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MARSIIFIELD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, Hn7.
No. 200
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Locates Marine and Railroad Coaling
Center Here
RUNS ALONG EAST SIDE OF BAY
Henryville Mine After Years of Idleness To Be
Reopened--$70,0QQ Payroll
Employs 500 Men
It is practically assured Unit tlic Southern Pacific Railroad Company
will not bridge Coos liny. On competent authority the Times is able to
Mate that (he Southern Pacific lias definitely decided on Us route, which
will parallel the eastern side of the upper bay, crossing over at the mouth
of Coos river, thence running along the eastern side of Isthmus Slough to
the old Henryville mine, which lias been idle since J87-I. Plans are now
mapped out which will not only add hundreds to the population of tle
territory contiguous (o til1" upper liny, but will run the present payroll of
Marshlicld into figures that seem now well nigh improbable. The South
ern Pacific 1 tall road Company will niaI:o of Coos Hay a coaling center for
the railroitd as well as the marine. Three mines will for the present be
worked for (he company.
Surveyors are now at work Ir thv vicinity of the Henryville mine run
ning lines and getting estimates. This mine will be improved and rebuilt
to provide for a capacity of 1, ')()() tons a day, and (lie Heaver Jlill and
Sotithport mines will lie brought up to a capacity of 500 tons a day. In
short, the three mines will have i a total daily output of 1,500 tons of
coal a day. To handle (his vjr-l amount three coal carrying vessels, with,
a capacity of !J,00() tons each, will be put in service to Coos Hay by the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and they will carry the product of
the mines exclusively. AVitli the added tailroad wharfage extending from
the north end of the present wharf to the coal bunkers the additional ships
which will come in will have ample room both to take on coal and load
lumber.
W. S. Chandler, receiver and man
ager of the Coos Bay-Roseburg and
Eastern Railroad, Is to take charge
of the mining property o the. com
pany on the Bay, and C. J. Mlllis,
who is connected with the trafile
department of the road, with head
quarters at Portland, will take over
the management of the road between
this city and Myrtle Point. This is
because of the new law pertaining to
one management over a railroad and
mine.
Mr. Chandler states the company
lias given Instructions to enlargo the
Beaver Hill mine, the only one now
under operation, to its capacity. The
machinery necessary to do this has
been ordered and just as soon as a
pump for getting out the water In the
mine has arrived and been installed
the work of enlarging the plant will
begin. What Is known as the Henry
ville mine is to bo opened, and the
work Is already under way. This
mine Is located on tho east side of
Isthmus Inlet, about eight miles up,
also on tho survey for the new rail
road to be built down the coast by
the Southern Pacific Company. The
Southport, which is also located on
Isthmus Inlet, Is to bo opened at
once.
Tho Instructions from tho Southern
Pacific are, to produce 1,500 tons of
coal a day at the three mines when
thQy are ready to be worked to capac
ity. Of this amount the Henryville
mine will produce 1,000 tons a day.
It will require about two years to
sink the necessary shafts. The
Southport mino will bo In operation
in about three months. A force of
fifty men will be engaged in opening
this mine and getting a spur track
constructed from tho main lino to
handle the coal.
The work on the Henryville mino
will be pushed along rapidly, a force
of 100 men being employed. A sur
veying party Is now at work running
tho lines for the mine.
A conservative estimato of the
amount of money expended In get
ting the three mines to running to,ca
paclty Is given by Mr. Chandler as
follows: Henryville, between $9,000
and $10,000. Beaver Hill, between
$10,000 and $15,000, and Southport,
about $4,000 per month, making a
total of about $25,000 per month
during the period of getting tho
mines ready to do business on a large
scale. When under operation and
delivering 1,500 tons of coal per day
the three mines will represent a pay
roll of about $70,000 per month and
"will employ close to 500 men. The
payroll is the largest expended by one
company on Coos Bay.
Coal from the Henryville mine on
Isthmus Slough will not only ho
shipped out of this port by steam
ships, but a great deal of it will be
taken to tho interior by rail. The
mine being located directly on tho
survey of tho riow road, Is admirably,
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COOS
bo ample it will be necessary for the
company to have at least three coal
carrying vessels with capacities- of
from 2,500 to 3,000 tons each, In ad
dition to tho steamers Breakwater
and Czarina. The latter boat3 will
be kept In tho passenger and general
freight hauling business. The addi
tion of three largo coal carriers will
increase tho shipping business of the
bay materially.
The new pumping plant for the
j Beaver Hill mine will bo the largest
I In this section, is to be run by elec-;
Itricity, the power for which will be
! furnished by tho company's own
1 plant.
I W. S. Chandler took charge of the
Beaver Hill mine in 1897 and two
years later than that was made re
ceiver and manager of tho Coos Bay
Roseburg and Eastern Railroad and
Navigation Company, which position
ho has held since. C. J. Mlllis will
take charge of tho railroad as soon
as 'the receivership has gone through
the courts, which will be about the
middle of July, after which Mr.
Chandler has been a mining engineer
for 32 years, during which time he
had charge of a mine for tho Empire
Coal Company, of Philadelphia, In
Arizona for one year; operated the
Carbon Hill Coal Company property
at Carbon Hill, Washington, for two
years and for sixteen years Just prior
to coming to Coos Bay ho had charge
of the eight mines of the East Wel
lington Coal Company, of Wellington,
Vancouver Island. While in British
Columbia Mr. Chandler was for ten
years on tho Canadian Government
board of examiners.
The eight mines belonging to tho
East Wellington Coal Company at
Wellington were mined out, and after
arriving at San Francisco from Van
couver in 1899 J. D. Spreckels placed
the local mine under Mr. Chandler's
management. At that timo the rail
road was not operated under the same
management, until nffairs could bo
straightened out In tho courts.
HISTORY OP THE
COAL MINES.
The Henryvillo coal mine was first
opened in 1874 by Dr. Henry, who
acted In the capacity of superintend
ent of tho property for about two
years, when ho became interested in
mining up north, at which time the
mine was leased to a company In San
I Francisco. It was then operated by
tho new company for about a year.
Since that date the mine, although a
good one, has not been operated ow
ing to lack of funds on the part of
the companies previously in control.
It now belongs to the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company.
The South Port mine was first
opened a few years after the Henry
ville mine wbb sunk, Tho Black Dia
mond Coal Company, with B. B,
Jones as superintendent and P. B.
Cornwall president, first operated the
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WHAT IT MEANS.
$70,000 will be added to the
payroll of Coos Bay.
'500 additional men will bo
given employment, and later on
the number will be Increased
materially.
Three coaling vessels will
! make exclusive trips to Coos 4-
Bay. The boats will have a ca-
pacity of from 2,000 to 3,000
tons. 4
Adjacent to Marshfield will be
terminal yards that will mean
additional men and increased
payroll. .
Coos Bay will take rank as
one of the important harbors of
the Pacific Coast, and its value
as the only 'coaling station be-
tween Puget Sound and Golden
Gate will give It a prestige that
will attain for this seaport
prominence hitherto unknown. $
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THE STORY IN
"A NUTSHELL."
The Southern Pacific Railroad
Company will make Coos Bay
its coaling station and will de-
velop tho bituminous fields Into
a supply station for a great part
of the Pacific coast. Tho Henry-
villo mine, idle since '77, will be
worked Into a mino that will
have an output of 1,000 tons
daily. Improvements will be 4
made on the Beaver Hill and 4
South Port mines which will
give them a total capacity of
500 tons dally, making a grand
total of 1,500 tons every day, or
9,000 tons that will be mined
each week.
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property, but only for a short time.
Later the mine went to the South
Port Land & Commercial Company,
of which II. II. Taylor Is now presi
dent. Messrs. Holt and Hawley, who
were then operating the Libby mine,
leased the South Port property and
closed it while they operated the Lib
by mine. It was next operated suc
cessfully by Nicholas Loonlng, owner
of the steamers Areata and Empire.
Under this management coal was ta
ken out for about three years. It has
I remained closed since.
I. A. Graham, who built the Coos
Bay-Roseburg & Eastern Railroad,
opened the Beaver Hill mine about
thirteen years ago and operated it
tabout three years before Mr. Chand
ler took charge. This mine has been
running- continuously since first
started.
S. P.
Surveyor Now Laying Out Line Con
nection AVlth San Fran
cisco Railroad.
Silver Lake, Ore., Juno 17. The
Oregon Short Lino surveyors, who
are surveying the route for the Ore
gon Eastern from Ontario to Natron,
will finish location work this month
to Odell, where tho Southern Pacific
surveyors aro doing location work
across tho mountains. Tho line lo
cated Is on an eight-tenths grade
from Crane Creek Gap to Odell, and
is tho best route that could be found
by five if the hest engineers the Ore
gon Short Lino officials could put in
tho field. There are three lines be
ing surveyed to Lakevlew. One
leaves the main line near Narrows,
Harney county, and passes through
the rich valleys of Catlow and War
ner to Lakevlew. Tho second line is
being surveyed from Iron Mountain
south through tho desert to Lako
Valley, then into California. Tho
third leaves tho main lino near
Christmas Lake, passing through tho
central part of Christmas Lake Val
ley, which Is one of tho largest un
settled valleys In Eastern Oregon,
and contains thousands of acres of
agricultural land; then Into Summer
Lako Valley, another fine valley
waiting for tho coming of a railroad.
In this valley people have made a suc
cess of raising grain and fruit, which
goes to show that what can be raised
In Summer Lake Valley can be pro
duced In other valleys, as climate,
soil and elevation are all about the
same. It then goes into the Goose
Lake country to Lakevlew.
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In Rapid Succession They Plunge
Into Water Attempting To
Save One Another
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Then Sisters Lizzie and Ada Fol
lowed by Uravo Mother
and Aunt.
Seattle, June 17. Five people, two
sisters, a brother, mother and an
aunt perished today in the waters of
Lake Sammis.' Tho dead Antono
Meyer, aged 13; Lizzlo Myers, Ida
Meyer, Mrs. Meyer, mother; Mrs.
John Iierter, Mrs. Meyers, sister. An
tone had gone swimming and got Into
the undertow. Lizzie plunged in to
save him, but got out of her depth.
Ida next attempted to rescue them,
but sulteed a similar fate. Mrs.
Meyer was next to sacrifice herself,
and Mrs. Herter, undaunted, niado an
effort that proved fatal. The bodies
of the four women were recovered to
night. Conway and Fritz are tho names of
two young men who are taking pic
tures of tho principals in tho great
murder trial, crowds going to and
from tho county building and other
views which will be shown In a mo
tion picture machine. Fritz is a
nephew of tho Portland man who con
ducts Halo's tour cars in several cit
ies, and while tho pictures aro for
him, to be shown In tho west, tho
young men 'expect to start out soon
to show tho views in a motion pic
ture machine In the east.
Tho young men havo secured a pic
ture of Harry Orchard as ho ascend
ed and descended tho back stairs
leading to tho courtroom and havo
also taken views of the crowds going
In and out of tho front door of tho
building. Tho camera with which
such pictures rauBt bo taken permits
of tho machine being moved to catch
the movoments of tho crowd when
it Is at least a block away.
Pictures of the court room will bo
taken and also views of tho jury
on the trip from tho jury house to
tho court room and back to tho
house. Other pictures will bo se
cured which, with those of the prin
cipals, will make a most Interesting
motion picture show. In addition to
scenes In and about the court house
pictures will be taken of the down
todn district and street cars on Main
street principally. These latter pic-'
tures will be taken especially to show
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but mother's cleaning housel"
Donaheu in Cleveland Plain Doaler.
Climax To His Story Of Disgrace
Will Be 'Capped by Re
moval From Office
GENERAL CLEANUP
Many Heads of San Francisco's Offi
cial Family Doomed for A.v
Dinah Included.
San Fransisco, Juno 17. As fore
shadowed by District Attorney Lang
don this morning of his opposition of
admittance of Mayor Schmltz to bail,
It is the purpose of the bribery graft
prosecution to sext week set about to
get the removal of Schmltz and the
appointment of a new mayor .to servo
until Juno 1908. If tho present
plans aro not altered thee ourso of
proceeduro will be the board of sup
ervisors, comprising at least flfteon
members, who,- subject to tho Indict
ment at tho hands of tho Oliver
grand Jury, will declare Schmltz tem
porarily unable to properly perform
tho duties of the office of mayor.
Supervisor Gallagher will then ap
point to tho vacancy a reform man
picked by tho prosecution. Galla
gher will then resign and a man
will bo elected president pro tern and
assume mayorallty. Next will fall
tho heads of a long list of officials,
among tho first being, It Is under
stood, Chief of Police DInan.
Under Instructions from District
Attorney Langdon, tho board of su
pervisors tonight adopted a resolution
declaring Mayor Schmltz temporarily
unablo to perform his official duties
and appointing Suprvlsor James L.
Gallagher acting mayor. Tho latter
says ho will assume tho mayoralty at
once and denies ho has made any
agreement with tho District Attorney
or anyone else to resign at his com
mand In order to make way for a re
form mayor whoso name is yet to bo
announced. Langdon, assistant dis
trict attorney Heney, Rudolph Sprcc
kles and their Immediate associates
In tho bribery-graft prosecution, aro
by this move placed in actual control
of tho municipal situation. That
they will bo allowed to so remain
that conditions hero are quiet, much
In contrast to what oastern people
havo accepted as the belief. This
lattr feature will bo given especial
attention by tho young men, who do
clare thoy want to show tho east
tho truo conditions In Boise.
Messrs. Fritz and Conway will re
main In Boise about a month and will
leave for the east fully prepared to
show tho pictures. That tholr
schemo will make lots of money for
them is not doubted if they get their
views before the public boforo the
trials are at an end. It is said tho
pictures will be shown at tho Halo's
tours car in BolBe within a few
weeks.
LTESI
FOR STORY
Witness Who Will Either Verify Or
Falsify Orchard's Story
Arrives in Boise
TESTIMONY AGAIN
Story of Hairy Orchard to lie Taken
Up Today Takes Ride Out
of Penitentiary.
Boise, Juno 17. When the Steu
nenberg murder trial Is resumed to
morrow morning Orchard, will bo
tho lirst witness called to tho stand
by tho State. Ho will bo first In tho
hands of the defense, In order that a
series of formal Impeachment ques
tions may be propounded, and then
thi prosecution will take him over
for his redirect-examiuation. De
spite ids long stay on the stand there
aro several points relative to tho
Steunenlierg murder and alleged con
spiracy behln.1 It that were not de
veloped, and theso tile State will
bring out. The prosecution also
want3 to clear vp several matters
dealt with by tin defense. While
Orchard was under cross-examination.
When Orchard was brought
hack from Caldwell his guards took
him to tho ofilco of .James H. Haw
ley, senior counsel for tho State, for
a conference as to his testimony and
at tho conclusion of tho meeting ho
was driven back to thoponitentiary.
Tho counsel for tho State had an ex
tended conference this afternoon as
to tho concluding moves In their case.
It was relative chiefly tol the courso
to bo pursued by them toward Steve
Adams. Decision as to Adams was
not final, but it was tentatively
agreed not to call him ns a witness
for tle State, but to leavo him for
tho defense, If It sees fit to make him
a witness.
Adams stands by tho confession
which It is claimed ho made to De
tective McParland, and thoro his con
nection with the case, other than the
use of his name, rests for tho pres
ent. Orchard will be succeeded on
the stand by James Klrwan, acting
secretary of tho Western Federation.
An objection Is made to the way In
which Klrwan was served with a
subpoena, but counsel for the defense
waived the mattor and stipulated
they would havo him in attendance
whenever desired. Several addition
al witnesses whose testimony is said
to be of importance to tho State will
arrive here tomorrow and next day
and will be cleared as soon as tho
way is cleared for them: . Charles
Neville, son of John Neville, who was
a member of the party which accom
panied Orchard on his flight into
Wyoming aftor tho Independence
station was blown up, arrived hero
today. Neville's testimony is ex
pected to havo an Important bearing
on tho truth or falsity of Orchard's
story. Tho principal counsel for tho
defenso were In consultation with
Hpywood, and had an extended meet
ing at their office. They have not
yet given any further Indication of
their general plan of defenso beyond
generally expressing confidence lft
their ability to rlddlo Orchard's story.
without a legal contest by tho convict
ed mayor's attorneys Is not suspected.
It is tho plan of tho prosecuting
forced to psk the resignation in a
fow days of one of tho eighteen
supervisors. Acting Mayor Galla-
ghor will then appoint totho vacancy
t man named by the District Attor
noy. Soon as the appointee takes
tho ofilco Gallagher will resign from
the mayor's chair and his resignation
will bo accepted. Tho board then
will olect tho now momber Its presi
dent, and ho will become acting
mayor. Tho man most norslstontlv
mentioned for this ulaco Is Attorney
Joseph Dwyer, president of tho Indo-
pondenco League, but that nolltlcnl
connection Is said to render him un
acceptable to Spreckles, tho financial
supporter ofth0 whole bribery graft
investigation.
Tho first act of the reform mayor.
If tho programmo Is carried out.'wlll
bo to demand tho resignation of prac
tically the entire Schmltz administra
tion, whos0 places will bo filled with
reform agents as fast as vacancies
are created.
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