Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-04-28
MINING is NOW BEGINNING IN
DEAD EARNEST
PAY ROLL $4,000 A DAY
New Discoveries Are Being Report
ed and Old Mines Again
Being Opened
BY c. L. MANGUM.

"a The enormous sum of $3.50 ,000,-
BOO in gold have been taken from
mines in districts tributary to Grants
Pass and yet the great reserve has
hardly been touched.
n Where ignorance is bliss, tis fol-
I'M to be wise" is considered by some
srnthinking people as maxim OF
merit, but to me 1t Is simply jum-
Hbled mass of mud which too fire.
<nuently forms a moss-covered wall,
lthe shadows of which conceal the per-
5sonal identity of the ever-present pes
}simist who can see no good results
Eln any line of business except the one
Ar which he is engaged. We too
bitten hear some person say that
Is a risky business. We ad-
1mit the truthfulness of the assertion,
1but we most earnestly deny the in
rference that it Is the only risky
Business" Every line where capital
lis employed has It's perils. Mining
companies fail. merchants meet with
sreverses, canneries quit, sawmills
r'bust up" and even banks go under
Hand the man that sees only the dark
side Of the picture and fails to rec
'ognize the fact that in every line
There are many splendid examples of
successes that should inspire heart
Nest applause, might well be classed
as "an undesirable citizen"
a OF course, there are some dishon-
est men in the mining business, there
'are also some of the same class In
every business; even the banking
Business is not exempt from this mis-
Fortune. Are we to condemn the
ftwenty-three thousand bank presi-
'dents in the United States because
.one of their number, Mr.. Bigelow
4who formerly occupied the exalted
position OF president Of the Ameri
|'can Bankers association, Is now serv-
Hing time in the Leavenworth peni-
Etentiary for looting the bank Of which
'he was president?
Mining is Permanent
The mining business Is here to
\ sstay. It came here first and 1t is
going to be the last to leave. How
smany Of the business men Of this
city realize the fact that the mines
of Siskiyou, Jackson and Josephine
counties have produced more than
$3.50 100000 in gold dust and that
1.-THE great quartz ledges that form the
matrix, from which the dust" was
forced by winter storm and summer
heat during the ages too old to name
fhave only been scratched on their
loutcrop? Mining is just now begin
ming in dead "earnestness," and the
business men OF Grants Pass should
post themselves as to what Is trans
piring in the numerous camps, from
which they are receiving an immense
patronage. How many merchants In
this city know that only few weeks
ago three mines In this county were
sold for $3.50, 900, and that the pur.
chasers are men Of large capital
who understand the science OF min
ing, and who expect to equip the
mines which they bought with mod
ern machinery that will require an
additional expenditure OF at least
half a million dollars?
Big Pay Rolls
The mines OF Josephine county are
at this time paying out for labor and
supplies more than $4,000 a day, and
II we add TO this sum the amoun
being paid out by Jackson and Sis
kiyou counties we will have a grand
total Of at least 100000 a month
a sum equal to II not larger thar
that paid out by any other one lint
Of business for the same length o
time in the three counties.
do not believe that the bushes
raen OF this city have been knock
ing" the mining business, but an
sorry to state that do know to