The Port Orford tribune., August 26, 1903, Image 1

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Summer. In the distance men- so scarce. Farmers complain that mand for his manufacture, and
ing habit. But that it is great no
tioaed from Bandon to Wedderburn they cannot get farm hands, hotels would employ more help if he
one can deny. The work of life in­
are Floras Creek, Sixes River, Elk complain that they cannot get cooks could get it. Mr. Cook and he both
Any plan whereby a man’s sav­ surance companies has been exten­
htatk and dihtbict ornczB»:
River, Brush Creek, Mussel Creek, and mining men complain that said the write up The Oregonian
TJ. 8. Set«—J jhn H. Mitchell of Port­ ings are made more Secure to him sive and persistent. At the present
Euchre Creek and some smaller they cannot get men to operate the gave of this part of the country
land and Chas. Fulten of Astoria aids thrift and nurtures the habit of time there are many thousands of
“ I had a very severe sickness
streams on whose headwaters are mines. At the Beaver Hill coal last Fall brought letters from all
Gongreasauin, First D istriot-B in ger saving. In countries where prop people now insured in more than
that took off i ll my hair. I pur­
extensive forests of fine timber, mines, in Coos County, there is ex­ parts of the United States.
chased a bottle of Ayer’s Hair
Hermann, of Kosebnrg.
erty is not well protected by law, or one company, and insured as invest­
Mr. and Mrs. A. Routledge whose
Vigor and it brought all my hair
which could be easily brought down pensive machinery in place te make
■Governor—G |0. E. Chamberlain Sa­
back again.” ,,
where the accumulations of the ments. The man twice insured and
home
is in Portland, at 145 Nine­
the
output
of
the
mines
500
tons
a
the streams to the railroad and
W. D. Quinn, Marseillea, 111.
lem-
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Secretary of State—F. I. Dunbar, Sa- thrifty are an object of plunder by the man putting money into insur­
teenth
street, have been traveling at
day,
but
miners
cannot
be
had.
shipped. A railroad along the
the strong or by a corrupt govern­ ance as an investment were both al­
loni.
„
One thing is certain,-
Coast would make accessible to Mr. Jamieson here is constructing easy stages along the coast, hunting;
State T.eaaurer—Chas. 8. Moore, Sa- ment, poverty prevails. The in most unknown forty years ago.
A ye r’s H a ir Vigor makes
tourists many pleasant Summer re­ a six-mile mining ditch on Sixes fishing and having a good time.
centive is to eat up what you have
Recognizing that the fostering of
the hair grow. This is
sorts on the ocean. The road from mine, and could work fifty men un­ They found riding on bicycles over
Supt. Public Instruction—J. H. Ack­
in hand today lest your enemy eat the saving habit is strengthening to
because
it
is
a
hair
food.
Port Orford to Wedderburn, and til October 1st, but has been able the roads here not a success and
erman, Salem._
it up tomorrow. Under such cir a nation and to society, good life in­
State Printer— J. R Whitney, Salem
I t feeds the hair and the
also on down the coast to Chetco to secure only 28. Mr. R. D. would advise any one attempting
Attorney O en era l-D . R. N . Black­ cumstances social conditions like surance companies must be .given
hair grows, that’s all there
harbor and Crescent City, would be Hume wanted 100 men on bis farm the trip to have a Tiding and a pack
those prevailing in Turkey and laige credit for their part in the ad-
burn, Salem.
is to it. It stops falling
in sight of the ocean, and there are and cannery at Wedderburn, but horse, if comfort is to be considered.
Clerk State lan d B oard-M . L .C ham ­ China ars found.
vauce of our nation socially, financi­
of
the
hair,
too,
and
al
many interesting and novel sights failing to get them, brought in some While walking along the country
berlain, Salem.
Forty years ago life insurance in ally and politically. The man with
ways restores color to
J oin t Senator for Coos and Curry 1.
to makej it attractive for tourist Chinamen, but could only secure a road a few miles above Wedderburn,
this country was only beginning to invested interests, other things be­
gray hair.
travel. Many sawmills would be few of them, (the less the better), Mrs. Routledge unexpectedly came
M. Dimmick.
Joint Representative for Coos and establish itself in the confidence of ing equal is the best citizen, the
|1.M a bottla. All
located on the line of this road, and as a consequence, several acres upon a deer standing iu the middle
Curry—R- D Hume, Wedderburn. the public as a safe deposit for sav best neighbor and the best man.
If your druggist cannot supply you,
cutting millions of feet of fir and of his peas went to waste for want of the road. She had a “22 special”
send us one dollar and we will express
Judge, id Judicial D istrict-J . W. ings. The present well fortified
There area nnmberof legai reserve
you a bottle. Be sure and give the name
cedar lumber, and also the more of pickers. Manufacturing plants rifle and her first thought was that
Hamilton, Roseburg.
of your nearest express office. Address,
position of the
in Oregon.
— legal reserve life in- companies doing o business
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J .C . A Y E K CO., Lowell“
Prosecuting Attorney, Sd Judicial Dis- U'..........
valuable and rare furniture woods. are all busy on this coast, and new if she should aim at the body of the
trict—George M. Brown, Roseburg. surance companies of this country ^.11 are alike responsible; but it is
After crossing Rogue River, Hunters ones being built, or old ones en­ deer she could surely hit it, but
P ort Orford, Curry County.
IT S. Commissioners—J. H . Upton, was not occupied without years of uot too much to say that none is
Creek, Pistol River and Chetco larged. The labor unions are so might only wound it, while if she
Langlois; J. Huntley, Gold Beach.
hard fighting and intrenching re­ more prompt in making settlements
powerful that wages are advancing aimed at the head she would either
Port Orford, Or., Aug. 15.—The River would be passed, and each of
sulting from expensive experience. with policy holders or pays larger
COUNT! OFFICERS.
these have fine bodies of timber on all the time, but the supply of avail miss or kill it. The bullet passed
County Judge—E. A. Bailey, Gold
It is hard to measure the part dividends to policy holders than distance from Bandon, in Coos
the headwaters. Next te the shore able men doesaot seem to keep pace through the neck of the deer, which
played by life insurance companies the Washington Life Insurance County, to Langlois in Curry Coun
Beach.
with the demands. Employers aro ran only a hundred feet or so and
County Commissioners—F. H. Blake, in the growth of thrift and the sav-
ty, is 16 miles; from Langlois to of the ocean there is but little
Company.
acceding
to demands of the unions, dropped dead, never leaving the
timber,
the
country
being
now
Chetco; C. W. Haines, Eckley.
Port Orford, 16 miles; from Port
and then turn to the unions and road. Mrs. Routledge is greatly
Sheriff—J- G. Walker, Gold Beach.
covered
with
grasses
on
which
are
Orford to Corbin, on Mussel Creek,
County Clerk—George W. sm ith.
say: “Now furnish us the help we elated over haviug herself killed a
16 miles, and from Corbin to Wed­ feeding cattle and sheep.
Gold Beach.
A California corporation, the want,” but the unions seem to be deer and at one shot. Deer and bear
derburn, 16 miles, so that Port
County Treasurer—James Caughell,
Pacific
Furniture & Lumber Com­ powerless to do so. The fact is the are very plentiful here on the coa9t.
Orford lies half way between Ban
Wedderburn.
pany,
came
to Port Orford two West is advacing so rapidly that A son of Raleigh Scott has a record
Assessor—A. H. Post, Port Orford .
don on the Coquille Riv»r and
means for advancement can not of having killed 56 bears.
School S u p t.-W m . 8 . Guerin, Lang-
Wedderburn, on the Rogue River years ago aad has been expending
This is a mountainous country
be secured fast enough, and so en
SurJeyor-D . Cunniff. Jr., Gold Beach.
Port Orford has a bold, high money ever since in placing here a
and sparsely settled, but a wagon
terprise ie hampered.
plant
for
manufacturing
into
lum­
headland jutting out into the ocean
XSETINOH of the COURTS.
Long distance telephone lines are road has been built through Curry
and under the lid of this sheltering ber the hardwoods and shipping it
Circuit Court meets Fourth Monday in
built
from the north to Gold Beach, County, costing $50,000, which is
point lies the harbor, which, during by schooner and steamer, which
August of each yeur.
and
from
the South to n -»scent City. an excellent piece of engineering,
north wind, is so sheltered that come into the bay during the Sum­
County Commissioners Court meets
There
remains
a gap along the coast but repairs have been neglected.
mer
months.
The
company
has
first Wednesday in January, April,
shipscan lie here during the fiercest
O'
from Gold Beach to Crescent City, This year the road work has been
two
sawmills
on
Elk
River
and
the
July tad September of each year.
storms. At one time it was propos
aad from Crescent City to Eureka, done earlier in the season and as a
Probate Court meets first Monday in
ed making a port of refuge at Port manufactured lumber is hauled by one hundred miles more. It seems consequence travelers get the benefit
PORT
ORFORD,
OREGON,
each month.
Orford, and estimates were made of learn from five to seven miles to
to me there is an opening for local of it, and the roads are much better
cuaar cocmty post o fpicis and post -
the probable cost, and some of the Port Orford. This furniture tim­ capital to find profitable invest­ than they were last year. There is
m asters .
ber
is
worth
in
San
Francisco
from
money for preliminory work ap­
ment in a telephone line along this still great room for improvement.
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Harbor .................... James McCutchen.
propriated by the Government $60 to HOOjper thousand feet, and
part of the coast. At present a But one should not be critical
Gold B each............ Miss Annie Doyle.
There is a wide expanse of water this company this year has already
telephone message from Gold Beach hen it is considered how few
Wedderburn...................... J °hn H "m*
and an abundance of rock, suitable shipped nearly $100,000 worth of
to Crescent City goes first to Marsh people there are to work the m arv
I llih e .................................. A Rn Hr
lumber.
I
t
is
hauled
from
the
for making a 6ea wall, but probably
A g n ew .................... Mrs. ,J .D . Cooley.
field, thence to Roseburg, thence to milesofmountain roads.' bo-el
the railroad up the coast will have mills to the bay here at an expense
Ophir............................... W E- E“.r,r0W'
Grants
Pass, and across the moun­ tell of how, only a few yr d
been completed many years before of $4.50 te $5 per thousand, and tains to Crescent City. A message there were only trails up
C orbin....................... Chas. R W ilson.
P ort O rford.......................................... Ames Johnston
our Government sees the nec the mills can run only during the from Crescent City to Eureka, Cal. the coast.
Denmark................................J- »• C“PP»-
essity of expending several million Summer months when the lumber goes first to Grant’s Pass, thenoo to
Less than a year agf
Ar< -v
L a n g lo is................................................. E. Rackleff.
dollars for the protection from can be hauled. The variegated
Krantz,
formerly
of
Salt
E ck ley............................... J - A. Haines.
San
Francisco
and
back
up
the
KEEPS IN STOCK,
storms of the seagoing vessels. At grains of these woods adapt them to
coast to Eureka—haviug to be re a newspaper at Gold I ain,
present oceangoing crafts of all many uses, and the high prices ob­
since that time his inc
peated several times.
J. HUNTLEY,
kinds can come in during the times tained leaves a neat profit after the
i, v m j ,
< >tir<
The proposed Government timber publishing timber Jlocatii
payment
of
heav£
expenses
of
when the winds prevail from the
lias
been
over
$1500.
At
reserve
in
Southern
Oregon,
which1
D U L Y G O O D S , north, and be loaded at the wharf. manufacture and transportation.
Attorney & Counselor at Law
vi he
reaches almost to the coast, is meet­ he had over 80 notices
The steamer Arcata makes regular Nearly 100 man are employed, and
amount
of
space
left
for
reading
ing
with
much
opposition
from
all
NOTARY PUBLIC,
stops hen-, and a schooner is now if a railroad were here these men
classes here. Thsre are 42 town­ matter and news was very limited.
here loading with hardwood lumber. would ail be permanent residents
O keuon .
ship« of land in Curry County, and Thtre is nodoubt the wide advertis­
G ol » B bacu
The country from Bandon to and purchase homes in and near
just
one-half the county, or 21 ing given this country through the
Port Orford is level and offers no Port Orford. The mills could be
townships, are included in this pro­ letters published last Fall in the
obstacles to the building of a rail­ operated nearly the whole year,and
Will Practice in »11 the Court« of thia
posed reserve. It is said here this Oregonian has had a great deal to
State.
road aside from heavy underbrush a handsome profit be made and the
demand for a reserve is instigated do with the rush here for timber
Public Land Caaes a Specialty.
and the standing trunks of white business done on a more extensive
by the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the rush still continues. Tim ­
cedar trees, a forest fire here in 1868 scale. This company now has in
which is anxious to prevent the ber locators are making money out
having destroyed the timber on course of erection a steel cable for
J. H. UPTON,
building of a railroad along the of the business as they are now
Hardware, Tinware, Glassware, Crockery. thousands of acres of land. This loading vessels, and is to be in­ coast,
and by having a reserve charging $150 for a claim.
U .H . C O M M I S S I O N E D
stretch of 32 miles would be so de dependent of the wharf in the har­
L. C. P e . nti . and .
bor. It has been investing each created, it would net only profit
veloped
by
the
building
of
a
coast
NOTARY PUBLIC,
FLOUR and FEED always on hand.
largely by an exchange of lands, Salmon Not B e c o m in g E x tin ct.
railroad as to create homes for many year in large tracts of timber lands
but also, by taking this supply of
Orders taken for any article not in stock.
L anglois , C obby C o ., Oaaaom
more people than at present, and near their mills, showing that the
timber out of the market, discour­
An Astoria dispatch reports an
a town would be built on the bay capitalists have great faith in the
Orders taken for Suits, and fits guaranteed.
Healer in Town Lota, and Improved
age the building of a railroad. unprecedented run of chinook sal­
future
of
the
industry.
at Port Orford several times as
and Wild Lands.
At Corbin, on Mussel creek, Curry County finds it difficult to mon in the Lower Columbia River,
large as Port Orford of today, which
maintain a county as it is now,and and says it is conceded that this
Filing» And Final Proofs Made on
boasts of about 150 people. The another California company has a
with such a slice of land taken is the result of ratifleial propaga­
dairy business would be greatly in hardwood sawmill in full operation,
Homesteads and Pre-emptions.
away it is feared the county re­ tion. If this belief is well founded,
and
found
the
transportation
ques­
creased, and the facilities for re
venues would be greatly reduced. the fact is of tremendous import­
GENERAL CONVEYANCING.
liable transportation allow the tion a difficult one to solve. The
From the standpoint of preserving ance. It will mean that the great
sawmill business to be much ex lumber is hauled over a high ridge
the
flow of water in the streams salmon fishing industry of the
L. A . ROBERTS,
tended in the manufacture of lum to the ocean, a distance of three
there ie little argument in favor of Pacific Northwest, which gives em­
miles,
and
there,
in
the
shelter
of
a
ber from the forests of Port Orford
A T T O R N E Y AT LAW .
a reserve as the streams here are ployment to thousands of men and
cedar, fir and the valuable hard rocky ridge, schooners come in and
well supplied with Winter rains, brings annually to this section
M yi M P o in t, O regon.
load
when
the
weather
permits.
woods such as oak, myrtle, maple
there
are no snow sheds, and the millions of dollars, is to bo regard­
4and ash, Port Orford cedar has a There is an abundance of fine tim ­
streams
are Bhort.
Probate business a specialty.
ed as a peimanent factor in the
particular value for shipbuilding ber, and the mill manufactures it
C.
A. Jamieson, lately from Alaska prosperity of the Pacific Northwest.
into
timber
rapidly
and
cheaply.
and the making of broom handles,
If there were a railroad passing came here last Fall and purchased Fear arose a few years ago that the
All goods not giving satisfaction can be returned, and money refund­ match wood and various other lines,
J. M UPTON,
so well known and now profitably along the ocean front, cars could bo placer land on Sixes River, and salmon fisheries were doomed to be
ed, providing the goods are returned in good order.
loaded right at the mill and de­ now has a force of men at work a passing industry. Year after
manufactured.
ittern a y and Comselor at Law,
building a water ditch six miles in year the noble fish came into the
From Port Orford a railroad livered into San Francisco in very
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length and expects to be piping on Columbia in decreasing numbers,
B A N D O N , O llE G O N .
few
hours
time.
At
present
it
wonld probably be built along next
his gravel banks this W inter. and pioneers sadly shook their
takes
nine
days
to
get
a
letter
to
to the ocean, and pass up the course
George
Curry, who hss been min­ heads and told of the good old days
upstair», in Eldorad« Building
of Brush Creek, behind Humbug San Franoisco and an answer back
ing
on
Lobster
Creek, informed me before the river had been “fished to
mountain, arid then again along again. In this isolated place it is
p. J. LINDBERG & SON
GOLD BEACH
he
had
been
doing
well. A few weeks death.” Then the state and inter­
difficult
to
get
men
to
do
the
work,
next to the ocean to Mussel Creek
ago a $46 nugget was picked up on ested persons made a close study
GEORGE M. BROWN,
and
out
of
the
sixty
men
employed
and to Euchre Creek. This part of
Funeral Directors.
the road would cost considerable to only, fourteen struck, the day I his claim also one over $20 anil he of the habits of the salmon, and
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A TTO R N EY AT LAW ,
has found a number of$10 nuggets. men of sound judgment expressed
build, but would be grand in its was at the mill, and there was
At Corbin I met W. 0. Cook and the lielief that artificial propaga­
A Complete Line of Casketf, Coffins
scenic beauty. After a few miles nothing else to do but shut down
B08EBUBG, OREGON.
H. T. STEWART PROP.
wife formerly of PokeCounty. Mr. tion would instore the great Indus­
and Trimming«.
the
mill,
which
was
done;
but
work
beyond Euchre Creek the road
Cook has charge of the Corbin Saw­ try. Wise and far seeing legisla­
would be close to the ocean, but will probably be resumed.
Orders taken for Tombstones and
tion followed, and now comes the
Wherever I have been, I notice mill Company’s farm, with a sab good news that even the pioneers
have no engineering difficulties to
DR. J. J. CALDWELL,
Cemetery Railing.
I I o r s P M XV« *11
ary of $62 a month, and what have to admit that they never be­
reach Wedderburn, then cross the general complaint of men to
PO R T ORFORD, OREGON.
P h y s i c i a n a n d H iir g e m i,
C ared
amounts to more than his board, fore saw salmon ascending the
do
th«
work.
Good
wages
are
being
Rogue River and be at Gold Beach,
and receives $10 a month for the gr«at river In such numbers. There
paid,
and
the
men
are
not
over­
P O R T O K F O ItD ,
OREGON
! the county seat of Curry County,
J. W. STRANGE,
is a valuable suggestion here re­
Hay and Grain Constantly on hand. j An im portant fact to be considered worked, but there seems to be no use in hauling lumber of his heavy garding the perpetuation of the
Diseases of Ladies and Children a Spec-.
team
of
horses.
1
also
met
F.
T.
in life building of a railroad down men available. In spite of the fact
Prices Reasonable.
forest wealth of the Pacific North­
d e m is t
that more foreigners came into the Crewe, the cigar manufacturer, who west. By foresight and wi«e legis­
I
ialty
-
- ORE. the coast is the absence of grades, United Slates last year than ever j has moved to a new location right lation, the lumbering iudustry can
GOLD BEACH,
as it would almost be a water level.
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be made as enduring as the ttsher-
T h e Oregon W e e k ly J ournal, a D em o ­
I On the coast here are no snows iu before in the history of the country, j on the county road, and said he les.— Kpokauo .Spokesluau-Review.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
M y Hair
P. J. MASTERSON,
DEALER IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
GROCERIES, The
Ladies’ and Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
Hats and Caps,
Oil Clothing,
Boots and Shoes,
NEW GOODS
Received by every steamer.
HUES wi W
OOL tab is exchange for bi;.
DOORS and WINDOWS.
peed Stable,
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Journal, P. O. B ob
121. P ortland .
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