BANDO
I
i
The
Growing
Town
of
Coos County
The Manufacturing
Town
The Coming Summer
ResOrt of the
Oregon Coast
Bandon is growing faster than
any town in Oregon.
Its advancement is real, not on
paper.
Manufacturing plants all running
and several more big industries
coming.
Shipped more lumber since Jan.
1st than any port in Oregon except
the Columbia.
The Coquille valley is the garden
epot of the Coast country and we
have the timber and coal industries
Fine openings for workers and
hustlers, but grafters and hot-air
artists are not wanted.
BANK
BANDON,
•coDomy would compel the use of the
bill land for fruit.
Coos couoty has ooe advantage
BJklSTDOlSr OREGON
which we believe do other place on
earth possesses. I useci and other
Capital $25,000.00
Vast Amount of Land Suitable
fruit pesta are practically unknown
BOARD OF DIRECTORS; J. L K bonbnbbbu , President, J. D bsholm , Vice Pres.
for Fruit.
Condition. Different
here. This is a great saving of labor
F. J. F ahv , Cashier, F rank F lam , T. P. H amlt .
Than in Other Localities.
and expeuse. While fruit misers of
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other sections are spraying and using
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all aorta of devices and experiments
That the fruit industry iu Coo* to rid their fruit of these peats the
county has been sadly neglected, to Coo* county farmer goes about other
the great loss of our farmers, most be work serene in the knowledge that his
apparent to any one who baa given apples and hie peaches and pears will
this question any thought at all. T his tie free from worms and scales and
subject is so broad, and there are so blight and all other defects which so
many phases of tlie qiiestiou, aud al) annoy his neighbors. This is an ad
to the advantage of Coos county as vantage not to be overlooked by aoy
the uatural home of so many varieties one contemplating a venture iu '.his
of fruit, that to treat of the subject business.
co nprehet s vely hi one article with
The varieties of fruit that may be CORRESPONDENTS: American National Bank of San Francisco; Chase National
the limited space our columns afford, successfully grown here are so nu
Rank of New York . Merchant« National Bank of Portland;
First National Bank of Coquille.
presents a difficulty which is indeed merous that we shall not attempt to
Accounts Solicited. Customers assured of every courtesy and accommodation
hard to overcome.
give more than a very few of them.
possible under conservative modern banking methods.
In the first place there are the wild Apples are. perhaps the most com
Hank is Open from !• a in to 1'4 in., anil 1 p m. to 3 p.m.
fruits which might be described with mon and the most easily and success
profit to the newcomer. Then there fully grown here. From the quality
are the numerous varieties of culti and quantity grown here it would
vated fruits which may be grown here, seem that this climate and soil are the
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each in its turn requiring much space natural home of the apple. Some
1 in which to set forth the best soil, the varieties seem to do better than
varieties which thrive the best iu this others, however. Plant'a Baldwin 01
climaie, aud the manner of caring for a Greening or a Gravenstine any
them here in order to bring the beet place in this country and it will
results. So in an article of this kind, thrive and bring forth an abundant
we can give, only in a general way, a crop iu a very few years. TbiB is not
brief outliue of the whole subject.
saying that the product would not be
There is one tiiiug which it is nec better or the yield greater by propel
essary for the easterner to learn when cultivation.
be comes io this coast, aud that is
Here, as elsewhere, there are the
that the climate aud conditions here three principal classes as to season—
are so entirely different from any the early or summer apple, the fall
thing be has ever seen before, thin apple, and the winter apple. For the
the methods be has learned and used early variety lhe Early Harves seems
Notary Public
iu the East cannot be used here, He to be the general favorite. The Grav-
will have to learu all of bis lessons iu enstiue is the leader of all others as
farmiug over again. Of course his a fall apple, while the Baldwin seems
experience eleewhere will not be alto to be the staple as a winter apple.
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gather useless here, but be will find
Prunes, pears and plums seem to
as all others have done, that different grow here almost as naturally as ap
conditions of soil and climate require ples. Some varieties of cherries do
different methods. But we shall uol well while others do not. Grapes and Bandon, Oregon.
discuss these methods al Ibis time.
peaches do not seem adapted to this
The wild fruits winch thrive here climate, although many of our farm
are very numerous iu variety as well ers especially back among the bills
as abundant in quantity Mid excellent and away from the ocean raise quit*
in quality. Of course, as the country a considerable quantity of both. Small
is settled and die land cleared these funis and berries are very easily
wil I fruits are dug up and supplant grown, and might be made profitable
ed by tame varieties. But there are if properly bandied.
thousands of acres left here yet. The
We make no claim for tropica)
most abundant of all these, perhaps, fruits, such as oranges lemons and
are the wild blackberry aud the bananas Our climate is too damp,
huckleberry In their season these there are too many cool winds and
berries may be found iu our market fogs from the ocean for Buch as these.
by the bushels, and the surrounding
Our farmers have been entirely too
hills are covered with them. During negligent iu the matter of establish
the blackberry seasou people are seen ing a market for their fruit. No
¡daily going in large numbers—almost united or persistent effort has evei
I a constant stream in the early morn
been made along this line, and the
ing—to the bills to pick this lucious result is that while their neighbors
fruit; and later in tbe day may b« are receiving top-notch prices for al)
seen returning, all heavily laden with the fruit they cao raise our farmers
the result of their day's work. As we sell at third class rate or allow their
wish to speak more especially of the fruit to rot on the trees It is only
tame fruits we shall not dwell longer within the last few years (less than
on this.
ten), that Jackson county fruit has
The first question of course is to gained the very enviable reputation
select tbe land for planting to tame and demand which it now has. This
fruits. J’he bottom lauds are very has been brought about by united,
rich and most admirably suited to organized hu <I persienent effort on tbe
fruit raising. The early settlers, ba*- part ot the fiiiii iaisers tliemseives.
nz sticb abundance of laud from When the writer first came toOregon
i which to choose, naturally used tbe
be spent some months in Jackson
[ bottom lauds for till purposes, aud county. The apples were then fed Io
The most desirable Bandon property on the
many of them became so accustomed | the bogs, made into cider, disposed of
market at reasonable prices is in
to using this land exclusively that it any way at all—too often allowed to
is yet difficult to convince many of rot on the tree. Recently the Jack
them that any other kiud of land i- son County Fruit growers’ Associa
of any use whatever for any purpose. lion has been formed and the sam<
But of late years it has been demon apples are sold at from one to two
strated beyond adoubt that our bench dollars per box The other fruits are
land is admirably adapted to this sold m 'he same proportion as to
purpose. Again, the early settlers price, and the demand alwaysexceeds
seldom if ever cultivated tbeir or the supply.
chards after tbe first two or three
Our fruit is just a* good, in fact
years. Here, also, later experience
belter than the Jackson county fruit,
has proven them wrong. So that it
is now claimed by many who have because we I ihvc no pests, as we men-
tried it that tbe upland, when proper , tinned above, hu <I will) the proper
Centrally Located. High and Dry, Close to School and Churches.
ly prepared and cultivated, will ran • effort would Im in hh great demand
as good a quality aud almost, if uol We also have the advantage over the
quite, as large a quantity as tbe but
Jackson .loiinty people in the matter
tom lands. In fact many claim that
Lots Sold on the Installment Plan if Desired.
lhe fruit grown on the upland has a of freight rates. Our freight by water
better flavor than that grown ou t ii<* costs ns less than one-foiirl'b what
Call on or address
bottom.
theirs «lues l>y rail.
Then here i* the advantage, Tl't*
W ith this matter properly adjusted
bottom land is very valuable for bay Coo* county will «ertamly be a verit
and dairying purposes, while the bill
able paiadise for th* fro|$ ratser;«-
bind w tiijt. An I if tbe bill land will
1
raise as giod fruit as the bottom laud Sentinel,
Fruit Raising in
Coos County...
of
J
GEO.
TOPPING
Attorney
and
Counselor
at
Law
Fisher’s
Addition
Lots and Acreage
Lots 53x100. Price $60 to $125.
J. E. FISHER, Owner, Bandon