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JACKSONVILLE \ “ Vol. 2 —»-- — - ■ " ■ SENTINEL ‘ 11 ' 1 —— ... -ra —- v .-r.,r r- — — r, . Jacksonville, JacKson County, Oregon, Friday, October 7, 1004. , , Superintendent Frank Ankeny of the Sterling mine had work la*gnn Tuesday on getting the ditches in order for the winter's run. A force of men with Will iam Jennings is at work cleaning out the Increased Activity at the Biq Copper Brief, Bree/y Notes Reqardinq the ditch, which is 27 miles long, and in size Various Events I hat Lake Mine on Upper Appleqate and a small canal, and brings water to the Place at and Near the County mine from Little Applegate. New head* Indications Point to a Wonder* Seat, By Ehls the Only Paper. works will Ire put in and the water ful Future For The Property. system put in effective order for a big NLWS WHILE IE IS YEF NEWSY run this winter with the four giants SHOWING UP BIGGER AND BETTER with which the mine is equipped. Pip ing usually commences at the Sterling Fruit, of all kind, at '-tiller.. The Blue Ixdge Copper Company is mine about the middle of November and one of the big mining companies operat Fresh Irread, daily, at W. H. Miller.. Supt. Ankeny experts to have all in ing in Southern Oregon that is steadily All kinds of fresh, crisp vegetables at readiness to start mining with the first and quietly carrying on its work with so water that is to lie had. W. H Miller*. little noise that the general public hardly Nick Young, of Eagle Point was in knows that a copper mine is being devel A fine selection of glassware at Nunnn- Taylor Coinj.iny'. to l>e sold with baking Jacksonville this Thursday with a load of oped in the Jacksonville district that power at no additional charge. farm produce which he told to the local promises to be one of the great copper W. M. Colvig will leave Sunday for merchants. Mr. Young expects to leave camps of the world. As the tunnels pen Klamath Fall, to I* gone several days to for Prineville next week where he ex etrate the ledges the ore shows up in in attend to some legal business pertain pect* to take up a homestead in one of creasing richness and in bodies of im ing to waler rights for Hon. if. E. An the irrigation districts that the govern mense quantities that will make possible ment is planning to establish in that the erection of great smelters like those keny. section of Eastern Oregon. Mr. Young that have made Butte and Anaconda fa T. H. Herriott was in Jacksonville this is a hustling 'young man and will make a Friday. Mr. Herriott returned last week success of his venture if no unforsem mous, and what is of special interest to citizens of Jacksonville, the building of to his home in Central Point from Pro olistacle prevents. these smelters is no longer a matter of volt where he has l»een «niploved as saw the distant future but of the present and James A. Wilson lias placed a new roof yer in a large sawmill at that place. on the l>oy’« school building at St Marys it is reasonable to expect that witbin the Hon. H. E. Ankeny ami his son Frank Academy. It is of felt with a coating of next five years the solitude now ever the Ankeny left Monday for Klamath county specially prefiared tar paint on which a Upper Applegate will t»e broken by the where they will s|>en<l 10 days at the big coating of sand is sprinkled. This kind ceaseless activity and bustle of a great gram and hay ranch they have near of roofing is said to lie both water proof mining camp. Klamath Falls in partnership with The Blue Ledge property is now under and fire proof and very durable while no Roscoe Cantrall a son-in-law of Mr. a bond given by Dr. J. F. Reddy and his more ex|>eiisive than a tin roof. Ankeny’s. associates to a New York company, of Hinkle, the facksonville jeweler, has a Rev. S. Sack, pastor of the Lutheran full stock of spectacles and will fit them which John R. Allen is president, C. C. Bruger, vice president and treasurer and church in Medford, announces that on to your eye and his prices are right. G. P. Humphrey, secretary, with their thia Sunday al 10:00 o'clock a. tn., con Sjiectacles sutdered and other light office at 25 Bond street. The company firmation services will l»e held at his repairing done at reasonable prices at I has its western office at Los Angeles, church, when a class of four, who have Hickel’s jewelry store, Jacksonville. where are the headquarters of the con- completed their course of instruction, Grain sacks in any quantity and prices suiting engineers, Bruger & Siebert. will lie admitted to fellowship in the that are right at Nunan-Taylor Company. The mines at Blue l^edge are in charge church. The members of this class are of C W. Geddes, of New York City, as Ernest and Emma Neidermcyer and Quartz and placer location blanks for superintendent, with R. C. Abbott, of Elizalieth Demmer, of Jacksonville and sale at the Sentinel Office. Ixiuisa Schaeffer of Phoenix. Following the confirmation services the holy com munion will lie observed. The Luthern church at Medford is the only organiza tion of that faith in this county, and from a small liegintiing it nas, under the uble pastorate of Rev. Sack, grown to be one of the strongest church organizations in the county and both the Sunday school ami regular services each Sabbath are well attended ami a fine spirit ofco-oper- atioti exists lie tween the pastor and his jiarishoners. BLUE LEDGE MINE Our Immense Fall Purchase A. W. Sturgis, the veteran miner and an Oregon pioneer of 1K52, and who, 50 j years ago the first of this month, left his I father’s home near Oregon City on foot, j in company with another young man, i with ¿10. in money, a pack horse and a < camp outfit as their total assets; for the mining camps of Southern Oregon, was in Jacksonville, Wednesday. Mr. Stur gis has gone through all the vicissitudes incident to a miner's life, but has pros pered and now has a fine home in Med ford where he and his family live in com fort, with a goodly liank account for a rainy day. Mr. Sturgis operated until last year the Sturgis mine on Forest creek six miles west of Jacksonville and one of the biggest paying placers in Southern Oregon, when iie sold it to the Vance—Olmstead company who are now operating it. Mr. Sturgis yet owns some fine quartz properties on Applegate which he is contemplating oficning up himself or by lease to other parties. Mr. Sturgis is a firm believer in the coming boom to Southern Oregon that will make it one of the great mining districts of the Dinted States and one of the most pros perous sections of the Pacific Coast. Has Arrived and Is Open, Ready For Inspection. You Will Do Well To Call and Inspect It Be fore Buying Your Winter Soliciting Your Valued Patronage and Guaranteeing Prices Always the Low est, Truly Yours, NUNAN-TAYLOR CO. JACKSONVILLE, ORE. / " ‘ “r No. 21 Colorado, as assistant superintendent. From the extensive plans now under way by this company there is every rea son to expect that they will take up their bond to the Jacksonville owners and pro ceed to erect a smelter and secure rail road connections for which a preliminary survey has been made from Jacksonville to Blue Ixtdge. The company also holds a bond on the Joes Bar land on Elliott creek where is a good location for the smelter and a town. Recently assistant superintendent Ab bott has been making surveys on both Elliott creek and Joe creek with a view of ascertaining the available power to be had from these streams for operating an electric power and light station. The current would be transmitted to the mines three miles distant up in the foot hills of the Siskiyou mountains where it would be used to operate a compressor and other machinery about the mine and for light in the tunnels and in the houses in the camp. The drilling in the devel opment work now carried on is done by hand but it is evident that the company intend in the near future to install a com pressor and to use power drills, which will greatly facilitate the work of open ing up the mine. Telephone connection is to be established with Jacksonville as a permit has been secured from the coun ty to erect poles and carry wires along the county road from this place to the mines. The company's big mule team is kept busy hauling in supplies and Supt. Geddes is preparing for steady work all winter and he is now employing a force of about 25 men and pushing development work on the tunnels with day and night shifts. While the plans of the company are not given out at all it is quite reasonable to expect from the oper ations now carried on that the bond hold ers are satisfied with their venture and that they will make the purchase of the property and begin in the spring the erection of their smelter. Several hundred dollars of Blue Ledge money now finds its wav to Jacksonville each month and with the increased activ ity at that mine the town will be more greatly benefitted and it will be a factor of much importance in the prosperity of Jacksonville and of this section. Pleased With This District. H. Calahan, who is a well known Spokane mining man, and who in com pany with J. R. Riley, another promi nent mining man of that city owns the St. Albans group of claims in the Elliott Creek copper district, was on the Apple gate last week to note conditions in the copper district. Mr. Calahan returned to Jacksonville Tuesday and Wednesday he left for Spokane. He expreses great confidence in the richness of the Apple gate copper district and expects it to be come one of the copper camps of the country. He visited the Blue Ledge claims, which adjoins the St. Albans claims, and stated Supt. Geddes, with a large force of men, was steadily pushing development work and that the ledges were showing up both in richness and extent beyond previous expectations. Mr. Calahan reports that there is much interest among Spokane mining men in regard to Southern Oregon mining in terests and he expresses the opinion that within the next year there will be many Spokane men making investments in Southern Oregon mining property, for they look upon this district as one of great promise and which is destined to be in the near future one of the best in the United States.