St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-06-11

| Mar Buily Hi property PiO'
900 worth of copper every month.
Eastern Oregon is all full OF developed
gold mir es and four of its counties pro-
duced So, 10000 worth of gold in 1899
1t is in ills district that the famous Ion
solidated Virginia is located and many
Others well known in tie Pacific coast
stock markets.
In the last few years new processes
have been discovered for developing low
grade ores and mines that were once con-
sdered worthless are now good diVioenu
PAYERS. Almost everybody Imet had
gold mining proposition up his seeve'
and though had not dollar to invest
have no doubt many of them w prove
to be valuable. A favotite way to get
mining claim is to "grub,st axe" THAT
is you furnish the funds and the prospec-
tor does the work. When the latter To-
Gates claim he divides half the prohts,
if there are any, with the man who fur
nished the CAPT al. The laws are very
strict about this and | know one former
St. Johnsbury citizen who grub staked
a claim for $1OO and has since refused an
Offer OF $4,000 for his claim. know one
man who wouldn't refuse such an offer
as this if it was accompanied with the
cash.
While slowly making our way through
southern Oregon on the afternoon OF
April 26 we received tel' gram from ~
P. Dodge asking us to spend the follow
ing day Sunday at Grants Pass. We
did so and 10 a later letter | am going to
tell you something about the St. Johns
bury colony there. Grants Pass is the
leading city of southern Oregon, nestled
i'll the valley of the Rogue river about
300 miles south of Portland. Its place
of nearly 5000 population and possesses
the rare distinction of having the lowest
death rate Of any city in the United
SATISFIES than eight in 1000. Hence
if the people boast little Of their climat e
and their healthy location they can BE- ex'
cused, for colds and the grip are the only
diseases known there and doctors and
undertakers need not apply, On practic
ally the same latitude as Boston and
Buffalo, the Thermometer rarely goes
more than 10 degrees below the freezing
point in winter, and then only for a
night, and since 1890 there has been nc
snow or ice that lasted over "a hours
Apples, pears, English walnuts and
watermelons are raised in abundance
while the place also boasts of two piue
needle factories, the only ones in the
world.
The mild temperature OF the north Pa
ci6c coast is caused By the Japanese cur
rent which makes the whole coast com
paratively warm in winter and never toe
hot in summer for a case OF sunstroke is
unknown on the Pacific coast, even il
southern California. Two years after
gold was discovered in the Sacramento
valley the pioneers found gold around
Grants Pass and as a hydraulic mining
district Josephine county, Of which
Grants Pass is the shire town, now
leads all other sections OF che West
Last year over 81 100000 of the yellow
metal was mined in Josephine county
The sugar pine and yellow pine, giant
compared to their Eastern relatives
grow around here in abundance, Blu
Grants Pass owes it's growth to tn
mineral wealth found in all the noun
| tainS round about.
have not brought you very far up tt
"where rolls the Oregon" but there i
enough to say about the Columbia rive
country and the cities on Puget Scum,
at another time.
ARTHUR F. STONE,