The Jacksonville Miner
—
a great world!” (Did we hear a strong enough to withstand the
second, or was that an off-key j savages.
Fublithtd Weekly at
It was now that James Cluggage
bronx cheer?)
and .1 11 Pool*, who are often er-
JACKSONVILLE, OREGON
. roneously credited with tho Ini
tial discovery, came into the pic
ture. Possessing the necessary
Entered as »eecnd elasa matter February 19, 1939
capita) they outfitted and led tho
at the poxt office at Jackaontllle, (Ireton, under
expedition to the new bonanza In
the act of March 3. 1879.
cidentally, from this time on we
Editor and Publisher
LEONARD HALL
find no mention of the young men
who actually made the discovery.
...Applegate Editor
MAUDE POOL..
Arriving late in December or
Address AU Communications to Box 138
•Ort) in January of the following (
Subscription Rates, in Advance:
year ('luggage and Poole, with
One Year.............. $1.00
Six Months................ 50c
their associates. James Skinner
Cluggage
and
Poole
Not
First
Headquarters:
and a man named Wilson, located |
Discoverers Rich Gulch
THE NUGGET CONFECTIONERY
400 feet along the stream which
Telephone 162
Millions in Gold
was henceforth to be known uh
Rich gulch.
By R. CLAY CHAPPELL
Despite the utmost secrecy news
Unfortunately little effort to re- of the rich strike, where men could
cord the early history of Jackson rock out a pint of gold per day,
(Continued from page one)
spread like wildfire and before
of their years, had Indians, the ville was made until most of the spring hundreds of miners had
actors
in
those
stirring
pioneer
rush for gold, the fight for mere
rushed into the district and every
existence and the job of hewing a scenes had passed away or their
available foot of ground was staked
dimmed
by
re-
memories
had
been
home from absolute wilderness to
out.
expend their energies on. They morseless time.
As early as February a store was
Out of the maze of conflicting
could, when imbued with an itch
to "take a chance,” throw caution traditions that have been handed opened in a tent by Appier and
Kenney of Yreka, Its stock was
to the winds, shoulder a rifle and down it is almost impossible to
rather
meager in the necessities of
establish
accurately
the
date
and
take a lone jaunt through the
life
but
there was a plentiful sup
woods, join an Indian-fighting regi location of the first discovery of
ply
of
whiskey
which was perhaps
gold
or
even
the
names
of
the
ment or saddle a burro, promote a
more
important.
grubstake and get entirely away lucky finders.
The first log cabin was erected
from the world.
As fiearly as can be gleaned, in
at
the head of .Main street by \V.
But today, 1932, what can the the early winter of 1851 two young
young buck with three squares a men traveling the old Oregon trail W. Fowler and soon after clap
day (if he’s lucky) and plenty of from the California gold fields to board houses with real Hawed
ambition do? Take a chance? Sur-j the Willamette valley camped one floors and window frames, begin
— grab a pint of moonshine, jump night on the ittle plain where the to appear among the tents, for a
ia a high-powered car and run the town now stands. It was then a small mill had been built at the
risk of landing in the bastile, es i grassy meadowland traversed by upper end of the valley and lumber
cape of which might be just fs two sparkling mountain brooks and was also being whip-sawed at the
thrilling as sazing one’s scalp a the following morning they found modest price of $250 per thousand
By mid summer the rude mining
generation ago. Tt day every young their pack animals grazing along
fc”ow’s biggest adventure general the banks of a small rivulet tribu camp had changed into a solidly
established town
and with the
ly is his first re.1 “drunk.” Ms ts- tary to Daisy creek.
transformation had come, too, the
c«-pe from modernism and the ma-
As one of the travelers stooped
csine age. Hainrful no end, and to drink of the crystal waters he plagues that thrive upon easy mon
ey. Saloons sprang up like mush
certainly a vice.
was startled by the gleam of yellow rooms;
gamblers, harpies and
That is just one of the many particles thickly scattered among slickers of all types flowed into
problems we hive, with the aid cf the grains of sand. It was gold! the new El Dorado; faro, monte
cur blessed civilization and con Virgin gold!
and
roulette
flourished
unre
stant “advancement,” placed in our
Wildly excited they rushed back strained, and entrancing strains of
midst and is of our own making. to camp for their frying pans and music and the voluptuous charms
When we settled the wilderness, so rich was the deposit that even of the dancing girls helped to sol
put redmen on reservations and with these crude utensils they soon ace the “honest miner” as he part
machinized our lives we removed panned out several teacups full of ed with his duBt.
those chief outlets of a virile, am the precious metal.
But notwithstanding the loose
bitious race and our children, born
Fabulous wealth lay at their feet and reckless character of a large
of such blood, must look to escape yet there were many difficulties i portion of the population and the
ment from convention and ration in the way of recovering it. Sup fact that the territorial laws had
alism for an outlet And. lather plies must be secured and, worse, i not as yet become operative in the
than condemn and punish the they were surrounded by hostile town, crime was exceedingly rare
younger generation for present cir tribes which rendered peaceful This may have been due to that
cumstances, we should be a bit working of the claims impossible. higher, sterner law than can be
more sympathetic and tolerant.
As the only practical solution they found in any written code and
And, summing it all up, we sug struck out for the nearest settle which has so often been Invoked
gest for this week’s "famous last ment. which happened to be Yreka, throughout the old west for the
words” the hackneyed phrase, "It’s to outfit and recruit a company protection of the pioneers—the
neoples’ court.
In Jacksonville its findings were
singularly just while its decrees
were inflexible and its punishments
certain.
The first court of this character
convened in the camp was in 1852
to consider the case of a gambler.
Brown, charged with wantonly
shooting to death a miner named
Potts.
W. W. Fowler was chosen judge
and a jury of 12 men selected. The
trial was then conducted in a calm
and the
and orderly manner under the
rules of right and wrong, devoid
of all legal technicalities and when,
after due deliberation, Mr. Brown
was found guilty he was promptly
hanged to an oak tree near the
present site of the Presbyterian
(Established in 1881)
church and buried on the snot.
The court then quietly dissolved,
refusing to claim further jurisdic
tion. but the lesson was highly ef
fective.
The following year, 1853, so many
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SECOND STORE IN JACKSON
COUNTY
disputes arose over water rights !
and mining claims that the people
decided to establish a permanent
court and appointed a man named
Kogers as “alcalde/* after the
Spanish style, with unlimited jur
isdiction. He Hoon proved to bo
Incompetent and unworthy of the
high position and finally handed
down such an unjust decision that
the miners rose en masse and an
grtly demanded Its reversal. The
alcalde stubbornly held his ground,
however, nnd for the moment they
were hnlked until someone logical
ly suggested that the power that
coud create an alcalde could also
cicnte a surperior alcalde. This the
miners promptly did, tho decision
was reversed and justice tri
umphed.
(To be continued!
• .Mrs. I). ('. Kunkier of Thomp
son creek, who went to California
two months ago in the hopes of
benefiting her health, has become
worse and is In a hospital, accord
ing to word received on Iho Apple-
gute. She und her husband hud
been residing ut Fern.
« * ♦
• Mrs. Harold Nelson und daiiK^
ter Marcella of Thompson ciJB
are among those employed in MiT
ford’s fruit Industry.
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