Major Facts About Coquille In 1936
Smith Wood-Products Company bought the old
Coquille sawmill early in the year, later shutting it
down and dismantling the plant, after it had started
construction of its large new sawmill and plywood
factory.
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Western Condensing Company, San Francisco,
purchased the old __
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remodeled the structure and installed equipment
.for the condensing of whey from cheese factories,
at a cost of more than >50,000.
Arrow Mill, branch of the same mill in Chicago,
owned by Jameson brothers, established in the
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storage track accommodations.
A. M. Cooper, of Myrtle Point, built a green
house near the cas company plant.
The Coquille school district voted »2,500 in bonds
for the erection of a school gymnasii Ium.
The Title Guarantee and Abstract company re
moved its offices to the south or First street side of
the First National Bank building.
The Cow Bell
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joining the postoffice and removed its equipment
thereto.
The state highway department and the state
police department, jointly, installed a radio call
system in the former's equipment shop building,
which js to house the state police department for
this section of the state.
Marc Shelley sells the Economy Cash Market
to Steve and Harold Dey.
First floor W. O. W. building remodeled for
Miss May’s Shoppe.
Your summer vacation will be made all the
more enjoyable and a long-to-be-remembered event
if spent in southwestern Oregon.
Coquille Log & Lumber company, organized by
local citizens, the old Sitka sawmill, in the
western end of city, purchased, remodeled and put
into operation, employing between 00 and 70 men,
after the plant had been inactive for some years.
Smith Wood-Products Company began con
struction work on enlargement of its already huge
plant, with the installation of a plywood factory
and an additional sawmill, all at a cost of approxi
mately »00,000.00.
Work practically completed
during 1030.
Swift & Co. made several thousand dollars im
provement to its butter and cheese plant.
The Liberty theatre, owned and personally
operated by Messrs. Claver & Wood,-remodeled the
entrance and interior of their playhouse, making it
one of the most attractive and comfortable of any
of similar size in Oregon, at a cost of >15,000.00.
Mrs. Emily Hersey erected a one-story concrete
business block on West First street, occupied by
three firms, two of them new in Coquille.
Ko-Keel Village, modern auto camp, built on
West Front street, at entrance of highway into city,
by the late E. W. Gregg, at a cost of >10,000.
Fuhrman property, at corner of Front and Tay
lor streets, remodeled for the Niles Motor company.
Niles Motor company leased the site of the
former Willey Plumbing establishment on Front
street and improved the same as a Used Auto lot.
City of Coquille laid several thousand feet of
new water mains, graveled and filled several streets
ard installed a modern lighting system in the busi
ness district all at a cost of more than >15,000.00.
Lafe Compton, manager of the Coquille Hotel,
remodeled the interior of the dining room, combin
ing with it the Coffee Shop, and providing for a
banquet room, with a portion of the former Coffee
25—L. H. Hazard. 25—C. W. Ashton. 27—
J. Loy Stacer. 28—Goo, Holbrook. 29—Thos.
Denison. 30—E. D. Webb. 31—S. L. Fitz
gerald. 32—A. N. Gould. 33—G. A. Ulett.
34—John Paulson. 35—C. W. Kline. 35—
Geo. W. Taylor, Jr. 37—D. E. RackleH. 38—
C. €, Farr. 39—Smith Wood Co„ leased to
J. P. Jenkins. 40—F. S. Emery. 41—C. P.
Zumwalt. 42—Dr. R. F. Milne. 43—Roy
Barton. 44—Lloyd W. Claver. 45—A. R.
Dimick. 45—M. E. Pettit 47—J. A. Lamb.
48—L. M. McPherson; H. A. Varney to left.
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Shop space being devoted to a new business estab
lishment.
Geo. Sherwood purchased the E C. Church
property on the comer of Second and Henry streets,
including a cottage, and erected three new dwell
ings on the property.
Cream o’ Coos Ice Cream company installed
equipment for making butter and also enlarged its
storage quarters.
5.000 and >40,000
>40.000 invested in the
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erection of new homes, additions to dwellings and
remodeling of present structures.
Coquille Motor Court, at north entrance to city,
remodeled camp and built several new cabins.
State War Veterans bureau sold all but two of
its 25 or more state-owned homes In Coquille, to
local residents.
C W Ashton built a new warehouse on North
Taylor street, and leased the same to the Consoli
dated Truck company
Win. Ulett. manager of the Coquille Gas and
Power company, erected a four-apartment one-
story building near the Smith Wood-Produets com-
pany plant.
Coquille Laundry company erected an office
addition to its large building, and made other im
provements as well as adding to its equipment.
Coos Bay Lumber company rebuilt its logging
road in the Fairview-Sumner district, extending the
line, and also establishing a modern camp and shops
in that locality, and resumed logging operations
there after a discontinuance for some six or more
years
City dock on Coquille river rebuilt.
Geo. A. Ulett bought the former Fanners and
Merchants bank building
The First National Bank of Portland purchased
the First National Bank of Coquille, add now oper
ates the institution as the Coquille Branch.
Southern Pacific had graded several hundred
feet of its right-of-way, on the north side of its
of increasing its
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