Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-03-03
OCCIDENTAL MELANGE
The Mining Fever Breaks Out at
Medford, Oregon.
CRATER LAKE A SUMMER RESORT.
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Mine Owners Of Northern Idaho Threaten
to Close Down on Account Of
High Freight Rates.
LAKE a SUMMER RESORT.

A burglar in one night at Ph@nix, A..
| T., entered four Offices. a bank and q
stable, and was captured on the follow-
| ing morning.
Petitions are now being circulated In
| all the labor. centers in Montana Tor the
enactment OF bill, an important section
OF which is as follows: "Fhat 1t will be
unlawful for any officer OF the state oil
Montana or any officer of any town OF
(city thereof to issue license to engage
in any kind OF business within this State
to any person or persons not citlzens OF
not having declared their intentions TO
become citizens OF the United States
This Is sweeping blow at the Chinese
and will, If 1t becomes law, shut up
every store, restaurant and laundry run
by Chinese in the State.
The mining fever has broken out in
Medford, Or, and professional, business
and laboring men are looking toward the
hills and anxiously awaiting settle
ment Of the weather with view OF TAX
ing prospecting tour. New impetus ia
given TO the excitement each day by the
return OF prospectors with epecsmens OF
rich gold-bearing quartz and glowing &C
counts of the possibilities OF the mineral
belt of Southern Oregon. Bat all pre-
yious returns were totally eclipsed when
d. HI. Horn came to town with pock-
etful OF quartz. Many OF the specimens
contained almost an equal amount oi
gold and quartz, some OF the particles Of
gold being as large as pea. Five
pounds OF this rock, when pounded ont
| by hand mortar, produced over sl0l,
which would run the percentage up to
the modest sum of $40, LOO to the ton.
1t is reported from Central Point, q
station on the Southern Poetic four
miles west OF Mediofd, Or, that the
railroad company has entered into an
agreement with +. r. Fradenburgh to
carry passengers between that point and
Craier Lake in the Cascade Mountains.
| The distance from the railroad to the
lake is eighty miles, and stage line is
| to be established between the two points.
Mr.. Fradenburgh says the railroad has
/ guaranteed him 1000 passengers at S.
each. He has already purchased sutfi-
ciept stage coaches to accommodate this
number OF tourists. and it is his purpose
| TO erect GUNNER hotel at the lake. In
good weather the road to the lake is all
right for driving, and the round trip can
| be made in FIVE dsys without change
of horses. 1t is thought that Crater
Lake will be popular resort Tor tourists
and pleasure seekers this summer The
possibility OF the reservation OF this land
| by the government for a national park
probably accounts for the action taken
| by the railroad.
John Hayes Hammond, General Man.
ager OF the Bunker Hill and Sullivan sil.
yer mine at Wardner, Idaho, has re-
ceived word from Northern railroads
which has about convinced him that he
will close down the mine. Nearly all oI
the other great mines will also close
down. For some months past Mr..
| Hammond and others OF the Mine Own
ers' Association have been endeavorinp
TO get reduction of freights from the
Norchern Pacific and Union Pacific rail
roads, which carry their ores and con
centrates to Tacoma, Denver and Omaha
emelters. Mine owners have gone 60 fal
as TO offer sliding scale of compensation
| for carrying, SO that when silver and
lead come up again the railroads will re-
ceive more than they did before. tt
these overtures, however, the railroads
have been deaf, and IS $50 Mr.. Ham
mond telle) it is costing them nearly
douoe TO work their mines than it doe:
| Mr.. Hagcin aud other mine owners al
Butte and Anaconda, near at hand, they
cannot continue end must close dowI
about March l. Mr.. Hammond said
81 don't see any other way to do. W.
L have either got to cut on the expenses
4nt.mining or in ireights. We cannot
yer, cut enough to enable us L
" cut then would not max,
>Npce II we got no reduction
N>outlook is not encour
Nowners andit seem
NsS mining in gen
man act"