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