Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-06-04
Gold Hill Notes
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:


Tuesday morning for Bend, Ore,
where he goes to permanently reside.
He will take position in one of the
leading grocery stores in that city,
which was recently offered him. Mrs.
IIutson and son, Clay Hutson, will
follow soon.
Civil Engineer William Stuewe,
Jr., of this city, who was formerly
connected with the Hunt Construction
& Engineering Company in erecting
the cement plant at Gold Hill, left
the first of the week to enter the en-
ployment of the company again for
two months at San Juan, Cal. The
company is erecting cement plant
near that city, Mr.. Stuewe has been
connected with the Gold Hill-Grants
Pass irrigation project for the past
few months. His family will continue
to reside in Gold Hill during his alb
sencs
Ida Johnson, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Martin S. Johnson of this
city, was awarded the prize scholar
ship to Willamette University at
Salem, as reward for securing the
highest number of points in studies
in the Gold Hill high school the past
year.
Glenn Edding5 of Gold Hill, who
recently enlisted in the regular army
and stationed at Vancouver barracks,
passed through here the first of the
week on the train en- route to San
Antonio, Texas, where he has been
assigned for the present.
Miss May Glover of Ashland is Wis
iting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Darling in this city.
Corporal Sprague Reigal of the 7th
company, Coast Artillery, of Medford,
and of the Riverside orchards near
this city, left Sunday by auto for San
Francisco to the officers reserve
training camp, to which he has been
assigned.
The good roads meeting held at
Gold Hill in the Comus theatre was
fairly well attended by very enthu-
siastic crowd. The principal speak
ers of the evening were Judge Kelly,
w. H. Gore, Mayor Gates of Medford
and ex-County Commissioner Leever
of Central Point.
Ogden Snyder, local manager Of the
Rogue River Public Service Corpora
tion in this city, underwent deli
cate operation on his eye at the Gold
Hill hospital last Monday.
j. D. Welch Of Portland, repre-
senting the Columbia Basin Wool
Warehouse Company of Portland,
shipped 500 stock sheep from Gold
Hill this week to Portland. The
sheep are being furnished to supply
the breeders in the Willamette valley
and other northwest points. He is
buying nearly every flock of sheep in
the north end Of the county for that
purpose. The small flock owners are
compelled to sell their holdings. due
to- the coyote pest, which Mr.. Welch
claims will entirely kill the sheep in
dustry with the small holder unless
the breeders get some relief from this
destructive pest. Lee Steers, w. G..
Breeding and White Bros of Rogue
River, who are selling their flocks to
Mr. Welch, have lost 70 per cent of
their lambs from the coyotes this sea-
son, in spite of the best efforts of
their nerders. w. E. Thompson, on
the Chavner farm bordering on the
outspirts of the city of Gold Hill, have
lost several sheep killed by the coy
otes the past few days, the bold var
mints coming right in the barnyard
to do the killing. The underbrush in
the foothills are the choice retreat of
the coyote, and Mr.. Welch, a timber
and stock man Of many years expert
ence, claims unless these impregnable
thickets are burned over annually the
sheep business is doomed in this
county.
Judge G. c. Gall, the old Indian
war veteran Of this valley, now
resident Of Ashland, Is visiting rela-
tives In this city. He was a resident
of Sans valley for over fifty years,
and justice of the peace for that dis
trict for thirty continuous years. His
father first settled and mined on
Calls creek in 1851. The stream was
named for the older gentleman.
Prof. Milan received letter from
his son, Vernon Milan, of the U. S.
navy, announcing his arrival in Now