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Biy wagon road, the height o*
Camas mountain being 1,450 feet
Published Every Thursday Evening by the
and the high point on the other
Recorder FntolBliing Company.
road being from 2,40« to 2,600
O. K. KOPF, ...
Managing Editor feet. In Coos county there are
but 24 miles of this rord, and about
Subscription, SI 50 per Year in Advance. Advertising Rates Made
ten miles of this has been graded
Known on Application. Job Printing a Specialty
and is capable of being permanently
Eutered at the Bandou Foal office as HecondClaaa Matter.
improved al minimum expense.
THURSDAY.................................................................................
Aprils, 1909
And on the Douglas side of the line
M r . H arriman says he told time. Anyone who is conversant the same condition exists, and the
Roosevelt five years ago that he was with the situation, knows that this road can be more cheeaply built
wrong in his fight on him and the section is one of the most fertile and kept m repair than the other
railroads and now the truth of this is spots on the face of the earth, and route. From Olalla on the road is
getting clearer every day. Perhaps for fruit growing, dairying and gen now gravelled and in a fair state of
can be improved
it is true that if Harriman had been eral farming it cannot be excelled, to repair and
allowed to run his bluff he would say nothing of the lumbering, min without great expense. The Middle
have built more railroads in the last eral and other industries. The only Fork road passes through a better
five years than he has, but he method by which any country can settled country and one that is
capable of extensive development.
would simply have fortified himself reach the zenith of its development I
The traffic could be brought from
all the stronger to squeeze the life is by a constant pull together of all
Roosevelt may its citizens, and whenever a knock Roseburg to Myrtle Point evo the
out of the people
have been wrong, but the people er appears, he should be squelched Coos Bay wagon route. Further
it once. The committee appointed more, this road could be made to
have to be sh >wn.
at the meeting Saturday night will ! serve all the’ countv while the otliei
T he Coquille Valley Sentinel says draft strong resolutions which will be road never will be able to handle
Coquille has come out of «the shell presented at the next meeting of I all the business. It is to the interest
and it appears very much as it the the business men when they will be of both Coos and Douglas counties
The meeting Saturday that one of the routes should be
assertion was true. In fact Coquille adopted.
never was a back number, but they night was one of great interest and permanently developed and the peo
are doing thing on a larger scale was quite well attended. Every pie of this section insist that they
than ever They granted a fran business man of Bandon should be have the most feasible route for
chise last week to the Coquille Mill at these meetings and render all ser such development.
Eandòn
Recorder
th-outside has barely begun. It
has started but the intluenee of the
newcomer or interested tr*-nds will
largely do the rest. The direct and
indirect effect of this tresh popula
tion upon the state* can scarcely be
overestimated. The flow o* fr sh
money into the'ordinary channels
of trade is not to be despised nor is
the growth in population, but the
growth of higher standards, in our
estimation., transcends every other
consideration. A great part of the
population that is coining consists of
trained men.
They have been
trained under the hardest, not the
easiest conditions. The difficulties
which they will meet here will seem
very trivial in comparison with the
di ticulties which th jy were familiar
with in the Mid-West States.
Hence they will set up new stand -
a ds of achievement and efficiency,
seting a new pace, so to speak, th.it
every self-re-pect-ing neighborhood
must follow.
In this way they will
woik their greatest transformation
and do the country their very great
est service.—Telegram
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Our interests are your interests. Fair rates and
good service our motto
P atents
Bandon and
O ni . y a short time will elapse be
Coo. They will operate an electric vicinity.
fore the tide of Summer visitors sets
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light plant, equip and operate an
in headed for the Alaska-Yukon
D esigns
C opyrights A c .
electric railway cn the streets ol
Fair
but
incidentally
with
their
eyes
T he people over^ at Coes Bay
Anyone
may r
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‘ and description
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quickly »«certain
ascertain our opinion free whether an
Coquille, and do several other stunts
invention is probably patentable.
paten_tHble._ Communlca-
(\)niniunlca-
open
to
what
they
may
see
in
the
seem to be very adverse to having
tioiw itrictljrconödential.^HANDBOOK on Patent«
’ee. Oldest agency for’secturn’ig patents."''
that will be of great benefit to the the Middle Fork road between Pacific Northwest which is attractive seiitTr
Patents taken through Munu <fc
A Co. receive
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f e, in the
tpfcial
notice, without ‘ charg
county seat town.
We are glad to Myrtle Point and Roseburg im as an investment or whi.h offers op
sec such prospects for Coquille and proved for the main traffic bet een portunities for homeb; ilding. There
A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Largest rlr-
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year
: four months, |L Bold by all newsdealers.
hope that the company will build 1 Coos county and Roseburg, but in is a movement of population from
VjUNN
& CoNew York
that electric line clear down to Ban sist that the old Coos Bay Military the extreme East but it is neither
llrnnch Office. 625 F St, Wuhluxlon, D. C.
don, so we can jump on the car and 1 road is the one that should be de- very great nor very pronounced so
be in the county seat town in twenty veloped.
People of unbiased far. At the same time it is steady 8ANDON TRANSFER CO
minutes. Let all the electric lines ’ opinion,
C. H. P attbbho N .<■ S on
have and certain and usually adds to our
however, who
etc. come into the county that we traveled both roads many times, in permanent population
when it
Dray and Genera) Delivery
can get.
But
the
sections
from
comes,
form us that the Middle Fork route
Meets nil boats. Orders caiefnlly handled
REGON
is much more feasible and easier of which we may expect the greatest IIANDO N
T he appointment of a dairy in development.
The Myrtle Point access to our population are the
spector for this district of Oregon
Enterprise has gathered data on the states of the Middle West when
is attracting considerable attention
ubject and comments editorially in the cold winters are driving thou
at present and there are several
its issue of April 2d as follows: sands forth to seek pleasanter cli
candidates in the field among
Most of these men have
“Even though there are railroads mates.
whom are Mr. Kistner of Coquille, constructed in Coos county, con made money in such states as Minn
in whose interest a petition has been
necting with the outside world, a esota, the Dakotas Iowa, Nebras
circulated around Bandon, and per good wagon road will be necessary, ka and Kansas.
Many of then
haps all over the district, another and without a railroad a wagon road have lived there for long terms ol
candidate, and one who has re will be indispensable. It is difficult yeais and
by laborious effor
ceived the indorsement of a large to imagine the benefits that a road gathered together mo lest little coin
number of the leading dairymen anc would be that could be used through petencies.
They come here pre
several of the most influential citi-*- out the year, in the matter of freight pared to invest as well as to make
sens is E. B. Thrift, the popular and passenger traffic, and a good their homes.
They are usually noi
and prosperous dairyman of Dairy- r<»ad is a possibility, depending only seeking laborious pioneer conditions.
ville. Mr. Thrift is a man eminent on the activity and energy of the Taken.as a whole pleasant climatic
ly qualified to fill the position, being people concerned.
With a good conditions are what they most de
a successful dairyman and a man wagon road from here to Roseburg, sire,
although ii cidentally they
who thoroughly understands the Douglas county would benefit as want to get a little land and from it
work in every detail. Mr. Thrift much as Coos and the people of the a little income perhaps, so as to give
has one of the finest dairy ranches two counties should get together and them some pleasing agreeable oc
in Curry county and successfully develop the roadway that is best cupation without it being at the
operates the same, thus assuring located for such development, and same time labo ious. When such
his competency in dairy business. that is the road leading from here men do get to this section of the
We are informed that he stands a by way ol the Middle Fork of the country two things chiefly surprise
good show of appointment, and if Coquille.
The meie fact tnat peo them. First the delightful quality
he gets it the mantle will have fallen ple could travel the road at any of the climate at this latitude and
on good shoulders. Mr. Thrift has season of the year would be valuable second that with the natural condi
not advertised his candidacy or to the people at both ends of the tions so easy, the opportunities for
caused any petition to be circulated line, not to mention the increased homemaking so inviting and with
in his behalff but his friends have travel and traffic that would result. land so reasonable in price that
urged him to be a candidate and While some of the most successful our population is nevertheless so
are looking after his interests.
boosters of the Coos Bay section small.
Rightly viewed they dis
insist that the old wagon road cover that all of this simply means
A t T he meeting of the Chamber should be developed, anyone who that they themselves have found an
of Commerce and business men o has traveled both routes, a ad par unexpected opportunity
and the
Bandon in the city hall Saturday ticularly any engineer, can be de number who embrace it is almost
night a committee of prominent bus pended upon to say that the Middle enough to make it unanimous. In
iness men was appointed to draw up Fork route is best located for de Oregon we may boast this advan
resolutions condemning any and all velopment. With its easier grades tage—all we requite is for people to
persons who are disposed to knock and better exposures, and its better come here and the country itself will
on the industries any possibilities of settled territory, not to mention do the rest. Few people who c >me
southwestern Oregon, and of Coos the rock available for permanent fail to fall under t ie charm of the
and Curry counties in particular. work, there is no question in the climate. The .other conditions are
This is a step in the right direction minds of those who know, that it somewhat better than most sections
and a policy of this kind should be should be
made the permanent can offer. These combined do the
vigoriously carried out, so that all roadway. The road
is shorter, work. We are increasing in pop
knockers will be so ashamed of and it is. declared by those who illation at a very rapid rate, faster
themselves that they will slink into enow, that the elevation is at least than most sectio »s, but our growth
their holes and remain there for all 1.000 feet less than that of the Coos through,a flow ol population fron»
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C. M. SPENCER, Agent, Bandon, Oregon
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THE HARDWARE MAN
Scientific American.
BRIDGE S( BEACH Stoves, Ranges'anJ Heatershave in them so many excellencies
that they are now acknowledged the greatest sellers on the coast u I t'.o/ are growing
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in favor every year.
We have the exclusive agency in Bandon foi lli.. • household
and office necessities, and prices range exceedingly modest in either case.
TINNING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY.
Our Assortment of Hardware, Tinware and Edged Tools is Most Complete.
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