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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1907)
IHE DAILY COOS MAY TIMES, AtAltSHFIlttib, oilRtibft, TUESDAY, ArRIL 23, 1007. mmmmm -v JfiMi' WI1MAVE' BIG'WHARf Railroad is Contemplating , Some Extensive Igipcov.ements on The Water Front. HAVE FIFTY PLAT CARS Have Been Ordered To Use In Sink ing Shipments From Coqtilllc Country. The Coos Bay Roseburg and East ern Railway and Navlgatlpn com pany has made arrangements for ex tensive Improvements to be finished Just as soon as It 1b possible to get material and more rolling stock. Mr. Chandler has ordered GO mqro flat cars. They are badly i needed to handle lumber shipments from the Coqullle valley. The cars are ex pected soon. The present wharf Is to be extend ed until It reaches the bunkers at one end and the limit of the railroad water front right of way on the east. The west end of the new improve ment is tot bo finished by the first of July and whon It Is all completed the company will have a half mile of wharf on deep water, which will be none too much to accomodate the vessels wanting to load at the same time. The present wharf will accom odate three large schooners nt a time. The present warehouse on the wharf is to be removed and n new one constructed at the extreme west end of the new wharf. The new building wjll be 50x600 feet In di mensions and will be so arranged with slips that the Breakwater and other large vessels can be unloaded much faster than under the present arrangement. When the new wharf is completed there will be three tracks running its entire length. Two of these will be used almost exclusively for lum ber cars. There will bo ample switches to make boat loading more easy. , The work of constructing the new wharf will commence just as soon as piles can bo procured. Owing to the bad weather of the past month it has been Impossible to work In the woods and no piles can bo secured. RAILROADS MUST REPORT ACCIDENTS Oregon Commission Hns Made nn Order Under Provision of the New Act. Salem, Ore., April 22. An order has been made by the railway com mission of Oregon regarding the making of reports in cases a( acci dents according to the provisions of section CC of tho act creating the commission. Tho section leads as follows: "Every railroad shall, whenever an accident attended by loss of hu man life or limb, or with serious in Jury to person or property, occurs within this state upon its line of road or in Its depot grounds or yards, give immediate notice thereof to the com mission, stating the particulars thereof." The order provides, in substance, that every railroad shall at once send telegraph notice of tho accident to the commission at his office at Salem, giving all particulars avail able at the time the dispatch is sent; that the dally reports made on form No. 2 should be forwarded to Salem as sooii after the dispatch as posslblo and that the monthly summary acci dent reports be sent to the commis sion within the first ten days of tho ensulngmonth. The various railway companies are requested to notify their dispatchers and have them com ply with the order of the commission. FRANCE MAY GET CONGO Rumor That King Leopold Will Cede the African Holdings. Paris, April 22. A dispatch from Brussels says there Is a rumor that King Leopold of Belgium will offer to cede tho Congo Independent State to Franco forthcoming an Interview at Paris with President Falliores. France enjoys the right of pre-emption in Congo under the treaty of Berlin which treaty gavo Leopold the right and power to dispose of tho Congo state during his lifetime. Banking: Favors And courteous treatment are the undisputed right of every depositor in this bank there nre nn number of them willing to testify to these facts! Can you not add your name to our list? Informa tion cheerfully given by every officer and director of the bank. First National Bank of Goos Ba' JOHN 3. COKE, President O. B. IlLVSDALE, Vtce-I'restdont W. 8. MoVARLAXD, feuhler l.-ta.v California and Oregon Coast Steamship ''Company. Steamer Alliance KELLY, Commanding. SAILING FKOM COOS BAY to Portland and Return GEO. D. GRAY a CO., General'agents, 421 Market St.. San. Francisco. L. W. SHAW, Agent, , Marhfipld. Phono 44) r i The Old Corner Grocery Will be open for business Monday, . April 22d"' Give me a Call PHONE 1891 JAS. L HIBBARD, FRotanstoR Corner 4th and C Streets ''kaaa M. F. PLAN 1 4 Sails for San Francfs'coMondayA April 15 F. S DOW Ageittf A MARSH FIELD, OREGON The Steamer v rTTcwt rTnr-iTi in 1 J .' A IX 'W'cAJ kik I k B I ' k Bk. ml w " i H 7i l k Je ': -f Sails for San Francisco - direct Satufda "AphT' 27th, at 10 a. m. Nfr n H tMt bor freight and passage apply1 To FMc COLLUM. y s IT f F St i THE CITY' OF b COOS j A jk&J DW1 j a ? 'J 'V w ON THE MArNJUAND; ' In Full View of Marshfield . , . Plat B And North'-Bend.? , . j Where Rail md Sail Will Meek 4 It will pay you to Inspect- thisvNew Townsite ' It Has:-1 One and brie half miles 'water -front. '' l . 150 acres tideland sites for mills arid factories. ' On deep water-eaaQhannel'of Goos 'River.' l 3000'platted Iotss5e5xl20: Streets 100 feet and 6t feet widealleys '20 feet. LOTS 35.00 TO $350.00 Take our launch, 4 ' Coos Bay Townsite Co; , N. F. THRONE, Sec, Marshfield, Ore. ! 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