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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1949)
feel quite sure that Mike B reuer, L eave, for E a gen e-Iva n Smalley, Father the burhs, and then thei will want t o h a v them preserved a c c o u n ta n t,ita Eugene and Port- problem of moving them to the in our Pioneer Museum. I ° n business this week mill * site confronted him. The ‘ large stones could not be - — . on the backs of the mules there were no roads, onlyTndiaJ I trails, many places barely possible | COQUILLE, OREGON OCTOBER ,13, 1949 for single animals. A tree was f i felled, shaped into a canoe, and MORE PIONEER HISTORY NOTES when the rain raised the river suf- ficientjy, two men paddled the rude boat against the stream for twelve miles to within two miles of the mill site. These two miles pre sented another problem. Again I the trusty oxen came to the res- N E W E S T . F IN E S T I cue. The trail was widened to al- Henry Schroeder, Sr., and son of ¡low a sled, or lizard, as it was colled By EMU, R. PETERSON F R E E Z E R FOR Who built, owned and operated J. Henry Schroeder, is of the opin-|t° P“ « over it. ,Y O U R H O M E the first grist mill in Coos or Curry ion that no grist mill was ever p u t, “The liaard was made from the county? The lack of definite in up or operated by his father or his i forks of a tree. The main trunk formation on this one' subject is grandfather. Other members of served as a means to fasten a strong quite in keeping with the genei^tl the family are of the same opinion, chain to a ring. The forked end lack of recorded and dependable William Schroeder appears to have was cut to a length of four foot, sources of our pioneer history.. A kept himself very well informed heavy timbers bolted across to great deal of it must depend on on our pioneer history, and espec form a solid base, and the burhs ávis memory passed from person to ially of the Baltimore Colony story. were loaded onto that, hauled by But there can be little doubt “ *e ox*n 40 J 4“ 11 person and from one generation to •gani that a pair of stone burs did com e; prope41/ J lns4a“ ed' , clo4h another. » M il The earliest recorded mention along with other equipment in ! fo u g h t from Roseburg, at a cost COLORFUL TALE— Robert Ryan listens a a \ of • EASY O N HOMEMAKER itockwell in RKO’s f ” j W“ T h e Boy With Green Hair,” explains how ip thf ly locks suddenly that I have found regarding a grist the Dr. Henry Hermann Baltimore °* Reach-in for a l l foods ed ovt/ “ * <x? en 4raT e: changed color. They co-star with Pat O’Bri« mill in Coos county appear on page Colony. I believe that we h .v e [a^ Barbara Hale in w ithout stooping, groping ’ * « st 395 in Dodge's Pioneer History of the answer. It reached us through the Dore Schary presentation in color by Teel At the Lib- • EASY O N BUDGET thejm rhs soon emerges as a erty Theatre Fri., S a t, Sun., O ct 14-1«. Coos and Curry counties: "Among the never-tiring efforts of our! See it today! The greatest new Learn why families say Freezer in history— Amana Model the goods was . . . a 54-inoh page good friend, Steve Reed, of Myrtle f,n* <’uaWty of « our‘ ' ’ ' ’ . , gon th| fo o d s a v in g s p a y fo r mor* 40 4hls sU)ry; the story of his grandfather. portable saw mill belonging to Point. Steve has shown a great I, ^ ere 18 18. Designed for better living; When Mr. i to oper- Amana Freezer. Henry Schroeder, Sr., and at) 8- deal of active interest m this sub-!*“ 4 le4 ua sk lp ten pages now and holds 630 pounds fro w n foods; Steve Reed distinctly remem ate that mill, burhs to horse-power portable boiler and ject ever since the matter was first JUmp 40 pkge 23’ <’uotln« : • EASY O N THE EYES takes less floor space. bers the grist mill that his father, Michael Breue. a mill Late in 1866 a young man from engine and a pair of 24-inch mill brought up several week ago. A Gleam ing, glistening all Oscar Reed, built on the middle on Indian creelf?' 5 year insurance against food spoil stand burs belonging to William Volkmar. paper titled, CHRISTIAN LEHN- Douglas county, by the name of fork of he Coqulile river. w h it e D u P o n t D u lu x age included and 5 year free re that Mike Breuer still otfns those Reed, brought a band of horses to The mill was put up on the south HERR, PIONEER, by Fannie Lehn finish! placement warranty on sealed-in burhs or mill stones. Are they the But the buhrs for that Oscar fork of the Coquille river, on the herr Dixon, has been obtained by our place to sell to the farmers. Previous to that time all the plow Reed mill? Where did Oscar get same mill stones that William mechanism. Schroeder place, and was operated Mr. Reed and loaned to us. ing and hauling had been done by tlhem? He was living on his Volkmar brought from Baltimore for several years, William Volkmar The next time you go to Myrtle oxen. In Maiy, 1867, Oscar Reed father-in-law’s place at Roland in 1859, around the Horn, to San E l filling the position of engineer and ASK A BO UT O U » C O M V IM IIM T P A T M IM T P IA Point, I suggest, that you go into and Mary Catherine (Lehnherr) Prairie. The Lehnherr family has Francisco,' then by sailing ship to J. Henry Schroeder that of miller.” the city park and notice the stone moved to Myrtle Point, where Mr. Empire City on Coos Bay, again From page 408 of the same book monument there erected to the were married. For several months Lehnherr built a grist mill operated transferred and moved up Isthmus -they lived in the old home (Roland I quote: memory of Christian Lehnherr. Prairie.) Oscar was a competent by steam power. We are not told slough, over the divide, down "W e have a little mill hard by, Steve Reed, now past 80, is a blacksmith, and soon had a where the burhs came from for the Beaver slough, up the Coquille A little creek which doth supply grandson of Mr. Lehnherr. flourishing blacksmith shop in op Myrtle Point mill. But it is as river to Roland Prairie and back Us all with flour, as fine and good I quote from page 13, of the eration. He made the horseshoes sumed that they were cast burhs down to the middle fork. Finally As any needs tor wholesome Lehnherr story: "Settlers were and also the nails.” shipped from San Francisco. The to Indian creek, having served in food.” filling the country, and flour was Roland Prairie mills was on longer three different mills through a Now, let us interject a bit of our However, there seems to be some still conveyed on horseback from own into the story. In due time being used, so Oscar Reed ob period of thirty-odd years. Are doubt concerning the frist mill the adjoining county (Douglas.) the Reeds had a little son. They tained those former Baltimore mill they the same burhs now owned mentioned above. William Schroe- der, now in his 80‘s, a grandson oi Esther h«i learned the art ofgrind- named him Stephen. He is the stones from Mr. Lehnherr and put by our good friend, the Old Sage ’ • or mg grain from >n uncle in Switxer- same Steve Reed, now in his 80’s, them into his new mill on the mid of Bandon by the Sea? If they Coquille Phone 10 340 W. Front St. are the same old pioneer burhs, I land. The splendid creek running who dug up this Lehnherr story, dle fork. ; MGM's AUCHV TfcO4Nl&L0ft through the farm afforded a suit able site for the grist mill. For M usical show opshowc n Christian Lehnherr to conceive an idea was to put that idea into im mediate operation. “A large overshot water wheel G ARLAN D furnished the motive power. A U HH M pair of burhs (burstone or mill stone) CAME WITH THE BALTI MORE COLONY AND WERE NOT USED. (Caps are mine— E. R. P.) OCT. 20 - 2 2 PAGE TWO — X c n tin e l McClary Appliance Co. ? ? First Pioneer Grist Mill In Coos Or Curry Counties? ? Who Knows? I hnounœs TT hi «"' »ez<R We Have Our Own Refrigeration Service Department M cClary Appliance Co. 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