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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1932)
T he J acksonville M iner Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, September 9, 1932 Volume 1 Number 37 CITY WELCOMES NEW The Editor JACKSONVILLE WILL GO ON AIR AT KOAC SOON LOOKING FOR SHIPS At leunt there Is one democratic thing about thiH depression—it cer tainly husn't discriminated. Rich poor, black and white, all have felt Chappell, Local Scribe, Author its talons and know Its sting. of Skit Describing Early NEW GOLD MILL COMPLETE; MAY START MONDAY Equipment Ready; Road Com pleted; Expect Trial Run Saturday Days of Town And we wonder why In the devil certain Medford trouble-makers al Jacksonville’s new industry, a According to word received here way« start mouning about persecu 10-ton gold mill, will start Its early tills week by R. Clay Chap tlon of the freedom of speech when wheels in motion the first of the ever they are warned to confine pell, well known scribe, a sketch week after months of preparation, of early Jacksonville will be broad their remarks to the truth. work and cooperation on the part cast from state-owned radio sta of city officials, and promises to do Events of the past week have led tion KOAC, Corvallis, within the much toward solving the local un us to believe that the true way to next few days. employment problem. Machinery discover just what a person is Although no definite hour has has been installed, wiring connect made of Is to get them mad at us.! been set as yet, it is understood ed and approach road completed. And how we discovered it! the program I h to be broadcast dur- Bunkers have been filled with sev hour* so that recep- In fact, we have been reminded Ing evening eral tons of ore from the Old Town that a short cut to a true view of tion will be possible In the Rogue mine up Jackson creek and the a human's inner self which is the River valley. Chappell himself pre first trial run is scheduled for to pared the sketch which will be read nart that eventually murkH them as morrow, Saturday, if all goes well. ■bod or bad in this world is easily and is in receipt of the following All machinery is of the latest Alfred Powers of the letter from gained by placing one’s self at their type, including several new inno disiMisal so that they may at their University of Oregon extension vations in gold recovery equipment. service. will bring happiness or be mean, if The huge Trowbridge mill, rock Portland, Oregon they are of the right sort, the kind crusher, power shaking table and Chappell: "Dear Mr. which friends years from now will concentrating table are in place I am delighted with your manu ■peak of as a "good fellow.” they and ready for service. Operation is will naturally avoid adding grief io script on Jacksonville which you expected to commence Monday, ac cordially sent in response to our an overburdened world. Yet there cording to L. Houghton, general seem to be hosts of hypocritic nice request for inclusion in the ’Know manager of the Jacksonville Gold Your State ’ series being given over people who would grasp at an op Mining company, Limited, which portunity to punish and cause suf* state-owned radio station KOAC. I has taken over the Old Town mine have read the manuscript with a fering, and how! and work of erecting a custom gold great deal of interest and have told mill in this city. others about it, including Mr. Wal Don’t ask uh how we know. The mining company has agreed lace L. Kadderly, manager of the to operate to the satisfaction of station, to whom I am sending It city officials for one year in ex today. change for a quitclaim deed to land "Mr. Kadderly will write you and furnished at Jacksonville’s expense Mr. Wetterer, telling you the exact: j for a mill site. day and hour when the sketch will be read over the station by Mr. Anthony Euwer, the well-known Above pictur«., «napped by Verne Shangle, staff photogra^n^r, «how* poet, artist, and reader. J. Pierpunk Morgan, one-time millionaire, looking for the return of “Your sketch I b one of the most prosperity which was promised him, and at the same time scanning — interesting that we have received dirty flues of the neighborhood. It has been hinted that had Pierpunk More than 200 persons, young and Is exactly what we want. I not listened to promises before he still might be a member of the greatly appreciate your cooperation and old, thrilled to sight of them Renault Mine* Produce Gold in doing it for us and in doing it idle rich and not relegated to the ranks of we ordinary folk who work. selves and friends cavorting across in Surprising Amount; so well. i the Copco silver screen here Wed- "Sincerely yours, I nesday night when Horace Brom Many See Cleanup* SCHOLLER, WHITNEY ALFRED POWERS ley, head of The California Oregon SINK ‘SUNSET MINE Power company, presented a com Director of General Extension." A broad smile, reaching from one I plete show of motion pictures in ear clear across to the other; live The newest in the fashionable cluding not only reels taken of the ly step with plenty of lift to boot- backyard mining has developed Gold Rush Jubilee but also of the attired feet, and an unusually beam here on Fourth street where Wal Olympic games, local scenes of ing demeanor have been a few of ter Scholler is sinking shafts at southern Oregon and several short the byproducts discovered by John his door. With Harry Whitney in comedies. ny Renault in bis backyard mines nartnership, Mr. Scholler is said Proceeds of the program, fur started a few weeks ago in the! Sensing »oniething of the color- to have more equipment than some nished without charge by the W Th7 John B Re ful par, Y da X ,,fe <* her father, center of town, . The John Oeorfe Keeler whlch had all but Attendance Drops Somewhat; of the big mines. A four-inch pump power company, went to the Jun jault Minos, Incorporated, Limited has been installed, and the two ior American Legion baseball team No Decision in Applegate And Consolidated, as the venture gone out of reach with the passing men were in Medford Tuesday for of Jacksonville and will be used Haul Reached Yet bss been labeled, has prospered to of the years, Mrs. A. J. Clarke of more equipment. Twenty-four foot toward expenses next spring. Total Eugene was on Applegate this week the tune of several ounces of gold excavations were necessary before receipts of the evening were |10.75, dally for more than a week now, attempting to obtain information bedrock pay dirt was reached. mixture of a sizeable sum to be gathered at laughter, Amid a and depression has become a lost from residents concerning her gaiety and an occasional glum face, five and 10 cents per unit, and the Another element which lends ro father. subject among the trio working the 200 students last Moa- mance and distinction to the new boys were smiles from ear to ear more than ■ George Keeler, member of the holes. morning marched on Jackson accomplishment is the fact that the as the small change poured in. Ap It all started some time ago when partnership of Keeler and Fowler, day ville ’ s educational machinery— ( first pay dirt was struck at even-j paratus was set up in the dance established the first trading post Renault, Frank Taylor and A. R. long acknowledged one of Oregon’s tide, hence the entrancing name of hall of the U. S. hotel. on the Applegate, located In the McIntosh decided something should finest —to banish quietude and i “Sunset mine.” vicinity of the Kubli ranch. It Is be done about this business of ail peace which has been reigning over believed that this was around 1867. STORK PAYS CALL TO money going out and nothing com the big red brick schoolhouse the It is not known how much informa ing in. They looked to Mother FRISCO WORTHINGTONS Earth for help and, as proven by tion Mrs. Clark was able to get, al past few months. And, as is usual every fall, expressed hones that though she was sent to Steamboat, yellow sluice boxes, Ma came A brand new radio artist, or pos “the darned old place would burn through. More than two ounces of where her father had been inter down" sibly a rising young businesswo have changed to “ gosh. I ested in mines and she also was gold have been cleaned up in a D. George, Kerby mining man man, was added to San Francisco’s single afternoon at the mines and referred to Miss Mollie Britt for wisht Saturday would hurry up.” of W. more than 50 years experience, list Tuesday, September 4, when a In one short week of schooling pictures as well as information. it is singular that production sel was in Jacksonville Monday rela little daughter was born to Mr. and Jacksonville's carefree, dirty-faced Mrs. Clarke was surprised to dom varies. Pay is found a foot or tive to forming of additional classes Mrs. Merriam Worthington at the scalawags and hoodlums have been so above bedrock in a layer of know that Keeler creek was named St. Luke hospital at noon. Word in practical mining being sponsored transformed into a highly polished, for her father, and that two irri gravel which seems to be a much was received by Mr. and Mrs. A. S. by both state and federal boards clean-ea ’ ed and orderly band of at later wash than silt and rock which gation ditches had formerly borne tendants eager—more or less—to for vocational education. He wis Kleinhammer, grandparents of the covers bedrock itself and it is his name. Mr. Keeler also had the -’ccompanied by W. W. Morris, vo little lady. thought pay Iles in a rim of a first equipment for crushing quartz absorb knowledge and "lamin’" cational head of Grants Pass high The baby tipped the scales at from books and teachers. former high channel adjacent to ore, which was operated by a horse. seven pounds and 10 ounces, and school, who Is the educational Although all who have registered A sister of Mrs. Clarke who resides Jackson creek. Is described as having an abund hoards ’ representative in southern have not appeared, they are ex Renault and his helpers have rig in California will compile the his °regon. ance of black hair. Although a pected to start within a few days, tory. ged up quite an outfit for handling According to George, a typical name for her has not been defin • when work in the fruit slackens a dirt and tailings and have appro decided upon. Maryann sourdough prospector of the compe itely hit. Several transfers from Med Mrs. A. K. Clarke, now of Eugene, priated a few O. and C. steel ra'ls seemed to be the favorite. The for two mine carts which facilitate was in the Jacksonville section ford schools have been received tent tyne, classes last 12 days, all little girl is the second grandchild work is performed in the field, and and It is exnected there will be an transportation and save many a early this week for a two-day visit of Mr. and Mrs. Kleinhammer, the sore back. Visitors have thronged among old friends, landmarks and unusually large number of changes both theoretical and p-actical ver other being Miss Marilyn Young this vea - due to the general unrest sions are explained and demon to the diggings and experience no places. She Is the daughter of the of Ashland. Mr. and Mrs. Worth difficulty in spotting sizeable nug late George W. Keeler, a Jackson and lack of working stability. An- strated The art of panning for gold ington are well known in Medford, and where to obtain samples i s provlmately 60 high school stud gets which gather in sluice boxes ville resident years ago and par ents and 145 in the grades attended studied in detail by classes, which I the latter having been employed ticipant In the Rogue River war. dally. are completing one of the short bv Sgobel and Day for many years the first week. Mrs. Clarke spent Monday in “It sure IS a great country,” ad Classes are getting lined out, free cours°s today at Grants Pass previous to her marriage. specting the former residence of mitted Johnny to a reporter this week as he panned out about |50 her father, collecting stories, his studies are underway and yester ’n Josephine county. • Mr. and Mrs. Truman Lewis are tory and photographs, which are day a visit to Jacksonville’s school The interesting branch of voca- the worth of the precious mineral. parents of a six and three- being gathered by children of the house revealed the usual cron of tlonal education, which is under the fourths pound son born at their pigtails, spitballs and pencil chew- state leadershin of O. D. 'dams of home Sunday, A panther in the trap is getting family. September 4. The ers, not. to mention the abundance ^alem, has proven ve y popular In to be just an ordinary occurrence little fellow has bene named Chan with Mark Winningham, who • While on a trip through the of dork watchers and husky hoys Oregon's goldfields and another ning Romaine. ill at ease in uncomfortable desks class nrobably will be organized caught one of the animals a few west, S. K. Hines and brother, Al days ago, making three he has ford Hines, of Pennsylvania visited w’’”« summer goes on as usual the latter part of th’s week or the caught in the Whjskey peak coun tho Fawcett mine in the upper Ap- without. But. taken as a whole, the l first of next providin'» nn addition at Grants Pass hieh schol or Bert try In three weeks. The mountain nlegate country. In which they are local seat of education presents a al anp opriafion for th’s work Is Barnett of the Electric Welding inhabitant, caught In a coyote trap, stockholders. The men were ac- j verv studious and businesslike ap secured. All Interested nartiea works. Grants Pass. Courses are measured seven feet, 11 inches tn companled by another brother, pearance with children schnozzllng should get in touch ei‘he" w'th W. furnished without charge to stud (Continued on page two) D. George at Kerby, W. W. Morris ents. Homer Hines, of Seattle. length. BACKYARD HOLE PROVES BOONTO LOCAL MINERS 200 See Movies of Celebration Here SCHOOL BELLS Daughter Pioneer RING OUT; MANY Collecting Local Data STILL AT WORK Panning Instructor Visits Jacksonville
