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v-v y JACKSONVILLE Vol. 2 SENTINEL Jacksonville, JacKion County, Oregon, Friday, October 14, 1904. NEWS OF THE MINES Busy Season Among I he Miners of Southern Oregon Now At Hand and Unusual Activity Is Noted Ihroughout I his Section. I’LACf RS WILL SiAKL UP ami the other five miles long and an ample supply will be had ami with a pressure of 375 feet. Capt. Mullens ex- pects to have all work completer] and the giants in operation bv the middle of Novem tier. ‘•Ehe Mdid of the Mist.” GOVERNMENT LAND Good Stock Country Near Sguaw Lake Where But Little Winter Feed Is Reguired io Bring Cat* tie and Hogs Ehrough That Season of the Year. SOON No. 22 Haskins thinks that when transportation facilities are had, as will be had when the big copper and gold mines of that section are developed, that the north slope of the Siskiyou mountains will be the great potato growing district of Southern Oregon. Fruit also does well and is very fine quality and free from pests. There is yet much vacant government land in this section, which Mr. Haskins states will make good farms and stock ranches. As Mr. Haskins is anxious to secure neighbors he will gladly give in tending settlers all the information he can regarding this land either by letter or will show parties good claims. His address is Watkins. This is as yet un surveyed but it will probably not be long until it is put on the market, in the mean time a settler pays no tax on it and when the land is open to entry his previous res idence is applied on his five years home stead requirement. The Maid of the Mist mine on Thomp-’ eon creek, owned by Ben Thurston, of LAND NOT YET BEEN SURVEYED Applegate, and White tit Armstrong, of1 August Petard and his *>n» August Grants Pass is likely to soon lie aproduc anil Albert unite gold mining with fruit• ing mine of some importance. This John Haskins was in Jacksonville Mon raising; in the winter they work a placer ledge has been worked in a small way day from Squaw Lake making his regular claim in Rich gulch and in the summer for the past two years ami lias yielded fall purchases. Mr. Haskins has a fine care lor their vinayard. This year in ad- 1 good values in the ore taken from the stock ranch on unsurveyed land on dition to their own vineyard on Rich development work. Mr. Thompson, with Squaw creek al>ove the lake, where he gulch they have leaded the Barbbe via- Alliert Cully, assisting him, has been at has resided with his family for the past yard of 17 acres two miles north of Jack work for several months past extending seven years and until two yeats ago had sonville. They have shipped the larger the tunnel to learn the extent and value no neighbor nearer than four miles. Mr. jMrt of their grapes to Portland and of the ledge aud so promising is the Haskins raises cattle and hogs and is other northern markets, realizing good showing that it has been decided to put making money for his stock are compara prices, but a considerable |x>rtion will l*e in a mill and inaugurate re gular mining tively no exjiense at all to him, the hogs made into u me. <>|ierations. Negotiations are now on for finding their own living in the woods Mining Men Organize. ________________ the purchase of the three stamp mill used and becoming fat for the market on May Put in <in Araslra. in the development work at the Opp the mast each fall, while the cattle come mine and which will no longer lie used off the range as prime beef. Mr. Has The mining men of Grants Pass and as the 20 stamp mill will soon lie in oper- kins feeds very little during the winter vicinity have perfected an organization Riley Thompson aud William Jordan ation at that mine. With this three months, only a few days at a time when which is known as the Grants Pass Min are o|<-iiing up a ledge in Quartz gulch stamp mill to handle the ore. extensive there is snow on the ground, but so soon ers’ Association. The officers of the Asso on Thompkins creek that is making a development would lie carried on. the ore as the snow is off the ground the stock ciation are: C. L. Mangum, president; showing that u very gratifying to these lieing rich enough to more than pay for take to the range on which there is good S. Case, first vice-president; John Minor miners. While no rich pocket has been cost of opening up the mine and if the feed all year, for the cool, misty air of Booth, secretary; W. T. Cape, assistant struck yet their ledge is ri< h enough to outlook warrants it, a larger mill would the mountains keep the vegetation green secretary; H. L. Gilkey, treasurer; W. H. pass for a {rocket for from six ton of rock . be installed and the mine worked as a during the dry months of summer and in Hair, assistant treasurer. The executive recently miner, they secured pw in ' permanent proposition. the winter the timbered sections afford committee is made up of W. B. Sherman, gold, milling their ore al the Thurston good feed for there is little snow beneath C. C. Higgins, Arthur Conklin, P. H. mill on the Applegate. As it is several the trees. Harth and R. L. Coe. The Association Wanted. miles to the Thurston mill they are plan Special Representative in this county Clover and timothy produce large crops has fitted up headquarters in Grants ning to put in an arastra at their mine, and adjoining territories, to represent of hay ami all kinds of farm products Pass where a complete exhibit is to be the power to be had from the Mee ditch | ami advertise an old established busi- grow well, especially potatoes which on maintained of all the mineral products nets house of solid financial standing. which jiasses above their claim. Salary #21 weekly, with Expenses ad this rich mountain soil grow to perfec of that mining district, and an exhibit is vanced each Monday by check direct tion, the yield Ix ing large and the quali being prepared for the Lewis & Clark from headquarters. Horse and buggv ty far superior to those grown in the low- Exposition. The Association has be- Cinnabar Near Jacksonville. furnished when necessary; position per manent. Address Blew Bros. & Co., valleys, a watery, knotty, hollow potato I come a member of the Oregon State being unknown to this section. Mr. Development League. It has a member Dept. A, Monon Bldg., Chicago, Ill. ship of over 150 and those pushing it ex There is every prospect that the Jack pect the roll will embrace 250 names sonville district will have another cinna before the close of this year. bar mine to arid to its mineral wealth, for a large ledge of that ore has recently i — lieen discovered on Palmer creek by Improving The Road. J.II. Ray, of Medford, and Amos McKee | of I'pjier Applegate. Messrs Ray and McKee are now at work developing their Road Supervisor W. H. Pennington, of claim which is showing up in good sha]M- i the Willow Springs district, is doing both as to richness ami quantity of ore. 1 some substantial work on the Willow The development work will 1« continued j Springs—Jacksonville road and he ex- until the value of the ledge is demon ' pects to have a considerable distance of strated and if it proves to warrant the ex this road made passable for travel in the penditure a retort will lie elected next winter months as well as during the sum and active mining operations will be ’ mer season and to attain this much-desir then begun. ed end he has several teams hauling wei Goods Kicoro Gold Mining Company. A syndicate of I.os Angeles capitalists, 1 under the com|Miiy name of the Rieoro I (»old Mining ComjMiny, at the head of which is Cipt. G. (». Mullens, a retired army officer, and who is in charge of the company’s mining operations, has I bought the Classic Hill mine, located at the head of Indian creek midway be tween Ilappy Creek and Waldo, on what wus known in early mining days as the Sam Howard {dace. In addition to this mine the Company has bought BOO acres | of additional placer ground and is pre paring to operate one of the biggest pla cer mines of the Coast. A sawmill, that cuts 10,000 feet per day, has been erect- I ed, of which E. A. Head is sawyer and j J. I). Matney has the logging contract, . to cut lumber for the flumes and for the | messhouse and other buildings. Water ( will be had from the west fork of Indian creek, by two ditches one 1# miles long earner Are now neces sary as the wet weather is near at hand and of course you want gravel from a bed on the Armstrong place and distributing it along the road grade which he made last spring. A Question of Tacks. To Be Comfortable We sell ('»old Seal Rubber Boots, Parker’s Leather Sole Gum Boots, Hood’s Knee Tuff Gum Boots, Fish Brand Oil Clothing, Buckingham & Hecht’s Leather BootsandShoes. Prices and Quality Guaranteed. Soliciting Your Valued Patronage and Guaranteeing Prices Always the Low est, Truly Yours, NUNAN-TAYLOR CO. JACKSONVILLE, ORE. Any reader of this paper, sending 25 cents in silver, by postal note or in one and two cent stamps, will be sent The Daily Journal one month; or The Sunday Journal two months; or the Semi Weekly Journal three months or the Weekly Journal four months, and in addition a match safe filled with tacks, postage prepaid. Address The Journal, Port land, Oregon. Mrs. Elizabeth Kenney fell Monday evening and injured her knee so seriously that she has been barely able to get about the house with the aid of a crutch, but no serious consequences are feared anil she expects to have the full use of her limb in a short time. Try the Sentinel for three months.