PORT ORFORD
VOL. I.
PORT ORFORD, OREGON: THURSDAY, MARCH 17. ISSI.
THE POST.
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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^
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.