Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-07-09
Gold Hill Notes
(By A. E. Kellogg.)

Gold Hill irrigation district, coveriut
$3.50 acres, lying between Gold Hill
and Grants Pass, have been filed II
the office of the state engineer
State Engineer Lewis has been in the
field and with Charles Smith, presi'
dent of the Grants Pass district, con-
ferring with the directors of the two
projects with a view to making rec
concentrations as to any further ac-
tion necessary under the provisions
of the new irrigation district law re-
Gently amended at the last session of
the legislature. The Gold Hill en-
gineers Fred W. Dodge and William
Steuwe, Jr., have had charge of pre-
liminary work on the two projects,
having just recently completed same.
Dodge, who enlisted in the Coast De-
fense Naval Reserve on completion
of his work, was assigned to the en-
gineers' corps and is now stationed
at the Puget Sound naval yards near
Bremerton, Wash. Steuwe, on COM
pletion of his work on the irrigation
projects, left for San Juan, Cal, to
engage with the Hunt Engineering
and Construction Company, which is
erecting a cement factory at San
Juan.
The Bell, or Pacific States Tele-
phone Company, which owns the
through lines between Portland and
San Francisco, unloaded four large
cook and bunk houses, mounted on
trucks, from flat cars in Gold Hill,
Monday. The company is construct
ing an entire new line through this
valley and this is part of their con-
struction equipment. They will fol-
low the old stage road with the new
line coming up the river opposite
Gold Hill, then leading up Kane's
creek on the foothill road to Jack
sonvillea Apparently they will aban-
don the old line leading through
Gold Hill and over the Blackwell hill
to Central Point.
A surprise to the many Jackson
county friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan
Humason, formerly of Gold Hill, now
of Portland, was the marriage of
their daughter Miss Hildreth Huma-
son, to DR.. Irving M. Lupton. The
ceremony was performed last Tues
day at the Unitarian church at Port
land by DR.. T. L. Elliott, where just
twenty-five years ago he performed
a like ceremony for the parents of the
bride. Miss Humason is the grand
daughter of Mrs. P. NJ. Dekum, forr
merly of Cold Hill, and one of the
best known families in Portland. |
The bride is a beautiful brunette. |
She was educated in the Portland
Academy and also studied for a year |
in Paris. AS dramatic reader and
Interpreter the bride has made an
enviable name for herself in the ar
tistic world. She is possessed of a |
personality and has a host |
of friends wherever she is known.
Dr. LuptOn is surgeon of Spokane |
His family came originally from, Min
neapolls. The guest list at the we'd
ding included only the immediate
relatives and several close friends of
the couple A dinner for the family
was served at the Hotel Benson and
the young newlyweds left the same
evening for their home in Spokane
Mrs. Dekum and her son Ivan resided
in Gold Hill from 1898 to 1902 and
figured quite extensively in the de-
velopment of Gold Hill district dur
ing that time. They were heavy in
vestors in the mines and the high |
line ditch project at Gold Hill and
were owners of the Dekum addition
to Gold HILL Mr. Humason later was
in the drug business in Medford and
figured quite prominently in politics
in this county.
John B. Hammersly, ex postmaster
of Gold Hill, and the well-known gov
ernment hunter and naturalist, now
of Grants Pass, was here during the
week visiting the family of DR.. w. P.
Chisholm. He and G. +. Young of
Medford, formerly of Gold Hill, re-
Gently returned from the wilds Of
Curry county on their film venture.
John is now taking vacation from
his numerous duties and has con-
sented to be the scoutmaster of the
local Boy Scout troops at Grants
Pass for their annual summer outing
in the nearby mountains. He will
take the youngsters into the woods
for a few days camp life and teach
them the arts Of woodcraft. How to
keep warm without blankets, build