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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1918)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1,: 1918. if COOS-CURRY DISTRICT MAKES MOST NOTABLE RECORD Great Quantities of Spruce for Airplanes and Ship Timbers Produced Progress in All Lines Made : 7 4 ' IxWv U . ..';:'V:-. I Wi.. . . .-- - . i TJIiJUi II Zcadyio Z.euznch. .1" -i .SB 11 JSuehner SaWnx Kriss-e . &sn7s Shipyard, Sforifi Send. r 1 ! 2 i -. S3 C3w dourciy Jersey ferd. 1 I I I I i 5 M nninEi,n. or rvc it. Fpc- cll II has brn laid that Cno t County, by reaunn of U.T upruc I iirrlan lumber rrwi ur t too. mtaht lrur trB!jr in "wtnnlnit th war for !nrary. and lhl la much narr th truth than nthrr aprare produrlnp tf.ftrirl will admit. Car aftr car pllrd t'lsh with purr airplane atomic haa brrn ahlnrd from thla r-nttntr and rarceljr a, train Iravra without haullnc from onr to half a rioarn rartnad. Tha I lumtwr la loaded on atrrl haf-hox rara J vsuallr. nit rrachra a hrlaht of 1! to' 14 ft. Kvrry atlrk la cr- and auliablr fr lh manufacture of the tir ing marbine that are rxpctd to make aurh aa effort on the weatern war front. At flrat the Inmher waa cot In irenaton auch aa would nerd Utile worktna over, hul later ordrra required that It he ahtpped In Ioniser - an thicker piece. The rountr haa on ttilll runnlnc eelutely on eprure an I'a output for the year wlil be li.noo.00 fH It waa believed Ihia factory wa the star mill of Oregon, but It rank tmrd In the production of alrplan alock. Pealiiea the Sllka Spruce Com pant mill, thna encaaed. there are flv ohrr mill cuttins: apruce for the Gov ernment at the ee'abltahed price o I!J per thousand for ""clear. irera declare thjit were I to find a ready mark ntafe of aprore that Is fi svMahe for airplane ivtork the mill ru'd not afford to manufacture a I14J per thouaand. Put It occurs tha tnere la more than sufficient demand to handle all of the US to 94 per rent the government does not lake, and at (nod pnre. Amonr tho other sawmill Manufarrur f rot posjiible for the perrer ! i prices. Amonr tho other sawmllle 7 vhiib are produrlna spruce for the c;.vernment are. n the order of their 'j lirortance and output, the North Pnd Tt 3f:ll Lumber Company. Bar Tark. (. riuehner. Mor and lreper. The C A. 7 h-ntth Company haa been selllna" Us spruce loss to other mills, alnce they are rivinc much attention to aawlnc hip limbers. prr9 Prde'lto fe I The areraae percenlaa-e of spruce fat roe Into airplane fork runs In this section from to II and IS. the letter flsurea helns; considered e tremey (nod timber. More areaa are retne prepared to open for sprnce man tifartiir and It la believed the Iota will be doubled here hv Sprlna". The fecenl appeal br the ttoverpment and action taken lowarde commanr!eerlr timber and mil's for an Increased out rat Indicate that the manufacture mill be h:ah:v enhanced, at least. The spruce belt evtends from teveral rules above the t'mrwjua River to Curry "Nl County on the south. The further from the Coaet this timber la found the bet tr It l for the (ovrrnmenl a uee. Curry County, althoua-h hnvins some fine belts, haw no sawmill and no snipping; facilities and mo Is not par lirlnmlln In Ih. hFiil. enff Ku 11 . f she la unprepared. It Is expected to rw mills peine- finished on the I'mp jt ana Klver wlthln'the nnl month wil beoet the anrm-ej reailiremen t meterl. ' t allv alnre thev are aittlatet In e r Jtv available territory. Put eprnce Is not the onlv lumber s ' fere that I belns; lined In tha aid of war necessities Thousands of ship knees and millions of feet of larre timbers are belns; turned out here by mills that have been specially equipped to handle lona dimenelon lumber. The A. mith tomrany alone had a Gov- ernment order for l.eoo.(l feet of ship timbers that wtlr be uned on Coos luy. The Buehner mill at North Bend baa been ehlpplnaT Ions; timbers to Call- lornia and aIo supnlylns: the Kruse ftanks shipyard The Bay Park mill likewise turns out timbers suitable for keels and riba. All the heaviest tlm- . lers are of fir. but much of that used In the interior of vessels is white cedar, slid to be the finest ship lumber In the l nlted Mates. Uh 9hla Tleabera Sawed. Cuttlrc of Ions; timbers for vessels cVm.inrW hieh prices owintr to the extra work Involved In the prorresa of the tree in r.acMnir Its destination. In the camps special care has to be taken to rrevent breakage: the mills are put to M'ldttional work In sawlnc and handlins; I Mem. and eventually In delivery. Loti( rr sometimes reach the mills look t to be the best of stock, but fre quently they are found to be unsound ,"rid therefore are a dead losa to the Sperator. Another ancle to the war procramme. m which Coos and Curry counties have i een prominent Is in the liberal aub- -rlptlons to all the various funds. In- ludinr the two liberty loans, the Ked Trnea arfts and tha V. M. C A. fund l requirements were more than ful teiisd. and avuie or Lhe usiu, Sorti m UP. ..a I "'ir; r r i - i J ft 1 V 'VVSaJ mm V - y-l-tt- 22. J-four&arf Coos-Say. Bend especially, made records In promptness and liberality. North Bend waa the first city In Ores-on to trive Ita quota on the second liberty loan tarlrd her subscription with 110.000. This city afterwards raised jir Y. M. C. A. quota In three hours, and then went over and helped Marshfleld. Port Orford and other Curry County towns subscribed much over their quotas In tha second loan. Powers, a small com munity where 5 per cent of the In habitants are Iorr-ts, over-subscribed lis quota by 500 per cent. A number of loKRlnir camps In Coos County found every inhabitant a subscriber, and many took several' hundred dollars' worth. Camp One at Sumn.T. was not satisfied with havin: every man, woman and child in the camp holding a bond, but tooK Sip a subsequent col lection and bought a $50 bond for their Sunday school. The student body in the Coos County high schools made a high record In aiding the Y. M. C. A. drive, and every school In the county sub scribed 100 per cent more than re quested. liarshfleld had a tremendous task. It appeared .to meet the requirement of aiding the Government with $242,000 in the second liberty loan, but after a discouraging early campaign came through with a little over the amount. Municipalities were liberal in helping the Government, and the city of Marsh feld holds over $5000 worth of 4 per cent bonds. Coos County was sjnong the counties in Oregon which furnished many more men to the Army than were requi sitioned in the first draft, and there fore had no quota to make up. She has furnished more than 100 men for the Navy and probably 400 for the Army. Her 11th Coast Artillery Com pany, organized in Marshfleld, went away July 25 with a Ehortage of only five men, taking 105 privates and of ficers to Fort Stevens.' The county has men in nearly every department of the Army, and several are now In France with the Aviation Corps, others are in the regular Army, still others in Y. M. C. A. service, more in the Signal Corps, some with the Ambulance De partment. With a contribution to date of more than 500 men in service, the county has yet 1900 men of military age, drafted In the conscription. Curry County, when the first call came, owed the Government 21 men, but they have been furnished. That coun ty lost heavily through enlistments in the Navy, to which a great majority of t'ie boys, bred on the water, were nat'Jrally drawn. Port Orford fur nished in one consignment 11 men. who enlisted and took examination at Tort land. The county furnished several athletes and a number of musicians for the National Army. Food Output Ooubled. Food production and conservation havereceived quite as much attention as requested from the Government, and later on by Food Administrator Hoover. The signatures to the food conserva tion programme were almost unani mous in both Coos and Curry counties, although a very few were found in iso lated localities who refused to sign. These largely were people who claimed to he saving judiciously and therefore looked upon a pledge as an imposition. The extra production in Coos County could reasonably be placed at 50 per cent more than usual in some crops, potatoes in particular. The county raised the best crop, and the largest, in potatoes, in her history. Every ranch er has from a few hundred sacks to several thousand on hand. Beans were produced 'in the Coquille Valiley in al most an increased ratio of 100 per cent. GAIN BY. LINCOLN COUNTY IS GREAT ril.KHO. Lincoln er Sea Flekla aa4 Dalrylaa Asaaaa? thief ladaatrtro !arat la Oappllrd. Or, rec. Jl. (Special.) County has an area of 47.- acres, and a population of about oo. , Uric percentaae of Ita popula tion la divided between the towns of To ledo and Newport. Toledo la the county seat, and In the center of a rood dairy and stock country. Newport la fa mous as a beach resort and haa a large Summer population The principal activities of the county consist of deep-sea fishing along the Newport coast, the goat and sheep and cattle Industry, dairying and farming. Tha county la rich In undeveloped re sources. While the country Is broken In character, there are numerous rich valleys and bench land that Invite the homeseeker. promising good returns for labor and Improvement. All kinds of grasses do well here. Oats yield bountifully, and there Is scarcely anything In the vegetable line that does not give prolific yield. Fruits and berries attain fine perfection. Manx carloads of cattle are shipped yearly from Lincoln County. It is estimated that the Silet rerion alone has I S.nnn.nno.onn feet of timber Douglas fir predominates, but con servative estimates place the quantity of airplane spruce in the Siletz at 2.000.000,000 feet. The'aawmlll at To ledo has manufactured about 200,000 feet of airplane spruce and shipped two carloads of tent poles. A considerable revenue has been de rived by fishermen on Yaquina Bay the past season. The herring run in the hay. was profitable, the halibut schooners taking the entire catch for bait at goad -figures. In addition hun dreds of (Jollars' worth of oysters, clams, crabs and salmon have been hipped to Portland markets this year. JLincolt&County ha the largest an nual mohair pool of any county in the state. For the past six years. Includ ing 1917, the total number of pounds sold was 149,235, -nd for the same period there was realized by the grow ers the eum of $60,135.03. Lincoln County has four cream eries whose annual output of butter will aggregate more than 200,000 pounds. At the present price of but ter that would mean a net profit, less operating expenses, of $100,000 a year. This estimate does not Include the butter fat shipped to outside cream eries, which is estimated at 60,000 pounds annually. The ports of Toledo and Newport have voted $836,000 to improve the bar leading from Yaquina Bay. It is ex pected that a like sum will be appro priated by the general Government, which, when expended, would give a depth of 20 feet on 'he bar. The ports of Toledo and Newport have placed $150,000 worth of bonds on the market, and If sold they will proceed under su pervision of an engineer to improve the south Jetty. The export of tanbark from the Siletz this season amounted to 200 tons, valued at v3000. One hundred and fifty tons of Cas cara bark were shipped from Lincoln County this year, netting peelers ap proximately $25,000. Lincoln County sent her quota of 23 soiaiers unaer the selective draft, while more than twice that number volunteered. The county also raised J3S.000 for Liberty Bonds under the second call. The subscription to the Red Cross fund to date Is $1211.75. 3i H M ' "i ! i i 1 3 T a The CHANDLER H. J. McKeown, Proprietor. European Plan Rooms $1.00 per Day and Up. STEAM HEAT ELECTRIC LIGHTS HOT AND COLD WATER AND TELEPHONE SERVICE IN ALL ROOMS. Marshfield, Oregon North Bend Mill & Lumber Company Incorporated Manufacturers of Band Sawed Douglas Fir, Sitka Spruce and Port Orford (VJiite) Cedar North Bend, Coos Bay, Oregon San Francisco Office, 430 Sansome St. Coos Bay Lumber Company Successors to C. A. SMITH LUMBER COMPa4NY Large manufacturers of Port Orford cedar, which is used extensively for boat lumber and aeroplane stock. Marshfield, Oregon General Offices, 707-716 Syndicate Building Oakland, Calif. Distributing Yards Bay Point and Oakland, Calif. .We Are Also Large Manufacturers of Douglas Fir , ADELSPERGER .& CONRAD TIMBER LANDS 307-8-9-10 COKE BUILDING MARSHFIELD, OREGON SPRUCE TIMBER LANDS A SPECIALTY LARGE TRACTS OF SPRUCE, FIR AND PORT ORFORD WHITE CEDAR AT ATTRACTIVE PRICES ALWAYS ON HAND INQUIRIES SOLICITED BY BONA FIDE PURCHASERS . A
