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THL DAILY (JOOS BAY TIMES. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1908.
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41x months $2.50
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COOS BAY DAILY TIMES
Marsbfield Oregon
the form of three immense steam
drums and receivers for the purpose
of carrying what might be termed
the surplus steam. Two of these
drums in the boiler room are 3G inch
es In diameter and 24 feet long.
The other is In the engine room.
These drums are for tho purpose of
obviating vibration in tho shafting
and machinery caused by the varying
demands made on tho power as tho
many machines are in operation or
temporarily shut down.
mill of tho C. A. Smith Lumber and lno engine room, 47 y2 leet long
Manufacturing Company. It is really bv 371'2 feet wide, contains two 800
doubtful if the peoplo of Marshfleld ll0rsc power Corliss engines running
or Indeed of Coos Bay, realize tho independently and belted direct out
immense significance of this mill, and to thc mam shat with 48-inch,N3-
ti.ni,. nwn irronf Pnnd fnrtunn In hav- Plv leather bolts.
COOS HAY'S WOKK OF GENIUS.
Another column contains a de
tailed description of tho famous saw
G. A. SMIL ILL
(Continued from page 1.)
ing It located among them. It Is a
distinction which in Itself should be
BUfllclent to make Coos Bay famous,
oven if this remarkable region had
not several other extraordinary fea
tures. Tho C A. Smith saw mill, as
it is familiarly called, is In fact the
most complete piece of mechanism
of Its kind in tho world. Marshfleld
people would do well to ponder on
this statement, for it is one which
Hero also is located a 75-kllowat
dynamo that supplies the entire plant
with its own electric lights. In tho
main mill on both floors these lights
are neatly arranged in long reflectors.
Tho Sorting Shod.
Tho sorting shed Is 402 feet long
by OS feet wide. An overhead sorter
has been installed, the first on the
Pacific coast. This consists of an
overhead runway, with openings of
the various board lengths. On this
nnv nthor p.itv would nnnrcclato is
an advertising asset which could not "y the lllmber travels on chains
bo overrated. Paris, New York. ' unt" lt reaches an aperture corres
Chlcago, Boston, San Francisco and loud,nS wlth "s length and drops
all the rest of the famous cities, when throuf to a Plorm below. Here
they have an exceptional and unusual
institution exclusively their own,
mm lot he world sleep until it
knows all about it. Paris founded
its Eiffel towei ; New York proclaims
her statue of Liberty; Chicago had
tho Ferris wheel; Boston never
ceased to put Bunker Hill monu
ments in literature, and San Fran
cisco never ceased talking of the
Palaco hotel until the Are made a
wreck of It. Yet Marshfleld has in
tho C. A. Smith mill a more remark
able, useful and interesting feature
titan any other city. Jjld
Tho C. A. Smith mill, located at
the mouth of Isthmus Inlet, comes
nearer being an automaton in tho
manufacture of lumber than any
other mill In tho United States, not
excepting the Smith mill of Minne
apolis, which, beforo this one was
completed was entitled to that dis
tinction. The truth Is that tho Min
neapolis plant, although larger, has
been the school of Its ownor and his
oxport mechanic, In which they were
educated to that conception which
thoy have developed and placed in
material form on tho Pacific coast
and in this city. This mill Is the
marvol and tho mystery of all who
seo lt, and is looked upon by saw
mill men who understand it as a sen
Batlon and a revolution In tho manu
facture of lumber. It is th eclosest
approach to perfection of any liko
concern on the round earth. It is
tho most effective labor-saving ag
gregation of devices over put into
operation on wood. Yet Is Is an
economic necessity, for it has arrived
when ah tho world begins to realize
that tho timber resources of all na
tions are Hearing exhaustion, and
whon It is Important to mako every
stick of timber count. This mill is
located in tho most beautiful of fields
and In tho forests whoso virginity
remains well nigh untouched. Not
this year, not next, nor yet tho fol
lowing, will its superior bo Installed,
but whon the lumber of tho coast
moves In a vast stream through tho
Panama canal to eastern and Euro
pean markets, tho exceeding wisdom
of tho greatest of all tho world's
economists among lumber kings will
bo justified, both in his ingenious
mill and his judicious location of it.
Tho Coos Bay country has mighty
forests of spruce nnd nine over
fifty billion feet of timber and thero
is in southwestern Oregon ten per
cent of tho uncut timber of tho
United States. Tho giant fir two
hundred feet in height nnd frequent
ly twolvo feet In diameter will not
bo wasted in tho futuro as in tho
p k The giant log which floats to
tho Smith mill will pass with but
slight touch of tho human hand, and
bo caught up in tho mazes of its
mechaniBm nnd, as it muV03 to its
fate, each useful strip, plank, beam,
spnr and Bllver will go as if instlnct
ivo with life and possessed with In
telligence to Its own proper placo.
It Is probable that this ono mill will
employ In itb ut .,',u a - ..i l.a
logKlng work about S00 uo.i. It Is
moro than prnbnbl ' luit tl, .ash and
door factory and i-i ht mr . inur
ing auxiliaries which tho Smith com
pany will interest othors iu installing
will employ a thousand moro men.
urn ono sees whnt tho Simpson
mills ut North Bend have done for
tlu i cl.y, It ia not hard to understand
what tho Smith mill means. But
Min I'.ileld ah on Id not fall to realize
that sho has tho distinction ot being
tho homo of tho most complete a,v
mlM In the world, and that tho oyea
ot nil tho saw mill mou on tho coast,
not to say tho United States, aro upon
hor, Let hor bo proud, and let her
not "hido her light under a bushel."
a grader stands and marks tho lum
ber, which is loaded on small cars
running on steel tracks which carry
it to the yards to be piled and dried,
or direct to the docks to bo loaded
on ships.
Flro Protection.
Tho entire mill and plant is pro
tected from fire by a carefully
planned water system which in
cludes an automatic sprinkling de
vice with pipes running like spider
webs to every nook and corner of the
mill. These pines are sunnlled with
a water tank holding 50,000 gallons
'erected on a steel pyramid 95 feet
from the ground and 25 feet above
tho highest point of the sprinkling
system, thus giving it ample pressure
at all times. This tank is supplied
by two duplicate pumps, each with a
capacity of 1,000 gallons per minute,
ono so arranged that it may be con
nected with a pipe leading to the
bay, thus giving use of salt water in
case of lire.
Pumping Station.
The pump and oil house consists of
a separate concrete building. 31 by
17 feet.
In addition to tho fire protection
system pumps there are also two
duplicate pumps, each with a capacity
of 900 gallons per minute, to supply
the boilers from a fresh water reser
voir.
Machine Shop and Planing Mill.
Tho planing mill is 1C8 by 100
feet, equipped with eight planing ma
chines, including band u'osaw and
driven by a four hundred horse power
Corliss engine, taking steam through
a six inch pipe from tho saw mill
boiler COO feet distant.
Tho machine shop, when complet
ed, will bo Gl feet by 170 feet. It
will be equipped to handle any work
or machinery which may bo required
in tho baw mill and keeping it in re
pair. Railway locomotives and log
ging engine equipments are also pro
vided for In this department.
Olllco Building.
In Its olllco building and appur
tenances the C. A. Smith Lumber &
Manufacturing Co. gives evidence of
tho embodiment of the now idea In
modern industries. This building is
a substantial and beautiful structure
84 feet long by 44 feet wide and
threo stories high, with full base
mont. Tho front room on tho first floor
is occupied by tho accounting de
partment and bookkeepers. A bit of
artistic eleganco that lends a touch
of beauty to prosaic businosB life, is
an lmmonso open flro place with man
tel on tho Bouth sldo of tho room.
Oack of this is tho prlvato ofllco of
vieo-rrcsiuont and Manager J. B.
Oren. Back of. this tho ofllco of Gon
eral Superintendent Arno Mereen.
I'ho romaindor of tho first floor is oc
Juplod with offices and a largo steel
auJ concroto vault that is started in
who basonient and continues to tho
.eeoud floor.
On tho second floor Is tho dining
room and kitchen Included in tho
'onernl term of tho commissary de
partment. Hero all tho members of
tho executive staff and ofllco force
iro furnished excellent meals. On
his floor are alto a number of sleep
lug rooms, Including tho prlvato
apartments for President C. A. Smith
and members of his family, consist
ing of parlor and two bedrooms nnd
provided with a private bath. Thoro
Is also n guest chamber and a sep
arate bath room for tho other occu
pants. President Smith's apartments nro
finished throughout In tho beautiful
Myrtlo wood from Coos county for
ests and ndds to them an nlr of olo
ganco thnt Is most attractive.
On this floor thore Is aUo th pub
lic parlor, library nnd reading room.
This room is large, bright and cheer
ful and with comfortable chairs that
Invite to ease and rest give It the air
of a private club.
On the next floor is tho billiard
room provided with billiard and pool
tables for the omployes, the drafting
room for architects and mechanical
engineers, and additional sleeping
apartments.
In the basement Is a fine bowling
alley provided with" two regulation
alleys In which a gamo may be played
at any time, and one is usually In
progress after ofllco hours.
Everywhere in this great manu
facturing institution thero Is evidence
of careful planning and assiduous at
tention to economic handling of ma
terial and labor in the various pro
cesses through which logs pass in
their evolution to the finished pro
duct. This is meant merely as de
scriptive of the mill without touch
ing on the economic methods which
such a mill will make possible. In
this feature lt Is a more than valu
able acquisition to the manufacturing
Industries of Coos Bay. As a model
mill of its kind it will herald the tid
ings of Coos Bay to many sections.
Mere figures do not convey tho
eloquent story that their significance
embodies. Some figures of the ma
terial used in tho construction of the
mill will aid in understanding the
size and solidity of it. The founda-
tlon of the power plant alone weighs
700 tons and rests on piles driven to
bed rock. In addition to the 5,000,
000 feet of lumber, 3500 piles and
great quantities of rock and-cement
enter into the construction of the
plant. More than 100 car loads of
material were brought from the east
to Portland and thence by steamer to
Coos Bay. Seven car loads of steel
rails alone for trackage for the small
cars about tho mill have already
been received. There is at
present about 7 miles of track
built in and around the mill for the
small lumber cars, everything being
handled in this manner. When in
complete operation there will be
about 15 miles of track and 1000
cars for this single feature. There
will be enough of these cars to hold
a full cargo of lumber.
The Construction.
The plant has been practically
originated, designed and built within
a year. The general plan was out
lined by Mr. C. A. Smith and his
General Superintendent Arno Mereen
assisted by the following members of
the executive force of the construc
tion department.
J. E. Stack, Master Mechanic.
N. Roy, Assistant Master Mechanic.
Roy Morrill, Scratcher.
James Bennett, Chief Engineer.
Draughtsmen B. B. Ostlind, II.
M. Webber, E. Stack.
C. H. Jenkins, Assistant Civil En
gineer.
In finishing tho work Superintend
ent A. Demangeon, and O. E. Gag
non, saw mill foreman In Minneapo
lis, have assisted since their arrival
three months ago.
Where Logs Come From.
The logs for the mill are being
furnished by tho Smith-Powers Log
ging Co., of which Mr. A. H. Powers
is vice-president and general manag
er, and G. A. Brown, bookkeeper.
The names of tho other members
of the executive and ofllco force of
the C. A. Smith Lumber & Manufac
turing Co. are given at tho head of
this article.
Tho opening of this mill marks a
new epoch In the development of tho
latent resources of Coos Bay. That
It will realize to tho fullest extent tho
fond dreams of Its builder Mr. C. A.
Smith and the capablo men who are
aiding by their best efforts to mako
his dream possible and that lt will
long continue to bo a prominent fac
tor in the commercial and manufac
turing world of tho Pacific coast is
tho hearty, earnest and sincere wish
of The Times and in this wish it but
voices tho wishes and hopes of this
ontlro community.
Infra i ibi i !! mcanragnH
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a lino of garments a llttlo moro
nobby, a llttlo moro individual
than tho average clothing, get tho
ADLEK COLLEGIAN CLOTHES.
All suits pressed and all necessary
alterations made beforo leaving
the store.
In sending for a suit made to
your measure you will do well to
placo your order with me as I will
bo responsible for tho fit as I am
a tailor and' understand how to
take your measure and to give tho
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Flanagan & Bennett Bank
MARSHFIELI), OREGON
Capital Subscribed $50,000
Capital Paid Up $10,000
Vi.riWided Profits $35,000
Docs a general banking business and draws on tho Hank of
California, Sim Francisco, Oil., First National Hank Portland,
Oregon, First National Bunk, Hoseburg, Oregon, Hanover Na
tional Hank, New York; N. M. Rothschild. & Son, London, Eng
Also sell change on nearly nil the principal cities of Eu
rope. Accounts kept subject to check, safe deposit lock boxes
for rent at 50 cents a month or $5.00 a year. '
st Paid on Time Deposits
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Post Card View .
Of the Smith Mill
AVo imic eight special souvenir
cards of the C. A. Smith .Mill.
Just the thing to send your
eastern and western friends to
show what wo hnve on Coos
Hay. They would ho very ap
propriate to go with a copy of
The Times if you send one
away. AVo also have 80 other
local post card views. Be n
hooster. Mail a card to your
friends.
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Your account will bo appreciated by the bank, and your
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Our funds are guarded by a modern burglar-proof safe in
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Our officers are experienced bankers. Our directors aro all
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If you arc not a customer of this hank, let this he your in
vitation to become one.
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SATURDAY GUARANTEE SNAPS.
60x150 Front street property, with
water front, $8,500.
2 lots In East Marshfleld, suitable
1 block on Sherman avenue, 200
feet square, $2,200.00.
200 feet on Virginia street, North
Bond, $2,000.00.
150 feet on Sherman avenue, Por
ter Addition, $1,000.00,
Lots in Boise Addition, $75.00 to
$100,00, easy terms.
117- aero Coos River ranch with
SO acres river bottom, well improved
with houso and bnrn, $15,750; easy
terms.
2 lots on Main and Hamilton
nreets, North Beud, 50x120 each, fori.L
1000.00 for tho two.
1 lot on Stanton adjoining Coos
Bay Brewery Co., North Bend, $750.
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Therefore by keeping tho
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your measure for one.
And for pressing and repair
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The largest capitalized and paid-in capital of any bank in
Coos county, and, from depositors' standpoint, as well safe
guarded. Operating under new state law, it has broader privileges to
extend to customers than under any other banking charter, and
publicity as to its standing and condition is required, as well as
having good bank supervision by a state bank examiner.
Special attention is called to the Savings accounts, which
nro received as low as $1.00, and upon which interest is paid.
We solicit your business and invite your attention to its
officers and directors.
John S. Coke, President. ,M. O. Horton, ATico President and Mgr.
Dorsey Kreltzer, Casliier.
S. O. Rogers. AV. S. Chandler, .. . .AVilliam Grimes
C. A Tower, . . Henry Sengstucken, . . John F. Hall.
Commenced business October 21, 1907.
AVe will receive your money for taxes and procure your tax
receipt and deliver same to you free of charge.
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