The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-11-24
LOOKING BACKWARD.
Happenings When the Land Was
Young and Sparsely Settled.
/. (From Loomis Prospector, November

| (From Loomis Prospector, November
l2G, 1879
All summer long Wm lewis and his
associates have been driving in a tun
nei on the north slope ofcWhisky Hill
to tap a ledge that crops out on tn,
claim. Recently the boys cut into &
Ledge that showed up well and an assa,
Just had on the product shows it to
carry $17.20 in gold. (Old man Lewis
worked these claims for several years
lat last becoming discouraged and re.
turned to his former home at North
Yakima. AS we have not heard of Mr.
Lewis for years it Is the presumption
that he is dead, as he was we'll advanc-
cd in years when carrying on this min
ing work. The claims on Whisky Hill
were never thoroughly developed, and
the only evidence of their existence Is
he old prospect holes.)
A petitio mis- being circulated to have
the postoffice at Golden reestablished.
| tToday, the Old site of Golden Is a
lrlowed field. Twenty-Five years ago 1t
was lively place, although 1t rapidly
Host its population, and calmness hung
over the village>even at the time an
leffort was being made to hape the post
loffice reOpened. We were at Golden in
the spring of 1888, when the first log
cabin--and about all the houses that
afterwards decorated the flat were of
logs-was built. Activity in surround
ing mines soon collected quite a popu-
lation at Golden, and takei it up one
side and down another Golden was a
pretty hot number during it's brief
Eeyday. Why, the place even boasted of
a baseball club, and a great future was
predicted for the camp. Like the old
town of Ruby, below Conconully, in it's
day the livlest mining town in the
west, Golden disappeared from the face
Iof the earth, and few years. hence will
even have passed from the memory Of
MANI
There was enough snow on the
ground in November 1897 to encourage
the use of sleds, although the Pros
pector states that Shedding is as yet,
pretty ragged around here"
Jas. H. Granger sold his ranch on
the Okanogan river, near Oroyille, to
Edmund Haney, this week, the consid-
Grafton being $1,000. (That ranch In
lcludes somethipg like 160 keltes and
considering what 100 acres-os land Is
worth on the Okanogan river. near
Oroville, today, it looks as though Mr..
Granger almost gave his property
Iaway Mr.. Haney still owns the prop
'crty, up to a recent date at least. He Is
Low living in California. MIR. Grangers
Whereabouts, if living, is not known)
November of 1897 was somewhat of
a counterpart to the present November
as skating was the popular amusement
according to the Prospector of Novem-
her 26.
j. o. Calhoun has purchased all the
lumber at Conconully. Forty or fifty
thousand feet are inteded for Frank
Richter. (That was handling lumber
under unfavorable circumstances, maxi
ling the material cost almost Its weight
lin money. From Conconully Mr.. Cal
houn had to have the lumber hauled to
[.oomis, a distance of % miles, and in
|order to deliver it to Mr.. Richter 1t
| had to be hauled to Keremeos, a much
longer distance. Mr. Calhoun was liv-
ling at Seattle the last we heard of him
land Mr.. Richter, who in his day was
the oldest white settler on theSimil-
lkameen, died number of years ago.
Mention is made of Frank Keck and
Tom Pierce being out on a successful
hunt. MI Keck is now resident OF
of Republic and Mr.. Pierce is still
Republic and Mr.. Pierce is still living
al Loomis, where he has store.
A statement is made that freight
shipped from Spokane in October had
mot arrived the latter part OF No 'e)n-
lber and is mentioned to show that the
man doing any kind of business in that
mDper country in those days was handi-
capped.
Ed. Thayer who has been in Fair
lview all summer, returned to Loomls
today. (Mr. Thayer is still resident of
| the Loomis neighborhood.)
Mention is made of A. L. Spencer
bringing in load Of freight. Mr.. Spen"
Ger was one of the most reliable
lfrienghters doing business in this up
lper country in those days. From here
| he went to Wilbur and was engaged in
farming for long time. Nothing is
known at this time as to his where
abouts.
Del Hart left yesterday for the east.
| He will visit Chicago, New York, and
number of other eastern cities, eN-
meeting to be absent until February.
(Mr. Hart made the trip at that time
Ion mining business, and was able to in
lterest eastern people in the Triune
|nine near Golden. In the course oi
|timc the people suffered from cold feet
land hat one time producing property
lwas never thoroughly opened up, al
Though WORK was continued upon II IN
In hapha 2ard way for a number ot
Iyears.j
Tom Roberts operated the stage line
between Conconully and Loomis. Rob-
lorts is still living on a ranch near
Il oloonully, and has done very well N
1.-The stock business.
CALL FOR CAUCUS.
Notice is hereby given that there will