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
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(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
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