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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1907)
Coos County---Continued quilleand Paruloii through which the portant* of Bandon at th itjpo nt. s < ' * • oursc of the river ti«>w s rhe hills rua another story, and contained !.. the c< from die waters' edge up to a height article found elsewhere in th » h > uc in 4« 11 to entitle them to the name of small north mountains At the rivet s edge you lain! 'gain, and over the t«»|>s of the known than the < <«>s River vicinity, costly homes for to the gern ra! outside world, the < >regon. tn South W estriII maple, alder, myitle and other van - gated and beautiful f> liage you I *»k Tending rather t<> agri» ultural denotes pursuits, the pay rolls of b ah any part of the county, or ev • n all of .'south * estern Oregon, but in Myrtle Point, and Coquillr. ale reality only a sin.ill Body of water small compared to North Bend and general tefm of 'too Hay approximately five miles squa e and Bandon, nevertheless a very im portant factor among the resources a misnomer which the residents of of the respective (owns the Coquille valley stoutly resent. A more picturesque scene th <n I he Coquille River flows directly the (. I iqilllle \ alley, can seldom be into tin waters of the Pa« iti . about found, and when viewed on a quiet i s miles south ol the entrance to autumn «lav from the «leeks ol the into the dark g' >«>m of th«- fir <-dar, sprue«- and hemlock. in the w. ows where v<'U land is a coal bunker, * w ill still be a>t amt be rxtcivicd to Hum July. It s true however, that the jK». Bav Ca ifcmia. where a line h< Ime * 1 uihb • i tvdl\ I tr m San Fram sco will roll dodendxon bloom« io every bk <tt>. nect, forming practi. ally a water of th«- year. In contrast to th'« rarity. Ap»ril lev el cowst In« rout> from San I ht Çoos Bay Ro^rbuig A h 4.'t- md M iv pt lu es billions of th s I-rail. s. o to Portland, avoiding the ern Railr« ad opeiat » betu een There is uo other heavy g I adì ' ■! th< >is . WU 'I oun- beautiful bloom Mar'htield m I M vrtle Point a dis. w I Howei that compares to the i ■ « at’ » tance <>f miles This line was Dautyami profusion of tl* rhodo origii.allv deslintd to forma con for the timbri of the 1 'legen and dendron. The Railroad. supplied from a tunnel, up a 2 per nect m with the Southern Pa> itic at California coast. The I lilding of Illis flow er grows on a tree some- cent grade [«-rlnps a hundred varils awav. Ihe weather is alwavs quiet, 'till ami nsl. and now as volt pass from the gap to the W est the lulls become lower, the land more rvel, and a brisk ogean breeze from the north west catches you. It you have \ leu oí Business District in Bandon. A Strr«s in Bandon Boat Load of Salmon Salmon Cannery Coos Bay, ami the tide backs up the river boat on her daily run to Ban - lived on the Coast before y< >u will river s waters for a distance of over don, is an impression to be re- feel invigorated with renewed ener 40 miles, at which place converges membered. gy. If from the inland, you will no the North, the Middle and the South The river is smooth as glass, ami doubt put on an overcoat. Soon forks of the Coquille River besides the current glides slowly up or you have rounded the bend where creeks and small streams too numer down, just as the tide is Hood or you can see Bandon, 2 miles away, Because so many ebb, and numerous turns m the the ocean, ami the giant rocks and streams converge at this place, a river hides its course, except for a crags in the surf, which at first you natural large basin in the mountains few boat's lengths each way. Now may mistake for buildings is found, and a most luxurious and the ever geen wax-leaved To the south of Bandon is a large happy agricultural commun tv is to myrtle trees, ami the autumn tinted level tract of land, perhaps 10 miles be found,at the center of which is the maple obscures much of the broad wide, ami extending sixteen miles c< ntluence of the numerous stiearns, expanse of the valley, at other times down the coast to the Curry County th«- head of navigation, the terminus you see the foot hills miles away. of the C’oos Bay Railroad, and the line, richer in timber. and especially site of a quiet and prosperous liltl«- Numerous farm houses, orchards Port < >rford cedar, perhaps than ous to mention. Roseburg but destiny and late were the Pr.iin - Coos Bay link will against it 1 he road i« doing a good open up oil«- of the best business in carrying lumber, logs sections in < >r«-gon. 111«- lim will and coal to Coos Bay. The Myrtle traverse the va'!'-v of the 1 mpqua. Point Mill Company. Mvrlle Point, leaving (>ardin«r. under the present Coquille Mill «N Mircaiitile Coat- survey, about one and a halt miles to pany, Coquille and A. Johnson's th«- north, ami striking Coos Bay mill, at Coquille ship their lumber at a point marly opposite North over this line to Marshfield, wlierei1 Bend, where a draw bridge w ill be is unloaded in vessels for California erected, ami follows . th«- Si > nth bank ports. The Simp an Lumber Com of Coos Bav to Marshfield, theme pany, of North Bend, and I lean south via the Coquille River to Lumber Company , of Marshfield, California. The building of the utilize this line for bringing the logs Drain Coos Bay line wall give a cut on the Coquille River to Coos wonderful impetus to the lumber Bay. The logs are loaded <>n the development of Douglas ami C’oos times thirty ami forty feet high. 1 her«- are literally thousands of Howers on a single trunk. The bloom is so delicate that it cannot well bear long transportation. But it is often 'allured and kept in water and will remain fresh in the house fora week, 1 his thiwer grows all over Coos County, but it flourishes best in the lowlands along the streams. bloom. Phis should have been ( ) reg on's. not Washington’s, state ti< >w er. I’’’' - V v « ■; fl . • » i. * Band,>n Shingle Mill. city of probably 1 soo people known and fields, and hundreds of fattened any other section of Coos County as Myrtle Point. cattle are seen, and at frequent I’he land is always moist from moun These numerous streams reach bend' in the river, alm" t <»bs« ured tain fed streams and springs, ami far into tb« mountainous interior to among the willows, is a landing wonderfully rich ami productive, for k -Z.‘ ’ L r • *. * where is found some excellent for piled high with’milk-cans fruit and all kinds of fruit and vegetation Oregon > Tall Pines ests of almos- unlimited extent,much vegetables, which the farmer has 1, som< Jif the m<ir< t> nd< ■ of which is the far-famed Port < >r- prepared for market and numerous fruits, such as peaches, will not cars at Cellar C reek boom, owned Counties and it will only be a tew for«l or whit«* cedar, very little of thrifty farmers become your fellow ripen because of the cool summer by Dr McCormac. and «lumped into years after the construction of the which is found north of th«- Coquille day s ami chilly nights passengers, or swiftlv glide past you his >om on the Coos Bav 'ide. road until it is lined with saw mills River r — 'I ¡liions ol fest of this in their own laun. h. as you stop at The direct outlet to the sea for 1 he .iiarge for catching and boom timber is floated to th«’ tide wat^r successive landings to take on the entire Coquille Valley and th« ing th«- logs on the Coquille River, Our Rhododendrons. below, when the mountain streams freight southern section of the county, is at loading on the ears and rafting at are high ami sw rollen with mid- cents per looo feet. Now you have come to a gap in the mouth of the Coquille River Co> s Bav is w inter rams ami snow The r ■ rate is $ ; per car, w ¡th an the mountains. midwav between Co but her shipping trade and the im Ihe v allev of the Coquille is wide average load of 4000 feet From and low and wonderfully rich, much Bandon < Nm» Bra. h Panter Bro«’ of which is inundated in the winter because of highwater and the tide. I housands of acres will be «like«! in jacent uplands are heavily cov-rfd with timber, and underlaid with C will be sent to any address m this country or three for 2s cents, postage or com. the highest cultivation where now The ad OPIES i.f this issue t -»-• the near future, and be subjected to are founef only hundre«is New Store i.T’.-e C ques sent to prospective visitors are big boosts for coal. In the w ¡«lest part of the v alley, ami the richest agricultural part thereof, is situated th«- county seat, «'«vquille Citv. a town of approx- imately people, and the 'ite of some of the most beautiful and It ¡5 worth a trip across the continent to see a forest of rhododendrons in full Band, «nby-the-Sea
