THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1,: 1918.
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COOS-CURRY DISTRICT MAKES MOST NOTABLE RECORD
Great Quantities of Spruce for Airplanes and Ship Timbers Produced Progress in All Lines Made
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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
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for the perrer
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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