The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-09-05
ECHOES FROM THE PAST

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I 1881
Frank Kennedy opened a barber shop
at LOOMS.
Eight hundred feet of steel track was
received for the Golden Zone.
The Prospector was urging a mineral
display for the Spokane fruit fair.
Chas H. Cook was doing assessment
work on Douglas mountain (Mr Cook
long ago answered the last CALI
The Northern hotel was opened by Mrs
Pember, after a season of idleness. Mrs.
Pember died a number of years ago.
A. C. Kingsbury had charge of the Gold
en- Zone Mr. Kingsbury left for Nevada
and California just about that. period and
never returned)
Surveyor Layton S. Baldwin was called
to Oroville to do some surveying. (Mr
Baldwin moved to Idaho about that time.
. and died soon afterward.)
J. A. Gadbury was engaged in freight
ing, mention being made of his going to
Loop Loop for load of brick. (Mr
{ Gadbury still is a resident of Loomis)
Word had been received that VIM
Twiss, formerly machine man in the
Palmer mountain tunnel, was victim
of mine accident at Greenwood, b. C.
1t was noted that Geo II. Ellis had left
7 for Spokane to be absent some time.
{ (Mr Ellis is now IA resident of Spokane,
J and still has large property interests in
Z this county.)
81 f.. d. Burden was visitor from Re-
J public, where he had been running a
( single mill. He returned to Loomis to
! start up Single mill in that vicinity,
7 so the paper stated.
! M. II. Smith was night engineer at the
I Palmer mountain tunnel. and just moved
< his family from the Similkameen valley
; to Loomis. (Mr. Smith continues to be
I a resident of that camp.)
Lloyd Beal of Horse Spring coulee an
< nounced himself candidate for the office
< of sheriff, but the reporter was not in
formed as to his politics. Mr.. Beall still
4 is in the land of the living.
9 John l. Booge, a pioneer of Spokane,
Z left Loomis after holding the position of
4 bookkeeper at the Palmer mountain tun-
Z mel for two or three months (Mr. Booge
Z was II resident of Los Angeles when last
4 heard from.)
< Mention was made of Misses Bessie
X and Anna Provo, of Pine creek, going to
. Pendleton Ore, to attend school. Crhe
:, former is Mrs. Jas. Callahan, of this
}, place. and the latter Mrs. Conliffe, of
!: Hood River, Oregon.)
!, Capt. Campbell was doing extensive
! work the Roanoke mine, near Night
< hawk, afterwards owned by the Favorite
4 Mining company. Capt. Campbell was a
4 resident of Seattle at that time, and is
x still living in that city. or was at last
q accounts.
x Fayette Harris returned to LOOMS
. from long prospecting tramp into Brit
K ish Columbia and around Republic. (Mr
X Harris still is but as a migratory birG
. is seldom long in one place He drops
x into Oroville occasionally to renew ole
x aCquain tanceS)
x Frank NJ. Baum, in early days auditor
= of this county, subsequently serving a.
81 state senator from this district, work
ing mine on Bonaparte mountain. There
q was probably nothing in it as Mr.. Baum
s. has not operated in this county for
r dozen or more years.
q DR.. F. II. Luce and Harry c. Boyd, o
r San Francisco, were visitors in Looms
o Both gentlemen were interested in tn
q Palmer mountain tunnel. (Mr Boyd il
& probably still in the insurance business il
~ examiner, WIFI at Seatlle.
q Didra brothers, of Pine creek. put il
g new 24-inch cylinder power threshin
* machine. and proposed threshing every
q thing in the way of grain between Pin
q creek and Bridgeport. That might hav
,'S been done fifteen years ago. 1t is some
,S what different in this year of our Lord
~ 1913.
~ E. B. Simmons. one time prosecutin,
~ attorney of this county, and afterward
* engaged in the hotel business at Green
80 wood, b. c., was a visitor in LOOMS
~ tMr Simmons wholly disappeared from
Xxx this upper c'untry, whether, alas an,
Is alack forever, deponeth is not prepare,
to say)
Rev. j. e. Itewart had charge of thu
Presbyterian ,hurch at LOOMS, and /
. was announce that he was going to Re
public to aid holding series of meet
ings Mr.. Stwart switched from savin,
souls to selis stock, the result of Twin,
in an atmo,here of stock speculation
and found e latter vocation far more
profitable fin worldly point of view
The last herd of him he was living il
Seattle.
In early avs VIM. Shufeldt did tn,
the chin scraps for the inhabitants of tn,
;pr camp, butte leIt LOOMS for Montana
The Prosrtor notes that Mr.. Shufed
the was a visT in Davenport, and predicted
,or that he tild be a resident of LOOMS
again win two months. But he neve
of came bad Mr.. Shufedt secured a posi-
l. d ton as n agent for Gov. NJ e. Hay
went to ,xas. and from there into OLE
60 Mexico. he last word from him wal
ro, that he as happy and prosperous
The Bpector has this to say of tn,
ONE mining TX under way Twelve hund
v So red feet tunnel, SKI, on the Paine
MountaGold Mining and Tunnel com
lrerS panys 'operty. Seven hundred an,
.ould twentNet of tunnels on the Colder
Zone 70 hundred feet of tunnel be
AIT! sides ut shafts from ten to twent,
davs feet irpth, and over one hundred fee
of opeuts on the Q. S. The above il
ever the dopment made in the last twelv,
and montpn three of the most promisin,
props in this district, besides tn,
z IN annussessment work and much othe
10 of deveient on various smaller proper
ties hen we read of tunnels of So n
a big and feet in boom camps as large de
,rk is velont, we begin to think that tn,
49, - -IouleId 81 s!moo'I punoIe loElls!r
IL To- ougprospected"
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