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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1907)
AP" 3 T' "VW T v "V TkwWSJBCVP swim vtj.f ' ' 'ifTKiy- "Br'r"' THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSBYIELD, ORE03N, SATURDAY, JUNE IB, 1007. H OBSERVATION EXGURSIO Will Go to Bandon-by-lhe-Sea And Sunset City Sunday June 23rd. FLEET OF RIVER BOATS Honflro TtiitliiiiK cw Luxury Tents for Ituth Rooms on tlic Rcucli. What promises to be the greatest excursion ever run out of Marshfleld and North Bend will go to Bandon-by-the-sea and Sunset City, Sunday, June 23, a week from next Sunday. It was at first decided to have this excursion tomorrow, but the Eagles' picnic to Charlston Bay came on that day and the manager postponed his excursion one week. The bills announce: "The Finest Observation Train Excursion Ever Seen on the Pacific Coast." When a Times reporter questioned this the excursion agent got red in the face and hot under the collar and said: "I will make good everything I adver tise 'and then some.' " The open cars of the C. B. It. & E. Ry. are to be comfortably seated and decorated with evergreens. The Denver & Rio Grande Railway spends thousands of dollars every year advertising its ob servation car through the canons of Colorado. And this much advertised observation car Is nothing elso but an old flat car furnished with seats. If one measly flat is good enough for "See America Ftrst" tourists in the centennial state, I guess ten open cars comfortably seated and decorat ed with overgreons ought to be good enough for Coos Bay people to see Bandon Beach, which is as much more picturesque and unique than Colorado's famous Garden of the Gods, as the Pacific Ocean is superior to the alkali fiats of the arid state. "All sunshine makes the desert" Is an old Arabian porverb. Coos county has enough moisture in her atmos phere to prevent you breathing in dust and spitting out mud balls. All the passenger boats of the Co qullle Itlvor Steamboat company havo been chartered for this excursion, the "Dispatch," "Liberty," and "Favor ite." To give you an idea of this fleet of excursion boats it is only necessary to say that the "Dispatch" carries tluco times aa many passen gers as any boat on Coos Bay and this by government inspection. The ride clown the Coquillo Itiver Is well worth the price of the excur sion. Not only the beautiful land scape of hill and dale, but the banks of the winding river are decorated by the Great Landscape Architect of the Universe with a profusion of myrtle, ferns and sweet smelling shrubbery with wild flowers of every description blossoming with beauty. Get away from the town and its factories for a day's outing and in vito your soul to the inspiration that any lover of nature enjoys with a thrill of rapture. The business man can see a pro cession of log booms that reaches al most from Coquillo to Bandon with eight logging railorads to feed the hungry sawmills that cat up a thous and logs every day and in their fury spit out sawdust by the wagon load and breathe hot steam from fiery lungs. See Riverton and Staplcton, rivals for the Drain and Coos Bay railway; both of which have it surveyed, lo cated, and all but built. See the thriving Price shipyard that is now building four ocean steamers that stands on ground that had not a ten penny nail at the be ginning of the year. See Cody's landing and logging railway and further down the river, on the edge of Bandon, see the great Cody 100,000 feet sawmill ncaring completion. Adjoining it will be built the $250,000 pulp and paper mill1 for which Bandon's hustling, enterprising citizens raised $50,000. We have passed Prosper and its mill, Aberdeen and its industries and have not mentioned them. But greater than all is Bandon it self, with Its woolen mill that has orders for Its famous woolens IS months ahead. See the Government Life Saving Station butting up against the principal hotel, almost in the heart ,of the city-on-the-sea. But greater than all Bandon Beach with its water-worn statuary-chiseled by the waves-so that a natural philos opher, with the gift of seeing things, can see the shape of every animal from the monkey to the lion and up to tho elephant. There are squaws, bucks and papooses and hunchbacks. The beef eaters that guarded the tower of London, Gog and Magog are there. And there are caves, arches and natural bridges, such as is to be seen nowhere else all carved by waves. And there are miles of sand beach as level as a billiard tabic, and at Sunset City temporary bath houses are being erected so that men and women can take a dip in the Pacific. A huge bonfire of the driftwood will be built so that you can take a bath comfortably In a hall storm. The Bandon Concert Band tho best band In any city in the United States thc size of Bandon, will give two grand concerts on the Beach for excursionists. Fare for the round trip including bathing, concerts and all, $1.50. Observation train leaves at 8 a. m. Returning boats leavo Bandon at G p. m. Train arrive at Marshfleld 8 p. m. See Bandon Beach and Sunset City and Live. NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS Wo are pleasea to nnnounco that Foley's Honoy and Tar Tor Coughs, colds and lung troubles is not affect ed by tho National Pure Food and Drug law as It contains no opintes or other harmful drugs, and wo roc commend it as a safe remedy for children and adults Red Cross Pharmacy. The Steamer i M. VF. PLAINT Sails for San Francisco Firday June 21 DOW Agent MARSHFIEbD, : : : 'OREGON run lirirriTTaT nrjnwmrriTiir -- n mini ibiiii i npim umiw MARSDEN'S COOS BAY BOTTLING WORKS ROYAL SELECT GAMBRINUS BOTTLED BEER Bottled in Quarts, Pints and One Half Pints. Phone Orders promptly attended to. Phone 481. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF COOS Bi is tho policy of this ha ... . -H i . . .... BAY x It is tho policy of this hank to confine ilfs busi ness to this immediate vicinitv. Iiriollowiiie this course tho bank not only inhances itsown Stability but promotes tio highest interests of the commun ity. Wo limit our investments to securities of the most substaiiualydnd; such securities asare easily converted info cash and free from speculative in fluences. We issue drafts payable in all the im portant cities and towns in Europe. .JOHN S. COKE, President O. B. HINSDALE, Vice Pres. W.S. McFAILAND, Cashier. R. T. KAUFMAN, Asst. Cas. California and Oregon Coast Steamship' Company. Steamer Alliance coos GEO. D. GIU 121 Market 1 t V aJJ ilk 1$. D. OLSON, Master. SAILING FROM iY to Portland aiid Return .J. .v.. . ,yY a COJ, General ngents, ,. W. H11AW, Agent, t.. San Francisco. 1 Mnrshfickl. Phono 441 JL 1 gMMM,1MIIMBMBMgBWWMIIBWBgaPJWPWBlW"" II I '""" V A nice line of Souvenir Postals of Marshfield NORTON & HANSEN I Coos . , Residence and Farming Property A snad 40 acres on Catchine1 Inlet A Wles from citv 15 acresv bottom land under dyke. 40 acreson County Road 4 mile fromXcity $18 per acre ForVurther parUcuIdfs call on F. N.RummelIJr. 8c Co. Nasburg tfldg. COOS BAY MONUMENTAL WORKS We guarantee butter voik at lower priccB, thnn can be had ulsewheie. Bo not order monumental work until you havo SEEN US Stewart & Mitchell Corner 3d & D Sts. Phone, Main 1731 I I I EB "'T- ' -.-Sv"' j m i- ra nii mi i i ii inrmrnirnrr hi I liyRTriTTrVT) -r rait--i--K3---M UEamganmmMma ra338S?Bsft'aiKrei if i i m n-imr jfiM mmmmmmkA Payroll "If a man can write a better book oreach a better sermon or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his Vr4 n w rt ttrrtrtrtfi ' ! - TwlyJ ---11 4i-'- V t 4- "ri rA rt e 1 uuuat 111 nit. wuuut uiit, wuuu win jli-cu-C a utautii uaui i 1110 door' RALPH WALDO EMERSON " ? " v " Just now empire builders are building iron-shod paths to the commercial door of North Bend bcause its factories hae the frieght to ship, and their payroll talks Like seeks like Is an eternal law of nature Although butimperfectly recognised, is absolute This same law holds good in building of factories A factory is built always at that point where there are fewest obstacles to be overcome where tributary raw materials are unlim ited and markets unrestricted If this holds good in one case it will hold good Mn severala dozen or a hundred North Bend but a few years ago had one factory, soon it had several, now there are a dozen, and the raw materials are here for a hundred more. Factories make payrolls, these in turn create business houses which invite banks, jobbers traders and trans portation facilities, and all go to the making of a city because "Its Payroll Talks' which creates a demand for real estate There is bea fir j 1 1 to our door because we have th? best bargains in North Bend real estate M R.S LAND COMPANY NORTH BEND, OREGON t si 3f V II