ROSEBURG TO BE THE GREAT CENTRAL JUNCTION
The Mooted Question SettledChief Engineer Kinney, in Making the Selection, was
Influenced by Natural Conditions Only Work Progressing.
"COOS BAY'S COME OUT."
GREAT NATURAL RESOURCES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY
What the Evening Telegram Says of a Region Now Th
2 County Contains 24,009,009,000 Feet of Standing Timber Her Soil a Deep,
Reawakening to New Life and Vigor.
- Rich Alluvial, and her Climate Mild aud Equable
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Quito a coutrorersy has lieen on 1e
tween Eoseburg and Eugene, says a
Portland exchange, in the matter as to
which of these two points was to be
made the junction ioint lietwoeii the
Great Central and the Southern Pacific.
Reference as to these matters is made
'"elsewhere in this is-ne. Chief Engin
eer Kinney was at Eoseburg the other
day. In order to settle this mooted
point, there should be no higher
authority than the gentleman him
self. '
As was to l expected, the eople of
Eoseburg were very anxious to know,
and a representative of the Eoseburg
reporter succeeded in getting the ear of
Major Kinney. The Major is uniform
ly considerate of newspaper men, and in
answer to the pointed questions fired at
him like ammunition from a Galling
gun by the newsiwjH'r reporter man, lie
replied in his usual emphatic way as fol
lows :
"Yes, sir 1 You may say to yonr
readers that the Great Central will be
built, and that Eoseburg will positively
be the point of its intersection with the
Rafting Scene
South-jfn Pacific lines."
"In this conclusion we have been in
fluence. by' natural conditions only.
There is no other route feasible for us.
Ao.ntraet for the first division has al
ready been let, and the grading between
Mar-hfield and Rosebnrg, via Myrtle
Toint, w ill be pushed as rapidly as men
end money can accomplish the work,
and while the rainy season" may delay
operations in this section work will be
pushed on other divisions where the
conditions are u.ore favorable. Con
struction work on the four-mile trestle
between Empire City anu Marshfield is
well under way, and the xrading force
under Contractor Small will be increased
as soon as the men and teams can be
secured."
Route Determined.
'Has the route through the Cascade
range leen determined upon?"'
"It has; and while it is no part of
our policy to show our hand at this
time, I can state positively that a route
A MIGHTY MOVEMENT.
The latest issue of The Paeific Miner
is a particularly handsome number. It
devo'.es considerable space to the Coos
Pay region as well as the Great Central
Eailroad Co'miany and its allied corpor
ations. Under the title "The Oppor
tunityThe Man; The Pacific The
Orient,''this valuable publication prints
an able w ritten article. The Plaix
I'Kalkk feels justified in reprinting it, in
part. The first excerpt follows:
"Da the citizens and men of affairs in
the state realize the mighty eouflict,
the fierce struggle, the Titan ie forces
that confront the captains of commerce
and trade through the world politics in
their strife for conime cial supremacy?
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Th j Great
What 'plumed knight' of commere,
marching dow n the aisles of trade w ill
tarry the victorious banner? The bat
tle will le grand, sjK-ctacular. Its Ti
laijtic j.roiHjrtioiis wili make it enchant
ing. The century-long march of the
Onled States' j.rogress across the
Jorth Americtu continent readied its
limit at Pacific waters. It trembled
awhile; by Ral W sea, then from the
states laved by its tides leaped to the
Philippines and China, after an instant's
jause at Hawaii, and, lo!. world jiolitics
tre change! in a t winkling, and the fo
, tus of world market is shifted from
nroie to the far Orient.
lid what a might j stage it is, with
through the range has been decided
upon.
""We are asking nothing of the people
of Douglas cohnty except their good will
and in return we promise them a rail
outlet from tidewater at Coos Bay to
Salt Lake City, as soon as it is ossihle
to construct it:"
"Do you care to state what railway
interests are ass.ciated in the enter
prise?" "Further than the fact that promi
nent Eastern railroad men are interest
ed, and that not one share of Mock
is for sale, 1 cannot speak of that mat
ter." 'Do your plana contemplate the use
of the Spreckels' road?"
" "If the road can be purchased reason
ably, yes.' If not, we Ehall set our
stakes at Myrtle Point and proceed in
dependent of the old line."
"I infer lrom yonr statement that the
locating engineers are on hand ready
for business?"
"They are. A locating force is .now
at work on the west end, and the corps
now with me will commenco operations
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from this oint. This force ,wil! le j will p-t out the piling for four miles of
augmented by an additional ca from j trestle. D. V. Small, of Walla Walla,
Portland. Seventy-five head of- horses j is already at work on a Contract for
have been purchased at Eugene, and : grading the remaining three miles K
the preliminary work w ill lecoimeneed ! tweet Empire City and Marshtield. He
at once upon their arrival at Eos-burg.'" j has a dozen teams of his own at work.
Major Kinny'5 Return. - and the re.munder of his fone be will
j lure from among larmers of that vicini
After an absence of two weeks at ,y C. E. Cook has taken a sub-cou-Coos
Rav. Chief Engineer Kinney re-, tra,.t f(lf. ym, ,, Mj.rli,. p(iul
ttirned Friday night to Tortland. Vlwn j towar,, 1:lScl1m w,iere ll(.avv
he left Portland he sa d :
"W e are getting ready for the great
survey from Coos Rav to Salt Rake City,
a distance of 1000 mill's. This survey
commenced Octolier 15, and will con
tinue all winter, for the Western end of
the line. W bae secured 50 jiack
horses and have yem ready at . Prine
ville for ttie-surveyors' gangs. Wor k
commenced on the wharves and trestles
September 1st, the day that we prom-!
ised construction would begin." j r)rooeei cref11v with certain ,K.rti..ns
On bis returfi be stated to a repre- ! during the winter, and to have every
scntative of a Portland per that he j thing ready for crowding const ruction
had settled the route of.the railroad lie-
a Betting well worthy the great actors
that are to appear.
"The Pacific ocean has suddenly !e
cme the storm center of the mightiest
commercial conflict of the ages.
."The old world .olitics centered
around the Mediterranean,, an inland
sea ; those of today encircle the might'
iest of oceans. It is characteristic of
the change that has taken place that
the hew forces are capable of acting
across its expansive reaches with evan
greater ease and rapidity t'lan the
forces of a few generations ago operated
on this almost infinitely smaller . field.
And, since time has liejime the measure
of distance commercially, the Pacific
has shrunk until it is now only one
fourth as large as the Mediterranean
Central Railroad Hotel to be Built at
was in the old days of classic Greece.
For a 21-knot vessel can steam from the
docks of Portland, San Francisco or
Coos Ray, Oregon, in one-fourth the
time it took the old Greek merchant or
pirate vessel to sail 2000 miles from
the Phoenician coast to the pi' lars of
Herculeh.
"What opjtortuiiities lie here for bold
leaders brave captains of commerce? -
"Rut Americans are equal V) the occa
sion. There age the Hills, Harriinans,
and others. ,
"Rut the far western man the Pacific
coast man shall. , be heard from. He
has already entered.; the 'arena. ; His
name is on the gladiatorial lists, and he
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twecn Coos Ray and the Southern Pa
cific that it would practically lie the
route of the Coos Ray, Eoseburg &
Eastern, forming the junction at Kos
burg. His plan is to build up to the
present line of the Coos Ray, Eoseburg
& Eastern at loth ends, then buy the
Spreckels road if ft can le had on rea
sonable terms ; if not, to parallel that
road. This does away witli all possibili
ty that the road will get out. by way of
Drain or Eugene.
. Chief Engineer Kinney, in adverting
to his statement made prior to leaving
Portland, as outlined in the alw.ve, said
in his characteristically direct way:
"I told you sometime ago that wc
would begin act ive construction work
on the tailroad by Septomlier 1. Well,
it was September 3 when the work was
practically liegun. That was not a bad
miss, was it?" . '
In a big undertaking like the present,
in order to expedite the work, it is unite
common practice to sublet contracts for
certain portions of the work.. iJn this
matter it may be of interest to know
that Henry Sengstacken, of Marshfield,
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J cut are to be made. He has 75 horses
in Eugene that were started out on the
new work Friday.
Oregon w inters, as a rale, are ii"t
conducive to rapid work in the matter
! of railroad construction. As a conse
quence, the Empire Construction Com
pany will not attempt the attainment
of that which may prove paljably iin-
issible. It is its iiitntiin to cet tin-
ork on?:lnizoj .i.,- the line and
in the
-pnng.
will face the mighty conflict with all
that superb strengt h, energy and brill
iancy that is thei nheritance of the West.
"llon this mighty commercial stage,
the world or an audience, Tie will play a
leading role?'
The Pacific Miner then pays high
tribute to Chief Engineer Kinney of tie
Great Central Railroad Comjiany. AVhat
the company promises to accomplish is
outlined and the article concludes as fob
lows ; '
"What poUntiuhtylthe future holds!
English merchants in the far East have
said that Manila would rival Hong
Kong, next to Liverpool the greatest
shipping Krt in the world. Now, see
where Coos Ray is at the door of this
vast region. The Orient is its nc'ghlx.r,
ceo -m cn
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tfoseburg.
but is no longer asleep, or aloof and sclf
Kutihicut. The vague, dreamy, remote
'far East' is near and real." iH-wey at
Manila made the coast of Asia a tangi
ble thing, a thing, a thing, which the
farmer of Oregon, the manufacturer, the
mechanic, the teacher, has an immedi
ate interest iu. It is all a huire market.
more extensive and more densely popu
lated than EurojK!. And Coos ilay ami
the new terminal city' of Rangor, backed
by its unrivaled natural local resources,
is the ample natural geographical har
bor, for all the vast commerce of Asia
and the islands of the adjacent seas.
.."The situation is full of promise.
"It is uprecedented and unparalleled.
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Vnder the title, "Coos Ray's Come-
Out, "The Evening Telegram of Portl- is building a road from Gray's Harbor to
aiul printed an interesting article the some point on Pnget Sound to get tint
otherday. Since it has a direct liearing her out to tidewater. Possibly a road
upon a subject that is now greatly at- from Coos Pay may lie built eastward
trading public attention, the Eoseburs and make connection with some trans
Pi.AiNiK.u.r.it takes pleasure in reprinting continental line in which case the liar-it-.
It is as follows: bor will receive all the appropriations it
It is indeed hinh time that Portland I
business men were -making connection
and establishing relations with Coos
Ray. A development todescri!e which
the over used word tremendous would
not be out of place is iM-ginning in that
long-neglected and Ecmidieuighted
region. Not but what the cople who
were there were doing well cnou'di. but
the vast wilderness on one side,' the
vaster ocean on the other, one contain-
ing tens of millions of wealth, the other
a highway to every 4rt on. the irlole.
where but little appreciated, or used,
"Rut a change has come. Men are
crossim the mountains to C.mw Pji v l.vl
hundreds, by thousands. The forests light di losing the wealth and.advant
are thronged with seekers, most of whom a8e8 of tbat region after so maty years
is nsiuillv tin, ca-e. have com u o
late to seenre w hat thev wished.- They
found out the value of the liiii'Hj- aftfir
most of them had Kvd (ini. tlv 'V'obbled I
ui," f..r some syndicate, as has hai.uened
all srlr.ii-the owt. Eit'-.er the law i
t. !.... i.r it 1j-. ii ,i.-,!n,i..iJi.r.
ed. to allow i!,i: vet in M'ito of it. theie
;tl n...w.r5.M.;ti.. ,ml u,r- f..r n I
real niiml vr . f i eople i;i the South-!
wotern Oregon, of which Coos Kay is
mix! i- the main . enter, .luring the
next lew years; jes, lor many yea
" N olu.ibic T.'nitcr Tiacts.
"The tinsltcr is there, thousan is
of,
millions of ft l t of i , and it i- becoming
very valuable i:ow.'Raiir.nls iil v
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hite Cedar Tree Near RoseburgGreat Central Railroad Country.
We are in the f.c is of the great events
which have Is-cn imtkiiu another uud
greater Eastern (piestion than Russia
and England dreamed of a quarter of a
century ago. Tlio commercial front of
Asia is not hm
er on the Rosphorns, but
on this Pacific coast, and
when con-
nected .lircrt w ith th
:reat trauscon-
tineiiUal lines of raihvav through fro:n
the Atlantic what more natural, place
than Cos Ray for great-traffic to center.
"Remote from the populous cities and
states of our ow n country,- this Empire
of the Vt bc-oiis to see the fulfillment
of itsow u projiheries, but ('i)in all un-ex-te.l
ijiiai tcr, and in.a way no sa
gacity could fore.M'.. The great world-inti-rests
w lii. Ii ijuicki-a natural pulses
have been -nM -n'v transferre.1 to the
I'acilie, ni. l ibis hi.i.nl expanse .f Jwater
is no iiM.re a "mel.u.eholy waste." but
grows jiopulmis with ships, white with
sails of commere , and since the nation
now extends far into the Pacific, Amer
ican tiaditions, education, life and lili
erty go as trade los, with the (lag."
SOME SIGNIFICANT FACTS -
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When the pr ijected line from Salt
LakotoC.Mis Ray was first' announced
to the public, Chief Engineer Kinney
was cxlreiuely careful in all his state
ments lo the newspaper men at Port
land vs to whether the line was to he
come a mere local line or the link in n
new transcontinental system, 1'roni
time to time, as the, reHrts on the pre
liminary survey came iu at headquarters,
they were in turn transmitted to the
Eastern party or parties whoso capital
was guaranteeing the enterprise.
As the reports were submit tod and
built through it, as the Northern Pacific
needs. The big coloration get nearly
everything; they can do anything,
Hut whv complain? If there were no
lig coronations, to do these things they
would not 1 done. v
"Coos Ray will scarcely liccome a
rival of the Columbia River, or Marsb-
field, of Portland to hurt, but the truth
is that the region around Coo Rav is
going to witness wonderful activity and
developemeut in the near future. Not
only is there vast wealth of timber, but
there is also coal. And there is dairy
and farming land, ton. .
"T,,c apitalists who are bringing
"0oS Ray out of the Inists and into the
live in San Francisco or in Eastern
citi' Tl'py J"'1'1 caTe '"ut I'ortland
Nttier do . the Coos Iiy jop!e, for
'"' never hud much ( banc to get ac-
'"xinted with our caj.italists and busi
n''n- Dut no ,l""',t we can do
buMiie's there, if the proi.er effort is
"'ade Coos Ray is nearer to Portland
than to San Praiirisco. The Pacific
,Hl';" l'li,.v" n" favorites.
j n.akiug any comiuirisoiis
i.1" advantage of any oilier w-ctiou of
I r -g in for each so-tion lias its gr-st
aiant.igt s and its many opirtuin:ic
it may le remarLi.! that the come out
if S.iiih-we'tfrn Oregon, with Cofs
Rav n the f-n-us, iluring the next lOor
I-j years, is goinato Ik worth watching
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transmitted. Chief Engineer Kinney
become more aud more hopeful that the
line would indeed form the outlet to the
Pacific of a new transcontinental sys
tem. It would not seem that the
number "13" . was s i unlucky as tme
' siiMTslitious oople. On .August 13 the
1 chief cngyieer.
' tif mt.r ii iinf.ii.ii-.wl fi. ftli.k t-,il
ro id reorter of the Portland Orcgoiihn
an important fact.
Chief Engineer Kiim.-y di-elarcd that
the trans.ontiiictal feature of the Ooos
j Hay Railroad had lieen accepted and he
1 had lieen directisl to make locatiou of
the line through to Salt .Ijike City.
This acceptance, he said, provi.U for
IhiikUii the road at f bi.tKl) a mile, in
volving in round number f .i,(!(tii,tKMl,
tli.titiih the exact distance- l.eUve n Coos
Ray and Salt Lake City over the new
route has not yet leeii determined.
.More than thi , Mr. Kinney an
nounced that a railroad would be built
to reach between San Francisco and
Portland along the coast. Tnis will
not 1k a irt of his enterprise, but he
says it will be built by capital friendly
to the Cos "Ray-Salt I.ake line. It is
understood that it will lie an extension
of the California NorllAvestcni, which
now reaches northward from Sail Fran-
eisc Ray lo I'kiah, in Mendocino Coun
ty, a distance of 112 miles, and has a
line surveyed thiough to Eurela, on
llumlioldt Ray. Major Kinney snys he
has no knowledge of the dvtails of that
enterprise, but ho is assured it S; ill I hi
built. Tillamook Ray has leen men
tioned iu connection with it, and it may
be that Portland's railroad toTillj.nio-ik
will form a section of Cue througt coast
lineb 'tween Portland and San Francisco,
It is probable that during the CMiiing
i - t
Douglas county, in common with all
the Oregon country west of the Cascade
mo intain range, is a garden sot. The
geueral character of the soil in the val
ley is alluvial, deep, rich and produc
tive of grain, grasses and vegetables
coi imon to the tcmjierate zone. The
cot nty is jM culiarly adapted to shick-
raiiing, from the fact that domestic ani
mtls, cows and working horses, pick up
their own living in the open air all the
veeir round.
The county contains 24,000.000,000 feet
of standing timU-r, In the valleys aud
foothills oak is the dominant sjiecies.
The Castile and Coast Range mountain
sloM-s aro vast forests '( tir, pin an'd
celar. Iire tiiulnTed areas are abni"
the I'mpjua and its tributaries. Pong
la county has ipiartz t'nd placer mines.
' The remarkable character of the tim-
Ix-r land. of loiilas comity, has already
lns'11 ineiiti'.!!.-.! in the treating of Oos
count y.'whic'i it adjrtns The facilities
ii r harvesting the timlier pn.ltirtion of
the country are m far inferior to those
etisting in Co., w hich for a certain dis
tance inland and.cuvering an iiitrtant
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area is inlercte 1 by slonghs, - ruiit -
ling the navigation lumU-r craft or
the ll-..i:in ij rafts, that, except near
the Fii pjua rier and the line 4 Use
Soul hern Pacilic railr.!-! line, the for -
et have m.t lvn scarred bv the V of
iTiiMi om f.-vt h. in., which
were cut
and markete.1 last yeaK .
Tin- attention of the l.pu'ialten has
therefore ljeen turn"-l, naturally, to
those branches of industry that best re
pay the. cost 'A diilicnU transja-tatioii.
ithat while iu C there are three ami
one-half acre of improvel fiirni lanler
unit of Ki!alion, there are in I.nght
eiht and one-half acres to each jierson.
In the near prosvi of issesing rail
road facilities for the transportation of
lumber, there have lvn 33 tiniU-r
land entries iu the magnificent forests
of the county, for the past month.
Agriculture.
The annual average rainfall during
the Ltt tan years has been less than in
Go, which lies more directly on the
coast, where it was 47 inches, while in
fkmglas it was .". inches.
The soil is fertile and produces all
eraius, irrasvs ana r.ol crops. Mrn
makes a valuable crop in IVxiirla conn- i
tv. - Fruits, such as aj.4es, tears na
prunes, are now King shipped to Eat-
ern markets while, peaclieo. strawlr-
ries aud every other variety of 81lwll , tlie line of th SUiern Pacific nulnxid.
fruits are ship.ed to the nearest towns j "Hrr is a nionntain of nickel ore in si!i
andtothe neighboring states, and he-!" t,,r "r Ri'tdie, on the Southern
ing earlier here than in any other conn- Pneilic railnwd. Its extent and value
tv, find a ready and pn.fi table market. ! 'w Unn thoroughly tested by I nite.1
' Four million ve hundred thousand ' -ite t'overnmeut exjns and ethers.
Iuuds oX dried prunes were produced Californa rsons have Cnite.l States
in IWghia last year, aud all shipied patent to one thousand acres. Recent lr
winter the lines Jof the survey for the
Great Central w ill be suiliciently de
finite so that the driving of piles across
the southern end of Great Salt Rake for
tht eastern terminus of the line will In
come an accomplished fact. This an
nouncement iray l6 consider'-il 'authori
tative. Chief Engineer Kinney further
Slated that separate articles o Incof
1 oration for the Salt I.ako end would
1k filed in due coursu.
While Chief Engineer Kjnney is fol
lowing out his instructions to make or
manent location for the Grrat Central
roa 1, lie is too experienced a ' nan to
East. No statistics are at hand concern
ing the production of apples, peari, etc. ;
but the quantity has been large, and not
commensurate with the demand.
Dairying
Douglas county has an iniortaut cat
tle and livestock industry, but so small
a proportion of cleared land is devoted to
the pasture of milch cows that no mod
ern creameries have leen establi.-hcd,
'the farmers shipping their cream to
other .obits for manufacture, while
there is here green feed the year round
and four cro of alfalfa are raised in a
single season, wiui otner dairy . lora-'C
crops, without irrigation.
Strange a it mar appear, there are
few creameries and few silos, and yet
the region tributary to the- Southern
Pacific railroad line exported l.-mt year
50,000 i.onnds of butter.
Douglas county offers an ideal open
ing for practical dairymen to f-stablish a
lucrative business.
Mines and Oresl Douglas County.
jftMigias county is abun.lantly sup-
pliel with a gr.-at variety of niin-r.ii
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Scene on Coquille kiver Ureal Central
j Tin-early miner confiued his search for
j gold to the gulches, creeks and river
j channels, working over the grave! by
j prini'uive method, while now the same
! channels, including the aijacvnt bi'd-
; mdes and table lands, are d tted with
great hydraulic plant,, wrashiug oct
tHusaii.ls of dollars V the fewKince of
ydd dn?t nnder primitive roethol.
Jtiart.reefs extending the wi-hh of the
o.unty, from 'h to north, and cover
ing strip forty mile!' wide, are lving
ojm-l op many points. Conimies
have ln established and extensive
mills have beu erected in many places,
with all mleni appliances for saving,
(iw guld. Others are getting out I a-e
ores, containing pM, silver and copjer,
ranging in value fnim a few dollars j-er
ton on the surface, as they gt deepT
running into hundreds in many cases.
Tlieir further development is dependent
iion the advent of more capital to erect
smelters, of which there are at pre-ent
none in IVagla county.
Copper ores of high grade exist in jay
ing quan tit U-( in many districts. Rich
cinnabar iu paying quantities extends
over a great area of the conty. It has
lwvn Hoelled during the ast thirty
t i" the iiortlterxa .f tlie C"ntty,
ntl recently f.mnd near the south
"n o-miniary, in vow .reeK canyon, on
Logging Train on Coos Bay.
jump at cojtclusioiis. He sjiys that the
S'eliminary work will take at least
ree months. Inasmuch as railroads
cannot 1 built as rapidly as the public
expect or as quickly" as a line can be
drawn with a lead pencil on a map from
one poiut to another, it is probable, as
the chief engineer says, that active con
struction work is tint likely to lx-gln lie
ore next spring.
Our Infant Industries.
The output of nine Industries iu Ore
gon for V-Kf2 figures as follows !
dumber ;. lO.QOO.uoo
cropping? of the Kama metal have U-en
discovered in adjacent t.-rritory.
Chrome irr.n and Fmestone in great
abundance are f iund tnearthe nickel
ore.
Near Eoseburg ar exb-nsive lnnllTtA
rnarbhi, which for durability and varie
ty of beautifnl coloring rival the best
marbl.-H of Vermont att.l Tennesfce.
Several tf;ecim-3 tok fir.-t T!ze at the
Chicago Ei.o!tr.n in IS'C. pouIas
county has a mountain r f practk'alljr
puic hydraulic cement assaying 'M pr
cent.
The Cinpjua Coal l! Company lias
len forme. 1 lr-re, with a capital of
$ 100,00, to U.re for oil. Tj surface in
dicstiofis an l tln'jf'icti strata are as
favorable as in any of the California dis
tricts. The I'ljipij'ia Vali. y Oil Com
pany has a frM- !.;.-5 lx.ring plant in
o-ration at Myrtie C-k, twenty miles
south of Ro-ebiirj. TlnTe is every rea
"n to llieve that coal oil in faying
'ptantiiic can I- found in rcit-ral dis
trirts afljacent lo R-o?ir-( an I railroad
traiisr-rta!;on.
Wry strong ;ri-: ar- hcatel
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XtAruaj cnir:uy
n--ar th" rai!rod, wiii.-i
by p;ti;.-er setters l"-r t::
of sa't. in the early fe-.:
const v. Arraci-ijif-nts
v.ef UtilizetJ
e inamfartare
;.-me..t of this.
a now in
pr-gre-' for the insta!'a!i-::i tf a niol
ern pia-at to cake salt f r n.arkct.
Extent aiui Needs c-f Douss County.
D.dij? s cr-.nty Lsj x.p'iULon lit
H.'i", o.ver- a:i arei of :;,l-iO.-.0 aces,
and is a'-.ut r'ghty ruii. . w:-te frota
west t' e.ist- Ir .-rtt'emvat has been
stimulated by the or.s:mc;i"a of the
SM5thern Fa i jc li.ie. th-if:,:"! running
north and so;h a'..i;g tleextrtm
westrti Killer oi theo!i:y.
Tlie grand afiv-.!T .f county is
an east-an l-wet railr.xi.l lice that will
bring it prol;! ins of niiue. farta and
fon-st i.ito easy acc.sit.Hl;:y to Kie
coo.-t or an Eastern n.ark. t. B-t, not
withstanding ihe adverse conditions,
subject to envrn:o:s charges for iu
roun-Latwuit tmnspcrtati-n, ti:e rvng"jL3
ci.ur.ty tir, know n gr'teral'T as Orvn
pine, has won fr itself a same in lani
ber maikets, for obvious rea-vns, grow
ing as it does t cut market frt.m 3)
to 10 inches in diaa:eter an.1 1-) to 3X)
feel hih, the average l"rg W to 72
inches, and fnrnistiir.g bri-tge timbers
110f--et long, free from knMs, pi'.ch
rin-gs and all imirfectioi-.s. "
The tireat Cettral rii'.r.vi.l now build
ing from C j E.y and f f which wre
make mention elst.'where, will be a very
important factor iu build In it up the com
mercial acriru't-iral arid hr.nber bosi"
nes ! laughs county sn-l tlus road,
when in ojn-raiion, wou'd pay haalsome
divi i. n-Is (r-'in the hal business of
thi county indepn.lent and alone.
l.ie.t.-vk
(iraiil
Minerals
Hops
Flsn.,
Wool ,
Fruit
I "airy product..
V-COO-OH)
S.7 s,t,tXo
oIIO.iliM
;?..' K.tvo
.ts..t1J
:.'..'. coo
l.-t.vliX)
l,-V.000
Total.. ,..,.II.Cm0,OOO
tt will Iv secji iivm these uure that
lumber leads, w ith live.t.ick a close sec
ond and grain riht at the hevls oi the
HvestiH'k estimate
TheJII,0!,(V;a is c.,n.ii to .n for
every man, woman and child in the statv.