The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-11-10
LOOKING BACKWARD.
happenings When the Land Was
Young aud Sparsely Settled.

Young aud Sparsely Settled.
(From the Loomis Prospector OF
November 5 and IL, 1877
5. +. Harris Is over In the neighbor
hood OF Oroville doing assessment
work for Messrs Boyd, Forde ant
samson on the Professor, a claim sit
uated on Kruger mountain, and jus,
this side of the international boundar,
line. (And, by the way, what has evel
become OF the Professor" 1t does moi
heure in any of the claims worked
nowadays.)
In that day the Prospector was ham.
mefing Tor good roads and gettinr
about as much results as are secured
today when there are a dozen paper:
IN the county appealing for better
highways. with numerous organiza-
tons lending vocal aid at least to the
same end. Mention is made of Jesse
Hunley Improving the road from LOO
mis- to Nighthawk. Mr.. Hunley Ions
ago passed on to his fathers and the
road that he was putting In better re-
!pair is hardly much improved at the
present time over the conditions pre-
lvailtng twenty years ago. Considering
the condition Of the county roads to.
day and the enormous sums spent on
them during the past twenty years II
Seems almost criminal the way money
has been wasted.
Andrew Carlson, who has held down
the job of blacksmithing at the Tri-
une mine for a long time, was over
to LOOMS Saturday. (Mr. Carlson has
been ranching for a number of years
on the mountain not far from the Tri-
une mine.)
| Tuesday Al M. Riste and Miss Mar
garet Watson were united in marriage
Judge o. s. Stocker performing the
ceremony. (Mr. Riste is still living
in the Similkameen valley, the lady
he married is dead and Judge Stocker
/ is resident of Wenatchee.)
Mr.. Ellis. who is just back from a
"trip to Fairview, informs US that that
camp has made rapid strides during
the past summer and Is an active,
promising and bustling place. The new
mill at the Tin Horn mine was to start
| up this week. II 1t proves to be a sue
cess three other mills are to be con-
structed Immediately. The big hotel
under way will hardly be completed
before next spring. He believes that
Fairview has every promise of making
a flourlshing city. (But the promise
never materialized. Work on the mines
ceased years ago after thousands of
dollars were spent In exploration, and
today Fairview Is a mere hamlet, yet
| a popular resort for those with a
lyearning thirst, and no life saving
station on this side of the line.)
On the 18th the Prospector was very
garrulous and enthusiastic over "an-
other strike" In the Palmer mountain
tunnel. (Alas and alack, those reports
were numerous over period cover
| ing several years, yet, in the end, came
to nothing.)
Alice j. Tinsley filed a homestead
"wednesday on 160 acres of land near
LOomis.
The first snow of the season fell in
the valley Monday, but was confined
to very thin covering.
l.. S. Baldwin is engaged making a
complete survey and plat OF the Bull
Frog group Of claims on Palmer
mountain for Dell Hart. (Mr. Baldwin
died at Boise City, Idaho, years ago,
and the Bull Frog group is about the
in same condition as at the time of the
Isurvey) un.
| Charlie, Ballard was working his
"rich Mammoth mine" on Slate creek,
lin the Methow valley, and was at Loo
mis- on a visit Tin those days, Mr.. Bal
! lard was a mineral surveyor and an
,engineer by profession, and engaged
lin mining as a side line. We do not
know where he Is hanging out at the
lpresent time, but the 'rich Mammoth
has refused to give up Its wealth un-
Ito the present day) ~
| Work is in progress on the Quin-
tette Mining Co.'S, claims and the Alli-
son group, located short distance up
1.-The Similkameen river from Oroville
under charge of the, erratic DR.. Lang.
hammer. "a portion of this property
we believe, included the Owasco GLAZING
land much was expected from the prop
erty at the time. DR.. Langhammer, who
Twas certainly a~queer character, went
lfrom here to Rossland, where he sub
lseuuently committed suicide)
/ Chas. Gerhard, who came all the way
from Montana to do annual assessment
work on his two Palmer mountain
lclaims. the Columbia and Second
Prize. has spent month or six weeks
pounding the drill. He has made good
progress sinking through the forma
ltion and is we'll pleased with the re-
suits of his labors, He reports thai
lboth of his claims are showing up
Thigh grade quartz, far better than any
Thing that he could have hoped for
(Mr Gerhard, died at Tonasket Tues
Iday) oi ~. .o... :.
APPLES we're apples in those days al
tthev commanded from 4 to cents pei
J pound in the market ~ d "e1
8 7 sincock took contract tt
sink a Is foot shaft on one OF tn
o,o;n,s of the Rainbow group. (Mr