THE 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
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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
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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.
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