BUSY SCENES
AT SMITH MILL
Progress Seems the Keynote
Among the Army of Build
ers Employed.
MANY STRUCTURES RISING
THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON. SUNDAY. JULY 21, 1907.
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VisKors Cnu Find Good Indication of
Coos Hny's ExpiinRlon by In
specting the Works.
Few peoplo who have not been on
the ground realize the Importance
and extent of tho Improvements be
ing miule at tho edge of MarshfleW
by the Smith Lumber and Manufact
uring Company. Somo time since tho
Times published and oxetnded and
explanatory article on the coming of
the Smith Interests to tho Coos Bay
territory and this tlmo was accom
panied by a goneral and comprehen
sive description of the various build
ings and Improvements which this
company contemplated. Everything
which was then heralded as among
tho matters to become material at'
a no distant date, have either been
finished or are under forced con
- structlpn. Tho Smith Company are
builders and nothing is being left
undono that will hurry tho work
of preparing the large saw mill for
operation. Tho super-constructure on
this commenced on Wednesday of
last week, and the mill is fast assum
ing the appearance of a saw mill.
A visit to this vast center of act
tlvlty Is an eye-op5ner. There Is at
least a three arjfo itract occupied
by tho saw mill foundation and the
flooring for yardage and other ac
cessories, and Mr. Moreen, the mana
ger, said the building was not fin
ished, and the extension would go
on for some tlmo. A pile driver Is
on tho ground driving plies for ad
dftional flooring. Tho dockage is
piled high with machinery; lumber
is constantly coming by barge from
the other side, tho old mill; drafting
nuartors are established; a black
smith shop occupies a convenient
location on the wharf; a small band
saw and a circular saw are running
MALES BEING RELEGATED
Females Arc Crowding Them Out of
What Were Formerly Mens'
EvcIuhIvo Spheres.
The census reports for 1900, when
l rfololl will alinur
nilhllaha1
in another bulldim? fm- ,m.-..
work; carponters are mortising and
preparing tho hugo timbers for erect
ion; workmen aro hurrylnK horn nnH
thorn with Imnmr. .i . . .
:;.,;, " ," """ ,u,,UU!r Ior "Mieir review siimnmrij
structure; gasoline boats are Divine iib iir frim..
ow- overvT","? I Wlt" ,:1C8 'n "ni C''or,s of Mutational Civic
Z'JZ J y 8 t0 bU8y t0 B,V0 ft,flt''on l.ato rosultcd In a Corn
reporter a woo minutes time for Mom of a nmrinnns. whose first in
asking questions, and the general aln.o t In this Hvo Hgatlon, as In nil
of activity would do any Mdrahileld.. 3 to do what thoy may to pre
cltlzen good If ho could see it. rv, and continue the American Idea
Tho boarding house, of threo stor-nrt American Institutions,' belioving
ics, was long slnco completed and 1b (,.... r .
.kouslne Ifmm, fi.,. . ....... uiiiiomy rauu.
, w . ., i-f. -;iitu tu 1 11 1 i y
men. This Btands on the bluff at the
west edge of tho tide lands.
Here is tho slto of tho office build
ing, which is to bo threo stories with
a concrete foundation. Last week It
wa3 announced that tho foundation
was completed and the upper work
would begin tho following day. Tcu
oxport carpenters aro busy on this
work. This building is to housn tin?
h.islnnsx nnrt r t, ..., n ,"oA- Wc "oliove that, "the remedy
. ..,. wluvaut aioul(, be ai,1)IIed and thQ cur(J ef
Interests. The first floor will containlctod without any unnecessary de
the offices; the second, the bank andirturo from Mm Amort,. i.inn ni
nttiriH nfflnnnl 41. 11.1 1 il mtm
,.. Uiu, uiu unra. me araumgio American system. Wo bellevo
rooms and club rooms; In tho base-lnt tho framework upon 'which may
ment there will be bowling alleys built purity of administration and
and other amusements for the oflceie highest possible good of the clti
force. Tho basement Is concrete asms is In existence with us, and that
alroady stated, and in It Is built the s not necessary, In tho effort to
largo vault for tho books and recodsjro the Ilia from which the body
of tho company. tIitic may be suffering, to destroy
A plank roadway has been built
from the mill site to the higher
ground where the office and board
ing house are located, and besides
this, there is a walk leading between
the two locations.
On tho other side of tho Inlet is
the old mill, sawing to Its regulation
capacity and furnishing lumber for
tho upbuilding taf Marshflold and
adjacent towns. Another boarding
house (was 'erdcted hero and this
employes.
Mr. Smith said his payroll was a
thousand dollars per day. In a speech
at the Chamber of Commerce meet
ing last week, and any one who has
the extent of work going in there
would not doubt the statement.
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make a strictly professional combi
nation sufficient to get into the 50,
000 class.
This tablo gives tho 19 occupa
tions with 50,000 women workers,
and the percentage of the total of
4,883,G30 breadwinners In each
class:
Occupations Number Pet.
Servants and waiters. 1, '16 5,5 61 24.1
Farm laborers 466,405 9.4
Dressmakers 338,114
Laundresses ....... 328,935
Teachers 327,200
Farmers 307,706
Textile mill hands. . . 231,458
Housekeepers .' 146,929
Saleswomen 142,265
Seamstresses 138,724
Nurses 108,691
Laborers 106,916
To understand Just how the wo,
man who works Is progressing it is
worth while remembering that
among tho domestic servants, nurses,
fn launary workers, dressmakers, milli
ners, boarding and lodging house
keepers, house-keepers and stewards,
and seamstresses tho women Tar out
number the men. This Is natural, for
these are tho purely feminine occu
pations In which tho housewife has
merely broadened her life in the di
rection of working for others, and
generally for other women.
But there are other occupations
where the women have driven the
men to the wall. There are two
notable instances, the teachers and
tho typewriters, In which class is In
cluded of course the stenographers.
Teaching not so long ago was ex
clusively a man's work. He Imparted
instruction and wielded the rod In
about equal quantities. Then the
women started In to teach the child
ren and the child was taught at Its
mother's knee. The result is start
ling. According to the census figures
there were in 1900 327,206 women
and only 118,481 men engaged as
teachers in schools and colleges. In
other words, nearly three-fourths of
all tho teaching In tho United States
was done by women. Today the per
centage of three women to one man
Is probably below tho average.
Less than two generations ago
when Robert II. Hitt, later a dis
tinguished member of congress, re
ported the debates between Lincoln
and Douglass for the Chicago Tri
bune, almost every stenographer In
tho world was a man. Now the cen
sus reports show 85,086 women and
only 25,794' men as stenographers
C. A. Sehlbrcde, who returned
from Portland on the Alliance, was
in tho Rose City at the height of
the cherry season. He brought with
him a box of cherries as examples
of what Is produced In tho neighbor
hood of Portland. They were fine
samples and somo were an Inch and! Musicians and music
a half In diameter. Tho Times force j teachers 52,010 1.1
disponed of the fruit In a manner be-1
fitting tho quality. 4,293,894 88.8
Typewriters
Milliners
Clerks
Book-keepers
Tailors
Boarding and lodging
85,086
82,926
81,000
72,896
61,571
59,455
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6.8
6.8
6.4
4.8
3.0
2.9
2.9
2.2
2.2
1.8
1.7
1.7
1.5
1.3
1.2
and typewriters, tho women outnum
bering the men in the proportion of
more than three to one.
In the textile mills the sexts are
represented about evenly but there
are four times as many women as
men engaged in boxmaking, and In
almost every lino of Industrial work,
except those Involving the exercise
of great strength, the man Is com
plaining of tho competition of tho
woman.
Were It not for tho marriages
which transfer tho woman from tho
Bhop to the home there Is no telling
how complete the Industrial subju
gation of the man might become In
the near future.
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"North Bend Its Payroll Talks
"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or
make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his
house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path, to iiis
dcor "RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Just now empire builders are building iron-shod paths to the commercial door of North Bend
because its factories have the frieght to ship, and their payroll talks
Like seeks like Is an eternal law of naxure Although but imperfectly recognised, as
absolute This same law holds good in buijfcling of factories A factory is built always at
that point where there are fewest obstacles tojbe overcomejwhere tributary raw materials are unlim
ited and markets unrestricted If this holds ood inrfne case it will hold good in several- rWn
: t a
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 hue
for a hundred more.. Factories make payrolls, these in turn create business houses which invite banks, jobbers, graders 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 a beaten path to our door because we have the best bargains in North Bend realestate
. DIER.S LAND COP ANY
NORTH BEND, OREGON
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