with it. But anyhow, we Dunnington, Joe Wetterer, Dick |ilte offered by Britt several months roped -or, rather, spliced—into the Americans have our peculiar quirks. Take our popular songs, Chappell, John Knight, Alfred Nor- ago for 1200. Britt claimed the prop combined hardware and jewelry es for instance. They certainly reflect our arrogant self-interest. -is, Oscar Lewis, George Woods erty had Increased in value and tablishment in a few hours. and Leonard -Hall—Duke Lewis was Coleman and Beach will charge We continually sing of love, moonlight, emotional pleasures, elected that possibility of a railroad being president. Dunnington, Nor built along the creek loomed. As no royalty If other enterprising one more chance and one hour with Cleopatra. We are etern ris, Knight and Woods were ap the city has no funds to appropri merchants of the city wish to copy ally small and one-track minded in our popular music. Crooners pointed as a special committee to ate for this purpose, It is up to i their better business plan. forever assail us from record and radio with love ballads, confer with the Medford Legion officials and local businessmen to Monday of this week concerning broken-hearted bleating and mooning melodies. Musically the raise the amount and. because of SURVEY CREW BUSY plans. Hall was appointed sec general business conditions, they ON ’GATE TOPOGRAPHY speaking, one might think we xvese a nation concerned or.iy retary of the meetings. balked at Britt’s higher price How with affairs of the heart; that we lived on love. Well, maybe Tuesday night the celebration ever, the site seekers offered to A United States geological sur we’ll have to before long, at that. group gathered to receive the re pay the additional $50 If the city vey crew in chargo of Mr. Stone- port of the special committee and would raise the greater sum. But what we’re driving at is this: Taken as a whole, our to act as host to three committee sifer of Sacramento, which func As soon as present surveys are tions under the department of the popular music illustrates our selfishness, our search for per men sent here by the neighboring completed and a location agreed interior, has been covering moun ex-service men. Full cooperation in upon actual construction of the mill tain sections adjacent to the Ap sonal pleasure and rather alarming abandonment of finer prin launching and perfecting the cele foundation will start. Jacksonville plegate during the last few weeks ciples of conduct. We sing of heart-thumpings because we are bration was assured and prelimi officials, through the backing of , snd expects to continue through interested chiefly in ourselves and our amusement—and in naries were discussed. At this time the local Legion club in raising I most of the summer. stead of love making the world go around, it has most of us an executive committee composed funds in a "days of ’49” celebra Their work consists principally going around in circles and getting nowhere fast. of Oscar Lewis. Clint Dunnington tion, stand ready to purchase of making topography maps on the (Continued on page four) Now we dont want to give the impression love isn’t the whatever site the mining company Medford quadrangle. They have decides upon and expect actual In covered the Little Applegate terri most wonderful thing under the sun, but we do think we stallation of equipment within a tory, and were in the Mount Ash might have a more wholesome outlook on the present crisis few days. land vicinity Sunday. The crew if we weren’t so darned self-centered, not only with musical, consists of the following men: Austin Sheppherd of Portland, but also bank notes. Music in itself is no sin, of course, but the assistant to Stonesifer; Herrick modern trend of sticky, self-centered themes is a fair example Whiskers. Red, white and black. Wheeler of Medford, packer; T. W. of what we have become as a nation in the more material I One-third un-American perhaps, Ranta of Bend, engineer in charge but they belong to a Little Apple things — struggling, reaching, grasping, always for ourselves; of measuring trails, and his as gate citizen, and have been sug Through the cooperation of the sistant, C. P. Mahoney. interested only in our own troubles and so busy worrying gested as Applegate’s contribution California Oregon Power company, about the first person, I, that we overlook day-to-day improve to Jacks’onville’s days of ’82 cele- Claude (Shorty) Stevens of the i bration to be staged August 20. ECONOMICS CLUB HOST ments which could be made in our lives. Medford fire department has ar Although the owner was not in- APPLEGATE HUSBANDS ranged for a demonstration to be Which all reminds us the single-letter word “I” was never terviewed concerning his new as- The husbands in the Grange Eco given in Jacksonville next week, the hub of the wheel of progress, and never will be. j set, a small boy describes the beard showing emergency treatment ad nomics club were guests at a party as like Robinson Cruso’s. Other in Take our friends tq the south — the Mexicans. True, they are for their special entertainment at visable for victims of smoke, gas formation picked up on the sub and suffocation, by Seth Bullis of Applegate hall Wednesday evening. a cheap-labor menace to us, with lower living standards and ject revealed that the reason for The ladles presented an inter the Copco safety department. The less civilized customs and minds. But, perhaps, therein lies one the whiskers is that “Cruso” is too instructions and illustrations will esting program lasting about an of the secrets of their unique ability to be a happy race, come lazy to shave them off, and that hour, then called on the husbands be given at the city hall here. what may. Their life, and incidentally, their happiness, has not ho refused to allow any other am for further numbers. The men Fire Chief Ray Wilson, of the bitious member of the family to local volunteers, stated that al thought the extemporaneous re become so complicated as has ours. A few handfuls of simple perform the task quirement a bit unfair, but soon though definite date would be an food, a blazing purple silk shirt, a summer sky and nature in Anyway, aside from assisting th® nounced later, the demonstration responded. The later hours of the city’s Legion club to stage an early all her glory completes, to a great extent, their search for evening were spent in playing probably would take place Wed day comeback, the only other com nesday evening, August 3, regular games, which were followed by re happiness. And their music, in harmony with their more or pensation for the trf-colored beard ft eshments. Among those tajclng meeting night of the firefighters. less peaceful existence, expresses phenomena of the world and is safety from the same fate of He added that the general public degree work during the evening not man. They sing of birds, great oceans, high mountains and Mayor Baker when he visited Cen will bo Invited to receive instruc were Mr. and Mrs. Bert Harr of tralia recently. (Continued on page two) Big Applegate. tion in first aid. Beach, Coleman Pose As Business Boomers THE DEPRESSION; THAT IS THE QUESTION! Likely Pioneer Timber Looms in Red Stubble Will Show First Aid Methods Here Soon