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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1906)
I These battleships» were not built at the Bandon Foundry and Machine Shop But we make a Specialty of Marine Engine Work Experts in designing and con structing special machinery. Rush Orders Attended to Day or Night Bandon Foundry ----and-— Machine Shop. BANDON, .... OREGON. Stock Raising in Coos County. The Advantages Coos County Has in This Industry. Cattle Thrive on the Open Range the Year ’Round. A Fine Country for Sheep and Goats. ising or surer opportunities tban a offeted in Coos county stock raug< Sheep and goats have been font to thrivacn this pasture equally well as cattle; and in addition to t meat, tbe wool and mobair a source of large protit. Sbeep ai goats have not received tbe atteutii in tbe past which we believe 1L1 deserve and wbieb they most « suredly will in tbe future. It seems to tbe writer that gon aree-pecially adapted to this Counit we have seen thousands of acres lyit idle, bringing tbe owners absolute no income whatever and at tbe san time they appeared to na to be tl natural element of the goat. Ti steep and rocky fot cultivation; ove grow with poison oak, sallal, tbimbl berries, salmon berries and buck) berries and other small shrubB thi no other stock would eat but e which goats would thrive, it seems crying shame that some euterprisiu person with small capital would n< buy up these tracts and stock thei with goals Perhaps in time th goats would kill all this vegetatioi Then the land may seeded as befoi suggested for seeding burnt bills, an tbe goats replaced with cattle. These are not experiments we bav been suggesting. They have all bee tried and found successful. Of court there have been a few fail But so there are in any any businesses, Men bave pt from tbe failures of < and learned front tbeir amplee to shun tbe rocks which ba caused tbe wrecks. We said there have been a ft failures. But on further considt atiou we are uuable to recall a siny faiin re in Coos county stock raisin However, we are willing to conce that there may have been a few. ( tbe other band, we might name considerable number of men w have succeeded in this line, among them several who have a sufficient amount of money to able them to live at ease tbe remim of I heir lives In addilon to al) tbe we have mentioned, it should be membered that we have two deep < harbors on tbe coast of Coos con —tbe Coquille river and Coos I These afford ns the means of trans portal ion by water—the cheapi there is. Aud we have tbe S Francisco market, tbe greatest on t Pacific coast, almost at our doors Ships from our ports cross tbe Pacific ocean, carrying our produce to Orient. Where can such opportunities be- found as are offered here for stock raising!—Coquille Sentinel. Steamer Elizabeth C. P. JENSEN, Master. Regular 8 Day Service for Passengers and Freight between Bandon and San Francisco Direct. E. T. KRUSE, Managing Agent, E. DYER, Agent Bandon, Oregon That Coos is the ideal stock not too heavily pastured this grass country, must be admitted by all who will constantly re seed tbe land and have given the matter any considera eventually kill out all other growth. tion and are at all familiar with the Can you find a country anywhere that conditions. can be so easily transformed frotn a First and foremost of all, C ojs dense forest to a place with“ cattle on county has been and still is a lumber a thousand hills!” country. Tbe conservative estimates But we have not yet told tbe best place the present amount of merchant part of our story. And that is, that LAMPA. utile timber al twenty-seven billion to stock will live all the year through ----- OOO------ Lampa is situated midway between forty billion feet. It is conceded by on tbis feed No labor required in Bandon and Coquille City on tbe Co PARKERSBURG. fill that iu the near future the great putting up winter feed At a few of Seveu miles up tbe river from Ban quille river. It is tbe only point on I ulk of this timber will be cut and tin* highest altitudes iu I lie count v, a I don at the mouth of Bear creek, is the river where tbe Bandon-Myrtle marketed and tbe lulls whereon stood few inches of snow may fall during the little town of Parkersburg, Sur Point wagon road conuects with tbe |be magnificent pities will be bare ex tbe winter and cover tbe feed for rounding it are some of tbe best of river. Lampa postoffice is supplied cept for the undergrowth. Then the! three or four days In these localities, th« famous Coquille Valley ranches with mail twice a day except Sunday, question arises as to how these hills unless tbe stock raiser has lower and dairy farms. Tbe place lias a but commencing July 1st this service may be utilized to bring tbe beet re ground where Ins stock may feed sawmill, general store, postoffice and will be daily. A general Btore in pulís. Fruit raising has been tried ' these few days, it is advisable to have telephone office, (’apt. Parker and connection with tbe postoffice is do by many and proven lobe very profit enough bay put up to feed during M. L. Hanscom built a sawmill at ing a good business. There is a neat able Stock raising bas been under that time. But these localities are so this place in 1^76 7 It was after ¡•tile school building wjfh school six taken perhaps more extensively than scarce aud tbe snowfall so slight and ward burned and a new mill of larger months during the year. The country aiyihing else and bas always reward of such short duration that in speak capacity was built. Iu 1883a salmon around Lampa is a tine dairy section, td the industrious and prudent. ing of tbe county as a whole they are cannery was established aud did ii there being a good supply of green It has been tbe practice heretofore scarcely to be considered. successful business for a number of grass throughout tbe year. Bandon to set tire tbe tops and underbrush One of the tinest droves of beef cat years, when it was destroyed by fire. receives a large supply of milk from left on tbe ground after a consider tle we have ever seen was driven There is a tine body of timber around the Maple Dell creamery at that able area bas been logged off. Ex i through our town some time ago. Parkersburg and tbe place will he place and a large amount of tbe milk perience has demonstrated that tbe i These cattle were all two years old; tbe scene of big logging operation* sent to tbe creameries comes from tbe month of August is the best time to Í bad been bought at weaning time and Lampa valley yet not one-tbird of for years Io come. do this burning. That is the driest turned onto hill pasture prepared as the valley is under cultivation. The Coquille Mill A Tug Co., own season of the year and tbe brush will , above described; and bad never beeu There are hundreds of acres of tbe sawmill here which bas a capacity I urn better Also, when burned at fed a mouthful; blit bad lived, thrived of 40,000 feet daily. This company good coal land underlaid with ten or this season, the brush seems easier or ami fattened in the bills, wiuter aud also owns tbe tug Triumph, and has twelve veins of coal ranging in thick more thoroughly killed and is not Hpt summer- two winters and oue sum- a fleet of schooners catryiug lumber nose from three to nine feet. Tbe to spring up again from tbe roots. mer, with absolutely no ex|e;ae ir to tbe California market. Directly coal is unexcelled in quantity aud After the ground has been labor to the owner from the time be and indirectly tbe company gives em quaility oo tbe Coast. J H. Timou thoroughly burned over and just be purchased them until be drove them ployment to seventy-five to one hun is operating a veiu about 40 inches iu fore the early fall rams, grass seed to market. And this is being le , dred men. Tbe company will prob thickness. He has several men at should be sown in liberal quantities posted year after year by practically ( ably erect a new mill during the com work developing it and is putting out over tbe burned district. Most peo all our stockmen. a small amount of Coal daily but will ing year. ple who have tried it seem to favor \\ e would suggest to our dairymen soon be iu readiness to ship. There orchard grass as being tbe kind best that they should each own tracts of Tbe fishing industry makes a good lire thousands id tons leady to l*e adapted to our bill lands. It grows this hill pasture where they mav fat pay roll duriog tbe fishing season. opened up and taken out to market. luxurautly. keeps green all tbe year ten their iinpretitable milkers aud Tbe two »’anneries at Bandon and Capital is all that is needed to open a round, ami produces a good quality young stock. To those seeking in Prosper paid out about $14.HOD to great industry. and flavor of beef aud mutko. If vestment, we know of no more prom | ’b® fishermen last fall. There is a vast amount of timber San Francisco COOS COUNTY COURT HOUSE. J in this part of tbe county and several logging camps. One of the largest camps in the state, tbe Cody Lumber Co., is located here. It is a new com pany, having been i<l operation scarcely a year, but during that time they have employed upwards of fifty men during summer and winter and will employ a much larger crew in I the near future. They are working a large body of timber wtiicb will take | fifteen years to log it off', at tbe rate of lOO.OOt) ft. daily There are ■ " ! dreds of acres of timber that is not being worked. Lam pa has good river transporta tion facilities and is on tbe riglit-of way of the new coast railroad. ------OOO----- BULLARDS. Bullards postoffice is located on tbe '•>rth bank of the Coquille river about two miles above Bandon. Robt. W. Bullard, one of tbe pioneers of tbe Coquille, has a general store at this place and also conducts the ferry. The river boats make regular landings here and there is a public telephone in the store. Fahy's sawmill is located about two miles back of Billiards. There are several fine rariclies in the country back of Bullards. This section is adapted to stock raising and dairying arid there are many tine opportunities in that vicinity for the man who wishes to engage in ranch ing. One of the nicest drives in the country is from Bandon to Whiskey Run, via Bullards, which takes one through the black sand region that was famous in early days. Fruit growing is a flourishing in- , dustry throughout the county ami tbe export trade is growing larger ! each year. The varieties produced are apples, pears, quinces, plums, ' cberrieB and small fruits. Tbe trees 1 begin to bear when remarkably I young, and are exceedingly healthy aud vigorous, aud beiug free from disease, will live to a great age. Tbe trees are very productive and the fruit posseses a delicious flavor. This county is a very Eden for cherries, P. 8. HOYT, Prop. plums au<l prunes. Strawberries, currants, raspberries, gooseberries and cranberries, of a tine quality, are raised in abundance. Several vari j Located in EL DORADO B( ILDING. Flrot street St MION oMKt.ON ties of the hardier grapes are success fully cultivated. Blackberries ami SHAVING. SHAMPOOING AM) HAIR huckleberries grow wild in tbe woods Cl I 1 ING AT STANDARD PRICES. in vast quantities and are a natural llxthrnom nrwty Nitral Ip with I'nrr.laln product of tbe soil. Tub. Kat or (old Bath* ta «rata El, ! )oi<ADO TONSORIAL PARLORS
