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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1934)
Page 4 The JACKSONVILLE MINER be mistaken for anything but just found anything worth while, his I the high slopes and cliffs of the exactly what it is. backers were to furnish a stamp rough mountainsides. in California, I found a quarts *nill. or any machinery needed for I used to have my best luck lead once in just that way. A handling the ore And at the end selling claims to club members in ; of the aeaaon, or termination of quartz lead was known to cross a the cities Prosperous merchants certain mountainside, but the top the grub-stake, all the camp outfit, ami other city dwellers have their soil was deep and though 60 pros I guns, pack animala. etc., were to clubs at which they get together pect holes of from six to 20 feet be the property of the prospector. and discuss affairs of all kinds deep had been sunk on the ground Of course many grub-stakes were Those days they all had the mining through which it was supposed to made in different ways. I am only fever T^tke a mining claim that run .it had never been encountered. outlining the method mostly used would assay an ounce of gold, or Poet Reynolds Proses Pio For two weeks I crossed this For myself I generally had a first- better, per ton on the surface, in outfit of my own. animals, a not too remote locality, if they neering of Rock-Knocker mountain daily to get to a place class higher up where I was prospecting guns and everything needed and could purchase such a property Who Dug Up Original at the time One afternoon as 1 only used the grub-stake as a mat for say »1200 or »1500 cash, they ter of policy and convenience. I would be* only too glad to take ad Worth of the Great West was returning to camp I happened didn't always have good partners, vantage of such a bargain They to stop for a look around and at once noticed a tree like I speak though, and in time became op would put four or five men to By J. C. REYNOLDS of whose ixxits had been poisoned posed to having any {»artners at all work developing the ground and It is owing almost altogether by the copper and iron and arsenic and became convinced I would do at their dubs they could saunter to the prospector that the vast in the mineral deposit below it. far better to go it alone. That way around with their thumbs in their to suit myself, had no vest holes and an expensive cigar territory west of, and including About 200 yards beyond it I saw I could work to make to anybody, and between their teeth and discuss the Rocky mountains, was settled another, and following along in the apologies no one to contrary me in regard their mining property out in the in such short order. The prospector same direction I discovered others as with his burros would adventure all in a line, while the rest of the how. to where I should prospect, or hills and the progress that was being made on It. They got a great far ahead of the settlements, find forest on each side wits just the With partners I generally kick out of that And though none gold or some other valuable min- plain, ordinary stand of various worked too hard in my efforts to erals, spill the information and kinds of trees like one sees any make a suitable showing to them of the claims I sold ever made a great mine, some indeed paid for then would come the rush of per- where. So I knew well enough that In early days it was no trick at a while before being worked out haps thousands of hardy men who a mineralized ledge ran in that wished to share in quickly gotten direction as indicated by the half all to sell a hole in the ground and if I had had more claims to riches. Not all were lucky and not dead. green-topped firs. Next that showed any amount of min sell in that vicinity. I could have all could prospect or mine, but morning I brought my tools and eral value The country was full of sold them to the same parties once on the ground they soon be started digging right at the base people who wanted to take a easily enough. came aware of the possibilities of of the tree I had noticed first, and chance on mining, enthused by You may think that in selling the country, and while some es two feet under the surface I found the numbers of really fine mines all these claims I took a chance of tablished a mining camp and the ledge that proved to be three being discovered and the immense started in business of one sort or feet wide and which brought us fortunes many of them produced. parting with some rich bonanza another, others found openings for »6000 three months afterward. I Pretty near all of the prospectors that might have made me rich I their various trades and still oth neglected to say that there were had claims around in the hills to will not only say that If I bail a ers settled on the surrounding three of us, which made »2000 sell and any time they were in claim that I was certain, after town they would have no trouble thorough examination of the for lands and took to ranching or cat apiece. A prospector should never get m meeting someone who wanted mation surrounding it. would turn tle raising. Then the average pros to be a big mine, 1 wouldn't pector, feeling that the country to believing he knows it all. as to get into the mining game if out have sold It. I knew my stuff too was too full of people and his toes every mining district has its own they could buy in reasonably. A well anything like that. I never were in danger of being tramped peculiar characteristics. which great many of the prospectors sold for but one claim in my lif<* that on. would pack his burros and may be altogether different from held their claims far too high, but amounts anything an<l that strike out for some new spot anything he has ever encountered, I found that by putting the price barely paid to expenses and a little and must be learned carefully be right, I would have no trouble in where he felt there was not so much danger of being crowded. Go fore he can consider himself at all selling any of my claims for cash. better for about 10 years. where you will in all this western familiar with conditions in that lo I made it a point to tell the exact land and inquire as to when and cality. The first California miners truth in regard to any claim I how it was first settled and you that came to Leadville said it was sold and also in every instance will always find that the pros impossible that big gold values underestimated its assay value, so IlVfl ■ Children 10c pector was the guy who found could be found in sandstone. Yet it that the purchaser would find it a little bit better than what I had something good in the mineral was so. In Nevada, where there was no represented. I also found it paid Saturday Only line to begin with, and that was what attracted the first settlers, quartz to be found. I inquired of me to take pains to put a good though naturally in time people the prospectors where they were front on any tunnel 1 wished to KEN MAYNARD In branched out to considerable dis getting the gold that showed up sell. A purchaser cannot help but be influenced by the first Im tances away, but stayed with the in long strings in the pans. And when they told me they were get pression he gets of a claim. If he country just the same. sees only any ugly hole in the Prospecting in early days while ting it from the crystallized lime ground that causes him to stoop to so abundant in that vicinity, I “PIRATE TREASURE the west was still wild was an oc certainly thought they were try crawl inside, he gets a bad impres cupation that would furnish a man of the layout right there, un Sunday and .Monday with about all the thrills he need ing to kid me. But it was so sion less he is either a thorough mining ed. And it is a fine, clean business Throughout the west Jasper quartz man who knows his stuff, or can is supposed to be barren. Yet I hunting for the hidden riches of be shown something inside that is old Mother Earth and constantly found a dike of Jasper quartz in really rich. Whereas, if when he adding to the wealth of the world. Colorado, some of which assayed approaches a tunnel he finds it as high as »60 a ton in gold alone. Almost all other occupations con and roomy, with stout, hewed sist in simply transferring wealth My partner and I found a chunk high in front and perhaps a from some other person’s pockets of Jasper that had a round gold timbers with which the tools can be into your own. There is something nugget in it as large as a pea We door wiiii RUDY VALLEE up inside, and everything very fascinating to the prospector had this sawed in halves and each locked looking shipshape, he thinks to JIMMY DURANTE in this game of hide and go seek. one of us had his half set into a himself. "Now here is something To live close to Mother Nature, gold ring which we wore just to worth while, why would this Tuenda.v and Wednesday to commune with her. learn to show to fellows who would argue trouble have else been taken to make read her most carefully guarded that no gold was ever found in everything secure? ” That is sim Jasper quartz I have even seen secrets, is an ideal existence. gold in marble in California and I ply human nature, or perhaps you That is the reason why forest can assure you if I hadn't seen it. might call it psychology. Anyway, rangers are so devoted to their I would never have believed it. So it always worked fine for me. In with FRANCES DEE jobs and prefer that kind of life it don’t pay a fellow to know too those days the law only required to anything else that may be of- much about a lot of these things, one to expose 10 feet of his vein, ALISON SKIPWORTH fered, although many of them because oftentimes he has to back and as there were hundreds of could make far more money in up and acknowledge he is wrong. veins exposed for 50 or 100 feet, Thursday and Friday some other line of industry. To a And that seems to hurt a lot of al) one had to do for the first gold hunter who t^as learned to wise guys that I have met in my year's assessment was to stake it read the surface signs. Mother Na ramblings. out and. of course, get it recorded ture speaks in guarded whispers Probably half of my prospecting in 90 days afterward. It was pol that he can understand. Grass, or has been done on a grub-stake, icy though to build a good trail to The Im|>oHNÌbl<* ('omen the color of the grass, bushes, or which works out all right if you the claim, so a city man could get to the Screen! the color of the bushes, or the kind happen to connect in with the up to it without becoming dizzy on of bushes, will tell him something. right parties. If you are unlucky Even an insignificant badger hole enough to have as partners the or a tiny stream of water some wrong kind of people, it is not so times speaks volumes. I have good. Any man being grub-staked talked with hundreds of people is supposed to be broke, whether who are forest-bred and with log he is or not ,the same as any man gers who spend their whole time applying for a job at a tie-camp in the woods and make their living is supposed to be without means from the forests, who didn't know to purchase tools, provisions or a 4191/1 EAST MAIN there are five kinds of dead trees camp outfit, and these are fur PHONE 84 Acrons from Koxy Theater and that each kind has its own nished without question before he BEAUTY SERVICES particular message for him who starts to work wants to receive it. AT A SAVING The usual method in grub-stak Expert Radio Repair »2.00 There are trees that are killed ing anyone was as follows: The Permanent Wave . ..... by fire, trees that are killed by parties of the first part agreed to Finger Wave ................ ..... 25c WITH (XJMPLETE lightning, trees that are killed by furnish the party of the second MODERN EQUIPMENT 25c Comb Wave .................. the ravages of bugs, trees that die part, the prospector, with a com 25c of old age. Then there are trees plete outfit of whatever was Shampoo ........................ EAKLY OK LATE PHONE «68 whose roots are poisoned by the needed during the term of the con Haircut .......................... 25c minerals in quartz ledges or in tract. A camp outfit, cooking uten Marcel ............................ ...... 25c mineralized dikes, in whose crev sils, portagle forge for blacksmith .................... ....... 25c ices they have found lodgment, ing, guns, ammunition and pack Manicure and such trees generally are dead animals if necessary, half wages Eyebrow Arch ............ ....... 25c part of the way up while the tops and half of whatever was found. Scalp Treatment .......... 50c are still green. To the close ob If miner’s wages were »3.50 per 50c Hot Oil ............................ server there are distinctive signs day, the prospector received »1.75 | Facaila 50c . about such a tree that can never per day for spending money. If he J PIONEER WAS PRECEDED BY PROSPECTOR ROXY 20c Æ Friday, Auguat 17, 1934 III speaking of scllliig claims, of course It was understood that I could not give a title to the ground But the government allows anyone to sell their Improvements, which Is generally refsrrtd to ax selling a claim. 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