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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1907)
Oldest Woman in Oregon. ly on its trips from San Francisco to swells setting in at the roadstead From the south point of the heads, Coos Bay and return. was never any hand for sweetmeats, such as preserves and cakes. Lying along the Pacific ocean at due east to the base of Humbug, a the southwestern comer of the state, mountain peak, the harbor is four “I weigh about 130 pounds, which Curry County has gained a high de miles broad. It is exempt from all is pretty good for a woman my gree of picturesque inqiortance, but sunken dangers either in it or in its It is equi-distant be height, about 5 feet, 3 inches. I far and away beyond this last men- approach. dress and care for myself and do not t*oned *-s the country’s acknowl- tween San Francisco and Puget need help from my daughter, except edged wealth of natural resources. sound, and 220 miles south of the when I have a sinking spell, as I do Abundant in standing fir, cellar, Columbia river. The land is high once in awhile when my extremities pine, myrtle and oak, it is one of the and prominent, effectually protecting get numb. “Until late years I have always The richest timlier sections on the Pacific the harbor on three sides. coast. Mining prosjiects in gold, heads are formed of most durable silver and copper, developed, unde rock, with bold water from seven to veloped, and those yet. uncovered, ten fathoms immediately against We had land and slaves, which were place Curry County in line with some them. The heads offer at hand all wealth in the old days. My daugh of the best known mineral districts the material and of excellent quality ter owns our home, and that is all in the northwest. There are paying with which to build a. breakwater, that is left of our property now. been in comfortable circumstances. “I plainly remember the war of My father fought during the 1812. last six months under Andrew Jack- son, but he was a paid soldier, We lived near the highway 1 and I saw Andrew Jackson driving from his home to Washington to I be Presi- We were dent, and waved to him. all Democrats and are still, I haven’t much use for the black Republicans. THINGS SHE REMEMBERS. “It bewilders me to think of the many things that have happened in my life. I can remember when there were no steamboats or steam cars, and it was only yesterday that the telephone and electric light were in vented. Coquille River Boat, Dispatch placers on any one of the dozen or which would have the effect of man more small streams and rivers that ning a bleak stretch of coast 600 “They called me an old woman turbulently tear ways through forest miles in length with a harbor of when we came to Oregon, but I rode ravines on their windings to the sea, refuge, which now has none. horseback all the way, and that was and back for miles along Rogue The war department has estimated 52 years ago. I remember the Mex river are quartz prospects which that a breakwater 2000 feet long ican war plainly, and the civil war need but development to prove their could be constructed for less than seems like last week. I was 72 when wealth, while the stream itself sup $3,50°,000, which would give avail John Brown made his raid at Har ports some of the most prosperous able protection to about 90 acres, per’s Ferry, and although the news salmon fisheries on the coast. With with a depth of from 6 to 12 fathoms. didn’t reach us for months afterward, in a half dozen miles of Port Orford, A number of years ago Congress ap I remember the excitement it caused. the port town of the county, gray propriated $150,000 for preliminary In the same year Oregon was ad granite and gray marble are found work on such a construction, which mitted as a state. Why, 40 years *n immense deposits, the quality of was never used. The assurance of ago, they said I ought to take things the stone equaling any like product a railroad down the coast from easy, so I sold my hotel to my in the world’s market. As a hunting Marshfield to Eureka, thence through daughter. and fishing preserve, Curry county California to San Francisco over the “The friends of my youth have ranks probably, with any section in Santa Fe leads the people of south been dead for half a century, some the northwest. It is a far cry from western Oregon and masters of of them a full century. My eldest the present back to the days when coastwise vessels to believe that the boy would be a hundred this year it Indians hunted the elk on forest breakwater scheme will again be he had not died two years ago. trails and in river bottoms, but with agitated. Even the friends of my old age are in the last two years three elks were Present conditions in southwestern gone, and I have only my daughter seen |on the scrub land along Sixes Oregon demand suitable facilities, left. I am hard of hearing and blind river, 30 miles from the ocean. and so soon as they are obtained, in one eye, and yet I enjoy life, take Returning to Port Orford there rapid progress will be made in a an interest in the world, and try to are many interesting things to say. be as little bother as possible until The little town lies at the side of the score of industries for which the the end comes, which cannot be only natural harbor between San natural resources of the country has long delayed now." BOYLES JEWELRY STORE THE NEW STORE The Place to Buy Your Christmas Gifts My stock is strictly new and up-to-date. iron-clad guarantee. My stock consists of Watches, Solid Gold, Gold-filled Sterling Silver, and nickel, Clocks, from the latest things in Mission to Gold Novelty Clocks. Chains all sorts, Solid Gold and Gold filled. Necklaces, Gold and Gold filled. Cuff and Collar Buttons, Waist sets, Brooches,Gold, Gold fiilled and Sterling Silver, Emblem Pins, Lockets, Chatelaine Pins, Charms, Scarf Pins, Baby Pins, Rings, every ring in the house Solid Gold, Studs, Ear-rings, Bracelets, etc. e Goods that have real value and all backed by an Cut Glass and Hand-painted China, Silver plated hollow Mrs. Woods can be found any ware, Sterling silver and Silver plated spoons, knives, forks, etc. Berry Spoons, Pie Servers, sunny day walking abSut the yard or Cream Gravy and Soup Ladles, Cold Meat Forks, Sugar Tongs, Butter Knives, Sugar sitting in her favorite armchair at Shells, Bon Bon Spoons, Olive Spoons and many other things in sterling Silver and Pl ated. her daughter's home in Hillsboro. Baby’s Spoons and Sets, Book Marks, Whisk Brooms, Hat Brushes, Hat She is always glad to pass the time Sewing Sets, Gold Pins, Fountain Pens, Napkin Rings Sterling and Plaited, Nut Cracks of day with neighbors, and has a and Picks, Salt and Peppers Shakers, Shaving Sets, Jewel Cases, Sterling Sil ver Manicure and Embroidery Scissors, Silver Thimbles, Coat Hangers, Hat Marks, in fact nearly every thing usually carried in a first-class jewelry store. “how-de-do’’ and hand shake for every one. For many cheerful Pin Holders, years the countryside gathered upon her birthday to do her honor, and she greets alt visitors cordially, and makes tea for the assemblage. Curry County. In this edition of the progress, de velopment and resources of Bandon and the surrounding country, we must not neglect our neighboring county on the South. Curry Coun Steamship Elizabeth, Bandon to San Francisco Francisco and the straits of Del so well prepared it. A wealth of the Fuca. Tichenor l»ay, or Ewing finest granite and marble will lay un harbor, as it is nautically called, lies touched; hundreds of square miles of 10 miles south of Cape Blanco, lati valuable timber will stand uncut; Port Orford, the nearest town, has a tude 42.44, longitude 124.30 west, quarter sections of land superbly fine natural harbor and deserves and is a deep broad, capacious road suited to stock raising and dairying mention. stead, having on the west and north will remain covered with scrub It is stated with much truth that a headland, ¡»crpendicular on the growth; coal fields, prospected but no county in Oregon is quite so in harbor side and 350 feet in altitude; undeveloped, will continue in their teresting from many viewpoints, as it has the very best holding ground primitive state, unless adequate Curry, probably the least known and of any roadstead on the coast, com means to get the goods to market understood of any in the state. Six posed of sand, loam and decomposed are supplied. The railroad is going ty years ago it was a wilderness slate. A quarter of a mile outside to be built down the coast and the traversed by half hidden trails; today of the extreme south point of the fact is gratifying. It will be the it is a district of stage routes and heads the water deepens rapidly, and sure means of adding to the state of trails, proud of one port only, where soon attains a great depth, the effect Oregon wealth which now lies hid a coastwise steamer touches regular- of which is to permit heavy ground den. ty is another of Oregon’s prides, and JEWELRY Come in and look over my stock whether you buy or not Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. BOYLE Marshall Building Main Street.
