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MAIL TRIBUNE, MooW, Oro, on, Sunday, Ubrutrj 13. 139 g Air f- - v - its, i. i w ujiiiujh I ..- : ' -' " ' '' 4 it 4fii: Sea . - . w& t T mn-r-Tinrwwi ii fin i imii r i i wi&&mPk STERLING MINE - This picture of work the century, was taken about 1900. The at the famous Sterling mine, one of the Applegate valley area spotted with mines most productive in the Applegate area dur- which no longer are productive, lng the gold mining period at the turn of ' Three Steps Are Given Veterans Three new steps to help dis abled veterans make a smooth er and quicker comeback to productive employment have been announced by S. T. Bran- nock, contact representative, VA Domicilary, Camp White. One step gives disabled vet erans "head start" toward re habilitation by allowing them to begin vocational training under VA's program for the disabled while they still are patients in VA hospitals.' 'They must be well enough along in their hospital treat ment to be able to leave the hospital part of the day to attend school or a training establishment, Brannock said. A second step now allows veterans to start vocational re habilitation training even if they can not complete it by the termination date for train ing established by the law. However, arrangements must be made for some agen cy other thanHhe VA, such as a state rehabilitation agen cy, to pick up where VA has to leave off. The third new step now permits VA to give job-finding assistance as well as personal counseling to disabled veter ans after they have completed their vocational training, if they can not find employment or if there is some personality difficulty standing in their way of getting and holding a job. Look Article on Hospital Practices Rapped by Officials There are about 6,900 hos pitals in service In the U.S. SALES RENTALS EVEREST & JENNINGS Fofcflit WHEEL CHAIRS Opn Sundays and Holidays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. HUDSON'S PHARMACY 613 E. Main Ph. SP 3-5345 1 Block East Hawthorn Park Chicago-The director of the American Hospital association and the executive vice-presi dent of the American Medical association Friday took issue with an article on practices in hospitals in the current is sue of Look magazine. Dr. Edwin L. Crosby is di rector of the American Hos pital Medical association. Dr. F. J. L. Blasingame is execu tive vice - president of the American Medical association. They commented on an arti cle by Roland H. Berg, Look medical editor. Dr. Crosby said, "One needn't believe that every thing is perfect in our hos-pitals-as it is not in other pub lic service programs-to con clude that the handling of an admittedly difficult problem 'by Berg and Look was most unfortunate." Statement Rapped" Dr. Crosby termed the arti cle's opening sentence-"A hos pital is not a fit place in which to be sick"-as "an outrageous misstatement." He said' "This statement is disproved by an abundance of evidence; the growing acceptance by the public of the hospital as the place to get well; the direct relationship between the drop in maternal mortality rates and the increasing frequency with which hospitalization is sought for childbirth." Dr. Crosby told the Look publisher that although "Berg devotes much space to patient dissatisfaction . . . the very study he quotes is at odds with his findings." The study on five hospitals in California was sponsored by the Cali fornia Medical association. Dr. Crosby said 95 and 94 per cent of the patients in the two hos pitals studied in greatest de tail were generally satisfied with their care and treatment. The AHA director pointed out that hospitals have, for the last decade been continuously wmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii A Tribute ... Our American Legion VALOR, said ona of th great philosophers, Is something lightly rememberej. Is that true here in this town? We don't think so. We remem ber. W remember the faces and figures of our boys who marched away for World War I . . . and our lads who donned uniforms for World War II. The American Legion is a fraternity of these men who, when the occasion arose, took up arms in OUR defense. Do THEY remember? Most certainly. They remember everything they and their buddies went through;, and now with their regular meetings at the Post, they glory in the fact that they constitute one of the greatest, most influential forces for good in our nation. All hail our heroes who proudly wore the Blue and the Khaki! ' ' Medford Pharmacy 101 North Central, Corner 6th Ph. SP 2-6253 Open today 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Week days: 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. We Salute Our Town! striving "to keep abreast of the explosive growth in medi cal science and to bring those advantages to the American people." He observed, "It is difficult to keep apace, to meet the de mands of the patients and phy sicians for even better and ever more complex (care and at the same time solve the subtle human relations prob lem in a hospital." ."I am fearful that you may have unwittingly intensified a problem already difficult enough," Dr. Crosby wrote. He added, ". . . hospital ad ministrators face the continu ous problem of fitting inade quate amounts of money to increasing great needs. It is understandable that they trim in the area of scientific needs, only as a last resort. We be lieve that there is a major national problem in the under financing of hospital care; a tremendous service dificit in our hospitals. The budgets are balanced somehow. We sus pect that this balance is at the expense of the kind of hospital care we believe that a properly educated public could finance." Dr. Blasingame. speaking for the American Medical as sociation, said, "By taking iso lated examples from a limited survey and drawing general inferences from them, Look not only has done a grave in justice to the medical" profes sion and to hospitals but to the readers of the magazine. Condemnation Deplorable "The blanket condemnation of all hospitals, based on a survey of five hospitals out of 5,640 is deplorable. Actu ally, the survey reported a tremendous degree of patient satisfaction, the lowest cited figure being 94 per cent. This was not mentioned in the Look magazine. "While the article purport edly calls for better physician patient relationships, it actu ally harms the patient's con fidence in the care he will receive from his physician and in the hospital so essen tial for the best in medical care. The article cannot help but increase the natural inse curity of the afflicted and the suffering. "The article also violates the basic concepts of sound reporting. , Matters such as these cannot be' considered adequately or accurately cov ered until both sides of the question are reported with fidelity and without distor tion. "The medical and hospital professions have been sincere in devoting their efforts to a continuing program of self improvement designed to benefit our patients. We wel come constructive suggestions to help us do even better. For the sake of our patients, we must object to those we be lieve will be harmfuL" Gold Discovery In 1851 Sparked Rush to County By MAUDE ZIEGLER Mail Tribune Correspondent The Applegate valley a cen tury ago was known as "the famous mining country west of Jacksonville." Agriculture had not been developed along the "Apple gate Creek," discovered by Lindsay and Jesse Applegate afTld party who pushed south ward from the Willamette through the wilderness of southern Oregon and on to Ft, Hall, Idaho, in 1846 to make a wagon road for others com ing from the states. With- discovery of gold in Jacksonville and in West Josephine county in 1851, soon the Applegate hills were deluged with Willamette val ley emigrants who left their farms to share in Oregon's bonanza,' and with streams of gold seekers from the Cali fornia camps. First Discovery First discovery of gold on the Applegate was at the site of the Robert Cameron ranch, now the Miller and Gerwick ranch. With rocker and pan, min ers swarmed every stream and gulch of the valley. The long- lom and Hungarian sluice also were devices of the first Ore gon gold diggers. The long-tom consisted of a 'piece of "torn" iron extend ed from the lower end of a sluice box, and so perforated as to permit the gold, when the gravel was stirred with a shovel, to drop through the interstices. The Hungarian sluice had riffles running parallel to the water instead of crosswise. Continuous Snow In the winter of 1853, a continuous snow fell over southern Oregon, , and the country was frozen up for two months. Supplies from the Willamette and Yreka were snowbound, and food was not to be bought. That was when flour was $75 a sack, and salt was ex changed for its weight in gold. Soon after this hardship, came the Indian outbreaks and bloodshed in southern Oregon, which lasted until the Indian surrender in July, 1856. The days of gold continued throughout the 50s, and by that time the surface diggings in creek beds and low bars were pretty well skimmed over. Many of the nervous gold hunters moved on to new gold strikes in Idaho and in the Frazier river country of Brit ish Columbia. Chinese camps sprung up at Sterling, Forest Creek, Palmer Creek, and at Uniontown, where Gin . Lin, the aristocrat of his people, was in charge of Chinese min ing operations, and was the first to use a dump giant to stack tailings. The high banks and deep old channels that were out of reach of the early miner and his crude devices were worked profitably by the Chinamen who used pipe and giant. Sterling Mine ' The Sterling mine, the big gest placer producer in the state in the late 90s, with one seasonal output of $90,000, was discovered in 1854 by Aaron Davis and James Ster ling, and the resulting mining town was one of seething ac tivity for the next five years. Succeeding early day owners j were Theodore Cameron, E. S. Hayden, D. P. Thompson, M. S. Burrell, Levi Ankeny, and other members of the j Ankeny family. i Forest Creek, called Jack- ass Creek in the A. J. Walling j history, was famous for its rich gravel beds and quartz j ledges, and in 1868 there were I 2,000 white men and 400 Chi- j nese working on the stream, i A company of six Chinese I took out $23,000 in one sea son. The Al Sturgis mine was one of the best known in southern Oregon, and in the early 1900s became the S. A. Vance Hydraulic company. The mine operated night and day, and a derrick with a 60 foot mast and a 74 foot boom was used for handling the larger boulders. i Water rights from both forks PEARCE MINE - This early-day mining scene is . along Poor Man's creek . in the Applegate valley showing work in the Pearce Mine. The location is along the present Jacksonville-Ruch highway. The boom at left was used to lift larger boulders from the wash area. of Forest Creek insured slush- water until April or May, and midsummer work continued by use of reservoir heads. Good Placer Holding Another good placer hold ing on Forest Creek was the Cook and Howland, later bought by the Tacoma com pany, managed by E. A. Spaulding. The San Antonio mine in the same area was comprised of more than 300 acres, formerly the Carter and Peter Black ranch, and purchased by James B. Dugan of San Francisco. Another well known placer mine was owned by J. D. S. (Doc) Pearce and sons on Poor Man's creek. A great deal of coarse gold was taken out, including one , piece weighing $55 and another weighing $23. Among other prominent holdings in the lower valley was that of J. T. Layton, who purchased and consolidated the Bolt, Kubli, Hudson, and Caldwell interests on Ferris Gulch in 1868. s f Water for "this project was brought in a 17-mile ditch from Williams creek, and later a higher ditch was dug, using 600 feet of siphon over the Williams creek divide, and introducing the first si phon in the country. In later years Layton s son, Lester, operated the mine. In another area, the Grand Applegate ditch extended for six miles below. Elliott creek, designed for mining three or four thousand acres of ground. Squaw Creek pompany The Squaw Creek Mining company worked on 160 acres of ground below Squaw lake, including Dividend Bar, and used Squaw lake, covering 125 acres of ground as a reservoir for piping. John Bolt operated on Humbug creek, and B. E. Haney owned and managed claims on Star Gulch; Carter and Garvin also had holdings on Little Apple- gate. Quartz mining began to de velop on the Applegate, and pockets were found on every tributary of the river. It was near the head of Car- bury that the famous "Steam boat" pocket of $250 or more, was found in 1869. Another well-known quartz mine was the "Oregon Belle" on Forest creek, discovered in the 90s by Broad, Reid and Throckmorton, and was one of few properties in southern Oregon to pay for itself as it went along. Valuable Mine 'Another Forest Creek quartz prospect, called "The Sunset," was discovered in 1899 by Mark Winningham and Mace Van Gorder, who took out $6,000 or $7,000 worth the following three years from only 200 tons of ore. Mcln- tyre and Orme sold their "Yel low Jacket" mine to George Dyson. The Reid and Fletcher prospect on Bishop creek and east branch of Forest Creek yielded about $5,000 around 1890. In the Upper Applegate area, quartz ledges other than the "Steamboat" were found. One of these was owned by William Hacker and Albert Collings on a tributary to Middle Fork. This was the "Ruby," and $6,000 was tak en from a depth of less than 30 feet. Interest High For Kennedy Talk On the E. J. Langley home stead of early days valuable ledges were found, and Lang- ley formed a partnership with James Terry. They installed a small three-stamp mill which still exists. Placer Properties A number of placer prop erties were located on Hum bug creek, including that of White, and Brown and Ben Thurston. Star Gulch and Palmer Creek also had several placer mines. Some copper mines have ex isted in the Upper Applegate region; the largest of these was the Blue Ledge, four miles over the state line in California, from which ore was hauled to Medford with wagons and six horse teams over the Big Applegate road. Among those who had small er claims were Andrew Jeld ness. Cook and Green, Eric Anderson, E. C. Fawcett, E. T. Lungreen and Frank Ed wards. Squaw Creek yielded some copper claims owned by E. Spencer, Bruce Buck, and George Neuber. Interest in hearing Senator John F. Kennedy of Massa- chusetts, speaker for this year's Roosevelt Memorial dinner March 6 at McLough lin Junior High school closely approaches that expressed in Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who spoke here for the 1956 event, according to General Chair man James A. Redden. "Calls for tickets began coming with the first an nouncement of his acceptance of our invitation," Redden said. "Now that tickets are out they are disappearing fast." He predicted a full house, in spite of the date hav ing been moved forward a full month to accommodate Kennedy's heavy senate schedule. McLoughlin Junior High school can seat 750 if neces sary, school authbrities said. Among others named so far on the dinner committee by Democratic County Chairman Frank Christian are Mrs. Ed ward i C. Kelly, permanent chairman; Jerry Scannell, ticket chairman; Mrs. W. D. Werner, foods chairman; Mrs. Albert Straus, serving chair man; Mrs. Dee Newton, head table arrangements; Larry Sheehan, gift selection; Mark Norton and Clyde Fichtner, reception cochairmen; Mrs. Marvin Madden, decorations cnairman, ana Clarence ied mond and Frank Christian, nan auaugemeDis. SCIENCE USES CANS Mobile, Ala.-fllPD-The com mon garbage can has gone to work in an effort to improve telephone service. The cans were placed atop telephone poles here and connected to a mass of wires and instrn. ments which stored interfer- ence from electrical storms. An adult American uses about 19 pounds of coffee a year. IMPROVE YOUR FIREPLACE! :V.H.JIlkl..:yT-l CALL NOW! SP 1 6 6 No Sparks No Smoke No Floor Drafts LOWER FUEL BILLS Uniform heat from floor to ceiling. Burn wood, presto-logs or briquets. You con trol fire . . . your home and family safer! SEND FIREPLACE WIDTR and HEIGHT Receive Colorful Booklet FREE! 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