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
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" 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,
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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
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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
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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
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apre
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in
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ro
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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
,
,
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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-
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K .m ........................................route;
ty o . , « n g
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, „ 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-
.
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, 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 "
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...”
. 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,
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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,
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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
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