Bandon recorder., July 12, 1906, Image 15

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C. Y. Lowe
PIONEER DRUG STORE
BAINTDOTT
OREOOIST.
We keep in »lock all the statdsrd
We also have a large and well s.-leoted stock of
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f| Sponges and Chamois Skins, Package Dyes
and Dye Stuffs.
ffl Perfumery,
LOGGING
CAMP
AT
SEVEN
MILE,
NEAR
BANDON.
aud No. 2. and 70 per cent common. ped for building vessels and there
The white cedar cut at down river is no better master shipbuilder on the
points will yield abont 40 per cent I Coast than Mr. Henckendorff
No. 1 and 2, and 60 per cent common.
Something About the Men, Mills and Camps, Taken From The logs will average about 500 feet.
Bandon Mfg. Co. is making a first
class
white cedar shingle, and is also
One of the marked features in the
the June Number of “The Timberman.”
manufacturing
red cedars. The plant
matter of re forestation in Coos Coun­
is
very
conveniently
located and de
The Coos Bay. Roseburg & Eastern urer, are the owners of the Chadwick ty is the rapid growth of alder, which
signed
to
cut
shingles
very economi­
Railroad is owned by the Spreckles in* tract, carrying 600,000,000 feet of follows the hr.
cally.
Two
upright
machines are
terests. of Sao Francisco, and oper­ timber. This timber will run about
Spruce
—
The
spruce
belt
in
Cooa
used.
About
5500
shingles
can be
40 per cent hr, 50 per ceut spruce and
ates between Marshfield auil Myrtle
obtained
from
a
cord
of
white
cedar
county
extends
only
abont
ten
miles
I 10 per cent white cedat of excellent
Point, a distance of 32 miles. This quality. It is advantageouly located from the coast. The spruce is gen­ bolts.
line was originally distined to form a on south Inlet and also borders on erally of a good grade and will run
Bandon Commercial company is
connection with the Sonthen Pacific tbo C. B., R. & E. R. R„ near the about 25 per cent selects and clears, manufacturing broom handles. Th»
bandies are manufactured from white
at Roseburg, but destiny and fate Beaver Hill mine. This company is and 75 per cent common.
building two and a half miles of rail­
cedar, alder, fir and maple. The out
were against it. It got ioto litiga­
The stumpage values on the Co­ put is 4500 handles daily. Formerly
road to connect with the Beaver Hill
tion, and W. S. Chandler was ap­ branch. Three Willamette and a quille river, accessible for logging,
large quantities of bandies were ex
pointed receiver and has successfully Tacoma engine will be used for the may be estimated as follows: 50 cents ported to Australia hut the impost
managed managed and improved the first year. The Washington Iron for second growth; 75 cents for yel- j tion of a tariff has restricted the mar­
physical condition of the property Works, of Seattle, will furnish the low tir; spruce $1 to JI 25; white ket. Tbos. Langlois is superintend
logging trucks. This company ex­
ent.
greatly since it came into bis hands.
pects to put twenty million feet in cedar, $2: red cedar, $1.
Col. R. H.Rosa is operating a white
The road is doing a good business in the water this year, and thirty million
The first mill constructed on the
cedar
mill about three miles from
carrying lumber, logs and coal to feet thereafter for four years. The Coquille river was built by Fobl,
Bandon. The doughty Col. has a
Coos Bay. The Myrtle Point Mill logs are contracted to the Simpson Gruby & Rink.
The white cedar i complete broom handle plant but is
Company, Myrtle Point, Coquille Mill Lumber Company.
used in the construction of the late not operating it at present
The other logging railroads in
& Mercaulile Company, Coquille, and
Coos County are: Aason Bros., Co­ Palace Hotel in San Francisco, was
The Parkersburg Mill and Tug
A, Johnson’s mil), at Coquille, ship
quille: Seeley A Thomae, Coquille; cut at this historic old mil).
Co. is one of the oldest plants on the
tbeir lumber over this line to Marsh­ Sturdevant & Crane, Coquille; A.
Price of Logs—Coquille River.
river. The property consists of about
field where it is unloaded in vessels Jobnsou, Coquille; Cody Lumber
No. 1 tir, $6 to $6.50; second growth, 6000 acres of very well timbered land
for California ports. The Simpson Company. These roads are located $4,50 to $5; spruce $6 to $6 50; red and is a portion of the Doe estate.
The mill is cutting abont 40,000 feet.
Lumber Company, of North Bend, on the Coquille River. Blue Ridge cedar, $6; white cedar, $5 to $12.
Railroad & Navigation Company is
Manager Kronenberg is operating
and Dean Lumber Company, of
Booms.
operated by the Simpson Lumber
the plant successfully.
The plant
Marshfield, utilize this line for bring­ Company and is located on Coos
There are two public booms on the was built by the late Captain Judah
ing the logs cut on the Coquille Riv­ River. Southern Oregon Company, Coquille river. The McCormac boom Parker, to whose energy ami enter­
er to Coos Bay. The logs are loaded of Empire, has a railroad located at at Cedar Point has been confining it­ prise the Coquille valley owes h
on the cars at Cedar Creek boom, Sumner, which is idle. These roads self to catching the Simpson logs for debt of gratitude. Through hie per­
sonal efforts the first improvement-
owned by Dr. McCormac, and have a trackage of 27 miles and'
utilize eight locomotives and 24 transportation to Coos Bay. Charles at the mouth of the Coquille river
dumped into bis boom on the Coos
logging engines, and have a daily Ashton, of Parkersburg, operates a were undertaken By soliciting the
Bay side. The charge for catching capacity of 500,000 feet.
aid of the farmers aud settiers, a jetty
public boom.
and booming the logs on the Coquille
White Cedar.
The Coquille river has three forks was constructed which rendered nav­
The white cedar of Coos and Cur­
River, loading on the carsand rafting
—North, South, aud Middle forks. igation possible. The Government
was finally enlisted in the project
at Coos Bay is 55 cents per thousand ry Counties is susceptible of a high
polish and may be stained to any The Middle and South fork unite through the efforts of Judge M. C.
feet. The rail rate is $3 per car. with
desired effect. For furniture and about three miles above Myrtle Point, George, of Portland, who was then >i
an average load of 4000 feet. The cabinet work this lumber will yet be
while the North and South fork form Congressman from Oregon. During
road is under option to the Southern recognized to a greater extent than it
a confluence about one mile below the Farmers' & Shippers' Congress
Pacific, and it is expected it will be is today. The lumber can be kiln
Myrtle Point. These streams are at North Beml. where ev< ry banner
bore the inscription of “Forty feet ol
absorbed and made a part of the line dried with practically little checking
being evidenced. The best quality of well adapted for driving logs. The water on Coos Bay Bar,' Mrs. Kron
to be constructed from Drain to Coos
white cedar is foimd growing about North fork cau be driven for 35 miles, enberg, a daughter of the late Captain
Bay, a distance of about 80 miles. 10 miles from the coast in Coos, and
South fork 40 miles, aud the Middle Parker, wore on her coat a modes!
From Coos the line will undoubtedly Curry County about 20 miles iuland.
fork 30 miles. The rises io these piece of ribbon with the significani
follow the coast and be extended to This timber will average about 500
streams occur from November to inscription. “We will be satisfied will
twenty feet.”
Humboldt Bay, California, where a feet to the log and will yield about
March generally, but owing to the
30
per
cent
selects
and
belter
and
the
line north from San Francisco will
Coquille Mill A Mercantile Com
balance common. California has here excessive moisture a good driving
pany was compelled to close dowi
connect, forming practically a water tofore practically offered the only
stage of water occurred on the first of
for a few days on account of logs,
level coast line route from San Fran­ market for this lumber, but with the
the month, bringing out about ten but started up abont the first of the
cisco to Portland, avoiding the heavy extensive and successful advertising
million feet, which was practically the month. Jeff Nye, of the company, is
grades of the Siskiyou Mountains which has been accomplished by
bulk
of the logs lying in the streams. a great admirer of myrtle, amt has
and affording a rail outlet for the Manager L. J. Simpson, of the Simp­
about 30,000 feet of this bamisorm
son Lumber Company, North Bend, The Coquille rises in extreme high
lumber in the yard, which will find
timber of the Oregon and California
this valuable lumber is now being water to a height of 20 feet, while the
its wev i«t<s the-biiMture factories.
coast. The building of the Drain-Coos ■ocghl-thr.mgbor.t the United Slates.
average rises are from 12 to 15 feet
J. G. Fish, Coquille, operates a
Bay link will open up one of the best Owiug to its lasting qualities for ship­
The duration of high water is abont planing mill ami box factory. Mr
building
and
deck
planking,
it
has
no
sections in Oregon. The line will
one week generally.
Fish is a skilled cabinet maker and
traverse the valley of the Umpqua, superior, in addition to its merits as
and manufactnreH handsome special
Shingle Mills.
a
sash
aud
door
and
interior
finish
leaving Gardiner, under tl>e present
Fred Mentzel is operating a shingle fiirnitine.
survey, about one ami half miles to wood.
Myrtle Point Mill Company is ent
The
hardwoods
of
C
oob County/ mill at Arago, with an output of
tlie north, and striking Coos Bay at
ting
abont 25,000 feet daily, which is
consisting
principally
of
maple,
alder,
a point nearly opposite North Bend,
10,000 shingles daily.
asb,
black
and
yellow
myrtle,
are
i
shipped
to Sun Francisco via Coo-
where a draw bridge will be erected,
M hittington & Arnson have a small
destined
in
the
course
of
a
few
years
Bay
principally.
The company op
and follows the south bank of Coos
shingle mill near Myrtle Point
to
become
very
valuable.
The
myrtle
erates
a
large
general
store in con
Bay to Marshfield, thence south via
Larsen A Company are erecting a
nection
with
its
mill
and
has all the
is
especially
beautiful,
susceptible
of
the Coquille River to California. The
shingle mill at Coquille.
The mill
orders
it
can
handle.
The
mill is ad
a
high
polish
ami
the
variety
of
its
building of the Drain-Coos Bay line
will be equipped with a Challoner
vantageously located at the jnnctioi
of
its
markings
render
it
a
very
will give a wonderful impetus to the
double block machine The null ia
lumber development of Douglas and choice and desirable furniture wood. conveniently designed and is located of the two forks of the Coquille
River.
Coos Counties, and it will only be a
Coquille River Timber
on the railroad and Coquille river,
The Prosper Mill Company is run
few years after ihe construction of
The timber of the Coquille River affording rail and water facilities.
ning
steadily under the management
the road until it is lined with saw consists of yellow and second growth
Shipbuilding.
of
W
illiam
Hicking ami cutting about
mills.
The keel will soon be laid for the
fir. spruce, red and white cedar prin­
40.600
feet
daily.
Logging Roads,
const ruction of a steam schooner at
cipally.
Carman & Crites are sawing foi !
Deau Lumber Company is build­
the Simpson yards at North Bend
The yellow tir will yield about 30
K V. Kruse of Marshfield has a the Cody Lumber Company and have
ing two miles of road op Cunningham
Creek, which will counect with the per cent of clear aud selects. The steam schooner in the stocks at his a good modern band mill. The mill
is averaging 50,000 feet daily. Grays
yard.
C. B.. R A E R, R.. which will haul logs will average abont 1100 feet.
Harbor is well represented on the Co­
the logs to Marshfield.
E.
Henckendorff.the
Prosper
ship
Second growth fir will run abont 50
quille River. Messrs. Carman A Crites
Coos Bay Lumber A Coal Com
builder,
is
building
a
tine
steam
per cent of No. 1 and No 2. The logs
pany, of Marsbtield. capitalized at
schooner of the following dimensions: and Manager Hicking, of tboProsper
$300,000, of which F. Boutin, Jr„ will average about 700 feet.
Keel 176 feet; beam 38 feet; bold 13 Mill Company, are all former Grays
White cedar, up river, shows an feel. The vessel will carry about Harbor lumbermen. Locally Carman
it president, Louie Hanticb. vice-
praaidant. aud W. E. McCord, treas­ average of about 30 per cent No 1 700,000 feet. This yard
well equip­ A Crites' location is called Aberdeen
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Railroads and Lumber Industry in Coos.
Colognes,
Bay Rum, Florida Water. Our stock com-
prises al! the popular odors.
TOILETand FANCYGOODS
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Toilet Soaps, Bath Soaps,
Face Powders,
Infant Powders,
Tooth Powders. Sachet Powders, Toilet Cases,
Dressing and Fine Combs.
11 j Ru/blcer Goods
Syringes,
Nipples,
Nursing Bottles,
Breast Pampa. Bands. Etc.
Paints and Oils,
Mixed Paint ready for the brush, Strictly Pure White Lead, Oils,
Varnishes. Turpentine, Sand Paper, Putty, Glass, Paint
Brushes, Etc. Painters’ Supplies a Specialty
BRUSHES
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Hair brushes, Cloth brushes, Tooth brushes. Nail brushes. Flesh
brushes. Artists’ brushes. Marking brushes, Dust and
Whitewash brushes. Camel's hair pencils.
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Cigars and Tobacco.
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AND
FRUIT
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