The Coquille Valley sentinel., May 11, 1917, Image 1

A t Hs n e w t meeting the County
court 1 piled the reek quarry o f Alvu
Huntley near the Cooper bridge for
working toe.
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a term of 20 yaara at 4 cent* per co­
Mr. D. Peroui the manager, and
H airy BeUoni, the batter maker, went ble yard. The rock from thia quarry
w ill be need oa the North and East
doim the river Wednesday tb call on
Perk read between Myrtle Point and
Dora, a distance of 16 or 20 mike.
The county made a fln yoar con­
tract for powder with the Bandon
Hardware company/ at a saving of
$40 a ton from pricea paid for email
lota. Forty per cent powder is to coot
$12.80 per cwt, 40 per cent Bed croas,
$17 par c y t and 40 per cant nitro­
glycerine $20 per cwt.
The Joe Nay Slough bridge matter
as the Coquilk Valley Thr­
k
to be investigated. The bridge k
ead thk road glimpses the
in a dangerous condition and has bean
ordered dosed. The peopk there will
not be permitted to improve it at
As steel far bridge construction k
nr at an almost prohibitive price,
k not expected that work will he
PERHAM GETS
BIG CONTRACT
BECKETT IS
DOING TIME
The amount paid to Alan Hall far
running the Eats ids ferry at the Bay
waa raked $10 a month, making it
$86, and he waa given authority to
employ a night crew for the Transit,
se as to furnish n 16 hours service.
The attorey for the Ceos Bay Coni
A Lumber company sold ho was randy
to deposit $47,600 in the Farmers and
Merchants bonk bare to pay the taxes
for 191$ and 1914 on the Boutin tract.
There wore in fact only two bide
that complied with the conditions on
the Cequilk-Marshfield road.
Mr.
Forimm a t $8*09*66 and the Elliott
Contracting company, of Portland, at
$87,77*60.
Grant Smith A Co., of
Portland, submitted a bid without
bond or deposit, but it was on n coot
and ten per emit bask and the figures
were carried out so carekealy that
Carpenter’s friends from Bandon who
chartered the boat far the trip.
On the way op the two steamers
met the Aetive which waa bringing
down the body o f Clara, which had
been found about a quarter of a mile
below the ocaoe of the wreck, at 1
o’clock.
There k a whirpool and loti o f
logs at thk point, end a sack,
Elliott Construetioo Co„ $66,191.
D. P. Plymale and Elbert Dyer,
$64,470.2*
Hegquist A Bjorkquist, $49,666.10.
Grant Smith A Co. also put in a
cost and ton per cent bld which was
not eonsidered.
We aro ff lad te eee these eontraeta
eecured by Coee eeunty blddere, but
there k no telling bow aoon we may
have to bring in outside firm« to do
the work etiB to be advertked.
The Bandon shipyard k tu be re­
opened within a short time by e new­
ly organised corporation to be known
ee the "Pacific Ship-building Com­
pany."
The capitalisation k for
$260,000, moot o f which cameo from
Son Francisco end vicinity.
J. R. Cunningham, of Oakland, who
was hers yesterday, cams up last Sat­
urday to make the deal. He oays the
two ways will be kept oocupiod all
the time and the yard as busy as a
large crew of ship carpenters can
keep it. Inside of 20 days the re­
pair work an the yard will be started
but it will be 60 day« er mere before
the campe will have the nseaaairy
the ships will be buht oa contract, of
which they can secure any number,
or whether the boats will be told a f­
ter the keel k laid and they are part­
ly built
The capacity of the yard is two
ships of $,000 tone capacity, but Mr.
Cunningham says they won’t confine
themselves to operations o f that eke.
Like other new concerns bringing
money into Coos county they ere fig­
uring on developing the resources o f
the county and branching out after
they get started; sad they have the
capital to do It
Tho re-opening o f this shipyard
wHl moan a groat deal to Bandon,
and In fact to the Whole Coquilk val-
ky. It k the moet important event
that has happened at the mouth o f
the river in years.
was a Coquilk visitor tho first of the
week mod chatted with the Sentinel
scribe for a while Tuooday morning.
Mr. E. has aeaa enough of the world
what they described -as "a t
look" on hie face.
Soon ml
went out a pistol shot rang out
Sabbath air and he was foam
a bullet through kk heart.
mltias and <
$68,000 the
and Distrfc
itr& ted to
k>Jnna|kn i
to piwvaat
timber uati
Judge Hi
thk eoatpa
akk h^ri f