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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1908)
-z-.-iyii,..-,.., ...iLua, ,u;. jj.'a, ufjffi. j'. jiji i.,,,., ,.i,ii. mm:lj ,lM2!!g:.y'rrT? ,n hi ji iWjHBP jkBJBWI THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1908. PLEAD POR UNITY TO DEVELOP VOTING CONTEST COUPON 4 NOT GOOD AFTK R, SEPTEMBER 1, 11)08. THE COOS U AY TIMES VOTING CONTEST For ' ' Dlst Address Good for ono voto filled out and sent to The Times office by mall or otherwise on or before expiration date. No ballot will bo altorod In any way, or transferred after b elng rocelred by Tho Times. OREGON'S GREAT RESOURCES ,? (Continued From Page 1.) Harrlman would make the trip over land from Uoseburg or Drain. Mr. Chamberlain Bald that he personally would accompany Mr. Harrlman on this trip and show him tho wonderful resources along the way that were only awaiting tho arrival of tho rail road to be developed. As to the harbor, he said that it should be so Improved that tho great est vessels sailing the high seas, no matter their draught, would be able to come clear up Coos Bay and load at the Smith mill. Urges Good Roads. He said that the construction of good roads would hasten the devel opment of the state and compel the construction of railway lines. Ho said that this was up to tho people as the way to get good roads was by taxing themselves. He said that the citizens of Coos Bay must remembor that it is seldom that anything comes to those who do not ask for it. He said that tho people should unite and keep press ing their legislators and others for the things they need. Personally, he said, he wished the people to know that he stood willing at any and all times to do anything that was in his power for them. DRASTIC WAY IS JUDGE S. A. LOWELL TELLS HOW TO DEAL WITH INTERESTS THAT ARE RETARDING DE VELOPMENT OF OREGON. Rather drastic remedies for the al leged drawbacks to the development of Oregon were outlined last evening by Judge Stephen A. Lowell of Pen dleton In his address before tho Oregon-Idaho Development Con gress. In the flowery and forceful manner which has gained him the reputation of being the best orator In Oregon, Judge Lowell presented a graphic word picture of existing conditions and of what might be done. Ho held his audience from start to finish and was warmly ap plauded at frequent Intervals during his talk and at the conclusion of his address. Two things are essential to the development of Oregon, according to Judge Lowell. First comes tho building of railroads and secondly tho breaking up of the largo land holdings In tho various counties of tho state and instead of having great stretches of non-producing and un settled country have numerous small farms denizened by thrifty people. Railroads First. Judge Lowell declared that tho country had reached tho stage where tho people no longer would settle far from railroads and wait for tho rail roads to bo built to them. Ho said that now tho railroads have to bo built through the now country and poulation rapidly follows, developing the great tracts tapped by the lines. He declared that ho personally was tired of awaiting tho caprice of Ed ward H. Harrlman to build railways in Orogon and that ho wanted tho peoplo of Oregon to extend a wolcomo to J. J. Hill, the great railroad builder of tho north who had tapped that great section and was rapidly extending branches to tho undevel oped sections of tho northwest. Ho declared that while ho did not advocate tho confiscation of property, ho thought tho peoplo had stood for tho dilly-dallying tactics of tho Har rlman lines long enough. That Har rlman had bottled up tho state and was taking tho immonso earnings from hiB Oregon lines and using them to build roads In other states. Ho said that tho railroads aro public utary to Coos Day and with the con struction of a lino eastward, Coos Bay would come into its own and the great region would become the home of thousands. The Great Land Grants. Judge Lowell told of the great land grants whereby over 5,000,000 acres of very valuable land had been ceded to the railroads and corpora tions for the construction of five wagon roads and three railways be tween 1SG4 and 1S70. He said that this immense acreage had passed Into the hands of alien owners who were simply holding onto it. They wouldn't develop it or they wouldn't sell, sim ply getting the benefit of tho Impro vements and developments by the few settlers who were able to edge in here and there. He said that the people of today owe to themselves and to the unborn generations to see that these holdings are broken up in order that the land may contri bute to the world. Three Remedies. He suggested three means by which this would be done, namely: First, If tho present government case Is lost, have the constitution of Oregon amended so that the state can exercise the right of eminent do main and condemn the tracts, pay the owners a reasonable amount for them and then sell them In small tracts to bona fide settlers. Second, by providing a special tax on unimproved and undeveloped property and make It so high that the owners of the large holdings can't afford to keep It idle. Third, the single tax, which Judge Lowell is not in favor of, would be adopted by the people who are be coming Irate. Unless steps are taken to break up the large land holdings, Judge Lowell said that he feared it would bring about the landlordism that has been so disastrous to the common people of the old world and would make Oregon a second Scotland, all of the land in Scotland today being owned by less than 2,000 persons or con cerns. He said the people must make a stand soon and prevent landlordism getting a foothold. He said it was in the people's power and through organization and cooperation, they can secure and apply the remedy and have Oregon come into its own and eliminate the great land holdings which ho compared to the "trail of the poisonous serpent." COL HOFER ON OREGON'S 0 MYRTLE POINT POINTERS. News of Interest In Upper Valley From The Enterprise. Fred A. Krlbs, the Portland tim ber man, was in Myrtle Point yester day with a force of men to look after his timber Interests In this section and protect tho same from forest fires. Wm, Lango is preparing to build on his lotB at the corner of Willow and Seventh streets. Tho old build ing that has occupied the corner Is being moved back and will be remodeled. George. W. Tope of North Bend, was In Myrtle Point the llrst of the week making arrangements to open up a dlmo treatro here. Providing all arrangements are satisfactory he expects to give tho opening entertain ment hero next Tuesday evening. Such theatres are now running at Marshfleld, Jyorth Bend, Bandon and ! a great fortified coaling station for WELL KNOWX SALEM EDITOR SHOWS ADVANTAGES OF DE VELOPMENT AND CLOSE TIES OF WILLAMETTE VALLEY AND COOS BAY. Colonel E. Hofer, president of the Willamette Valley Development Lea gue, discussed the interest which the entire Willamette valley has In the development of a deep-sea harbor at Coos Bay and the construction of a railroad to that section: Extent of Willamette Valley. The Willamette valley, a rich farming and fruit-growing region over ono hundred and fifty miles long and from twenty to sixty miles wide, settled with, at least one hun dred thousand people, having rich and populous cities connected with Interurban railroads, and traversed with three lines of tho Southern Pa cific, has an Intense Interest in se curing a railroad connection with Coos Bay. Portland Is the only large city affording a general market for our products. Our only other mar kets are Puget Sound, San Francisco and the vast intermountaln region. Location of Coos Ray. As the great practical deep-sea outlet for all this vast interior re gion parallel to the Pacific ocean, and capable of sustaining a popula tion of five million people, Coos Bay affords remarkable advantages. It is only seventy miles from Drain, the nearest point to the head of the val ley, from which there Is a water level route for a railroad to Marsh field and North Bend, tho manufac turing and shipping points on Coos Bay. This harbor Is located nearlj 200 miles south of the Columbia ri ver and over 350 north of San Fran cisco. The harbor is landlocked and naturally protected at the entrance by Coos Head, a high solid wall of rock deepening tho channel and af fording protection and refuge to shipping in time of storm, making It In some respects superior to an river entrance on the Pacific coast Coos Bay harbor can be most easily improved and has been selected by the general government as most worthy of largo appropriations. A dredger has been provided by act of congress and the people have sub scribed $15,000 for deepening the In side channel and propose to follow this up by creating a harbor commis sion with an annual tax to continue the improvement. A Great Coaling Station. Coos Bay harbor Is located -in the midst of r. coal area of 250 square miles. At a low estimate, a billion tons of high grade coal, most of which will burn to a white ash In an open grate, lies about this harbor, in many cases the entrance to the mines being at tide water, and the coal dis charging Into tho holds of ships. In quality this coal Is superior to most of tho bituminous coal that Is mined in the eastern states. Any other gov ernment in tho world would long since have converted this harbor Into Coquillo. Dr. and Mrs. M. O. Stemmler ar rived homo last Monday after an ab sence of soveral months. Tho doctor has been taking a post-graduate courso at a Now York college, while Mrs. Stemmler and tho childron have been visiting relatives and frionds at Osage, Iowa. They were accom panied homo by Mrs. Stenunler's sis ter, Nellie Barton, who was quite sick after her arrival hero. A band of California quail took up their temporary abodo In tho yard of Dr. K. A. Leep ono day this week. service corporations and that if tho They may have learned that tholr legislature would not act, ho was In op" season is nbout duo and tho sa favor of applying tho Initiative and , foot place at that tlnio would be in referendum ami securing laws which would ctmipol Mr. Harrlman to uso tho earnings of tho Oregon lines, abovo the fixed charge and a rea sonable income on tho investment in building new lines In Mie stato, or if ho would not build lines, to divert tho money Into tho state treasury and reduce tho people's tnxes. Ho told of tho wonderful possi bilities of tho "Great Inland Empire" and how it might and will bo re claimed. Ho said that while his home section around Pendleton was tributary to Portland, much of un doToloped Oregon waa naturally, trlb- town where tho firing of guns Is pro hibited. They took a risk, however, in locating in tho Loop yard. An old timo sportsman can only withstand a certain amount of temptation. IMPORTANT NOTICH All Coos Bay Banks will close nt 12 o'clock each dny during tho Fair, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Flanagan & Bennett Bank. First National Bank of Coos Bay. First Trust and Savings Bank. Bank of Oregon, ., the shipping and navies of tho whole world. Compared to Marc Island. Compared to the expenditures on tho Mare Island Navy Yard only a trlflo has been spent on Coos Bay by tho Federal Government while $20,000,000 has been expended on Mare Island, and a warship drawing twenty feet of wntcr can only enter that navy yard with tho greatest dif ficulty. Unless a more liberal policy Is pursued toward tho development and fortification of Coos Bay, our country might well tremble with fear of an Invasion from Japan at this Im portant strategic point of entranco to tho great inland empire of Oregon. As n Commercial Port. Statistics would show that Coos Bay Is rapidly becoming a commer cial port of somo importance. It is a fact that aommerae determines cial port of entry. The Hill Railroad BVBtem to the port of Astoria is build ing up a wonderful commerce there but It could never compare with tho commerco that would develop at Coos Bay harbor were the tide of traffic and transportation from the great rich Interior once delivered at this point. Astoria must always tako the leavings of Portland; Coos Bay would have all the commerce of western and southern Oregon. Great Passenger Business. With the whole of interior Oregon to draw from, with the Immense tim ber wealth and gold and coal mining on this coast, with the summer re sort and sea-going shipping to lure thousands to the seaside a railroad to Coos Bay would have an immediate and constantly Increasing passenger traffic. The people of Oregon, ac cording to reliable statistics produce annually over $1,000 per capita of new and original wealth for every man, woman and child and have more money to spend and spend more money on pleasure resorts than any equal population in the world, and this travel to the seaside would come from the warm, sun-smitten re gions of the Southern and Eastorn parts of the state, and as far as Ida ho and Utah. There Is no similar opportunity In the world to build s railroad that has an enormous traf fic ready and waiting for it of the most profitable character. Value As u Market. Reliable statistics show that the Imports and exports of Coos Bay amounted in 1905 to about a million and a quarter with a balance of nearly a million to the credit of this harbor, showing that the country is practically self sustaining and with its coaling Industry practically un developed Is already producing with tne s'.uall population enormous wealth annually. The value of this deep-sea harbor to the Willamette valley can only be estimated but a railroad to this harbor would add from one to five dollars per ton to the value of all the principal crops produced. Most of the hay, feed and meat products consumed In South western Oregon are now shipped In by water after first having been transported by rail to Portland, Pu get Sound or San Francisco. A large amount of our fresh fruit and dairy products would come to this coast; the Willamette valley would get the benefit of competitive conditions which it does not now possess. We would be running a great store house, having an exit and an en trance on the Columbia river and the Pacific ocean with streams of com merce and population flowing In and out in both directions. Effects on Lumber Industry. Deepening this harbor and giving it a railroad would make this one of the great world markets for lumber production and wood manufacture. Sash and doors and manufactured products from cedar, myrtle, maple and the Oregon fir, all woods gaining in world-wide fame, and furnishing high class transcontinental freight would go out of here in train loads to an mo cities or tne American con tinent whero there Is unlimited de mand for beautiful Interior finish ings, and there would be a hundred smoke-stacks on Coos Bay where there is one today. This class of traf fic would add enormously to the earnings of transcontinental rail roads, who are now complaining at having to haul unfinished lumber at a loss. From Drain to Coos Ray. This railroad was projected and surveyed as part of the Harrlman system three years ago. Construc tion was begun and when we held our Farmers' and Shippers Congress at North Bend, May 23, 1806, tele grams were received from the Harrl- mnn headquarters, stating: "Railroad to Coos Bay ordered constructed Immediately. AVork to continue until completed." This was received with the greatest enthu siasm and it was supposed that our labors for tho development of Coos Bay had been recognized. Steel for nearly the entire lino was stacked In great heaps at Drain. Contracts for forty miles of grading Including two tunnels were let. Contracts with saw mills for ties were entered ---- Builders Attention I have just received a carload of P&B Ready Roofing Roof Paints Building Paper Deadening Felt Use only the BEST roofings Avoid all cheap substitutes. C. E. NICHOLSON, Agt. Office at C. B. Ice Plant tt.-i.-.i. -.!- Phone 731 -::-n-::--:j--j:-.f-n----n--tt----u--8--u- T CANDY-ICECREAM! o-n--rj--n-::---n---n- ----- tiWAXQ In Your Outing You will miss it if you do not enrry A KODAK AVitli You AVe have them from $1 to $100 Full Lino of Kodak Supplies Catalogue Free. Red Cross Drugstore 1 Real Bargains in Real Estate NEW 7-R00M HOUSE on C street, fine loca tion, good view, ground 80x140 You can have this buy for $J800. Buy a Saw Mill Farm and all equipage neeessary to operate the mill and logging camp. Good loca tion. Part cash, balance time. For information sec STUTSMAN & CO. Front Street Marshneld, Ore. v I"!"!"!"!" Given Wr-H-vH--r'-H4H:"I"II"l"l"I"I"I"I"I--r Away shinning, which is proven by tho I lnio and somo new saw nrf'Is were magnilmdo of business done at tho ' established to execute contracts for port of Poptland. over 100 miles In- " and bridge timber. All western Innd from tho sea and qulto a dis tance up tho Wlllametto river, yet its commerco surpasses that of As torla or any of tho Puget Sound I Orflenn wnn thrlllpil with dntlirht at tho prospect of final relief from tho embargo that nature has laid upon this section, and which a conserva- cltles. With a railroad pouring the tlve Pcy of railroad construction tremendous volume- of productions as continued, and from which tho from tho Willamette valley Into Coos , development of all western Oregon is Bay over a railroad such as Mr. Har- suffering seriously. But our dreams riman has projected Coos Bay could wwwwvvvwwvvvv not holp but became a great conimer-' (Continued on page 3.) With every $100 purrchnso from qur store, wo will give a 42-pieco dinner set entirely free. Ourlowprl ccBstill continue ono price to nil, with overynrtlclo marked In plain figures, coupons will bo given for tho amount of each purchaser. Sco our window display and bo convinced it is worth your wlille. X C. A. JOHNSON HOUSE FURNISHER FRONT STREET 1"H"M"H"H"H I K-H-H-H HH-I-W-W-W-M-H-H A Want Ad will sell it for you f n T 51 T X fm .P uJfrW MHlin w- -Ml
