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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES. MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1908.
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COOS MT IS ONE OF Ti
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'of the United States It would take
seventy-five years to exhaust these
j forests.
If the coal was to be mined at
1 the rate of five million tons a year
which is more than all the coal mined
every year now west of the Rocky
.Mountains it would take two hun
dred years to work out the Coos Day
J. H. Dlers of North Bend, chair- Glasgow, Scotland 30 mines.
man of the committee, appointed
somctimo ago to organize a port of
Coos Bay, has written the following
able article setting forth the value
and possibilities of the harbor of
Coos Bay:
A study of the great seaports of
the world shows that Coos Bay has
magnificent natural harbor, fash
ioned by nature as perfectly as if by
a great engineering genius for a spe
cial purpose. That it has no great
Havre, France
.30
If we take the waste wood from
Leghorn, Italy 26 the saw mills and logged off lands
Libau, Russia 22 and convert it into turpentine, tar
Malaga, Spain 30 ami charcoal and mix six hundred
Montreal, Canada 28 pounds of this charcoal with a ton
Tyno, England 30 , of Coos Bay coal and using the tar
Ostend, Belgium 3ljas a binder and cement this into
Port Lyttelton, N. Z 26 1 briquets, we have a fuel that Is equal
Port Said, Afrlpa 30 ! to the famous Pokahontas coal, the
Riga, Russia 22 j standard fuel for the United States
Rotterdam, Holland 27 navy.
St. Petersburg, Russia 20 These briquettes can be made for
river flowing into It and filling it up I Shanghai, China 24 less than 4 per ton and Pokahon-
wlth silt and sand.
That its vast deposits of coal will
always bo a paramount factor in get
ting manufacturing industries locat
ed on her shores.
That it Is the only fuel harbor
south of Puget Sound, and nearest
to the Pacific entrance to the Pana
ma canal.
That every railroad, locomotive and
ocean steamer that goes out of Port
land, Eureka, San Francisco, San Pe
dro and San Diego must pay for
hauling coal to those harbors which
will always make it cheaper to ship
Oriental freight through Coos Bay
than any other harbor on the Pacific
coast south of Puget Sound.
That today it Is one of the principal
seaports of the world and for proof
of this statement I will now give a
list of the depth of channels to the
world's leading harbors.
Tho depth are at mean-high water.
United States.
I have taken only the harbors with
moro than 20 feet:
Feet
Bangor, Maine 32
Boston, Mass 3S
Charleston, S. C 25
New York 40
Galveston, Tex 2S
New Haven 23
Newport, R. 1 23
Philadelphia, Pa 2S
Portland, Maine . 39
Provldenqe, R. I .' 20
San Diego, Cal 27
Savannah 24
Wilmington 22
Seattle 5S
Sunderland, England 26 i tas coal on tho Pacific coast sells at
Vera Cruz, Mexico 31 $16 per ton.
Havana, Cuba . .' 35, For every 1,000 feet of lumber
Kobe, Japan 45 cut, there Is one cord of waste wood
Melbourne, Australia 38 ' and each cord produces 800 pounds
Vancouver, B. C 30 ' of charcoal. The Coos Bay country
Hongkong, China 55 ' has over a hundred million cords of
Quebec 35 this waste wood. Thus eventually
Calao, Peru 40 i Coos Bay will become the fuel supply
In a total of 64 leading foreign for tlle American navy in the Pacific
harbors there are 41 harbors with i waters
their channel depths less than that I Iu tllls territory for the year 1907,
nf rnni Tinv I tne manufactured products were
The total harbors, both of the
Oriental states and foreign countries
as here given, is 98 out of which 56
harbor entrances nave a less depth
than that of Coos Bay.
Tacomn
San Pedro
Bnltimoro
Bath, Maine
Columbia river bar
Mobile 25
Now Orleans 26
Pensncola 32
Tampa, Fla 30
Portland, Ore 2S
Port Royal 25
Sablno Pass, Texas 26
San Francisco 41
AVnshington, D. C 22
T3ureka, Cal 32
Grays Harbor 32
Norfolk 30
Skagway, Alaska 40
Juneau, Alaska 40
Coos Bay 29
Total, 34.
A total of 3 1 lending harbors of
tho United States of which 15 har
bor chauuuls havo a less depth than
that of Coos Bny.
Following are tho foreign coun
tries leading harbors giving tho depth
of entrance to them. Tho figures
given are at mean high water:
Foot
Aberdeen, Scotland 2 1
Amsterdam, Holland 30
Belfast, Ireland 25
Bilboa, Spain 23
Brlndlsl, Italy 26
Cnleuttn, India 27
Christiana, Norway 2S
Coustauzn, Roumnnia 2S
Corinth, Greeco 26
Dieppe, Franco 28
Dundee, Scotland 31
Fluno, Hungary , 2S
Halifax, Nova Scotia 24
Hull, England 2S
Lelth, Scotland 25
Lubcck, Germany 22
Montevideo, Uruguay 30
Newcastle, Australia 26
Odessa, Russia 30
Pulormo, Italy 2S
Port Natal, S. Africa 26
' Portsmouth, England , 30
Roetock, Germany 27
St. Johns, N. B 20
1. ovona, Italy , 26
Stockholm, S wed on , 30
Sullna, Roumuuia 21
Tamplco, Mexico . 27
Valparaiso, Chile , 28
Yokohama, Japan , 30
Alexandria, Egypt . 30
Burcelona, Spain , ........... .24
llorgon, Norway . 27
Uozurta, Tunis 30
Buouos Ayros, Argentine 24
Cttto. Franco 23
Clvlta, Italy 2S
Copenhagen, Denmark 20 1
valued at $6,000,000
Live stock 9,000,000
Farm products 7,000,000
Orchard products 700,000
Improved acreage of
farms 900.000
Leaving only 42 harbors with more ; Number of farm 12.000
depth of water than Coos Bay, which Va,ue of farmg 33,000,000
makes It one of the leading harbors Government land open t0 settle.
of the world. iment, 5,250,000 acres; gold mines In
Out of the 34 leading harbors of operation, quartz and placers, 42;
the United States 19 each with a city gold produced ,$1,200,000.
of 50,000 to over 3,000,000 lnhabi-i And yet few people of Coos Bay
tants, are on the Atlantic coast. I realize their vast resources, and the
The export trade and population of strategic value of their position; and
foreign countries adjacent to these ' many have no conception of it yet.
Atlantic harbors are: Population, The Coos Bay country was long
3S7.000.000; export trade, $4,175,- known for its virgin forests, vast coal
000,000; now If wo turn to the Pa- fields, precious metals, fertile soils,
clflc coast states we find only eight splendid summers and mild winters,
harbors each with a city of from but Its commercial possibilities are
o.OOO to 400,000 Inhabitants, which , as yet not understood.
Coos Bay is centrally located and is But now the awakening has begun,
rated third on the coast as to liar- Every railway system of Importance
bor facilities. ' that Is heading for the Pacific has
Between the eight ports will be marked Coos Bay on its map as a
divided the, expanding commerce of point to be reckoned with, as one of
the western side of tho continent, the future principal doorways be
The wealth which drains from the tween the developed east and the
Rocky mountains toward the Pacific riches of the Orient,
coast must seek their outlets to the , The far reaching events which are
Orient with Its following countries, stirring Oriental countries have turn
population and export trade which ed the eyes of the world In that dl
countrles are adjacent to these eight rection, and commerce Is flooding
ports: East India, Australia, China, through the gates of the Pacific
Japan, Russia, Asia, Philippines and coast.
other Oriental countries; population) First it was the Mediterranean,
978,050,000; export trade, $1,917,- then the Atlantic, but with the com
000,000. So here, we have adjacent to pletlon of the Panama canal it will
these eight Pacific const ports a pop- be the Pacific.
ulatlou of nearly a billion people The three Pacific states with their
while adjacent to tho twenty Atlantic seaports which must serve as the
coast ports only a little less than one- western base of the Panama canal
third, while the export trade from produce more than one-half of all the
the Oriental countries which come lumber, more than one-sixth of all
within tho sphere of these eight Pa- tho wheat, more than three-fourths
clflc ports nniounts to nearly two of all the salmon, and more than
billion dollars and that from the Eu- one-fourth of all the gold of the
ropean countries for the twenty United States, which represents a
Atlantic coast ports is only double, trade in round figures of over $200,
In building commerce on tho 000,000 a year. A very large part of
Atlantic coast it is necessary for this those products aro ship cargoes. In
country to compete with like prod- addition to this, these states serve as
nets. But the conditions on the Pa- a clearance house for the district of
clflc coast are altogether different. Alaska with a trade worth $50,000,-
Thore, the millions In tho Orient aro 000 a year. Add to this the trade of
moro than ready to exchange their the Orient, worth many millions
products for wheat, lumber and more and one can readily understand
manufactured articles that the west what the futuro has In store for tho
has to offor. eight Pacific coasts seaports, and
And, with the completion of the Coos Bay in particular.
Panama canal, wo will bo able to The values that we ran figure up
reach tho European countries with on tho vast resources which are trib-
our wheat and lumber and tho dls- utnry to Coos Bay, which enn be run
tanco will not bo farther than to tho fnr into tho hundreds of million dol-j
oriont. i lars, aro not in those resources but
With these facts beforo us thero in tho Coos Bay harbor, therefore
can bo but ono conclusion formed Coos Bay is first as rich in its harbor
and that Is, each of these eight sea-' ns any other harbor on tho Pacific.
HI
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Twenty-five Establish Homes
On Southern Pacific Hold
ings In Lane.
EUGENE, Ore., Sept. 17. A party
of twenty -five persons have recently
made actual settlement on as many
different pieces of railroad land in
tho vicinity of Panther, Lane county.
Wm. G. Martin, who represents this
club of settlers and who has Just re
turned from San Francisco, where ho
presented their applications to the of
ficers of the land department of the
company, says that these settlements
have been made in anticipation of a
favorable outcome of the great suit
of the government vs. the Southern
Pacific Company for the possession of
over two million acres of valuable
lands.
In the event that the suit Is won
by the government, each settler will , j
have possession ot lot) acres tor
$2.50 per acre, as provided under tt
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tho government losing tho suit.
Thousands of offers have already
been mado the railroad company, but
In only a few Instances havo the
persons been actual settlers.
All told there are only 50 actual
settlers who have taken up quarters
on this great amount of land. Twen
ty of these are In Columbia county
and .about eight of them are in Lane
county. Tho others are scattered
through the country in which the
land is located.
Settlement Necessary.
Quite a number of suits have been
filed in the federal court against the
railroad company by persons ' who
havo become actual settlers. Under
the conditions as they now exist no
suits aro necessary and In tho event
that the government wins out tne
settlers will come into possession of
the tracts upon which they have lo
cated. Those persons who have already
located have built houses and barns
and even should the government
eventually lose the feuit they will
have had the use of, tho land all theso
years. One man in Columbia coun
ty has five acres in potatoes this year.
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From $26.00 to $45.00
Cook Stoves $9.00 and up
Heating S
toves
All Kinds and Sizes
For Wood and Coal
ing the land grant to the railroad
company.
It is understood that all persons
who actually settle on these lands
and make Improvements on 160 acres
will be fully protected in case the
Kovernment wins the suit, and will be i
allowed to remain according to the , jj
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of congress wmen grantea tne rail
road the land to be sold to settlers
at $2.50 an acre 30 years ago.
These conditions are not generally
known, it seems, the public having ,
become confused last year when
there was considerable correspond
ence reviewed between Senator Mon
dell and Attorney-General Bonaparte.
Mondell's idea at the time was to
protect persons from being victim
ized by professional locators. At that
time the attorney- general gave his
views on the question. This was to
the effect that actual settlers locat
ing upon 160-acre tracts would be
allowed to remain.
The suit against the railroad will
probably be In the courts three of
four years pending a final decision
by the supreme court of the United
States. If a person takes up the
land and makes his home and im
provements he takes the chance of
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Notice is hereby given that tho
undersigned will receive on or before
September 29th, 190S, at 7:30
o'clock P. M., separate bids, for the
Installment of the heating plant and
plumbing of the new school building
at Bandon, Oregon, according to
plans and specifications, on file in my
office. Each bid must be accompani
ed by a certified check, or good se
curity, for 5 per cent of the amount
of the bid. The right to reject any
or all bids is reserved by the board.
By order of tho board of directors
of School District No. 54 Coos County
Oregon.
JAMES W. MAST,
Clerk.
COOS BAY, UOSEBURG & EAST
ERN RAILROAD & NAVIGATION
COMPANY.
TIME TABLE NO. 3.
In effect July 20, 1008. Daily except
Sunday.
No. 3.
South P. M.
Marshfleld Lv. 2.00
No. 1.
A. M.
Lv. 8.00
ports and that is all there ever
will bo on tho Pnclilc coast will in
less than twenty years grow to from
100,000 to 1.000,000 peoplo, and
Coos Bay will not bo tho smallest on
tho list as she has tho tributary
country with its vast and varied re
sources. Tho territory which, by all
tho laws of distance and grades, be
longs to Coos Bay In area is greater
than the combined area of four states
on tho Atlantic coast.
This torrltory tributary to Coos
Bay has over 150 billion feet
tho Atlantic or the world.
OREGON NEWS BRIEFS.
open
merchantable tinibor or 10 per cent
of tho standing timber of tho Unit
The Eugene public schools
September 21.
A new hotel containing 40 rooms,
has been built and opened at Oregon
City.
A sawmill of the Astoria Lumber
Company, valued at $25,000, was
burned.
Tho Lano County Veterans' Asso-
of elation will meet in Eugeuo Septem
ber 23, 24 and 25.
Tho Wheeler county grand
juri
ed States, or 30 per cent of the has spread fear ainonc tho cattlo
tinibor on tho Pacific coast and over ; rustlers by returning sovoral indlct
50 per cent of tho tinibor of Oregon. ' wonts.
It has moro acreago of coal land
than all the coal acreage on the Pa
cific const from Puget Sound to Mexico.
The meeting of Governor Cham
berlain and Governor Mead of Wash
ington nud representatives of tho
fish and law departments of both
If all tho wator powers available I states at Portland was devoid of re
wlthln this territory woro utilized ' suits ns to a settlement as tho courso
Dantzig, Gormany 22
Dublin, Ireland 31
Dunkirk, France , , 29
they would turn every wheel west
of the Rockies.
If tho timber woro to bo cut at the
rato of two billion foot a year
which would bo half of tho now an
nual cut of tho stnto ot Oregon and
to bo followed la Orogon oxorclslng
jurisdiction on the Washington sido
of the Columbia. Tho Washington
officials will begin suit in the federal
courts to provont Oregon from en
forcing tho recent fish laws on the
Washington or ouo tweutioth of that north sido of the river.
Southport 2.25 8.18
Summit 10.20 5.25
Junction 2.45 8.30
Beaver Hill .... ....
Coquillo 3.10 8.45
Johnsons 3.20 8.50
Schroeders . ... 3.27 8.55
Norway 3.35 9.05
Myrtle Point . ...Ar. 3.45 Ar. 9.15
No. 2. No. 4.
North A. M." P. M.
Marshfleld Ar.10.45 Ar. 6.00
Southport 10.30 5.40
Summit 10.20 5.25
Junction 10.15 5.15
Boaver Hill ....
Coquille 10.00 5.00
Johnsons 9.50 4.30
Schroeders. ... 9.4S 4.20
Norway 9.40 4.10
Myrtlo Point ....Lv. 9.30 Lv. 4.00
Flag station; stop on signal only.
MANGAN'S UNDERTAKING
PARLORS.
Funeral supplies
eral.
in gen-
with
Licensed embalmer
lady assistant.
South Broadway.
Telephones: OFFICE 2101.
RESIDENCE 2103.
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Saw Mill Proposition
MILL 2-Story 32x48, with addition for planer 24x56, and EN
GINE ROOM 20x40, filing room 10x12, 3 tramways and slab con
veyor 120 feet long, 35 barrels, water tank and 20-ft. towor.
MACHINERY Atlas engine, 12x18, boiler 48x16, steam pump 125
ft. hose, Maine saws 2-50 in, 32 ft. carriage with 3 head blocks,
log haul cant gear, 4 saw edger, 2 saw trimmer, cut oft saw, 2
wheel trucks and 2-4 wheel trucks.
PLANER 6x24 S4S, 30 in, blowers, swing cut oft saw, omery
knlfo grinder and grind stone.
FARM 195 acres with 6000 ft. stumpage left and 1,000,000 ft.
piling, 35 acres under cultivation, houso 16x30, 2-story and addi
tion 16x2S, 5 rooms first floor, 4 rooms second floor.
BARN 50x50 stalls, 6 head of horses, 10 cows and large storage
rooms for hay and grain. Wood shed 16x24, chicken house. Extra
houses for mill hands cts.
COOK house 24x32m. 2-story with sleeping rooms for the em
ployes. 5 rooms on second floor, Michigan range cooking uten
sils and dishes.
I, 16x36 one story D, 2 rooms
I, 14x16 ono story D, 1 room
I, 16x26 ono story D, 3 rooms
I, 16x36 one story D, 3 rooms
I, 16x24 one story D, 2 rooms
Largo dam in Elk creek not yet completed. Dam in BIdwell
creek 60 ft. long 10 ft. high; also 2-floor darns in BIdwell Creek.
BL.1CKSMIT1I SHOP 14x16. with forge, anvil, bench, vice, die
press, pipe vice, stock and dies, pipe cutter, 4 augurs brace and
two sets of bits, S crosscut saws, S axes, 2 cant hooks, 8 peaves,
5 shovels, 2 picks, 2 mattocks, 3 sledges, 4 wedges, 2 large and 1
smalljack, 1 automatic jack.
Donkey engine, Ledgerwood 9x10, with 7-8 in, main cable 3,200
ft. Vz in back haule, line, 150 ft. 5-8 in yarding line, 2-20 ft.
chokers, 4 return blocks and one Tomy moon But chain, 1 lead
block.
TWO HORSES 1 set heavy and 1 set light harness, 1 heavy
wagon, 1 harrow, 1 plow.
STUMPAGE 500,000 ft. not paid, 75 cents per m. 400,000 ft.
$400 paid and If more than this amount of stumpage, balance at
1.00D, per M, 1,000,000 stumpage $700 paid, balance when logged
nt 75 cents per M.
TOTAL STUMPAGE 4,900,000 ft.
LUMBER ON YARD 1,000,000 ft.
LOGS 50,000 ft cut piled and on the creek banks.
For further information call on or write
STUTSMAN & CO.
School Days! School Days!
GOOD OLD GOLDEN RULE DAYS are here, and so are we with
the largest stock of school books and supplies on the Bay.
NORTON & HANSEN
STATIONERS
OPPOSITE BLANCO HOTEL
COLUMBIA MACHINE WORKS
Cavanagh, Chapman , Co.
General Repair Work and Woodturning. Launches a Specialty t
Boot of Queen Avenue, Marshfield
SUNSET BAY STAGE
Leaves North Bend stables Monday, Wed
nesday and Fridays at 8 a. m. Returning at 4
p. m. Fare $1.50 round trip For Seats Apply
NORTH BEND STABLES - Phone 111
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Pacific Tool Works && ?
Heavy Forging a Specialty. First Class Logging Tools
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