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COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, W E D N E S D A Y , M A Y 1, 1907.
Entered ub Becoud-claaa matter May
S, 1905, at the poa to Ilice at Coquille,
Oregon, under act of Congreus of March
3,1870.
The
M ovem ent. quired to haul these crops from
farms to shipping point was 21,417,-
. By William C. Plumb.
500; number of loads, 30,319,000;
Lord Bacon said that the only
eight and a half milliou days was
thing man can do in this world is fo
required to haul the corn, and the
“ move things to and from each oth­
wheat, including the hauling to
er and nature working within ac­
local mills, consumed almost nine
complishes the rest.’’
million days.
in no way is the growth and de-
The average cost to the farmer of
velopement of man in all respects
hauling
wheat to market is nine
better.illustrated that iu the way he
has moved things during the ages cents per hundred pounds. The aver­
in which ho has left his mark upon age distance hauling is nine and
the material world.
The way we two-fifths miles, and the average
move things illustrates our intelli­ wagon load weighs 8,323 pounds,
gence, our capacity, owr genius and containing about 55 bushels. For
cotton the average load is 1,702
our power.
It is the transference of things pounds, distance from market 11 4-5
that makes business, and the man­ miles, and oost of hauling 10 cents
ner and purpose of moving them per hundred pounds. Per ton per
engrosses the world’s attention. mile wheat costs 19 cents and
Hence it is not surprising that the cotton 27 cents.
S I .5 0 P e r Y
ear
G o o d H oads
formed in northern Missouri, at
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Chilliuothe, during a goed-roads
convention. It resulted in demon­
strating the fact that “ gumbo" «oil
can be made into the very best of
DR. RICHMOND
roads, and that too at a cost not to
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
exceed $225 per mile.
Office at Blooum’ s Drug Store.
In other states the -'gumbo'’ soil
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roads have been constructed, but
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not so cheaply. “Gumbo’’ clay is
i
black, owing to the high percentage
of organic matter mixed with it; it
A. F. Kirshman,
is sticky and almost wholly free
from sand or grit. From this soil
D entist .
a most admirable road is made by
burning and pulverizin'* the surface,
Office two doors South o f Post offide.
und then rolling it to a smooth con­
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O regon,
C oqu ille
dition.
In Alabama there is some dispo­
sition to criticise the large expendi­
ture of money on roads without ade­
The highest cost for hauling is quate results. It is asserted that
road,
the
way
out,
rises
to
para­
E Y E AND NERVE SPECIALIST
mount importance. Primeval man for wool, which is carried on an $1,600,000 is annually expended
Next visit to COQUILLE
was a denizen of the forest, sur­ average 39.8 miles, at the rate of on the highways of the state, the
M AY 24, 25 and 26.
rounded by the jungle, and his 44 cents per hundred pounds. report of public roads for 1904
At Marshfield Office, May 1 to 24
struggle for a way out, for * better The lowest cost is for hemp, which showing that there weie 1,720 mileB
conditions in life, inspired by high­ is taken to market for an average of of improved roads in the state, less
than 400 miles of which was sur­
PACIFIC REAL ESTATE CO . , er ideas, has ever been toward bet­ C cents per hundred pounds.
ter physical surroundings, of which
PRANK BURKUOI.DEB, MG11.
Corn, oats and barley are each faced with stone. And this condi­
good roads are a prime essential.
taken to market at an average cost tion is used as an argument that
Farm s, T im ber and C oal Lands.
It is not the purpose of this ar­ of 7 cents per hundred pounds; hay the state is not getting its money’s
R esidence and Business P roperty.
ticle to go deeply into details aloDg flax-seed, rye, and timothy seed, worth in investing in good roads.
Lots on Sale at Half Price till May 25.
M ining Stock.
any of the many lines of road build­ 8 cents; wheat, potatoes, and beans, That fact is, that the $1,600,000 rep­
COQUILLE,
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OREGON
ing. Competent men have studied 9 cents: tobacco and live hogs, 10 resents the annual cost of mainten­
ance of roads in the state, as well as
and experimented with brick-mak­ cents.
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the original cost of permanet good
ing for roads and with building
The average load varies greatly
roadways of that material; with in different communities, owing to road*; and the expenditure of that
E. D. SPERRY
sand-clay roads, with macadam, the roads, and hence the profit to large sum, almost entirely in repairs
Attorney and Connoellor at Law.
with crushed stone and gravel roads. the farmer on his crop varies. In and temporary improvements is
Office in Robinson Building
a strong argument in favor of per­
Judge Samuel O, Artman, of
Those who were sure that gravel some states the loads are twice as
manent good roads.
Twenty-five Lebanon, Indiana, has recently ren­
Under New Management.
Prop.
made the best roads are learning large as in other states, and the
per cent of that sum put into really dered a decision that contains a new
that all gravel is not road building distance limit to profitable farming
material.
Only the variety that is vastly extended by good roads. good roads, such as would need very challenge to the whole saloon busi­
W. C. CHASE,
little or no costly repairs for a long ness. In a case involving the right
shows adhesive quality, than in its
So far as number of vehicles
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
natural bed sticks together in concerned, the Illinois highway period, would in a few years provide of the city of Indianapolis to issue a
Otfioo in Robinson Building, Upstairs
lumps, and is irregular in shape is commission has undertaken to gath­ good highways in the entire state license to open a saloon, the judge
S t r ic t l y
and increase its property value fifty denied aDy right under the consti­
fit for road purposes.
er statistics, having established
per
cent,
and
the
business,
self-
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F
i
r st -C l a ss .
tution
of
Indiana
and
the
United
The advooates of crushed stone some fifty observation stations in
respect, social enjoyment and com­ Stutes. After quoting from the find­
are learning that all kinds of stono several parts of the state, on differ­
C. R. BARROW,
will not do, and that it is a waste of ent roads leading to good towns, fort of the people two hundred per ings of the courts the judge saye,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
cent.
“ Whatever contravenes the law of
time and money to put upon the where every eighth or ninth day the
First-olass References
Continued^next week.
self-pr6B6rvation, by being destruo-
Opposite I. O. O. K Hall.
roads some varities of broken stone. number of passing vehicles
Successor to J. T. Little
ifteen Years’ Experience
j tive of the good order, the peace,
Those who have advocated the counted. The information gather­
More
Mail
Tronble
C oq u iu . r C it y , O re
! the health the morals, or the welfare
thorough draining of roads have ed is interesting, as it shows not
of the people, is unlawful. What
learned
that
sandy
soil
roads
should
The
following
from
the
Daily
only
how
extensive
the
roads
are
T
not be drained; that the sand should used, but also what kinds of roads Herald at Albany proves that Coos is wrong cannot be lawful, whatever
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J. J. STANLEY
be mixed with the clay, well plowed are most traveled. Springfield and Bayites are not tha only ones who is right is legitimate and lawful. *
In view of the holdings based, as *
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in, harrowed, pulverized, and tramp­ Rockford are cities of approximate­ miss their mails:
LAW YER
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ed— not rolled nor Bhould the ly the same size and of quite simi­
“ Many Oregonians who keep in they certainly are, upon good rea­
son
aud
common
sense,
it
must
be
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Martin Building,
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Front Street
track be so rounded that the water lar surroundings, On the same tiny touch with the old folks at home
T. H. MEHL, Proprietor.
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COQOILI,«, O b KOON
will run off without penetrnting the last spring, eighty-six vehicles pass­ papers were disappointed last wsek, held that the state cannot under the *
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guise
of
a
license,
because
to
hold
roadway, thus binding the clay and ed into Springfield on one of its for the Oregon paper car, which
sand together into a soily body main highways, while three hundred contains all the paper mails publish that it can ¡ b to hold that the state
Billiard
rooms *
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A. J. Sherwood,
free from dust and loose dirt, with nnd thirty-five passed into Rockford ed east of the Missouri for points can sell and delegate the right to *
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and
a surface so thick and solid that it on a road of corresponding imgor- west of Pocatello, Idaho, took fire make widows and orphans, the right *
A ttorn ky • at -L a w,
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will neithercrnck nor dit integrate. tance as nn avenue of travel.
at Green River, VVyo., and twenty to break up homes, the right to
N otary P ublic ,
* Pool Tables
create
misery
nnd
crime,
the
rihgt
to
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sacks
of
newspapers
were
totally
The
entrance
to
Springaeld
was
Some of tlie old stone wheel-track
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roads that were built in eastern and over a mud road; that into Rockford destroyed and nearly 200 sacks riiRke murderers, the right to pro­
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duce
idiots
and
lunatics,
the
right
to
central New York more than a cen­ was over a fine macadamized road. damaged by fire, water nnd smoke.
Fruits, Nuts, Candies, Cigars and
fill orphanages, poor bouses, insane X
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Walter Sinclair,
tury ago are object lessons still iu The travel to Rockford was not on­
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City News Stand.
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ly about four times as great, but the
Madison, Wis., April 12.—One of asylums, jails and penitentiaries and
existence.
AiroaNET-AT-XAW,
But it is rather our purpose draft power of every team was more the most radical reform laws ever the right to furnish Bubjecta for the
N otart P ubetc ,
gallows.”
On
the
to give such useful, general in­ than quadrupled, while the self-re­ adopted by the state legislative hangman’s
C oqu ille,
:
Oregon.
forms
as may be at hand and spect and comfort of the occupants body has passed the Wisconsin as­ grounds thus stated the judge found
in favor of the remonstrance, and
to endeavor to impress
upon of every vehicle, by virtue of clean­ sembly.
liness and improved appearance,
It is the social-Democratic meas­ the petitioners for the saloon lost
the
reader
the
very
great
impor­
Hall & Hall,
ure making it unlawful to employ their license and had the costs to
tance of the good roads movement, were increased many fold.
A ttorneys - a t -L aw ,
now so well started, not only ae it CHANOE in sentiment and devklopement railroad train dispatchers and oth­ pay. What was said in this case
Dealer in R « al E stât * o f all kinds.
could be said in any application for
relates to the material and indus-
The change in public sentiment is er telegraph operators more than
M arshfield, Oregon.
a license ia part part of the Union.
trial we.fare of our country, but as j as remarkable as are the experiences eif<ht hours in any twenty-four. It
B. F E N T O N
The issue involvesthe constitutional
was
introduced
by
Thompson.
it influences and affects the moral, of those who are active in the good-
P ro p
It includes the small station agent, right to exist of every saloon in the
social, educational, physical welfare roails movement in some uf the
C. A. Sehlbrede,
United States. No doubt the esse
who
since
the
beginning
of
rail­
and growth of all its individual citi­ states.
Saddle
Horses
of
best
quality
always
on
hand.
Good
Rigs
in redi
From sixty-seven of the
will be appealed and 6nally reach ness for special trips. In fact, a general Stage and Livery business.
A tto rn cy -a t-I.a w ,
zens.
County Farmers' Institutes iu Illi­ roading has had to telegraph train
the supreme court of the Union.—
tra ffic and travel
Accommodations for Taveling men a specialty
nois t >e past winter have come de­ orders, handle freight, check bag­
N otary P u blic.
R hone 761.
(^Railroads receive no freight that mands that the stato highway com­ gage, sweep out, clean switch lights The Pacific Baptist.
Leave Coquille at 6 a. m., arriving at Roseburg at 10 p. no. Fare $5.50
M a r s h f ie l d * O r e g o n .
is not first hauled over earth roads. missioners send speakers and in­ and spend about fifteen hours every
W anted : By Chicago wholesale
There are no statistics upon which formation concerning details on day in the year for the corporation.
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It was adopted without a dissent­ and mail order house, assistant man­
to base an estimate, but it is the good roads topics, When this dis-
belief of those who have given the cussion was begun a few years ago ing voice and is expected to pass ager (man or woman) for this coun­
E. G. D. Holden,
ty and adjoining territory.
Salary
matter much thought that the the opposition to the work was so the senate.
L a w tib .
$20 and expenses paid weakly; ex­
MRS. M. C. BOYRIE, Proprietress.
freight carried on railroads within intence that anti-road improvement
J tjstic * op th * P each
pense money advanced.
Work
Notice
U. S. Commissioner, General Insaranoe
the United States is greatly .exceed- associations were formed, due en­
pleasant; position permanent. No
Agent, and Notary Public. Office
! ed in gross tons by that hauled tirely to prejudice and misinforma­ Notice is hereby given that all Coos investment or experience required.
Fancy and Staple
County
Warrants
drawn
on
general
in Robinson Bnilding.
; over the earth roads.
Spare time valuable. Write at once
tion about the cost of improvements
road fund and endorsed prior to
Coquille
regon.
for
particular
and
encloee
self-ad­
The transportation expert of the and how it was to be met. The ways April 1, 1907, will be paid ou pre­
Groceries.
! Department of Agriculture—Mr. and means problem is still a ques­ sentation at mv office in Coquille dressed envelope. Superintendent,
132 Lake S t Chicago, 111.
i Frank Andrews— has recently made tion of s.riotiH importance, but as City, Oregon.
No interest will bo allowed after
COQUILLE RIVER STEAMBOAT C3 public same statistics he has gatb- the large and varied benefits are un­
W a n ted . — Man or boy to work
Nuts, Candies, To­
J. B. D nuxr.
j ered on the cost of market’ng farm derstood the work steadily progrès March 31, 1907.
Treasurer Coos County Oregon. on farm. Girl or woman for house­
1 products, which have direct bear- ses. State goiernments are becom­ Dated March 25, 1907.
work.
Write Julius Kruse, Co-
bacco and Cigars.
Str. D I S P A T C H
quille-Msrshfield route.
I ing on this feature of good roads. ing more and more interested in the
Deviled crab on-the-half-shell at
His researches cover hundreds of work, many of them taking half or
Tom White, Master
Attention Dairymen, Knowlton
Robinson’s.
Leave*
I Arrive«
counties
in
nil
parts
of
the
United
more
of
the
burden,
and
enabling
has a large stock of fodder corn,
B a n d » «....... 7 A-M. | Coquille. . . . 10 A-M.
.
fornitile....... 1 P-M. I Bando«
. 4 P-M. States, but pertain to only twelve counties to take a generous part of
Send your order to Land A beet seed, carrot seed, and Vetches.
Co nnecta at Coquille with train for Marshfield of tlie staple preducts.
Of
these
the other portion, eo that only twen- Lyons and get your goods delivered
and steamer K Aio for Myrtle Point.
twe!\e crops it was found that ty to twenty-five per cent of the cost PrompHy- We run our own delivery P^*The safe and reliable tiwn-
■ersw
nearly 50,000,000 tons were hauled falls diiectly upon the property
Str. F A V O R I T E
Foa S ale . A nice new four room
f^ T T h e New and Speedy,
from farm to market during the owner, and it would be far better if cottage and lot 55x100 feet in the
J. C. Moomaw. M uter,
Arrive»»
»yes
past crop year, at a cost of about public funds of the general govern­ north part of town. Inquire of E.
Ban don. . 10:45 a - m .
Coquille
7 A-M.
Coquille. 4:45 p-M. ♦85,000,000, or more than £~q per ment was devoted to the construc­ W. Gregg or at the H erald office.
1 r-M.
Bandoli.
C. r. Jensen, Master
cent of their value at the local tion of permanent highways in this
Nice residence, Eight Rooms
Will make regular trips between
market
If
this
traffic
40,000,000
and
bath
large
pantry.
Hot
and
country
sod
less
of
it
oppropriated
Str. E C H O
represented the weight of corn, to some of the objects for which it cold water up stairs and down, mod­ Coquille River and San
H. Jam*. Maeter.
LOGGING WORK
CARRIAGE WORK
wheat and cotton, and the cost of is expended.
Francisco.
ern conveniences. Nice barn and
Leave«
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Arrives
M yrtleP oiu t.. .7 A-n. ! eqoi’ le C y 9 SO a - m .
Ifo Stop-over at W ay Porte.
hsuling
these
products
was
$70,000-
One
of
the
interesting
sxperi-1
fruit
trees.
For
pries
and
terms
call
C< quille C i t y ..,I P-M. I M yil.e P 't.. 4 00 p-R.
*or Bargains In Buggies and Carriages come and examine our line we
000 The number of working days e- ments ip rosdbuilding was p er-'on V. R. W ilsox Coquille. Oregon, F.lectric Lights. Erei ry thing in First,
Daily except Sunday,
Class (tri
have th**best that money can buy at the lowest prices,
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&
Dr. Bancroft
SUNSET CITY
Two miles below Bandon.
A beautiful seaside residence plat fronting on­
to the Pacific Ocean with iull view of the big
water and the most westerly city in the U. S.
Lots on sale by the
Bandon Cooperative
Realty Company
Come Early and get First Choice.
Geo. Conger,
Livery
Best of Turnouts !
Feed and Sale
Stable
Hay, Grab
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Feed.
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Josh’s Place,
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ROSEBURG-MYRTLE POINT-
STAGE LINE
North Coquille Store
North End
Str. Elizabeth
¿Jjnrv Street Bridge.
S. H. McADAMS
Blacksmithing
£
Horseshoeing