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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1908.
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OREGON'S GREAT RESOURCES
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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
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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
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