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Coquille Valley Produces Fine Cranberries
By A. T. Morriaee
The production of cranberries in Coos County
in any considerable quantities is of comparative re-
eent origin.
It is claimed, however, that the first planting
of cranberries in the Pacific northwest was at what
is now Hauser, six miles north of the Coos Bay
bridge. A Mr. McFarlin came west from Cape Cod,
Mass., where the main industry is the production
of cranberries, and selected a spot on north slough
about one fourth mile from where the present post
office now stands, at Hauser, and planted six or
•even acres.
His first bog was planted in 1885. This writer
lived in Cooa County at that time and remembers
the planting of the cranberries made by Mr. Mc-
and is owned by Louis Dubuque, who is improving
the place by new plantings.
Some twenty years ago Reuben Lyons, who had
come here from the cranberry section of Wisconsin,
where his father was a cranberry grower, started
the development of cranberry bogs one and a half
miles west of Hauser, in the edge of the sandhills.
Mr. Lyons, who passed away last year, was a
real cranberry enthusiast, and did more perhaps
than any one person in Coos county to cieaie an
interest in this industry.
John Langlois, ot Bandon, who also passed
away last year, put in a oog near Bandon so.ue
eighteen years ago and did much to give the in
dustry a boost in the Bandon area.
In 1927. tne tirst Morrison
Butter-
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field place, a mile and a half north of McFarlin’s.
At the time that McFarlin started his cranberry en
terprise his place was accessible only by boat at
high tide Now this place is on the coas. n.s..w-y
Bandon, and have renovated and added to it until
they have a nice acreage.
South of the Kranicks is the Stankovich bog,
and west from there are the bogs started by Leep
and Eaton. The former Leep and Eaton holdings
are now managed by Joe Fosse for Ted Pettersen
of North Bend
S. E. and Sumner Fish and Chas. St. Sure own
bogs in the vicinity of the oil well operations east
of Bandon; the A. T. Morrison bogs are also in this
vicinity.
One of the newer places is the Dufort bogs
southeast of Bandon, now owned by Wm Dufort.
This is a very promising cranberry proposition.
The, Curry County plantings consist of the
Stears A Dufort bog, near Sixes River, and the
Johnson Bogs at Garrison lake, near Port Orford.
A. M. Randall, Ennis Loshbaugh, Eldon Lang
lois and brother, R. R. Davis, Kennedy Baker, all
have bogs near Bandon.
There are some other
smaller holdings in the same neighborhood.
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old road between North Bend ai„
and Ein-
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Hunt.
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Hauser, in addition to those already mentioned are
the Herman Nabb, Kaye Howard, C. S. Small estate
and the Thomas bogs.
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There is no large amount of land suitable for
cranberry production in Coos and Curry counties,
Cranberries require an acid peat or muck soil.
It
is possible that the acreage might be Increased to
twice that it is now.
To prepare and plant cranberries is an expen
sive operation. Ground must be level for best re
sults; must be cleaned of every bit of vegetation;
must be sanded with two and a half to three inches
of sand; must have an abundance of water; ought
to be out of the June frost belt; must be kept clean
of weeds after planting for best results; must be
planted to varieties that are proven a success in the -
west_ otherwise stay out of the cranberry business,
The coat of preparing and planting cranberries
will
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be from r $1000.00
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per acre, to as high as $2200.00.
Production this past year was a little above
13,000 quarter barrel boxes, in Coos and Cu.iy.
The Coos Cranberry Co-operative, a non-p Ofit
organization, organized under the Laws o.’ •'refont
handle about 80 per cent of the berries produced.
This organization makes for the orderly distribution
of the crop and stabilizes the market. As long as
the Co-op can handle 80 per cent of the crop, those
who stay out of the organization, get the benefit
of organization, just the same as if they were mem
bers. In other words, the slacker gets the same
benefit as the doer, without any work or expense.
Fully 80 per cent of the crops, both east and
west, are handled by Co-operative organization^
otherwise the cranberry grower would have to quit
business. The' handling of from two to three mil
lion quarter barrel boxes of berries is the job of
well organized growers into proper nqarketing set
ups, for orderly marketing at the proper time. ■ ‘ ■
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Southwestern Oregon Well Represented
Regulations Listed to
Protect Fishermen
A list of rules for fishermen to follow in order
that their outing will not be ifiarred by conflict with
the law. has been prepared by the Oregon State
Game Commission? According to the following, it
is always unlawful:
To angle at any time between one hour after
sunset and one hour before sunrise.
To fish by any means other than with hook and
line.
To use more than one line or line and rod held
in the hand.
To use more than two blades on a spinner for
lake fishing.
To use more than three hooks on a line except
on floating bass plugs.
To sell, or offer for sale or exchange any fish
taken with hook and line, except that it shall be
unlawful to sell or offer for sale not to exceed three
salmon per day caught on hook and line in the
waters of the Rogue river in Curry County after
being properly tagged.
To transport or ship game fish without a writ
ten permit.
To fish without a license on person
To refuse to «how license on demand.
To angle within 200 feet of any fishway.
To wantonly waste game fish or allow others
to do so.
To angle on private land without permission
from the owner.
To net, trap, spear, gaff, club or shoot fish. It
shall be lawful, however, to spear or gaff salmon in
that part of the Columbia river and tributaries
above its confluence with the Deschutes river, from
May 15 to July 15. both dates inclusive. Bag limit,
two such fish in any one day.
To resist or interfere with the duties of any
officer enforcing the game laws
To cast into or allow to be cast into any stream,
or other body of water in the state of Oregon, saw
dust or other lumber waste, dye, chemical, decay
ing substance (including molded, decomposed, sour
or spoiled salmon eggs) or to use dynamite or other
explosives (violent or otherwise) or any poisonous
substances in any of such waters.
For unn'aturalized persons to angle without
having in possession an alien’s gun license in addi
tion to an angler’s license.
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Scenery, pleasant environment and good hunt
ing and fishing are not all there is in life, but when
prosperous times with minimum of effort is added
then they become an ideal situation, That spells
the Cooa country.
Southwestern Oregon feels par
ticularly gratified over the state’s
representation in the United States
congress, and especially so with
respect to the two United States
Senators, Chas. L. McNary and
Frederick Steiwer, who, naturally,
represent the entire state of Ore
gon, and James W. Mott, the con-
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CHAS. L. McNARY
FREDERI K STEIUER
Junior U. 8. Senator
gressman from this, the First dis
trict.
Senator Chas. L. McNary
Senator McNary, by reason of
his lone tenure in the upper house
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of congress, is the senior senator,
and his experience and ability,
which have brought him to the
republican leadership of that body,
as well as an influence with the
opposition political party on all
measures affecting Oregon, have
resulted in bringing recognition to
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Oregon as a whole and the south-
wts’em portion in particular
which has seldom come to the
area. Senator McNary is one of
the most zealous statesman ever
to sit in congress from this state,
and it was freely predicted in the
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pre-campaign of 1938 that he
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might have had the nomination of
his party for president had he but
spoken the word. His re-election
as United States senator in 1936
in the hardest battle ever waged
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against one for this office, is evi
dence of his standing among his Congressman From First District
cem southwestern Oregon. &
constituents.
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Senator Frederick Steiwer
Congressman James W. Mott
Frederick Steiwer, junior United
States senator from Oregon, had
his name brought to national re
pute in 1938 when he was selected
as key-noter of the republican na
tional convention, and his speech
attracted the attention of the
whole United States for its force
fulness, logic and sound reasoning.
Senator Steiwer, although one of
the youngest members sitting in
the upper halls, is one of the most
active and has made his presence
and influence felt not only among
his own party members, but those
on the democratic side as well. He
has ever been found ready and
willing to give of his best efforts
for those matters that vitally con-
Unquestionally one of the most
energetic congressman ever to
represent the First Oregon district
is James W. Mott, whose home to
in Salem. Serving his third teipfl.
Congressman Mott has shown an
acquaintance with vital matters
concerning his district that is
proving a valuable aid in get
ting just recognition from the
several departments in Wash
ington. He spends a good portion
of eath vacation period in further
acquainting himself with the prob
lems of his district, and thus keeps
actively and prominently before
him such matters as demand the
earliest
possible
consideration
from departments and congress.
Coquille, at the junction of the Oregon Coast
Highway and the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway, is
also served with freight by a line of the Southern
Pacific railroad from Marshfield to Powers. This
city is the gateway to the rich and highly productive
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Coquille Valley and the Coquille River timber re
gion. as well as the entrance to the greatest play
ground, beaches, hunting, camping and fishing
grounds in the United States. A visit to this lo
cality will bear out this claim.
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