i 22 UHE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, POBTLAND, SEPTEMBER 1, 190. Undiscovered Country Surrounding Coos Bay Rich in Everything That Makes a Region Prosperous and Wealthy, It Awaits a Railroad MARSHFIELD, Or., Sept. 8. (Spe-' cial Correspondence.) Coos Bay, notwithstanding' all that has been -written about it, is today practi cally an undiscovered country. It is true that the. settlements along: its coast have passed Into the isecond halt century of their founding', and an ex port trade of slow growth has reached the $2,000,000 mark, yet as far as Port land Is concerned, commercially. Coos Bay is a greater stranger than far away Alaska or the Philippines. Here Is a land, an integral part of the State sf Oregon, rich in natural resources probably beyond arfy similar area of the Pacific Coast, that is destined one day to take a high place In the com merce of the world, and Its only lino of communication with the metropolis of the state Is a steamer on the San Fran cisco run that touches at this port twice a month. Of course, there are stage lines corn ting In .over the mountains from tho east, carrying the mail and bringing fthe Portland papers in 24 hours ahead jof the San Francisco dallies, but there lis no freight traffic. The people of 'the bay send to Portland for their news fend read of what .Portland is doing 'for the development of the rest of the Icountry, but they pay their money Into the coffers of yie merchants" of San Francisco. And this trade with tho .Golden Gate is carried on when the natural advantage lies with tho city Ot the 'Willamette. Coos Bay does not trado with San Francisco because it prefers to do so, or because it can buy cheaper In Its markets. On the con trary, the people of Coos Bay are in tensely loyal Oregonians, and they pre fer to deal with Portland vpierchants, and they say that Portland even offers better bargains. Their air Is that of an Injured child at the seeming neglect it has received all these years from 'the parental metropolis, and they want .Portland to send out ships and conquer them as did the Romans of old, but with the arcs of peace. To this end the people of Portland cannot read too often of the great resources of the Coos Bay country which The Orego nian wili lay before them in a series of articles. A Glimpse at the Future. Artemus Ward gave sage advice Jwhen he said, "Don't prophesy." And yet In these days of wireless tele graphy is there anything too chime rical to be called visionary? But why need we delve into the future anyway when the present is enough for all our care? Coos Bay as it Is today is large enough to receive serious at tention without speculating as to what -will be. ' Science has eliminated mnch that fence belonged to the realm of prophecy. Che Weather Bureau has mapped the currents of the air .and can predict a storm with as much accuracy as- the pneients foretold a flood by a rise In the water at a river's source. Cities have their growth, not as a matter of 'chance, but in pursuance to well-defined laws. Trade, following the. lines of least resistance, seeks a common center and builds a city. Just as the gathering streams from the mountains fill a depression and form a lake. One can no more gainsay this law than the lav of gravity. And it is this scheme in the economy of man that ull make a city on me snores or tjoos jiay. But it Is not resources alone that maKe a city, and easy access is only a part. There must be co-opbration. The ,ohe need of this country is population jHere are a bare 25,000 people scattered through tho wilderness of Coos County where there is room and plenty for a.000,000. It is population that Oregon seeks. No matter what part of the state ro ceives it, the increase will be of di rect benefit to all. This is the great ob dect of the Lewis and Clark Centen nial, to bring people here whero they can better their condition and assist in Hhe development of a great state. Portland Not Jealous of Coos. Is Portland Jealous of Coos Bay? Does Ihe elephant fear the supremacy of the hiouse? There are small minds that be lieve the prosperity of one man Is accom Ipllshed only to the injury of another. The people of Portland take a larger view of Bife. Portland has Its own; its position is Impregnable, and its permanency assured The development of other parts of the state can only add to Portland's frrowth Portland's attitude heretofore toward Coos Bay has not been one of neglect, but that iof the busy man who has "more business Shan he can attend to. Portland better than many others sees (the future of Coos Bay. Here is the best Bea harbor between San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound, midway in a coast line of 800 miles. With far less work than has Sveen expended on other harbors It will re ceive the largest ocean-going vessels. Good harbors are far apart on the Pacific, and the fact of this bay, land-locked, where the shipping of the world can ride In cafety, with the resources back of it, must make a city of Coos Bay. These re sources are coal, timber and agriculture and a climate that is unsurpassed on the Coast. To facilitate the opening up ot these resources there Is need of a trans continental railroad leading to the bay. Prospects for a Railroad. it nas Deen an open secret ror years (that transcontinental roads have had their yes on Coos Bay as a possible deep-water terminus on the Pacific Coast Plans and routes innumerable have been exploited . many of which no doubt have been idle. But to argue that no railway will ever build to Coos Bay is to deny the fact that railways nave aireaay Deen mint over greater obstacles and through less prom -ising localities to the Pacific Capital Is not blind. It Is not seeking to avoid but to find investment But the investment must be good, and there is none bettor xhan Coos Bay. The latest of these moves is supposed to he an extension of the Northwestern from Casper, Wyo., to tidewater. Within month In Boise, Idaho.- an effort has been made to get the people to promise a sub - Bidy of $500,000 In cash and lands for such a line. The proposition comes from the .Missouri Trust Company, of St, Louis, through their agent, F. L. Evans, a rail road engineer, and the road is Called the Idaho, Wyoming & Pacific Denial is made of any connection with tho Northwestern, but It Is only the Northwestern that would have the chief interest In the building of such a line. The plan as proposed is a magnificent one. It is Intended to incorporate for $70, 000.000, and build 1S00 miles of track. The main line runs from Casper to Humboldt Bay, a distance of 1100 miles, with branches to the Salmon River in Idaho, to Frlneville in this state, and io San Francisco. The route through this stat is from Vale to Lakeview. as marked on the engineer's maps. The survey passes south of Burns and Malheur Lake, along the west shore of Warner Lake and across the mountains to Lakeview. It keeps on the west side of Goose Lake, down the Pitt River, across the mountains' and down the Mad River to Eureka. Subsidy Not a Factor. But this proposition need hardly bo con sidered seriously. In the first place, If the Northwestern intends to build to the Coast it would not abandon its purpose for lack of a subsidy, and If it Is not ready to ex tend, no subsidy would tempt it. In the second place, no road to Humboldt Bay will ever be. built, not at least over the VIEW OF COOS BAY FROM MAKSHFTJELD. present survey. Will a man build a rail road over a mountain when it is possiDie to go around it? For more than a month the past Winter the snow was so deep over tne mountain irom iaKeview to Plush that the mallcarrier could not get through even on horseback and had to go around by way of Lake Albert No rail road will ever follow that route across' the Rim Rock Mountains when it can avoid all snow by coming across tho desert north of Lake Albert and not lengthen the survey. But once on the desert of northern Lake County, the natural outlet is to Coos Bay. That practically level country Is not to be compared with the tortuous canyon of the Pitt River and the mountains be- ond, and moreover, there Is a saving In distance of more than 100 miles. It Is this saving in distance and grades that counts more than all else in the desire to reach tidewater. Other things are merely a mat ter of first cost Route Through Hills Already Made. It requires but a glance to see how eas ily practicable is the route through north ern Lake County. Silver Lake stands at a level of 4300 feet above the sea, and dur ing times of high water it escapes and Is lost in the desert to the east Here is a channel for a railroad through the hllla already made. The route keeps almost due west across Paulina Marsh to the summit of the Cascades. The rise is so gradual that to the naked eye It looks almost level. The difference in altitude between Silver Lake and the pass at Dia mond Lake is in fact less than 1000 feet The elevation of the latter Is 52B5 feet Why, here is the summit of the Cascades to cross with a railroad nut a tew feet higher than the City of Denver. And across this desert of northern Lake there is a straight line for a railroad with hard ly a cut or a fill. Does It stand to reason that a railroad will choose another route In preference to this when it leads to the finest harbor there is on the coast between Seal Rocks and Cape Flattery? It is the harbor after all that must determine the claims of any port that aspires to be a depot for the world s commerce. But what is the Ore gon Development League doing? What was the great object for which it was or ganized? Is not the transportation ques tion today the paramount issue In tho de velopment of Oregon? Will the league sit idly by' and see the valleys of Eastern Oregon, as fertile as the Nile, drained away to enrich the California seaports? Will It permit this without an effort to make known the superior advantages of Oregon and the Coos Bay country? This talk of the Northwestern Is but from the Coos Bay point of view. Coos Bay would like Just as much to have a railway outlet to the East as others desire to get in here and use her harbor as a terminus. On the map Chicago and Coos Bay appear almost on the same parallel of latitude. Between them lies the Broad way of the Nation, and it is possible to have an almost straight line of travel. It is said that a direct line from ChlcagOi to Coos Bay would be more than 200 miles shorter than the routes to Puget Sound and several hundred miles shorter than to San Francisco. San Francisco is too far south for the Alaska trade, and Puget Sound is too far north for tho trade with Panama and through the canal. Coos Bay Is a compromise with both, and It will have the advantage or oeing reacnea oy the shortest line of railway. Coos Bay should in time distance all its rivals. Road Due East Impracticable. Every one has read the prospectus of Major Kinney's Great Central Railroad. However far this road may be from build ing, its feasibility appeals to one at once. It ia possible but not practical to build a road duo eaBt from Coos Bay. The pass across the Coast Range in that direction is 2X00 feet high. The Coos Bay country. like a half-moon, is- circled by a range of mountains that to the north and south reach almost to the sea. A railroad to the harbor must come in 30 miles to the north or south, but that is a small matter. A railway from the south to connect with the line at Myrtle Point has been surveyed to Roseburg, and gets through the Coast Range at an elevation of 1400 feet From Roseburg the survey runs straight east on an easy grade up the middle fork of the Umpqua to the summit at Diamond Lake. As before stated, this is a low altitude for a mountain pass that would be open all the year round. This road would cross but a few miles north of Crater Lake, -which some day will rival Lako Tahoe as a resort for tourist travel. The Idea of trie Great Central was to go on east arcoss Southern Oregon to Salt Lake. The Oregon & Southeastern Railroad runs from Cottage Grove out 25 miles to Wllwood. It was designed to tap the Bo hemia minfng district The writer was Informed a few days ago fcy G. W. Llojyi that it was the Intention to extend this road on the west to Coos Bay and on tho east to Salt Lake City. Mr. Lloyd was the expert engineer for the Durant people In the famous apex suit of the Durant vs. tho Aspen, at Aspen. Colo., where $12,000. 000 was Involved. Mr. Lloyd is heavily In terested In tho Bohemia mines, and is 'at present doing expert work for Mr. Dewey north from San Francisco along the coast to c6nnect with this and make a through line to Portland. By this route then would be" no mountain to cross and tht distance would be less than by any other line of rails. It is said that the plan la to cross the Bohemia Mountains from Drain, cross Central Oregon and tap the Idaho country by the way of Baker City But whateevr is done. Coos Bay will reap the benefit It Is hardly probable that ail of these enterprises will be consummated, but out of them one at least should materialize. LIGHTHOUSE AT CAPE AJtAGO, ONE OF CHIEF coos bay smrrES'G. SAFEGUARDS TO one of many projects, and some day one of these will crystallize into actuality. It is no breach of confidence to say that E. H. Dewey told the writer not long ago that he was getting ready td bond his road, the Idaho Northern, for $1,000,000 for a further extension of 100 miles. This road is on a solid basis; and it will grow and grow until some day it will break Its' bounds and try to reach the sea.' It could go Into California, but the point for It to strike for Is Coos Bay. How Oregon May Be Drained. The Pacific & Idaho Northern runs out from Weiser in an endeavor to reach the copper mines of the Seven Devils. Thert. has long been talk of an extension of this line to the southwjst across Oregon, and rumor has connected it with the railroad building up from Weed, Cal., to Klamath Falls. And rumor, after all, Is but the forerunner of news. The consummation of such a project would also drain Oregon and further dismember the state. The thing to do Is to keep, always and pre eminently before Investors the pre-eminence of Oregon and the Coos Bay country. j It Is well to look at this matter also at Thunder Mountain. He vouches for the good intentions of G. B. Hengen. the New York capitalist, who is promoting the Qregon & Southeastern Railroad. Thi? road would have even a lower pass acrora the Cascades than the one at Diamond Lake. If it kept on east It would go by Crescent Lake and across the Fort Rock desert to Burns. Electric Line From Drain to Coos The first of the month an article was published In The Oregonian In regard to an electric line from Drain to Coos Bay which Is being promoted by Congressman Wilson, of Arizona. This road, extended to Portland, would give direct rail com munlcation with this country, and no doubt would answer all purposes for long time to come. But it would nevfrr take the place of a transcontinental road. Of somewhat greater importance Is- the move being made by the Santa Fe. au account of which was published In Tho Oregonian some time back. This oom pany hae now completed the third survey north from Eureka by the way of Coots Bay to -Drain. This road has purchased the old Humboldt line Into Eureka. It would seem to be Its intention to build Central Oregon Is Unknown. It is Central Oregon that today ia the cynosure of all eyes. If Coos Bay Is an undiscovered country, far less is known about Central Oregon. And yet at least a dozen railroads are building or have been projected to tap the heart of that country. There is a vast empire thaj some day will make homes for the" thou sands, and it has been scratched only around the edges. "On the map it is prom inent as a great vacant spot to Indicate a desert And yet nearly every foot of that desert can be turned into farms. There 13 j water stored In the lakes of the Carardes to reclaim it an. In the past two years the Lakeview Land Office alone has contributed $7000 to the National irrigation fund, and no state Is mora entitled to the benfits of that measure than Oregon. And the state is receiving its due share of attention. A large area In Klamath and Northern Cal ifornia is under consideration for reclama tion. On the shores- of Summer Lake 130,000 acres have been withdrawn pend ing investigation. The project around Burns has been laid aside for the present for better results at other points. But the co-operation of the farmers and the Gov ernment for the reclamation of 200.000 acres on the Lower Malheur seems as sured. Engineer Lewis and party are now Investigating the feasibility of storing water In Crescent Lake for the irriga tion of the Fort Rock Desert. Here lies 1,000,000 acres of as fine land as there is out of doors, only awaiting water to blos som as the rose. Why, In the sheltered valleys of Central Oregon they grow apri cots and peaches, and this is more than they can do at Coos Bay with all its equable climate. Flour Now Comes From South. Coos Bay and Central Oregon are the complement of each other. Each Is essen tial to the other. The people of Coos Bay have Imported all their flour from Cali fornia. They should eat their bread from the wheat grown on the vast plains o Central Oregon. Central Oregon needs the textile products of Coos Bay. A start of a woolen mill has been made on the water front here, and the clip from the backs of a thousand bands of sheen in Central Oregon should find Its market through the sw.an neck of Coos Bay. The people of Central Oregon will warm themselves in Winter by the fire of Coos Bay coal. They will be a customer for the product of the salmon canneries, and also for the dairies. Coos Bay is celebrated for Its dairy products. Thus any railroad from Coos Bay into Central Oregon would hardly serve that extensive country, and there may be Business for the several roads that have been projected. One line should go north and tap the Bend Country', where 150.000 acres of land Is being watered for the first time this year. The other should keep south to the Chewaucan and Lake- view. Coos Bay Is the natural outlet for all that territory, and the average distance to tidewater would be about 250 miles. It is double that mileage either north or south. The , haul to Coos Bay would be far less difficult Those who have studied the country and the lay of the land know that it is an east and west line more than a north and south that is needed to develop Central Oregon. North of Bend for 100 miles Is a series of hils and valleys that makes a railroad impracti cable. South of Bend for 100 miles Is a level plateau and about all that is needed for a railroad Is to lay the ties on the ground. Even farther south, through Paisley and Lakeview, there Is but little grading to do. . Local Traffic Easily Developed. One of the surprises of transcontinental railroads has been the amount of local traffic developed. The Central Pacific was built to afford a short cut from New York to San Francisco. But its revenues was derived from the miners and stock men along its route. And. so it will be with a transcontinental road into vCooa Bay. Central Oregon will furnish the traffic Carrying Coals to Newcastle. Notwithstanding the fact that they do not grow peaches around Coos Bay they claim . the Coquille Valley is the orchard and garden spot of Southwestern Oregon. The Coquille, like the Nile, overflows each year, and the land will never wear out Almost every product of the vegetable kingdom will grow In that soil. The finest kind of watermelons are grown on the Upper Coquille. And yet as this is being written a steam er from San Francisco Is unloading wa termelons at the wharf a block away. This is not all. The rest of the cargo Is comprised mainly of cauliflower, tomatoes, grapes, muskmelons. sweet potatoes and other fruits and vegetables. Was there ever before such another case of carrying coals to Newcastle? Would It not be a good- idea for Coos County at the fair next year to save samples of these vege tables to show what fine stuff it can lm- Dort from California? It would need fie art of an orator like Henrv Grady to call attention to such anomalies. But Coos Bay has a better excuse than did the South for its lack of self-support. There are not people enough here ttf do all the work that is needed to be done, and after all it may be more convenient to Import vegetables than to take tho time and trouble to raise them. These imported vegetables may seem like a small affair. But there are mat ters of state that deserve more grave con sideration." The United States Custom House at San Francisco Is finished In Orejron oak from Coos County. It was selected by the authorities' from an ex hiblt including nearly all other woods. Opportunity for Furniture Factory. In the next block Is a store with furni ture for sale made of this same Oregon oak. The trees grew here, but the lum ber was sawed and sent to San Francisco. The furniture was made there and shipped back here. What a waste of energy that is. Some day Coos Bay will manufacture Its own furniture, and for the rest of the country. A start Is being made even now by persons organizing a woodenware fac tory. It Is proposed to manufacture everything in that line that at present is not monopolized by Portland. But a greater waste of transportation Is cited than that of Oregon oak to Call fornia and hack again. A gentleman is here who ran a furniture factor' in Chi cago. He shipped Oregon pine and Cali fornia redwood to Chicago and then back again to Oregon as furniture. The seats on which our children learn their lessons at school were made from Oregon and Washington lumber Imported by Grand Rapids, Mich. It Is now proposed to manufacture school furnituro at Coos Bay. There are matters even of greater mo ment. The soap in the room where this was penned was manufactured In Con nectlcut. For the last census year the manufactures of soap and candles In the United States were worth more than $50, 000,000. The chief constituents of soap are carbonate of soda and animal grease, facture of glass in the 1900 census year amounted to nearly $0,000,000. Coos Bay witii a railroad into Central Oregon should supply the world with glass. Baking powder may seem like a small item in the economy of the household. But we manufactured In the United States ! in 150 more than $10,000,000 worth of bak ing powder. The chief constituents of baxlng powder are tartaric acid; import ed mostly from France and worth 30 cents a pound, and bicarbonate of soda, worth ZVs cents a pound in New York. Baking powder retails in the stores here at 50 cents a pound. There are no wholesale houses In Coos Bay. The point is that in Central Oregon on the desert there is bicarbonate of soda enough to supply the United States with baking powder for the next two or three centuries. We should manufacture all our baking pow der on Coos Bay. The price could be re- .duced one-half the present retail rate. On the bay are 63 gasoline launches. Nearly every farmer keeps a gasoline launch, just as people in another country keep a horse and wagon. The Inlets run ning back from the bay are the public roads of Coos County. The cost ot run ning the launch is about 20 cents an hour, and there is one advantage over the horse, no expense when the beast is not at work: The use ot gasoline is always dangerous and inconvenient, to say noth ing of the expense. It has been found that a pound or so dium as the primary element in an electric battery has four times the heat energy of a pound ,of gasoline. It costs in Eng land about 25 cents a pound to produce sodium, and it sells In this country at 50 cents. The' principal things to he con sidered in the manufacture of sodium are the carbonate of soda, lime, charcoal and electric power. There Is in the water falls of Coos County, as one -man ex pressed it, electric power enough to turn the world. There is the carbonate of soda in Central Oregon, and the lime and char coal can be easily had. With the cost of sodium reduced one-half, as it can be on Coos Bay, every launch and every auto mobile in the United States will be run by sodium. Uses of Sodium Not Known. It may be wondered why sodium ha not already come Into use to run auto mobiles by people who do not care for expense. Sodium is the most abundant of the metals, being the base of common salt, but Lewis and Clark had made their famous journey across the continent years before Sir Humphrey Davy isolated so dium and the world knew that there was such a metal. And the development of Its use has been even slow since that time. It Js only within the past year or two that it was discovered that sodium would greatly facilitate the cyanide process in the saving of gold from its ores. The manufacture of cheap sodium is one of the most enticing problems that any country has to solve. But to do this one must first have cheap carbonate of soda. The United States now uses over 500,000 tons of soda annually, and it costs from $10 to $15 per ton to manufacture by the artificial processes. Central Oregon can turn out a far better quality of natural soda at a cost of $1 a ton. Golden Falls, on Coos River, 340 feet hJsh, 29 mlle up Coos River from Marahfleld. We shlD our cattle to Chicago to be slaughtered and bring back the by-prod uct as soap, and even ship back the meat There are carbonate of soda beds in Central Oregon to supply all the soap used In the United States for the next 100 years. Here on the bay Is the place where our great cattle herds of Central Oregon should be slaughtered. A railroad should tap Central Oregon to bring out these cattle and to transport the car bonate of soda. Here we should manu facture soap not only for the United States, but for the Philippines and Japan Opportunityfor Glass Factory Carbonate of soda is also used In the manufacture of glass, and here in the sandstone formation that carries the coal beds of Coos Bay should-be foundfthe silica to 'manufacture glass. The manu- Opportunity for Shipbuilding. Coos Bay already has a record of build ing 500 ships. These were mostly small- masted schooners that ply on the coast trade. But Coos Bay should become great shipbuilding port. The Port Orford cedar of Coos County Is celebrated the world over. There Is none other like it in the world. In the ribs of a ship It will last for 100 years. The fir In this county- is said to be the toughest known and la excellent for the masts of ships. This county is the home of the myrtle. Myrtle is said to have been used for the furnishing of King Solomon s temple, but where It came from no one knows. There aro but few places throughout the world where it grows. It is a. superb material for the mulshing of a ship's cabin. It will polish like Ivory and It is said here that it will make good billiard balls. It is admirably adapted for. the manufacture of croquet balls, the consumption ot which Is very great. It has double the weight of ordinary hardwoods and re sembles lignum vltae. The . myrtle stumps are said to be worth $63 dollars a ton, and 1000 feet weighs five tons. The other part ot the tree is worth $35 per ton. The leaves of the myrtle make bay rum. A ship finished In this material would be expensive, but elegant. Iron Is Close Enough. It will he said that Coos Bay has not the iron and steel to build large ocean li ners. This is true, and the Iron industry on the Pacific Coast has not yet been greatly developed. But south of Central Ore gon across the Nevada line is an abund ance of iron ore. In one ledge exposed above the ground is 40,000,000 tons of the finest kind of ore, running from 60 to SO per cent iron, with no .phosphorus and no titanic acid. Much of it Is the pure ox ide of iron. This iron ore.wlll be smelted at San Francsco or could be brought to Coos Bay. But even with the furnaces in San Francisco, with the Santa Fe ex tended up the coast, the iron could be laid down here very cheaply or brought up on the water. Here Is the coal td supply the ships to make steam and to load them with a cargo for other ports. Tho Oregonian has already announced the fact that John u. Sprockets will -soon put on a line qf steamers to carry' coal from uoos nay to Portland. Beaver Hill coal meets with nrood demand In San Francisco, and it should disoluco the Sound coal in Port land. Two hundred and fifty squaro miles of Coos County Is underlaid with coal, nftw mines are being opened up every day and arrangements are being mado to ex plolt the Umpqua coal fields on a large scale. This coal Is the lignite,- as must necessarily be the case from its location. Geology, teaches us that the Pacific Coast is a younger formation from that of the Atlantic, probably millions of years. It is ago that has made the hard coa- or Penn sylvania. But this same lapse of time has also denuded the hills of tho Atlantic seaboard of much of their soli. Here 13 the reason for the greater fertility along the Pacific. However, this is a digression, and the coal supply is only incidental to the build ing of ships. But the fact that cheap fuel can be had right at their doors will be a great stimulant to the establishment of all kinds of manufacturing Industries on Coos Bay. Climate Is Excellent. The climate will play an important part in the shipbuilding industry. Here men can work outdoors all the year round. Experiments have been made to deter mine this very fact, it is true, the Win ters are long and rainy, but they aro not uncomfortable, and the rain is a gentle mist Statistics are not just at hand to show the average temperature, but save for the rain there Is little difference be tween Winter and Summer. People wear the same clothing the year round, and an overcoat is needed as much in June as It is in January. The ground seldom freezes and water-pipes are not burled but laid on top of the ground. The climate Is said to be preferable to that of either San Francisco or Puget Sound. And it Is very healthful. But one case of typhoid fever was ever known here, and that was Imported. Laborers here can probably provide for their families more cheaply than anywhere else on tne coast and IblK 13 an item to be considered. The harbor is also an important figure in the shipbuilding industry. There Is now on the bar at the entrance to Coos Bay 24 feet of water at low tide. It is but 300 feet across the bar, and then the line descends abruptly to great depth in the ocean- The jetty built by the Gov ernment on the north side, although but partially completed, has accomplished what was expected from Jetties on botn sides. When this Improvement Is com pleted as planned, the bar will have 35 feet of water at low tide and the largest seavgolng vessels can cross. Coos Bay is unlike all other harbors in that no large rivers empty Into it to bring down silt The Coos River Is but a short, clear mountain stream. When tho harbor Is once dredged it will not fill up again. Gold Belt of Southern Oregon. Civilization is co-existent with the min ing Industry. Civilization began when man left off the use of the stone pestlo and mortar and learned to - manipulate metals. Nothing else so stimulates n. man's activities or excites his cupidity as the mining industry. Wa have but to witness the rush to Alaska to bellev thi3. Man had' no commerce until he dis covered the precious metals. It Is tho mining of metals that has built groat cities. But it is a historical fact that cities seldom rise where the metals are mined. Virginia City, once a- flourishing town ot 30.000 souls. Is now almost a thing" of the past But the millions that came from the Comstock lode have built the palaces of San Francisco. Leadville made Den ver great. The wealth of Cripple Creek has made millionaires of humble citizens of Colorado Springs. Men will mino at Thunder Mountain but make their homes in Boise, Idaho. As a gold-producing state! Oregon 13 not to be classed with Colorado and Cali fornia. But the gold mining industry in mis suue is in us miancy. sso country ever seemed more promising. There is a gold belt In Southern Oregon running from Bohemia to Gold Beach. It embraces the counties of Lane. Douglas. Jackson. Josephine and Curry. The stories of tho nnd3 at Gold Beach rival those of Nome. The discoveries made last Winter near Grant's Pas3 surpass anything found at Tonopah. The developments at Bohemia warranted the construction of a railroad. and tnat camp will be a sreat cold oro- ducer. Coos Bay in the Future. All this helps Coos Bay. With the building of railroads here must center thd traffic with the mining camps. Here will be built the manufactories to suddIv the. needs of the miners. As time goes on new territory will be opened up and hundreds of properties yet undreamed of win ba exploited. Here on Coos Bay is a desir able place to live and build homes. Here will rise the city that the miner's wealth makes possible. The villages now scat tered over the peninsula will one day be united in one solid city. Here Is the ideal Summer home, where the trout sport in the mountain streams and all kinds ot berries grow wild in great profusion. This is a beautiful country. Charles Fletcher Lummls, in his great work, "The Right Hand of the Continent." speaks glowingly all the way through the book of the beauties of Southern California. But at the end he makes the confession that Northern California is more beauti ful. Nature In the North.' has done un aided more than has been accomplished by the art of man at the South. And Southern Oregon Is but a part of North ern California. Here the soul of the poet Is filled with beauty. Is it any wonder, when we contemplato the great possibilities of Coos Bay. that we speak of it as an undiscovered country? 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