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“The Sheet That*» in the Pink”
Volume 3
Jacksonville, Oregon, Friday, October 19, 1934
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CITY DADS BACK 10th Be IxMikout
(¿adío Equipped
The tenth lixikout station in the
WATER SEEKERS Applegate
district, which will be
an emergency post, will be built
this fall on Mt Isabel on Forest
AS FLOW BULGES creek.
The houm- will b<- built on a
Americn Is a land of opportun-
ity. Young inventors have a wide-
open field In devising trick louvres
for automobile hoods.
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Spring Water Sees Neither
Sun Nor 'Bugs*; Ample
for City’s Needs; Water
Comes Direct to Mains
50-foot tower and, owing to lack
of telephone lines In that section,
will is- equipped with radio for re­
ceiving ami transmitting messages.
The building will be erected by
Ross Dickey, forest service con­
struction foreman, and hie crew of
Brush Marines Charles Knutzen,
packer for the forest service, is
packing the material to the moun­
tain site this week. I^ater in the
season the CCC workers will build
a road to the mountain top.
With the recreational program
of the forest service having prior­
ity over other work at the present,
work will begin immediately on
establishment of camp grounds In
the high hills With the network
of new roads intersecting the
mountains, the forest service be­
lieves It advisable to equip likely
camping sisits with conveniences
for the numerous travelers and va-'
canonists next year.
Safety In the woods will never
Mayor Wesley Hartman and his
I k * accomplished until hunting li­ city councilmen late last week
censes are piloted on bullet prOCrf made a personal nppeurance at
vests.
scene of waler development activi­
ties of th«* Jacksonville Chamber
The man who has the fewest vir- of Commerce and volunteer fire
bOMtk till- most ami Joe (Air­ company, which had exhausted
flow) Dunne’s modesty Is equaled their $150 wuter fund, and were
only by his circumference.
sufficiently Impressed to back the
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project with $250 of the city’s
I arbor continues Incorrigible over money.
the world Hungarian miners went
l-at«* Saturday compressor was
on a hunger strike because their placed, pip«- relaid and a crew of
pay Was not raised from $2 to three workmen started driving
$3.A0 per week. It is supposed tunnel in granite where a short
communists were at the bottom of opening had uncovered much of
the insurrection.
the present flow of water. The
work has been pressed forward
A brain truster seems to be a night and day, with three-shift op­
college professor no one will trust eration, and water flow has been
more than doubled, increasing
Probably about the most out­ from 30,(XX) gallons at the start
standing accomplishment for which to twice that amount by Tuesday
By M.E.P.
the present generation will be re­ night enough to supply the city's
Fritzzic Offenbacher was out on
membered Is the invention of cello­ domestic needs. Workmen expected
phane lllxtory students. In years the flow would be developed to a horse the other evening doing
to come, should at least t>e able to about a gallon a second, or near | the biggest share of the work in
.*«•■«• through that
HO.(XXJ gallons In 24 hours, more I bringing home the cows.
water than householders can use,
Charley Hamilton gave a con-
1 Crete example of one having his
The government has subsidized excluding irrigation.
farmers for not raising pigs, but
The water, like Medford's fa­ hands full when he wheeled in a
what might ba as timely would be mous supply, sees neither daylight wheelbarrow full of night’s wood
a dole to agitators for not raising nor contamination at any point, and tried to greet a passing auto-
hell.
flowing directly from granite into ist.
covered flume to pipeline, which
Morris Byrne is fully equipped
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The aublety of it all! Art (Hie) carries it past both large and small for business now except for a so­
Powell, in his Central Point Amer­ reservoirs and directly into the cial secretary. Morris administers
ican last week, commends th«* city’s mains as clear, cool, pure first aid to himself following all
county judge with lavish adjec­ water quite as fit for drinking and the football games, at the same
tives In one column and. a little general use ax any available. time writing editorials and "The
farther down, says he "has a Water Marshal James Littell over Diggins" on the High Prospector.
hunch" his town la to receive some the week-end tumnl spring water He says writing editorials is not
road work from the county court into by-pass and for nearly a week much work and mostly imagina­
s«x>n
the tiny drill holes scoffed at as tion.
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"silly" a few days before have
Lorraine Offenbacher seems to
supplied the city's needs. The large be suffering from the effects of a
Auto Horns Don’t
reservoir has been dry for 10 days Portland dance step. She also felt
while the smaller tank will hold wide awake the next day after a
Count; Hunters Lam only a few hours supply.
dance the night before.
Although Jacksonville's water-
Lamentations are in order from
As Others Get Meat she«j
has been “condemned" by Ed Warford because he has not
Maintaining that "a hunter was many residents as An arid dream, killed a deer. Ed is still looking
behind every tree" in th«* Ijikeview and Medford water has been touted for a place to hunt and accuses
his neighbors of killing all the deer
country, Tom Mcc and Art Hooper as thia city's only salvation, the on
-HHiy-moOntatn.
TFriirnsd tn th«*1r homes at Apple­
Amos McKee evidently was sub­
gate and Granta Pass feeling lucky resulted in giving a thirsty city
crystal-ciear water almost in jected to a little back-seat driving
to or alive, following a week-end pure,
The result la only in- one night while he drove his soph­
trip to the sagebrush district. abundance,
Starting upon their jaunt to the dicative of whnt can I m - accomp- omore granddaughter to a dance
with the $3000 sum to come at the rate of 10 miles per.
woods. the men counted 150 cars lished
Several have had tussels and ar­
belonging to hunters strewn over from I'WA for further water de­
backers of the work guments with the dentists lately,
the area, and decided the wocxls velopment,
pointed out.
some of whom won, including
were overflowing and returned.
Charley Mee (who did NOT win),
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As to whether there's anything Residents Give Street Ross Dickey and Mrs. Tom Mee.
In a name, a state policeman found
street in Jacksonville to receive
that there is more truth than fic­ ‘Ride Test’; Say Oke much-needed attention after two
tion when he stopped a car in the
years, due to thé fact residents of
Siskiyous bearing a buck on each
The famous 10-block "ride test” that thoroughfare were the only
bumper. "Who killed them?" he which a few days ago would pitch ones to get together and finance
asked. "I did,” replied the driver. the paint off any car, wax as the work, which cost about $20 for
"What's your name?" "Kllham." smooth as a traveling salesman's the day. Other streets, needing at­
Horace Kilham of Portland, a line Tuesday night when tried on tention as badly, are starting into
guest of his cousins. Fidward and South Oregon street from Califor­ their next two years of rough ex­
Chester Kubll. was the proud pos­ nia avenue to above the Walton istence.
sessor of the meat. Motoring hen- place. County equipment, Jack
Thrasher and his crew scarified
one day last week for a few days Thrasher, donations for expenses the street Tuesday and then grad­
hunting trip, Mr. Kllham and the and a- day's labor worke«l the ed the surface, leaving a smooth
Kubll brothers reached Dutch­ transformation.
roadbed replacing theh near-creek
man's peak at 6 o'clock one morn­
South Oregon was the only bottom. Thrasher donated his time.
ing and an hour later had bagged
two deer, one of which was an
eight-point weighing 150 pounds
With the animals lashed to the
bumpers, Mr. Kilham left for Port­
land the following morning to put
the meat in cold storage.
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S’MATTER POP
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Neighbors in the Little Apple­
gate section believe that Carl
Ayres, school teacher there, was
the victim of a joke during the
week-end. when he and Mrs. Ayres
went hunting, bringing back a
buck upon which Mrs. Ayres
placed her tag and took to Port­
land with her. Mrs. Ayres came
here from the Rose City for a brief
vacation, equipped with an Oregon
hunting license presented her by
her employers. Friends still are
unable to say who actually shot
the deer, although it is said to be
the last one on the hill.
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A successful trip to Donamore
during the week-end was reported
by a group of local men, includ­
ing George, Harry and Hugh
Brown, Mathew Ray and Gene
Mee, who returned with three deer.
Henry Kubli, Walter Miller and
John Griffin of Medford have re­
turned from a short trip to Bly,
bringing back one deer.
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Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Dunnington
and A. S. Klelnhammer of Little
Applegate spent last week at
Freezeout, and came home with
reports of no luck. They saw sev-
eral small deer, but by the time
they had located the big ones it
was time to come home, they said.
Mr Klelnhammer also spent some
time riding after cattle while
there.
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BYBEE HOUSE GETS PICTURE
The William Bybee house, lo­
cated near Jacksonville, received
a news play-up October 2 when
the Oregon Journal reproduced a
photograph of the structure, built
in the late (10's. The house, owned
by the original family, is in good
repair and is a familiar landmark
in a district filled with them.
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Pioneer Men May Have Been
Tough, But Couldn’t Take Bit
Overly Odorous Rotted Cheese
Number 42
WILL COST $3,470
TO RUN JATVILLE
TWELVE MONTHS
By .1. C. REYNOLDS
you off a little piece of this to take
About the hardest thing for me with you and when you get around
in writing these little sketches of to taste it you will like it so well Budget Group Perfects the
life on the western frontier is to you will buy «ime of it when you
Proposed Cash Outlay in
remember the correct dates on come in againI thanked him and
which these events happened. I dropped it in my pocket and soon
1935;
Waterworks Will
never kept a diary as so many forgot all about it.
Carry Usual Heavy Load
people do. so I have nothing like
Next morning I took the stage
that to refer to. Nor did I consider to go over to El Moro, four miles,
Meeting with city council to
the adventures that befell me of where I could take the train for
enough importance to be written home. It was a big Barlow and perfect budget for next year, Joe
down nor (lid I make any especial Sanderson covered stage and there B Wetterer, John R Norris and
effort to remember them. It is my were three men in it when I got E A. Langley special budget
disposition to live more in the fu­ in. Presently a woman got in and committee appointed by city offi­
ture than in the past. So many sat down facing me. I sure hated cials—last week prepared their
new and Interesting things coming that as I was smoking a fine 15- findings for submission to legal
into view almost every day that cent cigar and didn t want to voters of Jacksonville. The budget,
absorb my whole attention, which throw it away. Finally I decided to as proposed, calls for the expendi­
Is more to my liking than to have go on smoking moderately, keep ture of $3470 during the year for
my mind all cluttered up with an eye on the woman and blow municipal operation, with an ad­
memories of past events, many of the smoke out the window, which ditional $7307 to be raised by tax­
which were quite disagreeable and was open. It wasn't long before I ation for various water bonds and
saw the woman begin to turn pale. their sinking funds.
were best forgotten.
Marshal and water superintend­
So in regard to dates, I avoid Cussing myself for a brute. I threw
them whenever possible They are the cigar out the window but, to ent’s salary is one of the largest
not important anyway. In the old my dismay, the woman grew more single items recorded in city ex­
days I was looking for adventures pale. At last she reached over and pense, being set at $900 for the
and enjoying them to the fullest. touched me on the knee and asked year, while expense of the water
And a lad like me, who jumped me if I would kindly stop the stage department was set at $300 Re­
around all over the country, could so she could ride outside. I called corder’s salary totals $240 for 12
crowd a lot of experiences into one to Brown, the driver, whom I knew months, while roads and bridges
year and be In a lot of different slightly, having helped him break will receive an allotment of $200,
a horse the day before, and he as will water meter expense. It
places.
Some dates I remember perfect­ stopped and assisted the woman to will cost the city an estimated
ly because they were impressed the seat beside him, after which $950 for lights next year, while an
on my memory. For instance, I everything was all right. I reached emergency fund of $250 will be
remember 1883 for the reason that camp in good shape with all the provided to fill in gaps. Receipts
a society was formed called the groceries, hung up my coat, laid to cover these disbursements will
San Juan Pion«?era and every mem­ my cigars aside and went to work. come from the following: Refund
ber had to show he had been in the But next day brought a terrible market road levvy $125, impound­
San Juan country as early as 1883. commotion. My three partners ed stock and fines $75, water col­
These old-timers seemed to think swore loud and fiercely about the lections $2900. general fund to be
they had done something great by awful stench that permeated every raised by taxation $332, and mis­
coming to the country in that year nook and corner of our house and I cellaneous receipts $38.
As usual, the city’s water de­
and helping to settle it. Maybe j joined in with a few spicy cuss
they did, but I couldn't seem to see | words that I had picked up in Ari- partment will carry the bulk of
it. I was there in 1881, two years ; zona from the experts in that line. city expense, as well as paying its
ahead of that, and went through . Something had to be done right own way, exclusive of bonds. A
a lot of hair-raising perils that now about that damn stink, they completely itemized budget will be
most of them did not have to face,, declared. It would kill the devil found in this week's Miner, headed
but never imagined there was any-' himself to have to smell that all Resolution No. 147.
An open meeting will be held
thing very wonderful about it. Just the time. Evidently some animal
felt like I was having a corking had crawled under the floor and Wednesday. November 7, for dis­
good time, and never bothered to j died and, by Jehosafat, the floor cussion and vote on the proposed
would be torn up by the roots and budget, at which time all qualified
join their society.
Along about the middle of the that rotten carcass removed from voters may take part in the adop­
80's (forget the exact date) I came there if it took all day to do it. tion, rejection or change of the
slipping back to the Spanish peaks But before going to all that proposed levy.
country from Arizona and at once ! trouble they began to sniff around
got a chance to go in partners I to locate, if possible, the spot in Monte I found my master and
with three other young guys who where this unholy stench came by dinner time I had just $10 left
had a chance to lease a shingle from and wound up by tracing .it of my $120. Monte invited me to
mi 11 Mini needed, a. good packin'. I into a corner where my coat hung eat with him and his wife, who
don’t pretend to be a cracker-jack innocently on the wall, in which was a half-Castilian and sure knew
at everything, but I was really a reposed that forgotten chunk of her stuff when it came to cooking.
top-hand at packing shingles and cheese. And maybe I didn't get
After dinner I was standing on
liked the work too. We got along razzed.
the porch of the saloon smoking
I realized then what had made and feeling pretty blue when a
fine while the job lasted and made
some good money out of it. We the woman turn pale in the stage. long, lanky cowboy came riding up
batched and did our own cooking. She doubtless wished to get as far and, stopping his horse in front of
Running out of groceries after a away as she could from a man who me. stared at me a full minute be­
time. I was elected to go down to used that kind of perfumery. Any fore he spoke. Then he said. “What
Trinidad and get some more while old smoker can tell you the reason the hell are you looking so down­
why my attention was not attract­ cast about. Stranger?”
the others worked.
While buying our supplies the ed to such a vile odor. When a
I replied. “You would be look­
grocer brought forth a new kind man is smoking and his nostrils ing some downcast yourself if you
of cheese that had just been put and lungs are full of the aroma of had been a damn fool like me and
on the market. It was quite ex­ good cigar smoke, there are many lost all your money like I have.”
pensive. a dollar a pound, was bad odors that will pass unnoticed
“There is only one answer to
I will remark, though, that none that,” he chortled. “You have been
carefully wrapped in tin-foil and
had little rotten spots all over it. of that brand of cheese ever found mixed up in a poker game with
And talk about smell! It smelled its way to our table. We all agreed Monte.”
worse than any limburger that I unanimously on that point. We had
“Right the first time,” I told
ever saw. He tried to sell me some been known on occasions to in­ him. “and it cost me just $110 in
dulge in limburger, but felt that good, hard American money.”
but I declined.
Then he wanted me to taste it, when it came to this new variety
"Listen,” he responded. "I’ve
but I said I didn't care to as I was of cheese it was time to draw the rode 20 miles from my camp this
line.
smoking a good cigar at the time.
morning, just to get a game with
After finishing that job I made that bandit. As soon as I get a
Then he said “I am going to cut
a bee-line for the rich silver min­ bite to eat, you and I will get
ing camp of Silver Cliff which was Monte into a game and double­
then entering a boom period. Left team on him. He really plays
my bed, which consisted of two square cards, but I am sure we can
extra-large pretty Navajo blankets take him down the line quite a
that I had picked up in the reser­ ways. What do you say?”
vation for $14 apiece. In Denver
I told him I might as well be
blankets like mine, though much broke as the way I was and if he
smaller an inferior in every way, felt lucky we might be able to put
were selling to tourists for from quite a dent in Mr Monte’s bank­
$100 to $125 each. When I became roll before supper time. So, after
located I intended to send for these he had eaten, we three got into a
blankets, but they were too fancy game. Nobody else showed up and
for a working man to own, so they we three played all afternoon.
were stolen and I never saw them When we caught Monte in a tight
again. Leaving the train at Huer­ place we whip-sawed him back and
fano station, I struck out afoot. forth for all that was in it. We
Presently a Mexican with a buck­ never stopped for supper. When
board picked me up and I stayed the dance started in the big hall,
at his ranch that night after a which was in the same building,
20-mile lift. Next morning after we paid no attention. Just kept
breakfast I hit the road again and playing while Monte’s partner took
about 10 o’clock arrived at a little care of things in the saloon When
hamlet named Gardner, consisting the fandango broke up we were
of a few houses, a combination still playing and at 1 o’clock next
store, saloon and dance hall, owned morning the cowboy had won $200
and run by two Mexicans, one of of Monte's money uia I had got­
whom was named Monte.
ten all mine back and five or six
Now this Monte was a pretty dollars more.
smart Mexican. He was so darned
Monte himself proposed that we
clever that a few years later he quit and we did. He was a pretty
got elected to the state senate of good old sport, Monte was. Insisted
Colorado and made good at it, too. we must have something to eat.
I stopped there to get a cool Pulled his wife out of bed and had
glass of beer and rest a bit. Monte her cook supper for the three of
was very friendly and told me I us, gave us free beds to sleep in
had better wait over till next day. and fixed it with the mail carrier
when the mail carrier would be to give me a lift over to the Cliff.
going to Silver Cliff and he would I'll bet he made a good senator.
see that I was given a ride. Fur­ He accepted his losses as philo­
thermore there would be a fan­ sophically as he did his winnings
dango (dance) there that night and at no time did he try to cheat,
and a lot of whoopee. This listened even when the battle was going
good to me and I decided all this against him.
was right in my alley. After an
So I arrived at Silver Cliff where
hour’s rest, during which Monte as every old-timer knows silver
and I had several glasses of beer was being found in great chunks.
together, he casually proposed a Often $100.000 or maybe $200.000
little game of poker to kill the in a solid lump. Money was thrown
time. And. as I had about $120 around as If it wasn’t worth any­
with me. the idea struck me as be­ thing. Big fortunes were found by
ing just what the doctor ordered. somebody almost daily. Some of
Those days I would rather play these days I may write a short
poker than eat and. believe me, I sketch of that bonanza camp and
was no slouch at it either. In a its deep mine, the deepest in Colo­
square game I could hold my own rado, abandoned long ago and full
with almost anybody and was gen­ of water now But it was great
erally as lucky as a pet coon. But while It lasted.
By C. NÍ. Payne