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