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COOS BAY
1 Government Engineer's Review
of Work Done and
Projected.
PAYS' TRIBUTE TO
FUTURE OF PORT.
Recommendations For $500,-
000 Appropriation For
Dredging.
Copies of the reports and letters
concerning the proposed Improve
ment of the harbor and channel of
C003 Bay, which were submitted to
Congress a few weeks ago, have just
been received on Coos Bay and aro
of much interest here. The report Is
printed and Includes the communica
tions which passed between the of
fice of the chief of U. S. engineers
and Col. S. W. Rocssler, engineer in
charge of the government work on
the Pacific coast.
The matter Is of decided interest
as It will be taken up shortly after
congress convenes again. The report
and recommendation for the im
provement on Coos Bay was sub
mitted to the last congress about
ten days before the adjourn
ment, too late to secure action then.
Col. Roessler Includes a brief hls-
K, torv of the nrovlous improvement
work on the harbor and bar. The
North jetty cost $700,000 and the
little dredging of the interior chan
nel about $40,000. He states that
the outer 1,000 feet of the jetty was
raised by placing 209,000 tons of
stone on It in 1900 to a height of 20
to 29 feet above low water. The
width of the exterior of the jetty was
35 feet at tho highest point, 100 feet
at low tide level and 200 feet at
the base. In tho six years follow
ing the completion of the work, the
force of the waves has battered the
outer end of the jetty down until
the last 800 feet now has a depth of
5 to 20 feet of water over it at low
tide.
Plan For Channel.
Col. Roessler says that tho jetty
project has been very successful and
has maintained the depth of the bar
although the bar has advanced about
1,200 feet seaward since 'the jetty
was completed.
Concerning the dredging of the
channel, Mr. Roessler says that the
lower end of the bottom consists of
sand and mud washed in by tho Coos
river. Ho says:
"A depth of eighteen feet at mean
lower tide will adequately accom
modate at all stages of the tide the
regular steamers now plying to that
port, .and vessels of twenty-two feet
draft at mean high tide, the mean
tidal range being five feet. Tho
width of the channel proposed is 300
feet opposite the towns of North
Bend and Marshfiold, and 200 feet
at -other points. To excavate such
material and if authorized, it is pro
posed to do this with a scow dredge
now under construction."
Costs of Projects.
'Mr. Roessler's recommendations
for the Improvement of Coos Bay in
cludes two projects, designated as
No. .1 and No. 2. The No. 1 project
is one that he endorses and urges
adopted now. It provides merely for
dredging the bar with a hydraulic
dredge and tho harbor channel with
another. This will require tho fol
lowing expenditures:
Hydraulic seagoing dredgo, $350,000
1,000,000 yds. channel
dredging 120,000
Superintendence, etc 30,000
Total $500,000
Annual maintenance:
Dredging on bar $ 50,000
Dredging Insldo channel.. 10,000
Total $ 60,000
Project No. 2 which submits for
consideration includes tho expendi
ture of $1,8G9,500 on tho north jet
ty and $331,000 on tho south jetty,
making a total of $2,200,500. Ho
also Includes In this an annual main
tenance fund of $00,000 for dredg
ing. Delay Has Keen Costly.
Concerning tho apparently high
eost of tho jetty work, Mr. Roessler
says:
"Ono of tho extraordinary Items Is
that of $175,000 for wharf, build
ings, pilo driver, trestle, englno, der
ricks, etc. Tho terminal facilities for
tho North Jetty which wore in good
condition when work was suspended
on tho completion of tho Jetty aro
In such poor condition at tho present
time from lapso of time and decay
that a reconstruction of wharf, build
ings and tracks will bo necessary be
STORY OF
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fore any new work is done. The ma
chinery and transportation equip
ment, such as pile drivers, locomo
tives, and hoisting engines are old
and long out of use and would prob
ably have to be replaced by new
equipment. The estimate has there
fore been made to cover an entire
new terminal and transportation out
fit. Another item Is that of $580,800
for concrete blocks."
The latter is in order to obtain
blocks weighing at least forty tons to
withstand the force of tho waves. Mr.
Roessler says that no rocks weighing
more than seventeen tons can be se
cured any place near Coos Bay, and
he believes that it would be best to
rely on concrete for the work.
Coos Bay Trnfllc.
Col. Roessler says that the weather
is such that the work may be pushed
to good advantage for at least six
months out of the year. He includes
table of the Incoming and outgoing
traffic for several years, the tonnage
for 1906 being estimated at 184,455
and the value at $5,900,017 against
178,945 tons valued at $3,901,906 in
1905. In touching on the probable
increase in business, Colonel Roessler
says:
"The Southern Pacific is construct
ing a railroad from the main line at
Drain, Oregon to Coos Bay, about 81
miles long, via the valley of the
Umpqua river. The town of New
North Bend, about three miles below
Marshfleld, has grown from a small
mill site to a place of about 1,500
Inhabitants within the last five years.
The only coal mines of any extent
thus far worked in Oregon are tribu
tary to Coos Bay."
In concluding his report, Col.
Roessler says:
Col. Lockwood's View.
In submitting Col. Roessler's re
port to Congress, D. V. Lockwood,
Colonel Corps of Engineers and se
nior member of the board, says:
"After a full study and discussion
of the subject, the board has arrived
at tho conclusion that the work of
restoring and extending the jetties
is not justified by the present com
merce involved, but that the locality
is worthy of Improvement by dredg
ing in accordance with plan at an
estimated cost of $500,000. This
plan has the decided advantages of
providing a lst-class sea-going dredge
which may parhaps be available for
use at other localities if it is found
from experience that its use will not
be continuously required at Coos Bay
to maintain tho necessary depth."
"Assuming 200,000 tons to be a
conservative estimate of the present
trafTlc, and 4 per cent as the interest
charge upon tho original estimate,
and taking tho annual maintenance
charges at tho figures above given,
the cost of tho improvement to the
United States for Project No. 1 will
be 40 cents per ton for each ton of
freight carried in and out of the har
bor, and for Project No. 2 $1.35 per
ton of freight carried.
"Manifestly a favorable considera
tion of either project, especially tho
larger one, must rest upon future
prospects rather than upon present
business. It is, of course, impossible
to predict what increase in tonnage
may bo looked for in flvo or ten
years, but it is safe to say the in
crease will bo large. A new lumber
mill of large capacity will bo put in
operation this year, and mora than
double tho tonnage In lumber and
moro mills or enlargements of pre
sent ones may bo expected to follow.
Only a small amount of coal Is ship
ped out of the harbor, and the devel
opment of the coal mines is only in
the preliminary stage for the reason,
it is alleged, that coal can not be
advantageously shipped except in
vessels of 2,000 or 3,000 tons carry
ing capacity vessels too large to bo
brought through tho bay channel and
across tho bar. A large Increase in
tho coal shipments may bo expected
to follow tho deepening of tho bay
channel and n further deepening of
tho bar channel. In brief, tho coun
try back of Coos Bay is now, Its de
velopment only begun, and its pros
pects bright under conditions of eco
nomical transportation to tho prin
cipal markets of tho coast.
"It is my opinion that Coos Bay
Is worthy of Improvement by tho
United States under present condi
tions to tho extent Indicated In Pro
ject No. 1, and that tho oxecutlou
of this project will Increaso tho dopth
on tho ocean bar and give tho re
quired depth of channel In tho Inner
bay. On account of tho groat cost
of tho jetty work of Project No. 2 It
Is thought that this may advanta
geously bo postponed until tho bar
dredgo has been glvon a fair trial
and has demonstrated whothor or not
dredging alono will give enough
depth on tho bar to meet the needs
of tho port."
WILL IMPROVE
BAHDON BAR
Business Men to Raise Fund of
$6,000 For Improvements
In Harbor.
BANDON, June IS. The Baadon
Recorder says:
"A meeting of prominent business
men of this part of Coos county was
held recently in Judge Geo. P. Top
ping's office to discuss tho question
of straightening tho channel of tho
Coquillo river from tho government
dock back of Breuer's storo to tho
end of the government jetty, a dis
tance of 1995 feet.
"Among those present were: A.
F. Estabrook, John Kronenberg, L. J.
Cody, M. J. McKenna, Wm. nick
ing, R. H. Rosa, E. H. Fish, M. F.
Shoemaker and Elbert Dyer.
"Tho plan is to drive a straight
row of piling from the dock to the
end of the jetty. This would change
the course of the water sufficient to
do away with the whirlpool which is
now made by the bend in tho river,
and the sand would thus be washed
out and make a channel of deep
water which would extend from the
mouth of the river to Cody's mill,
and would thus enable the vessels to
sail up the river with greater ease,
and would also permit of larger ves
sels coming into this harbor.
"The estimated cost of this pro
ject is about $6,000, approximately,
half of which was subscribed at tho
meeting by those present.
"A committee, consisting of
Messrs. Fish, Kronenberg and Dyer,
was appointed to secure the remain
der of the money needed, and the
prospects are that it will all be se
cured in a short time.
Pulp Mill Fund.
"The subscriptions to tho Bandon
Paper and Pulp Mill are growing
constantly, about four thousand dol
lars having been added recently, and
Col. C. T. Blumenrother, who has
tho work of subscriptions in charge,
says that the remainder that is need
ed Is being arranged for and will bo
forth coming in a short time, so that
now the big industry for Bandon is
an assured fact. Mr. Blumenrother
states that Coos Bay capitalists aro
anxious to finance the proposition,
but in that Instance it would be built
on Coos Bay, but Bandon people will
take up the proposition and retain it
for this place."
Bandon Man Demi.
"Word has just been received here
to tho effect that Roy McEwan better
known here as Roy Fagan, died in
Honolulu May Sth of diphtheria. He
was one of tho assistant engineers on
a boat running between Honolulu
and Canada and was taken sick while
on a voyage. After reaching Hono
lulu he was taken to a hospital where
he died a few days later. Mr. Mc
Ewan was quite well-known in Ban
don having been here for a number
of years. Ho was a grand-son of
Mrs. F. E. Dyer of this city."
BUYS WIFE AND NINE
CHILDREN FOR $300.
Husband Denies tho Consideration
and Wants His Family Re
turned to Iliin.
SAGINAW, Mich., Juno 20. A
domestic tangle of an unusual char
acter in Buena Vista, a suburb, Is
now receiving attention in tho
courts.
Joseph Ratajvzak boarded at the
home of Otto Rottenberg. It Is al
leged that Rottenberg came home
from work ono evening and found
tho doors of his domicile locked
against him, with tho boarder in
hostilo possession of Rottenborg's
house, wlfo and nine children. Rot
tenberg sued Ratajvzak for alienat
ing the affections of his wife, where
upon sho commonced proceedings for
divorce.
Now Rottenberg has caused tho
arrest of his wife, Catherine, and
the alleged Interloper on a criminal
charge.
Ratajvzak says ho paid Rotten
berg $300 in settlement of all claims
and on a bargain that ho should
leave him in undisputed possession
of tho premises, wife, babies and all.'
Rottenborg says tho money was
for other claims, but admits ho went
to tho houso and asked Catherine to
choose between them, and that sho
took tho boarder.
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Doctors.
DOCTOR H. P. BAUJHJAUGH
Physician and Surgoorv v'
Diseases of AVomon and Children.
Offlco Rooms 209-10 Coos Building.
Phone ---.-. Sill!
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It. GEORGE W. LESLIE
Osteopathic Physician 1
Graduate of American School of Osteopathy
nm KlrkBTlllc, Mo.
Office Hours: a. m. to 4 p. m. Other Hours by
Appointment. Office In Nashurg Block
Pho 1611. Marshfleld, Ore.
DR. GEO. E. DLX
Physielnn and Surgeov
Now Flanagan & Bennett Bank Bldg.
'Phono 1681.
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Office over Sengstacken's Djug Store.
Phones Offlco 1621; Resldonco 78.
DR. A. L. HOUSEWORTH
Physician nnd Surccon.
Offlco second floor of Flanagan and
Bennott New Bank Building.
Residence, two blocks north of
Crystal Theater. Ofllce Phone
1431. Residence Phono 656.
Lawyers.
Francis II. Clarke Jacob M. Blake
Lawrence A. Llljequist
CLARICE, BLAKE &
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Tirana Building, Marshfleld, Or.
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Bank
Marshfleld, - . - Oregon
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Attorneys at Law.
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Contractor nnd Uuildcr.
Plans, specifications and estimates
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Photographers.
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Marshfleld, Oregon.
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MUSICAL
ELMER A. TODD, Director
Coos Bay Academy of Mtulo. '
Voice, Piano, ripe Organ. Harmony etc., from
beginning to graduation. Singers coached In
style diction and interpretations, for opera,
oratorio or concert work
New O'CounolI Building, Marshfleld.
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Private lessons, Violin, Mando
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Evenings 7 to 10.
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Phones 2011 - 826
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