THE 02EGOX SUNDAY JOimNAL - POHTLAND, SUKPAYi MO&?OKG; AUGUST 13, 1922.
CODS BAY LOOKS
FORWARD TO EVEN
MORE PROSPERITY
Inhabitants Jubilant Over Pros
pects and Point With Pride
to Splendid Location of Port
Six run ago this month a new rail
line was : completed for the Southern
Pacific company from the Willamette
valley to Coo Bay and a Jubilant pop
ulace was awakened to a realisation
mat a prosperous development -was
soon to follow. -
This month, upon the anniversary of
me advent or rails, a renewed interest
is being taken in the prospects of the
future after a six-year period when
interest -was centered in a world con
flict and subsequent adjustment of
Internal affairs., i ,
The populace of Coo Bay its again
planning upon the future of the -coastal
region tributary to that port. They
are watching the influx of new settlers,
r.ew business-men and new tourists, for
during the past few months an un
mistakable development has taken
place. Doubts and discouragements of
former years have been brushed aside
and confidence is enthroned : in the
hearts of every Coos county resident.
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The foundation is laid for the pros
pective nourish of new business and
new industry. Coos Bay never has
bad a mushroom growth. Business has
grown steadily for more than 10 years.
keeping pace with a vigorous i develop
ment of industry and agriculture. The
foundation is complete tor the future.
Even when the railroad waa pushed
over and through the coast range from
Eugene and business men from San
Francisco, Portland and all cities and
towns between gathered-, ior the
memorable Jubilee August. 24, 25 and
It, ills, these visitors were (surprised
to find progressive communities with
paved streets and fruitful valleys In
tensively farmed, instead of frontier
villages and uncultivated lands.
It was on that occasion 'that The
Journal and the Chamber of Commerce
sent two special trains to Marshfield
and North Bend to Join three other
special trains from Salem, Eugene and
San Francisco and stories of prosperity
it the Coos country were brought back
and passed from tongue to tongue.
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That first year of the railroad's op
eration into the Coos region was an
active one. The population grew by
leaps and bounds. Then came the war
to divert attention to new affairs. De
velopment was dropped when every
energy was put forth to win the con
flict. . i
At the conclusion of the war the
focus of publlo interest' continued to
be turned from development. Every
ounce of energy was needed to keep es
tablished industry running.
But the war and Its aftermath have
passed and business is casting about
for new fields to conquer.- That is
the reason for the renewal of interest
in the Coos Bay district I With keen
insight the commercial interests of the
tooa region have felt the development
coming. They have seen financiers
and industrial leaders cornel and go and
they have watched the steady move
ment of new residents into the country.
They are pushing their port develop
ment and hastening their good-roads
program.
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Interest likewise has been directed to
the unusual growth of tourist travel
this year.. Larger crowds have trav
eled over the Coos Bay line to fish and
camp along the mountain streams,
beautiful lake shores , and ocean
beaches, than have been reported since
the first year the road was com
pleted. Eventually these mountains, inland
lakes, rapid flowing streams and ocean
shores will be the mecea for more
thousands of , summer j vacationists.
The Coos Bay country is one blessed
with all the attractions that take resi
dents of the city out of doors.
At this season a great army of
sportsmen is preparing to j penetrate the
coast and Siskiyou rangea
There is a profusion i of wild life
all through Coos and Curry county to
the south. j , -
With the attraction ef a vacation
mecca. added glamor Is given the com
mercial prospects. Coos Bay is a port
PICTURESQUE COOS AND ITS DEVELOPMENT .
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PROPERTIES
CRY WILL SELL
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PUBLIC AUCTION
September 10 Is Date Fixed for
Sale; Lots Affected Located
in Various Parts of Portland.
Announcement has been made! by
City Treasurer Adams that he will sell
at public auction at 19 a. m. on Sep
tember . properties in various parts
of Portland on which there are -delinquent
assessments for public work to
the amount of approximately 110,000.
The list includes :
For improving Brasee street, from
East 17th to East 28th street, parcels
of land in Brasee street addition.
For the Killlngsworth avenue and
East 18th street sewer .system. ) lots in
Vernon. . - - -'!''"':'".
; For the Ainsworth avenue and Klr-
by street sewer system, lots i in ' M
Patton's tract. Piedmont and West
Piedmont. i - I
For the Ainsworth avenue and East
13th street sewer system, lots in Cae-
l sar Park. Columbia Heights, Highland
Park,-
For the East ISth street trunk sewer,
lots in Ainsworth tract, Alameda Park.
Olmstead Park, Alroo. Albina Heights.
Arleta Park. Beverly, Cloverdale ex
tension, Cloverdale extension No. X,
Cloverdale tract. Columbia- Heights.
South block. Concord Heights. East
over, El Tovar, FarreU's second ad
dition, Florence Heights, Foxchase ad
dition. Fullerton, Gerard, Going (street
addition. Grendell Park. Highland.
Highland Park. Hilton. Ina Park. Irv
Ington Park. Kennedy's addition, Kil
lingsworth avenue addition, Lamonte,
I Lester Park. Lovelelgh. Love's addi
tion, uveas' aacuuon. uaanurst. rse-
oara, Olmstead Park. Oregon Heights.
Piedmont. Rosedale. Rosedala annex,
Roselawn. Roselawn annex, Roalyn.
Saratoga. Scoffins' addition. 8 tana-
berry addition, Tate's addition, Traut-
man's addition, vernon, wairs caover
dale annex. Walnut Park. Willamette
addition to East Portland, Wood lawn.
Wood lawn Heights.
For improvemrnt of vista avenue
from Patton roaa to Soring street.
lots in Alta vista and Qeorglag Court.
For the Improvement of 6 2d street
southeast, from Woodstock avenue to
55th avenue southeast, lots in Tre-
mont Place.'
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When the Southern Padfio company entered, the Coos Bay district It made its constraction of the most per
manent natwre as shown in the picture (at the top) of the steel and concrete railroad bridge, a mile In
length, over Coos Bay. The second picture shows the railroad under construction seven years ago and
the lower two the country reached hy the rail line. The third picture Is taken on the Coos river near
Forks and the lower Is an example of some of the huge trees which grow In Coos county.
destined to be a world trade center.
Ocean vessels have used this port for
years to draw the vast volume of
products out of the coastal region.
HAS COAX MIXES 4
Tributary to Coos Bay Is about one
twelfth of the standing timber of the
United States, about 176,000,000, OpO feet
of the finest fir, suruce and the famous
Port Orford cedar, found only In this
district. It also has a large variety
of hard wood Including myrtle, maple,
oak. ash and alder. The myrtle wood
is common only to Coos county and
the Holy land. ;
Altogether Coos-county has within
Its boundaries almost 700.000 taxable
acres of land and more than 00.000
acres of this amount is timber land.
The timber stand in this county alone
ts estimated at 20,000.000.000 feet. '
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Coos county has the only coal mines
in operation in the state of Oregon,
and the United States geological sur
vey shows approximately 450 square
miles underlaid with coal of -a sub
bitusatauous nature. Many of the
farmers have their own coal banks.
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The farms of Coos eotmtv are won
derfully fertile. Most of- them are lo
cated on river delta lands which are
overflowed and renewed in , richness
each year. There are 14.941 acres In
the county in pasture or crop and 181,T
622 acres awaiting development. Dairy
ing is or primary importance.
Commercial fishing has assumed con
siderable Importance 4uringr the past
few years with the result that many
Iacking plants have been established
for salmon and other sea foods.
Chief among the industries of the
county are lumber and logging, coal
mining, dairying and oo related lines
of work. Coos county has a dozen
large sawmills and the rail line serves
to take this product either to Marsh
tield or North- Bend on Coos Bay for
loading into ocean carriers or into the
Willamette valley for further shipment
or mill use.
Pioneers of the old Coos - country
wars drawn there early In the fifties
by the reports of another native re-
souce gold. Other Coos Bar resources'
soon attracted the early settlers to
star and send for their friends.
STtTBT MAP
From its very beginnings the Coca)
Bay territory has been a manufactur
ing district and an export ocean porV
sending out great quantities of Its
products to the world, but receiving
little ' in return. A sawmill
tabllahed on Coos Bay as early as
185s and two years later a ship yard
was started, according to the history of
that country.
Tha residents of a country are
firm i believers In careful map study
and they -fully appreicata the Import
ance of the location of the bay. It is
In the path of. world commerce and
one of the ' few ocean Inlets on the
PadOo eeast with a deep ocean Inlet.
Along tho Atlantic ocean are many
ocean harbors and on all are located
seaports of prominence. When the
world trade center moves to the Pa
cific the future of such porta aa Coea
Bay will be guaranteed.
'L1ADE ffl OREGOir
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THE HESS GAS FIOACE1
Barely, If yem are going to
BUT I A TXTBLSACTS
Tern wta, at least,
SEETHE KESS ,
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At M Oak St. Hess Faraaee Co.
Shoplifters Bane of Stores
Thieves Pilfer Many Things
Portland merchants are passing
through the most stupendous epidemic
of shoplifting la their commercial hia-
Every day m every one of the de
partment stores th boom detective
find thieves in the act of supping
goods from counters Into handbags,
pockets or clothing-: Usually nothing is
said or doae about it. officially, except
to reclaim tha stolen articles ana ban
Ish - the thief henceforth from the
store. But v sometimes exceptional
cases appear the orof esstonal and
recognised thief, the systematic, cun
ning artificers in dishonesty tnat lead
to arrest and prosecution. .-vvrk
Believing. that more can be accom
plished by preventing crime than by
punishing criminals. most of the
stores now have, detectives on watch
constantly to surprise a possible of
fender before he has had a chance to
steaL prevent actual commission of
the deed and send him oh his - way
with a warning. -
Store! detectives say most of the pil
fering Is being done by amateur thieves
people who yield to a momentary
temptation; people who see in theft
the only way to tide over a financial
emergency ; people who take what they
can because of . the Irresistible im
pulse which used to be called "klep
tomania. i I , x
Occasionally a regular thief appears,
one with - a prison record, one who
concentrates on shoplifting as an easy
and profitable vocation. -
- "But you would : be surprised to
know," explained Miss Coraen Walker,
house detective for Llpmau, Wolfe &
Co., how many little girls I pick up
in the course of-a week. . They steal
perfume, powder, lipsticks, - hair nets,
silk stockings, blouses, lingerie.. Usual
ly I find a package of cigarettes In
their handbags along , with' the loot."
EXPERTEXCES JAJLY '
Miss Walker is the detective who
staged a running fight with a million
aire's wife several months ago In try
ing to make an arrest on shoplifting
charges, the fugitive knocking her
down twice, tearing her clothes and
ruining her hat during tha street scuf
fle, r 1
But she only laughs about that epi
sode now and cites it as one of the few
"extreme cases." Usually she merely
follows the suspected thief out of the
store, reclaims the goods, takes a keen
survey of tha culprit and that ends it
unless the thief ""Starts somethlng."-
that case a policeman la usually near
by who does the rest. - !
On tha other hand Mrs. Dennis of the
Meier Frank company usually takes
the suspect to the office 2 and they
"have It oof, la : seclusion. : The' fre
quency of these calls at the manager's
office .. la, auowever, alarming, .f-.;.
One of . the worst as well as most
touching of recent cases of shoplifting
Involved the arrest of the mother of
seven Children. She was caught as she
was teaching two of her young to steal
from', the- counter, and ' turn over the
loot to her. This' was too much even
for" the ; sympathy of the store offi
cials, most or woom nave cnuann , vi
their own whom they-are trying to
raise to-be honorable men and women.
So the mother was larrested. Later-in
vestigation disclosed that the father
earns a small pittance as a laborer
and that another child is expected soon.
Tha court, the prosecuting attorney
and the store detective were ail of one
mind,, f The woman was released on
probation.
-But what, sort
lot goods do people
steal roost f a reporter asked the
house detectives of the larger depart
ment stores. .
The answer was succinct: "Every
thing.
It is easiest to steal from the bar
gain counters, except that the ' thief
who wears cotton; -'hose would rather
steal silk ones whtch don't get on that
counter so oftexu But the wiles of the
more experienced thief are equal to
alrnoBt any department.
DETECTIVES OFjEEjr
Very often the thief is able to. elude
the watchfulness of the store detect
ives.: Often suspected persons, kept
under watch, are ! so clever that they
are able to get away with wares un
der tha. very noses of salesfoik and
sleuths. But and the detectives- are
very positive about this they seldom
pursue their course long without being
"spotted" and usually they are caught
in time.
, Often when one of those strange
psychological persons la entangled who
has no reason whatever for stealing.
friends and ' Influential relatives
bring all manner of pressure to bear on
merchants to have the whole affair
smothered up. Persuation. threats and
Dromlses are employed. Usually It is
considered better business to let the
matter drop, get the goods back and
hone for reform
The same policy is usually- aaoptea
when persons of less Influence are en
tangled. .Inquiry is made as to me
circumstances, of the culprit and in
many ; Instances A the j store officials t
find themselves able to give posi
tive and direct Ihelp to the very ones
they have put under detention. .
CRIME PKETE5TI03r IS AIM
That Is to say, even soulless cor- :
poration has a heart, because however
impersonal a corporation may oe iv is
administered by men and women of
human sympathies who appreciate the
misfortunes and frailties or their jei-low-belngs.
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Alt of which means a concerted pol
icy of watching, vigilance and preven
tion of crime, SEvery person who en
ters a store usually gets a thorough
looking -over byf some of the detectives
who may ; be ; sding about in the
guise of . customers, sales-people or
floorwalkers. The vast majority pass
the scrutiny test, but the people, who
just "come In, to look around" are the
hn m tin InnrMt lOOItl.
Whil the department stores suner
mo, all the stores are encountering
nnn lnu.a tTram theft. Store own
ers explain that they have no wish to
change their pxlicy of sympathetic
handling of these cases but the evil has
grown te suchf proportions u tney
j, i .r m hnuld not
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turn over all shoplifters to we poucc
AlthoualT' the! hot. dry weather has
somewhat injured the crpo. tarmers or
the Cascade, laaho. section will , this
,hln anDroxlmately 400 carloads
of head lettuces
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Here Is a Clothing and Furnishing Goods Message
We would like to shout from the house-tops -we want to drire it home to every man and boy in this pari of Ore-
gon. It is vital to the economic welfare of the mascnlina. X V - ".'
SATURDAY -NIGHT THE DOORS OF THE UON CLOTHING COMPANY
were locked, preparatory to launchlnfr tbe greatest legitimate; bona fide, sacrifice sale of men's young men's,
youths' and boys clothmg and fur I ' '
A Sale With a Reason and a Purpose-r-READ 1
Taking advantage of an unusual opportunity to acquire the complete control of the best located, most popular
and one of the most successful men's clothing establishments on the entire Pacific coast, Sir. Gus Kuhn, Presi
dent of THE LION CLOTHING COMPANY, has just purchased the entire interests of Mr. Samuel L Fox, for
mer Vice-President of the company. j t - ' . , . f
The terms of this gigantic deal Involves the immediate sacrifice of this huge stock in order to pay. Mr. Fox an
(norm uus sum in a verjr fiiiuxi wuc j hiui uua unu umimuvu' nc amiuuuvt t - , . -
SALE OF TITC ENTIRE LION CLOTHING COMPANY STOCK
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at reduaions that will shake to the fouddation Portland's former trading traditions and smash to fsmither-,
eens" all previous records In price cutting. PosiUvdy nothing will be reserved from this mighty sacrifice. Even
the new fan merchandise which is arriving daily wffli be included at substantial reductions. ,r f - - t ,f -
-AHu lei US jnaae uus point ciear ine price reuueuuus juuhj vu au uu.vi ut1p1.uuutuu9c. cuv
mnnine. based on today's worth, not that of "war days," or even six months or a year ago.
THE LION CLOTHING COSIPANY needs no introduction to the people of Portland. For thirty years this firm
has had the reputation or selling noining dui sierung mercnanaise. uunsuas ami uwusaous -vi vwyue wuw
know the fine reputation of this store have the same confidence in buying here that they have in dealing with
their most substantial banker ! During this sale, as always, the lugh integrity and reputation of the store will
be maintained to the letter. ... - i ' ; J ', I -
REMEMBER THE STORE IS CLOSED ALL DAY TOMORROW AND TUESDAY
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SALE STARTS WEDNESDAY
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