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VOL. 2. COQUILLE CITY, OEEGON, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1884. NO. 50. o r n M n i: s . we know that it took an immense takes advantage of the tide to reach as a kind of satire on the expen Ed. H e r a l d ;— In talking with oth quantity to spread over so great an his post«»nice and trading point, sive wooden castles overburdened J. M. SiciLiN. J‘'ON A. G b . vt . lie is frugal and saving, and withal with meretricious ornaments which ers about our mines, we often hear extent, even so thinly as it is. industrious. His cows roam the one sometimes sees. The pros the remark: “ If I) were lix>king for And had our mines been far S ig lin & G r a y . neighboring bills the year round, pects for a railroad into this coun quartz I would go to a better enough south to have escaped this Attorneys ¡ioti l’ouiisdors At Law, But gR7.ing ‘ round np >n tho grass and supply tho* family with fresh try are pood. A n eastern company mining district than this,” which glacial action, as did most of [ the For more that might I».* had, Marsh turi fl, Coos comity, Oregon. w ho have lately purchased the ! hRute us to inquire whether or not California mines, then it could milk and butter. The woods are lie saw a bi|»«'d t.lowly pa-»a O fth ’K—Hol Um cl building. upjK»sitt. Manco full of deer and elk, and the brooks > Coos Bay agon Itoad company's wo ought to expect valuable ledges not bo said our mines were not Whose countenance was sad. v2n2i> Hotel. rich, for they would have rivaled and rivers arc plentifully supplied land—will build a railroad from in our mountains. “ Mv friend,“ tints «poke tho Saurian, Before we cotne directly to this j in richness the best on tho coast, “ What makes you look unwell? with fish. His garden supplies Ko^eburg to the ocean next year; W . SINCLAIR, What ails you now? Poor simple man, ! his table with fresh vegetables at probably touching the ocean at question, perhaps it will be b e st. It is a generally accepted fact that I’ ll listen if you'll tell.” Attorney at Law, The pioneer who to consider the agents that have till gold dust has been derived j all times during the year, and his Empire City. G en era l Iu soT ruico anil R eal Lu tato A v ilit, “ Of sickness, sorrow, human tears, ! gun and faithful dog, his larder, has secured his claim will find he been at work here and to which from ledges, and that this is es I’ ve seen much in my day, C o q i t l i . e C i t y , O r e g o n . Could my dread tale but reach your ears 1 with fresh meat. J wandered L> net very remote fr«‘iu markets, wo must look for a solution of the pecially true of this dost, is proved * ’ ’l’wonld fl’ l tin 1 / .villi dismay. The problem—how* our gold became by the fact that a large jiortion of j upon my arrival in this part, how and centers of business. #T.*G. O W E N . “ In mud and w ater I exist, nuggets found in tho upper mines j the people could make a living upon country is quite well settled up. scattered over so great nn extent Attorney and Counselor at Law, And live on fish »nd flies; Geologists tell us there w’as a had particles of quartz still adlier- 1 so meager a clearing—you cannot School houses have been erected I ¡mi a true phila ilhropist M uMMFim t tun. ; call it a farm, in tho Eastern or and good schools established in time called the Glacial period, j ing to them. Are we not justified, In much which that implies. California sense - it is only a little every district; which I believe when our earth—excepting a n.ar- then, in believing that valuable “ The»' circumscribed by Nature's plan, S- R- HAZARD, In freedom still 1 joe; clearing in a mighty forest A for- will compare favorably with any rov belt on the equator—was cov ledges exist in our mountains and Attorney and Counselor ai Law. I am no enemy to man ] e^t of tall spruce, fir and cedar so in the rural portions of this state. ! on'^ witli Jin immense sheet of ic e ;1 only needs a small outlay of labor E mi ’ I km C’ i rv. < ><»s. And dearly love a don. dense and thick that a bird can The settlor is no longer isolated. which had a movement to the j and capital if properly expended “ My breast in tenderness is clad, scarcely 11 v through it. Tho soil Roads have been made to every equator except where it was mod- to develope them? J . W . BENNETT. I'm open and sine, re; I tlt.uk 1*11 shed —you look so bad— C. Wilkins. is very rich, easily worked, and portion of tho county; though some ified by the slope of tho lamb On Attorney at Law. A sympathetic tear.” produces abundantly of everything are quite new*, and not quite as our Atlantic coast it was S. E. M UÌSHFIK1.I». O os. .U iiiiliiiiil M u c k . TI ioul ’I i bilious, nerveless and unstrung, ; planted in it. w hile on this const it was 3. W. the smooth ns the pleasure drives Vegetables can be The territory of Montana is de The man felt much beguiled. general direction being south. D- L . W ATSO N . had the year round from the gar- through the parks of eastern cities. veloping very rapidly as a stock 's touque, The tlicf. Ivi li ti Inc.: »n t j dens; some kinds growing two or Every additional settler increases j lh*of. Denton says: “ Ihis ice was raising region. Montana beef has Ile tivk ili* ir. in and smiltd, Attorney and Counselor at Law even throe crops in one year. Hay the value of his neighbor’s prop- j thousands of feet in thickness, and already acquired a national repa- The 'Gfttor medi n j<>_\ tul snap. Coos C ity . 1K» n . Thcn t*p«‘d bis jn\*s nn« w. He may never become rich ,! (I r 1 11()t extend south of 30 degrees t;ition for tenderness and flavor, from two to live tons to tho acre. erty. And s i;.!. “ M\ friend. 1*11 spread my trai* I J . H. NOBLER, This is truly a timbered country. but it daw ns on him that he has —or four degrees south of us— however tho Montana cow boy Ami batoli untuyuu.” Notary Public l)o not expect to find prairies where gained something, which in the except in high mountain regions.” may be branded as a “tough one.” Thussnid tho man: "M y n ilm n t is, CogriM.E C ity . IK v . vou can turn vour team loose and future will be better than a doubt Professor Agassiz estimates its The secret of tho tender beef is • Beyoiul mv knuwledgc, deep; lt drivi s nwuy e.uh th«>nghtof bliss; His clearing thickness at from 6 to 15 thousand the sweet grass and pure water; plow a furrow* a mile in length, ful bank account. CARL H- VOLKM AR. Breaksewry liopc o f sle* ]>. j Do not expect to find homes nicely w ill then have become a product- feet, and says: “ That with a few the secret of the tough cow boy Attorney and Counselor at Law. “ I mop«“ nro’im ! nml (•.m not eat; fenced, with flourishing, young ivo farm; and he still will enjoy exeeptions, there is over the whole is bis freedom from all civilizing No ji »y in life 1 taki>: M ybti . h P oint , C o - »•« CorxTV O kkoox . fire and a continent north of tho 40th paral restraint and responsibility for orchards planted upon them, every the luxuiy * of a warm • L » tu ; for the ornl—tlio’ li?o is sweet: W ill practice in all the o> :rt., of Oregou. He will then no lel, evidence of a universal glacier reckless conduct. The two range thing to your hand, just for the large back-log. Aiul rervousl y I sh!«ike.* • . taking of it. You can get just such longer shish down and burn bis which moved in a north and the country together, the former in “ I'v.* lived here Stii1 a the• Sii! ny crimp. A. M. (’ ItA W F O R D . “ Fnl 1 twi nt y VfUils or mton places; desirable places, too, but timber to get rid of it, for timber southerly direction.” charge of the latter, and between Attorney and Counselor ct Law. Imp-— Met miuiv lui-n wilh ;your will then have become valuable the ow ners w ill w ant fair prices for On the top of our mountains, them the markets of tho country Could count liliali by tho scoro.” W TG eneral insurance Rgeucy. and he w ill have a due appreciation everywhere, may be seen indica are well stocked with meats. their improvements. There is a With that tbe bruto scoio eil to et mnd, M ulìiu r.:j>. Ogu. great deal of this land still unoc of it. Even now it is being sought tions of this same glacial action. And ('¡iw ilii* mud a riio; it is only in late years that 13nt what he snid made tliat man ri ad— cupied; some of it belongs to the after by speculate» s, who have ji It is evident that when this im Montana lias attracted general J . P* E A S T E R , M . D . “ You fool, it is Volir fàie. government, and some of it has true »ippreciation of this country’s mense sheet of ice melted, it made attention for anything but mining. Fhysio-M iiii *al nud Kclect ie I*li\ rician and “ 'Tin stranite to me that men of senso passed into second hands, and can future. AVhat Maine now* is, with a tremendous wash over the whole But it is not stating the case too burgeon. Office at rt-sidt-ii«w in Goquille Will suffer fnuu those ills: City. vliuliHf bo had for a small advance upon her valuable pine forests to tho country, jind our canyons were full strongly now to say that the A world-wide cure at small expenso Is B ausons ’ Liven l #ii.i. :. the first cost. Such land will never Eastern and Atlantic states, so of seething foaming water which weal ill of the country, with its C. w . 1GAVLK.M. D., have any attraction for lazy people; this j>m t of Oregon will l»e to this bore rooks, motels and everything cattle upon a thousand hills, is “ TlieyTi «rare yon: you nmy safely trust. And take my word for that. Physician anu Surgeon, but it always will have for a much coast, with its fir, spruce, cedar before it to the sea. That this being developed more rapidly Your loanne.,s lills me with disgust; M .a.,Hyiuu», U l .* n . and myrtle lumber. Not only is ! larger class who want nothing so happened after the formation of above than below the ground. T skethem , and you'll grow fat. this country rich with thousnndsof i much as t«> carve out homesteads our ledges T quote from Agassiz The area of the territory is placed “ C osyenu a trifle ami yet, well— W * C .A N G E L L , m . d . ' in the wilderness. .V timbered acres of the finest timber in the lecture on the glacier period. He at 146,0(40 square miles, a gigantic Willi sympathy 1 shake.” Physician and Accoucheur, He hit tli«- muff a parting knell, ! country is more attractive than a world, but every hill and nioun- says: “The glacial period was empire within itself, embracing Ami dove into the lake. COQCILLE CITY. OGN. l treeless one; and the more so if the tirili is underlaid with coal. Two comparatively recent, subsequent mountains and foot-hills, hill-sides The tn m went, thon lit nl, on his way. v In l i f . 1 woods abound with luscious, wild or three hanks have already been ' to a time when our earth was and valleys, and constituting the A i'll musingly uni pas« ! berries, and the ivy and the crape * pened on the Coos bjiy, and quite ! much warmer than now; when the finest grazing country in the Upon the words li *d heard that day. O. E. SMITH, Also. «>n Bataan "s ass. ! vines festoon the myrtle here and a trade is being carried on by the rhinoceros inhabited our western | world. S^Sergeon Dentist there. ( 'ue comes upon new homes shipment c-f coal to the California prairies, and the mastodon and But cut «-ring a neai druq-sloro, l i is estimated that there were office 11«» jumped with joyous thrills, cities. This promises to be an elephant roamed over Liberia and along the river, up the creeks or 850.000 head of cattle in the terri MA RS H F I EL D, ( )11EG O X. 'Twin* fate,— for there cj*oii the door v ia l ihn. important branch of industry, ¡it on the mountain slope?, finding the high latitudes of this country. tory hist January, and that since, Was " l >ii,..oN.V L ivki ; B in s .” At the present “ That this tropical state of 100.000 head have been shipped young orchards and domestic no distentt day. No more hi.« t<»rt'ii« d member:* shake: J. M. VOLKMAR. M. D- shrubbery, robust children and time the principal part of the in things wits changed rather sudden and driven in, to which is to be He seeks his daily tori YVithoi t an ache; tidal: >*1 the lake, Physician ar.d Surgeon. many evidences of that sort of habitants are engaged in lumber ly is proved by the fact that nmm- added the natural increase of But keep , a healthy !>i!e. comfort, which goes with the ing. Some mills ;ire built at near oths and other animals have been 250.000 calves. To be deducted M tutlv . B oint , Ci.rs Co., (flv.ia '<s. The liver in a torpid slate utmost simplicity. There is no ly ;dl the available points for ship found frozen in the ice in Liberia from these are 40,000 in losses, Creates those nervous thrills: malaria here; no ague and fever, ping lumber, and the hardy farmer with the flesh and skin slill on 60,000 in shipments, and 20,000 Then mind, heiore it be too late, J. Z. HOLCOMB Use B auson .' Lrvm; P ills . The pure sea breeze sweeps over finds plenty of hard work in bill- them, and so well preserved that slaughtered in the territory.. StTBGICAL Hlld 1 ÌK< ilANICAl. D kntiht . L. P< White «£ Co., tlie land every day, bringing with ing, cutting and hauling the logs wolves nud dogs will eat tho flesh. This would leave a net increase Office: Over 8« ngstackeii's t r i« Store, in Terra Altn. W. t a it health and purity of atmosphere, to the different mills. Thus clear A great climatic change came on of 325,(XX) head, a per cent ige of - » ---------- —~ Holland Building, Front street, ’rii«r 4'ii«[i;ill«‘ Coni'.try us n lV*w- excelled by no climate in tho ing his land and gaining a live- very suddenly; these animals be- Marshfield, Oregon. gain that can not be found any 4 'otn er *.<*«•* i f . CÏ^WiJl professionally visit th.» various hood at the same time. lt is a United States. It is now the camc frozen in the ice and have where else on the continent One ( 11. 4 . Tobias) towns on the river. slow process to make homes in a lenaiued frozen ever since.” Ed. Herald: Receiving la t e ly a j middle of summer, but everything of the remarkable features of stock timbered country; but the process The cjiuse of this condition of raising in Montana is this very number of communications, asking around gives the appearance of mid J. T D E -A -IS T , about this part of the country, front April. I lie gentle showers mois- makes hardy men and women and ! our earth, it will not be proper in rate of increase as compared with C o q u il l e C it y , O r e g o n . this article to inquire into, as we tho losses from all causes com pjirties desiring to come out here ¡ten the earth; the sea breeze from healthy children. GENERAL AGENCY f«*r t>ie sale o f City One word about the pleasant only wish to notice its effect on our bined. The latter are, except in property, bouses and lots, timber, farms, to Settle, Jltld M S I do not (“lie t o ' old Pacific tempers the atmos- ranches, etc. Office in Herabl rxrilriing. open a correspondence with e a c h phero, while nl the fields, groves town in which we live, and we mines. Reasoning from this con the case of cattle brought into the writer personally, would respectful- and hills J i r e dressed with living have done. Nestled like a bird’s dition of affairs, w*e would expect territory and unaccustomed to ly submit the following, hoping green, i he settler sees his prop- egg in its nest is Coquillo City, the gold to bo carried mainly provide for themselves during the W A TC H -M AK ER «V J E WEDER, tluit the description of this beauti-; erty increasing in value from year among the tall evergreens of spruce away frpm tho ledges where it severity of the w inter, exceedingly and fir, shading the suburban originally existed; and we find light, ranging from 5 or C per cent fill wooded valley will be J t s fjivor- I ¡to year, his . orchard O c q .Y 3 .i l l o O i t s r C r . * • coming into f^ fW o r k o f nil <lcH<*ripti«>ns don« nt short ably received, as the impressions j bearing. His labor is slowly turned walks and presenting a pleasing this to be the case, for, from the in least favored localities to 1, or notice and extremely lo’v prices. were made upon the writer. I j into capital. Ilis hand to hand background as they cover the slop head of this river to its mouth are even less than 1 per cent, in other v ’ n t 7 . w ill not attempt to overrate or ex-1 contest with nature has been good ing hill side, north aud east of the immense bars—beds of grjivel all sections. The natural increase, city, lt is situated on the Coquillo of which coutain more or less of agerate so as to deceive, but give j j | for him. His homestead is a I. O. G. T. on the other hand, ranges from 30 river at the head of navigation for fine gold. There is one continu plain, simple statement, which will thousand times more attractive to Mornine: Star Lodge to 60 or 75 per cent ocejin vessels, which carry lumber ous stream of gold dust from hold good w hen afterw ards viewed. him because he did the improve No. 464, This large section ot country, Meets at roquille City every Thnrndny To a person coming from a prairie ment upon it with his own hands. from its wharves to the San Fran Johnson’s creek to the sea, some 90 with its rich mines and mammoth evening. Visitili}; memhers of this order, in Located as it is miles, tind the dust on the beach stock ranches, is a fine field for He planted every tree, he built his cisco market or partial prairie country, the dis- good standimr. nr»* cordially invited. covery of a clearing upon the side | fences, he has erected the sheds in a rich agricultural district, it is evidently gold that was carried Portland mercantile enterprise. is—as it always will be by its K. OF li. of a mountain, as in the denfe, and farm buildings, and in some natural position—cross roads of the thereat the end of the Glacial It is legitimately tributary to this thick undergrowth of tho valley, instances, the dwelling in which he common Pioneer Assembly. No- wealth— an important period. Commencing with coarse city, and if it does not remain so The log house is seldom trading center, lt has good stores gold in the mountains it becomes it will be the fjiult of the merchants, 3070. surrounded on all sides by a heavy lives. Meets at Coquille City every Monday forest of limber, would be some seen. The settler going a long of general merchandise, first class finer and finer until, on the beach, who are unwilling to adapt them evening. Y’ isitini; members, in n«M>d stand thing new, indeed. A little spot— distance, and at great disadvantage, hotels for the accommodation of it is fine as Hour, and one may selves to the condition of things ing, are cordially invited.__________________ tho traveling public—an ecclesi only a fow' acres nt most—from and paying ji high price for rough astical edifice for the weary to rest nearly tell what part of the river growing out of eastern competition. which the felling of large trees, the j lumber, w hen the very timber he in, a two story school building gold dust is taken from by observ- J r, however, they are resolved to I. O. O. F. clearing away and burning th e ! cuts from his claim would have where a hundred busy workers are ing its fineness. Perhaps it would nake their city the great commer small brush, the digging out of made ji more comfortable house, delving after knowledge, a bill- uot bg too rash to say there is r cial emporium of tho northwest, Coquille Lodge No.53 Meets at Coquille City ©very Saturday eyen j stumps, the grubbing up of roots, ' at less expense. One can hardly iard hall where cigars nud some- , pft streak from the mouth o in fact, as it is naturally by thing stronger than water can be ’ nR. Viaiting brethren, in Ro«>d standing, have taken y rail's f o r the settler to account for the scarcity of log had—a goodly supply of the dif- Johnsons creek to the sea; and if I reason of its geographical position eordinii y invited. accomplish. A little house, with houses, unless it be that the settler ferent secret organizations. And, the time ever comes when gold and easy lines of communication a few out buildings, a horse, a j regards the log house too rude and withal, gentle reader, by* personal will have a much grejiter purchas ta all sections, they will place their A. F. and A. M. yoke o r two of oxen, a fe*v bows j primitive, and has a desire to ad- experience it is a good climate in ing power than at present, it will Chadwick Lodge, No-68- u»,l pigs comprise his capital. His ; vnllce » Ht , building a poorer which to sleep. You can do more be worked by tunneling or other prices at figures that will secure the confidence and trade of the Meetn at CoqnilW* City on Saturday even house on the bank or the Coquille snoring and solid down light ing on or before tin- the* full moon in each wise. We have no means of esti the square hour, than people not only in Montana, but river; or one of its tributaries and ..ouse or sjiwea lumoer, at ji groat- j gjeej)1Ug month. Perhaps there will be, in any place in the Union. If yt ou mating tho amount of gold that of all other portions of the great the j ri u ci pal highway for him is the or cost. • John Goodman, i jo L—[T ho Weekly News. has been carried to tho sea, but 1 UvJlTil.% water. Ho has his boats, and some day, a fashion for log houses don’t believe it, come and see. W. M Hi siMLss l in n s . Tli«* S t o r y «1* a n i l l i c i t o r . (r.Y li : oaucon .) An Alligator—vicious tramp— Lay busking in the mud. And taking flies in Ir.nu the swamp, Which seemed to do him (food. A. H. WriKlt