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.
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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-
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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« :
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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
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