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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1907)
• «• Bandon, Coos County, Oregon View of Waterfront A full supply It was after a long ride down the pie have come; new and substant al for anv emergent its. world, .tini < oquille Riv >-r, seemingly double enterprises have been stilted: and a 1 t tile Usual parapllerililia found in a place of this size is now on receive a hand long l>v reason of the numerous great many new business ami resi f, .1 firt pi oti 1 1 i< al. and 1 >1 greater prominence in the future. ct >ut se stops at villages and dairy ram lies deuce strm lures have been built, and to load and unload mail, freight and even yet Bandon has not kept up there are lire plugs at ea< li corner Most plai t s that in the business part of tow n ami p.l'sellgei' when tile boat swung with her progress A around a bend in the river, and the have bail a boom usually overreach around the resident district. city of Bandon appeared in full sight, themselves, while as vet vv e of Ban chemical engine is belli 111 readiness ami what is greatly to the interest of the government geologist and wells our eastern friends who have to live are now being drilled just south of through the tender cries of mosquito town. Bar. we have no mosquitos gnat' A cordial welcome is extended to I ikcwisi all farm grasses ,md grains ticks ami f vv flies. The winter anv and all who are looking for a flourish exceetlinglv well, giving us weather is made warm by the south place to make their home, We are even more claim to the name of wind', and foi about three months a home loving pe >ple and tile de- “ The < lartlen Spot of Oregon.” there is considerable rain. There is sirable resident will not find our Another advantage we have over no list saving then isn't mm h rain, the great arc lights shining far in the don do not consider our ever increas at all times for anv small blaze where large quantities of watei w . uhl almost all other locations endowed as all of < »regon has considerable in distance. denoting a city of const- ing prosperity a boom, but only tin prol>ablv do mor« daniaga than with tile advantages we have is the the winter. Better bv far than icy quence, thriving in prosperity, and realization <>f our numerous oppor immensi beds of coal nature has laid winds and snow , sleet ami 20 below showing but a nut lens of what will (unities to tlie coining manufacturer the conflagration. I lumlretls am] hundreds zero. follow. A closer appr<>a< h shows all In line seeker am 1 lain irei. We hav t- almost all re| »resell tatives the mills lighted, and the busy hum < if 1 cligii ius dent »ninat it ms of tin all of the leading churches. of the finest coal, all in in t u t And we could go on telling of the A hot such shape as to make mining very many opportunities offered to the bed of fraternalisin exists here, which profitable. There are places where man of brain i anil capital. to the man shows that mu< h inti rest is taken in the coal 1 an be taken from the mine who wants employment; ranch ber Co. s Mill, at this w riting the section of the town is located on the our several fraternal organizations ami loaded upon the cars. 01 taken propertv. which at present have Coos County, its caver south side of tin river ami consists and societies. What better condi a few fe. t further ami loaded into nominal price and the farmer, all nous saws eating away a hundred of one main street extending four tions could exist to show the class of deep sea going vessels, the loading who are desirous of a happy home thousand feet of < »regon's best lum blocks with side streets to the water people in Bandon.-' I here art no to be done by grav it y. in a healthy country, overflowing Bandon is situated at the mouth saws gives a still better im of '.lie Coquille River, and tile citv pression of the little city by the sea. limits are bounded on the west by I he boat SW ceps past the Cody I .um the broad Pacific. Our business people secluded in "cliques ” but of nature more so than a sociable most < »regon towns, as a greater part of the people coming into Ban don m the past five years are from the east. W'e have tryed to state what we have in a very conserv alive manner. You wont find gold dollars on trees, exist as one of your hands and you cannot us by sitting with folded, but we have plenty of employment and financial opportunities and a visit to Bandon- Its brilliantly lighted front which is covered with wharves select circles. We all attend social W e have excellent transportation with chances for all. Bandon will by-the-Sea only means a permanent turn tions together employer and facilities with San Francisco. In become a great summer resort in location for residences wharves and yards, and the mill from end to end People come, employee A feeling of good fellow fact this particular part of Coos ship exists anio. g our tow m men Comity should belong to San Fian- which i- tine of our greatest factors CiSC< ’. W’t have everything they her a day. in the assui ed bright futu e of our want, that is, all of our products toW 11. tind a readv market at that place, w hili' Portland markets are not so inviting, as they have their own limited. lumbering facilities st boom i s i arrv freight, one of whit h at om cedar forests. make regular I art II ■ av e the gi eat Sail '1 ears must pass be fore anv marked impression is made < ’m natural wat. 1 ways s< ll< h Hier? air anot h< 1 fat tor ii favor of all lines the lumber upon th' in of commerce. I »all ying will be the t hief industry after our fort sts are the latest and best ap pliances for converting our giants ot th< forest into the finished mate rial tor export trade. Anotht r turn in the i iv er takes the boat past the* Price Shipyard. the Bandon ami Powei Plant and the I -ight Steam I.atindrv and Bandon Shingle Mills. each a pai i xcellem e of its kind, the latter turning out countless bundles Alre.ulv wt A census has I not been ing now and busv teamsters ami 2.000. crowds of people who throng the taken for some time, but this figure wharves in the evening as the boats is a very conservative ■ estimate, and come m. again give additional signs another veai vv ill give us at least Our people of liveliness ami energy The Ban double that number, don Woolen Mills running at full are well educated, all natit naltics, capacity and giving employment to the American predi 'initiating bv a large number of girlsand men, is ov ei si v entv tiv e per cent, Hie a short distance from the landing, m-vv comers are mostly frtt'ii the ami its busv looms send forth a glad east ami are veiv progressive, < »III some sound of universal happiness educat it 1. al fm 'ilit it s at e ot the high ami gooil .beet fill *wli< 11 there is est order and our high s< I100I rank lewirabli- *ibor, what else among the first class in lilt Slate. . could come if not happiness ami full tour g. toil chevl ‘ I lli' is but tin tlailv experit nee of any tn w visitor to Bandon, and anv person slio lu* not been lure in flu past t«’W %e.«ts. 1 in a 'trauge om- ngiuinty. tor tin B indnQ ot today I« ti? iro»« the Bandon of five, yfs. ^11 o jyeo- ifwvi n »ingle wai **¿0 and fl i HU that nothing of railroad building Tin v are nncei- stipplv of the fai famed Port • htord Cedar that will aitl ami better the moral shingles whose popularity is fast m ami so< ial conditions. < >ur population is approximately creasing The boat is at the land plentv of 1 ramtsco Vessel even after the cars are on manv tain s. but it is a sure thing toils of butter and ci tes of eggs to the vv i mderful oppi irt uni ties our that are located on the hill back from the souther", trade. Dairv ng will pay Small d.urv ran-lies inii-t havi great propositions for the business section proper. Many new on the start flourish ami are imlcetl tru fill in (ran portât ion companies. buildings have been built the past their productions. 'There will be in \nd now something about our year, and lumber orders are now in i Inn iti. < onditi. >ns. \\ <■ hav e < ool for a number for this coining sum operation in Bandon, this I'ling, one. if not two, of 'In- I irgest ream- mer. Lumber is cheap here, ami lilts 111 the comitv. with payrolls north wind blows the siimmei the structures are for the most part tin - ugh. making a healthful, le- eat II ot . ........... month substantial ami portentious. Ban Fruit growing is in its < irliest ftc-lung breeze. t ntirely unlike the don is justly called the “Home Citv We have no worms or in- ~w' hi ring tlavs of the vallev Hun as its people are lovers of anv tiling gone Bandun High School propel l wu tine steam year's course obtainable in regulation high school course A water svstem is 111.1111I tilled bv priv ate indiv 1 du ils. and tile city ottn ials are soon to have a lit avv eigiit inch mam installed lor fir protection A yrnen tir< engine i at this writing on the road, md is a modern. first-claws ertwnw, atk ,uate the very distant future. We sometimes, move away again, but have not said anything regarding inevitably they yearn for our sunny the beach — the scenic beach of the climate, the healthful sea breezes, west. < >ur beautiful rocks, mountain ami the hundred ami one things streams tilled with trout, forests that have made their former resi with game, the oysters, clams ami dence in Bandon bv-tlie Sea a crabs, wild fruits, all are great at pleasure, and then we soon see them tractions for the summer visitor, anti returning It is “My, how things once a railroad is tunning into this are changing, but Bandon is good country our little city will take enough for me.” .In is of tourists ami campets visit mighty trille a’ 1 mg tow aril becom- us vcarlv. A white citv on the mg a great city. These various amp grounds is rebuilt vear after ti ipics ore or less touched ve n bv the c.impi is who hav e spent up n in our different articles through tin 11 v.u ations here. out this edition. There are three ways ot getting This section is free from cyclones, < >ur present manufacturers, 1 on- to Bandon. You tan take the typhoon-. thunder storms, lightning sisting of Saw, Shingle, and W< h >len Steamer Elizabeth from San Mills, Broom II uidle Factory, Francisco, fare jto; you can take i'anm-ry. 'ship Yard, Foundry, either the Alliance or Breakwater from Portland to Marshfield, Brewery, ami 'steam Laundry art- all running tull blast and several then take train to Coquille at y i.'clock, connecting with the more projects are rapidly materializ Coquille River boat, landing you ing 1 he Bandon Pulp ami Paper at noon the same day in Bandon, Mil!- incorporated tot S', ■> o.»> will combined fare, not counting be in tull operation bv the first of lodgings, is approximately $12; ami over stage from Roseburg, April the piper plant to be installed 1 W o < »re . to Mvrtle Point, from which within the V ear following pl.ne you take river boat to Ban fine ere.unci les tile lalgi-'t don as before, fare being $5 for 11 aiuti . W ill lie in operati, iti shot th stag« inti 11 boat. We recom tust ot the vear, are sub- mend boat clear through, in the tllltl.il ex, >«•< tallone w hit. h will winter time at least. It is quicker md pleasanter for fit pi mg in my new people whp will attl 1 ted with sea »ivkuess move here with their families to lo- How to Get to Bandon nate \ en I ate < 111 has been dlfr a >v ereil • •
