Bandon recorder., July 12, 1906, Image 7

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DEALERS IN
GENE RAL MERCHAN DIS E
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aim to keep just as nearly everything in our lines, that you need, as pos­
There are thousands of little things that do not count for much
sible.
each, but their aggregate is a very material part of life’s comfort.
overlook these lesser good things.
It is easy to
We try to have as many of them as possible,
and are always glad to receive suggestions.
We have every reason to feel grateful for the liberal patronage accorded us and will try and
to your advantage to do your shopping here.
Our prices are reasonable
and goods
dependable.
make
If anything
goes wrong we make it right and by so doing we are building up confidence between customers and
ourselves.
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PANTER BROS.,
Hofer Visits Coquille Valley.
like maple, ash, myrtle, and alder, are
being made up into door panels and
There
While st Coos Bay nearly all the
few days in the year a vessel is not
delegates took a run over into the
loading at the docks or hanging in
Coquille and Myrtle Point, ami the
the offing waiting for the tide.
Portland busiuess men could do no
many smaller points marked by saw­
better than to put on a 500 ton steam
mills, logging booms and creameries.
schooner between that city and the
Before returning
took
we
steamer Coquille, to bring in geueral mer­
from Myrtle Point and entered on a
chandise
thorough exploration of
kind of a boat could go right up to
the valley
and
take out coal.
That
down to Bandon at the harbor, and
the mines, or eveu to Coquille, which
found that the Coquille valley is a
is only 28 miles inland, and capture
small hive of industries, with almost
all the trade of this country.
unmeasured possibilities.
There are
1 be wealth of the Coquille valley is
towns ami sawmills and cream sta­
not easily estimated.
tions ami logging booms all the way
fisheries, in addition to all that has
from
Myrtle
Point
to
the ocean
1 he
salmon
Myrtle Point and six between
canneries have to limit the number of
with sawmills, shingle mills, woolen
boats that go out to net them.
mills, broom handle factory, ami, last
here are millionaires and are hardly
but not leas’, public schools, churches
aware of the fact, ami it can be said
and a large export lumber trade.
here is a county without a poor man
"i if, a c-.mtdy .viivi'e a child never
W e supposed we had left the coal
Millions of feet of logs many more below.
The river is lined
canyons in the hillsides.
In all there are 11
tom lands the cattle graze knee-deep
booms on the Coquile to the logging creameries and two cheese factories
in clover.
booms on Coos Bay, booming and
on the river.
fair to remain that way for many
there are a number of collieries with
I here are men bore who have ma le
ready to load vessels that draw from
it a rule of their lives to refuse no
12 to 15 feet of water.
man a dollar who asked it of them,
There isa lug trade on the Coquille
•lack I upper, of Coquille, w hose wife
river in hay. feed, flour, ami all kinds
was the thud white woman Io come
of staples.
into this region, is one of them. Log­
veritable land of milk and honey, with
plenty of salmou thrown in, and oc­
As the ceiling is about 20 feet high
per thousand.
oue empty, and is even more accorn
casional
The
the humor of the thing appears on
modatirig
country is too wet for forest fires, and
The need of a v< ssel to ply between
than
that
stopping ami
by the fact that freight rates from
batik a newspaper, or a woman a let-
mer is by the falling leaves.
Portland via Coos Bay and by rail to
ter, or to receive oue.
Coquille river points, requiring re­
been flooded by a rise of eight feet
The river had
for profit the saloon keepers reduce
with dreamy eyes right into our cabin
the size of their tumblers aud increase
boom, where they are hoisted onto the
windows, the trip was very interest
the volume of water in proportion to
hence almost prohibitive of
traffic,
while rates from San Francisco are cars, taken over the divide, aud rolled
newspapers, kissing
itig.
A logger showed ns a nugget
$2 50 and as low as $2 per ton Io
into Dr. Tower's log boom for the of virgin gold taken out of Johnson s
Bandon and points on the Coquille
Bay mills.
river.
a landing her bow was run into the
W hen the steamer made
are worth $5 per thousand.
the various kinds of lira, spruce ami
Before the harbor was improved ves
hemlock. Port Orford cedar (being
They are
eels look out 50,000 to 100,000 feet of the while), ami then a tine red cedar,
lumber. Now they carry out 400.000 logs from two to five feet in diameter,
to 500,000 feet easily, and there are ami any length. The bard woods
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the constant increase of their batik
accounts ami the promotion of sobri
Coquille,
ety. One old fellow called for a large
A block
glass and filled it to the brim, and
keg, that
was only charged
cents,
while he
the mountain
charged ten cents for all the small
tinder
about
glasses, holding about a thimbleful.
placer mines
“It comes cheaper at wholesale,” he
greatest gold
said.
This reminds me of e story of a
Scotchman who made a million out
The myrtle wood is certainly the of a distillery.
richest jewel of the forest
taking
high lustre, and its old gold
grain growing deeper and more beau
tifnl every year.
He was twitted on
making a fortune out of whiskey.
“Nae,
now.
uae,
It
was
wather,” he replied.
The curly maple,
the ash, ami the alder all work into
door panels and mantels, taking oil
lustrous silver polish that will adorn
the homes of the wealthy all over our
land once they find what wonderful
Hie Coquille
departing
The glasses
sand logs were going down to the
quille City, are $4 and $5 per ton. and
water with a donkey engine.
no trouble entering
ing, all took whiskey.
loading on steamers going below Co­ ami it was still raising. Twelve thou­ clover fields where Jersey cows look
from Portland direct.
ing from 12 to 15 feot of water have
banks
were small, as under increasing desire
mantic trips we bad was going down of branches, then swinging around
75 cents to $1, ami logs at the mill
But humor is a constant
ingredient of life down here. In a
Be­ saloon where a candidate was treat­
tween taking on cream, letting off
the
the surface.
of
sticks ami dropping them into the
Stumpage on the Coquille is worth
venison.
the only way to tell winter from sum
might be brought for the same money
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aud
turning round to bam) a man on the
One of the most exciting and ro­ alders, with a crackling ami snapping
and
bear
Portland and the Coquille is shown
ging on tlie Coquille is an infant in
then resold to the Coquille river coun­ dustry, but reaches into the millions,
try, and brought here in schooner Operations so far have been c mtined
loads at 82 to $2.50 per ton. when it to snaking out the most beaut.fill
side of the channel, and vessels draw
The Coquile couutry isa
The steamer stops for
from Oregon to San Francisco, and
good harbor here with jetties on each
It reads as follows-
On the bot­
railroad transportation costing $1.50 a single can of cream or to deliver
on a
coal bunkers on the Coquille river
There is a funny sign in the opera
bouse of one of the cities on the Co­
is sake that were huj-led back from the quille.
weut supperless to bed, and it bids
years to come.
There is a
that awoke responses of their name
Men
mines over on the Coos Ba}’ side, but
Most of this stiifT is sent
and Coquille, and about
the
The Echo has a vicious little whistle
been mentioned, are so rich the two
There sits 1 lie live town of Bandon,
.Seo .More t'oe.l Mines.
are live creameries above
are brought over annually from the with dairy farms.
Valley Marvelously Rich Section.
Coquille Valley, visiting the towns of
gold mine.
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BANDON, OREGON.
furniture, and will prove a veritable Point
Editor of Salem Capital Journal Finds Bandon and Coquille
it
ST HE ET SCINE,
beauty it possesses.
Peter Loggia of North Bend is the
river on the steamer I with her nose against the hank, took
that
carries
man who lias established the fame of
themyitle wood.
cles of furniture of almost countless
value and constantly increasing bean
passengers, ¡cabin on the tiist deck was a sign­
ty may be found at Bandon, Marsh
stern
on her freight or passengers.
gathers cream and distributes mail to board containing this legend.
field ami North Bend. His workman­
the ranches up and down the river,
ship stamps him a master in wood­
The Echo was built on the river, has
a narrow bull, and can navigate as
nearly on dry land as it is possible
for a steamboat.
GEN I I,EM I N
tliHt has corks in their
. shot's will please si ay on !
LOWED DECK
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craft.
Beach
Mantels ami arti­
In the
Echo, a little light-draught
wheeler,
Bandon
is the coming
Summer
Resort....
I he myrtle is a wonderful
combination ot the luster of the iiih
pie ami the richness of mahogany.
Coos County Humor.
the
Oregon
Coast.
the