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
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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.
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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
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Bandon-by-the-Sea.