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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1946)
MAY 3, »pgnAY . MAy 9< 1946 JBROQKINGS-HARBOR PILOT, BROOKINGS. OREGON October. 1912, left G rants Pass pulled ashore, and the gasoline Many* in tow’n w e r e taking by horse stage. They rode all day engine was m an-handled up the and all night, arriving early in beach to high ground, just south advantage of the spring w eather the m orning at Crescent City. and east of where the coast guard by driving hero from Coos Bay T here they rested a couple of lookout station w’as during this and G rants Pass. However, there days before they left for the new war. It w’as set up to furnish was noted a decided increase in afterno the cars traveling both north and com m unity of Brookings. power for the high line—a cable south. High sj The second stage of th eir jo u r stretched from the sh ear leg to ithryn Sa irst Cargo Was Gas According to local sources, this ney took less time, but was never the shore, and ships could anchor is the real beginning of the to u r it of Sngine, Unloaded on theless as arduous. They left underneath the cables. Cargoes ist season, and there will be a • Luther i nd and taft, Mouth of Chetco C rescent City early in the m orn then would be attached to the steady increase of travel through ing and arrived at Sm ith River cable and pulled ashore. here for the next five or six judges ii| in tim e to e a t lunch and to have With the pow’e r for the high months. he origin, rise and fall, and a short rest. A fter lunch they line, unloading was stepped up. luation of Brookings, Oregon, resum ed, to arrive at F erry ranch Among the first m aterials to be uring been the subject of m any —crossing the Chetco above H a r brought ashore was lum ber to 'riday, a:| frersations, speculations and bor a fte r dark. build a cook-house, bunk-house drs. Kati of embellishments. The Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Layman and store. The original plans for The im m ediate job to be ac ie addr origin of the name of this called Sm ith R iver w’ere brief visitors complished, w ith the arriving of the Brookings townsite services i inanity has been the subject men, was to get in supplies and for the store to be locate a t the 1 a t Brookings, S atu rd ay evening. ep and thoughtful talks by school Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gott and north edge of tow’n, near w’here omers to the area. And ex- m ate ria ls w ith which to build the the old m esshall now stands. mity children expect to leave Friday what happened to the “old new town, most of which were L evening for Dayton w here they The town wF as to develop out has done nearly as much being shipped up by steam ship trom the store, and a railroad will atten d a fam ily re-union of cercises from San Francisco. was laid to high line on Chetco Mrs. G ott’s family. They will re ookings I ss the time on rainy days as The m e n of t h e Brookings Point from the store. A fter track s tu rn Sunday night. Tuesday i ussion on growth of bulbs, L um ber and Box Co., as it was M ark C. Cotton, m anager of »kings was first thought were laid, it was tim e to bring ht o’clo the mind of Robert Brook- then known, made preparations the first locomotive in but it was the W est Coast Bulb Growers Co m. Dr. for the a rriv al of shipload of he Souti in 1906 when he hired Wil- supplies. T heir first job was fell decided th at the high line would James Ward, a graduate of not carry' it, so it was floated in lucationj engineering and forestry of ing tim ber suitable for shear legs on a raft, too. ell to make a survey of this th a t could be placed some dis 1 spon Although this railroad in a for the purpose of buying tance off-shore in the w ater, from wilderness was probably one of dd at er and locating a site for a which to run a “high line." the shortest in history', it was y of In the m eantim e, Brookings also one of the busiest. The town- will be i and town. I' ¡am Ward arrived in this bought the S. S. South Coast, and site was laid out for a population in the latter part of 1906, outfitted it w ith supplies and ria- of approxim ately 1500 people, by for the next six years he terials for the new community, this time rapidly developing, in psed the area, investigating springing up on the north b a n k ; came men who had been hired | possibilities for the purpose in of the Chetco river, and it sailed to work in the mill, of Robert Brookings. The from San Francisco under Capt. I w ith the construction of houses nnal choice of sites was ten- H am ilton, arriving at Chetco Cove and quarters well under way, ac- tual work on the mill started. vely located at either Mack Nov. 15, 1912. W hen the S. S. South Coast a r - ! The first step in the m ill's con- 14 miles north of present kings, or mouth of Chetco rived, th ere were no facilities struction was the location and |R However, the s i t e a t the ready for unloading, so the first building of the mill pond in the tth of the Chetco was selected cargo w’as put over the side onto la tte r p a rt of 1913. Robert Brookings was an ideal ause of the possibilities offered ra fts m ade from railroad ties |a port for Goast-wise s h ip p i n g . th a t the ship was carrying. The ist. He engaged the services of 1912 the townsite had been first ra ft to be loaded from the the best architects available to Mt and in about Septem ber vessel carried a gasoline engine design the town of Brookings. The I’ t year the first men of the for power ashore. The raft had principle one among the arch i Brookings Lumber and Box no m otive power. It was cast tects was a Mr. May beck, who r: any arrived. Among the very loose from the ship and the waves had been chief architect for the couples to arrive wete Mr. carried it ashore. Some of the lo 1913 W orld’s F air a t San F ra n Mrs. Weter, and Mi. and cal boys from H arbor came out cisco. Robert Brookings, in setting Driskell. Travel in this area in row boats to give w hatever time was as prim itive help they could, which, it was up the mill here, w anted the la t est and most up-to-date equip |t M been SO years ea rlie r in agreed, was very little. 't. Mrs. Drriskell recounts As the ra f t hit the beach, lines ment. It was one of the largest he and his young wife, in w ere m ade fast to it, and it wras and best-equipped a l l - e l e c t r i c mills of the time, for cutting fir. In 1914, the Brookings Lum ber and Box Co. was re-organized, a n d w a s re-nam ed Brookings i Timber and Lum ber Co. The re organization was for ad m in istra Just What You’ve Been Waiting For— tive purposes, and the original stockholders kept th eir stock with the new company. The first log, rough dimensional lumber, was put through the mill m ent—was one of first and largest in October, 1913. Throughout the rem ainder of 1913 and during 1914 some lum ber w’as sawed and sent "over the w ire.’ However, most cutting was for buildings, ra il I’ Templar Building, Brookings road and some bridges. Most of Nothing for every member of the family! the effort was spent in developing the towmsite. In July of 1915. the Brookings Tim ber and Lum ber Co. closed down for recovery of prices in the lum ber m arket. At th a t tim e a t San Francisco, the base price for lum ber was $11 a thousand. It was anticipated th a t the price A LARGE SHIPMENT OF of lum ber w’ould rise w ith the threatening w’a r clouds of World W ar 1. The mill had been closed down for six m onths when the holdings For Every Purpose of the Brookings Tim ber and Lum ber Co. were bought by an other company, and was named the C alifornia and Oregon Lum ber Co. Robert Brookings, how ever, continued to hold stock in the new’ company which was un der the guidance of Jim Owens, a lum ber man from Wisconsin. To Be C ontinued ool irlv D ay History List« Brookings Is ■eek Fe teresting Story Local News Items op, who recently returned from a survey of the lily m arket in the east, was a business visitor at Crescent City, Monday evening and left early Tuesday for Coos Bay where he attended a m eeting of lily grow ers a t th at place. Chvtco Tide Tables M. Time Ht. Time 10 ......1:47 3.4 5.55 11 .... ...... 2.45 2.8 8.22 12 ...........3.34 1.7 9.22 13 4.26 1.1 10.15 14 4.44 0.7 11.04 15 ..........5.29 0.8 11.49 6.03 1.0 12.31 16 1. Time 10 .... ......1.47 .......2.32 11 12 .... ..... 3.13 ......3.49 13 4.24 14 4.56 15 .... .......5.28 May 16 Ht. 1.1 1.4 1.8 2.1 2.5 2.8 3.1 Time 8:30 9.06 9.35 10.04 10.32 10.58 11.25 Ht. 5.6 5.3 5.2 5.2 5.2 5.2 5.1 Ht. 6.2 6.4 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.8 6.7 BROOKINGS RMNNtT W e H ave in sto ck :; Here’s What We Have in Those hard-to-get items: Nucoa Olives Chocolate Smoked Salmon Snow’s Clam Chowder Syrup IMEN-- ?ep ¡1 White T-Shirts asoi |Sweat Shirts Shorts and Athletic Shirts and Pep Shirts, at IPfll I V’C -- The "LU I v Dried Beans Catsup COFFEES EMMRICH’S COFFEE GOLDEN WEST COFFEE Family Shop MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE WELLMAN COFFEE DEL MONTE COFFEE tote ott Disptayi Canned MILK $ 4 .8 9 light fixtures PORCH FIXTURES Limit: One Case To a Customer BATHROOM FIXTURES FLUORESCENT fixtures BROOKINGS ELECTRIC & RADIO CO. V. A. MENDENHALL Per Case Warm W eather Brings Out Motoring Public The nice w eather over the past week-end brought a steady stream o f tourists here. The re sta u ra n ts report that they did the biggest a r th is ye ar. BORDEN’S DARIGOLD GOLDEN STATE SEGO CARNATION
