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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1933)
I SEE THE MINERS WIN A GAME SUNDAY T he J acksonville M iner Volume 2 The Editor Speaking Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, July 14, 1933 MINERS TAKE BRUSH MARINES 16-15 THRILLER Like a man down a well, ii lot of tilings go over our heud. Rut we finally have grasped the sig Three Home Runs Feature nificance of Roosevelt's inflation Seat Game of Year on of the currency, or think we have. Local Diamond For example: Normally It took The Jacksonville Miners had about five French (runes to equal been huvlng trouble this season our dollar I'nder Inflation this rate winning games. When they pluyed of exchange dropped to ubout three ii hush team, they generally man and one half francs to the Ameri aged to play a little worse than can dollar. Hounds bud. at first. their opponents. When they pluyed But, suppose southern Oregon sold ¡ ii crack nine, they managed to play pears to France last year at |i per almost us good. box, or five franca In their money But when the Miners, under the Thia year, suppose the rate of ex guidance of their new coach. Punk change bus dropped to three franca Dunnlngton, came up ugulnst the for one dollur. but the market value hardest game of their career, they of pears remains the same in managed to play Just n little bit France tend It couldn’t be much i better than their opponents, the lower than It was last yeur). Brush Marines from Heuttle Bar. When the dust had cleared away Selling a box of |>cars In France from two home runs In the ninth this year for the same low price Inning, the final score was found as lust, the southern Oregon grow to be 16 15. In favor of the muchly- er would receive his five franca hooted Miner aggregation. the same as usual, but when he The Miners started the day by went to exchange that for Amer knocking Mercer out of the box in ican money, he would get $1 40 in the first Innhig, while the Brush stead of the lone dollar as last Marines lagged a run till the third I year. THAT Is why we should wel- Inning, when they scored six times com« Inflation and want to kiss to take an K-4 lead In the fifth the Roosevelt for being the first man Miners scored five times to tie we have had for years with the score 10-10, and then add enough wisdom and decision to do ed three additional runs In the something for us insteud of for first half of the ninth. The Brush Europe That also la wbat happens Murines, however, lagging four when we go off the gold standard runs in their last chance, managed -w-r to crawl up In a manner that made WE profit Wliv should WE Miner rooters cross their fingers kick’ Makes It seem rather funny | and duet off some unused prayers, that a certain "big business’^ < amp Marugg. with two strikes, got hold over the country resents inflation, J of one of Coffman's slow balls to doesn't It? That la one of th» good send It up the road toward Jack points the opisments of inflation Thrasher's house and. after Hol and s|s>tisorw of the gold standard lingsworth got on on a single and forgot to bring out. two men following him were chalked off by the infield. Mercer, The benefit It will give to |M«UrN th» circus catching rigtit fielder, will extend to all exports I »umber, dropped another alow ball In the another Important Item, also will old dump wagons in deep center profit. Roosevelt, In addition to field to add two more needed runs. sending us his Brush .Marines, has With two out, the score 16-15, been doing a lot for the far west— Coffman faced (lllvlnskl, a chap far more than has ever been done who already had gained two hits, before. After getting two strikes on him. -e-r he flew out to right field, Hmid That, too, is Just why the Euro- much hilarity and thanksgiving. I mane are kicking up such a fuss The Miners had won the hardest about our going off the gold stand-_______ game of ____________ their career, ________ and had won a rd. They had been enjoying a I it with pure baseball and slugging, great advantage over there before The team's strength, however, Roosevelt got in the White House. which enabled them to overcome Hut they have met their equal both the greater hitting ability of the financially and diplomatically in Marines, was greatly augmented by "the weakest man the democrats the addition of two Applegate play could have run for office," ers and one from Jacksonville. (Continued on page four) We heard a suggestion the other day which struck us as mighty sensible First, It was |s>lnted out thnt the original constitution of the United States embodied enough laws to govern any nation. In fact, its simplicity was Its greatest vir The next regular meeting of the tue. Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce <.-*• la scheduled for next Monday night. Then, when we as a growing na July 17. announced President Os tion patted ourselves on the back car Lewis yesterday. The meeting. [ and added myriad laws and stat because of the chamber's ai>onsor- utes not only to our constitution shlp of the Gold Rush Jubilee, will but to every other legal unit In the be very Imnortant and ahould be country we prided ourselves with well attended. our importance. Which goes to The celebration, which was a sur prove that our forefathers made prising success last summer, will just one mistake In framing the be held little more than a month constitution. They should have re from now and active work on prep quired at least a nine-tenths refer aration must be started within n endum In order to change the con very few days. The chamber meet stitution or make a new law, and ing will be followed by a meeting should have required only a bare of executive committee and other majority to re|>eal laws and amend committee heads who are handling ments. supervisory work of the celebra «%«r tion. The nation la law-soggy. It has The meeting will start about 7:30 been far easier to pass new laws p. m. in the chamt>er’s rooms up- and change the constitution than stairs In the old C. S. hotel. All (Continued on page two) Jacksonvllllans are invited. Chamber of Commerce Meeting Next Monday Yrekans Hang Heads as Jacksonville’s Gold Rush Jubilee Plans Launched to Shame Them Let Politics Be Damned!! Months ago The Miner stated that Earl Fehl was resorting to lies and trickery in his campaign for votes and the support of the "under dog.’’ His election showed that he was successful in fooling enough voters with his poison to win the county judgship. The Miner still thinks of Earl Fehl as a liar and misleader. During his campaign he championed the cause of the downtrodden taxpayer and the need of county economy. One of his glaring examples of “miscar riages of justice” was the fact that former county judges had been pocketing marriage license fees. Fehl, at one of his meetings prior to the election, declared from the speaker’s plat form that this income from marriage fees averaged “approximately $100 a month— of YOUR money.” Fehl said, as an exam ple of his “sincerity,” HE would turn every cent of moneys so collected by him into the county treasury. It all sounded fine and read well in the newspapers. If true, it would have been ok by us, too. But, like other claims made by the judge, there was little truth and no poetry in his claim. For, after assuming the office of county juge, Earl Fehl has turned into the county treasury exactly $10.50 for fees collected by him from January 2 to July I, 1933. A mere $589.50 short of what he said the other county judges should turn in in a like period! Either Earl Fehl has appropriated this “approximately $100 a month ’ to his own use, or he was an out-and-out liar when he told voters that such a large sum of their money was being pocketed by “the gang’s” judges every month. Then, shortly after assuming his office, Judge Fehl caused the following quotation to appear in his “bible," the county court journal: “Let the record further show that the deputy county clerk, who is acting as clerk of the court, whose salary set out under this order as being $70 per month, will be fur ther augmented by moneys received by the judge of this court in the performance of wedding fees insofar as said judge is able to apply same consistent with the services rendered.” Earl Fehl has constantly referred “his constituents” to the county court journal tiecause he has painted such a glowing pic ture of himself therein. But he never refers them to other records, which show that the deputy county clerk has NEVER RECEIV ED ONE CENT from “wedding fees” or any other source other than her regular sal ary paid by Jackson county! In opposing Fehl countyJudgi ;hl as county judge—or as life—The Miner is anything else in public [ not necessarily dealing in personalities, nor does it give a tinker’s damn about the po litical side. Its stand is prompted by this, and this alone: Jackson county has, unfor tunately, elected a dishonest, lying and in sincere man as county judge. Whether you like Fehl personally, or dislike him, there is no getting away from the fact that he is the poorest county judge Jackson county, or any other county, ever had! That is the beginning and the ending of The Jacksonville Miner’s stand on Earl Fehl, and this paper believes that the most convenient way is the best way to get rid of a snake. Several weeks ago Had Eye Pete, [of the chickens and will continue fresh (too fresh, in fact) from the | till the last dog is hanged the next hills, announced to the Jackson- ' morning. “And don’t fergit," warned Bad \ ville Chamber of Commerce mem- hers Just what would happen to Eye as he twirled his frontier mod- them if they didn’t stage such a el Colts and shot himself in the shindig here August 19 that the foot, “anything can happen!" Prob Yreka Hold Rushers would hide ably meaning that anything can .their heads in shame. happen, as It did last year when an Bad Eye. It seems, has a wav of old mining town casino, dance hall and what-not were running full I showing up In crucial moments to blast just as they did when parched spur townsmen on to doing bigger throated miners rode donkeys in | and better things. Well, it probably from the hills with pokes filled i would spur anyone to have a six- with yellow gold dust worth a for- i gun rammed tn their solar plexls, tune and left town a day or so for that matter. Hut Had Eye, who later flat broke. was so prominent here last summer A rodeo, which will give horse- ■ when the celebration attracted flesh a chance to display itself ns more than 10,000 people for a tiny, ft did when the old town was in still Insists that Jacksonville Is Its infancy in age only, will be , going to show laggard Yreka Just added this year, iih will log rolling what a real blazing mining camp contests, hardrock drilling, wood should be like. chopping, in fact every phase of "They think they know how to the frontier-pioneer existence in shoot up the town down thar,” spat the Oregon widerness will be re Pete as he sauntered dowi. Cali vived, ns will many mining con fornia street yesterday derisively tests. Much of the day's activity battering tin lizzies with his ter will be held on the main street, baccy Juice. "Waal, we’re gonnn which covers the richest placer show 'em Just what pikers they is, ground on the west ednst, includ ef’n I haftd shoot the heels off'n ing the goldfields of Alaska. every pair o' boots in town!” "I'm agolr to shoot every towns-; Bad Eye. who will he remem- man who la » behind in helping to | bored as one of the pair who shot put over this here celebration with j The new federal law does not It out at the Marble Corner last gold nuggets.” boasted Bad Eye as prohibit a man from investing in summer for the movies, and who he rubbed his pow ’er burns last I wildcat schemes but it makes pos adorned their checkered vests with night. “These here Yrakans thought1 sible for him to know what he is nuggetH fully six inches across, but they was gonna show us up by I which had the suspicious lightness copyin’ our idee last summer, but buying. The government evidently of pumice stone, aims to whip ex they’ll never git close to us this [ goes on the assumption that if a ecutive committeemen into line time. We’re gonna show ’em some man is a sucker, no power on earth ways. — Selah now and see thnt those below the things they never even heerd of can change his Slskiyous are given a real goal to before, and teach ’em just what (Wash.) Optimist. ------------- •------------- shoot at when it comes to copying fork to pick up when throwin’ a the old town’s brain child given minin’ camp entertainment,” Pete The Roosevelt measures are birth last August. This year the concluded as he lapsed into a coma working, if one may Judge from Gold Ruch Jubilee will be held for of remembrance of the days when the fact that so are more than a one single, sizzling day. August 19, he pocket hunted in the hills In nfillion of the heretofore unem and will commence with the rising stead of In his pal's pants. ployed.—Weston leader. "This paper does not pretend for a minute that prohibition has been a success. We doubt not thnt there ! is some better way to contend with the liquor evil.”—Sunnyside (Wn.) Times. i Umatilla county’s largest farm ers are now taking a personal part in the operation of their ranches. Rack in jumper and overalls, they are giving Old Man Depression the well-known razzberry. — Weston Leader, 5c a Copy But You Really Ought« Subscribe ■■ I Number 28 ’s Rapid Report OPP MINE ADDS Reed Tells True Talent CREW AS MILL NEAR COMPLETE Tramway Set Up; Tunneling Soon Ready for Raise to Top Level Harold Reed, well known In Jacksonville and Applegate, can do other things In a proficient man ner besides cut meat. Mr. and Mrs. Reed took up their brand new job as lookouts on Whiskey peak on July 6, and in three days Mr. Reed had a forest fire reported on El liott creek, being the first of four lookouts to phone the report in to the Star Ranger station. The blaze, caused by a camp fire, covered one- sixteenth of an acre and was soon extinguished by local talent on the forestry job. Other lookouts on duty this sum mer are Mr. and Mrs. Leonard An drews at Wagner Butte, Dean and Ed Saltmarsh on Tallowbox and Alex Schichtl on Dutchman’s peak. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Knutzen of the Applegate are occupying the home of Alex Schichtl near the ranger station during the summer, Mr. Knutzen having employment as packer. He fills the vacancy left by Clarence Bnck, who had been employed in forest service packing for a number of years. John Byrne has gone on duty again for the summer as fire guard on Little Ap plegate. Melvin Rowden has been stationed at Steamboat at the post formerly occupied by William Fruit. Slow but steady development at the Opp mine, now under lease to Pacific States Mines, inc., has ab i most returned it to the producer column. Within a few weeks the first 100-ton rod mill should be ready to turn over on the vast store of low-grade ore at the prop erty to recover additional thous ands in gold values lying dormant in the hills surrounding Jackson ville A 2000-foot tramway, clearing 1 for which started last winter, is i nearly completed from the mouth ¡of No. 11 tunnel, which will be used as route of ore from No. 2 I tunnel some 200 feet above the ' tramway head level. Blns, trestling and part of,the rail are in place. Drilling in No. 11 is advancing on ^two fronts, one to a point approxi mately 200 feet below valuable ore chutes in No. 2. This tunnel, near- ly half a mile in length, is within a few feet of where a raise will be drilled, connecting the two and affording ventilation as well as direct gravity movement of all ore. A new electrically powered com It may be rather unusual for pressor unit has been Installed in a dance produces black the mill shed which will supply 10 one . . to . say „ . cubic feet of pressure per second. nkl hut 11 ” anfl not a ph<j Two drills are being run from this nomena. After watching the red line at present, with power to spare variety go down in the little book for another half dozen. A crew of j for a few weeks, and then to have nine men is being kept busy in the lit suddenly change to black and raliTe'"d^'llin^^and'mucking, while »‘«X Mack, despite adversity, is another nine are busy outside in something to cheer the heart of stalling a water sump for the mill, the most blue-nosed Chamber of completing tramway construction Commerce member. There was a time, way back and conditioning mills, bins and grinders. Four new type dump cars there during the depression a few have been placed in operation in months ago. when the local dances were running behind a bit. The ¡No. 11 tunnel. orchestra was changed, advertising First unit to be completed will was resumed and io! today the Sat handle a minimum of 100 tons of urday night affairs are paying good ore daily, with storage and hand honest money into the chamber’s ling facilities for several more treasury. True, not much, but some. such units. The Opp mine has a Which all goes to prove, or at past record of producing rich pock- |fta’it“”indrciteTthat' the ' Jackso’n- ets along with lower grade ore. dances are once again becom- of which thousands of tons ^ave . Ing popularized among the younger, been blocked out. Pocket" » re- sprlghtlJer 8et For dancing till 2 corded values as high as $50,000 a. a m 8tnl hag Jta appeal> M well have been taken from the property as the improved musk of Glenn which comprises some 300 acres of HamlItoni Grants Pass musician patented land. who a]moat has become traditional At one time supporting a 20- as bandmaster’s in Oregon’s first stamp mill, the Opp mire has had gold camp. a hectic, and colorful past which generally ended In failure. Much of the mine’s trouble, however, ae- ccrding to geologic data, was due to improper treatment of ore. Val ues in this section run largely to i concentrates and years ago. when Jackson county and Klamath th«* mine was at its height, these American Legion junior ball teams values were lost in tailings and will decide which is the better nine often reached as high as 50 per Sunday as a feature of the double cent. It is planned, according to header which will be played on the John Price, in chtrge of the mine, Medford fairgrounds diamond. to save all values through latest The Legion juniors of Jackson developments in recovery methods.; county will start the afternoon at The mine, which once built the 1 p. m.. with a Medford-Eagle Point now phantom town of Oppville. Is game following. Pitchers for the agaii populating its rickety lean-to Legion youngsters will be Joe shacks with husky, sweating min- Smith and Skinny Wilson. the lat ere and their families. Buildings ter twice setting down the local and shafts which had lain dor- Miners with his curve balls while mant for years once again are be playing for the Table Rock nine, Ing pressed into the service and Until this year, when the Jack H... prefit of man and the timbered sonville juniors passed the 17-year- mountain which was the mecca of old age limit, thia city had contrib geld seekers is returning to its uted two championship nines and former glory and importance as ac several players to the Legion all tive production of gold approaches. stars. There is but one Legion team ------------- •------------- here this year, however, and is The sales tax is likely to be de representative of the entire county, feated in Oregon—not because it which will attempt to send the isn't advisable, but because the Pelican youngsters home with re voters all know they’ll have it to spectful notions of the southern pay.—Weston Leader. Oregon baseball prowess. Dances Continue to Produce Black Ink -------- e-------- Inter-City Legion Junior Tilt Sunday ‘To Bed With the Chickens’ Adage Taken as Literal by Local Inebriate Fearing Fowl Play Many of us. from early child housewife’s gaze toward a man ly hood. were drilled with the lesson ing prone alongside the pen with that “early to bed and early to head raised on one elbow and chat ■ rise makes a man . . .” The old ting, in a friendly and encouraging folks have a way of retiring with way. to the fowl inhabitants. the chickens, but generally only The sun had been high in the to the extent of observing their heavens for several hours and was ¡early hours. warming things up to no comfort One Jack8onvillian. however, able degree, yet the man who had I chose to take the expression in its chummed with the chickens wore a heavy sweater and seemed total 1 more literal form late last week. ly unmindful of everything but his It seems that there was occas- feathered acquaintances, who just , ion for several townsmen to ob couldn’t seem to understand his re serve some particular occasion— quests for another drink. He was best known to themselves—by as puzzled as were the two-legged i temptiq^ the dizzy uncertairities birds making sport of the attention ¡of intoxication. Their imbibial ex- they were getting. i cesses extended far into the night “Shay, I haint drunksh (hie); and even to the rising hour of rural Jush a little bit happy; jush gettin' folk, which is anywhere beyond ' shtarted, y’ know—jush gettin’ midnight and before sunup. shtarted. Don’ know where a fel- When the inevitable hour of reck- ler could scratch up ’nother drink, oning came it discovered the pair eh?” chanted the man as the house of celebrants sans cerebrum suf wife neared. "Shay, what’sa mat- ficient to safeguard their legging ter with ’em—they cackle like a lot it for home, a matter of some two o’ chickensh!” ejaculated the drunk or three blocks, and friends were as he spied the moving form close impressed into service with an au by. tomobile. One man. not quite so “I been tryin’ to get my palsh spifflicated as the other, helped his to move over and let me have some buddy out of the car and the two bed. but they don’ sheem to un- started toward their respective nerstan’ good Eng(hic)lish,” he ex doork. It also seems that one of plained when his eyes focused the two had to pass a neighbor’s enough to discern the folds of a chicken yard along the shortcut to dress. "Ish dura funny a feller can’t his doorstep, and temptation was take a 111’ drinksh with his friensh too great. without a woman buttin’ in. They For the next morning, along otta bar ’em from saloons, anyway." about 10 o’clock, one of Jackson- he hurled as he rolled over on his ville’s housewives heard a commo- other elbow and returned to sleep tion around her henhouse and pro amid the cackling derision of his ceeded to investigate. With hens bedmates for the night. Egg production that day, accord and roosters casting curious looks toward the fence, flapping their ing to the housewife, was seriously wings and running about as though curtailed by the hiccoughing en not quite certain just what behav tertainer who kept chickens’ minds ior was proper, they directed the off their business—or, rather, nests.