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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1907)
quilleand Bandon, through whicii the jmrtance of Bandon at th.it0|M)int, is Coos the line will undoubtedly follow will still be found up to the first of course of the river Hows. The hills run another story, and contained in an the coast and tie extended to Hum July. It is true, however, that the rho from the waters’ edge up to a height article found elsewhere in this issue. boldt Bay, California, where a line to entitle them to the name of small north from San Francisco will con dodendron blooms in every month The Railroad. mountains. At the river’s edge you nect, forming practically a water of the year. Coos County—Continued. land again, and over the tops of the any part of the county, or ev< n all of Southwestern Oregon, but in reality only a small body of water East South Western maple, alder, myrtle and other vari- ern Railroad operates between gated and beautiful foliage, you look Marshfield an I Myrtle Point, a dis Tending rather to agricultural into the dark gloom of the fir, cedar, tance of 32 miles. This line was pursuits, the pay rolls of both spruce and hemlock. In the willows originally destined to form a con Myrtle Point, and Coquille, are where you land is a coal bunker, nection with the Southern Pacific at small compared to North Bend and supplied from a tunnel, up a 2 per Bandon, nevertheless a very im cent grade perhaps a hundred yards known than the Coos River vicinity, costly hom?s in for to the general outside world, the Oregon. general term of “Coo Bay” denotes I he Coos Bay, Roseburg approximately five miles squaie and portant factor among the resources a misnomer which the residents of of the respective towns. the Coquille valley stoutly resent. A more picturesque scene than The Coquille River Hows directly the Coquille Valley, can seldom be into the waters of the Pacific, about found, and when viewed on a quiet 18 miles south of the entrance to autumn day from the decks of the away. level coast line route from San In contrast to this rarity, April Francisco to Portland, avoiding the and May produces billions of this heavy grades of the Siskiyou Moun beautiful bloom. There is no other wiki Hower that compares to the beauty and profusion of the rhodo for the timber of the < Iregon and dendron. California coast. The building of This Hower grows on a tree some tains, and affording a rail outlet The weather is always quiet, still and cool, and now as you pass from the gap, to the West, the hills become lower, the land more level, and a brisk ocean breeze from the north-west catches you. If you have View of Business District in Bandon. Roseburg, but destiny and fate were the Drain - Coos Bay link will against it. The road is doing a good open up one of the best business in carrying lumber, logs sections in < >regon. The line will and coal to Coos Bay. The Myrtle traverse the valley of the I’mpqua, Point Mill Company, Myrtle Point, leaving Gardiner, under the present A Street in Bandon. Coos Bay, and the tide backs up the river boat on her daily r river’s waters for a distance of over don, is an impression 40 miles, at which place converges membered. the North, the Middle and the South The river is smooth as forks of the Coquille River, besides the current glides slow streams converge at this place, a river hides its course, < natural large basin in the mountains few boat’s lengths each w is found, and a most luxuribus and the ever gi een forty feet high. There 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 Coquille Mill <!t Mercantile Com survey, about one and a half miles to gathered and kept in water and will pany, Coquille and A. Johnson’s the north, and striking Coos Bay remain fresh in the house fora week. mill, at Coquille, ship their lumber at a point nearly opposite North This Hower grows all over Coos skta U h « .r» Moruhh^lri where» it " ’ ’-—••» -> draw bridge will be County, but it Hourishes best in the ws the south bank lowlands along the streams. It ¡s darshtield, thence worth a trip across the continent to Zoquille River to see a forest of rhododendrons in full building of the bloom. 1 his should have been line will give a s to the lumber Oregon’s, not Washington’s, state Douglas and Coos Hower Boat Load A8*! creeks and small streams too numer down, just as the tide i ous to mention. Because so many ebb, and numerous tur times thirty and Continued happy agricultural commun ty is to myrtle trees, and the au be found,at the center of which is the maple obscures much of confluence of the numerous sti earns, expanse of the valley, at > the head of navigation, the terminus of the Coos Bay Railroad, and the you see the foot hills tnih site of a quiet and prosperous little Numerous farm houses __________________________ 1_____ 1 I Banjon Shingle Mill. city of probably 1800 people, known and fields, and hundreds of fattened any other section of Coos County. as Myrtle Point. cattle are seen, and at frequent The land is always moist from moun These numerous streams reach bends in the river, almo 4 obscured tain fed streams and springs, and far into the mountainous interior to among the willows, is a landing wonderfully rich and productive, for where is found some excellent for piled high with’milk-cans, fruit and all kinds of fruit and vegetation: ests of almost unlimited extent,much vegetables, which the farmer has however, some ¡of the more tender of which is the far-famed Port Or prepared for market, and numerous fruits, such as peaches, will not cars at Cedar Creek boom, owned ford (or white) cedar, very little of thrifty farmers become your fellow ripen because of the cool summer by Dr. McCormac, and dumped into which is fount! north of the Coquille passengers, or swiftly glide past you days and chilly nights. his boom on the Coos Bay side. River. Millions of feet of this in their own launch, as you stop at The direct outlet to the sea for The charge for catching and boom timber is floated to the tide watir successive landings to take on the entire Coquille Valley and the ing the logs on the Coquille River, below, when the mountain streams freight. southern section of the county, is at loading on the cars and rafting at are high and swollen with mid Now you have come to a gap in the mouth of the Coquille River, Coos Bay is 55 cents per 1000 feet. winter rains and snow. the mountains, midway between Co- but her shipping trade and the im- The rail rate is $3 per car, with an average load of 4000 feet From 1 he valley of the Coquille is wide and low, and wonderfully rich, much of which is inundated in the winter, Bandon'« Scenic Beach. Oregon's Tall Pines. Counties, and it will only be a few years after the construction of the road until it is lined with saw mills. Our Rhododendrons. The- Rhododendron two full months, blooms for April and May. Many of the How ers in shaded places Panter Bro«'. New Store. ’---- -< OPIES of this issue C will be sent to any address in this country or Canada for 10 cents each, because of high water and the tide. Thousands of acres will be diked in three for 25 cents, postage the near future, and be subjected to or coin. the highest cultivation where now are found only hundreds. The ad Copies sent to prospective jacent uplands are heavily covered with timber, and coal. underlaid with In the widest part of the valley, and the richest agricultural part thereof, is situated the county seat, Coquille Citv, a town of approx imately 2,000 people, and the site of some of the most beautiful and visitors are big boosts for ♦ iç» ->«0 Bandon-by-the-Sea.
