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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1950)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1950 BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS. OREGON The Last Busy ... Land Of Opportunities ■ Pape Five ................................................................................ ... j T. F. Moore. Ophir; Ruby S. the accomplishments, a job be Moore and Ruby A. Bailey, of ing well done. Portland; Kate C. Moore and IX M. Moore, Gold Beach. At the Featured time of closing the Peoples Com- pany was operating two ranches In Sunday’s Oregonian besides the store, These were Lily culture in this area was leased in 1943 and consisted of given recognition by the Orego 9(XX) acres where a large num- nian, Sunday a whole page i. of and cattle were the "Farm and Home” section. raised for market. XX ritten by Drew Sherrard. ; F 01 many years the only way special garden writer, live pic ot transporting merchandise of tures showed the lilies, in bloom any quantity was by boat. The and on through digging, sorting, Peoples Company owned its own and packing tor market. Shown, boat, the Asprey, which was la in two of the pictures were Mrs. ter condemned and sold to J. R. Conner Kessler and Mrs. Robert Burke, and the Tramp bought. Stotenburg, working at the Ray Another boat, the Della, was Struebing farm. wrecked at Port Orford. The Roamer came into Rogue River Rev J o h n Mumbower is in Hom 1915 until the last trip in Portland this week attending a 1925. The Tramp is now being Baptist church conference. IL used on Coos Bay bar. is expected to return home to XV hen the store closed its doors day. in May this year, Bullhide re Pilot class das pay—try’ them. tired after over 41 years of serv ing the public. He purchased the stock and equipment of the two inches leased by Peoples Com- It has come to our attention )any and stocked with 1500 sheep that our advertising in the Oct. md 180 cattle. This year 13,- 12 issue of the Pilot has caused >00 pounds oi wool was sold and a lot of suspicion and commo 200 to lo00 head of livestock. tion among lily growers and XX hen Gold Beach was incor- buyers. In the first place I should »rated a few years ago. D. M. have put it 7-8s and not 7s & 8s. doo re was elect ed to the city I had only four cases of bulbs ouncil and is still serving as a to sell, all 7-8s, which he had "Bullhide” is closing business, his last day in the store before it closed in May, 1950. His daugh- nember, a large order for any left on our hands by an unre ter, Mrs. Lena Hunter, is at the cash register. The customer was not identified. c itizezn to fill, and by looking at liable buyer. P. D. STARK. NOTICE Old-Time Gold Beach Business Firm Is Factor In Growth Of Southwestern Ore. Harry Bridges Had No Control Of These Longshoremen D. M. "Bullhide” Moore was। children, six of w hom are still born in Ophir. Oregon, Febru living: Mary Owens and Velma ary 12, 1886. the fifth son of D. Ayers of San Francisco; Oma L. and Mary’ Moore. Mr. Moore's Adel Stewart of Alameda, Calif., parents crossed the plains and Doris Freeman of Brookings; settled on a ranch in the Wil Phyllis XValker of Pistol River lamette Valley in 1880, coming and Lena Hunter of Gold Beach. to Curry county a few years la In the early years Milton no ter. where he was engaged in ticed the cow hides were just logging on Rogue River, and thrown away so when he opened drove bull team in Port Orford his store in 1908 he started to area. They later settled on a buy these hides, giving the farm ranch in the Ophir area where ers $1.00 each for them. He then the Moore boys attended school. cleaned and preserved them un Thomas XVilliam, the oldest, Ash til he had sufficient number to er Henry (killed in a car acci ship. The early’ price was 7c dent), James XX’alter, Milton or a pound and by 1946 they aver Bullhide, and Willis. aged $3.00 each. As a young man Milton with In 1908 the county judge, the his older brother, Walter, start late Ed Bailey, attached the nick ed a store in Ophir in 1903 which name of "Bullhide” on D. Mil they ran for three years. He ton Moore and today he is known worked on the home ranch until up and down the coast by that June 9, 1908, when he started a name. On one of the trips Mr. general merchandise store at and Mrs. Moore made to San ' Gold Beach. The new* store was Francisco, of the cattle buyers, opened up in the new building in meeting Mrs. Moore for the of the late H. Gauntlett. first time, exclaimed: "and I Note how a wagon was backed into the water and loaded with provision brought in on the boat which was built across the street presume this is Mrs. Bullhide.” Roamer. I his boat ceased operation along about 1925. Note the Wedderburn hills. * ’ from its present location. A pool February 8, 1918, the Peoples hall occupied the back. This bus Company was opened with 50 iness was sold in 1917. Bullhide members and with D. M. Moore | was postmaster of Gold Beach in charge. At the time the store f for three years and for many was closed, May 31, 1950, there ■ years was school clerk. were only seven of the members ' He married Ruby Miller in left: C. J. Marks, Reedsport; [ 1908, and reared a family of nine C. H. Buffington, Gold Beach; : This Was Gold Beach At The Turn Of The Century Long "Story" Behind This Store * I * ♦ I a ini HiWl ■fib This is a view of the Peoples Company store as it it appearer d| »oo many residents of the county would recognize Gold Beach bv this picture but it was hist Th. bi-.i buildu, at the left ¡" the " ‘ J in May of this year, as it closed its doors to the public, after □ a that way along about the turn of the c ntm Peoples Com- long and eventful tune in public life. pany stoic. Ihc tallei building at the light was a hotel which later burned down.
