Coquille City herald., May 19, 1885, Image 1

VOL. 3.
COQUILLE CITY, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1885.
NO. 40
claim to have seen the equal of the securing the timber lands now va­ the greatest fertility, being equal
crops it produces.
cant.
0 > r the lulls « f Oregon dear
( to those of any in point of produc-
The summer skR-s are bright and clear,
i tiveness. They are also very exten-
TIMBER INTERESTS.
L. F. L ane .
J ohn L ane .
T he summer lireeses—softest air—
S tock R a is in g an d D a ir y in g .
Are «¡treading Verdure every where.
The timber interests of Coos | give. It is on theso that we find
LANE &. LANE,
There isil°t a place amwiicre county, and particularly that of the : the valuable hard wood timber.
The lim pid waters from the m ountains,
A ttovnm
ami Counselors at Law.
•
•
Springing from their icy fountains,
that stock can be raised with better south half of the county, are hc ! Thus we see the immense wealth
Now gently through the valleys pass,
Land Cases a Speciality.
! profits than here. One cannot find immense that to exaggerate them : that is lying dormant, that, when
As flowing from a sea o f glass.
On>c on Main Street, opposite Co»niopolitan
a place in our mountains so barren would be foolish in anybody, for i developed, will benefit California
Hotel.
bea u tifu l ocean near at hand.
And crystal streams within the laud;
Roselmrg,
Oregon.
that a limited amount of stock can­ the bare tiutii would appear un­ 1 more than the slate in which it is
beau tiful sce n e 'y every way,
J .M .S io m x .
J ohn A . G n w
uot be kept on wild range alone, reasonable to jiersons from most situated.
beau tiful green on every day.
To get at the groat
Sigiin <Sc Gray.
Look o 'e r these beauties fair aud nice.
And the matter of increasing parts, and the exaggeration would wealth, it is necessary that the
And view a land o f paradise;
Attorneys ami Counselors At Law,
range is »0 easy that it can bo made fail of its purjxise— that of convic- entrance to the Coquille river be
Her hills and vales are ever m ild.
M a r s h t ie ld . Coos county, Oregon.
As Asia'a clim e w lieu thlen sm iled.
limitless for a mere nominal sum. tiou. This might also be said of improved, which is being slowly
OyKICM—lloH im l building, <>ptx>«te Jlianeo
Hotel.
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No storm s arise or tem pests rage,
There are good ranges lying idle the coal interest also. The S. F. doiie by small Congressional ap­
T o stir the hairs o f hoary age;
i» our mountains that have come Examiner of Dec. 13th, 1883, in propriations. Since California is
No lig h tn in g 's flash or thunder's roar
w . SINCLAIR,
Iheturl'S this peaceful, quiet shore.
from grass getting started on burnt urging the California delegation to to share the greater good from this,
Attorney at Law,
In this fair land 1 pa.ui my hours,
woods,
that would accommodate use their influence in congress in wculd it not be’ well for our Sena­
G o n r r a l I n s u r a n c e and R e a l Estate Agent,
A laud as fair as Eden's bow ers;
H ealth .
hundreds of cattle; and the chance securing a government Hjipropria- tors and Representatives in the
My hom e is on this peaceful shore.
C o quille C it y , O regon .
And may it be fo r everm ore.
I his part, like most of the coast for inil}i inrr others similar to these tion for the improvement of the coming congress to join in with the
April ;W, INKS.
O. K. P.
region, is free fiom ague, chills and j Cftn
enumerated by the area of month of the Coquille river, realiz­ Oregon delegation and secure an
♦ < #» •»
T. G. OW EN.
fevers, and, in fact, health is so , {jie counjrv Grass being such a
ing that we of this county belonged appropriation for this much-need­
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
good that people who
know 1 natural product—4 to 5 tons of hay virtually to California says:
ed work?
M\ rhi ! fii : li >, Oon.
anything of the country, look growjng on an aero—the dairying j “ It has often been said, and right­
The $20,000 already exj>ended
upon this part as a perfect sanita- , interests must be manifest Down j fully so, too, that Southwestern there has made the bar 100 per
a H- HAZARD,
rium.
Many persons who ^cro , jjie coast in southern Coos and Oregon belongs virtually to Cali­
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
cent better than it was before, and
_____________________ | thought to be hopeless consump- northern Curry, dairying is the fornia. Everything produced there has made the channel a quarter of
E mmuk C i t y . O o n .
1 01*0 *3C a im iy , ( LIMATF, s o il. ; t*ves. have become stout and robust prjncipa] industry, scores of tons of comes to San Francisco, whereas a mile nearer where it was twenty
J. W . BENNETT.
l 'K o m t'T io x , e t c ., e t c .
! H^ er ft >’0?ir s residence j butter being shipped toSau Francis- this jiart is unknown to the balance years aco, when they had eighteen
; mate. Sore e\es and mail) of the . co anuually. As a wool-producing ! of the Stato, except in a judicial feet of water on the bar. That
Attorney at Law,
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1
that are almost intolerable in section fevv place9 are better adapt-!
M .vB iijriK L D , O o n .
sense. This is particularly so of which benefits our sister state,
i i i t fu li Ht otli«-r* f l i i n U
other places are unknown lieie. A j «d. Swiue do well, often getting
the counties cf Coos and Curry, Oregon, benefits us, aud doubly so
ul I h i » p a r t , r t r .
D. X j . W ATSO N .
! gentleman who came here foi his , jaj. en0ugh for pork on myrtle
which cover an immense amount of in the c a ^ in question.”
T O P O d JR i 1*11 Y
Attorney and Counselor at Law
j health and that of bis family, sajs: | mast
Feeding, eveu for beef
.llifn n g a n d YliuernlN .
territory, which is running over
for
C’ oo'4 C i t y , O o n .
! The Co. ui le Talley is situated | “ Having worked like a slave
ami mutton is never resorted to with fatness. They are the richest
The southern portion of Coos,
in the southern part of Coos coun- j
)ears, and paving all I cam except on over-stocked range and ; counties in the state in natural
and the eastern jiortion of Curry
J. H. NOSLER,
tv, and is penetrated by the Co- j etl ior medicine and doctor's s ser- ; as faj meat as can pe seen any. : wealth, being a vast coal bed from
county, embraces a large part of
Notary Public
quille river which drains the major v' ces* I made up my mind to where can be seeu at the markets in j oue extreme to the other. There
the great mineral belt from which
( ’ oviftt-L K C i t y , O o n .
part of said county and also a por change location and accordingly every month in the year. In h ct is to be found nearly every variety
southwestern Oregon and north­
fatest meats seen here the past j of coal known, and that in quanti­
CAR L H- VOLKM ER. I tion of Douglas and Curry. The j moved to the ( oquille valley, ex-
western California have been draw­
frontage
on
the
Pacific
ocean
is
j
P
ilin
g
if
only
1
could
make
a
liv-
;
year
were
just
off
the
mountain
!
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
ties incalculable, every river, creek ing immense wealth ever since the
quite
extensive.
The
land,
for
the
J
big
ami
secure
health,
to
be
satisfi-
;
ranges
bi
December
and
January.
|
and rivulet exposing croppings of, first settlement of that region.
M t b t l k P o i n t , C o «> s C o i n n t O u b o o n .
most pai t, is mountain and bench, j
making the change, of There is no luck ot good healthy, j in many places, coal of the finest
W i l l p r a c t i c e in a ll t h e c o u r t s o f O r e g o n .
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
but there are many creek bottoms cour«> 1 «p e e le d to make many raunj
water for , took? nearly quality, which is used aud ]>ro-
have been taken from the tributa­
J. P. EASTER, M. D.
on which are situated some of onr , sactirtces in the eay of foiegoing : every forty-acre tract ot land hav. nounced by local blacksmiths the
ries of the Coquille, Sixes, Elk,
P h t s i c :\ n . S c b o k in a n d U n i m e x m a n
. .
farms, and the Coqnille
ot “ “ ° ld seUl*J l’« 1'1-1 ing „ good stream of living water, best.
Special a ten tion yivrii to dieeasea K
Rusty and Lobster, since the first
en hu J ch. diva, ami all chronic f orms of | river and its four forks have large | *n “ 11S I was greatly mistaken for j g£ock are 8Ubject to none of the
Over this immense coal field is to settlement of Coos and Curry coun­
t r « c ; ! ! a ' ( c r n > c « ° t M M a t i bottoms. Tlie upland is pricipnl- j I found a living could be uiude diseases that prevail in other sec- be found a never-ending forest of
ties, in the form of gold dust; a
"r ,u”
j <>' timbered and is free from rocks | here as easily as in any part in which ! tiong> BnJ our m„ ket is good> boy. the finest timbers known. The im­
great jiart of which is coarse—some
Otlice at residence in Citquille Citv.
pcrambulating the com',- mensity of these forests—or rather
! excejit iu a few localities. The 11 had lived and with less labor. In , er3 n,
nuggets weighing from 'thirty, to
The ice3 of cow8 aro 30, 40 !
j scope of country drained by the the way of society, and school fa- ,
forest,
for
it
is
without
a
break
for
one hundred and sixty-five dollars;
C. w . TO W ER . M. D..
Coquille and its tributaries is about cilities, I found I had bettered my | am, $50| alK, othor catt]e iu pl.0. ; hundreds of miles, extending, for
j and still the resources in that par­
Pl y.lcian and Surgeon,
Instead of j p o r t i o n - 1Iorses rangc from G0 to |
; DO miles in length and extends condition very much
the
most
part,
from
California
to
ticular are comparatively uudevel-
MvRiuri::i.T>, O on .
from Camas valley, Brewster ' finding an ignorant class of youth, j
the Columbia river—cannot be es­ j oped. As yet no large ojierations
valley ami Johnson’s mountain to | I found ray own children so far he- j
timated nor described with any­ have been undertaken and the
C.ANGEUL. M.D.
the sea; and from 20 to 50 miles i hind that they were loth to start to
L ands .
thing like accuracy.
Then» are I ti ensure that has been obtained
Physician and Accoucheur,
in width and extends from Coos | school, it not being an uncommon
Public lands are to be had in j
the foliowing varieties of timber: 1 from the jilucers, lias been literally
COQUILLE CITY. OUN.
river mountains to Rogue river j thing f° r n child eight or nine j every township, by homestead, pre-| Fir—red, white and yellow ; cedar
“scrr lched” from the surface. H ie
v ln lt f.
years old to be able to read in the | emption or private entry, as far as
mountains.
—red, white and yellow; maple, ledges from which these deposits
fourth reader. Some of as fine the lands have been surveyed, b u t!
C l.III t T E .
O. E. SMITH,
| ash, alder, myrtle, madrono, hem­ have washed, remain untouched,
penmen as you can find almost
ergeon Dentist
During the winter and spring
tlieie is much of the country which lock and spruce. The trees grow with one or two exceptions.
The
anywhere are to be found in the
months, tbe prevailing winds are
has never been surveyed, and can as large as eight and ten feet in “ Dunbar boulder,” a small frag­
public schools of Coos county.
M A RSH FIELD , OREGON.
from the south,bringing with them,
only be obtained by taking a squat­ diameter, of the fir, cedar, maple, ment, weighing only a few hundred
v in i 8m .
____
Being in perfect health, there is
warm rains, insuring a bountitul
ter’s right, and holding it till it myrtle and spruce varities, and it pounds produced $3400, and quartz
J. M. YOLKMR. M. D- harvest in the summer and fall; nothing to hinder their excelling. is surveyed. The lands most suitable is not uncommon to find a tree that
: of different varieties taken from the
In the way of roads this part 1
Physician and Surgeon.
while in the summer the cool sea
for farming are mostly owned, but will measure 15,000 feet, of the two same range, assay from fifteen, to
found much behind, but in the
M yhil : P oint , C ihs C o ., U buoon .
breezes from the northwest, miti­
The other kinds over three hundred dollars j>er ton,
there are valuable places for stock- 1 first varieties.
' stead of roads I found a navigable
v'Ja t.'tf
gate the heat which in most places i
raising to be bad, and also valuable often jiroduco any of them—5,000 in gold and silver.
Here are
river that is the greatest boon ever
of the same latitude is extremely
feet.
The
ground
is
as
thickly
timber claims. In fact, stock-rais­
mountains of the veritable “Blue
placed before poor people. A boat
j . - a .. r ) 3 s ^ . 2 s r .
oppresseve during that season.
ing is so much more profitable1 studded with these fine trees as it Bonanza” rook, from which the
is the cheapest team to be found.
C o q u il l e C i t y , O r e g o n .
To show how even our tempera-
than farming, that places can be j is possible for them to grow, celebrated black sand gold is
G E N E R A L A G E N C Y l o r U ie s a l* o f C it y
Everything considered, I would not
property, uoubuh alili loia, timber, farms, ture is, WC give the following table,
had for the taking, that are worth some ot them when in San Fran­ washed from its decomposing sur­
change location again, preferring
iHHcucb» «te. Oilioo ill iitTUld building.
which is the report from the sig­
more than farms which are held at | cisco being worth, as was stated in face, and carried to the ocean,
this to any I know of. Believing
nal service office at Bandon for ’84.
several hundred dollars.
Good i this paper last spring, $1,000. where it is “ panned out” by the
J. F. HALL.
good health to be paramount t o .
. ,
.
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.
,
T
, bottom land on the river can be had When one takes into consideration action of the waves and left in rich
Surveyor,
everything else, 1 do not hesitate:,
B _
...
- . , ,
, 1 for 10 to 8oU per acre, but bottom that there are hundreds of these stratum like deposits, which have
F o r . C o o :» CotTNTT, OUKtKJN.
a « .3
in advising my friends to come to |, , .
, . * , , ,
Ufli'.*.«': W itu T . G. Ow«n, Es«i., Mavshfield.
* g ^ « X
X
laud,
in
a
high state of cultivation, trees on an acre, he can begin to been, and are now being success­
00
this healthy clime.
| ^ “ P e r f» i;t m a p s o f a ll s u r w y e d a n d e n ­
05
a
is considered cheap at from 20 to realize something of the wealth of fully mined along and near the
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t e r e d l a n d s f u r n is h e d <>n s h o r t n o t it e . J ’f b l
— ÿ ' *5 g ^
I
S o il a n d P r o d u c t io n .
$25 per acre. As a matter of fact, that part; but the timber wealth is beach. Iron ore is fonud in nbun-
d
*
ao
C
O
1. O. G. T.
The soil on the upland is rich the lands situate ou the navigable much less than that of the minerals i dance, some of which posesses pe­
fm
s
a
!
X
!
culiar magnetic properties; copper
and will produce a few splendid waters of the Coquille, are best and coal.
Morning Star Lodge
Jan. 43.08 4.60 HI
71 0 0
The center of and the richest of is common; antimony is jdentiful,
No- 464,
Feb. 40.11 9.72 13 11! 4 3 crops not inferior to those on the adapted to farming since the haul­
and strangely enough, gold pre­
Meets at Coquille City every Thursday
bottom land, but without renewing ing reduces the profit; but stock this great natural wealth is situa­
Mar.
45.07
5.29
13
0
2
3!
dominating.
In some localities,
«veiling. Viaitiny members o f this order, in
Apr. 49.04 3.96 11 VÓ: 0 0 the soil it will not produce profita­ can be raised to better advantage ted in northern Curry and southern the path of the prospector is ac­
¡;ooU standing, are ct>rdiaily invited.
May 52.69 .43 0| 4! 0 0 ble crops, except grass, and it seems further back where they can have Coos counties, and is penetrated by tually paved «ith chrome, which
June 55.47, 1.25 ol
6 0 0 specially adapted to that. It access to mountain and hill ranges. the Coquille river, a beautiful is not only valuable as a merchant­
July 58.12 1.04 oi
4 o 0
makes excellent range and is the This resolves itself to this: I f you stream, on which the tide sets six able article, but for the precious
O. F.
I. o.
Aug. 58.00 .04 0
i| 0 0
metals it contains.
In the same
main
dependence
for
stock.
Up­
feet
high
at
a
distance
of
forty
want
to
farm,
get
land
on
the
river
54.37
Sept.
0
0
5.12
12
0
Cocinille Lodge N o .53
range near the coast, in Del Norte
9 0 0 wards of 60 bushels of wheat and and as near market or navigation miles from its mouth. Ocean ves­ county Cal., the same article 1ms
Oct.
50.97 3.12 0
Meets at (kxiuille City every Saturday even
jug. Visiting brethren, in good standing,
Nov. 50.12 3.93 3!
7 0 0 over 100 of oats have been grown as possible, and to do this, you will sels of twenty feet draft, only for a for years been shipped to the east
cordially invited.
Dec. 43.58 13.65
16 1 1 1 here to the acre repeatedly. All have to buy of first purchasers to shoal bar, could asceud this river as an article of commerce, its yield
l 1 0 i.
of gold alone paying the expense
Mean 50.05 52.12 44 103l 7 4 kinds of grain do well except corn, to get much of a place; if you thirty-five miles at any time, and of transportation. In the region
A. F. and A. M.
and that grows moderately well. choose stock-raising, take up a river steamers for many miles fur­ drained by the Middle fork of the
Chadwick Lodge, No-68-
As will be seen l>y the foregoing
Meets At Coquille City on Saturday even­ table of temperature, our climate is All kinds of berries and small place or buy one out in the hills or ther. This river for forty miles is Coquille, is found large quantities
ing on or before the »ho full moon in ouch
fruits grow splendidly, and for ap- j creek bottoms where you will not intersected by creeks and sloughs of galena ore which has not yet
very nearly the same on an average
mouth.
pies, pears, plums and jinnies the | be too much crowded. There is uo running for many miles back into been disturbed. But by far the
John Goodman,
through the whole year. There is
W. M.
country
is specially adapted. laud to be found that will not pro­ the country, affording an outlet for most useful and extensive of this
no extreme cold nor heat, the dif-
branch of the resources of the Co­
Grapes and poaches do not do so duce fine grass, if cleared. There millions and millions of feet of fine quille aud its tributaries, are the
G. A. R.
ferenco being only 13 degrees be-
well, but are grown in many places are thousands of acres of “burnt lumber, and could, with a little immense dejiosits of coal. The
G e n - L y t l e P o s t , N o . 27,
j tween our coldest and warmest
j in the valley.
The bottom land woods” on which 6tock can be kept work, be made suitable for bring­ entire region from Rogue river on
M^eia at Coquille City, «>n every first month. Three winters in the past I
in good condition the year round. ing out coal. At forty miles from the south, to nearly ns far north as
Wednesday. Voting comrade, in good i tW0JVe snow has has not fallen in is princijially in a wild state as
yet, but mosr, of it is owned. Frob-1 A few places of this kind have the mouth of the Coquille tbe the Umpqua, coveiing a tract of
Htnnding, cordially invited.
the
Coquille
valley—and
indeed
it
land about one hundred miles in
Walter Hi iclair, Commander.
ably one acre out of twenty of the ! been taken, but there are scores of river forks, making the Middle, length and from twenty-five to fifty
was not cold enough the past winter,
bottom land on an average, is in j miles without a settler. Very re­ North and South forks—large miles in width, is one vast bed of
with the excejiticn of the second
cultivation. The crops most speci- ! cently the Coos Bay AVagon road steams running far back, draining coal, with the Coquille valley a
F U R N I T U R E STORE,
week in December, for snow to fall.
.
.,
f
,
, filly adapted are vegetable and company put their lauds upon the 1 irge portions of Curry, Coos and | central jioint, and the Coquille and
,\s an evidence of the mildness of |
.
....
: E \ Z L v£ a ,rIc, P r e p . ,
grasses, every variety attaining market, and the prices are 3 to $10 Douglas counties, but being for I Coos bay bars as the only available
the climate it is sufficient to say
j outlet for shipping. It is of splen­
M lhmhttki . d , O on .
per
acre.
The
lands
aro
of
every
the
most
part
in
Coos.
perfection.
The
richness
of
the
did quality, aud jiractically inex­
Dealer in Furniture, Dours, Glass and l'ic- that new jxitatoes have been dug
The
bottom
lands
on
the
river,
class
from
the
best
to
the
poorest.
soil
is
the
common
remark
of
haustible.
here
in
every
month
of
the
year
tuA Frames, etc., and Agent for White’ s
and cattle and sheep live aud keep strangers. No one undertakes to There aro fortunes to be made by creeks, sloughs and forks are of ; Continued on 4th page.
M s-hines.
vl n ltf
I l l ’ NIMESN C A R D S .
OKEGOY.
1 fat t tie year round on out range
j without feed.
Evaporation is so
! slight that we never suffer drouth,
j Potatoes have been grown here that
weighed as high as 8 lbs. between
! showers—not a drop of rain falling
I from planting till digging time.
Ice seldom forms on still water
| above a half inch thick, and never
on water having the slightest mo.
tion. With the exception of 7
nights, the tenderest plants could
have lived in open held the whole
of last winter, pumpkin, bean and
tomato being frost bitten first on
the 7th of December.
Coquille Valley!
tin Garden if Orion. ......... ,.....
w.