Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1904-12-08
THE LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Brief Notes and Items OF Interest
and lmporta nee,

A fine girl baby is reported by DR..
Beard to have como to the home Of
Mr.. aud Mrs. A. II. Phillips ON
Wednesday last,
Mrs. o. p. Harvey, instead Of Mr..
Randle as we stated in last issue, is
the winner of the s25 prize in the
Sugar Pine stores vote guessing con-
test Mr.. Randle's guess was nearest
the average vote of the four electors.
but Mrs. Harvey's guess most closely
approximated the highest vote Of any
one elector, which was taken as the
total vote The vote was CO. 400 ana
Mrs Harvoy's guess waes CO. 400.
Commencing with December LIST,
the winter schedule for the Grants
Pass and Crescent City stages went
into and there will bo no more
night drives until the summer
schedule goes into effect next April,
for tho stages will leave both
Grants Pass and Crescent City in the
morning, lay over at Waldo for the
night. During the winter months
the road across the Siskiyou noun
tains is too dangerous for 1t TO be safe
for stage to travel at night, bot
during the summer months the stages
travel day and night, making tho trip
between Grants Pass and Crescent
City In about 90 hours
An Eastern party is looking over
Grants Pass with a view OF erecting n
large, modern hotel While Grants
Pass has four good hotels, all n credit
10 any town, and the Josephine, "A
hotel that would DO In place in a
much larger town than this place,
aud score Of lodging houses and
boarding houses, yet such Is the de-
mand that they can hardly supply
the needs Of the travelling public and
il is common occurrence for all
rooms TO bo taken and travellers 10
have difficulty in securing lodgings.
Another good hotel in Grants Pass
would DO profitable a venture aud 1t
is very much needed public utility.
Samples Of ore were received this
week at the mining exhibit from the
copper property Of Webb Bros,
situated near Deoring fow miles
southwest OF Waldo. This property
is a recent find and promises TO be-
come a mine Of value No tosts Of
the ore have been made ns regards its
copper values, though much Of the
rock shows from It's appearance that
It carries good big per cent Assays
for gold show low grade values In
that metal. Development work on
tho ledge has not yet progressed
sufficiently 10 prove its extent TO a
certainty, bat the surface indications
show an apparent width Of 30 to 80
feet. The owners will proceed TO open
up tho property and demonstrate its
value.
A. o. Hoofer, superintendent Of the
Mt Pitt, Hydraulic & Quartz Mining
Company, operating on Jump-oif-Joe,
was in Grants Pass Monday Mr..
Hoofer stated that fine progress Il
made in installing a mill at the Mt
Pitt mine, and within a very shcrl
time, the crushing OF ore will be bo'
gun. The mill is a double tub ar
rastro and will be operated by a 81
foot oyershot wheel, supplied by
water by Hume from Jump-of.Jo'
creek. Mr.. Hoofor has six men tax
ing out ore and has large quantity
on the dump, ready for tho mill. De
yolopment work Of 300 feet Of tunnel
ing has been done. which shows up 1
ledge Of l2 feet. three TO four feet oI
which is rich pay rock. and there is
certaiDty that the Mt. Pitt viii be
come one Of the big gold producers o.
Southern Oregon.