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About Port Orford post. (Port Orford, Oregon) 1880-1882 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1881)
PORT ORFORD VOL. I. PORT ORFORD, OREGON: THURSDAY, MARCH 17. ISSI. THE POST. J . II. U PTON «t SON, Proprietors. l* u b lin h e d E v e r y T h u r s d a y , ...A T .... •ORT ORFORD, CI RRY CO., OR. H V B S C U 1 V T IO X It A TE S. O n e Y e a r ...........................................$ 2 .0 0 s ix M o n t h s ...................................... 1 .2 3 t h r e e M onth»»................................ .7 5 APVEBTISING BATES REASONABLE. L. P. F ish er , Advertising Agent, 21 M erchant’s Exchange, Sen Francisco, is authorized to receive advertisement* for the colimi.is of .his pup-T. T w o I I n ltd red, “ Ned” W ilson, who came round the H orn in 1852 in the ship “ Cor sair,” Capt Cole, from Boston, has been a resident of C urry coun ty for 27 years. Ho located a place at the m outh of Sixes river which is now valuable. Ho has devoted a considerable portion of his time fit at and last to taking sea otter, and has caught two hu n dred of those rare and valuable fur-bearing inhabitants of the d e e p . (_ b t"r skins qverago about $50 00 each in the market. Capt. Colo of the “ C orsair” was the father of young Capt. Colo who was drowned at E llensburg some ears since. T he B POST. I A d v e i l i s i n g —A N ew I u tlu w try . P ost on last Thursday cnu I I o T iie m orning contained a special notice announcing that a Mr. Moore, of l ’olsom, would visit P ort Orford in company with Mr. Chilsou about tho middle of next month, aud purchase old iron, zinc, etc., ad infinitum. On that m orning thirty-four boys went in about thirty-four directions in quest of junk, the aggregate of whose “ g a th erin g s” would stock a one- horse foundry. Nothing like en- A ll Hand«» H oppy. A favorite dog strayed away from Louis K napp’s the other day. and, after ottering sundry re wards for his recovery and mak ing diligent search, the canine was discovered fast in the brush by a chain lie had dragged away, hun gry anil forlorn, and ail hands were happy once again. The Californian for February contains one of the best and most intelligently conceived articles ’on the “ Irish question" it has been our privilege to peruse concern ing that, at the present time, most pro ill ■ subject of discussion. It is from the pen of R. E. Desmond.’ NOW F O R T H E K A 1L K O A U . F r o m I 'p H o g u e R iv e r , A l . o u g P u l l , u .S tro n g T u l l , a n d a T a l l A lt o g e t h e r , We learn from our correspond ent at E llensburg who has hud an interview with Mr. W illis T. W hite, who recently returned from The Meadows, th at stock in that country are all doing well. From Ellensburg to the mouth of Illinois river no m ining is being done at present. Charley Foster & Co. have constructed a self shooter on Big Bend bar. Tom my East is m ining with good pros pects at Blossom Rock. W est of tho L ittle D evil's Stairs, F errin & Cliauncy are making from three to five dollars a day w ith a rocker. Below Mule creek, on Douglas Bar, parties had started a ditch, h u t water giving out, they went to M issouri bar to work. Across from Mule creek Stew-art & B u r rows are working with a good prospect. Below- Quail creek, W alker is doing well. At the foot of Battle Bar, Bussell & Co., are w orking w ith good prospects of success. Low bars in general along the river have been sluiced out; boxes, flumes ditches, reser voirs, cabins, etc., went 'down to the sea d u rin g the freshc^ -------- — ------- I Now that the Breakwater ques tion has been settled beyond the possibility of cavil, in favor of this place, it more than eyer behooves the people of C urry aud Coos counties—more especially the Coquille region of the latter coun ty, of Roseburg and Douglas county, and of the counties adjoin ing, to make a combined, system atic and determined effort for the speedy inauguration of work on a railroad from Roseburg to this point. Tho day is not distant when P o rt O rford will be the in- trepot of the commerce of more than half of the State, and the most productive half at that. W ith a railroad from the valley to P ort O rford, the products of tho Um pqua valley would find a safe and cheap outlet here w hether our harbor is ever improved or not. Ships of the largest tonnage can sail in and out of our harbor with the utm ost safety and dispatch on an average of nine months in the year, and when the improvements contemplated by the Act of Con gress and guaranteed by the lo cation of the site for the H arbor of Refuge here, are made, ample bus iness for one road from Jackson ville, two from the Um pqua valley aud one from Coos Bay all center ing in here, will be assured. At tho present moment there is no point on tho Coast where a rail road would pay so handsome a re tu rn upon its cost as the one to be constructed connecting P o rt O r ford and Roseburg. L et tho peo ple at both ends and all along the line unite in a common effort to get practical railroad men in terested in the enterprise; and there should be no delay in setting about the work. Railroads are never b u ilt b u t in response to the demands of enterprise and re sources. L et us not delude o ur selves into the belief that railroad connection can be secured to us w ithout any effort on our part. P o r t O rfo rd m id lln x le r n O r e g o n . The Dalles M ountaineer, the leading newspaper East of the Mountains, has this to say con cerning the Breakwater location: Port Orford has again been re commended as the proper place for the H arbor of Refuge to be built on the Pacific Coast between San Francisco and Columbia river. Now it is perhaps likely that the work will be commenced, w ithout any more wire-pulling. The loca tion is an excellent one, and tho work becoming necessary by the rapid growth of tho Coastwise trade. -------------------------♦ ♦ ♦ ■ —— The fine Percheron Norman stallion belonging to Mr. Thos. The “ Mary D. Hume" is expect Langlois, on Floras ereek, will be ed to arrive at P ort O rford any at the service of breeders during time. the present season. N ew School The following letter from Coun ty School Superintendent Phil- brook explains itself: E llinsbuiig , Mar. 9, 1881. M b . J as . L anglois :—I would respectfully hereby notify you that I have granted this day a pe tition signed by tho majorities of D istricts No. 1 and No. 13 for a new district w ithin the following boundaries, to-wit: Beginning w here the section line (which bounds section 30 of tow n ship 31, S. R. 15 W. on the north) intersects the ocean beach, and running east eight miles; (leaving sec. 27 of said township in School D istrict No. 13) thence south to Elk river; thence following Elk river to its m outh; thence north along the Coast to point of begin ning. Said district to be called School D istrict No. 15. C has . E. I ’ hilbkook , County School Superintendent. —------- ♦ ♦ ♦ .......... S a n s A r k iio w le ilg e m e n t . »49 a n d ’3 0 . The Californian for M arch con tains the opening chapters of a story under the above suggestive caption, which is in itself worth the year’s subscription price of $4. I t will run through several num bers, anil if wliat is to come may be judged by the initial chap ters, tho whole w ill prove one of the most vivid portraitures of life in early tim es in the Golden State ever w ritten. The author is Jo h n Vance Cheney. T l»c C a b in e t . The following appointm ents constitute Garfield’s cabinet: Secretary of State, J . G. Blaine, of Maine; Secretary of the T reas ury, Wm. W indom, of M inn.; A t torney-General, Wayne McVeigh, of Pennsylvania; Postm aster-G en eral, Thos. L. Jam es, of New York; Secretary of the Interior, Samual J. Kirkwood, of Iowa; Secretary of W ar, llobt. Lincoln, of Illinois; Secretary of tho Navy, W. H. H unt, of Louisiana. G overnm ent L a n d s v # , M in e r a l I.and«». The News, referring to the ques tion asked some time since by a correspondent of T he P ost , as to whether the G overnm ent’s patent holds mineral lands, holds that that where no m ining rights were acquired before rig h t to patent accrued to the owner, unless a fraudulent showing wa£i made as to the character of the land, the patentee holds against all m ining pretensions. G overnm ent Survey. W. D . W right, w ith a survey ing party, passed through town yesterday en route to Bogue river where four additional townships are to be surveyed. Owing to the peculiar topography of the coun try to be surveyed, the undertak ing is one of more than ordinary m agnitude.____ I t is said tin t Abelard used the rod in teaching Hcloise the three languages required for her to un derstand the scriptures. O ur “ Hcloise” seems inclined to apply tho “ rod” of “ three languages” in confounding her adversaries. One of her poems next week. ------------------------ The schooner “ Mose,” Capt. Brown, laid in o ur harbor a couple of days last week, waiting for the storm to abate so that she could enter the Coquille. She got into tho river last Tuesday. NO. 42. C O R K E S P O N D E NC E . R ogue R iver Mar. 8, 1881. E ditobs P ost :—Thomas Taylor, who died at Ellensburg, March 3, 1881, was well known throughout Southern Oregon, and was one of the first settlers of this county. He located a land claim on Rogue river, opposite the mouth of the Illinois river, nearly th irty years ago. This claim lie improved quite extensively, and, although these improvements show age and decay, the farm is yet a mode! of beauty. He will long he remem bered by those who knew him, as a generous, kind liqarted man. This is the second of our old p i oneers who has been called from the shores of time within the past month. Thus, one by one, they are passing away. Their lives are a well written page, and if wo could have a few of those pages in print, they could be read with profit by those who are left to en joy the fruits of their labor. When we think of the great im provements made within the past six years, we are too apt to censure the old pioneers for not having ac complished more in the many years they have been here prior to that time, and to give the enter prising em igrant more praise than is due him. I t is difficult for us, who are not accustomed to the hardships of a frontier life, to es timate the real value of these no ble, daring men who took their lives in their hands and went forth to spy out the unexplored regions of our fair Pacific slope. Like tho m ariner on an unknown sea with out a chart to direct him, they have drifted on many sunken rocks. Some have wrecked on the “ fatal rock of intem perance.” In fact few have entirely escaped in jury from this baneful enemy. Some have escaped this* point o f destruction to come to their death at the hands of the treacherous red man. Some have perished of starvation in the mountains; while others, like I. S. Jones, have sick ened and died alone in their cab ins, thousands of miles away from friends and relatives, with nothing left to mark their last resting place, save a little mound of earth in the mountains. •When wc pass these lonely graves, Wc drop a silent tear In memory of the true and brave, Sleeping In silence here. Tho Portland Standard appro priates an entire Clietco commu We think of their toils and cares, nication which appeared in T he Of their victories and their woes. P ost some time since, without Alas! how few of ns would dare even the intim ation of credit for Alone, to face the same foes. the source of its information. W e think of their friends faraway, “ L iars should have good mem In some land unknown to us; ories,” says the proverb. P la And from the depths of our hearts we giarists should be up in >local ge (iod grant peace to their dust, [say, ography for tho same reason. May those who are living still, For instance, the Standard locates Of thia brave and worthy hand. the scene of the tragedy it des Their cup of peace and comfort till, We learn from Andrew Hall, cribes, as in C urry county, where » And enjoy the fruits of the land. mail carrier, that the Katie Cook SlBSClUBER. as it occurred in Del Norte county, got ashore at the mouth of the California. Senator Matt Carpenter, of Wis Coquille the other day. consin, is dead. There will be a meeting of the The Teachers’ In stitu te for this citizens of School D istrict No. 15, county will be held May 5th and BORN. on Saturday, March 26ih. at 2 6th, instead of April. o’clock, p. for the purpose of At Ellensburg, on Tuesday, Mare! electing- three School D irectors See W illis T. W hite’s notice of S, 1SS1, to the wife of Walter Sutton, and one D istrict Clerk. Angora goats for sale. daughter.
