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s MAIt TRIBUNE, Medford. Or. Memorial to Miners, Loggers To Be Unveiled Next Week End By RICHARD JEWETT Mail Tribune Staff Writer A memorial to oldtime pros pectors, miners and loggers of southern Oregon will be un veiled to the public next week end. Bringing a 10-year-old idea into reality after more than four months of work, LaRue Morris, one of the owners of Hidden Valley ranch plans to open Oregon Gold Gulch on Saturday, June 27. His pseudo-village, 'a fron tier mining town, currently consists of three structures, Small ore mill and a semi-ac tive gold mine. It is on ranch property just off Highway 99 on the south side of the high way right-of-way. Establishments of the tiny community include a general store, a gambling den (only the front door), an assay of fice and rock and gem mu seum, a stagecoach office and a blacksmith shop. Buildings front on Mine st. If Gold Gulch attracts area residents and valley visitors like Mor ris feels it will, more build ings will be added on a street paralleling Mine. - Serve A Show Place In addition to memorializ ing miners and logging men, the town will serve as a show- place for articles of the Rogue river valley's bygone days that Morris has collected dur ing the past 10 years. Visitors will see how gold is processed (grid will have a chance to pan for the precious metal. Since Gold Gulch is isolated, de spite its nearness to the high way, the town will provide a place to get away from the rush of daily life. Gold Gulch's mine has pro duced low grade ore, yielding around $10 per ton. Morris re ported that the miner who once worked the claim aban doned it when he struck a spring and could, not hold back or control the water flow. 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Buys Ore Crusher The rancher has brought a one-time burro operated ore crusher to the town recently and, in addition to the one-ton capacity ore mill has windlass device to portray shaft min ing. The eeneral store is a res toration, but cut down, of a building which was the first business- structure on the south side of the railroad tracks at Gold Hill and housed a variety of enterprises. Mor ris cut it into sections to haul it to Gold Gulch. In the store now are many things Morris has collected. Among them are a hand cof fee erinder: cheese and to bacco cutters, an old counter from Central Point with bins for bulk foodstuffs and with cookie boxes, a large indexed "bookkeeper" file, a holder for three sizes of wrapping paper rolls, a potbellied stove, a cornbread mold, a hand rocker washing machine, min ers' lamps, a Chinese gold scale. Store of Old Times Morris has set up the store to appear much like the gen eral stores of old times. He will yield to modern devices for the sale of concessions. He plans to have one part of the store for sale of souvenirs and novelties. An old miner's cabin is the basic building for the assay and rock display quarters. The stage office and smithy are constructed around another old building with the use of other old lumber and wooden ornamental work. Posts from Jacksonville support the porch roofs of the buildings. A boardwalk lies in front of the store, the gambling den door and the mining office. On the street are rustic hitch ing posts. The bench in front of the assay office was once a 90 in mahogany 'diagonal measure MUSIC HOUSE Direct Factory Dealer 111 North Central . Ph. SP 2-5702 Jacksonville Presbyterian church pew. Blacksmith's Shop In the blacksmith's shop are a huge bellows and a sad dlemaker's stool. Morris re ported that when he bought the bellows, he was so excited County Educators To Attend Meet . Seven Jackson county edu cators will be among the 150 Oregon ians attending the 102nd annual convention of the National Education asso ciation at St. Louis, Mo., June 30 to July 3. Approximately 10,000 educators from Ameri can and foreign schools will take part. , The Jackson county dele gates are Mrs. Maxine Smith and Mrs. Claudine Kratzberg of Medford; Mrs. Gunvor Clu te, Giles Green, and Miss Ruth Esther Hill of Ashland; and Noreen Conway and Ralph Humphrey of Eagle Point. A major effort of the Ore gon delegation .will be to se cure the national organiza tion's approval of resolutions on racial integration which were drafted by the Oregon Education association this spring. The Oregon educators will attend the convention as voting delegates. - The theme of the meting will be "Quality Teaching Op ens. Windows on the World.' Dr. Gerald Wallace, Corval- lis superintendent of schools, will become national chair man of the NEA school-safety committee at St. Louis. He will address two sessions on safety at the convention. Among the notables who will speak at the convention are Charles Malik, president of the UN general assembly, and John W. Gardner, .presi dent' of the Carnegie founda tion. Pint-Sized Pets Tots adore these gay bird- and-animal trims on clothes. Simplest stitchery fun to do! Tiny pets add a happy touch of color to sunsuits, dresses, bibs, curtains. Pattern 7421: transfer of 24 motifs about 3 x 3V4 inch; color sug gestions. Send Thirty-fir cents (coins) for this pattern add 5 cents for each pattern for lst-class mailing. Send to Med ford Mail Tribune, House hold Arts Dept., P. O. Box 168, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, PATTERN NUMBER. Our 1959 ALICE BROOKS Needle era ft Catalogue has many lovely designs to order: crocheting, knitting, embroid ery, quilts, dolls, weaving.' A special gift, in the catalog, to keep a child happily occupied -a cutout doll and clothes to color. Send 25 cents for your copy of the book. The state fair at Sydney, Australia - The Royal Easter show had a record attend ance of 1,047,000 this year. BRILL METAL WORKS Comnercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Srainleu, GaNanlxcd and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 that he singlehandedly lifted the device into his pick-up truck. Yet, when he reached home, he needed help to un load and carry it. Although the pseudo-town is just off the highway, it is still a bit remote and is reach ed by a roundabout route. Sightseers driving out from Medford must turn at the Seven Oaks junction north of Central Point and follow Blackwell Hill rd. (old High way ) across the Tolo rail road overpass. They must make a left turn at Double Dee Lumber company onto a road which extends by over pass across the new highway. After a right turn, a frontage road leads directly to Gold Gulch. Series of Signs Morris intends to have a series of signs and peppermint-striped poles to mark the way. While the route to the fron tier village is the long way around, Morris wants it that way. He said he thinks that most people will appreciate the isolated park away from the hubbub of life. He men tioned that the House of Mys tery on Sardine creek, is off the beaten road but still a popular attraction. Gold Gulch is in an area with a background of mining history. On the 800-acre Hid den Valley ranch, Morris men tioned, is the abandoned Mil lionaire mine. There is more than gold in the hills. When the present highway route was cut through the ranch, low grade chrome ore was found. ' Reside at Ranch Morris, his mother and his brother, Earl, are residents of the ranch. The brothers are co-owners and Earl, also, has an interest in the Gold Gulch project. With the family re cently has been a cousin, Mrs. Alice Schneider, from Spring dale, Ark. Both she and Earl have lent LaRue a hand around the mining village. Gold Gulch's originator said he believes his mine will work in with this summer's Jacksonville Gold Rush jubi lee which will have an inter national gold panning con test. The town will be a place to learn to pan the metal. Residents of the valley who have antiques or historical articles and wish to have them displayed are invited to show them at Gold Gulch. Morris said such properties will receive good y care.. He said that he is open to negioa by clubs for concessions at the town. .. Morris. said that a nominal charge for admission will be made. The founder of Gold Gulch is a graduate of University of Illinois where he was a var sity football player. As an amateur boxer, he won the heavyweight division of the open tourney at the Chicago "Century of Progress" World's fair in 1933. At one time he wa a diesel engine instructor for the electromotive division of General Motors. 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Closed Saturdays Open Weekdays: 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. BUTTE FALLS Centennial Meeting Set By MARY JO HARRIS Butte Falls-Members of the Centennial celebration com mittee are asked to attend the next meeting which is sched uled' for Monday evening, June 22, at the Community hall at 7:30 pin. The central committee met Friday evening, June 12, and have set up a tentative sched ule for a Centennial celebra tion day. Various booths were suggested and discussed. A special meeting of the Butte Falls PTA will be held Monday afternoon, June 22, at the Community hall at 1 p.m. Members are asked to attend this meeting which is also being held in connection with, the Centennial celebra tion. The meeting will be short and refreshments will not be served. Cub Scout Troop 45 held its regular monthly pack meeting "Tuesday evening, June 2, at the high school. In addition to the skits given by Dens 1 and 2, Cubs par ticipated in a square dance. The Butte Falls Grange also participated in the square dancing as sponsors of the Cub Scouts, i Wolf badges were awarded to the following Cubs in Den 1: Dennis Bray, Billie Nunnes, Ronnie Stanton and Ray Red dell. Cubs from Den 2 receiv ing their Wolf badges were Mike Lindley, David Bray and B. J. Rodgers. The next pack meeting will be held July 2 at the high school. Theme for this month is "Summer Safari." Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith recently attended the gradu ation exercises of Mrs. Smith's granddaughter. Miss Connie Delamar, it Redding, Calif. The Smiths also visited with another ' granddaughter and family, Mrs. Jack Brown, at Red Bluff and Mrs. Smith's son, Ray Delamar, at Mont gomery Creek, Calif. The youth group from the Community Bible church went by car to Indian lake Thursday, June 11, to spend several hours swimming and picnicking. Teen-agers attending were Larry Barlow, Jim Irwin, Dougt.Fisher, Linda Webster, Martha Dalton, Darleen Ed mondson, Edith and Tom Wright,- Rusty Scott,' Neil Ellis, Raymond Abbott, Ed win Ellis, Deloris Brown, Larry Cavin and Phil Cram mer. Former Phoenix Boy Attending Boys State Gary Strahm, formerly of Phoenix, was one of four boys selected to represent the Brookings-Harbor High school at Beaver Boys state in Cor vallis. He is the 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harve Strahm. Gary attended Phoenix schools from the first through the ninth grades, after which the family moved to Harbor to make their home. MEET FOR TWO HOURS Warsaw, Poland-(UPD-U. S. Ambassador Jacob Beam and Communist Chinese Ambassa dor Wang Ping-nan met for nearly two hours Friday on the Formosa Strait question. Adults attending were Mr. and Mrs. Elga Abbott and the Rev. and Mrs. Howard Sim monds. A fireside fellowship was held during the evening. The youth group takes turn meeting each Wednesday night at the Abbott and Sim monds homes at 7 p.m. Sympathy is extended the Don C. Smith family upon the recent death of Charles Smith of Weiser, Idaho. Mr. Smith, Don Smith's father, was a former resident of Medford. Mrs. Gene Henshaw was guest of honor at a baby shower held Thursday eve ning, June 11, at the Com munity Bible church. Host esses were Mrs. Dean Bush, Mrs. Charles (Red) Capello and Mrs. Glen Cathey. Guests included Mrs. Don C. Smith, Mrs. Henry Tygart, Mrs. Orb Abbott, Mrs. Alva Webster, , Mrs. Derrick, Mrs. Ben Moore, Mrs. Andy Ham tra, Mrs. Mary Henshaw, Mrs. Jim Capello, Mrs. Roger Harris, Mrs. Everett Size more, Mrs. Don Smith, Mrs. Jim Arnold, Mrs. Harry Dal ton, Mrs. Charles Ferguson, Mrs. Page Stauffer, Mrs. Bob Wells and Mrs. Gus Edmond son. Shower games were played, baby gifts opened and refresh- ri) ICE miAW CREAM.- 111 I ments served. Many gifts were sent by those unable to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Strat ton and family recently mo tored to Portland where they took in the Centennial expo sition and Trade fair and the Rose parade. -While in the area they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Seth Smith and fam ily at Hillsboro. The Smiths AMAZING NEW FLOOR PAINT Dries in 30 Minutes You can walk on it one hour later! e Rolls an easy at walking 0 No odors no firt hazard Toolt wash clean in water For interior exterior con crete floors and interior wood floor FRAKEj Prima? 61 IT) 315 EAST MAIN us are cousins of Leonard. r Mr. and Mrs. Jess Rodgers recently met their son and family, the Bob Rodgers at Clear Lake, Calif., for a camp out. Several days were spent there . swimming and water skiing. The Bob Rodgers are former residents now living in Pasadena, Calif. Recent overnight visitors 2 PHONE SP 2-4564 S&H Green Stamps, too! Real Cool! The Most! TOPS In GOODNESS! at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Reddell were Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith and son, J. D. of Marysville, Calif . Ted is a nephew of the Smiths. Recent visitors in the Don Jolliffe home were Mr. and Mrs. R. L. (Bud) McComb and family of Medford. Tha McCombs are former resi dents of this area. j i jl Spun s
