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NUMBER 27
BANEON, OREGON, JULY 14, 1910
DEEP WATER
$200,000 FOR
GOOD ROADS
Twenty-three reet on Seven
Foot Tide Thursday
Night
Co. Commissioners in Session
Discuss Work Planned
For This Year
GOVERNMENT WORK
FOR COQUILLE RIVER
MANY TO MOVE
What The Appropriation of $56,000.00 Will
Twenty Ranchers near Tilla
Evangelist Is Hard W< rker
mook Planning to Locate
and is Hopeful of Good
in Coos County
Results
Do For The Bar And How Far it
Will go on The River
TO COQUILLE
Nearly $200,000 will be expended
The Coquille Sentinel says:
on
road
building
in
Coos
county
this
SHOWS GREAT POSSIBILITIES OF HARBOR
“W. E. Catterlin, deputy State SPECIAL SERVICES. SATURDAY, SUNDAY
summer, and the 111 .tier of road
Die $56,000 recently appropriated by Congress for the improvement dairy and food commissioner tor
building was one of the important of the Coquille river, was all given to improve the inside channel, there Western Oregon, arrived fn Coquille
Wednesday evening after a record
Some of the croakers who say that features discussed by the County being no allowance, whatever, made for the further improvement of the
The interest in the big union tab
trip from his home al Tillamook,
bar at this time
•
,
the Coquille river is only a little Commissioners w ho met in their reg
and vill be permanently located a ernacle meetings is growing with
The estimated cost ol the work proposed is as follows:
slough and cannot be made a harbor ular session at Coquille last week. Construction and equipment of snag scow......................................
$ 7,000 few miles south of this city for the each service. Last Sunday evening,
The
Commissioners
adjourned
to
will be compelled to pull in their
Operation of scow 2 seasons, 4 months each season......................
6,000 next ten years. It will be remem a large audience listened with rapt
500 bered that Mr. Catterlin visited this attention to the evangelist’s sermon
horns when they are confronted with July 27th, when some business is to Removal of mid-channel rock at Rocky Point..............................
Strangs
’
Shoal,
dredging
15.00
cubic
yds,
al
15
cts
....................
2.250 section some time since in the inter
facts, anti here are some of the facts. be transacted and after that there
on HELL, and he surely makes 01 e
Walstrom’s landing shoal, dredging 14 000 cubic yds. at 15 cts. . .
2, IOO ests of his office and his present
The Fifield last Thursday night, will be no more meetings until Sep
He think. If jon don't believe, con e
6OO move is the result of that visit.
Randolph mill shoal, dredging 4.000 cubic yds, at 15 cts............
went out carrying a full cargo of tember.
was so favorably impressed with this and hear him yourself before vou
Contingencies, engineering and office expenses..............................
3.7»<>
Bills were allowed new judges
lumber, and soundings at that time
section of the State that he has taken condemn what lie says.
Total........................................................................................ 22, l6o a len-year lease on the Star Ranch
showed 23 feet of water on the bar and clerks of election appointed,
On Tuesday night his let lure on
with only a seven foot tide; with a and other routine business transacted. Estimated cost of w >rk proposed in House Document 399, Six
near Langlois, and will give it his
“Oregon Dry” got them all going,
tieth Congress, first session........................................................... 27,840 personal supervision in the future.
big tide the bar would thus have 24 The matter of having a county road
and the audience at times broke out
Grand total.............................................................................. $5o,o(X)
or 25 feet, and this is not all; the master was discussed, but Countv
“And this is but a small portion
;n applause, giving the famous yell,
water was from ¡6 to 20 feet deep Judge Hall says that there w ill prob
It is estimated that the sum of $6,000 would be required annually of the goad results ol Mi'. Catterlin’s
“Oregon Drv in 1910.” Van got
on the inside channel, and it was ably be nothing done this year. He for maintenance of the proposed channels between the mouth of the river previous visit. Upon his return to
so warmed up to his subject that he
found that the water was 50 feet has been investigating the plan by and Qiquille for the removal of dangerous snags as far up as the mouth of Tillamook he told his friends and
discarded his coat and went after it
deep between the jetties just outside correspondence with ether counties tin* North Eork, and for the care of the plant.
neighbors there ot the grand country
in his shirt sleeves.
in the State with a view of ascertain
the bar.
To show something of the importance of the Coquille river as a ship we have in Coos and Curry counties
A number have already made a
There are croakers who say that in. their experiences in having a ping point, it nted only be noted that the tonnage crossing in and out over and the result is that there will soon
start in the Christian life.
Next
the bar cannot have over 15 feet of county roadmaster.
the bar during the year 1. 08 was 70,000 tons, in round numbers, with a arrive here about twenty ot these
Saturday at 3 p.m. the evangeh t
The work which the Commission value of about $1,500,000, and with the inside commerce of the river it friends and neighbors and they will
water under the most favorable cir
»ill speak to women only, and Sun
cmnstances, but they merely put up ers have been doing on the roads of would bring the total shipping valuation up to $2,000,000. This would come prepared to locate here and
day at 3 p m. a mass meeting for
their opinions, and have never made tile county is now beginning to show. indicate that the river* is worthy ol all the aid that Uncle S > ill can give us. purchase dairy farms
They have
men will be held. Van’s subject
1 here is in the general road fund The tonnage increased in the ten years from 1898 to 1908, from 24,556 sold their interests in Tillamook and
actual soundings.
I
will be, “Hol Shot for Men, or the
Anotlu-r fact worthy of note is about $¡22,000, but the special taxes tons to 68,4261. tons, or practically three fold. Probably no port along are coming to slay in the finest dairy
Devil’s Boomeiang.” Il will lie a
that not a vessel has been bar b >und in different parts of the county will the coast can show such an increase as this, and the increase each year country on the Pacific coast.
hummer. Let all the men in Bai -
in the Coquille river for over three bring the aggregate sum to be ex iron now on will be infinitely greatei, so that within the nbxt ten years the
“These twenty or more dairymen
don hear it.
pended on roads this year, up to marine business from this port will be something immense, and the thing will come representing a total capital
months.
Sunday night will oe another great
The. excellent condition of the about $200,000, and by winter we must do is to prepare for it by getting the port into the very best con of perhap.» four hundred thousand
meeting,
and the sutiject is “Booze,
harbor under these favorable circum there will be a marked change in dition possible. This can be done only by the people working with the dollars, and this Sum invested in
or a Ride with Van on the Water
stances is only indicative of what many of the roads. There has keen government.
dairy farms and stock in this section
Wagon.” Bandon people ought to
might Ire accomplished it the proper aspecial tax assessment on the North
Let’s get busy and establish the Port Commission and do our share of will mean a new epoch in the history rally and give these meetings the
Fork ol Coos River, in all three (he work.
effort were put forth.
of the dairy business of this section support they deserve.
Eor instance, the opponents ol the districts < f the Coos Bay wagon
It will mean new ideas and new eti
Evangelist Van Marter is one of
|N>rt commission can hardly justify road, in Coquille city district, on the
ergy for the industry and it will also
the
ablest men in his profession and
Gross
Misrepresentation
Births and Deaths
their opposition, in face <>t these Middle Fork of the Coquille River,
mean that the methods of handling
by those who know
so
recognized
facts, on the ground that this cannot the Fishtrap district and c.n the
the dairy business ol the county will him He will
jar you but will «Io
I
be made a haroor, they must get South Fork ot tne Coquille River.
Report has it that so ne of the up
During the month of June just be radically changed, and that there yon good.
An improvement in which the river towns have circulated the re dosed the records show over twice will not in future be the vast amount
some other excuse for their opposi
Meetings will continue all next
general
| ublic is especially interested port that there is a great epidemic as many births as deaths in Hie of idle acreage which has I ecu the
tion. But some may say, if the bar
week.
Remember that all the pas
bor is so good, why not let well is the work on the Middle |<ork of of infantile paralysis at Bandon, and county, and that Ii id there been one onlv drawback in tile past.”
tors and churches of Bandon aie
enough alone? The answer is, w< the Coquille River, which road is that scores of people who had in more marriage they would also have
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back of this movement.
must keep working and progressing the stage route from Myrtle Point to tended coming here on the Fourth, numbered twice as many as there
Installation and Banquet
so as to make it still better, and in Roseburg With the general hind were detained on account ot this were deaths. This shows the climate
order to have conditions equally as and the special assessments there is report. The fact is th it there have ar.d general conditions of the county
Wellman to Cross Atlantic
favorable when the rough weather ol about $50,000 to be spent on the b en a few cases of this disease here, to be tar ahead of those obtaining in
Delphi Lodge, No. 64, K. ol P.’s,
the winter is in season, and then road between Myrtle Point and the but no more than in other places, almost any oil er pait of the world.
installed officers and gave a banquet
again comi's the same argument that county line. I he whole road has and strict quarantine is being ad During the entire month there were
New Yoi*k, July 8—Walter Well
l«> the Knights and their ladies,
has formerly he -,i put fo th, that tin been re-surveyed and the bad places heied to whenever one of these cases but fifteen deaths in the county, and
man and E. Vaninman will attempt
Monday evening. A jollv good time
greater development of the harbor, cut out, and when the work is tin is found. If the other towns are tlieie were thirty-five births du-ing
this fall to cross the Atlantic ocean
was enjoyed by all present, and the
ished
there
will
be
a
good
automobile
the better and greater will the com
taking the same precautions that are the same period. The marriages Knight entertained the ladies most in the dirigible balloon America
munity at I irge b-.-comc The gov road from Myrtle Point to the coun being taken in Bandon, tin y will numbered but twenty-nine which is
which was built lor the Wellman
royally. The officers installed were
ernment has given us $56,000 to lx t\ line.
polar
expedition and has twice been
have nothing to fear from any a very small number tor the month as follows: C. R. W.ule. C. C. : F.
“The road work is beginning to s reading of the disease from this of June. However, quite a number
used on the river, but we n< ed to do
»e-ted in voyages over the Arctic
Lewin. V. C.; J. W. Mast, Poiau .
something for ourselves, and then make a showing now.’’ said Judge point- Such reports, when they are have been solemnized this month s >
•• ran north of Spitzbergen. The
Claude Adams, M. ot \V.; J <
we can gi t more, and the Coquille Hall in discussing the work of the given out without foundation, as this the two months will no doubt come
Hi<mpt will be made solely on the
Si.¡elds, M. at A,; J. N. Laugh.1
river harbor will become one of the Commissi -¡nets. “The trouble has me was, are malicious, to say the well up to the usual average as com
responsibility of the aeronauts, but
I G, ami Win. McKay, O. G.
greatest on the Pacific coast, for il always been that the roads were not least, and the people who circulated pared with other years.—Coquille
the New Yoik Tinies, Chicago Rcc-
on
the
proper
grade,
is evident that we have the possibil-
There are in them should lx? more sure of their Sentinel.
oid Herald and the London Daily
the county 793 miles of road and I grounds.
it es
Mrs. R. W. Boyle entertained a telegraph have arranged to buy the
think 1 am safe in saving that not
party of lady friends at her spacious news of the expedition, which will
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Frank Burkholder, manager of the
over 150 miles is on the l ight grade.
home in West Bandon, Monday be transmitted by wireless from the
Pacific
Real
Estate
Company
this
We are n >w getting the grades es
afternoon, in honor of her sister, air-ship.
Ferry Business
A. Knopp brought a box of ber
tablished so that the work done will ries to this office Tuesday morning, week moved into his new office on Mrs LeGere, of Versailes, Mo. The
The America will carry a crew of
be of a permanent nature. For ex known as the “Phenominal" beiry, the ground floor next door to J. A. louse was very prettily decorated, six men including a wireless operator
Lamb and Co., and to say that he the color scheme being pink and and 1600 gallons of gasoline in a
The business of the local ferry for ample. the bad road at Bear Creek
and they were certainly phenomenal
h is a neat office is expressing it too green. About thirty guests were
the last month was much larger than
between Bandon aad Coquille has so far as siz,e and flavor are con
steel tank Equipped lor a days’
mildly by far. He has instituted an
usual and the present month prom been done away with. Instead of
present, and prpgressive whist was run, she could carry 75 passengeis
cerned. One of the berries, which
ises to go far ahead of last month
innovation in real estate offices in the the prevailing game. Mrs. L. J. in addition to her full crew. In size
having to climb the mountain the was about an average size, measured
even. The need of a |>ower ferry at
way of a reading room tor his friends
Radley won the ii st prize, a silver she ranks second only to the latest
road has been changed so that in a four inches in circumference one
and patrons as well as for any
this point is growing eacli week, and
few weeks one can drive around the way and three and one-fourth inches
sugar spoon Dainty refreshments Zeppelin airship. Wellman and Van
the business will soon l»e entirely be
strangers who may be visiting the
mountain and escape too hard a the other way Mr. Knepp has three
were served, and all present had a inman plan to start late in August < r
yond the capacity of the present
c'tyor stopping over between trains.
climb. 1 think that another year rows of these berries on his place in
most enjoyable time, Mrs. LeGere early in September from some place
show. However, the ferryman is
On hi« tables Mr. B. has all the
eaves for her home today. Mrs near New York not yet selected
will show a great change in the roads Portland addition, which he set out
doing his best and there is no com
county papers, many from other
of the county.”
Radley entertained in honor of Mrs.
last year, and is having a fair yield
plaint on anything except the quality
points in Southern Oregon, as well
.eGere on Tuesday afternoon, and Point. Arrangements have been
of berries this year, and by next
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of 1 he equipment.
as many of the larger daily papers.
Mrs. Robert Johnson Wednesday made for a special train to leave
year they will be in full bearing.
At the rear of the office and reading
During the month of May, 2070
afternoon
They are certainly fine and will prove
Card of Thanks
Marshfield at 8:<xj a.m .. Sunday. A
toot-passengeis were ferried over the
room he has a consultation room
a great money maker in the way of
boat
to Bandon will connect with the
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river, and the same office was per
where his friends may go for private
fruit.
train, ami it will be possible to re
formed for 1109 teams.
Ball Game Sunday
conferences, and where they may
We, the undersigned, wish to ex
turn on a special train the same day.
for the month of June, the records press our thanks to those who so
feel perfecrly at home and free from
An excursion rate of S'.50 tn Ban
show 1667 lootmen, 956 double kindly assisted 11s in our late be
Mrs. Sarah Swift, returned from interruption. — Coquille Sentinel.
don
and return has been secured.
The Marshfield baseball team is
teams, 753 single teams, 330 horse reavement.
the Bay side, Wednesday, accom*
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. J< nnston 1 planning for an excursion to Bandon The members of the baseball team
men, 455 cattle and 167 automobiles.
M rs . C. F. L ockwood ,
pmied by her daughters, Mrs. Nels went down to Port Orlord on tl e n,.xt Sunday.
On the same day the expect to take a big crowd from this
—Coquille Seat 1 nd.
M rs . G. E. E dwards .
Rasmussen and Mr». Lottie Keeler. Bandon and will return oveiland.
North Bend tean. will phyat Mjrtle cny.—Coos Bay Times,