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is not equalled anywhere in the teousness of nature as displayed be teacher was quoting to her upils
world, and is as near perfection as fore us here.
the sayings of various wise men
any place on earth. The disadvan
So, I might go on, and on and touching the value of silence on cer
tages we have mentioned are the on—even like Tennyson’s brook, tain occasions, when she gave them
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Coos County Offers Homes and Employ
ment for Many.
Man seems to be possessed of a ter from cyclones and Hoods and hail
spirit.
In some, this storms and lightning, we of Coos
amounts almost to a migratory have no misgivings, for_these calam
habit. People are continually “mov ities never befall us.
nomadic
ing on” with the expectation of bet
tering their condition—of finding the
perfect spot—the “heaven on earth”
at the next stopping place.
Expe
rience has taught many this search
' is futile.
“The rolling stone gathers
no moss” is an adage hundreds of
years old.
There is no perfect spot
Coos is as yet undeveloped and
worst that exist here, and when forever—and yet could not tell it the proverb to the effect that we
compared with other places, sink all. Volumes could be written and have one mouth and two ears, in or
into insignificance.
the story be still incomplete.
Coos der that we may listen twice as much
Yes, and there is another matter county is one of those rare places as we speak.
A day or so after the instruction,
roads do not build themselves. The of vast importance which we have that to be appreciated must be seen
county is now expending thousands not mentioned. The healthfulness and felt. “See Italy and die.” See the teacher, to see how well the les
son had been learned, asked a girl
of dollars in making such roads as of the climate is almost perfect. Coos and live.
pupil the question, as above.
Soon we shall read of people any community might well be proud What few contagious diseases and
Coos County is on the eve of a
Little Mabel had forgotten the
The world at
throughout the eastern and middle of. And the new grades and cover epidemics have visited us have been great awakening.
philosopher's “maxim; but the ques
states dropping on the streets and in ing of rock will make roads that will in so mild a form as to scarcely merit large has just discovered us and is
Prices tion did not seem a difficult one to
the harvest fields overcome by the be permanent. We have no rail- mention except for the purpose of flocking to us in hundreds.
answer.
heat. We, of Coos, will wear our road connection with the outside calling attention to their very mild are advancing. If you wish to own
“Because,” said she, “we should
a Spot in a veritable garden of Eden, not have room in our face for two
winter clothing and enjoy the cool world at present, but one road is ness.
And there is another matter invest now unless your bank ac mouths, and we should ldbk too
ing and health giving ocean breeze, now building from Drain to connect
following our daily toil unaffected by with the Southern Pacific, and sev- which amounts to a disadvantage. count runs into six and seven figures. crooked if we had only one ear. ’ ’
on this globe.
Each and all have the fierce rays of the sun which are
So the worldly counteracted by other climatic in
wise select the place that to them fluences.
their drawbacks.
presents the fewest of these and
In addition to all this, Coos coun
This ty is overflowing with natural re
selection is largely a matter of indi sources awaiting capital and labor to
vidual taste; but there are a few enrich the fortunate ones who will
there tliey build their homes.
general disadvantages which all peo take advantage of the limitless oppor
ple alike desire to shun. There are tunities offered.
The rivers are
also advantages which all seek to teeming with food fishes of all varie
find before selecting their permanent ty. Twice each day the clam flats
location.
are laid bare to a feast fit for kings.
to The hills are covered with valuable
shun the rigors of an arctic winter or timber in which game can be found
the pestilence and contagion of a in abundance. The hills are full of
Very few people but desire
The lightning, the coal, gold, silver, and many other
blizzard, the cyclone, the volcano, valuable minerals. The productive
and the earthquake are alike dreaded ness of the valleys cannot be excelled
torrid snmmer.
by all. The writer has lived in suf any place on earth. Even the air
ficient proximity to most^>f these to and trees are filled with birds that
form an idea of their attendant an furnish food to man.
noyance and too often dreadiulness.
These statements may seem to the
To avoid all of these, he has •'elected uninformed to be overdrawn, but
Coos county as his permanent we stand ready to prove every one (
eral other lines have been surveyed.
abode. * ‘There let me live and die. ’ ’ of them.
Aside from this, we have the very
It may also appear that Coos
Last winter, while the people of
best facilities for shipping freight by
the New England and Northern county is all that could be desired in
pl
f
A Recent Photograph Taken Near Bandon.
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states were shivering around their the way of a dwelling place for a water—the 'cheapest transportation
fires, exerting every energy in their man. This is not quite the case,
conflict with the icy blasts that swept
but we believe it is as nearly so as
down upon them from the north,
any place that can be found on this
and kept them locked in winter's
mundane sphere.
frozen clasp for many months, their
Nevertheless, we are entirely hon
business at a standstill, all industries
obtainable.
So we do not see that
the lack of railroads is any great
drawback.
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We have telephone-telegraph lines
connecting us with all the world.
We h^ve daily mail service and our
paralyzed, transportation blocked, est and sincere in this article, and to
steam boats run regularly from all
and no power or plan of human mind prove it, we shall show what disad
the important cities on the coast and
or brawn able to overcome the diffi vantages we have—show both sides
some of them cross the Pacific talc
culties, the people of Coos county of the picture.
ing our lumber and other products
were serenely following their usual
We have considerable rainfall in
to the orient and bringing merchan
avocations, wearing the usual amount the winter, which some people try to
dise in return.
of clothing, sleeping with windows find fault with. But we assert that
Our fruit is sold at the top prices
open and enjoying all the pleasures our warm and gentle rains are much
and luxuries of a mild and temperate to be preferred to the snow and on the Atlantic coast and in Europe.
climate.
sleet blizzards or the drought of other
So, taking it all in all, we are
Now, while people of the middle countries. It is true that our roads thoroughly convinced that for a
and southern states are seeking shel- are not what might be desired, but place to build a home, Coos county
A Logging Scene on the Seven-mile near Bandon.
The ease with which people make a This is no fancy fable,
Come and
“No, Mabel,” said the teacher,
If you are from “that is not the reason. Perhaps
living is no doubt accountable for see for yourself.
Rosalie can tell us.”
legarthy with which all persons who Missouri, we can show you.
“Yessum,” responded Rosalie,
have lived here any considerable
“It’s that way so we can let what
She Knew.
length of time seem to be affected.
we hear go in at one ear and out at
A Washington public school the other!”
But this only emphasizes the boun-