o X. « • . • * • t I — GBOSMAN TIMMONS. Pr«ident R. H. ROSA. Vic* President A. D. MORSE, Manager G. T TREAGOLD, Secretary A. E. HADSALL. Treasurer Bandon Investment Corporation Incorporated Way 6, 1907 Real Estate, Townsites, Promotions BANDON 1 McNair, The Hardware Man •«»oe a Bt At tl Stove,. Ranges and Heater* have in them *o many *xcellencie* that they are now acknoa l*«lged the greate*t seller* on the <-oaet. and they are grow­ ing in favor every year We have the exclusive agency in Bandon for three hodse- hold and office neceaaitiee. and price» range exccslingly modest in either care. Assortment of Hardware. Tinware and Edged Tools is Most Complete ; Coquille Steam Laundry > ^Invention FffiST-CUSS LAUNDRY WORK BOOTS SHOES Lewin’s Meat Market CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR High Classes of Work Solicited Oregon Bandon AME 1CA IS RICHEST AM.NG THE NATIONS M. BREUER’S TINNING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY Chas. S. McCulloch I *>t«J of export« will reach nearly tw< billions of dollars. The exports for No vetnbe« were the largest for wny aingl« ’ month en r»e>>rd and reached $204.444,- NOSl.ER A MORRISON. Prop*. tM<>, which was nearly «even million» • day. Dur e:. p .rts to Europe wore *9>, 000,000 more than in 1906, when they | were larger than for any other year. Out Of every kind dyne on short notice export« to North American countries gist and at rea.* nat>le price*. The humming bird In Australia, no William E. Curtis Says Croesus gained $40.000,000. Our --»ports to Sotitl less than fnan, protects Its' habitation America gained $7.0o0.ooi>, to Asia $11# SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED Was Pauper Beside Our 000,000 ami to Porto Rico, the Hawaiiat with a lightning rod. The humming •a left on Monday* with our Baade* L'ncle Sam. Island* and the Philippines more that bird, before a devastating thunder­ *v. nt. “.Orders A <1. TU<>WBRIIX;1 will I.■ given *are- ten million«. ° storm bursts, prudently covers the out­ ful attention and delivered in Bandon at the stere In 1850 there were only 251.354 depos side of Its little uest with cobweb. Friday evening*. ¡tors in the savings banks of the Unite« Silk Is a non conductor of electricity, COQUILLE, OREGON. States ; iu 1870 this number had increaa FIGURES SHOW BIG G and since cobweb is silk the hunuulug ed to 1,630,846. One person in every thirty of the population was depoaitinf bird's nest is thereby rendered light­ his or her savings where they would draw ning-proof. In a recent article in the Street Rail Per Capita Wealth in 1870 Was interest. To-day 8,58.8,811 persona, or al most exactly 10 per eent of the entlrt way Journal on "Transportation Fa­ $770.83; in 190T It Was You can’t expect to get 12 population of the country, have account« cilities in South America” it is stated worth for $1, but you can get In savings bank*—an average of one ir that transportation Is so difficult over *1,310.11. your moneys worth at every ten men. women and children it the mountains that the coal Import«*! th* United States. internal commerce for the yea i into Bolivia for the railway’s own use I As a rule, the average newspaper was The greater than ever before. On th« costs about $30 per ton. At La Pax Great Lakes and on the railroads th« abundant timber grows within fifty reader doos not like statistics, but her«» are some figures that every laxly should movement of natural products was beyonf miles from the mountains, but trans­ Dealer in Boots and Shoes all comparison. There was a gain of It »♦ad, because they mean so much. They per cent tn the amount of iron ore ship portatlon is so difficult that trolley opera- jxik-s and lumber for building i measure our greatness as a nation and ped, a gain of 25 per cent in coal and i Repairing Neatly and Promptly Dane ' our prosperity as a people, and al­ similar gain in corn, wheat, live stock and tions are brought from Oregon, a dis- at Lowest Living Prices. though they nre so stupendous that the every other Important article, while tht tance of thousands of miles. o A sanitary garbage wagon used It I human mind almost refuses to compre­ freight charges averaged lower than fot Berlin, says Popular Mechanics, is com­ hend them, they carry a lesson that ev­ arty previous year. The increase in exports occurs chiefly pletely covered by a large hood of sheet ery citizen and every school boy should in manufactured articles. The figures ol metal, with a sort of chute or funnel, I learn. Uncle Sam Is richer than any agricultural exports remain about th« which elongated upon the roof of the other nation that exists or ever has same as in 194)6, when they were th« hood curves downward at the back end, existed. Croesus, King of Lydia, whose largest on record. name has been a synonym for wealth The government treasury was never in where It is open, to receive the refuse. All Kinds of for ages_ was a pauper compared to better shape. The report of the United The garbage is placed upon a movable him. States treasurer for June 30, 1870. show­ platform under the mouth of the chute From the reports of the bureau of ed an available cash balance of $150,096,- and raised by chains into the Interior. statistics, the ceusus bureau, the Treas­ 000 in the treasury at Washington; ths A trap door o|x»ns by the turning of a ury anti Agricultural Department WII- report for December 14, 1907, shows an lever and the box diverts its contents , liam E. Curtis, the Washington corre- available cash balance of $259,762,309, Into the body of the wagon, odor and without counting $246,284,455 deposited •podent, has compiled a few significant in national banks and subject to the call JI. figures showing the material develop­ of the department. This makes a total The British Admiralty has Instruct- ment of the United Stat«»« within the available balance of $54X1,046,764. • ed the commanders of all ships of war Furnished at living prices. A share last thirty-seven years. He has select­ Secretary Wilson in his recent annual furnished with wireless telegraph ap­ of the public patronage solicited ed the year 1870 as a basis of compari­ report showed us that the crops of the paratus to telegraph to meteorological son, because that was the beginning of farmers of the United States for the year stations with which they may be In a new era In American commerce and 1907 was beyond all comparison and had communication full details concerning Industry that followed the Civil War. a farm value of $7,412,000,000— an in­ tlie weather at sea. This new branch of 57 per cent in eight years. ' Although the panic of ’73 arrested the crease In 1870 the value of the farm animals of the English meteorological sendee • growth of the country for a time, the in the United States was $1.554,960,149; has already proved valuable, and It Is present period of development began in 1907 they are worth $4,423,697,853. believed that its importance will con­ I then. In 1870 our farmers had 25,484,100 tinually increase. Weather Information I The population of the country in 1870 neat cattle; in 1907 they have 72,533,996. from the sea Is of special value In the 'was 38,558,371, or 12.74 to the square In 1870 they had 8,248,800 horses; in British Isles, because the great storms niile; the population on the 30th of June, 1907 they have 19,746,583. generally approach across the ocean, In 1870 the wool clip was 152,000,000 AT I 1007, according to the estimates of the and not, as In the eastern half of was 298,915,130 pounds ; In 1907 it census bureau, was 85,593,303, or 28.28 the United States, across a broad con- pounds. per square mile. ‘lnent netted with telegraphs. The wheat crop in 1870 was 235,884,- | The tangible wealth of the country, the it was 735,200,970 "00 bushels ; in 1907 By crossing and selection, a new va true valuation of real and personal prop­ riety of cattle, known as the Bordelaise MRS. SARAH.'COSTELLO erty, according to the census of 1870, was bushels. The corn crop in 1870 was 1,004,255,- race, has been developed In Southwest- $30,068,.518,04)0. while in 1907 it is esti­ mated at more than three times that 000 bushels; in 1907 it was 2,927,416,- ern France, The two parent varieties Nice clean rooms 25c and 50c a 091 bushels. amount, or $107,104.211.917. and the Breton cattle, night; $1.25 a week; $5 a month are the Holland In 1870 the cotton crop was 3,114.952 ■ As far back as 1850 the per capita the one famous for the abundan«?e of bales; in 1907 it was 13,510,982 bales. wealth of tlie United States was esti­ OREGON The cotton mills of the United States their milk, the other for their pro- BANDON mated at $307.69. in 1870 it had more than doubled and was estimated at consumed 857,000'bale« of cotton in 1870 vision of butter, The Bordelaise race. whose first herd book appeared in 1889, $779X3. In 1907 it had almost doubled and 4,627,000 bales in 1907. In 1870 we exported 958,558,523 Is said to combine the excellences of again, and has reached the sum of $1,- BANDON TRANSFER’CO. ,310.11 per capita, which proves that we pounds of cotton; in 1907 we exported Its two progenitors. Its most charac­ C. H. PATTERSON & SONi are the richest people that ever existed. 4,518,217,220 pounds. teristic external mark Is the black-and- The production of gold in 1870 was white tiger pattern covering the body. Dray and General Deliver* In other words, if the real and personal property belonging to the inhabitant* of $36,000.000; in 1907 it was $96,000,000. In the pure breed the head Is entirely >7 Meets all boat*. All order* handled with care In 1870 the production of silver was the United States could be equally dis­ black. The name comes from the city BANDON OREGON tributed among them, each man, woman $16,334,000; in 1907 it was $37,4142,900. In 1870 we produced 220,951,290 tons of Bordeaux, the metropolis of the re« and child living on the 30th of June last of coal: in 1907 we produced 5,312,745,- 9, of which $756,665,869 is gold 324 tons. OREGCN In 1870 we had 28,492 postoffices in young Englishman in his most tran»- and the remainder silver. The interest-bearing debt of the United the country; in 194K) we had 76,688. Since ' Atlantic accent, "I have purposely tak­ States has been reduced from $2,046.155,- that time, by the introduction of rural I en to pronouncing one word wrong. I 722, or $60.46 per capita of population, free delivery, the number has been reduc­ don't say ’Grieg’ any more. I say in 1870 to $869,603.010, or $10.26 per ed to 62.659. ‘Greg.’ Before making the change I capita, in 1907. The annual interest There is no better thermometer of com­ charges on the public debt have been re- mercial and industrial activity than the, said to several persons I happened to duc««d from $118,784.960, or $3 per cap­ Postoffice Department, for people do not I be talking with, T say, do you know ita of population, to $21,628.914, or 25 writ* letters when they have no busines« 'Grieg?’ and always they answered: No, cents per capita of population. to write about. ’ The 'receipt« of the de- they dlil not know Greek, and for good­ Notwithstanding the reductions in war partment in 1870 for . postage stamps ness sake don't ask if they know Latin taxes since 1870, the ordinary revenues amounted to $19,722.222 ; in 1907 they because they've forgotten all of that RASMUSSEN BROS., Props of the government have increased from had increased to $167,932.783. ! they ever did know. They thought, $ .95.1159,834 in that year to $'*>3,140,434 In 1880 there were 4,829 money order you see. that I was asking if they in 1907, and the ordinary expenditures office« in the United States. In 1907 knew Greek. So finally I took to say­ have increased ftotn $164,421,507 to there were 37,500. In 1880 7.240,537 $554.422.589. This does not include the domestic money orders were issued; in ing Greg, which is enough to make the receipts or expenses of the postal service, 190" the number was 62,069,783. Those |n>or old Norwegian shout out a cor- which is almost self-sustaining. Last issued in 1.880 represented a value of rectlon from his gravé, but it pre« year the receipts from postage were $1,83,- $100,352,818; those issued in 1907 repre­ •ents further misunderstanding.” 5.85,005 and the expenses $191,214,387. sented a value of $479,650,342. A Hnier capita of |>opulntion ware 11,481,531. $9.77, and. notwithstanding the enormous The total expenditures for public have.”—Ixtntlon Ihmch. increase in population, the per capita in school« in the United State« in 1870 waa The Church Fair. 19o" was $21.66. $83,396,666; the total for 1905 was $291,- “None but the brave deserve the fair." The foreign commerce of the United Aye! None but the brave a fair would State* for the calendar year of 190" has 610,660. The increase in wages per capita in dare; l>een larger than In any previous year in COURTEOUS TREATMENT the history of the country, both in im­ the United States since 1870 has been For when the “fair” Indies begin their I ports and exports, and our trade with •l>out 32 per «’ent; the increase during advances every grand division of the world is In ex­ ♦fie last fifteen year« ba« be«n 24 per Sure, every man present has got to cels of any pgevious year. Th* imports cent. take chances. The Increase in the cost of food sin