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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1913)
HOTEL LAKEVIEW ERECTED IN 1HX) MODERN THROUQHOIT FIRST-CAL5S ACCOnaODATIONS SAftPLE ROOn For COnnERCIAU " 3H225 COURTEOUS S-;Bi5r TREATMENT LIGHT & HARROW, Proprietors F. P. LIGHT GEO. HARROW - IF YOU INTEND TO BUILD during the coming Spring or Sum mer, it will pay you to begin mak ing preparations now, while you have the time to spare. We have several books ol house plans to show you. We also have a complete Hue of Lumber, both dress ed and undressed, that we would like to show you. Come in and let us talk it over with you. Maybe we can save you some time and money. SUNSET LAKE LUMBER CO. So?le0?2C2enter st' Lakeview, Ore. Lakevicw Ice, Transfer and Storage Co Telephone No. 101 J. P. DUCKWORTH, Manager Suss to Meet All Trains. Transfer and Drayage. Storage by day, Week or Month &- "OUR CUST03IEKS ARB OUR ADVERTISERS' WALLACE & SOW ( Wm. Wallace, Coroner for Lake County j UNDERTAKERS PROMPT ATTEXTIOX AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Parlors, next door to Telephone Office WATSON BUILDING Twin Valley Land Co. - Incorporated C. R. BLOOD, Ast. Sec; C. O. MISENER, Gen. Agt. We have for sale: Orchard and A Ifalfa Lands Farm Lands, Timber Lands Homesteads and Desert Lands Special attention given to O.V.L. Land Holdings We are agents for The Fair port Town & Land Co. FAIRPORT TOWN LOTS now on sr e. Make your selection before the best ones are sold. A big investment for a small amount of money. LAKE COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY Incorporated. A Complete Record We have made an entire tratiHcrlpt of all Records lu Lake County which In any way, affect Real Property In the county. We have a complete Record of every Mortgage and transfer ever made In Lake County, anil ever Deed given. Errors Found in Titles In transcribing the record we have found numerous mort gages recorded In the Deed record and indexed; and many deeds are recorded lo the Mortgage record and other hooks. Hundreds of mortgages and deeds are not Indexed at all, and moat difficult to trace up from the records. We have notations of all these Errors. Others annot find them. ve have put Hundreds of dollars nuntlug up these errors, and we can fully guarantee oar work. J. D. VENATOR, "Tt Hanager. Let The Examiner Figure on Your Next Job Work MINING AND ITS RELATION TO PROSPERITY AND PROCRXSS--THE LATENT POSSIBILITIES OF HIGH GRADE AND WHAT ITS DEVELOP MENT INTO A PRODUCING CAMP WOULD MEAN TO THIS SECTION ISx V. .V. MlLLKlt I Mining and higher civilization go hand in hHnd. From the day of Tubal !Cain to this time, the countries which havt! taken an active part In the devel opment of mine and mots! working have been the greatest and the moat prosperous in the world. And the followers of this profession have always been the trail blazers. It is they who are the van guards ot civilization, beating trucks across scorching deserts, braving the unknown dangers of the frozen north and going to the remote corners of the earth. When Marshall found a few pebbles of shining gold in the gravel in the Sierras a hungry horde ot argonauts blazed a trail from the East to the Pacific, a trail that could have been followed for miny vears after by the mounds and grave markers. The discovery ot Gold in California projected the development uf the country a hundred years ahead. The mines of Virginia i:ity, Nevada made San Francisco a great city. The aggregate production from Virginia City was nearly $801), 000. 000. That money built railroads across the con tinent, banded the world with wires, reclaimed deserts, built factories, founded colleges and practically saved the credit ot the Union in the sixties. These are a few of the benefits we know of but there are a thousand ram ifications and channles into which this great flood ot gold and silver went. Cities ltuild In ii Night The discovery of gold in the mount ains almost In the shadow ot Pike's Peak caused a rush seldom equalled in mining history. Almost in a night a city sprang up upon the slopes of Min eral Hill. Within a short time tnera after there were more than 30,U0 peo ple in Cripple CreeK, Colo. There are ten thouasnd and more there Btill. This camp is situated at an altitude of nearly 10,000 feet above the sea. Mining was the sole basis for all the population. Few thought of makii.g a permanent home. Agricultural devel opment was impossible. But notwith standing they built a city, which for substantial business blocks and beau ilf ul homes was the equ6l of Reno, Nlv. The Hush To The Hvst-rt In 1900 a rich silver strike was made about 170 miles south of the Southern PaeiSc Ry. in Nevada. With incredible speed a town sprang up. At first, like all new mining camps, the t uildira were largely canvas and boards. How ever today Tor.opah in a substantial, well built town of stone and brick. Four years later a gold strike was made 30 miles south of Tonopah. De velopment at firot was slow. However in the Fall of 1906 things commenced to happen. (iold was the lure again. Upon the Hajes & Monette lease ore of fabulous richness was uncovered so rich in fact that most of it wa stored in the vaults of the bank until r adv for shipment. It made millions of the fortunate testers and carried the principal owner (Geo. Wingfield) to the pobition of being the richest in-divriu-al mine operator in the west. There were times in the history of Golafielti when there were close to 20,000 people living there. From a raw, primitive town it gradually became one of the best built mining towns in the weBt. A palatial hotel costing nearly a half million dollars gave service and accomodations unsuipatsed anywhere, tine schools were built. Many of the homes would satisfy one anywhere. .Mining AIoim; I Not Knougli It naturally follows thbt any town which depends upon one asset or re source for its prosperity will reflect the prosperity and disaster of such re source. If, like a mining camp it de pends exclusively upon the mines for its material prosperity, then naturally follows that with the decline of the mines there will be a corresponding decline to the towns prosperity. Take Virginia City today. With a production of nearly 1800,000 000, the city is largely a collection of empty, of ground that he is going o own tome day. if High Grade should develop into a big camp every acre of ground between Lakevicw and Likely would treble in value, the population would increase ten fold. Kvery latent possibility would be developed. It would in crease the tonnage both ways and the increase would demand and warrant better freight facilities. The success of High Grade would bring big operators and capitalists here from all parts of the country. They could not help being Impressed bv this wonderful country. They would hnd at the very foot of the Camp op portunities for brains, brawn and cap ital. If any of the Camps mentioned above had prssesscd any resources asido from that of mining they woul i become per manent cites and txvrienre a prosper ity and progress that few other places possess. If High Grade should develop into a big camp then Lakeview, Fairport, New Pine Creek, Davis Creek and Alturas would experience a prosperity at present undreamed of. Within ninety days after the discovery of a really big producer in High Grade, Fairport vould be a city of thousands, she would tucoire one cf the prettiest and busiest pots in California. What ( Inlin e Is There Tor High tirade Muklnir tituxl? Under favorable conditions llie!ieve it will make a good camp, probably a great one. The 'rush' of last year only proves one thing, i.e. that you cannot arbi trarily boom or force a district. In other words when the crowd comes it warts to ate something that will stimulate the sluggish blood. The rush last year was ill advined, unwarrai ted and harmful. It had none of that spontaneity which characterized (he discoverv of a new and really big ramp. (In the contrary one man visited the camp, saw a num ter of showings, noted some similarity between the formation and that of Cripple Creek: then went to where mining men congregate and talked un til he got a rush. The crowd came. Their minds had been stimulated by fabulous stories of the wonders of High Grade and nothing but a phenominal shuwing would interest them. This wbs not there and they left manv in digust. Had many of the men who came here last year dor.e so under the actual facts they would have stayed and invested. Cut they came expecting too much. Their minds had been inflamed with a lot of (lupduodle and the simple truth did not interest them. Another Draw hack Among the hundreds who came were a numlcr i.f really t.ig operator - -some of whom had taken their .vfiUions from the big camps of the country. These men liked the formation and general conditions Bnd seemed to be willing to spend larg sums in deter mining the extent and value of some of the properties. They entered into negotiations and left in dingust when prices were asked which would be absurdedly high in the great, developed camps of the country. It takes money to make mines. And it takes men who are willing to assume big chances. Unlike other lines of en deavor when you enter mining it is either win or lose there is no middle ground. In High Grade there has been con siderable disturbance and displacement. The fissuring has been extensive, the formation favorable to ore disposition. What the District requires is capital and intelligent application. Give this and I believe that it will become a big camp. Always there is the chance too that it will have considerable high grade ore. High gold values and quick development go hand in hand. To secure the capital for the de velopment of the properties a more 11- tumbling buildings and homes. It is beral policy must be inaugurated. The a ghost of the place it once was. It poured the ransome of Nations into the maw of commerce but reaped no per manent benefit itself. Its early citizens and the big operators made millions and took them elsewhere. The same is true of Cripple Creek. It has produced over $250,000,000 ami the money left the camp and Bought more inviting fields for investment. This money was u-ad to reclaim vase tracts of arid lan is, build railroads and sugar factories. What Would Happen Now assume that Cripple Creek, Tonopah, Goldfield or Virginia City had been situated as High Grade Is, what would rave b''en the result? Why h great muni er of the miilon would have been invested in this won derful valley. Mining iiu n aie the greatest bpend- era in the 'world and the miner himself Is always drearnii g of a ten acre plot district has heen known sin-e 190G and all the work done could have been per formed in one reason. A mining claim needs capital to de velup it with is as valuable as a stretch of unwatered, sage brush land. If un able to work a property myself I would option it to men with the means to do so, and upon terms that would, inter est them. High Grade has mineralization enough to warrant the belief that mines can be developed. It also has timber for mining, water for mills and power. It ia rlot-e to a fine fruit and agricultural val'ey. Given develop ment and I believe it will develop into a mineral district which will bring fortunfc and prosperity to this whole section or the cotintry. From Kanda if" Pmh( on thH nut h. north w aid to.-nyi eio, .i.en liiii uiaJe and for three miles further north there Continued on Page Seven Real Estate For Exchange $-0,000 worth of Penvcr property, apartment house above stoics below, to exchange for Lake County property. Business block in Keno, Nev., valued $125,000, pays H per cent interest, to exchange ior Lake County ranch. Klf resident lots in O'Brien's Southbrae addi tion, Keno, Nev., 1 mile from 1 ()., adjoining the Sierra Vista tracts, owned by Senator Nixon, in the choice part of town three blocks from $03, 000 grain nmrsehool, to exchange for Lake County property, ranch, or U'lkeview property or timber for part or all on equitable basis. List your ranch property or timber with me. I am advertising in several of the Kastern dailies. I am in touch with buyers. Money to loan on large act cages. H. A. UTLEY, Lakeview, Oregon A Prophesy A prophesy hits been made that some day all retail piano stores will be conducted by the manufactur ers themselves. 1 he reason given for this is (he unreliability of many of there ngrnts who make prom ises which cannot be fulfilled. Should this prophesy come true the purchaser would be much bet ter satisfied for he would not be buying through the unreliable mid dle man. If contemplating a piano or play er piano we refer possible pur chasers to Shepherd cV Sons' rec ord of eighteen summers business in Lake County ns factory repre sentatives. Lvery promise and guarantee has been made good, proven by hundreds of purchasers who can give us a reference. Address either Ashland or Klam ath Falls for our proposition. Forty-six years one business in one family Shepherd & Sons Factory Representatives i V. -j : . i I Hi I 4 3 it Such shipments mean Studebaker has the confidence cf the farmer" Every year over one hundred thousand horse driven vehicles are sold by StuJebalicr. Over a million Studebaker vehicles are always in use. Stop and think what that means. This enormous output means that Farmers the men who know depend upon Studebaker wnrjona to do their work. And a Studebaker wagon never fails. It is always pady to do a big day's work and to keep on doing it. There are thousands of Studebaker wagons that have been in service from 20 to 40 years. A Studebaker wagon is a renl bunines asset. Wheels, body, frame, axles and running gear have been tested and retestrd by experts. You can buy cheaper wagons but they're not Sludcbukctt, not will they last like Studebaker wagons. 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