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Recorder Pnloisliing Company.
O. B2. KOFF,
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Babscription, 11 50 per Year in Advance. Advertising Rates Made
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Entered at the Bandon Poatoftioe as Seoond-Claaa Matter.
THURSDAY
April 29, 1909
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CODY LUMBER CO.
appears in the current number of cleverly, disproved the negative set
McClure’s, will command National up by the Honorable Secretary.
attention and carry convincing This is not mentioned ’in any parti
weight. The article in question was san spirit as to the correctness of
written before Mr. Taft was inaugu either opinion, but simply to show
rated as President. It is a compre the more clearly the important
hensive summary of The history ol figure which Mr. Patten cuts as we
the present canal enterprise, and an try to forecast the bread-and-butter
exhaustive review of the arguments side of our existence. It is not evi
and the facts which have a bearing dent from what has occurred that to
on the mooted question of lock eliminate the opinion and counsel
versus sea-level type.
There is no of Mr. Patten at this stage of the
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detail of this controversy that game would be to plunge us in
touches the important considera stygian darkness?
The thousands
tions of cost, time consumed in of families in the large cities of this
construction and the stability, safety country who aie struggling along on
and utility of the canal when com a weekly income ranging all the
pleted which Mr. Taft ignores. way from $5 to #9, have a real liv
Upon all of these poitns, the case ing interest in the matter, to ray
in favor of the type adopted is nothing of the effect of high prices
clinched. There is also factual and as < videnced in the milling and
satisfactory explanation of the in baking business.
Mr. Patten has
crease in estimates of cost above authoratively announced his wisdom
the original, in which there is in the premises, and while public
nothing of apology, but a simple skepticism exists as to the correct
statement as to conditions govern ness of his assertions, the pressure
ing cost of construction, which were of $7 llour and 7-cent loaves is
unforeseen and unavoidable.
In onerous, and the consuming public
President Taft’s conclusion, which is something more than curious to
gives an outline of the administra- know if it is
to
continued.
tive policy with reference to canal The country would like to know if
construction, he presents a terse the moon is really made of green
statement of facts as to the two cheese.
types, which it is well to quote:
“The facts today are the same as
WANTED--$500 on good se
they were when the lock type was curity. Call at this office for par
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adopted, namely, that it would take ticulars.
at least $200,000,000 of money and
Fine job work a specialty at the
at least five years more of time to R ecorder office. “Work done
construct the sea-level type of while you wait.”
Now that the movement has been
launched by the commercial organ
izations of Bandon, Coquille and
Myrtle Point, for the establishing of
a Port of Coquille River there
should be concert’d action on the
part of everyone who is interested
in the welfare and development of
the Coquille valley should lend a
helping hand.
The greatest thing
that could come to this valley and
the thing that will go farther toward
A n exhibit at the Seattle, fair,
its
development than anything else
of the products of Coos county, and
a pamphlet advertising its resources now in sight will be the establish
will, no doubt, be the means of ment of a Port of Coquille River.
bringing many people to this county It has been conservatively estimated
during the coming season. What that a three mill tax on the property
we need here is settlers. We that would come within the bound
have the resources and can produce aries of the port, which covers all
that which drains into the Coquille,
the goods, if we can get sufficient
would be ample to maintain the
people here to properly populate
port,
as there is now about six mil
the county and develop the re-
lion dollars worth of property in this
sources.
territory, and there will be more
5 now on the prairies of the Mis all the time as improvements are
made. With the present amount
sissippi valley, and in the Rocky
of
property, the three mill tax will
mountain district, devastating gales
in Ohio and Texas, an ice gorge produce eighteen thousand dollars
threatening towns on the Niagara per year, which would be sufficient
river and the fruit ranchers fighting to keep the rive." and port in the
best condition from the bar to Myrtle
frost in the famous Yakima valley
Point. Let everybody boost for
by means of making smudges in
canal,
. . That the canal
their orchards with crude petroleum, the poit. Let’s have a long boost
when so constructed, would be
—who would not prefer to live in a strong boost and a boost alto
gether.
dangerous for the passage of larger
Coos county, Oregon, even though
vessels, and that the lock type of
we do have a little cool sea breeze
D id you ever notice a group of canal constructed at $200,000,000
occasionally?
little girls between the age fourteen less in cost and five years less in
T he summer camping season and eighteen chattering away in a time will be a better canal, a safer
canal and one in which the time of
while not upon us yet will be here corner? The next time you sit near
passage for large vessels will be
before we are really aware of it ant such a group listen and hear if every
even less than in the sea-level type.
that Bandon will have a large num tenth word about is what “he
“Meantime,” says Mr Taft, as a
ber of campers goes without say said” If it is you have found some
last word, “the canal will be built
ing as this is one of the most pop more of the “he said girls”, and
and
completed on or before the first
ular. and by far the most beautiful they are not the nicest little girls day of January, 1915, and those!
resort on the coast of Oregon. in the world. The “he said” girls
who are now its severest critics will j
What w e want to do now is to com are likely to loaf down town after
mence beautifying the city by fixing school too late to help their mothers be glad to have their authorship of
up the lawns and cleaning up the with the afternoon work. They are recent articles forgotten.”—Tel
egram.
alleys etc. The city council is doing ikely to wear a little better clothes
excellent work in the matter of than their fathers can afford, so that
ordering street improvements, and the neighbors wonder what their
C onjecture has it that Wheat
when all of these projects are com mother can be thinking about. The ■ Bull Patten cleaned up all the way
pleted it will add materially to the “he said” girls also too often think from four million to five million
beauty as well as the convenience more of boys than of their books, dollars. Of course conjecture is not
and frequently fail to get thro ugh reliable, serving only as a sort o
of the city.
school. They are in tor a time, a conscience satisfier but the fact
and have nothing in their heads but remains that the Raspy Mr. Pat
T his paper puts in a plea for the
lair pins and two steps. Sometimes ten, through his shrewd manipula
planting of fruit and shade trees
nature takes a girl out of the “he tion of the wheat market laid up
and vines about every place that is
said” family and makes a fine ¿ Oman enough for a rainy day. and it all
to be called a home.
Even if one
of her, but generally she gets to comes out of the mouths and
does not expect to live in a place
going out to parties and is de pockets of the poor people who are
long enough to get the fruit or en
veloped before her time, and either struggling along on meager salaries,
joy the shade somebody will be
marries and fades away at twenty or with which to buy bread and butter.
glad of it some day and silently bless
hangs on after all the other girls There is a cessation, a lull, a de
the kindly hand that planted and
are married off. and takes genera cline, or call it what you will, in the
cared for the trees or vine. A
tion after generation of young boys wheat market, and Mr. Patten has
small, plain cottage, on an ordi
to raise by hand, and becomes withdrawn temporarily from the
nary lot, can be made beautiful and
cnown as “grandma” in the crowd. field and taken up his abode on
homelike by tastefully surrounding
There is nothing so sweet as a his partner's ranch in Colorado, and
it with trees and flowers. Few peo
simple, frank, open hearted girl. there being no secret about his
ple realize how much a child’s mind
But the boy struck girl is an abomi movements he is kept in view by the
is influenced by his surroundings.
nation.
The whole matter rests newspaper men who desire to keep
Children brought up with trees and
with the girl’s mother.
She can the public posted with regard to the
fruits and flowers have a larger
bring up one of the “he said girls” wheat market and the movements
idea of home than children brought
or she can have a daughter to be and prospects of the Wheat King.
up among the bare walls of a
proud of.—Times.
Mr. Patten resents the ubiquity that
crowded city.
Personal attention
such desire develops, and in answer
to the surroundings of the home is
A ll things considered, there is to a professional question, politely
a pleasure one cannot afford to
miss. The mistakes we make are possibly no better authority on the put, he tells the teporner “it is
none of your business.”
Mr. Pat
useful lessons, the successes are construction of the Panama Cana!
ten certainly shows himself extreme
lull of satisfaction and as the years than President William Howard
Certainly, no man has ly discourteous an I inconsiderate,
of growth bring added beauty, the Taft.
and his actions prove to the pub
taste and personality of the owner studied the problems which the
lie that there is nothing virtuous in
is reflected. It stands as an inspire the construction of the canal presents
his intentions.
It was only the
tion and an incentive to others.— more earnestly than he. There is
other
day
that
Secretary
Wilson
no one who has a stronger incentive,
T ums .
or,who is better equipped toward had the temerity to show that what
Old papers at the R ecorder of* the mastery of this matter in its Mr. Patten had said about the high
fica five cents a bundle.
entirety than the present Chief price of wheat being tiased on i.a]
N ext week we will begin the
publication of a series of articles, en
titled” Reminicenses o’ Early Days
in Coos county” by M. C. Pohl,
one of the pioneer settlers of this
county. They will describe very
graphically the scenes and situa
tions of early days and will be of
great interest to all our readers
both old and new settlers.
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from the President, stch as that Mr. Patten ¿fog niat ¡call y, if mt
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