The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957, August 25, 1908, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextTHE DAILY CiDOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1908. "GOOD BYE" 10 THE MYERS STORE NORTH BEND, OREGON THE MYERS STORE NORTH BEND, OREGON (I ) L m on Seas rchandise Special Reductions for Fair Week The Greatest Bargains Are Here at Ihe Myers Store This Week only Every Economically Inclined Person should visit TEe Myers Store this week, to get their full share of these and hundred? of equal savings FRE FARE ON BOATS FOR EVERYBODY Tailored Shirts Fine tailored skirts in panamas, serges, silk taffetas and fancy suitings. Assorted col ors. Values $12 to $16, tf choice H Short Kimonas One lot of summer and autumn styles short kimonas. Made of floral or- Jt &Q gandie. crepenne and flannel- &lfl g (f ette. Values $1 to$i.50. Each w Crepe d'Cfoine About twenty-five pieces fine Crepe d'Chine in all colors. 22 inches wide. Former price $J and $1.25. Special for Fair week, yard . . O JC Cotton Moreen Fine grade 35c cottori moreen. 28 inches wide. Colors navy, brown, black, 1 grey, green and red. Just the I SC thing for petticoats. Yard v Log Kid Gloves 12-button fine kid gloves. White, black, tan and brown. All sizes. Former price was $3.50. A great special now pair $2.43 Long Silk Gloves Regulation 16-button length. Double Colors black, white and navy, Copenhagen and tan. Assort ed sizes. Were$ 1,75. Now pr tips. Ladies' Dress Oxfords All women's oxfords in tan, patent colt and vici, selling regularly at $4.00 and $4.50, all widths and sizes, now go for Fair week, pair 237 Quarterly Skyle Book For Fall now ready, illustrating the new La dies Home Journal paper patterns With each book goes a J 5c cou pon, thus actually costing Men's Dress Shoes Fine dress shoes in vici, box calf and gun metal. All sizes. Former prices up to $4.50 of our entire stock, now $? 5 & pair po-F Men's Underwear Fine balbriggan underwear. Drawers have double seat. Sizes 32 to 42. ! Regular price 35c garment. I m f Special for Fair week, garment Bed Sheets Ready made sheets. Full size bed. Carefully bleached and hemmed. About A 09 25 dozen to sell at this price. &E f Special each only Table Oilcloth Best standard grade. Comes in many fancy patterns, and plain white and V &9 marble. A wonderful special I f at this price of yard only ' COL. HOFER 'S NEE! DREGQN (Continued from Pago 2.) camo to naught. A financial string ency Intervened or was made an ex cuse for cancelling contracts. All work ceased. Since then the steel has been hauled away. The furnish ing of ties and bridge timbers was countermanded. The contractor conveniently failed. There are at pre sent no indications that the line from Drain to Coos Bay will be construct ed in the near future. Delegates Visit Harrlman. Furnished with a letter of intro duction a delegation from western Oregon visited Mr. E. H. Harrlman at his offices in New York in Decem ber, 190C. The Oregon men receiv ed a wonderful impression of Mr. Harrlman's personality. We felt as tho' we were looking a broad-axe with an edge as keen as a razor squarely in the face. Mr. Harrlman possesses a magnetism that fascinates men by its quiet composure and cool deliberative analysis. His deep-set, clear eyes seem to penetrate far be yond the present moment and realize conditions and demonstrate over problems which to the ordinary man are incomprehensible. He is neither a politician nor a flatterer as the aelesates soon discovered. While the line to Coob Bay was on the Immense jwall map In his office, Indicated In a red ink line an inch wide, he did not oven protend to know that his com pany was engaged in building from Drain to Coos Bay. But for this reason no friend of Coos Bay should despair. Wo Must Present Facts. We should remember that Mr. Harrlman is presumably the keenest intellect in the American business world. He is compelled by tho evo lution of commerce and transporta tion in order to hold his own to be l more than a match for all the aggre gated financial geniuses of Wall street. Wo should remember that wo are dealing with a business con dition, with a business man and not with sentiment, and that we can only win by the presentation of facts. But happily for us we have the facts; Coos Bay has all the facts In favor of the earliest possible construction of a railroad to this port. No other undeveloped region of Oregon or of the United States can present such an aggregation of facts proving great commercial and transportation possi bilities. It has been said that many railroads in the United States were built twenty years In advance of tho demand. But here almost the re verse conditions are true. The de mands for a railroad here are stu pendous and overwhelming. No railroad man of experience can be brought face to face with the facts in existence regarding Coos Bay and not be forced to admit that a rail road would step into a full-fledged volume of freight and passenger business immediately upon its con struction. Harrlman realizes this and it is probably the principal rea son why he keeps away from Coos Tlnv. ITnrrlinan Pschycologlcnlly Consid ered. If we could be favored with, a searching analysis of Mr. Harrlman's mental operations wo would find tho condition of hlB mind to be something like this, if wo can Judge by our own experiences. He has recognized Oregon as tho suitable place for his summer resort home by constructing his beautiful lodge at Pelican Bay. Like tho rest of us, he Is Impressed with Oregon as a charming retreat, tho nation's summer resort. Follow ing that comes tho discovery that along with our wonderful climate and scenic beauty thore go our won derful wealth of natural resources. The third step In tho unfoldment of the mental process is the acknow ledgement of our Industrial possi bilities. With his wonderful mental vision and clear cut intellectual per ceptions Mr. Harrlman has mentally traveled In the same foot-steps of common humanity and Is prepared to recognize the facts and the truth about Oregon. A Store-House of Wealth. Tho simple truth Is that Oregon Is the greatest natural store-house of wealth on the face of Mother Earth. This state is already supplying Mr. Harrlman's transcontinental lines with enormous volumes of traffic. But for the freight furnished by the lines in Oregon would the Union Pa cific be such a wonderful dividend paying road? There is enough tim ber in Coos county to keep several Union Pacifies busy all the year around. Here where there is neither intolerable heat nor freezing weather man and nature develop the highest productivity. An acre of soil, wheth er in timber, coal or farm products will turn off more freight for a rail road in Coos county that ten acres in some other parts of the world. It Is impossible to estimate the volume of standing timber around tho Coos Bay region but It Is known that slnglo trees will scale from fifteen thousand to fifty thousand feet of lumber, but as the railroads are dis couraging this class of freight It Is probably useless to hold out the lumber Industry as any Inducement for railroad construction. Coal aiul Wheat Tonnngc. While railroads through wheat growing regions are everywhere con sidered profitable It is well known that the most valuable railroad prop erties In the world are those con structed Into coal regions. Mr. Har rlman should be Impressed with tho facts that there Is no better coal of the kind, In the world than tho Beaver Hill coal on Coos Bay and that the quantity that can be mined Is practically unlimited. At 1,250 car loads to tho acre, which Is the estimated output of Coos Bay coal and at tho lowest estimato of 250 square miles there is a coal bank hero equal to two hundred million car loads. If ono half of this coal went out to sea It would take n double track railroad sending out 500 cars a day, CCC years to exhaust those mines. Compared to tho ton nage produced by a wheat country wo find that Jt takes 40 acres of wheat at 20 bushels to tho acre to produce a car load of freight. Com pared to 1,250 cars of coal from an acre on Coos Bay It would take 50, 000 acres of wheat to produce an equivalent In tonnage. Why should Mr. Harrlman hesitate about build ing a railroad into a coal country In preference to a wheat region. Largo Demand for Coal. Many families in the Willamette valley are now using coal for domes tic purposes that is shipped from railroad points In Washington and Wyoming; second and third grades of coal for domestic purposes cost ing from ten to twelve dollars per ton. If the Coos Bay coal fields were connected with the Willamette val ley by rail, at a low estimate five thousand families would be using Coos Bay coal as It would be a shorter haul and of better quality. What would this mean to the Coos Bay coal mines? Assuming that only five thousand families, using six tons each gave a preference for the Coos Bay coal there would be an imme diate demand for 3Q.O0O tons a year or a consumption ofil,500 car loads. But this would not be the only de mand. It would bo usednfor a large variety of manufacturing '.purposes and the construction of'ajgj railroad would mean the Immediate demand for 40 to 50,000 tons of coal per an num, and a railroad haul of only seventy to ono hundred and fifty miles, ns compared with a haul now of three hundred to 700 miles. Wo Must Cooperate. These figures are not presented to produce an unfavorable comparison with any other section of tho state, nor to prejudice Mr. Harrlman against any section of Oregon where ho may bo contemplating tho con struction of a rallrortd. They are presented to disclose tho necessity for closer cooperation with him. We aro all aware that ho has been on gaged In practically rebuilding the railroads which ho has acquired. Ho has ovorcomo tho tremendous pro blems of furnishing new tracks and oqulpment for brokon-down systems and has not been In a position, so far, to engage in tho construction of now lines, nltho' his nearest repre sentatives have repeatedly declared that it was his Intention to enter tho field as a builder of railways as well as a reorganlzer of systems. Wo have reached the point as a common wealth where ho must work with us and thru us, and we must work with him and thru him If we are to se cure the construction of any now railroads. Interests Aro Mutual. Wo have all arrived at tho point In tho development of this common wealth where wo realize that what Is good for Oregon is good for Harrl mt.n and vice versa. With ono thou sand miles of new steam railroad be ing constructed In the state of Wash ington, which like Orogon Is a lum bering, coal-mlnlng and farming state, and not a mile of new railroad being built In Oregon we are com pelled to face tho problem with Mr. Harrlman In a friendly and helpful spirit and believing In him as tho Instrument of destiny to which wo must turn If wo would secure any transportation facilities whatever. While our intelligence comes from the same dlvino source and Is given to us for tho same purpose, wo pre fer to expend it in heartiest coopera tion with tho great genius and Intel lect of a mastor-mlnd In preference to battling against the wisdom and experience and Intelligence of such a factor in the railroad situation as Mr. Harrlman, but wo cannot fall to remind Mr. Harrlman that there aro forces and influences at work among tho people which wo would prefer to obviate and circumvent before they have accomplished an irreparable breach between Orogon and tho rail road Interests. NOTICE. Repres. McDonald Frames Law to Banish Cigarettes From Oregon. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 24. Cig arettes are to bo banished from tho state of Oregon on and after Septem ber 1, 1909, perhaps. Representative-elect Charles Mc Donald, of Multnomah County, ha3 drafted a bill which he will intro duce at the legislature next winter,, having for its purpose the utter ex termination of the "coffin tack" in the Beaver state. Even substitutes for cigarettes will be placed under the ban, and anyono caught giving or selling "tho makings" will bo sub ject to fine, and if tho fine is not paid, then off to prison he (or she) must go. Conservative statistics show that 500,000 cigarettes are smoked daily in Oregon. The figure may reach S00.000, for tho 500,000 daily con sumption is based on 40 per cent of the voters smoking only 10 of tho "tacks" a day, and any cigarette smoker will confess that 10 "clgs" as a niggardly allowance, and should be 20 or 30. Then, again, more than, 40 per cent of the voters use ciga rettes and many who aro not votorB aro heavy customers. The "mak ings" sold in this state in a week run Into several thousand dollars, so tho passage of the proposed re form measure of Representative Mc Donald would cut deeply into tho profits of tho tobacconists. McDonald In Curry County. The bill, which was prepared by an attorney and sent to McDonald for approval, follows the Washington law. McDonald, who Is now In Cur ry County on his vacation, has writ ten that tho draft of the measuro Is satisfactory to him, and promises that It will bo ono of the first bills Introduced In tho coming session. Tho bill does not prohibit tho smoking of the "coffin tacks," but It makes tho securing of the materials difficult, almost ImpocMble, in fact. Says the bill: "It shall be unlawful for any per son, by himself, clerk, servant, em ploye or agent, directly or Indirectly, upon any pretense or by any device, to manufacture, sell, exchange, bar ter, disposo of or givo away, or keep for sale, any cigarettes, cigarette pa por or cigarette wrappers, or nny paper made or prepared for tho pur pose of being filled with tobacco for smoking; any person for violation of tho same, shall be guilty of a misde meanor, and upon conviction shall, for tho first offense, pay a flno of not less than $25, nor moro than $100 and costs of prosecution, and stand commited to tho County Jail until such costs are paid; and for tho sec ond and each subsequent offense, shall pay upon conviction thereof, n fine of not less than $100, nor moro than $500, and tho costs ot prosecution, or bo imprisoned In tho County jail not less than one month nor moro than six months; provided, that the provisions hereof shall not apply to nor Interfere with tho sales of, or tho disposal by, any person In this state to any person outsido ot this state. NOTICE. Steamer "Queen" will leave Em pire City for Marshfleld 8 a. m., re turning from Marshfleld ('A' St.) at 5 p. m. every day during Fair. Good Board and Rooms nt Arago Hotel, Empire City. Cliamberlaln'H Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy Would Have Saved Him $100.00. "In 1902 I had a very severe at tack of diarrhoea," says R. N. Far rar of Cat Is'nnd, La. "For several weeks I wab unable to do anything. On March 18, 1907, I had a similar attack, and took Chuinberlaln's Co lic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remody which gave me prompt relief. I con sider it ono of tho best medicines of Its kind In tho world, and had I used It In 1902 believe It would havo saved bo a hundred dollar doctor's bill." For sale by JOHN PREUSS... Members of Doric Chapter, No. 53, O. E. S., aro requested to bo pro sent at a special communication, August 27, 1908, at 7:30 p. m. Ini tiation. Also all visiting members at Marshfleld, on the 27th Inst., aro cordially Invited to bo present at Masonic Temple, both for dinner, at 12 and at ovonlng session and ban quet. By order of W. M. LUMBER LUMBER LUMBER All kinds of building mate rial furnished on short notice. Our grades of lumber Nos. 1, 2, and 3, aro superior to tho samo grades from any other mill, For prices and estimates, see A, M, Ross at office of Snover & Feenoy, Lockhart building. JOHNSON LUMBER COMPANY Phono, Marshfleld 818.