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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1912)
I. Lakeview Saddlery Aroinplote llneof iviik"" ''"KKJ harntM, whips, robe, bit, rift tea, etc., etc. i i IT ttverythtng In the lino of currUue and home furnish ings. KeiMilrtiiK by competent men. THE BEST VAQUERO SADDLE ON THE MARKET AHLSTROM & GUNTHER, Props. Successors to S. F. AHLSTROM CAMP CONQUERS; LIARS REBUKED PROFESSOR STORMS PRAISES HIGH GRADE Issues A Warning Against FaRe Promoters And Promises to Visit New Pine Creek And The Entire District 1 R.II. KOUKKrf S. A. MUSHES CTTT ENGINEER OOTJTTT BUBVSYOB W. J. ARCHER S. A. MUSH EN & CO. SUUVEVINU, MAPPING AND ENGINEERING BLUE PRINTING A SPECIALTY BLUE FRINTS OF GOVERNMENT TOWNSHIP PLATS, 1 00 EACH WHITE PK1NTSOF GOVERNMENT TOWNSHIP FLA fS.f 1.25 EACH LAND REPORTS MADE BEFORE BUILDING GET PRICES ON Clear Lumber, Mill Work and Mouldings FROM THE FANDANGO LUMBER COMPANY ADDRESS: WILLOW RANCH, CAL. PROMPT SERVICE AND GOOD WORKMANSHIP CONSOLIDATED STAGE CO. P. M. CORY, . LAKEVIEW - OREGON Operate Stage, carrying United State- Mall, Exprr and Paenger en th following route: ALTURAS TO LAKEVIEW; LAKEVIEW TO PLUSH KLAMATH FALLS TO LAKEVIEW AUT0.10BILE5 OPERATED IN CONNECTION WITH THE 5TAQES PARES:- On Way Round trip Klamath Falls Route - - - $10.00 $18.00 Davis Creek Route .... 4.00 7.00 Plush Route 4.00 7.00 OEFICES:- Lakevlew . ..... Stag Office Ptu.n .... Sullivan Hotel KUn."' Pall . American Hotel Davi - C eek Stag Office THE LAKEVIEW ABSTRACT & TIRE CO, ABSTIACTS TO ALL REAL FRCFEfiTY IN LAKE COUNTY, OREGON Our Complete Tract Index Insures Accuracy, Promptness and Reliability Such an Index iH the ONLY ItKLMHLE ty-atem from which an Attract can be made, trowing all defect of title. We A Iso Furnish Wtfr&lVS.Zr H. W.: MORGAN, Manager, LAKEVIEW, OREGON POST OFF ICe BOX 943 PHONM lit irjarggmaiaaratararitw4aT A WANT AD IN THE Lake County Examiner WILL BRING RESULTS In all the hietory cf mlninR, a new camo haa never received more con temptible, vicious and cowardly attack than have teen trained aganst the dis trict of High Grade by a bunch of faker, self-styled "mining experts" and bum mining- editors, not one of whom with a tingle exception has ever been in the camp and who have dream ed their dope on High Grade on the long distance wire and peddled it out to the public in idiotic drivel. All of the famous old camps have been subject to this 'sty ' aid ryftem jB t0 of villification. Cripple Creek w" ' eKha'gger (High Grade New) predate an early reply. Committeemen New Tine Creek Commercial Club, J. SCOTT TAYLOR. Chairman, Dr. G. A. KNOK. E. CHAt'lN OARI), CHARLES LAUUJILIN, CHAS. L. FULTON. It la a pleasure to present Prof. Storm's reply to the above letter in, in which he emphatically refutes cer tain antagonistic statements, detri ments! to High Grade accredited to him. What State Mineralogist Storm i i: ic 31 -I I L H UZ crowded on the map in the face of bit ter denunciation by state official, rain ing editors and mining experts. The recent pirstical assault or Camp High Grade are proving a boomerang as well be noted by the action taken by the Nw Pine Creek Commercial Club. At a called meeting of tne i b Friday evening of last week a com mittee waa apoointed to take action on the numerous libels recently published against the camp and giving state Mineralogist W. II. Storms of Califor nia as authority for such unjust action. This committee formulated and ad dressed the following letter to Prof. Storms for information. New Pine Creek, Ore., May fi, 1912. Hon. W. II. Storms, State Mineralogist State of Ca if orniu, San Francisco, Cal., Dear Sir: Conforming with the du ties im poeed upon us by the New Pine Creek Commercial Club, and to still the growing animosity which has aris en and is developing in the minds of the populace of this cummuniity con cerning certain putlished statements attributed to you reflecting unfavor ably and rrosttly misrepresenting the true condi'.ions of the High Grade min ing district, we ask that vou give us your reasons and the basis for such ac credited statements. Certainly you have not visited the camp. Do so and your mind will be equipped 'with ma terial for a most favorable report. We believe that justice should pre vail and that you will ass'fit in develop ing the resources of this district, as suming that the geoglogical conditions are right and that the mineral is here in paying quantities. In our minds there i no longer any doubt relative to gold existing here in quantities. We believe you will ssy as much when you visit the camp, see the ore and study the under ground workings of the Modoc, Last Dollar, Sunshine, Big Four, Mountain Sheep, Alturas, Con solidated and Sunset mines. Eliminating our knowledge and opin ions of High Garde we respectfully re fer you to, and ask that you aecure copies of the reports of such eminent mining authorities ss George J. Ban croft, of Denver: Norman Stines, now consulting engineer for a Russian min ing syndicate : George A. Ayres, and A. C. Lowell, and in addition one of the most gowing mining report as we have ever read, by Algernon Del-Mar. We desire to give ourselves the plea sure of transmitting your reply or re port to the New Pine Creek Commer cial Club that justice may be done and the damaging statements discredited. This, of course, will not correct the warn the publlo against over ggerated statements of visionary promoters who profit ty the sale of stock, and not from the'.producta of the mlnrs. The Newa applauds Prof. Storms' atiturie. to the protection of Investors: and loins him in advising the public against making investments without a thorough investigation of the proerty and the ability and standing of the men to whom is entrusted the funds for de velopment and ucceaa of the venture. Storms admits that g ild is here In quantites. This is established by the nnes already mined and the ores now exposed in no less than twenty Ave gold producirg veins. The eagerness with which outside newspapers have grasp ed and purposely misquoted Prnt. Storms timely utterances and distorted them to the detriment of this camp is as amusing as it is flamnable. Boys! Muffle your hammer. Dis continue this scrimony. Come to High tirade. Get into the hills and delve for the fortunes that await vou. THE GOLD IS HERE. Mr. J. Scott Taylor, New Pine, Creek, Ore. j Mr. J. Scott Taylor and gentle-1 men of the committee of the New Pine ! Creek Commercial Club : i Your favor of May 6, received this: morning. I am sending you copies of! the only things that have been publish ed over my name in reference to High Grade. I wish you to observe carefully that I say nothing ss to the actual value of the mine of High Grade, but merely caution would be investors to ', investigate before turning over money j to promoters. I have taken this stand on these grounds as indicated in the publications referred to. When the snows began to fall early last winter, there waa no reason for a stampede to High Grade. The entire country up there was under anow up to the time that I wrote the articles com plained of by you and 1 expect much of It still is and my very natural and I think rational conclusion was that tthe gentlemen undertaking to oreate a stampede into that district were as much "in the dark" during the mouth of April as they were last December and to the real merit of High Grade, vou all know and I believe none of you will deny that the most extravangant statements have been made by same concerning High Grade. I wish here to repeat what I have already said in the public press, that I believe there is gold at High Grado and I wish the district well. As to the reports of the several gen tlemen mentioned. I know them all ' excepting Mr. Ayres and Mr. Lowell. I If Mr. Del Mar haa ever written a I Hany Hen arc of finny Hinds Some people prefer ri conservatively shaped Mnt; others, an extreme hapc. There Is a MNo Nanu" shnpe to suit every man's taste, provided, of course, that he doesn't want a moth-eaten style. New "No Name" Styles for Spring are here. They're perfectly cor rect in style; perfectly good in quality. Come in and see them. Largest and Newest 5totk In Lakeview. The Exclusive Clothing and Gents' Furnishing Store The Matchless Store Main St., 2nd door North l.O.O.P. Building Lakeview Oregon 'SjB?"--- P o rt I and BIDS YOU TO HER Rose Festival JUNE 10-15 Tickets will he for snle from nil Stitions on the O-W. R.& N. Juno O, 10, It, 12, 13, 14, 1912 OXK and OSE-TIUIW FARE for the Round Trip A rroirriun bun lmn irt'iitrvl which will suriiim mii.v foriurr. ArrniiK to irwl h wwk In I'ortlnwl, uml h wiwk tit North Beach an the I'ucHlc. llKUVCKh FAItKS u III hi' In i Rrf from I'lirtlnnil, huiI tlm O-rV. R. o N.'m l.'xcursliw Strutnrrs mill Ihi uittkliijf dully runs. W. E. COM AN General Passenger Agent, Portland, Ore. mirconseptiop of this camp inspired by ! glowing report of High Grade, it has the articles' which appeHred in the San J never come to my attention, although Francisco Chronicle and Call, Denver ne nail tul'J me peraonally and also ty Post, Cripnle Creek Times and the , letter of his impressions f the camp Mining and Scientific Press, and which during a period of two sessons' activi- quote you freely. Your relations to the' ties in that region. development of the mineral resources i expect later in the season to visit of the gcrat atate of California aurely . HiRn Grade when 1 shall be pleaiied to are identical with the interests, deeirea , rni:i.l the gentlemen of the New Pine and hopes of the hundreus of mining Creek ''.ommercial Club and any one men now in High Grade and waiting else interested. on its borders to exploit its mineral j Yours truly, possibilities. We shall await end ap-' W. H. STORMS, State Mineralogist. A Good Position Can tx bad by atnliitiou young men and Indies in the Held of ''Wire less" or railway telegraphy. Klnce the 8 hour law became effective, and alncathe wlre't'HM couipuiileH are es talMn!ilntf stations throughout the country there is a Kreat aliortngo of telejmipherH. Positions pay bejrjn era from 170 to $!M) per month, with good chance of advancement. The National Telegraph ItiMtltntlo" of Portlaud, Ore., operate under super vlsioo of K. K. uod wireli'HH official and places all graduate Into por tions. It will pay you to write them for full details. Ranch for Mule. ICO. acres, Camas Prairie, 1500 corda wood; god shear Ins corrals; large borne, barn and outbuildings. Apply at this office. On hia return from New York and after he boarded the N.-C.-O. train at Doyle, W. S. Towner, of the U. S. Land otlice, states that he was greatly surprised at the signs of improvements and progress along the line. Many Im provements in the way of buildings, fences, etc., were noticeable, while the large grain fields, as well us newly cul tivated lands, with men and teama plowing and seeding attracted his at tention. Growing corps were also In evide'irc, and eveiything pointed to a most successful year. Puppies For Sale I'nppiea for tale ha'f blood and fox IioundH, guaranteed to he good trail ers and full of staniln v. 1'rloo $5 each. II. A. L'tley, Valley Fall. A18-25 Keller For Mayor (HiKli Grade News) There seems to le a general concen sus of opinion that Mr. Edward Keller ahould be the Arat mayor of New Pine Creek. Mr. Keller Is absolutely a aelt made man. His career is an example of the possibilities that are within the grasp of the ambitioua young man, who has the push and energy to do things' and to be something In the world. Mr. Keller came into Goose Lake valley twenty-one years ago with youth, muscle, business judgement and industry aa hia only assets and engag ed in the mercantile business. After ward he purchased the New Pine Creek flouring mill, which he still owns and operatca. He owna a fine ranch in the valley also, a balf interest in the New Pine Creek Electric Light and Power plant and is president of thatoompany; he is also a heavy stockholder in the First National bank of Lakeview. Mr. Keller is always alert to the best interests of the community and waa active in the organization of the New Pine Creek Commercial club, of which he la vice president. Mr. Keller's busi ness tact and anility, coupled with bis desire to advance the interests of the town, makes him the logical candidate for the first mayor of New Pine Ceek. Municipal Honors (Hlifh Grade News) The County Court has granted the petition of New Pine Creek citizens parying tor the incorporation of the town and has ordered an election to vote on the proposition for and against the incorporation on Juno 1. There will be little, if any opposition. The voters of this town are intelligent, up to date, public spirited and ambitious to see the town grow and take its proper position among the influential muni cipalises oft he grcatstate of Oregon. Let us make the vote in favor of In corporation unanimous. These are times in which Postmaster Wendt Is kept busy taking care of the mail for the rapidly increasing patrons of the New Pine Creek nostofflce. He has ordered a large number of new j V ti) KEWAKD. A REWARD of llfty dollars Is here by offered for information that will limd to the arruai and conviction of any peiann wln bus stolen wires or other property, from our Company; nd the same t'etturd is hereby ottered for Informal ,,n that will lead to the arrest and -tioviotlou of anynue d troylng tin property of the Company. Chas. Umbacb, Sec.retai y Lake Co. Tel A TeL Co. Itf. Prlzo Given Away Valuable prlzo will bo given awny Free by Hall & Reynold. A cl y lor in the town of New I'ini' Crifk. worth fu.0(l, free to the bolder of the lucky number, a ticket with every dollar purelinMA, which entlilenyou to a clianco on the lot. A duplicate of each ticket will tie dropped lot a Misled box. u the evening uf June Doth the drawing will take place at Niiiltli'x Picture Show. Hut of town customers will receive their tickets by mull. Everyone bus an i iial chance. Now 1 tliu time to not rid of four rbtuma tUm. Vou will find (JliKmbnrlaln'i Unluvnt wonderful I jr cffi'dlve. One application will convince vou of It merit. Try lU rot Ml ty all d.'.lcri. The Best Bib Overall Two Horse Brand A Now Pair FREE If THcy Rip LEVI STRAUSS e CO. MFR8., SAN TRANCISCO Ti lock boxes and 200 new rail boxes to meet the heavy demand. The post office will also be enlarged for the pre sent and Ihe KistuiMster has arranged to erect a new building for pustofTice purposes when neresssry. Mr. Wendt exhibits rsre business tact by the ex peditious manner in which he handles the business for our Uncle Samuel. 3 A