THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26,
1950
BROOKINGS-HARBOR PILOT. BROOKINGS. OREGON
The Last Busy
... Land
Of Opportunities
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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.
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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
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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 "
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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.