The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-12-15

A scare head over two column ar
ticle announces Bright Prospects,
The Golden Zone Coming to the Front
Stamp Mill in Sight-A
Property Owned by Pittsburg Syn
dicate that will be Producing Bullion
by Spring" (Another false alarm. The
mill was constructed all right, but the
bullion, except, maybe, soup, has never
as yet been seen at the mine. Not but
what the ore is there, for it is. No con-
tinues and thorough effort has ever
been made to get it out. All of the
Pittsburg gentlemen who were owners
of the mine twenty years ago, and a
finer lot OF men never operated in the
county, died a number OF years ago,
and the mine is in other hands today
The present owners may make the
property producer, for the indica
tions are such as to encourage effort
In the way of develOpment)
Jas. Henderson, who ran a saw mill
In the Loomis neighbOrhood twenty
years ago, moved his mill to Fairview.
h. G., then one Of the most active and
promising mining camps In the west.
where he had one contract for 200, 900
feet of lumber among number of
smaller contracts. When the bottom
fell out of Fairview's mining boom
Mr.. Henderson returned to LOOMS, but
In short time sought other fields.
his present whereabouts is not known.
That clever old timer Alex Mac
cauley, of Oroville, was in town Satur-
day OH his way home from a trip to
the outside. (Mr. Macauley, the oldest
settler of the valley, Is still resident
of Oroville, and looks hardly day
cider than he did twenty years ago.
Geo. Ellis made business trip to
Croville Saturday. (And Sunday, the
same Geo. Ellis was In town day
from Spokane, where he now resides,
Commissioner M. d. Griffin was up
from his Okanogan river eanch Ia the
snow Monday and remained dav or
two. INF. Griffin lived a short distance
south Of the present town Of Tonasket.
Fe died {; dozen years ago.)
A dance was given by ]. Il. Longacre
at the Fruit ranch. ON Palmer lake,
last Thursday night, whlcb,yass largely,
OF course all present had
delightful time, the host doing the
honors and Col. Joe Hunter, the night
engale of Keremeos, contributed to the
Qn those days Long
acre was bachelor. He has since
gathered unto himself wife and the
family still lives near Loomis Col
Joe Hunter. the veteran prospector as
we'll as veteran of the civil war, is
spending the winter in Oroville. His
singing is not as melodious as it was
twenty years ago, but he has lost none
Of his dry humor.)
Heavy SHOWS were driving deer down
into the valley December, 1897.
There were Christmas trees, Christ
mas dances, Christmas turkey shoots
and raffles galore Christmas nineteen
years ago. Residents up here were far
from the maddening crowds, yet they
to extract considerable joy
out of life.
Tom Pierce is doing the assessment
work on the famous War Eagle claim,
on Palmer Mountain. (Mr. Pierce is
now conducting store at Loomis The
famous" War Eagle is still where it
was when Mr.. Pierce performed the
representative work. Some
wonderful rich ore was taken from the
War Eagle, near the surface, but it
was never made to pay.)
A short continuance of the present
sample of winter will put an end to
on the Columbia river.
When the boat ties up freight for this
and adjacent points must come in via
Coulee City. (And navigation did close
and everything that was sold in stores
had to be hauled in by wagons from
Coulee City. There were many freigh-
ters in the country at that time that
thought nothing of making that hard,
long trip. Naturally, the freight bills
were enormous, and the consumer had
to nay the freight as is customary .he
world over)
The following appear among items
from Oroville: H. p Defender has d
force Of men doing assessment work on
the Spokane and Standard mines, near
Golden.
Mike Horrigan and family have NOV
ed down from Golden to Oroville for
the winter. (The Horrigan family still
live on the old homestead near Golden,
but the younger members Of the FAM
|ilv of that day have grown to man ara
|womanhood.)
Mrs. Boyd and daughter Jetta were
guests of Mrs. Ssmson few days last
week.