The Coquille Valley sentinel., April 21, 1922, Page 9, Image 9

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COQU1LLJI ¥ ALLST
E. E. JOHNSON--LUMBERMAN
Stock In
[His Varied Fortunes in the Lumber Business in This Valley—
The Old Randolph Mill and Some of Its Products.
We have just received new shipments of
“In my twenty-five years’ exper­
ience in the sawmiU business on the
CoquiUe river I have never been
caught ‘between high and low water*
as at the present time,” said E. E.
Johnson the other day, speaking of
| the condition which has forced his
mill to be inactive recently. “As a
1 rule I have been sufficiently fore-
sighted to have a supply of logs on
hand to carry me over any period of
medium high water, but this year this
condition has obtained for a fa r long-,
a t period than usual with the result
that I was caught short and had to
shut down because of the lack of
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Buggies
Rugs and Spring Furniture
Everything fresh, clean and up-to-date
Greatly reduced prices on ail lines
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CoquiUe Furniture Company
One Day’s Grist
The Peoples Market
EAST OF POSTOFFICE
The Bes Steaks, per pound,
Pork Roast'
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Stews, all kinds,
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25 c
ifc
15 c
All kinds o f cured meats.
Chickens
always on hand. Fish, Clams and Crabs.
Give ns a call and try our meats
Coon, Rickard & Stevens
Holy's Cigar Stand
Front Street, CoquiUe
Fountain Drinks - Candies .1
Tobaccos and Cigars
Draught Beer
Only place in town having Beer on
draught
Bulletin Board
More Railroad Talk
Another section of tho coeat Une
railroad from Portland to San Fran-
daco ia now undor construction in tho
shape of what will at flrat ba a log­
ging railroad down in Curry county—
just as ths Myrfle Pbbit-Powen sec­
tion M Casa county «moo was—
at Brookings, according, to tho follow­
ing itom from tho Gold Beach Re­
port«:
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“The Grant Smith company is
pushing the construction of the rail­
road and are working double shift
on the bridge aeroas the Wine buck
which they expect to complete early
next month. The work of ballasting
the roadbed is progressing rapidly,
the .gravel trains being operated
night and day. Hie road win soon be
fully completed to the Winchuck."
Mr, Johnson’s lumber experience in
Coos county began in the fall of 1897
| when he came to this County with his
father and two brothers, Alfred and
Connie, and purchased the mill three
miles above town together with the
timber property connected with it.
This was the beginning of the John­
son Lumber Company, which for
many years was one of the repreeen-
Two trash liquor ' esaos wort
brought into court at North Bond
and Marshfield Wednesday, says tho
Marshfield Daily News.
Tho most
important of those'was that of Jack
Delligan, a man running a donkey
engine at ths G las go logging camp.
Constables Goodman and Adams and
tbs two federal men want to the camp
and visited Delligan’s house, standing
a few rods from tho main camp,
whore they found half a gallon of
moonshine and 40 bottles of boor,
besides a full outfit tor making moon­
shine, including a still and worm.
Tho apparatus was clevarly hidden
in an underground tunnel between
two outbuildings.
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Delligan was taken before Justice
I Maybee at North Bend, who fined him
$280 and six months in jail.
The
jail sentence was suspended. Justice
Maybee said that Delligan has been
laid up ia a hospital for many months
of late and so ho took compassion on
him. Delligan was to return to kis
work and pay the fine as ha can.
Delligan ia the third cripple man
.vho has been arrested of late by the
Iry officers. Mr. Delligan’s trouble
waa a broken log and it caused him
n e t expense and several men ths'
'oss of time.
Antene Jenson of Bay Park, was I
rought into Justice Joehnk’a court
'or a second time within a faw [
nontha. Tho officers raided his hoi
t Bay Park Tuesday night and found I
etween five and six quarts of wine |
nd two or three quarts of moon-
ine. Jenson appealed his first easel
t which he was fined 8280 and given
8 days in. jail, and it ia now in the
promo court. W. T. Stoll is Jen-
ou’s attorney and is defending him [
-i tho present aass.
Dewey Jackson, whan brought in-1
to Justice Joehnk's court Tuesday
ifterasen, pleaded guilty and was
entencsd to pay 8100 and spend 801
lys in jail for having liquor in his I
v-essieo. It was Jackson’s second |
.Tense.
William Glues appeared Wednes-1
lay morning and waa assessed 840
nd costs tor having possession of
art of a bottle of moonshine. He
vns apprehended several days ago by |
unstable Goodman. .
Justice Joe link said that on as
nd offense for having liquor there I
« >ut one penalty—1100 fine and SO
Jays *n jail; and for tho third of-]
Tense, two years , at hard labor. He I
says there is no alternative, for the]
law requires those penalties.
tils Company and operated it under
this lease for upwards of throe years.
He then purchased the property
and made extensive alterations and
continued to operate until 1919, when
he met the fourth serious financial
disaster of his Coos county exper­
iences, the mill being totally destroy­
ed by fire in June, 1919. With the
810JHW insurance on the property and
funds on hand Mr. John*»’* started re­
building before the ashes were cold,
with the result that he was again
sawing lumber in November of the
same year.
In 1917, Mr. Johnson, with his
broth«, Cunnie, leased the plant of
ths CoquiUe Lumber Company below
toWn for the sawing of spruce -for
war purposes and operated it for six
months when they sold out to tho
company. This setback was followed Sitka Spruce Company.
by another 1n July, 1918, when ft«
After the sale Cunnie proceeded to
Randolph mill was destroyed by fire Reeds port, where he purchased a mill
With a net loss of over 180,000.
•nd has succeeded far beyond Ms
This is believed to be one of
fondest hopes and toAay owns a fine
n est -freakish sawmill fires
miU, owns his timber and operates
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Getting RAady to Drill
foods.
Fomrtlt It is used by mil-
bang of housewives—leading
domestic
ñ d coolring experts.
SAVE
VO® BUY IT
The location of the oil development
work about which we last week copied
an article from the Daily News, ia
no long« a secret. Ia ita Saturday’s
issue that paper gave the following
additional details about tho work:
“Tho promotor» are now assem­
bling lam b« on the spot where tho tative companies in ths CoquiUe val-
wall will be spudded ia, at a point
about throe quarters of a mile off tho Tha mill wss overhauled and put in
Bandon Seven Davila highway, and first class condition and began detivs
about three miles south of Sunset operations In February 1898 and con­
tinued without a shut down except
bay, on tho John Cottle ranch.
"The assembling of tho lumber la for minor repairs for twelve yuan.
for the camp and buildings necessary The output of the mill was steadily
for tho workmen and to house Imple­ increased fay changes and installa­
tion of new improvements, the last of
ments and material.
“Lumber for tho derrick, which ia which was completed but a short time
.before the mill was destroyed by fire
the important structure, has not
in August, 1910, with a lost of |80,-
delivered.
“Lasase on much of the surround­ 000 but with no insurance.
Just a few days before this fire E.
ing land haxa been secured, and it is
understood the promoters are well E. Johnson had identified himself
entrenched in their district, and in with other interests in the purchase
the event of striking oil, would bo of the Randolph mill a few miles
the center of all interest in Oregon. above Bandon end he took charge of
“Men familiar with the oil businese this m'U ¿ist five days after the fire
and formation, tell the Dally News destro>sd the plant above this city.
Fifty thousand dollars was the
that tho locality selected for tho
drilling is the boat ana hi the whole purchase price of the Randolph pro­
coast section, since It is shown on perty ead another 880,000 was eat-
mar - gotw iimfht * may as indicating pended in’ extensivealterations and
the real formation In which oil is equipment which increeeed the capee
Ity from «0,000 board feet daily to
likay to occur.”
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a maximum of over lOOjOOO. In the
Taka ear tip and don’t miss seeing meantime Cumie Johnson had form­
D. W. Griffith’s -LOVE FLOWER” ed a partnership with J. S. Lyons and
s t the Liberty Theatre next Tueedsy
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known in the west, the mill only be­
ing destroyed, while the dock, carry­
ing ovar a million end e half feet of
lumber reedy for shipment was un­
touched. Even the planking was in­
tact to within a few feet of the form­
er walls of the mill when the fire had
burned out This wss pertly due
to the fire fighting operations of ths
Grass DoNar, which was loading at
ths dock at the time, and the tug Kll-
hyam, which came up from Bandon.
to aid in fighting the fire and partly
to the fiact that there was no wind
s t the time of the fire. The mill’s
apparatus wont out of commission
early In the fight owing to the early
destruction of the engine room la
which the pump was located.
After the Randolph mill was des­
troyed Mr. Johnsen transferred to the
Lyone-Johnson mill, where he re­
mained until February, 1914, when he
severed his connection with, the Al-
la Hay, 1814, ha leased the
party o t the Coq»flM MUI 4 Ms
his own-camps and is one of the most
successful individual m il operators
on tho coast.
At tho time the accompanying
photographs were taken at the Ran­
dolph mill the Port Oxford cod«
shown was soiling at $66 per thous­
and but this timber has become so
scarce that today the' same lumber la
selling at from 8180 to |200 per
thousand. Tho bulk of cedar of this
quality ia now sold in the log as'
“peelers”—veneer logs—or for Ori­
ental export.
Mr. Johnson said hi closing that
(he last two years have been the
hardest for the mill man in his ex­
perience owing to the many difficul­
ties, which confronted tho operator.
Those consis-ad of poor transporta­
tion, a flu-tuating market and tho
general depression co-incident with
after the war adjustments of trade,
and that as yet there wss no imme­
diate relief in sight owing to the con­
tinued financial depression and to tho
high-freight and transportation rates.
Two dollars and fifteen certts will
secure the weekly visits of the Sen­
tinel ead the Oregon Farmer for eae
year. B oU p ap sn will i&terert m .