Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1910-03-11
200 OF THESE PEOPLE THERE IN
EARLY DAYS
MORE THAN $1,000, 10000
Over Thirty Thousand Dollars Were
Taken from the Noted
Almeda Bar.

The part that Cinnamon played in
mining in Southern Oregon is story
that has never fully been told. Dur
ing first and last every camp in Jack
son and Josephine counties had it's
full quota of men Of the queue. The
Celestials came early to the country,
following closely after the white men
1t can not be said that they were al
ways welcome, on the contrary the
feeling against them was so great
that war of determination seemed
Imminent Once or twice violence
was not only threatened but offered
and the Cinnamon were told to go,
and they were followed out Of the
country and told not to return, but
there were always some white miners
who respected the Chinaman for his
mining knowledge and his industry In
his calling.
George Green, brother of the
nold-timer, Dan Green, is full of rem
'iniscenses relating to the days when
the Cinnamon were a factor in the
mining business Of Josephine coun-
'ty. Mr.. Green came to this part Of
Oregon very late in the fall Of 1850.
He was one OF the Pixies Peak crowd
who rushed to Colorado in 1859, and
so year later he came on to this
country to join his brother, Dan
Green, who had located in Josephine
county several years before. George
aopk his first dinner in the Rogue
River valley at Jacksonville on
Christmas day, and on January 90,
1861, he visited Gallce, where his
brother was engaged in mining. He
entered into business with him, and
with the exception OF two years spent
in Baker county, he has resided con-
tinuously in Galice. Mr. Green says
that at one time there were 700
Cinnamon working in the mines
around Galice. Some Of the white
miners were opposed to allowing the
Orientals to stay in the country and
the matter was worked up to the
point OF holding an election to de-
termine whether or not they should
be sent out of the camp. This elec-
tion resulted in favor of the China
men, much to the disgust OF the agl-
tators.
It Is Mr. Green's opinion that
Cinnamon first and last took out OF
the placers Of Galice more than mil
lion dollars in gold. In many ways
they were skillful miners, doing their
work quite as we'll as the average
white man could do under like cir
cumstancese They were experts at
building wing dams, erecting water
wheels, sluiclng, etc. Fifteen or twen-
" OF these Cinnamon did some good
work on the Almeda bar, which Is
located Just below where the Almeda
mine has been opened. In the early
days some successful white miners
worked this bar and took out an i'm
mense amount OF gold, and after they
gave up the work the Cinnamon men
toned above worked this property
over again. They built wing dam
and did some really up-to-date work
on this. It was never known how
much gold they got. but II has always
been conceded that II amounted to
more than $4,000. This gold un-
doubtedly came from the erosions on
the big Almeda ledge where II
crosses the river. Taking the gold
from this bar had much to do with
the later development work on the
Almeda property. Many OF the best
miners Of the country were OF the
opinion that the Almeda would be-
come the one great producer OF
Southern Oregon, and late develop
ments certainly confirm this opinion
II should be stated here In closing
this article. that the ChInaman miner
Is no longer in evidence in Josephine
county. II is barely possible that
one or two are still in the business
but this number is not exceeded