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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1956)
Nowhere a Finer Climate — Nowhere a Finer Community SECTION TWO Thursday, October 25,195*5 CHETCO COVE PORT HERE LACKS ONLT REAL EFFORT Now th at the story of the P ort of Brookings, as it definitely was d u rin g the fore part of this een- tu ry has been told— -and author- itively so, a recap of one venture to revive it seems to be in order, •ar: ago the Less than ten of Com- then sm all Chambt m erce started to exp! ■ tne poss- :ean com- ibilities of reviving Manv let- m erce from the are ter» w ere w ritten to various large m edium and small prospects, ask ing for an expression of th eir a t titu d e in reference to w hat is in the public mind today—docks at Brooking- and acics-. to the up- j r Rogue Valley. An exam ple of reaction to these inqui -s was that previous to them, various oil com panies w ere tan k trucking oil products trom E ureka to G rants Pass. Brooking H arb o r C ham ber of Comm rcc letters, calling these com panies' attention to w hat we had to offer in the wr.v of a short e r haul, w ere quite interesting to them . T here is a very strong poss ibility that inability, at the tim e, to follow up this interest led to the oil com panies later pitching th eir tank farm s at Crescent City. Most of the letters—an d there w ere m any—addressed to potvn tial users of Brookings dockage, in the upper Rogue Valley, asked th at local people come over th ere and tell them about our propu tion They even offered to invite th eir county cham bers of com m erce and all other businessm en to assem ble so they could hear the story and were, definitely, velop, foresaw a road from the • lure, including d raft of vessels. keenly interested. The n ew spa and would be further, at leas', (c) The annu .1 com m erce in Port of Brookings tow ard the east w ith greater access to tim b r now pers of the area w ere behind the tons, anticipated, w ith origin and to connect w ith the m ark et area being and about 1» be f > i ’’ plan. j destination, an 1 estim ated sav of the upper Rogue Valley . to m arket from the low er Rogue T hat is about w here the m atter In Ja n u ary of 1953, Mr. G rey ings in tran sp o rtatio n costs. cam e to an u n fo rtu n ate end. At if and w hen 101 is im proved be (d ) Loc itioi an I n atu re of shel prepared the results of an tw een the county seat and the th a t time, although the C ham ber term inal fa. iV :-s c o n s i d e r e d exhaustive survey he m ad" in of Com m erce was active, there P ort of B o o k in g s. which the foil ,.,in g statun«.nl is necessary. vere so few of them who could (e ) Amount of local coopera We are indebted to Charh s as pertinent today as it was then. tion to be ex p ected . afford to take the tim e, the plan ••Before 'startin g an all-out drive just fell flat—not because of any. G rayshel for fu th er data on the T here **c,d be included the for a harbor let's be sure that we thing avoidable but because our Chetco Cove-Harbor program giv | potential o', r. to be served by the are w illing to back this request rapidly growing area needed ing some of the points w hich dc w ith our tim e and financial aid. Fort of Brookings, all industries, every bit of attention here at ferred previous consideration but This is a MUST and cannot be ai leas' w ithin a radius of 50 home. One has to but look back, which are now cleared up consid would profit there- done bv a few men or th e Board miles, \\1 erably by the setting up of a port say ten years, and review the ex l by. This wou'.l include a tally of of I a . u i o i s of th* Cnam er of pansion of the area to realize district w ith com missioners for rougn lubm er, finished Com merce P u a ’ask requiring all the someone, locally, had to attend to the Port of Brookings. I lu m b er. plywood, veneer anti G rayshel's research turned up united com m unity support from O th er products, not only w ithin 50 negotiations at home! start to finish and will require The picture has now changed, th e fact th at in the last j u i r of m any m onths of study and p re mile radius but also the same in form ation from the mills of Jack- and brightly so. We now have a operation of the formei dock at paration. son and Josephine counties, as federal grant for the beginning of Brookings, 76 vessels cleared with T he com plete brief, G rayshel well as other outgoing and incom port developm ent and w e now lum ber cargoes for San Francis ?o have a commission to handle the which is quite a record when one i eviews, should contain the fol ing freight which could be h andl ed m ore economically by w ater. business of the port. G overnm ent considers th a t there was no pro low ing m aterial: recognition of the project may be tection from the open sea and (a) The n atu re ami extent The more available tonnage th at w ell considered the» principal as when it got too rough, v e s se l■ of im provem ents desired giving can be irvluded in th e brief as set and dem onstration of need for had to pull off and retu rn when depths and w idths of channel, potential tonnage will be. to our advant ige in convincing the U. S. fu rth e r f e d e r a l expen d itu res the seas calmed, h arb o r area, etc., Because the dogk was a private should bring th em —and in a Continued on Back Page (b ) The num ber and type of enterprise, the U. S. Army engin hurry. vessels which arc now. and v hich of Section Two It is up to the people of the eers would have nothing to do i Chetco m outh area to bring about w ith developm ent of the port, i i w o u ld .b e accom odated in the fu- i this dem onstration of need. No 1950 a hearing was held in tu path tow ard its accom plishm ent Chetco G range Hall at which tint should be abandoned until pur oral testim ony and a revisi d br., i sued to th e end. Facts and figures was presented to the U. S. A my I concerned w ith the potentialities engineers. U nfortunately, neither I rm -peclfully announce th a t 1 am a cand idate at the NoV- of, especially, volum e and v a r fishing, shipping, lum ber, n >. enihe; flth election fo r Justice of tin1 Peace, 1*1 IH a trtc t. I iety of inbound and outbound m ining people showed up at this freight should be accum ulated, m eeting w ith sufficient data to have l»een a p p o in t'd as Justice of tin* Peace p ro -te m in Ilia especially in the rich area of the w arra n t favorable recommend, i place of Roy II . B ro u n and am non a c tin g Justice of the Pence U pper Rogue and the coastal tions from the P ortland office of area of C urry and Del N orte the engineers. On the »»allots Ihe nano- of Roy 11. B ro u n u i l l app ear but counties. Concise presentation of In Ju ly of ’52 Congressman to has le ft »be d is tric t and u ill not q u a lify it elected. T b e re - probable freight from the low er H arris E llsw orth and Colonel Lip Rogue should be a determ ining scomb, of the Engineers, m et with fo r I res jw e tfu lly request th a t m y nano- be w ritte n In the factor for the re alignm ent of 101. the directors of the Cham ber of hank space foil u in g the p r’nted nam e o f Roy II . » lo a n . The route linking the P ort of 1 Commerce, the purpose being t .» Please u rite as follow s: “ X I I . <». N E L S O N ." Brookings w ith the m arket area acquaint the Colonel w ith the tw > to the east is entirely an engineer proposed projects, improving th-. II yon elect me to this o ffice I prwmiae* to g t\e the same ing problem . If th e potentialities mouth of the Chetco or the devel of the tran sp o rtatio n system are j opm ent of the port (Chetco e ffic ie n t a tte n tio n to the pos-tion of J il't ie e of the Peace that presented in a tonnage-dollar and Cove). A fter looking the ground I have gixi-n m y position as M u n icip a l Judge of the C ity o, showing a definite need for the over en d hearing the argum ent- Brookings fo r tin- past five years. project, m en skilled in the art of thc Colonel expressed his opinion finding and providing the best th a t the developm ent of the Port I hum bly re fe r the electors of the county to m y record as link betw een dockside and w are had economic value. At a later houses should be entrusted w ith meeing, th at sam e year. Sen. Guy M u n icip a l Judge dm ing this period. hooking them up. Cordon advised the local harbor The plan is of vital interest to j com m ittee to prepare com mplete everyone. As an exam ple, when and detailed inform ation on the ships were hauling freight from project and m ake personal pre San Francjsco to dockside, C res sentation of sam e at W ashington cent City, in the m iddle thirties, D C. A uth P aid fo r H G N elson n ew sp rin t paper, m anfactured in The plan, as then being de Oregon City cost less layed down I in Gold Beach via? San Francisco steam er-truck, than it did direct from the mills. The grocers at j Gold Beach found it to th e ir ad vantage to have th eir m erch an dise sim ilarly shipped to Crescent City and trucked to Gold Beach It is more than probable that recent sonic soundings by th e U. S. Engineers will show th e re has been little or no silting of the Brookings roadsted w here th e old dock and anchorage area used to be. Form erly, this m inim um dep th was 36 feet w ith good hold ing ground for anchors, extended over a considerable period of tim e as reported by Mr Ward in his thesis. It should be fu rth e r noted from his survey as publish ed in last w eek's Pilot, his pro posed deflection of the Chetco to sluice out the anchorage. AT This lack of silting into the area should be born in mind w hen com paring th e Port of Brookings w ith other ports along th e coast w hich require very e x pensive m aintenance costs and freq u en t m enances to dependable navigation. In subsequent Issues we shall publish excerpts from a survey North Gate Building Phone 2211 conducted by C harles G rayshel w hen th e m atter was previously being bandied about. It will deal I G. C. GILBERT, REAL ESTATE BROKER w ith tonnage-dollar figures ac cum ulated at the tim e and which have since been greatly increased To the Veters of r urry County AS ETER 'AL A S TH E i IDES AND STARS WIERS MORTUARY CHAPEL 408 G St. Phone 2301 Crescent City I AM A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE WILLIAM ‘BILL’ BROWN • I' iii . k k c h ie f or WE HAVE EXCELLENT HOMES AND HOME SITES FOR SALE NON-PART ISAS fikmt H. G. 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