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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, BROOKINGS-H ARBOR PIUOT.^BROOKINQS, OREGON^ Page Six Home of the C roft Ldy e le m e n ts H azard w ere licensed I Brookings and what became the tonishing results. w ith X . " u l , an,I la rg e s, e leC ric ally -o p era te d saw - A bout th is sam e tim e eons duous hike. Tichenor, _ _ _ ______ able l i l y experim entation, C api. W illiam a com pany of P ortland men. ar- ,rom t h e north through to C a l- m ill in the world. Fn>m th is mill w ent fo rth n early 400 m illion feet been u n d er w ay around Banj rived a t B a ttle Rock, P ort Or- lorm a. i of fir and redwood lum ber before ! w here they w ere even then lord, in the sum m er of 1851, and C onsiderable evidence of the In- . t p lan t cam p tQ finan. good co m m ercial crop. The im m ediately got em broiled in a dians who lived here still tre- f in 1923 w jt hOu t having S idney C ro ft w as working fight with tr.c Indians. From the quently tu rn s up. A round the an * ciable dent in the "crosses" cro sses” of s tra in s and and, arra * maze of conflicting stories one m ouths of the coastal stre a m s are tim b er stand C oncluded on Page Seven Sir Francis Drake m ay assum e th a t Port O rford had trem endous piles of shell and, j R ,g no( & figure of speech t0 which a - - J its founding on th a t date, how- hone none and m arl, from trom wnicn th a t the huge m ill m elted, Refers to Latitude ever, if any Indian records e x ite d p atien t and p ain s-tak in g ex p lo rer j I? apre , d w in p ro b ably ' J Near Brookings there might m ight have b e e n som e, often tu rn s up priceless tre a s u re s ftlone (o m aiR (he spot there changes m ade in this opinion. preserved through the ages. A fter T he country w ent back to a | | by S i r u T n c i T T r a k e ! Such glim pses as we do h a v e . m aking th eir hom es h e re , ro u u tin im ilar ilar to ,o th tin e e , sim th a a t w hich p r e - ! j h, ! ,; i - y ove which th ere has of lofal pioneer day’ B ,T ,h a ‘ I c')untleBS B ^ e ra tto n s m ost of d th e ,u m ber boom ! your real estate tiled before the lu in ms m a.y , ovei w n u n t n t r “ possibly the m ajority of the ear- these sam e In d 'an s w ere herded , , - L o i , n ♦ • not to even sniff its chance of re- property w 'a i s T n T h « " r X r T h e I ' “' r settlers “ and t m " ’ine,s ™ ade de off <-d te iletz R eserv atio n un- u n -; * P o rtla n d (a n t. iners m to th the e S Siletz eservatio tail» J • U n ,liZ mx»n th is“ ,ast ,h e ir coas,al ' “ " j from C al' f° I; d e r highly q uesttonahle c r c u m - w c su sp ectin g it8 with n h,. v ie ,m u of 3« ,le g .,,> north " “>• n o rth w ard t h e . r principal stances ,n 1858. conditions, sta rt- v ......... K .m ........................................route; ty o . , « n g . ..... ......................... , „ hH.rtm) F o r (hp npx, 5Q y ca rs o r sf) p(, M pxpprjm pn, ing bpre w jth this , it not being subjected to to of the eq uator, a f te r having sad- gnow <)nd c(),d and nothing really d ifferent occu rred torm ot ag ricu ltu re, .,1 so u th w ard a b ° u ' <■£"*•• a|so ..... natives paid ,,t . in this e re any- j in m i s then m e n i rem v n i ote o i e s section r v u o o to 10 dis-, u .s-. At firgt first h his is efforts w ere p As the m outh of the ( het co tn n».™ Brookings, Oregon ... d> e o r no atten tio n to them. tinguish it from any o th e r like thing but encouraging b u t in per- j stan d s in approximately The earliest available d ata on district in a sim ilar period of sistence ev en tu ally tu rn e d up a s - . 4..— g grees, re et, he m ay have turned south- . . ., , u.. 7. . / , . weed opposite when- Brookings re H,<lc nt s a ^ u ' ,h ‘ P,ou'!> 7 £ I «ransitlon. It had its streak s of now stands. Sometime later a 1 1’,'l<o ll'" 5 **’ , , 1 " , P," .¿L eVety P 86 lfe * , S rr .n i< h « n d p r .T m im e d F e r r o - w hite men cam e in the early oOs, comrnon to o th e r w e ste rn fron- .¡»am h w a u l .111» n ,a villages of tiers of th l, tim es One com bine lo, put his nam e to a prom ontory " _ ,. ___* ...” . v n t vuiuuu.^ ED AND MENDY 1 up the coast , ( heteo woof ab . o u t , th ree miles ' a. Indians, one , on e ith e r side the ,n t w w a a r rn p and anu w o v i of those inuM ? y vears va»a AUTHORIZED D ISTR IB U TO R S from the ('h eteo but th ere is a of ,he stream , and an o th er vil- w ilj f,nd y a rn s o f a n the hum an - 8 .............« August. ,8 ,9 . when a^ ' P™ - d p a tte rn s w hich have definitely local stories have their mouth. In all, this population m oulded in th e dusts of tim e u n num bered about 3o0 grow n poo- m em orial beginning. pie and th e ir trib al nam e, C het- Jn , hp p a r,y yparg pf )900 ,um Anoui at montn, _ . , a .. . . _ i n m e e a n y y e a r s 01 iu i - Alxmt m the e ¿)Ui 25th 01 of m that month, 1 Ihe schooner Hackst a IT. Capt. Wm 1 a at * 0 . ’ S1 . b er visionaries, prom pted by the ST A T IO N NO. 5056 White, sailing from San Fran- v,v’es *\s or,g,nfaI / orni . a n d , *«»» vast exp expansion of the C alifor- . ................................. nnt not suffered corruption, as as have suffered corruption, have . . . . ... . , Oregon , . . .1 , m a cities, appeared on th e scene, cisco, intended for the Columbia Brookings most o th er aboriginal nam es. . , , .. . „ h having an eve on local tim ber. R iv e r , w e n t ashore at the m o u th H earsay evidence tells us th a t t'h c tc o fir being th e closest to of the Rogue. Jim Chapin, one w the .... passengers, located the ,,,» *n 1 8 o 3, tw elve m iddle-w st, rn those m ark ets. S an F rancisco was <4 b randed crew by pointing out to men cam e to the ( h e te o and then re-clothing herself a f te r her th e m the rem ains o f a cam pfire staked out th e ir claim s. I hey re- d ev astatio n "T he Big D itch" of- le had m ade a little way up l’ort th at the Indians w ere affil- fe red b ettei tra n sp o rta tio n to the We arc exclusive Agents for 'ro m w here they landed, he having tending to ad ju st them selves tim b er-strip p ed east and lum be; •ome in overland in ISIS. Forty- th eir new’ neighbors w ith whom m oney was searching w estw ard ive days la te r the p arty reached th e y lived am icably ahead of th e ir logged-over lands, Eugene, a fte r an extrem ely ar- The earliest w ritten evidence | e a st of the Rockies, ----------------- --------------- fhl w ritt i has tu rn ed up r e la - 1 j n O ctober, 1906, W illiam J. tive to the a re a bears the d ate W ard, a civil engineer, arriv ed in of F ebruary 10. 1854, nam ing the th e county to kxik over the mill E O R town of "Union City," at the prospects, and re p o rtin g hack to Tires Mounted end Remvoed m outh of the C heate o r ('heteo his principals th at th e re were Fire, Auto and C asualty Free of (’barge River. le rrito ry ot Oregon, in billions of feet of m ercan tab le the eount> of ( <x>se, concerning stu m p ag e in the area contiguous A ugustus M illet, and signed by j m outh of th e Chetco, they J. I. P arish, I . S. Indian *(«ertt. 1 h asten ed to establish the town of See M iller w as am ong the first ear lied settlers here-abouts. C urry county's first recorded deed, o u t side the town of Port O rford, is BROOKINGS ti.rted on April 15, 1865, and con OREGON cerns land now ad jacen t to Pe- d r o ili drive. The first publicly recorded right-of-w ay in the coun- :v mav still be traced in portions < tw >cn "M oore's Mill, on Ja c k 's ( ’ret k. to the old Indian cem etery. Ineulentally, the mill m entioned wa that D e r a te d by S ilas and 1 Jam es Monroe Moore, s o n s of Robert and was the first o|»er- Home Designer ate in this section. C u rry county not nam ed until D ecem ber 18. Free Enttmate» on Complete ls55, on th at d ate divorced from Set of U’orAoiy Plans county of Coos "Gus" M iller, on P. O. BOX 36 Jan u a ry 1, 1857, paid the county $25 for the privilege of o p eratin g HARBOR, OREGON the fust ferrv across th e ( ’heteo and in 1858, F. W. C olebrook and History Of Area Dates Back To Mid-19th Century L IS T CHRIS HUCK Standard Station Expert Tire Recapping J. and J, Tire Company coos BAY INSURANCE Edith Ott Cíetiieuí TAVERN Larry Ward M E T L E R Caster Newspapers CANDLES Cigarettes C H A D ’S F O U N T A IN S E R V IC E - I C E CREAM TO TAKE HOME— Magazines Tobaccos i IN S U R A N C E IN S U R A N C E 7 I I 1 Life Auto Bulb Dwelling Health and Accident Public Liability Pete .1. Lesmeister Agency Real Estate And Insurance | Office Bus Depot Brookings, Oregon 4. E q qs * , , 2i|.in high. asst, colo« Io Gift Bo* 65« One Large R abbit....................... 75« 6-10. high. In Gift Box Chetco Home & Auto Supply Co COMPLETE HARDWARE LINE
