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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1937)
—— Coquille’s Municipal Building A city ot more than 4,000 population with everyone employed. « The fastest growing city of the Oregon Coast Highway Scores of beautiful homes with well kept lawns and surroundings, property owned principally .by the occupants. A payroll in its mills and factories of more than 1200 men and women. Cheese and butter plant of Swift & Co., largest on the Pacific coast. Whey condensing plant, one of three in the en tire state of Oregon, manufacturing a product for chicken feed, etc. A city-owned water works system. A factory manufacturing myrtlewood novelties from a tree found in no countries other than south western Oregon and the Holy Land. Two of the finest and moat up-to-date movie theatres in Oregon. Well-lighted streets at night. One of the best and most modem hotels along the Oregon Coast Highway. Modem business establishments with up-to- date stocks of merchandise. Service stations with alert courteous attendants. Lumber Is Greatest Asset 9 While lumber is Coos county’s greatest asset, constituting one of the largest stands in the world, with an estimate of more than 30,000,000,000 feet of Douglas fir, Port Orford cedar, spruce, hemlock, aider, myrtle wood and many others, in the county fire patrol area, still it is fast giving way to agricul ture, which bids fair within the next 15 to 20 years, to become the largest factor in the upbuilding ot the entire county. Large sawmills in the valley and on Coot bay manufacture this timber into luniber, which is shipped by water and rail to all parts of the world, the ocean going freighters loading at Port Orford, Bandon ana Coos bay. Lumber by-products, principally for the man ufacture ot battery separators, veneer, Venetian blind stock and various purposes, are also located in Coquille, Bandon and on Coos bay. The Coquille valley also has two shingle mills. This locality is the only place in the world •where myrtle wood grows in commercial quantities, - being manufactured into furniture and novelties of ' all kinds. Green Peas Produce Heavy Yield Three years ago, for the first time, the grow ing of green peas tor the summer and early fall markets of the country, was attempted in the Co quille valley,, and so successful was the reSult .hat nhas been.continued, with plantings of 100 or more acr^s. Tne yielq.has, in the main, been quite satis factory, prodycipg in some Instances as high as 8 Mi tons to the aqrq with a fair average being set at better than thl*n.tons The plantings are made so that the crop,will ¿tom? on after the crops of other localities have .been harvested and sold, and when there is a demand..from all sections of the United States for -gmwi peas These peas are carefully picked and sorted, packed in hampers, and then shipped to the market centers in refrigerator cars, only the smallest and tenderest finding their way to the housewives' tables The larger and- older peas are canned in local canneries, and because of their high quality find a ready sale froorthe coun ters and shelves of the stores all over Oregon. With the coming years years It it is predicted, that this is an industry^thfit-'wlll lustryittmiU'^iU develop cfevelop to a pdihtyrhere poiht yrhere —A _iti 1—— —.1—— _ ^* hundreds of acres will be planted j in xt_ the Coquille a large valley, thus necessitating the operation opera rtbn' nr tJf k cannery in the. coyyty. .J < pasture. • While common vetch and oats is the most com mon combination used for hay productions, the in- crc.s~ ir ;'»* p cduc'ion of alfalfa is gradually fill ing the place previously tak?n by the former. This increase is du? in some measure to the summer ir rigation of fi.'lds. Unusually high yields of Tangier peas are pro viding feed for silage put poses. Ready Market Available For Vegetables K. An industry that offers many opportunities for the man whp understands agriculture agric_lt_r; is ‘.z the “------- '* rais- ing of vegetable getable crops, ciops, and the lands of- Coquille ,.uu, together with wiwi the me mtwkw valley,, favorable cmn«ie, climate, are ad mirably* adapted for this purpose, assuring good g< yields which can always b* sold at very fair prices. Most ot the vegetable crops sold on the markets here and on Coos bay are imported. However, there are several truck gardeners, who. during the past two or three years, have branched out consider ably, and their products always take precedence over those imported. Hearty co-operation between the truck gardeners and the local dealers has re sulted in making conditions more favorable for both parties. ■ ■, Small Fruits Do Well ---------------------- ---------- .1 The giowing of small fruits has been a practice in Coos County since the s’ttlement of southwest Oregon, more lhan 75 yeats ago, although there are not enc-ijir sr.raU frui s grown in Coos County to supply the home demand in its presant proportions. this do s rot mean that th? re is a profitable field here fc th* unlimited exiahsion of the in dustry. It does mean however, that people who live on the land are missing some of the best things in life by faiulre to raise- the small fruits needed for home us? and possibly some for the local mar ket. Raspberries, strawberries, loganberries, young- botriss. sots b.Hies currents, all do well when p’anted in th« right location and given the proper care. This is not a one crop country. Many crops throughout the year with ready cash markets and excellent transportation facilities assure succes to those engaged tn agricultural pursuits. , ................... .. »U ... T Rivals California In Flower Growing .-»•1 - ' ®.l • California has been called the “Garden State,” but very few people know that Coos County, Ore gon, ia a close rival, so close In fact, that the fame of the beauty of her flowers, both wild and culti vated, is the incentive for numerous caravans every summer composed of flower lovers, club leaders and flower magazine editors who wish to see with their own eyes, Coos county flowers, trees, shrubs and bulbs. In Coos county, we can raise anything that can be raised in California and a great many things that they can’t raise there. Take bulbs for in stance: at Bandon, “Bandon by the Sea,” as the tourist knows it, there are several small farms where such bulbs as the Bermuda or Easter lily, the Regal lily and the narcissus in variety are raised for their bulbs on a commercial scale. All through Coos county the dahlia and gladiolus are raised to a perfection never dreamed of by their sponsors The towns of Coquille, Marshfield, North Bend, Bandon, Myrtle Point and Empire all have thriving garden clubs that hold at least one flower show a year in their communities. Here the camellia can be and is raised to a state of perfection, growing into small trees instead of shrubs. Roses do well in the county, and may be seen in profusion. Bandon flower lovers go in for the dahlia, glad iolus and bulbs while at Myrtle Point the finest pansies in the United States are raised commercial- Palm trees bloom all the year round in Coos County. The roads and highways of the county are beautiful with flowers, as well as the evergreen trees. The rhododendron, the azalea, the single white syringa, the beautiful greasewood, and many others mingle their blooms with other shrubs and trees and make our highways veritable lanes of beauty. The rhododendron grows here to a perfection not found any where else, and every year many truckloads of these beautiful shrubs and the azalea are taken out of Coos county to be used by nursery men on which to graft other varieties. ; , Coos county is the home of the famotiS myrtle wood tree found only in southwestern Oregon and the Holy Land. Beautiful novelties are made from this woo<*- ' >■ si- - No home or rather garden lover considers his garden complete without its pool and rock garden; water lilies giow readily in our climate. , . ___ . “7~ Corn Growi Prolifically In Coos County . .__ .< 1 * • - V ■■’-J______ •iA it? : l - ’.r . ,„t. . 'f»C. «•- — .ijtl ■ riti !<».• „ F°y,,“ve,r?‘1 P°* inve*tigations and tests carried on in the Coquille valley .have proven th at-corn can be grodm in this coun ty to a highly successful degree for silage purpose t * _ . V J- L- Smith, of Coquille, Coos county’s first county ■-■S i ”• agent, to.whom credit must be given for popularizing the earlier ’ “ XEJ*?“ °f. COm Mr Smith established a number of “reX fied farms where the seed could be matured and kept free irpm' •- '»•* Alfalfa And Other Forage Crops Thrive ____ 1. ,___________ < d h ii ■hi ISM ■nF ■ «t *• nd'I » • Hi » ’ • practically every firm acres to the raising of the product 7 While the growing of alfalfa was first attempted Resulting front the interest created by Mr Smith was the in In this vaHay pomp ten years ago, only during the ■ rttttition of CoqtiiUe’i annual fall festival, known as the “Corn Show ” past few years has tha industry been devetopM to started In about UN,'hnd 'with one of two exceptions held tonals the extent of becoming an important factor in ^ro-” tWtiy, when exhibits of farm products as well as other rp«™,™. I viding green succulent feed for dairy tdtfttle- during*- the valley are-displayed. The street decorations are usually lar»e I the driest months of the sueppaer. It ia also ■ and long gneen com stalk*’holding eari of corn' that would corona re able as a hayew, producing^kem. si» to eight tbhs • favorably witn-znose states and sections which boast of DroducinJthe I per acre on land suited to agriculture. unusual in'wrhi'* v : Fswwmg.pt.. ladino, w| Fn r*1 ynd- Clover, indi > • Green com form's one of the important feeds Tor dairy cows in produce »^passes such nthpJgU when the. pastures are not as good as tn'the spring. It i. 1 [* • •r4 as rye, i« tr -?.-. *• **wHh red top * r» • . . .. I -d -v :>* At'*'