©
9,
•
à
9
•
••
*
9
Published Every Tu -sday and Frid y by the
recorder Fvitoislaing Company.
C. E. KQPI. Edrto.
-
-
-
T H. KREAMER. Buunr.s Manager
Subscription, SI fit) p^r Year ir. Advance. Advertising Rates Made
Known on Application. Job Printing a Specially
Ei.teied al the Bnndou PoKtoflice hh Second ClaM M»oer.
October 4,
TUESDAY
Public Indifference
The exceedingly light vote at
recent Oregon primaries show
absolute indifference people hav
the affairs of government. A very
small per cent of those who were
Registered went to the polls, Per
haps the two Bandon precincts will
give a good criterion from which to
judge. Here we find that out ot
nearly 500 registered, only a little
over 100 votes were cast, and the
same condition seemed to prevail
throughout the state. This seems to
be true not only in Oregon, but all
over the country people are exceed­
ingly indifferent as to their right of
franchise.
The other day there was a special
election at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on
the question of granting a company
the right to build and own a gas
plant. Of the eight thousand voters
in that city less than two thousand
voted, and nine hundred and eighty-
nine votes, which was a small major­
ity of those voting, determined the
matter. In other words, eight thous­
and voters permitted less than one
thousand to give a corporation an
important franchise. In Mason City,
Iowa, recently, the jieople were
called upon to vote upon the ques­
tion ol issuing a franchise relating
to a valuable street railway grant,
and not one citizen in three voted.
In Et Dodge, Iowa, where the im
portant question of adopting the
commission form of government was
in issue, a very small percentage of
the total vote was cast. When the
public is thus indifferent it is not
strange that there is corruption in
political affairs. The men who fail
to vote when such important matters
are up for consideration, have no
right to complain, no matter what
happens.
In the last analysis in
this country, the people rule every­
thing.
More properly speaking,
they have the power to rule, and if
they fail to use their power, then
they must take the consequences.
Publicity Pays
Roseburg is one of the cities of
Oregon that has found out that a
systematic publicity campaign pays.
Within the past month 44 families
have notified Manager Schlosser of
the Roseburg Commercial Club of
their intention to locate in that vicin­
ity during the coming winter or
spring.
A good systematic campaign of
publicity is bound to help any coun­
try, and Coos and Curry county
ought to do more advertising than is
being done at present. We have
nati ral resources here that are unex ­
celled by any country. We have
orchard lands, dairy lands, timber,
minerals of various kinds, irr fact,
there is an opportunity here for
most any line of wprk or business
that anyone would Want to take up
Must Help Themselves.
Major Morrow's visit to Tillamook
resulted in that port pled«ing $650,-
000 towards a S 2 000,000 project
which will give Tillamook ao feet at
the bar, 16 feet from the bar to Bay
City aod 14 feet horn Bay Cuy to
1910
Tillamook at low water, the chantie
to be 150 feet wide. It seems, to be
an established policy of the govern­
ment now, that unless a port is wil­
ling to contiibite towards its im
provement, it can expect no aid
from your Uncle Samuel, says the
Coos Bay Times, and it seems to be
a very true statement. If the people
of the Coquille valley do not get
busy and create a port commission
or do something else to help fix up
their river, the chances are very
good that our harbor will be the
poorest along the coast in a very
short time, while everybody knows
we have the possib lines of making
it one of the very best. The differ­
ence is that other |>orts are doing
• .
.
.
.
something while we arc lying idle.
Let us wake up and do something.
Conservation of Moisture
Dry fanning is to be taught in
Eastern Oregon. Professor Thomas
Shaw, soil expert, of Montana and
North Dakota, is to be instrcnctor.
The semi-arid secticns of Malheur,
Baker, Ç rook and and Klamath
counties are to receive specific atten­
tion in this course. The season just
ended has put the farmers of the
dry regions in a mood to listen to
any man who can assure them of
good crops, even half crops, from a
parched soil, by following specifier!
methods in cultivation.
Dry farming has passed the ex
periment.il period. The long drought
of the past summer turned expert
ment into certainty in sections of
Montana and North Dakota, where
only three and one-half inches of
rain fell during the entire year, but
where, notwithstanding, fair crops
were pr.xiuced owing to intelli<gent
conservation of the moisture that
the gods provided.
Conservation methods are specific
and arbitrary. Intelligence properly
directed, vigilance and industry that
are untiring—these are the elements
incident to making the most that is
possible out of the s 1 all amount of
moisture that Nature doles out upon
great areas of the North .American
plateau.
‘‘The Great American
Desert ' this region was called less
than three quarters of a century ago,
and only imaginary lines upon school
atlases bounded it. A reg ion that is
now dotted with homes would still
be a desert but for dry farming
Professor Shaw is employed by
A
• •
as won as it falls, causing fields» or­
chard-«, meadows and gardens 1 * I k
as dry as dust as the season ad­
vances. While the Oregonian favu s
irrigation in the Willamette valley
where practicable, it is readv to
agree with Professor Shaw in the es
timate that much can be done
through rejuvenation ot the soil with
humus—allaita, clover, etc.—and by
adaptation ot dry farming methods
to these lands. Whether by this
method or that, agriculture in the
Willamette Valley should be encour­
aged, since thiough generally pre­
vailing methods ot cultivation and
the total lack of conservation of
moisture it is not up to tire standard
of productiveness in other localities
less favored by nature, and upon
which the demands of the market are
not more insistent.—Oregonian.
The farmer has no snap. A real
working farmer making his living
from a little piece of land, miles
from a good road, remote from a
school, earns all he gets. The way
the assessors jump all over him in
Oregon, however, is very discourag
ing. His little barn and cottage,
his every fruit tree anil haystack, his
cows and chickens, are carefully
listed, and these evidences of indus­
try, good citizenship and frugality,
are penalized with a tax of from two
cents on the dollar up, each year
Meanwhile the vast tracts of forest
and swamp, hill ami slope held by
some foreign corporation or titled
speculator, are placed on the rolls at
a tenth ot their value. The farmeis
of Oregon have everything to win
and nothing to lose by demanding
that the taxes on improvements be
lessened and the difference made up
on land values now escaping. With
such taxes, good roads, modern
school houses, public telephones,
elecltic trolley lines, and many other
public utilities could be and would be
constructed and operated.
<■
<s>
•
*
•
• •
•
• •
• •
«
•* .
••
I
•a
9
• •
W.xkiHif» -Cosmopolitan Maga»
zmciequiro I he rei vices
a rep-
ri senta; i\c m lianùott to look afte?
alleiciiption «•'fitewaLs and To extend
lirculaiK n by special iiietliiKl-' which
have proven unusually siic>*»shil.
Salary anil c« >Jiui>issi >a Pcevion.
experience des jable but not ess n-
t ai. Whole tune or spare .ime
Address with relerences. H. I
Campbell, C06.iUO|M»litan Magazine.
1789 Broadway. New York wit).
New York.
35~«4
I
1/M
Great
Combination
Offer
The R ecorder tor Job Woik.
The Pacific Monthly’s Special
Introductory Offer
The Pacific Monthly, of Portland,
Oregon. is a beautifully illustrated
monthly magazine which gives verv
full information about the resources
and opportunities of the country
lying West of the Rockies. It tells
all about the Government Reclama­
tion Projects, fiee Government land
and tells about the districts adapted
to fruit raising, dairying, poultry
raising, etc. It has splendid stories
by Jack London and other noted
authors.
The Price is $1.50 a year, but to
introduce it we will send six months
for fifty cents. This oiler must be
accepted on or before February 1,
¡911. Send your name and address
accompanied by fifty cents in stamps
and learn all about Oregon, Wash­
ington, Idaho and California.
Address, The Pacific Monthtv,
Portland, Oregon.
37 14*
FOR SALE. — Eighty acres
choice bottom land on Sixes river.
5 miles from Port Orford, *2 mile
trom county road. Address Alex
Turner, Langlois, Ore.
35-5t*
11 B. Warren, of Ashland, who
came over with his family three
weeks ago to see his father, S. H.
Warren and brothers, F. C. and
Alvy Warren, of Cedar Point, start­
ed for their home last Thursday.
They greatly enjoyed the trip which
was made in their Jackson car, with­
out accident or trouble of any kind.
While here the three families went
to Bandon and had a run on the
Ireach, having a big time. The visi­
tors were very sorry to have to go
at this time, but owing to the ripen
ing of their large crop of peaches
and grapes, it became necessary that
they return to look after them. We
hope the road over the mountain
from Roseburg will be in belter
shape the next time they come,
which will doubtless be next sum­
mer. as they had such a nice time
and expect toepme frequently in the
uture..—Coquille Herald.
A great many people who come
to this section of the country are in­
clined to find fault with land values
because they consider them too high
The fact that local people buy them
at the price and attain wealth in
growing and marketing produce
raised thereon would not tend to
sustain the contention of the strang­
er, and another thing to look at is
that very little of the hnd is ottered
for sale, even at prices considered
not too high. The fact, that actual
demonstration has proven — that
more can be made off of 15 or 20
acres of feitile Oregon land than can
The ed for of the Globe returned
be secured from cultivating 160 : list Friday evening from a combined
acres of land in the middle west is political, business and pleasure trip
another argument to prove that land . in the south end of the county. Our
is not held at fictitious values. 11 The 1 business was in the interest of the
proof of the pudding is the eating Globe, and our pleasure was meet­
thereof," and the true test of land ing old friends and circulating a pe­
values is in careful and thorough tition for a county high school, which
cultivation. — Myrtle Point Enter­ was willingly signed by all who saw
prise.
it, except four individuals, two of
whom were old bachelors, and the
other two did not object to the es­
tablishing of a High School, but
Contest Notice.
didn t care to sign the petition Out
of the seventy names received from
Department of the lintenor.
below, 90 per cent are very enthu­
United Stales Land Office,
Not only do
Roseburg, Oregon, Sept. 19, 1910 siastic for the school.
A sufficient contest affidavit having been fil'd they warn a High School, but public
in this office by Noah M. Davison, contestant
sentiment is strongly informed of a
against Homestead Entry No. 13645, Serial
new Court House, good roads and
0)779. made July I. 19-M tor S.-W. 1-4
bridges.
—Gold Beach Globe.
Section 20, Township 29 S., Range 13 W,
James J. Hill for the work upon
which he has entered in Oregon.
His methods are simple. They con­
sist of regular and systematic culti­
vation of the soil, first by the plow,
then by the disc, and again by the
spike harrow, the latter to be used
after each rain, to conserve and hold Willamette Mendian. by Beniamin Perry, con-
testee, in which it u alleg'd that said Benjamin
Mesdames Mann and Tilton, of
the moisture. Two crops of wheat Perry h»» never resided upon or in any way im­
Langlois, entertained at the home of
in three years have l>een successfully proved aasd land since Making said entry, but Mrs. Mann, the Ladies’ Social Club
has abandoned said land tor over five years last
grown by the simple jeocesses which past; said parties are hereby notified to appear of I-akeport. The ladies were given
a tally-ho ride to Langlois and back
he fully explains, with corn lor fod­ respond, and offer evidence touching said al­ Mrs A T. Below, being an accom
legation at 10 o'clock a m. on November I,
der as an intermediate crop He 1910, liefore A. D. Morse. U. S. Commtssioner. plished driver, officiated in that
would not find it difficult to convince at his office in Bandon. Oregon, and that final capacity. The hostess’ entertained
i at whist. Mrs. Earl Schoonover win­
farmers of the Willamette valley, as hearting wifi be held at 10 o'clock a. m K on ning first prize and Mrs. W. I Rug
November 15, 1910, before the Register and
well as of Eastern Oregon, that “con­ Rceivvr at th- (Jail'd Stain L »nd Office m vies second. The club wishes to
th ink their hoMes.4es for a most en­
servation <»t moisture is the greatest R«»d>«nt. Orefo«. The said «ontestant having, joyable afternoon On their return
hied S-rl-mk-r 10 1QIU
the ladies were met bv the Whitman
of all conservation problems in the
band and desire to thank the band­
West." Although moisture in un­
master for his cordial reception. The
stinted abundance falls each year on made, it a hereby ordered and directed that club has accepted the invitation to
•uch octice be given by due and proper pub-
meet with Mrs. B. W. Lharlesworth
Willamette valley lands, the surplus bcatmo
BENJAMIN F. JONES, Rqjut«
next Tuesday aftemojn.—Lakeport
3«.t5
is drained off by freshets practically
Banner.
•JpHE RECORDER management has
made arrangements with the
San Francisco Bulletin whereby we
can give subscribers the advantage of
a gigantic combination offer that will
furnish them all the news of the
country in a metropolitian daily and
all the news of Bandon and vicinity in
the Recorder at marvelous low price
The Daily San Francisco Bulletin,
Total,
$4.50
Both papers through
this office if paid in
advance, per year
9
$2.75
I SUPPLY ALL YOUR WANTS
Do you want to Buy, Build, Sell or Rent?
Do you want Fire, Life, or Accident Insurance?
Do you want to Register for the Fall Election?
Do you want Hunter’s or Angler’s License?
Do you want any Notary Work Done?
If you do, Go To
Yours Truly
E. E. OAKES
A Square Deal For All
Fast and Commodious
S. S. BREAKWATER
Leaves Portland (Ainsworth Dock) 8 p. m. every Tuesday.
Leaves Coos Bay every Saturday at service of the tide.
Confimi Sailings Through C. M. SPENCER, Agent Bandon
THE HARDWARE MAN
BRIDGE fit BEACH Stoves. Ranges and Heaters have in them so many excellencies
that they are now acknowledged the greatest sellers on the coast and they are growing
in favor every year.
We have the exclusive agency in Bandon (or these household
and office necesstties. and prices range exceedingly modest in either case.
TINNING AND PLUMBING A SPECIALTY.
Onr Assortment of Hardwire. Tinware and Edged Tools 1« Most Complete.
Have you Thought About Lights for this Winter
Now is the time to make preparation for electric lights for the long
winter evenings. Call and see us and let us show vou
may have better lights than, the kerosene lamp can give,
with Itttle or no more cost. Avoid the risk of fire- .Io away
with the nuisance of cleaning lamp chimneys. Install electric
lights, and you will not be without them for twice the cost.
Let us figure with vou We will treat vou right.
BANDON LIGHT & POWER COMPANY.
Next Door W’est of Coumerilh Christensen Co.
■MT
o
*
•
• •
. •
$3.00 per year
1.50 per year
The Bandon Recorder,
• •
9
e
••
a
9