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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1917)
PAGB {B Y E * AT, AUGUST $, 1817. ------------------------ if ’ T y - w ^— MAKES tp _ 1BING ARRANGEMENT WITH Offers Unusua[ Opportunity To Its Readers M O N O out large circle of readers there are a great many yrho are interested directly or indirectly in fruit growing, dairying and other branches of farming. A ll of^hese nat- _____ urally wish to keep in fclose touch with agricultural activi ties throughout the state; andi to know about any fight which is being waged for the measures O regon farmers want and against all sorts of schemes that are detrimental to the people a n d agri cultural interests of this state. ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ * • * , , m « . •*» i ** • *"* I’ ■* a « * -• « * - f-jW P • a « • i * 1- * } . ■*' * ■ ’ *-/ • W e have, therefore^ made a special clubbing arrangement with THE OREGON FARMER whereby any farm er or fruit grower, who is one of our regular subscribers and who is not now a subscriber of THE OhEGON FARMER , will be en titled to receive THE OREGON FARMER in combination with this paper at the same rate as for this paper alone. ♦ * T h is offer applies to ill those who renew or extend 4heir sub* criptions as well as to all new subscribers, If you are interested directly or indirectly in O regon agriculture, do not4 miss this unusual opporturity but send your order in now. ♦ * ♦ ♦ THE OREGON FARMER is the one farm paper which is devoting itself exclusively to !the farming activities and interests of O regon. It has a big organization gathering thè news of im portance to farmers» dairymen, fruitgrowers, stocknnsdrs and poultrymen; and it has the backbone to attack wrongful methods and com binations and bad legislation, and support honest leaders and beneficial measures. ^ W e are confident that our readers will congratulate us on our being able to make this splendid and attractive clubbing offer. ♦ - - $1.50 TH E OREGON FAR M ER , One Year 1.00 TH E SE N TIN EL, One Year Total - - ■ $2.50 A ll furnished for $L 50 to subscribers paying STR IC TLY IN A D V A N C E Items 'From Arago. Mr. and Mrs. Ed W ood, o f Coquill«, visited at the E. E. Hampton horn« at Arago over Sunday. Miss Csllie Owen cam « over from Medford Tuesday for a visit with bar sister, Mrs. Charles Newton, and fam ily. Rev. S. M. Cheek, tha U, E. South I residing elder, will hold services at Fishtrsp next Sunday. Leslie Schroeder, o f Coquflle, has been the guest o f Lester Clinton fo r a few days, accompanied by a csrfu ll of young people to spend the evening in tow n.' There has bean quite a large fire for several days in tha w olds north of Fishtrsp valley. Mr. Y ates' grain has been endangered and they are try ing to ehech it. Two m issionary Indian praaohad at Johnson’s Mill Friday night. Oaa o f them had been a m issionary he China for twenty y u u i and expect« to la tum there soon. - Mr. Wm. Albee, o f upper Fishtrsp, who has been, suffering from a cancer in hie jaw fo r souse than, h a i boon confined te hit bad fee the paat three week« and appear* to ha «low ly MB- evening, and it was said wfll be a total tel wrack. The passengers and crew were saved. Archbishop Christie arrived Satur day evening from Portland aa his way te Powers, to dedicate tha Catholic church th an . A special excursion train left North Bend far Powers, ThU winter fond orili bn houand in four barns owned by the company, ■ thron o f which ham bann erected this smaniar. The last o f thesn barns is missioners have missed the smin point , not máte completed but orili bn fla- jin relation to this improvement. The , ishad within a wank and b o 'fta d y for law states that as soon as twenty two hundred tons o f hay. This barn miles or more o f the Marshfleld-Myr- is on what is known as tha Chaan tle Point road is put on line and grads piaos ju st below Ondar Point on the the state shall pave it. But much de Marshfield road. In connection with pends on that "a s soon." More pro this barn the largest silo in Coca jects by long shot are provided for county will bn erected as soon ha the in this bill than the six millions are barn is completed. This new silo will going to cover, and if we wait two bn sixteen feet in diameter and thirty or three years to prepare the road feat high. It wfll bn o f tha W iscon fo r paving, in spite o f the law and in sin type and w ill hare a cenerate base spite o f the promisee o f the commis four feat thick which orili fully insure sioners, there w ill be nothing doing its stability noon when loaded to the if that fund has already been spent. full or when perfectly empty. The second largest barn is on the upper (dace until last year oecdpied for two or three road projects. Com ing down ea tha train that morning he by Glen Collier. This barn will hold had counted forty men a t work ea the cerera! hundred tons o f hay and there CequiUa-Myrtle Point read, which was are stalls fo r orar tw o hundred head a good road to travel at all shasonsj o f cattle. The smallest o f tha three and ha waa also sure that he couM new barns is on the old McAdams call by name lots o f men working ea place on tha Marshfield road and this \ this and other road projects in the county who had form erly worked for him in the lumber camps. The Newport project on the Ce- quille-Marshfield roe«, where a long fill is being-m ade sa v es a stretch of bottom to replace an old bridge, didn’ t have a redeeming feature for him. Neither did he look with any favor on the eoatsruction o f the Coos City- Sumner road where d irt ki te be moved at 81 cents a yard. In t fa ct Powers has been fighting the Coes City bridge and road preposition all along tha line, whenever he could get a whack at i t O f course, Mr. Powers’ words car ried a good deal o f w eigh t Much o f the material needed for ship building in this war emergency comes from his camps and the associated mills and to compel them te shut down would be a calam ity from tha nation al point o f view, as well as for Coos county where the Smith-Powers lum ber industries pay 980,000 in team a year (and bars never been delinquent even though for years they have had to borrow the money to make the paym ents) and where they provide a payroll o f $100,000 a month. But his dsmands that tha road work should bo shut down sad been se mod ified as ha want along that it is hardly neesasary to detail tha arguments made by Messrs. Too nay, o f M yrtle Point, Topping, o f Band on, and othars on the other side o f the question. When it came to an expression by the meeting on the question, the first motion waa made by Mr. Tonney that the road work should not bo dis- coutinuod; but after couaidarabia dis- another by Mr. Topping that no ac tion bn taken-on this question until the* comm ittee to be appointed to in vestigate tha engineering and the fi nancing o f tha county road bond work bean reporting, it waa really a sort o f com posite affair. Those present were Charles Hall, o f Marshfield, president o f the County Good Roads Association; A . H. Powers, represent ing the Powers Commercial Club as well at tha lumbar interest, also an a vice president o f G ood KoadS Associa tion; Peter Loggia, who carries on half a dosen or more différant Unas, o f business at North Band; Edgar McDaniels, o f the Coos Bay Harbor, o f the same city ; J. E. Norton, prua-, ident o f tha Coquille Commercial Club, and tha 8entin#l man? Judge Colvtg, o f San Francisco, represent ing the S. P. railroad; Goo. T. Ton- noy, o f the Myrtle Point Commercial Club; Mayor Goo. P' Topping and Editor L. D. Felshalm, o f tha Wes tern World, representing the New Era Club o f Band on; A. N. Christiana on, o f the North o f the Bay section; Jack Contegno, o f the logging cam p down tha river that beata his asma, and Mr. Davidson, o f Bnndon. 188 fo r $1.88. 800 head o f cattle on their 9000 acres o f land in this valley. - O f this num ber about one-half will be sold off before winter, but Mr. Branatatter states that ha arili continua buying this fa ll and that ha expects te bava at Mast 000 haad again by apring. Ha says ha could easily haadle 1000 haad during tha summer but tha winter feeding problem is too great at tha present time. In this connection it is worth while to note that the new tide gate installed this summer at tha mouth o f Pat Elk tha hay and pasture next year. Tha now head gate, which, with another that they expect to install next year will virtually do away with the old head gates and which will absolutely control the water, la constructed o f o f steal, turned and emery smoothed on the face as as to be absolutely water tig h t Tha gate« and pips la five fast in diameter and weighs over 5,100 pounds. It is installed at the east aids o f tha old concrete gates and the second new gate will be placed at the on tha entire holdings o f tha company as wall as all other land on the south sids o f tha river can be held to a de sired inch thus insuring a perfect sub-irrigation o f tha entire tract and Mr. Branstotter estimates that it w ill mean the production o f thousands o f tons more feed for hundreds o f bead o f cattle In addition to those It is pos sible to feed at present and will mean a fa r greater investment on the part ha took charge of tha hold ings the company has spent over $30,- 000 , much o f which is in the shape o f permanent improvements and all o f which has bean spent in this section alone.
