Brookings-Harbor pilot., May 16, 1946, Page 8, Image 8

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Home of the Croft Lily
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS. OREGON
w ere doing, and w alked off the
Brookings Became ; job.
T here was a log on the car-
Ghost Town After riage
w ith two sides cut when
th e work stopped and it was left,
Mill’s Shutdown
half on the ca rriag e and h alf on
H arbor area, and th e re in terested
his neghbors in grow ing the new
lily bulb he developed and which
now' bears his nam e. It has been
through this new- in d u stry th a t
the com m unity has gained n a ­
tion-wide atten tio n and has devel­
oped into not only an acknow l­
edged ideal reso rt area, but one
of the g re a t floral a re a s in the
en tire country.
the skids, in the process of being
Bill Ward Saw Value turned. Tools w ere laid aside,
and m achinery’ left standing.
Of Area As Center
W ith this sudden tu rn in events,
For Recreation
people who had no strong tie in
the com m unity began moving out.
In early 1915, Jam es Owens, and w ithin five to six m onths,
heading a group of w ealthy Wis- Brookings presented the typical
c nsm lum berm en, bought out th e p icture of a ghost tow'n. The peo­
I i okings T im ber and Lum ber ple who stayed and helped re­
Com pany, with all its holdings, move the machinery' w ere given
and re-organized the mill, nam ­ free rent and utlities.
ing it the C alifornia and Oregon
Howver. in the six m onths fol­
Lum ber Company. However, u n ­ lowing the close-dow'n five to
V olume Of Sales
d er the new company, Robert six hundred w-orked left. Houses
Brookings continued to hold stock they had occupied w ere boarded
Can’t Be Computed
and Bill W ard re train ed as chief up, and left to the elem ents,
—But
Run V ery High
en g in eer for the new company. m aking Brookings look forlorn, |
I he new C alifornia and O re-j
deserted and forsaken, according
“W e re new com ers, looking for
gon
continued
to cut they
and ! X ' n i n e s ' ' e X s T ' g ™ ? H ? * W° ? h ‘° p u ' in ,° o u r
m
ill mill
n r from
ihe holding,
piece before it had been stepped
on—but n ev e rth less th e w’atch a d ­
v ertised by th e lady who lost it.
These a re b u t a few of th e
testim o n ials to th e P ilo t of th e
p u llin g pow er of claissified a d ­
vertising. Dozens n ev er say a n y ­
thing, yet these sam e people have
com e ag ain an d again, so w ere
a d v e rtisin g not paying, they m ay
n ev er a p p e a r a t th e P ilo t office
lege. Your truly, The G J
Pistol iver. Guy W, Jo ’
Pistol River, Ore.
m
w . H. H ib b ard leftonTl
ness trip to S an Francisco,
th is w eek. It is expected
w ill r e tu r n th e latter part
week.
Pilot Classified Ads In The Mailbox:
P ilo t: J u s t w an t to tell
Have Big Pulling i ° E UJ ditor,
f ! a t P°crn w ritte n by W illard
A. E llis p ictu res an o u tstan d in g
Power In District young
m an. P lease tell him fo r
’X
us we, who wish th e
full of such boys an d
who w an t girls who
ladies w ith com m on
T. Stafford.
w orld w ere
g irls—boys
a re re ally
sense. M av
E ditor, P ilo t: Enclosed you will
Please find $3.00 fo r w hich you
p laase p u t m e on y o u r subscrip-
,lon list, and let th e e x tra 50c
pay fo r th e free copies I have
been receiving.
I ikie y o u r p aper, I like th e
nam e, I like y o u r ed ito rials. Y our
2 T Í “ aH th e earrr,a rk s of
needs.
’
* a " d C° Un,y
Contains Jaborandi
had purchased from the Brook-1 lum ber mill mwn.
‘
‘ H h ? p f e ¿ " . . j / r T ™ 8'’ ''
—
rare South Amer­
. .. ,
,.
,nt 1 ‘tot w as told F rid a y eve-
ings company, up until 1922.
ic a n in g r e d ie n t .
The process of disbanding, te a r- ning, ' an d y o u r page of m ark e t
f he C. & O., as it was known, ng down and rem oving the cost- valu es c e rta in lv is w o rth much
Helps prevent dan­
w ent on shipping out lum ber by ly m achinery m itself took a lo n g ' m ore th an the price of the
d ru ff and exces-j
w ater, and in 1917, built a w harf time, and it w asn’t u ntil 1933
paper.”
sive fa llin g hair,
off ( ’beten Point, portion of which that a perm it was issued for the
W hile th is is but th e eleventh
...caused by dry,
m ay still he seen. The wharf, one supervised burning of the mill issue of the Pilot, alre ad y a page
s c a lp . K e e p s ,
is
of the rr >st am bitious projects buildings th at w ere still s ta n d ­
n e a rly filled w eekly by these
h a ir s m a rtly
<»f its kind at that time, extended ing. Perm ission was g ra n te d be­ b arg ain values, so necessary at
groomed. I t ’s
1,000 feet off-shore. For the first
I especially like y o u r sugges- stimulating!
cause of the accident h azard p re ­ tim es when m any things c a n ’t be
600 feet it carried two rail lines s e n te d by the rapidly d e te rio ra ­ purchased.
tons lo r th e im p ro v em en ts need-
and the last too feet had four tion of the stru ctu res.
P lease discontinue my classi­ ed here in ed u catio n and recre-
rail lines.
It is to he em phasized th a t fied a d --so ld ev ery th in g w ithin atio n al facilit es fo r th e younger
Sw itching of railroad cars was the mill buildings w ere burned 12 hours a f te r the p a p e r reached g en eration.
L U S T E R life haii
done on the outer end, where with the perm ission and approval ¡th e m ails,” a n o th e r su b scrib er in-
My d au g h ter, Iren e, is a fre sh ­
the ocean-going ships tied up. The of the fire com m issioner, and it | form ed the P ilot Monday. He had m an in B rookings High. She likes
tracks ran from the mill, so that was not destroyed by an a rso n ist,' ¡paid for th e ad v ertisin g to run
e town and h o sp itality shown
C O N T A I N I N G JABORANDI
lum ber, as it cam e out. could lx*
as m any rum ors contend
two weeks. “ Keep th e difference h ere th e re but is disappointed in
' onto the railroad cars
the school.
In 1931, Bill W ard, who saw’ I ’m satisfied.”
an d hauled directly out to the the mill grow out of th e w ilder­
She would like to go on th ro u g h
Bulb acreages, lots, farm s, and
end of the wharf, where the lum-
ness into one of the g re a te st m ills tim b e r lands have been sold by high school th e re if th ey m ake
»•er could lx* loaded directly on of the
Brookings
Ora
board ship. Vern Cross was the resort northw est, saw a potential inexpensive advertisem en ts, ail th e needed im provem ents so she
will
bo
p
re
p
are
d
to
go
on
to
col-
c
e
n
te
r
in
this
area,
and
reaching buyers who w ere “out
( fuel engineer for the railroad,
took over the holdings of the looking.”
and was ln charge of all sw itch­
original B rookings L a n d a n d
One person, adv ertisin g sand
ing and railroad operations on
Tow nsite Co.
and gravel, has about all the
the wharf.
C nder direction and m an ag e­ w ork he can do w ithin hours he
Those composing the new C
& O. Lum ber Co., had large hold­ m ent of W ard, m any of the homes likes to w ork. A nother m an. a d ­
ing of redwaxxl below the sta te built by the lum ber com pany! vertising his c a rp e n te r w ork, is
Ime. and in June 1921. an ag re e ­ w ere rep aired and put in shape kept w ith his “nose to the g rin d ­
m ent was draw n up for the eon- for to u rists who desired to spend stone” daily by jobs here and
th ere over the com m unity.
ruction of a railroad from the th e ir vacations on the coast.
Visitors Are Welcome Anytime
m n illsit
A lady lost a w rist w atch not
■
ills ilv ‘ ~
Howdy ,
S m ith I W ard ' found the developing o f'
i a sizeable job, and in lo n g ago, and rushed to the P i­
K .vvr Calif, The rail line w as m
eoniol»'fo<t
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in tere ste d E lm er Bankus. lot office w here she placed a “lo st”
com
pleted lated i_
in 1922. w ith
a prom inent and successful P o rt­ advertisem ent. The next dav a
miles of main line.
land re a l estate m an. in com ing ;? a n ’ .iivinK in H ^ b o r , cam e to
In the m eantim e, the C. & O.
At the Winehuck Bridge
tiere to aid in the project. Prog- th e Flint office w ith a w atch, one
converted from fir to redwood, | ress w as m ade at the outset, but
which
had
been
a
b
ea
u
tifu
l
time-1
an d started logging and saw ing
tx fore long, the full force of the
redwood tim ber w ith the com ­ depression sw eeping the country
pletion of the railroad. At th at
at th at tim e w as felt
tim e the null had 25 to 30 million
D espite the handicap of a n a - '
reet of redwood for sawing.
¡el
t ion-wade econom ic depression,
Hie C. & O, Co., in the p u r­ W ard never lost h o jv fo r the com ­
chase from the original B rook­ m unity in th e new role he was
veral
ings Co. also bought the town- m aking for it. His every effort
! the n
site holdings, and in 1918, sold and energy w as directed to w ard !
k have
19 autom obiles, and in 1925, ao ld,«'»»’« B rookings ideal clim ate
l.i through th e ir store.
and b ea u tifu l s c e n e r y t o 'th è
>ir an
In 1924. the w h a rf on C h e tc o '« u n tr y .
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Point cam e into the national s p o t-; In 193« n .n u ’onri i >
righ
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Hendry's Greenhouse
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P u n e lied up to the w h arf until d e a th of Bill W ard Elm o it
a new engine was shipped here, to o k o v er w ^ a ^ s h
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m.
m th e ( . jfc O , and hir»'it \v
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»hipping out over the w h a rf
about a m illion and a h alf feet
of lum lx'r a week.
The mill w as ap p aren tly doing
w e ll « h e n « K n it Î0 o’clock on
»he m orning of June 18, 1 9 ^ thp
w histle blew, and the men
l d i ! u o ü " ” RS n° ' c n >-’--r
w orkers »topjx J w hat 1»
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SA° rf Order9 Served A t A ll Hours
a S. ACK or a ^ u ^ M E A L , we are prepared to
* ith ° U tbreak of w <>rid
However, w ith the o u tb rea k of
f ? F a « th i ? Pan' the ln^ r t a t i o n
5» F a s te r lilies U as »topped c re ­
ating a m ark e t a t home to meet
the dem ands form erly
supplied
from the fa r east.
, In f940, Sydney C roft.
a fte r
U*mg burned out in the
fire at
'd o n . Ore., movod
the
Dur ( oftee is Hot—and our Drinks are Cold!
Jim and Edith Robinson, Proprietors
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