Bandon recorder., December 19, 1907, Image 7

through our town some time ago.
These cattle were all two years ol J;
had been bought at weaning time
and turned onto hill pasture pre-
pared as above described, and had
Curry county joins Coos on the
I ‘,at Coos is
the ideal* stock
never been fed a mouthful, but had
lived, thrived and fattened in the
hills,- winter and summer—two
north and extends from the ocean 20 .country, must be admitted by all
winters and one summer, withjabto-
or 30 miles inland. The surface is I who have given themitlerany con­
lutely no expense or lal>or to ti e
quite level dear the ocean, then sideration and are at all familiar with
owner from the time he purch iseu
further east it bocomes rolling and the conditions.
them until he drove them to mirkcl.
when three or four miles from the
First and foremost of all, Coos
And this is being repeated year aft r
ocean we reach the foothills of the couuty has been and still is a lum­
year by practically all our stock .n •«»
low coast ranges.
ber country.
The conservative
We would suggest to our dairy
We feel justified in stating that estimates place the present amount
men that they should each own
North< r.i Curry has a climate unex­ of merchantable timber at twenty­
tracts of this hill pasture where they
celled by any other spot on earth, sei ei billion to forty billion feet.
may fatten their unprofitable milkers
it is equable, healthful, agreeable It is conceded by all that in the near
and young stock. To those seeking
*
and there is only 13 degrees differ­ future the great bulk of this timber
investment, we know of no more
ence between the average summer will be cut and marketed and the
promising or surer opportunities
and winter temperature. Just think hills whereon stood the magnificent
than are offered in Coos County
of it! The nights are uniformly pines will be bare except for the
stock ranges.
cool, but the temperature seldom undergrowth.
Then tie question
Sheep and goats have been found
falls below freezing any season of arises as to how these hills may be
to thrive on this pasture equally as
utilized to bring the best results.
the year.
well as cattle; and in addition to
The leading industry in Northern Fruit raising has been tried by many
meat, the wool and mohair are
Curry is butter making. The mild and proven to be very profitable. source of large profit,
Sheep and
Stock
raising
has
been
undertaken
rainy season insures an abundance of
goats have not received' the atten-
grass, and the range stock require perhaps more extensively than any­ tion in the past which we believe
thing else and has always rewarded
no feeding in winter. San Francisco
they deserve.
the industrious and prudent.
furnishes a ready market for the
It seems that goats are especially
It
has
been
the
practise
heretofore
butter and offers rates which make
adapted to this country.
Thous­
to
set
fire
the
tops
and
underbrush
the industry profitable to the dairy­
ands of acres are lying idle, bringing
The butter making season is left on the ground after a consider­ the owners- absolutely no income
nine months long, prices ranging able area has been logged off. Ex­ whatever and at the same time they
during that time from tK to 35 cents. perience has demonstrated that the appear to be the natural element
men.
Too steep and rocky
Stock raising is successfully fol­ month of August is the best time of the goat.
to
do
this
burning.
That
is
the
for cultivation;
overgrown with
lowed here, hundreds of head of cat­
driest
season
of
the
year
and
the
poison
oak,
sallal,
thimble berries,
tle being shipped south every year
the California market.
to supply
Sheep raising is very profitable.
Poultry raising has every con-
brush will turn better.
Also, when
salmon berries and huckle berries
burned at this season, the brush and other small shrubs that no other
seems easier or more thoroughly stock would eat but on which goats
killed and is not apt to spring up
dition in its favor, the market for
again from the roots.
eggs ranging from 15 to 60 cents.
After the ground has been thor­
Garden products are successfully
oughly burned over and just before
grown everywhere.
the early fall rains, grass seed should
Among the fruits successfully cul­
be sown in liberal quantities over the
tivated are apples, prunes, cherries,
burned district. Most people who
all small fruits, etc. We have no in­
have tried it seem to favor orchard
tense summer heat, and so peaches,
would thrive,
it seems a crying
shame that some enterprising party
with
small
capital would
not
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buy up these tracts and stock them
with goats.
Perhaps in time the
goats would kill all this vegetation.
Then the land may be seeded as be­
fore suggested for seeding burnt
grapes and cereals are not much
grown here.
The soil varies from
rich bottom land, which is very fertile
and deep, to hill land, which is prin­
cipally used for pasture.
We have good graveled roads.
All may work who desire to do so.
The Family Liquor Store
Wages vary from $35, paid to milkers
on the dairies, to $2 to $3 per day
to mechanics.
There are many mountain streams
furnishing an
abundance of pure
water to man and beast, and trout,
salmon and other fish tor our tables.
Larger streams are Sixes ••¡ver, Elk
river and
Flore's creek.
Looking Down Main Street, Bandon-—From an Old Photograph.
Flore’s
creek is well bridged, and noted for grass as being the kind best adapted hills, and the goats
its fine scenery. As it nears the to our hill lands. It grows luxur­ cattle.
replaced with
These are not experiments we
ocean it widens into a beautiful lake, iantly, keeps green all the year
They have
much spoken of because of its at­ round, and produces a good quality have been suggesting.
tractiveness, and is an ideal summer and flavor of beef and mutton. If all been tried and found successful.
not too heavily pastured this grass Of course there have been a few'
resort of the future.
The mineral and other resources will constantly re-seed the land and failures. But so there are in any
of this j>art of our county are yet eventually kill out all other growth. and all businesses. Men have profil­
largely undeveloped,
We note Can you find a country anywhere er! from the failures of others and
some progress from year to year, but that can be so easily transformed learned from their examples to shun
when we are connected with the from a dense forest to a place with the rocks which have caused their
wrecks.
world by rail instead of stage, our “cattle on a thousand hills?’’
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Depot
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But we have not yet told the best
We said there have been a few
And that is, that failures.
But on further consider­
Langlois, the central town of
stock will live all the year through ation we are unable to recall a single
Northern Curry stands midway be-
on this feed. No labor required in failure in Coos county stock raising.
tween Bandon on the north and
putting up winter feed. At a few of However, we are willing to concede
Port Orford on the south. It is a
the highest altitudes in the county, a that there have been a few. On the
thriving town of about 150 people,
few inches of snow may fall during other hand, we might name a con­
who are well disposed, industrious
siderable number of men who have
and kind hearted. It contains the the winter and cover the feed for
succeeded in this line, and among
usual industries of small country three or four days. In these localities, them several who have made a
towns, viz; A general merchandise unless the stock raiser has lower sufficient amount of money to en­
the
ground where his stock may feed able them to live at ease
store, two halls, hotel, candy store
remainder of their lives.
these few days, it is advisable to
In addition to all the advantages
and billiard room, two blacksmith
have enough hay put up to feed we have mentioned, it should be re­
shops, sawmill, resident physician,
during that time. But these localities membered that we have two deep
etc. They have good schools, a
sea harbors on the coast of Co< s
are so scarce and the snowfall so County—the Coquille river and Coos
flourishing Sunday school, and two
They afford us the means of
slight and of such short duration bay.
prosperous lodges, viz: The Wood­
transportation by water—the cheap­
that in speaking of the county as a
est there is. And we have the San
men of the World and Women of
whole they are scarcely to be con- Francisco market, the greatest on
Woodcraft.
the Pacific coast, almost at oar
sidered.
door.
Ships from our ports cross
They have no saloon, and a quiet,
One of the finest droves of beef the Pacific ocean, carrying our pro­
peaceable community.
cattle we have ever seen was driven duce to the Orient.
forward march will be rapid.
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