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ONIA, OREGON, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20,1925
PECIAL
LECTION
ARRIED
Volume 4
Number 15
cut with small seams, made up of j
OFFICIAL FIGURES FROM CITY RECORDER
tellurld», quartz, qunrtslte, lime­
stone, talc and other vein filler
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which gives evidence of a value of
Vernonia,
Oregon, November 19, 1925
it least from $3 to >5 in gold, com­
puting the entire muss. All the veins Mr. Paul Robinson,
crosscut range nearly north-south Editor Venonia Eagle.
and dip east, except the last upright
Dear Sir:
The Kelmar Vanpet mine is situ­
As per your request of November 18th, I hereby give
ated in that lurge area of southwest
ern Oregon and northwestern Cali­ you the information requested as shown by the records
fornia, which has been by the U, S.
geologicul department, designated as m my office
an island in the ocean during creta­
The amount of fines paid to the Recorder from Januaiy
ceous times, long before the Cas­ 1st, 1924 to December 31st, 1924.......................... $1,905.75
cade mountains rose above the. sur I
face of the water and by Winchell' Number of arrests in the above period ....51
termed the “great Siskiyou batho­ The amount paid to the Recorder for licenses,
lith.” It is, perhaps one of the old-'
755.42
JMt pieces of terra firma on the west' permits, dog tax, pound fees and occupation tax
ern continent, and compares favor-'
ably in age with the Alps mountains'
in Europe. The major part of this Total for 12 months in 1924
muss is granite or granitic in charuc-1
ter, accompanied with other intru­ The amount of fines paid to the Recorder from
sives, igneous rocks, such as diorite,' -.
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Paul Robinson, Editor and Owner
DRY KUN OF
BIC CROWDS ATTEND REVIVAL
150 Preseat Suada, Night» IM on
Wednesday Night—Good Atten­
dance .11 Week.
The revival meeting, which began
Last Tuesday night the fire alarm
told us that the dry kiln of the John. Sunday, November 8, under the
ston-McGraw shingle mill was on leader-.hip of Rev. Wm. F. Rade­
fire. The large new kiln was full to I macher, local pastor, and J. G. Min­
its capacity containing 2,000,000 ton, singing evangelist from Albany,
shingles, valued at about $8 000.) Or., has been grown in interest and
The citizens responded to the call power. During the entire series of
and probably fifty men worked for i meetings the messages on Sunday
twenty-four hours in trying to put I morning and Monday evening were
out the fire. It was a slow fire as being brought by Mr. Minton. The
the doors had to be kept closed to messages on all other evenings ure
The city sepecial election carried
confine the blaze. The kiln is new, brought by Rev. Rademacher. Every
£S on the two propositions of
as is the entire mill, and at this j evening’s service is opened by a
king the necessary extra taxes to
writing it is hoped that the walls trumpet bo I o by Mr. Minton, using
Bet our obligations.
There were
of tile can be saved.
The build-! ihe old sacred melodies. This is fol­
8 votes polled, carrying nearly
is valued at $8,000. The loss to the' lowed by a thirty minute song ser­
o to one.
shingle company is prabably $16,-! vice of unusual interest, in which
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, : the choir of mixed voices and the
000 fully covered by insurance.
NPEI'E MINE STRIKE
is a loss that insurance cannot audience join In an inspiring way.
$1,375.50 This
IS GREAT BOOST porphry and other intrusions ofj JsnuBry 1st, 192c> to November 10th, 1925
fully cover, however, as it will take; Many special numbers in solos, duets
ancient origin; such intrusions hav- Number Of arrests, 72
time to rebuild and dry the product j and quartettes are being rendered
ich Or« in Quantity Found With ocean'Thi ieXenu thrt’tad set-1 License pemits, dog tax pound fees..........
339.75 I A two or three day shut down will during the opening services. Last
Tunnel F«r From Complete.
bring the big mill up to capacity' Sunday evening Mr. Mintoa sang
tied there. These elevations have in Occupation Tax ..............................................................
1,820.15 again.
The night of te fire was ideal' “I’ve a Wonderful Saviour,” aa a
places reached an ultitude in some
with no wind and the helpers worked j solo. Both the words and music of
From the Gold Hill News
places of seven and eight thousand
That the driving of the 800-foot feet. The sediments thus lifted were I Total for 10 months and 10 days of 1925 ............ $3,535.40 untireingly. Mr. Greenman, superin­ this piece were composed by him,
tendent of the Oregon-American and were rendered in public for the
unnel on £he Kelmar-Vanpete mine changed from their original horizon­
It Gold Hill is one of the large com tal character, to various angles of in­ $85.50 of the above amount was collected by the former mill, was there with a rubber coat, first time in Vernonia. This song
leading the hose men on to the will be sung again next Sunday
ng assets of Jackson county, is evi- clination, accomodating easy erosion. Recorder.
Respectfully yours,
thickest of the steam and smoke. eve ng, either as a solo, a duet, or
enced by the recent striking of an Hence we find how now, only frab-
D. B. REASONER, City Recorder.
Also a few trumpet
The Vernonia fire department re­ a qaartette.
l-foot vein, which Dr. Hirschel C. ments of these chrly sediments at
sponded and as individuals did grand solo: of sacred hymns are being
'arker, world fumous geologist and j the tops of the righer elevations,such
service. At midnight, the mill people broadcasted nearly every evening
nine expert now in the district, nndi us limestone, often metamorphosed
had coffee and sandwiches ready from the top of the church tower,
nining men generally, announce isi into marble. These sediments were
for the crowd, which helped to re­ at 7:00 o’clock.
jf far more importace than the rich' originally very deep and erosion car­
new energy.
The evangelistic messages brought
itrike made in the Greenback minej ried them away; some back to the
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by Rev. Rademacher, have been
n the Grants Pass district This im-l ocean, while others were deposited in
»ortance is due to the size of the the valleys as they have been formed VOL. 1
LET US THINK OF THE FUTURE i preached with conviction and power.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1925
No. «
Last Sunday night’s .sermon on “The
rein and the richness of the ore in
These
intrusions
and
the
neces
­
Great I Am,” was particularly grip­
¡.’•granite” the new metaj recently
Published
Every
Week
By
Florie
Kelso,
Louise
Lester.
Donald
More Home«, More People and More ping. He quoted from the Scrlptute
’discovered by Dr. Parker in the lo- sarily broken fissured condition in
Vernonia
High
School
Brady,
Charles
Hoffman,
Glen
Haw-
1
Farmers
that, “God is the same, yesterday,
’cal mines, which carry gold values. which they and their bedding have
kins and Aide Lester. They procee-'
today and forever.” declaring that
Dr. Parker hus been in the Gold been left, facilitated the settling of
.Margaret Smith ded to get all stuck up, even the;
God answers prayer, saves sinners,
iHUl and Grants Pass districts for! such minerals as were held in posi­ Editor
Good
things
are
slow
in
arriving
sanctifies believers, heals the sick
^several weeks, and says, “ I have tion, or suspension, an<] all other
house. After the candy was pulled. I
and Vernonia has been patient in her and works wonders his will to par­
h -.¿e n most careful examination of j mutter susceptible of being carried CARNIVAL COMMITTEE—
coffee
and
cake
was
served.
*
The
wait for a united effort to build tip form, today just the same as he did
The carnival committee is making boys got most of the cake.
|th® geology of this district anj r’ inyi downward into seams and fissures
iof the mines and have found ; • iat | as the mass slowly rose. After the plans and getting down to actual
her surrounding country. The city in the olden days, and that he has
bodies of copper ore which ma> be whole hud risen ubove the ocean preparatory work. Mrs. Cole has ob­
has
grown fast from 200 to about the same power and love and mercy
that he always had. He also declared
directly smelted, associated with water and valleys were formed, or tained some more material and sev-* NEW STUDENT ENROLLS—
2500
in three years; much has been his belief in the Scriptural doctrines
groat values of gold and platinum, I in the process of forming, much of
Luther McFarland enrolled us a
but especially rich in ore which is I the residue resulting from thiB dis- eral students have been given parte.' freshman this week. He has attended accomplished in the way of industry of the Pre-m ¡llenial Second coming
usually known as arseno pyrite,” he J intergration was deposited around
the Laurelwood Ac.’.dcr.i/ near Gas­ anl the business has built up to all to Jesus Christ .Last Tuesday even­
further says, “this ore, I believe, is the shore line of this old Siskiyou is­ UNNECESSARY BOYS—
that is demanded of a city this size. ing’s subject was “Entire Sanctifi­
ton.
a pyrite carrying the teluride gold land, resulting in the heavy placer
Little
has been done in a cooperatlvr cation.” Rev. Rademacher state-1
The
The
boys
are
unnecessary!
fj c::..e.knce cf
and it is usually associated with: deposits, which employed the. pio­
way. Everyone seemingly has work­ ; Sanctification h was
often rediculed
chlorite rather than quartz. An en-1 neer placer miners. Observation will girls, to prove their utter aversion VISIT AT LOGGING CAMP—
ormously rich deposit of this ore has) show that ali these placer deposits to the bothersome things, are giving
Cornelia Smith, Margaret Shipley ed for their individual business and and even lau~hcd at today,yet it is
Our Scriptural and is the possible expet-
recently been found Ip the Green­ were formed along the shore line of an “All Girls” party next Friday and Anna Rea Webster visited the for the big round dollar.
back mine, which has shown actual! this oM island and that the gold evening. Yes, boys, you are NOT in­ Birkinfeld Logging camp Thursday chamber of commerce is not active ience of every believing child of
Hence, into these
smelting values of $1400 to $3700! came from it.
and we are lacking a real leader in God. Several persons have been con­
vited !
afternoon.
a ton in gold. While this ore has been [ mountains, judgement dictates that
civic betterment and country boost­ verted an<j accepted Christ as their
Saviour, some of them being brought
reported as a telluride, it actually ap we must look for the source of the
peal* to be telluride carried by the gold. The searches thus prompted VACATION—
VISITOR FROM FOREST GROVE ing as it should be. We have plenty to the alter by personal workers af­
white sulphide of iron, known as ar have proved correctly and the heavy
Ijist week’s vacation was thor­
Murdo Hickox, a senior of the of stores, plenty of business insti ter the meeting has been dismissed
need more people. We and most of the crowd gone. Christ­
seno pyrite. Ores of this nature in, mineral deposits ure found in the oughly appreciated. Every student Forest Grove high school visited tutior’
which Gold HUI and Grants Pass seams and fissures of this old island. will tell you that teachers' institute
ner
.’<• 1 off land adjacent in ians are also being blessed in a
Lynn
Bert
over
the
week-end.
Rogue river valley lies to the east is a blessing.
districts seem to abound, I have'
cr l h :-ti< n
’ eed farmers, chick­ wonderful way. In fact, Verno<|a k
having a good old fashioned revival
tamed “Grantite” after the town of, and northeast of the Siskiyou mts.,
e; rc ise'.s ord d.irymen.
There if of faith and love and power.
and the more recent Cascade range
Grants Pass.”
SALMON
F1SHI.NG
—
rc m here f r hundreds of milk
Dr. Parker is also credited with of mountains lie to the east of this FOOTBAL1__
Wednesday night of this week was
Several high school
»H ’-’it cor ■ with
Next
Friday
the
Vernonia
second
cal market for the “Childrens Night,” and drew the
laying:
“
When
the
deposits
of
this
valley
and
the
placer
mines
have
I
»
salmon
fishing
during
i_. t w. !;s dair;
cfe have been developed, it is al­ been and are along the shore line of team will play St. Helens.
.We need a creamcry largest erbwd of any night so far,
vacation.
most a certainty that it will mean the old island, and are not found
Work for cne chamber of commerce during the meeting, there being 160
a yield of many millions in k'dra* along the Cascade side of the valley. PARTY IS GIVEN—
•
Thousands of dollars go out of Ver people present. The choir was made
with a proper smelting or chloriilu- The finding of such great variety of
The following
Last Thursday evening, Loui&e GIVES DANCE—
nonia every month for butter—and up of 41 children.
tion process. This ore is well dis$ri-' mineral contents in these old fis­
group
of
revival
songs
were sung by
Lester
gave
a
real
taffy
pull
party.
1
Hale Greenman gave a dance at eggs, as well. We have a belief that
buted in extensive veins, wiiicTi will sures and seams is attributed to and
| them: “Constantly Abiding,” “I've
Those
attending
were:
Dane
Brady
1
,
1
his
home
on
Friday
evening
last.
go to great depths, with occasional accounted for, by the early uplift
the first few months of an operating! Pitched my Tent in Beulah,” “My
rich ore shoots running into thous-' and fissuring of the “Siskiyou batho­ Margarett Shipley, Cornelia Smith,* Refreshments were served at 10 creamery' here would not be a big! i Soul Is Filled With Glory,” and
iinds of dollars in gold to the ton.”j lith.”
Mildred Bergerson, Lena Gibson,' o’clock. The guests departed at 11 financial success. But if the cream-1 I “Come Over into Caanan Land.”
The Kelmar Vanpete mine proper-; The tunnel project has been so far
ery was established, the cows would i Mfiss Evelyn Peterson briefly told
ty consists of an ,80 acre ^tract
above the expectations of the pro-
the story of the coming of the Child­
RAYMER
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HANKLE
COURT
UPHOLD
VERNONIA
follow in quick time.
There it. a ren of Ireal out of the land of Egypt
patented
land,
adjoining
*.
j
_
* the city motors, is evidenced by the large
Joe
Raymer
and
Mias
Alitha
Hank-
WIDOW’S AWARD OF DAMAGE:» waist of energy for four or five into the land of Caana. Miss Alice
limits of Gold Hill on the north anil bodies of ore crosscut by the tunnel.
extends from near the waters edge It is several hundred feet yet to the el were married in Vancouver, Wn,
farmers to drive several miles each and Pahline Dübendorf sang “The
of Rogue River to the summit of first known vein system on the pro­ last Saturday. The young people are
Portland—The jury verdict, re­ day delivering milk. We need a cen- Old Rugged Cross,” aa a soprano
Vernonia residents.
Mr. Raymer
the high mountain back of Gold HUI I posed tunnel. ....
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and alto duet. Then the song service
All of the vast bodies
turned in federal court here re­
me Kelmar Van pete company also i of oreg croMCUt, include the fault formerly employed at the O.-A. mill cently, allowing Mrs. Mabel Simpson I tral collective point, at a creamery closed with the children and audience
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the daily milk deliveries made
claims adjoining me patent J^n<' <’n vein running east-west were uncov- Miss Hankle is a Vernonia school $15,000 damages against the Oregon! and
from one headquarters. Think this singing together “The Glory Song”
the north _
which * is “ cut * * by * the
’'* veil: ered running blind in driving the girl, well liked by all her acquain­
with the choruses of “Sweet Bye and
system extending through the main tunnel to the first known vein in tances. May their wedding be crow­ American Lumber company of Ver-iOVer citizens and let us strive for Bye,” and “When the RoU la Called
ded
with
success.
property north-south.
nonia, has been affirmed by the* more farmers and more people. It Up Yonder,” used in between. Rev.
the mountain 638 feet in on the tun­
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The original plans of the project nel. It is estimated that there is now
circuit court of appeals at San Fran­ will pay in the long run to put a little Rademacher then followed with a
Did you know that the Eagle Las
commenced last May on the proper­ ll'i.OOO tons of ore in the vein value
cisco, according to word received effort and cash into such a propo- stirring sermon on “The Heavenly
ty was for a tunnel of 830 feet to at $51 per ton in gold, and there is' considerably over three thousand
Stranger.” The whole service was aa
here.
sition.
crosscut an iron and nickel vein at every evidence that there are many readers ?
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inspiration to the large number of
Mrs.
Simpson
asked
the
damages
638 feet on the tunnel; a copper vein pay shoots in the vein which will
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people present.
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t
60 feet beyond; and a telluride gold run into hundreds, of dollars per ed by the Kelmar Venpet Minin,' for personal injuries suffered by
The meetings will continue until
TIMBER
DEAL
WILL
I
vein at 830 feet on the tunnel.
ton in gold similar to those in the! company, a 'closed corporation, is her husband, while working for the
HASTEN GALES CREEK R. R next Wednesday evening, Nov. 25,
The tunnel was fortunately started I Greenback mine.
No attempt has managed by A. E. Kellogg, and W. lumber company, which caused his
The subjects for the remaining ser­
into the mountain o»» an east-west been made by the owners of the mine W. Martineau, local members of the
vices are as follows: Thursday evea-
was
<je.>th
over
a
year
ago.
The
case
fault vein, probably an extension of fo develop any of the several bodies ccr.ipai.y, whil • the balance of the
A timber deal of such magnitude ing, “Life in a Look”; Friday, “The
a vein exteding from Gold Hili pock­ of ore, but having in mind to drive int<. ..La r.c l'.eld by a small body tried in Federal Judge Bean's court. as to have no parallel in this coun­ Passions of Jesus”; Saturday "The
—Tuesday’s Journal. ,
et strike on the opposite side of t.h< , the tunnel the full 830 feet, cutting if Veiiionir, O.-.. business men.
ty in recent years was closed in the Meeting of a Saviour and a Sinner”;
Rogue river, which at 300 feet in ’ the three objective vein systems on
east Monday by the purchase of ap Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, “Di­
on the tunnel developed into a five I the
vii<_ property.
,
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.... last
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Since making the
vine Healing”; Sunday evening at
A ' I < the
I ▲ tu — ;„
— el 1 hM eut A ten
A feet
A. X A ot-
proxipnately 1,000,000,000 feet of 7:30, “The Betrayer”; Monday, The
foot vein with good values. The por-j ,trjke
Is near the waters
waters, very
very high grade limestone after leav-
tai of the tunnel I»
yellow fir timber from the W. H Second Coming of Christ”; Tuesday,
edge
the ve)n
vein an
an( d j then passing
paasjnif into a
eilge of Rogue river and adjoining
adioining
White Lumber company by John W. “The Goads”; Wednesday "The Un­
the Gold Hill-Sims V
Valley
alley highwaj
highwaj. . ver y hard quartzite. The manage-
SHUCKS, I f >0U VOtfT HAHt
Blodgett of Grand Rapids, Mich., answerable Question.**
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The tunnel is now driven 425 fee ment of the mine has concluded to
Everybody is welcome and invited
<utSl6*eST PRUM STICKS B*
and
his associates. Consideration L
and at ajiopth
of
325
feet
from
the
p,.
(
,
B
p,,
c
t
the
ground
north
of
the
a depth
th< pr<mpect
ill
.
W IT WDwt"
to come and participate in the song
said
to
have
been
in
the
neighbor
­
surface. The first strike on the tun-, tunnel and is drifting on the ne
services and enjoy the messages that
hood of $2,000,000.
nel several hiindrjd reel from th« strike vein to ascertain if east-west
east-we:
follow.
portal crosscut an eight-foot voir,' vein are paralleling the tunnel, and
The timber was acquired by the
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and following that three 24 inch the orc is being dumped on the woik
White Lumber company, a Michigan PIANO RECITAL GREATLY
veins have been crosscut. In 290 feet for future milling.
concern, from the Tillamook, Yel­ ENJOYED BY LARGE AUDIENCE
on the tunnel a five foot vein woj
plans have been yet announc­
low Fir company several years ag>.
crosscut, and twenty feet beyond «' ed No
for equipment to mill or smelt
Mrs. Nancy Hailey Culver, amis
very important vein of six feet was
White visited the tract recently on
ore on the property, but a meet­
ted
Mrs. John Gardner, soprano
crosscut. All the orcs of these sev­ the
an inspection trip. Blolgett had beer and by
ing of the local nnd non-resident ow­
F. McBarron, violinist, presented
eral veins are of the same nature ners of the mine »roperty was held
financially interested in the proper fourteen of her piano pupils in a re­
and classed in the telluride rank and in Gold Hill during the first of the
ty fop about 10 years.
cital Wednesday evening at tbs high
runs in value from $9 to $26 per ton
week and a proposition was made to
Transfer of the tract and opera­ school auditorium before a peeked
in gold.
Kelmar Vanpet company hy the
tion of logging camps would be fol- house. The first on the program waa
The recent strike of an eight foot the
Sunset
company, who pro­
vein in at 420 feet on the tunnel is poses to Smelting
lowed by extension of the Gah s a piano number played by Margaret
erect the smelter at Gold
McDonald and sung by Betty Jane
th« tnost iXspoNant strike yet made
Creek & Wilson River railway,
Coyle, Robert Culver played "Uncle
stf the mine. It is a calcite vein and Hill, to assist in financing the smel­
branch of the S. P. & S. system, to Rufe’s Trombone,"
"Tha DtUe
gives a gold value of $51 per ton. ter project and handle the whole out­
of the Kelmar Vanpet mine
Prince waa played in a dwt by Jey
handle the output—Garibaldi New;
•^ nvprage eight feet across the face of put
i Bush end Mildred Canon.
Al
th? vein. The values all come firm which has a present outlook of a
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> the rest who played were
the "grantite" contents of the vein possible capacity of 100 tons of ore
Mrs. An nr. Shults, returned hon e : Brady, Beatrice Veal, W
filltnt in the form of eubea and ftr lav. with .>r-’ »«••.$ «levelopmc-nt.
Monday, from a several days sta/| Billy ' Culver, Margaret
flakes of the metal. The hyiging- But Uttle of the Kelmar Venpet ore
in Portland, whew rhe was undo* a’ Marlon Forman,
wall is of a dinritic formation while will require smelting, yet with its
contents, is an Meal flux­
surgeon*^ care at a hospital. Mr.'. Spencer. Phoebe Greensaan,
th* foot wall is limestone. It is ap- limestone
tat the last 225 feet of the ing ore and will be required in
Shults is feeling considerably bet­ Culver and Thelma
applause waa
Xtmi'' 5Ks been croeecntting ar. ex- smelting the refraotory ore in the
ter and improving daily and glad to artists who
~td-
5-yory hard dike of altered Gold Hill district.
be
horns
again.
training in
The Kelmar Venpet mine is own-
^tlky=?nade up of blocky masses,
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THE VERHIAN
He Eats Best Who Eats Last
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