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Just north of Vancouver on
the British Columbia coast, an
ay day'f drive from Portland,
Set a vacation paradise almost
unknown to Northwest mot ar
tels. The Secheh (pronounced sea
ahelt) peninsula until recent
years was inaccessible by road.
But now, fast, frequent ferry
service across the deep, wide
t inlets which had cut off the
peninsula from civilization has
loponed up a new resort area
with lakes and bays teeming
with fish, scenery akin to
Alaska's and a climate unbeliev
ably mild.
The "Sunshine Coast" is what
Sechelt boosters call their pen
insula, and they have the sta
tistics to prove it Pain clouds
which annually dump an aver
age of 66 inches of precipitation
on Vancouver, B. G, somehow
seem to dodge the area to the
north. There, the annual rain
fall is a mere 28 inches, and
skies are bright and blue all
around the calendar.
Last year Black Ball
tended its ferry service from
Earl Cove, at the north end of
the peninsula, to Saltery bay.
giving the city of Powell River
its first direct link to the Brit
ish Columbia mainland.
The first trip of the Oregon
State Motor association's white
motorlog car to the new north
ern end of highway 99 was
made over roads ranging from
fair to excellent.
Paved Road Added
Half the 60-mile highway
across Sechelt peninsula is hard
surfaced, and half the remain
ing 30 miles of graveled road
will be paved this summer.
To visit the peninsula, the
tourist leaves Vancouver
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pension bridge (the ibngest in
the British commonwealth)
spanning Burrard inlet.
A pleasant 15-mile trip along
Marine drive, which winds
through a lovely shoreside resi
dential district, ends at the
ferry slip at Horseshoe bay.
Cower point, one of many spots on "Sunshine coast" where
almaQ abound. Is pleasant pause for white motorlog car.
The 11 -mile voyage across
Howe sound to Gibsons takes 70
minutes and costs S3 per car
plus 91 per passenger. Children
under 12 go for half fare and
those under 5 ride free.
There are good motels and
hotels here and there, with
more a -building, but unless
reservations are made in ad
vance, travelers are likely to
find them all full.
A wise precaution for first-
timers on the peninsula would
be a phone call from Vancouver
to Bill McAfee, president of the
Sunshine Coast Tourist associ
ation at Gibsons.
Fishermen can bring their
boats and motors with them,
but they needn't Seaworthy
small boats equipped with air
cooled inboard motors are avail
able for rental at reasonable
rates ail along the peninsula.
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road and water routes UnkinjE
Vancotn-er, B. C, north coast.
Favorite spots for salmon are
Gower point, a short distance
from Gibsons, and Half Moon
bay and Secret cove.
When westerly winds make
the strait too rough for small
boats, sheltered Pender harbour
(yes, they use the "u" in British
Columbia) offers good fishing.
No license is required in salt
water.
Trout Fishing Good
For those who want to invest
in a nonresident license, there's
good lake and stream fishing
for trout and steelhead in sea
son. Jervis inlet, which separates
the Sechelt peninsula from
what Powell River residents
like to call the "Powell Riv
iera," is a great slash running a
full 50 miles inland. From the
Jervis inlet, cutting back south
into the Sechelt peninsula, is
Sechelt inlet, almost as large
as its parent and linked to it by
a very narrow passage. All the
water needed to raise the whole
Sechelt inlet must pass through
this bottleneck when the 12-foot
British Columbia tide comes in.
And when the tide turns, it ail
rushes out again.
From Earl cove to Saltery
bay is a nine-mile 50-minute
ferry ride at the same rates.
Here one passes the deepest
spot on the B. C. coast, a 2400
foot "hole" in the ocean floor.
More excellent scenery and
fishing opportunities are found
north of Jervis inlet. Some
visitors may wish to look over
the paper plant which is Powell
River's principal industry. Some
of the paper on which The Ore
goniar. is printed comes from
this, the world's biggest single
unit paper mill, capable of turn
ing out a ribbon of newsprint at
the rate of 2000 feet a minute.
How can a woman make
150 decisions in 17.9 minutes?
Did you know this about yourself?
You probably make about 150 buy
ing decisions every time you buy
groceries. Yet you spend an aver
age of only 17.9 minutes making
all those decisions.
On something so important as
your family's food, what gives you
the courage to make up your mind'
so quickly? How can you be so
sure you're right?
Isn't it simply that you've learned
the basic rule of safe and sound
buying: A good brand is your
best guarantee.
You feel safe with a good brand.
You know the company stands back
of it because its reputation is at
stake. You know, in fact, that, yoa
are right.
No matter what you want to buy,
the more good brands you know the
smarter you can ouy. Get to know
them in this newspaper. They'll help
you cut buying mistakes, get more
for your money.
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
'Deep Ruth' Mining Shaft
To Extend Big Operation
New Ruth, Nev. UP. In the
words of the mining engineer
who's directing the disging of it.
the Depp Ruth shaft is "the
darndest mine I ever saw."
R. C. Nispel, superintendent of
underground mines for the Na
vada Mines Division of the Ken
necott Copper Corporation, said
that "we've spent S15.000.000 so
far and haven't taken out a
pound of ore."
Development work on the new
shaft, one of the most ambitious
undertakings in the long and
colorful mining history of Ne
vada, has included moving vir
tually every building in an en
tire town.
When the shaft is completed
and in production, it and other
development work scattered
over the copper belt under the
sage and pine sprinkled hills of
eastern Nevada will extend the
gainful life of the state's largest
copper operation by an unpre
dictable number of years.
Revived by War
Copper has been mined in
eastern Nevada for more than
half a century. It became a ma
jor industry in 1908 when the
old Nevada Consolidated Copper
Company opened its Copper Flat
open pit here at Ruth and the
mills and smelters at McGill, in
the open valley at other end of
a 20-mile long ore-hauling rail
way. Mines were sunk, the pit be
came one of the deepest holes in
the ground on the face of Amer
ica, and copper rolled out during
World Wars I and II.
When the latter ended, pro
duction was curtailed and some
of the mines closed. The pit, re
named the Liberty Pit, remained
in operation but at a slower
pace.
Then the Korean conflict
brought a new demand for war-
vital copper. Kennecott, with the
help of the government in the
form of rapid tax writeoffs, em
barked on the multi-million-dollar
Deep Ruth expansion.
An old, high steel headframe
was moved into a new position to
sink the new Deep Ruth shaft
to a depth of more than 1.600
feet. Skips and cages are han
dled by an ultra-modern hoist in
stallation that can move ore up
the shaft at a speed of 30 miles
an hour and men at 15 miles an
hour.
The town of Ruth, between
the old Star Pointer shaft and
the Liberty pit, had a population
of 1,400. Because the new de
velopment called for "block cav
ing" below ground a method
that would drop the surface, too
the town was ordeied moved.
A new site was selected a few
miles away and all but SO of the
homes these will go later
have already been muved, along
with offices, stores and recrea
tional facilities of the company
owned community.
Diamond drills probed deeply
into the earth to determine the
extent of the copper deposits.
As the Deep Ruth shaft was be
ing sunk, it was found that
another ore body was on top of
the main deposit. So tunnels are
being run to it so this copper
may be removed before it is "di
luted" by being caved into the
Deep Ruth "voids" made by the
picking, shoveling and blasting
miners.
Nispel hopes that the first ore
from the new operation, the
"Minnesota" claim ore that was
newly discovered, wiil come out
of the shafts in February. Two
years later, mining of copper
from the Deep Ruth deposits
should actually be under way.
Wednesday, June 6, I9S8
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB
Hereford Breeders
Will Tour Area Farms
Cal-Ore Hereford Breeders as
sociation will hold its annual
tour Sunday, beginning at 10:30
a.m. at Yankee Creek ranch on
the Crateir Lake highway nort'.i
of Four Corners.
Second stop will be at the J.
W. Bigha m ranch on Antelope
creek. Third stop will be at the
E. M. Bigham ranch, where the
association will provide a din
ner for members of the tour.
The Rcnnie Anderson ranch
on Alta Vista rd., will be the
next stop. The tour will then
progress to the Bill Woods
ranch, also on Alta Vista rd.,
and will conclude at Earle Jos
sy's ranch, on the Crater Lake
Hwy.
Association members said the
tour will be open to anyone in
terested. T'hose planning to par
ticipate in the tour are advised
to bring their own table service
and either a salad or cake.
Esfacadan Takes
Stock Show Honors
The Dalles (U.R) Herbert
Moore, member of the Estacada
FFA livestock judging team,
took top honors at the annual
Fat Stock show at The Dalles
yesterday.
Moore's Estacada team also
walked off with the team judg
ing honors in the FFA division
of the sho w.
Top 4H judge was David Reid
of Rufus. The Blue Mountain
sheep club of Milton-Freewater
took team honors in the 4H di
vision. Some 180 FFA and 4H exhibi
tors are showing 352 animals at
the show.
Election Campaign Expenses Listed
Salem (U.R) A committee to
elect Robert T. Mautz as Repub
lican national committeeman
spent 516,568 on Mautz' primary
campaign, according to expense
statements filed with the state
elections division.
Other expense statements in
cluded: W. A. Rushlight, in. support of
Estes Kefauver for Dresident.
$625.
Veterans for McKay commit
tee, Charles R. Harding, treasur
er, S537.
Jason Lee. Salem Democrat,
for congressman. $907.
Al Ullman, Baker Democrat,
for congressman, $271.
David C. Shaw for Congress
Committee. Ellen E. Dougherty,
secretary, $2,397.
Carl H. Francis, Dayton Re
publican, for attorney general,
$557.
L. B. Sandblast. Supreme
Court justice, position No. 5,
$1,768.
Sidney B. Lewis Jr., Benton
county district attorney, $639.
About 45 out of every 100
American men age 65 or more
are still gainfully employed at
some kind of" work.
It's my job to.
see you get
fast, friendly
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JOHN A. CARTER
As one of my policy
holders, I would per
sonally help you if you
have an accident near
home. Away from home,
there are nearly 8,000
agents and claims rep
resentatives like myself
to give you the same
assistance.
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J John A. Carter Virgil R. Wilkes
I Lynn Colby
133 South Central Phono 2"93"j
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. and the happy; farmer who invested
in U. S. Savings Bonds
kNCE THERE WAS a
farmer who drove
to town one Saturday
to stock up on fresh
food and feed and news.
While there, he also bought three $50 U. S.
Savings Bonds one for each of his ons, to
help finance their college educations.
As he returned home,
the farmer noHced that
one section of his pas
ture fence was down
and his prize Jerseys
were about to get out.
So he parked his car,
took off his coat, hung
it on a post, and started
fixing the fence.
And the cows stood by, watching curious
ly. It hid been a particularly dry season
end when one bovine beauty spotted the
nice green Savings Bonds sticking out of
the farmer's coat pocket, she immediately
sauntered over to investigate. The rest of
the story you' vet probably guessed. While
the farmer fixed, old bossy feasted. And the
delectable Bonds were partly devoured and
digested.
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Our fanner friend, discovering his loss,
feared for the worst. But the next Saturday
he stopped at the bank to ask some ques
tions. Yes, the Treasury would and did
replace the chewed up Bonds free of charge.
U. S. National Bank
Leonard Electric Company
. Tru-Mix Concrete Company
Robert P. Templeton Lumber Co.
Hr-iTy and David, Inc.
Lainbert-Voegtly Lumber Co.
Trail Creek Lumber Company
Jorgensen Dairy Products
Hubbard Bros.-Hubbard-Wray
Reter Fruit Company
So all of them the farmer, hi family,
and even the cow were in clover.
The V. S. Gotermntnt iott not pa? lor thii advertising. The Treamrr DcpartmiU tkanla,
for their oatriottz donation, the Advertising Council and
First National Bank
California-Pacific Utilities Co.
Rogue Valley State Bank
Medford Corporation
Joe Hearint Logging
W. H. Dougherty Associates
Nye & Navimes Packing Co.
Mann's Department Store
Alley Lumber Company
Medford IVfail Tribune
You may not be a farmer or own a cow, but
there are lots of other ways you can lose your
Savings Bonds or have them mutilated. -Fvery
major flood, tornado, explosion or fire
brings a wave of Bond replacements.
So just remember this. No matter what
happen to your Savings Bonds, the Treasury
Department will replace them free of charge
and date them to coincide with the original
Bonds.
Savings Bonds are not only safer than
cash, but one of the best investments you can
make. You can be sure of the principal, sun
of the returns (an average 3 interest when
held to maturity) and sure of the future
when you invest regularly in Savings Bonds.
So start investing in Savings Bonds to
day. That's the safe and sure way to save.
If you want your interest as current income,
ask your banker about 3 Series H Bonds
that pay interest semiannually by United
States Treasury check.
Timber Products Company
Rogue River Orchards
Fluhrer's Bakeries
Elk Lumber Company
Cascade Wood Products
Ross Lumber Company
Littrell Parts Company
Barker's Men's Store
Medford Ljunhr Cgmpany