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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1937)
1 Lost Creek Falls, Above Sitkum : There is a sheer drop of 100 feet from the rock lip to the pool, which measures 150 feet across. The Cave Coquille River path to the sea r the path of a selfless dantly, Giving as mothers do, forever, to the lush lands lining ‘ its banks, Of food and raiment, asking never, never, return or thanks. - Not as the streams that beat round rocks are, this is a wordless tide,. Calm as the full-fed herds and flocks are that move at its grassy side. Bright as the summer it takes small heed of, bright as the rippled grain. Cool as the winter it drinks its meed of, cool as the misting rain. ■ ————----- Carrying burden to that ocean whose winds blow salt from the west. With the smooth and level and hasteless motion of a cloud afloat to its rest. Spreading its wealth, on wings of water, that men of the land may reap, - Claiming at last, as the sea’s own daughter, in the arms of her mother, sleep. —Frances Holmstrom Finest Turf Grass Grown in Coos County .............. J 4 Lost Creek flows into the East Fork and is said to have derived its name from the fact that the first white man known to have seen this beauty spot was lost when he discovered it. Beef Cattle, Sheep and Goats Range Hills h • ■ The natural prairies located on the hills among the timber in the southern part of the county pro vide excellent range for the sev eral thousand head of beef cattle ranged there.- Most of these cattle are Rerefords and are raised suc cessfully to the market age with very little additional feed being supplied. The natural grass pro duced in these prairies is an un usually strong feed and the 50 or 80 carloads of cattle marketed each year are fattened on this grass. ■ Coos County has the distinction of producing the best fine turf grass seed to be found anywhere In the world. This industry started in 1924 and is now rapidly developing into one of major impor tance. The industry was developed by Lyman Carrier, for 20 years engaged in agricultural investigations for state experiment stations and the United States department of agriculture. During the World War he was assigned the task of locating sources of tine turf grass seed to take the place of the German bent seed then shut out of this country by the blockade. As a result of Mr. Carrier’s effort* -the vegeta tive method of planting creeping bent runners or stolons, now an important commercial industry in the east, was perfected and introduced, the har vesting of Rhode Island bent in New England was started and with the discovery of the wonderful creeping bent of Coos County he put the United States in the lead in the production of fine turf. The seed is harvested from a native g as» found On the low grounds over the entire county, It la a valuable hay and pasture grai on low wet lands but its chief value is for lawns and putting greens On golf courses For ______ this purpose it is “the last Word in fine turf.” So superior ‘ is it to other grasses ---------- of of this this nature nature it it sells sells readily readily at at prices prices two two to three times that of imported bent graft seed from nany and New Zealand. Much of the success of this product is due to Herewith presented is one of the most beautiful water acenes in Coos county, but because of its inaccessibility inaccessibility has been seen by compara eompark- tively vely few people. It is lo- lo tted eight miles above Sit- kum ___ _ a mile and _____ a ____ im and half oft the old Coos Bay Wagon road, the trail leading over a steep mountain. Logged-off lands which have been properly burned and seeded provide excellent range for sheep. At the present time some 20,000 head of sheep are owned by wool growers of Coos county and these are grazed largely on the cut-over and open hill range. As a general rule there is very little snow even in the hills during the winter time. This makes it possible for ewes to lamb in Febru ary. They are raised with very little additional feeding. The open winters also makes it possible for ewes to range in February. These early lambs then in turn are ready for market by the fore part of June and command higher prices than lambs marketed later during the season. Goats while not numerous are proving their value at clearing land on some farms in the county. Brush which can be kept down if enough goats are pastured, is one of the limited factors in proper range management, and goats, in addition to pro- ducing mohair, are valuable from this standpoint. tion the trade-mark “COCOOS” from the county of ly ly enough enough bent bent seed seed produced produced 1 to take care of the and T?h the •ecret*Or demand on the Pacific ___ 11. Coast ____ .. California alone n the s’et" of Oregon, the United States patent of-........................ ................. boasts of having 1000 * Coc Cocoos putting greens. As the fice and the commissioner of patents of Canada. supply ot seed ___ _____ Increases, it is___________ introduced into op un 11 t ie present time mere ras been scarce- other parts i of * ** the country and tai tests th- way it has been marketed. While the two are being c conducted in Australia, , Scotland grasses are distinctly different, government seed and Englanu. id. 1 analysts can not with any degree of certainty, dis What this industry means to the bent grass tinguish the seed pf Coos County grown creeping ----- «-•«-»»•••• growers of Coos County is easily seen. The price redtop. In order to paid for the privilege of threshing the hay is about protect the purchasers from the fraud of adultera- twice the ordinary price on the farm for grass hay. The threshed hay is left with the owner to feed. He eats his cake and has it. The yields of cured hay average around three tons to the acre, making it the most profitable hay crop per acre grown in the United States. Nosier Business Block and Apartments r-------- —-------------------- | Camp Groundi of Recreational Use T I z* Close to 800 improved free forest camp grounds in the 13 national forests of Oregon are being pre pared for recreational use this season, according to announcement of the Pacific northwest regional forest office in Portland. The improved camps include provisions for mountaineers who want to “rough ft,” a slightly higher order of facilities for hunters and anglers, and still more of the comforts for motorist campers. The typical camag ground provides piped run ning water, individual narkin« olaces. camp sites with out-of-doors stoves, benches. San itary facilities and hens, supple- menting the camper’s own __I equip- ifig ___ and tent ment, are among the accommodations Last year more than 1,500,000 visitor« vii____________ enjoyed camp grounds, resorts and summer homes in Ore gon and Washington national forests. More than 25 per cent of the recreatiopists were from outside the state,in.which they ware camping...