Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-08-02
JAS. LOGAN BRINGS IN MANY
BRICKS.
MINESRICH AFTER q YEARS
Twenty Miles of bitches Supply Wa.
ter for Operation OF
Giants.

When Jim Logan comes gliding in
to town in his smooth-running au-
tomobile and puts on the soft pedal
as he nears local banking institu-
tion the people OF Grants Pass know
instinctively that another cleanup
has been made on the Simmons-Cam-
eron-Logan placer mine ut Waldo.
Trips of this kind have come to be
rather frequent for Logan. Twice in
the past month has It been repeated.
On Mr.. Logan's last trip, made
Thursday, he incidentally exhibited
one brick of a dull yellow hue that
weighed up $500. And that was
not all that he brought with him
either. But Mr.. Logan is not the
stamp of man to parade his affairs
before the public. He will tell you
that a cleanup of the boxes is made
every week. That sometimes he
brings in brick that raises his bank
account as much as $500, and that
once. the first time he ever drove the
automobile to town after he had pur-
chased It four years ago, it carried
$4,000 worth OF the precious metal.
But the public is curious. 1t mar
vels at this country where nature has
deposited such store of wealth, and
it wonders just what manner Of mine
1t is that pays dividends so regular
ly and SO bountifully to mans intel
ligent labor.
A quarter of a century ago gold
was being taken from the Simmons
Annis placer ground on the Illinois
river. The pay ground lay in the
high delta between two branches Of
the Illinois, about one and one-half
miles east OF the present Takilma
property.
Logan came to Josephine county
q years ago, and soon after COM
menced work on the Slmmons-Annis
mine. A few years later or twelve
years ago to be exact, he and TODD
Cameron became associated with Jas
simmons in the ownership OF the
mine, and undertook development on
somewhat extensive scale. A saw
mill was constructed, and miles OF
fumes were built and Of bitches dug.
Today twenty miles OF bitches supply
water to the four giants" the main
ditch being II miles in length. A
lower ditch brings water miles
and still another miles. One lea
ture of this system for conducting
the water to the point Of delivery Is
a slphon 9,4OO feet in length. This
great conductor is built of pipe 10
and % inches in diameter, the small
er size being installed in the places
Of greatest pressure.
This year water was available &c
run the giants from November 2otl
to July 7th. During the balance o.
the year development work is con
tinued, power being available the
year round for the operation OF th
saw mill and the air compressors A
present a great channel is being GU
through the solid rock OF the back
bone of the mountain to make
sluice-way for the working o; al
adjacent basin.
In the generation that the mine
has been worked, eighty acres OF M
gravel have been washed. Seven nun
dred acres still remain OF the com
pany holdings that will add 70 'A'
wealth of the community in the gen
erations to come. The pay grave. Oh
this property runs as much as % Zee
in depth. and while no record mug
gets are ever found. the fine go.
comes regularly and proftably
The Simmons-Cameron-Logan com
pany is not incorporated, Il has
stock to sell. But It sells 60.
bricks with charming regularity
and its bricks always stand the aei
test 70 the center.