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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.
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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.