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About The Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 1949-1998 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1950)
I local residents recall the story of one particular freight wagon that em-1 erged from the Ogle Mt. mine. The wagon drawn by a 12-horse team was skirted by shotgun guards and osten tatiously laden with gold bricks. I. . By JEAN ROBERTS was rumored at that time that the j Miss Ruth Higdon spent the week The prospects of a gold strike, or gold bricks had been freighted in by end with her sistej- and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Budlong and Claudia Dr. E. Stanley Jones, famed mis the discovery of other valuable min the regular freight wagons and the in Detroit. sionary will bring the Crusade for a eral deposits, in the Little North Fork shotgun guard and other showy ar The Lyons Garden club held a fall Visiting at the home of his sister United Church of America to Oregon area, may be scoffed at by many but rangements was only a promotion flower show of outstanding quality is today, worthy of consideration, is scheme. Mining however, was in full the week of September 24, with four and family, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Shep herd was Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Bates meetings scheduled. Sunday morn the claim of several persistent pros swing at that time and a fairly rich in the Lyons community club house. | vein of gold is reported to have been Friday afternoon and evening. ing he will be at Corvallis; Sunday pectors. and son of Newport. Mrs. Ward Englis and Mrs. Cloyce Five miners have camped all sum found. at 3 p.m. at the Salem high school Mrs. E. L. Sigfrit of Colfax, Calif., and Mrs. F. H. Hollyman and Linda auditorium and that evening at Port mer above Mehama and two others Although Ogle Mt. mine was de Avery of Stayton judged in excess of ' land. On Monday, he will speak at have made an almost daily appear serted when the gold vein seemed to 100 entries. were recent shoppers in Portland. ance in this area. A number of pros diminsh, it is reported that it was The Lyons Garden club was organ Mr. and Mrs. George Cree were din Medford. pectors have stopped at the Elkhorn still a valuable mine. During the ner guests of Mrs. Lillie Lake in The meetings will be sponsored by guest ranch to obtain information war years the vats were emptied and ized last June and already is prog ressing rapidly under the able presi the Oregon Council of Churches, with honor of her father’s ninety-sixth about deposits here. One man, rep the cyanide sold for a good price, dency of Mrs. Otto Weidman. birthday, T. Hennes, last Sunday at groups of churches in each city. resenting a New York mining com netting more profit than the actual Special awards were given to Mrs. her home. Other callers during the Dr. Jones, who has headed the pany made quite an extensive search gold had. I Lynn Lambert, Mrs. Luther Stout and BRIDGEPORT, CONN. —Here’s day were from Salem, St. Helens, < t usade since one of his talks inspired for minerals. Mrs. John Neal for dahlia displays bad news for charter members of it in 1943, points out that its purpose Tillamook, Portland, and Gates. For the first time in many years, and to the Mill City Garden club for I the “I forgot to set the alarm” Jack Yochum, 32, a construction is not to organize for action but to FORGET TO VOTE? alibi club. New General Electric a table arrangement. worker and Betty Lou Newsome, 16, "saturate the soul of the church with assessment work was done this sum Repeater alarm clock needs to ba mer at the Silver King mine site. Other awards: the demand for unity ’ ’ to precipitate a student, both of Mill City applied only once. Thereafter, it re Roses, specimen blooms: Mill City- set action. A proposed federal type of The search for easy wealth by tap for married license. set« itself to go off every morning: LICENSED Garden club, Mrs. George Clipfell. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cooke and daugh Union, similar to that of the 13 colo ping nature’s natural resources is at the same time. Model Honey Gladiolus: Mrs. Oscar Naue, Mrs. Merrill, who doesn't have to go to ter Donna were in eastern Oregon nies in forming the United States, well known in this region with resi à GARBAGE I Hugh Johnston, Mill City Garden work at the same time every morn over the weekend on a hunting trip. has met with the most favorable dents as well as outsiders interested ; club. ing, can use the clock as a con They were among the unlucky hunt response during crusade campaigns enough in the expectation of a strike, SERVICE Dahlias: Mrs. Lynn Lambert, Mrs. ventional alarm. ers returning after a weekend of carried on during the past three to have samples assayed. I John Neal, and Mrs. Luther Stout, years. Jones’ conviction is that "a Years ago mining operations were hunting empty-handed. $1 per month and up When your competitor starts pay l Mrs. John Neal. divided church in a divided world in full swing above Elkhorn at the Also serving Gates and Lyons Zinnias: Mrs. John Neal, Mill City ing you compliments, you have really lacks moral authority.’’ site of Ogle Mt. mine, geographically Garden club, Mrs. John Neal, Mrs. done a good job. Dr. Jones went to India as a mis located between Lookout Mt. and MILL CITY Alex Kuiken. sionary for the Methodist church in > Nasty Rock. Ogle Mt. mine was Mankind will never win lasting DISPOSAL SERVICE Snapdragons: Mill City Garden club peace so long as men use their full 1907. His leadership there, which reached by freight wagon from Scotts PHONE 2352 Marigolds: Mrs. Hugh Johnston, resources only in tasks of war.— brought him election as a bishop Mills, and by human freight line from LEONARD HERMAN Mill City Garden club, Mrs. Clyde Anonymous. which he declined, was augmented the site of the present Elkhorn guest VETERINARIAN Bressler, Mrs. Lynn Lambert. by authorship of several books. ranch. Nasty Rock, so named on the Asters: Mrs. Clyde Bressler, Mrs. These include the well-known "Christ surveyors maps, consists of a little i STAYTON John McClurg, Mill City Garden club. of the Indian Road” and "Abundant I rock lying on top of a big rock. Early Begonias: Mrs. George Nydigger, miners had an obscene name for this Living.” PHONE 4148 Mrs. Alex Kuiken, Rev. Jones, Mrs. ¡formation, so when the area was John McClurg. mapped, Nasty Rock was included. LEMON BEAT EVERY RIVAL Opposite Fushias: Mrs. Alex Kuiken, Mrs. Bob Lemon of the Cleveland Indians Ogle Mt. mine, once bustling with Claude lewis’ Servil e Station I Lynn Lambert, Mrs. Alex Kuiken, activity, still shows signs of a busy was the first American league pitcher I Mrs. Lynn Lambert, Mrs. George Ny- to beat every rival team this season. past. Trees on the wagon route bear I digger, Mrs. Paul Johnston, Mrs. Don blazes THW, apparently meaning I Brotherton. “tail holt, wagon,” used by early Petunias: Mrs. W. H. Loose. freighters to brake heavy wagon Delphiniums: Mrs. Luther Stout, loads of freight in a steep descent. Mill City Garden club. Still other tTees bear the mark of Carnations: Mrs. John McClurg, heavy cables which were used to lower Monkhood, Mill City Garden club. ponderous machinery down inclines. So. Dakota lily (unusual flower): The route is extremely steep for horse Mill City Garden club. drawn wagons which traversed it at Miniature roses exhibits: Mrs. Geo. the time the mine was in operation. Clipfell, Mrs. John McClurg, Mrs. Most of the mining equipment was John Neal. sent by rail to Mt. Angel and freighed Arrangements by wagon to Scotts Mills, and on yp Coffee table: Mill City Garden club, to the Ogle Mt. mine. Much of the Table arrangements: Mill City Gar machinery is still there. Steam en AT den club, Mrs. John Neal. Mrs. F. gines, stamping mills, and cyanide H. Loose, Mrs. Paul Johnston, Mrs. vats, as the mine was vacated almost Luther Stout. overnight. Hard round rocks of a Arrangements: Mrs. John Johnston. flinty substance, foreign to this coun Potted plants, sweepstakes: Mill try, dot the mine site. Old timers City Garden club, Mill City Garden here claim that these rocks were im Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Mrs. TELEPHONE 1988 ported from Sweden and were used WTO club, George George Nydigger, Mrs. Geo. to break up ore in the stamping mill. Clipfell, Mrs. Hugh Johnston, Mill Keith Phillips, and Harley Scott, City Garden club. Mrs. Alex Kuiken, | Mill City Garden club. Commercial and special award and I first went to Mrs. W. H. Loose. October 5, 1950 S—THE MI IX CITY ENTERPRISE MILL CITY Dr. Jones Brings Crusade To Oregon Lyons Garden E Club Flower Show Successful There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills? J. W. 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