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“The Sheet That”s in the Pink”
Volume 3
Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, September 14, 1934
HB.il HANDED
INMULT
FIRE (OMI’ANY
SCHOOL WHEELS «.KEN
PACIFIC STATES
BY POWER O< TOPI SMES
dig and a downright dis­ TO SINK SECOND
TURN AS STUDES play A mean
of Ignorance, or something,
was handed Volunteer Fire com­
pany No. 1, of Jacksonville, Jack- WINZE FEW DAYS
BEND TO STUDIES son
county, Oregon yesterday when
The recent aeu disaster hns been
blamed onto everything, to date,
but drunken driving.
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When n man speeds down the
highway he m lane a moat of the
scenery. When he dashes through
life in a hurry he mimics moat of
life's scenery, too.
•
Which reminds us that the fel­
low who speeds down a road so
fast he misses most of the scenery
will be lucky to miss all of It.
•
Like a bur of candy, a little nut-
tineas helps all of ua
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Then there are those critics who
claim regimentation Is vexation
without representation.
•
Workmen have been busy this
week repaving the Pear City’s gut­
ters Nothing, apparently, is too
gisid for Medford's drunks.
•
Wit* the New Deal wimdng Its
can>|>algn In a strategic state, we
anticipate an election slogun this
fall of "Remember the Maine."
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If the Applegate Brush Marines
who left for a fire 30 seconds after
the alarm was turned in keep thia
up. Ranger Port will hnve to train
them in the art of stomping out
"carelessly thrown cigarets," in­
stead of fighting the resultant
blaze
•
Voliva, who predicted the end
of the world September 10, has
moved up the date an even eight
years lie may have saved the
world for a time, but it probably
will be held against him before the
winter is over.
•
Moore Hamilton, the marrying
•dttor of the Medford News, now
owes a mistreated couple u jour­
nalistic divorce by claiming it was
a typographical error.
0
It relieves the taxpayer's roll
for Uncle Sam to play the relief
role to the relief roll.
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"BI muhm I is th« taxpayer, if it
be more blessed to give than to
receive," says Clark Wood of the
Weston Leader However, we al­
ways thought the poor tax[>ayer
was getting it from all sides.
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Upton Sinclair claims he will
abolish poverty in California, but
we sus|M*ct that campaign promise
is directed at the poor fish.
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Judging from drouth reports, no
doubt a poor farmer in the coni
belt might properly be called a
corn-pauper.
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If the dead past would bury its
dead, many could live better.
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People who always "point with
pride” forget they shouldn't point
in public.
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Mr. Hoover has had a lot to say
lately about the New Deal, but
there probably are readers of his
articles who will remember when
Mr. Hoover told us there was no
panic and that the stock market
collapse of 1926 bore no national
significance.
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However, a broken heart is no
reason why a person should act
half-cracked.
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"This job of chimney cleaning
may not please the boss,” sajd The
Miner printer’s devil this week,
"but it sure soots me.”
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Jacksonville Is Well
Represented at C-C
Picnic in Portland
The old town of Jacksonville
may be merely historic now and
several paces behind its modern
neighbors, but it speaks for itself
in the names of prominent ex-
southem Oregon residents listed
by the Portland Oregonian who
had been invited to the picnic of
the Southern Oregon society to be
held in Portland last Sunday.
Col. Robert A. Miller, uncle of
Vivian Beach of this city, is presi­
dent of the society. Former Jack­
sonville residents who were in­
vited, some of whom were to
speak, are: B. F. Irvine, B. B.
Beekman, Joseph Hammeraley, K.
K Kubll and John A. Jeffrey. B F
Mulkey, formerly of Gold Hill, also
was listed. The picnic was to be
an all-day event at Peninsula park
and it is proposed to make the
gathering an annual affair for
Portland.
Concerning it the Oregonian
says: "The Portland Chamber of
Commerce is particularly inter­
ested in this picnic because of its
recent good-will excursion into
southern
Oregon," commented
Walter W. R May. manager of
the chamber, yesterday. “A con­
siderable number of southern Ore­
gon folk are coming to the picnic
as a gesture of returning the com­
pliment for our trip to the Med­
ford pageant.”
r
Highschool Rental Library
Started to Eventually
Eliminate Book Buying
Expense for Students
School bells pealed out Monday
morning, and more than 200
youngsters of District No 1 peeled
of summer play togs and trudged
toward the red brick building to
don their knowledge harness At­
tendance for this semester is about
same as last year, with 83 students
enrolled In upper grndes, 3« of
them being tuition attendants, or
students outside this district, while
grade school oened to an enroll­
ment of 141 children
Principal M E. Coe voiced the
opinion that high school attend
ancc may reach 90 in a few weeks
when fruit employment has tap­
ered off Twenty-one little tots en­
tered first grade here this year,
with 18 registered in second grade
Third grade accommodated 18.
while the fourth grade saw 19
members arrive Fifth and sixth
grades tied with 15 each, while
seventh grade boasted 19 Eighth Í
grade class comprised 16 members
A new feature this year at the
high sch<M>l ,according to Coe, is
the school book rental library be­
ing established, which saves stud­
ents a sizeable sum in the purchase
of some texts. Although started on
a comparatively small scale, the
library is planned to develop into
a textbook rental service that will.
In a few terms, provide all high
school students with texts which
will cost them only nominal rent­
als. sufficient to replace books
when obsolete or worn. All books
are furnished to graders.
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MARBLE CORNER LEASE TO
SALLY COLE MEANS MTART
OF RE.MODEIJNG, ADDITION
Preparatlon of lease for the
Marble Comer by 8. E. Dunning-
ton to Miss Sally Cole of Medford
was expxected to be underway late
this week, it was learned yester­
day. Miss Cole, a Medford and
Portland businesswoman, seeks
long-time lease on the building,
which she plans to transform into
southern Oregon's most individual
sandwich shop and beer parlor.
Plans being drawn by owners
call for new masonite dance floor,
the tearing out of a partition, re­
decorating and renovating of the
building, installation of plumbing
and the erection of a kitchen, with
work exjiected to be started within
next few days. Harold Reed, oper­
ator of the Marble Comer since
death of Tom Reed, plans to sell
his stock to Miss Cole. No definite
date for vacation of the property
in favor of the lessee has been set
as yet, though improvement work
will not be delayed.
Miss Cole also operates the
Gnome Inn in Medford, and was
attracted to Jacksonville by his­
toric interest of the old town,
which she feels will lend itself to
her new enterprise.
Division Accountant J. D. Ross
wrote Fire Chief Ray Wilson that
he was unable to locate the Jack­
sonville fire company.
"We have a light deposit to re­
fund and if you’ll advise us as to
the present whereabouts of the
Jacksonville fire company, we'll be
glad to retun the dough," or
words to that effect, wrote R ohs ,
who had better look out, as a
dozer-odd stalwart volunteer fire­
men are out for his scalp.
"Irn;.gine.” burned up one volun­
teer, "a guy asking us where the
Jacksonville fire company went to.
Somebody sure had a short-circuit
at Copco that time!" (Ross: You
know how to silence the press, but
look out for the smoke-eaters.)
Plan Shipment of Carload
Concentrates Every Two
Weeks; May Run Mill 24
Hours A Day Soon, Says
Mine Supt. H. G. Mitchell
Number 37
ROGUE RIVER ONCE NAMED
ROUGE’ BECAUSE OF RED
According to the Sheridan,
Oregon. Sun, original name of
the Rogue river was “Rouge,”
ho named by early French set­
tlers who noted its reddish
color. Unfamiliarity with such
an adornment as rouge at that
time resulted in a corruption
of the name to rogue, which
very apparently has stuck,
Although the reddish tinge
to Rogue river may not be
very noticeable in Jackson
county, still there were several
local fishermen who last Sun­
day saw red quite plainly
when a lot of window-shop­
pin« steelhead failed to heed
their sales talks to "swat that
fly.”
C-C WORK SENDS
WATER FLOWING
INTO RESERVOIR
Cleanup of Springs and
Construction of Flume
Send Needed Flow of
Fluid Into Little Pond
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After a summer of simmering,
thirsty conhumption of an unre­
With workmen below 100 foot
plenished water supply which now
level on winze in No. 18 tunnel
has reached an exceedingly low
cutting out sump for a station,
ebb, Jacksonville’s chamber of
another crew has been busy muck­
commerce officials decided some­
ing out a cave-in about 350 feet
thing should be done about the
farther into the mountain prepara­
tory to sinking a second winze to Mystery Metal Found situation and Monday sent a crew
of three men into the watershed
depth, cleaning out more than 700
cars of muck caved from an old On Applegate Stumps to clean up and conserve water
from several springs. First naif
stope. Started as an exploration of
lower depths, No. 1 winze has Assayors and Miners days work resulted in the uncov­
ering of a heartening flow of water
•
proven so encouraging that mine
operators plan much activity below
A mysterious, magnetic metal while later this week a steady
Gold Production Soars 1 level of No. 18. Both shafts are a has been discovered on Applegate stream of the scarce thirst-quench­
of manways down­ about 16 miles from Jacksonville er started on its way to the service
As IxK*al Buyer Tops 1 continuation
ward from ore chutes which had which has baffled several southern reservoir.
Although PWA officials an­
been wholly or partially worked Oregon chemists and assayors for
Record with $1000 Day out
years ago when the Opp mine classification or definition. The nounced Jacksonville's request for
was in early operation.
metal, found in small, flaky par­ $10,000 loan and $3000 grant had
A year ago $1000 in gold bought
ticles, is of gunmetal gray color been okehd some time ago, legal
With
an
augmented
crew
of
35
over his counter in an entire week men employed in two shifts under­ and has been located in a moun­ red tape has been tying up actual
was quite a something, according
and at mill. Pacific States tainous area covering a strip a arrival of the money while the city
to G. W. Godward, local merchant ground
plans
to
ship a carload of concen­ half mile wide by about three- i continued to watch a dwindling
and handler of the metal. But Sat­ trates every
; water supply disappear at an un­
two weeks. A 22-ton quarters of a mile in length.
urday Mr Godward had purchased car was dispatched
According to Wesley Blacet, dis­ comfortable rate. Local officials
for
smelter
more than a thousand dollars last Saturday, while oil flotation coverer of the metal who has and chamber of commerce mem­
worth of gold by mid-afternoon to units
have been busy churning out ground under mineral lease, sam­ bers had been hopeful that funds
set a new high one-day record.
values
60 tons of crushed ples of the undefinable material for installation of new pipeline be­
A very noticeable increase in ore each from
day
to
produce about two have been driven into case-harden­ tween large and service reservoirs,
amount and quality of gold has tons of concentrates,
an ed steel and is indestructible to all and for development of water,
developed recently, said Godward, 80 per cent recovery averaging
of
gold,
ac
­ ordinary effort. Gas-buming assay would be forthcoming soon enough
and local miners who have tun­
furnaces do not develop enough to help solve late summer's fire
cording
to
workmen
and
assayors.
neled into some of the town's
heat to fuse the metal, while the protection and domestic water
Mine
Superintendent
H.
G.
richest placer ground have done
hardest steel will not chip or break problem, but have been disappoint­
Mitchell
and
Foreman
Miller
hope
much to boost the increase. Back
the small particles which Blacet ed in the numerous delays and
and front yards and nearby pros- to be able to operate ball mill has been finding in his gold pan. technicalities. So Secretary Joe B.
|*ect holes account for practically three eight-hour shifts a day soon, The mysterious metal appears in Wetterer, Duke Lewis, President
all of the returns, although some putting the mine on an even more oxidized quartz, native rock and Punk Dunnington, Ray Wilson and
of the increase is due to the fact extensive basis for continued pro­ dirt, but not in placer ground, in­ other chamber leaders got their
that Wilmer Bailey of Gold Hill duction. Officials stated this week dicating that it is not of meteoric heads together and decided any­
has started marketing his poke in that, although three crews are origin.
thing was better than sitting
Jacksonville. Average price being working on development under­
Blacet, a prospecting engineer, around with parched lawns and an
ground
while
but
one
crew
is
en
­
l>aid over the counter is $28 per
unsatisfactory water supply while
gaged in getting out ore, the mine has spent a month prospecting on several springs dotting the water­
ounce for the naUve metal.
Applegate
and
comes
here
from
is on a paying basis, making bet­
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shed sent their contributions in
ter than all running expenses, in­ Pomona, Calif. His interest in the misguided directions.
metal
was
heightened
when
miner-
Chamber Commerce cluding non-productive develop- ologista and miners were at a loss Several springs above the now
to identify or classify the sam­ famous “dyke” have been cleaned
Dance Proceeds to ' ment.
H. G. Myers, president of North­ ples. Each particle, though exactly and their flow diverted into v-
Brokers, Inc., affiliated with alike in shape and character, var­ trough to a permanent pickup dam
Coffman’s Benefit west
development of Pacific States, and ies in size, largest not more than near the Norling fork in upper
Proceeds trum last Saturday J. J. Kamerman, an associate, ar­ an eighth of an inch in length, Jackson creek road, where water
night's chamber of commerce rived in Jacksonville last week to narrow and thin. Blacet has suc- follows a by-pass to connect with
‘ reeded in driving the flakes into pipeline to the small leservoir Al­
dance in the U. S. hotel were do­ look over the property. ' T*nu^
nated to a special benefit fund for Kamerman left over the week-end, steel rails, hard file handles, flat though the flow will be insuffi­
Mr. and Mrs. Ike Coffman of this Myers has remained for a short irons and other generally impene­ cient to serve the city's restricted
city through cooperation of the time, and has expressed great sat­ trable materials without as much needs, it will prolong actual shut­
chamber and orchestra members, isfaction with conditions at the as denting his samples. The metal off somewhat and provide a steady
under direction of Carl F. Larson, mine. Particularly gratifying to is peculiarly magnetic, being at­ stream of water into the storage
who donated salaries as their me,” said Myers shortly after his tracted to non-magnetized steel, tank which, a few summers ago,
share Secretary Joe B. Wetterer arrival from Boise, Idaho, "is and repulsed by copper. It is found was filled by truck from Medford.
early this week turned over $48.25 progress made and quantity and along with gold and black sand. The chamber’s work will eliminate
to Mr. Coffman, who has been value of concentrates being recov­
Prospector Blacet planned to any such necessity, it was said. It
acting as floor manager for some ered.”
show samples of his metal, which was pointed out that, had this con­
time. The recent death of Warren
For about a year the mine has has a specific gravity of between servation of the already uncovered
Coffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ike made rapid strides toward being a 14 and 15, to assayors and miner- flow taken place early this sum­
Coffman, occasioned the benefit.
steady producer, and recent dis­ ologists of Pacific States mines mer. Jacksonville would not now
Fellow employes and friends of covery of an underground flow of this week in his effort to properly be facing as serious a water short­
Warren Coffman at Pacific States water in No. 1 shaft has enabled classify his find, and to determine age.
Dan’l (Boone) Shuss, Axel Lund-
mine also contributed to a benefit operators to run mill two shifts a whether it bears any commercial
pool last week which was donated day. A distinct water shortage had value. So far as is known, the pe­ i gren and Emil Roseman made up
to his parents. Young Coffman's curtailed operations before work­ culiar material has never before i crew hired by the Jacksonville
untimely death Monday, Septem­ men blasted into the flow.
been noted in southern Oregon, ac­ Chamber of Commerce, which is
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using revenue from its weekly
ber 3, was a tragedy which
cording to old-timers.
According to the East Oregon­
touched deeply his many friends
Blacet, as a last resort, is plan­ dances for the work. There may be
and neighbors
ian, "Clark Wood says it is just ning to consult a ouiji board or other development carried on later
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too bad when Niagara falls; it the stars in an effort to determine near site of present effort, ac­
cording to Secretary Wetterer,
A rolling home likewise gathers would be tough if Weston had no what his peculiar find really is.
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who has long cherished dreams of
no moss. -Weston Leader.
Wood."
plenty of water for the city's needs
LADY PIANIST TO FEATURE
SUNDAY NIGHT’S MEETING from present reservoir as a result
of proper development and conser­
Mrs. Arduth Taylor Blair will vation work.
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be guest artist of Mr. L. M. Seltzer
Sunday night at the regular meet­
ing in the former Norris store Copco Movies to Be
building here, the evangelist said
Shown at Applegate
this week. Mrs. Blair, a pianist of
technique and knowledge of the
The Copco motion picture reels
intricate phases of piano playing,
will render four special numbers of Medford’s Diamond Jubilee will
be shown at Applegate hall to­
for those present.
Mr. Seltzer, who has been hold­ night during the open meeting of
ing meetings five nights a week in the Grange here. C. R. Bowman,
the store room, invites all to at­ county school superintendent, will
be present and will talk on the tax
tend and to enjoy the programs.
limitation bill. The public is cor­
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The roaring, rip-snorting good dially invited to this meeting,
old days of '49 will live again on which will end with a social eve­
September 14 ,15 and 16 when the ning. The Grange is devoting one
third Yreka Miners Gold Rush session each month to an open
celebration is held at Yreka, Calif. meeting for the public.
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This little city of Siskiyou county,
in the heart of the mountains and ALBERT HECKERT CHOSEN
NEW SATURDAY DEPUTY
the mining industry, has made
elaborate plans to hold the great­
Albert Heckert, local resident,
est celebration since the forming has been chosen by city officials
of the Yreka Miners association as special Saturday night deputy
three years ago, and extends to all marshal to assist in proper polic­
its neighbors to the north, south, ing of local daneqs, salary to be
east and west a cordial invitation paid by the chamber of commerce,
to join in the celebration, visit which sponsors the affairs.
Heckert started in his new ca­
Yreka and enjoy the many enter­
tainment features which have been pacity last week-end, during which
provided for this great occasion.
time no disorder and practically no
With all of the citizens of Yreka boisterousness was in evidence,
in the miner garb and old-time according to residents. Although
clotheB of the days of '49; windows the usual large crowd was present,
displaying the relics of the good dancers were more than ordinarily
old days; cowboys riding through well behaved, what with ample law
the dust-covered streets; and the to keep a weather eye out for the
occasional roar of a six-shooter; few unruly who sometimes dis­
the din, noise, music and lights of credit an entire dance crowd.
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the gambling halls—the visitor
will truly feel that he has dropped
CARD OF THANKS
into an old mining town of days
We wish to extend our sincerest
that are gone, but will always be appreciation to friends who were
remembered, as they played such so generous in their kindness and
an Important part in the estab­ sympathy during loss of our son
lishing of our two great western and brother, Warren Coffman, and
states California and Oregon.
for the mrny flowers. Particularly
Gambling hall, street stunts, mu­ do we want to thank the boys at
sic, fun. frolic will .hold forth all Pacific States mine and the Jack­
three days of the celebration, with sonville Chamber of Commerce for
baseball games, parades and many their thoughtfulness
other special features and oontests MR. AND MRS IKE COFFMAN
AND FAMILY.
adding to the program.
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