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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1909)
V o l . 2 6 : No. 4 0 . Entered a« Heeond-claas matter May 8, 1905, at the poatoffice at Coquille, Oregon, under act of Congress of March 3,1879. DR. RICHMOND PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office at Slocum’s Drug Store. C oquillk , O regon . Offioa Phone Main 123. llesidece, 62'. A. F. Kirshman, D k n tist . (jffioe two doors Sooth of Post ofiloe. Coquille . - . Oregon. Dr. C. IW. Endicott D entist Office on Front Street Phone Main 431. Coquille, Oregon J. J. STANLEY LAW YER Martin Building • Front Street C o Q U I L L H , Q b e OON A. J. Sherwood, A ttobsbt at - L aw , N otabt P u b l ic , Coquille, : : Oregon Walter Sinclair, A t t o r n e y - a t - L a w , N o t a s i P u b l ic , Coquille, : : Oregon. Hall & Hall, A t t o b s b t s - at L D enlet aw , in H b a l E s t a t » of a l l k in d s . Marshfield, Oregon. E. G. D. Holden L J u st ic e aw tbb , or th e P eace 0 . 8. Commissioner, General Insnranoe Agent, and Notary Pnblio. Office in Robinson Building. Coquille regon. List Your Property With STUTSMAN & COMPANY BEAL ESTATE Office Front St., Opp. Hotel Coquille CLAUD STUTSMAN, Mgr. COQUILLE, - OREGON Incorporated. Manufacturers of The Celebrated dergmann Shoe The Strongest and Nearest Water Proof shoe made for loggers, miners prospectors and mill men. 621 Thurman Street P o r t l a n d , O regon . Robinson's store has just received a tew line of embroideries, in nan- sook swiss and cambric, also tuck ing and froiting for waists. COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, W E D N E S D A Y , JUNE 9, 1909. The Wagon and the Road. The subject of good roads has often beeu discussed and written up from various points of view, but it is a sad fact that very little has been accomplished. From the best figures obtainable it appears that but about eight per ceut of the pub lic highways of this country are what can be called improved. The agitation for good roads has not been general and has not brought about results in any sense approch- iug the importance ol the matter. Our thoughts have been largely directed to the railroads, freight rates, passenger rates, service rend ered, etc., and we have given some attention to our waterways, with movements on foot which un doubtedly mean a great improve ment in this direction. The im portant part that railways and waterways play in the develop ment and commerce of our country deserves attention, but the impor tance of our wagon roads should not be overlooked. When we stop to think that all our agricultural products as well as a large part of the products of our forests, mines and factories are moved over wagon roads, we real ize in a general way the magnitude of the matter. The prevailing opinion among residents of cities is that road conditions concern only the farmer or ihe automobilist. Peo- do not stop to consider that the tremendous necessary cost of trans porting materials throughout the country is shaped and paid for by everybody, no matter whether he be a farmer or a resident of one ot our cities. Whether a farmer is hauling a load of produce to town, or a city resident is having a load of coal hauled to his home, the con dition cf the highway in each in stance ts a factor in the cost, and the consumer iu both cases must pay his share of this cost. The relation of the entire people of a state to road conditions has been recognized bv some of the states, with the result that some states will not pay a portion of the cost of road improvement in any local community within the state, leaving the balance to be paid for by the local community and the property abutting on the road. Even the railroads are interested in good wagon roads; they are called upon to move the crops of the country through a period so limited that during certain seasons of the year they are taxed to their utmost to furnish the necessary equipment, while at other seasons a portion of this equipment is idle. This undesirable state ot affairs is aggravated by the condition of the roads. The farmers try to haul their crops to the railroad stations while the roads are good. When the roads are poor less can be haul ed, and when bad often nothing at all. This means that freight cars stand idle on the side tracks wait ing for the crops which cannot be hauled till the fickle weather chooses to make the roads better. When the roads become good again, freight blockades may result from the abnormally large receipts, or, what is more often the case, there are not enough cars, owing to the period of idleness caused by bad roads. Because of the limited period when the roads will permit haul ing, and the shortage of cars thus caused, a greater number of costly grain elavators are needed for itor- age. If our crop movement could extend over a longer period more of the products would be stored on the farms until they could be haul ed conveniently, and the entire crop movement would be more constant and regular, requiring less railroad equipment and fewer elavators. Another evil effect of the stoppage of the crop move ment, du * to bad roads, is the op portunity it affords to speculators to manipulate prices, causing great and harmful variations. Rad roads injure us in many other ways. Take such a simple thing as the milk supply for a large city. It has been observed that milk shipments are made from points where the roads are sufficiently good to en able the dairymen to regularly meet trains, while other localities in the same district cannot engage in this traffic because road condi tions, at times, are such that can not possibly handle the products of the dairy with any degree of certainty and regularity. The farmer often loses a good market, owing to the conditions of the roads, and his products may de teriorate in quality while his ob liged to hold them, I have been in the state of Texas at a time when the farmers were utterly unable to avail themselves of a fair cotton market because of their inability to move their cotton the railroads. Such things as this impress us with the part traffic interruption plays iu causing irregular aud er ratic prices, and make us realize that the prices we pay for products which are hauled over the public highways are materially affected by road conditions. If the statistics existed which would show the loss to farmers due merely to the greater cost of trans portation over bad roads, the figures would be enormous. This loss, while apparently falling on the farmer alone, through its influence on prices is shared by all. If. to this loss, falling in the first in stance on the farmer, should be added the similar loss of wagon transportation from the mines and forests, in the cities, and in haul ing meichandise from the city to the country, the result would be colossal. It has been estimated that over three million farm wagons are in use in this country. It is safe to say that at least half a million of these wagons are used lor three hundred days in the year. If the value of the services ot the driver and the use of the team of horses, wagon and harness is estimated at $ 3.00 per day, we have an annual cost for transportation by farm wagons alone of $ 150 , 000 , 000 . The statistics collected by the Depart ment of Agriculture iudicate a cost in the old countries of Europe, where the roads are good, of 12 cents per ton per mile, and in this country, where the roads are bad, a cost of 25 cents per toil per mile. Even allowing for the lower wages paid in Europe, the cost of trans portation by wagon over the roads is neaily twice as much here as there. In other words, so lar as re gards transportation by farm wag ms, good roads would effect an annual saving of over $200,000,000. If to this saving we add the annual saving which good roads wculd ef fect in transportation by wagons other than farm wagons, we have a sum which is enormous. very generally used on agricultural implements. Its use on wagons has commenced and bids fair to soou become general. The object of the good road is to minimize lesistance to moviug ve hicles, mostly frictional resistance. Frictional resistance can also be minimized by mechanical means in the vehicle itself. Such a mechan ical device as roller bearings at the axle will give a great saving addi tional to that of good roads, a saving ol draft power estimated to be all the way from 25 per cent to 50 per ceut. The use ol mechanical means, when wheels which are not dished are used, is simple and inexpensive. The saving to be effected by good roads can come only after the ex penditure of immense sums of money. A great saving by using mechanical means to reduce friction can be obtained at once at a trifling expense. This saving even with the poor roads we have would amount to millions of dollars an nually. If good roads with the ancient sliding iriction bearing at the axle will save the people sever al hundred million dollars annual ly, roller bearings which will en able the same horses without great er exertion to draw loads from 25 to 50 per cent heavier will save an additional amount far more than sufficient to pay the interest on the national debt. J. L. H e c h t . Davenpott, la. “I have used Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and find it to be the best on the market,” says E W Tardy, editor of the Sentinel, Gain- bora, Tenn- “Our baby had sever al colds the past winter and Cham berlain’s Cough Remedy alway gave it relief at once and cured it in a short time. I always recom mend it when opportunity presents itself.” For sale by R S Knowl- ton. --------- ---- $1.50 P er Y The Tribune. G. R. HENSLEY E. S. DEAN Isam Walker was in town Mon day. He will, we are informed, start for Humboldt with another band of cattle iu about two weeks. The Elizabeth poked her nose in to port the first of the week, but as j DEAN & HENSLEY, Proprietors. there was a southerly breeze blow-! ing she went on to San Francisco W e have a nice line of Groceries. without tying up at the wharf. Henry Colvin has built a hand We sell as Cheap as the Cheapest some little sea boat, and is now put- j We will Buy anything you have for Sale. ting in a gasoline engine. He and V e want your Vegetables, your Chickens, your Eggs George Forty will gather M urr! We Pay the Highest Market Price. eggs, kill sealion and hunt otter We are here to Stay. this season. Deputy Sheriff Eugene White j filed attachments upon the belong . . . . W e W ill T reat Y ou R ig h t. . . . ings of the Port Orford Orchard Tracts Co. at Crittenden last week, and work at the new town has been PHONE MAIN 5-6 COQUILLE, OREGON suspended. We are informed, how- j ever, that the company, having un dergone a reorganization, has com menced paying off its obligations aud will be iu sh a p e to resume work in the near future. C. A. Phelps, who is operating a blacksand machine of his own in vention on the Cape Blauco beach, is making a success out ot the en Lard, terprise and recently cleaned up 6 ounces of gold and 8 of platinum in Hams, a three weeks’ run. He advertises We Carry Bacon, a 2 horse-power gasoline engine for sale iu another column, as he in Sausage, tends installing a larger one. Capitalists from Seattle, coming Fresh and Salt Meats. in via West Fork, are now taking hold of the rich copper mines on We are headquarters for everyth ing in the meat line. Your Collier’s creek and the lower Illi wants always receiues prompt attention. nois river. The ore will be taken down Rogue river in boats and thence shipped to Seattle while they are developing the extent of the mines, which, if they prove ex tensive as they promise, will then erect a smelter at the mouth of the Illinois, where coal can be had. Most of the copper ore in Curry is rich in gold and silver. The People’s Market piONEER MEflT MAIftET COQUILLE VALLEY PACKING CO. Sound Ring Telephone on Moving Trains. Intelligence from Omaha, Neb., is to the effect that Dr. Millener, the electrical wizard of the Union Pacific is working upon a wireless telephone system that he hopes to have installed upon all the lines of the Harriman system west from Omaha. He has beeu given carte blanche and has the preliminaries well in hand. Copper wire will be laid along the track and in the baggage car will be a high frequency machine with power furnished by the en gine. This will agitate the sound waves and instruments in the gen eral offices will gather them. By signals flashed along the line at tention will be attracted, after To save the vast amount an which conversation will be as easy nually lost by reason of bad roads as on the ordiuary telephone. will require the expenditure of great amounts of money for the con Men past middle life have found struction of roads. This cannot be comfort and relief in Foley’s Kid done in a day. It will require ney Remedy, especially for en years. But the mouey thus ex larged prostate gland, which is very common among elderly men. L E pended and the money expended in Morris, Dexter, Ky., writes. “Up keeping such roads iu repair will to a year ago my father suffered be one of the most profitable in from kidney and bladder trouble vestments ever made by a civilized and several physicians pronounced it enlargement of the prostate gland people. and advised an operation. On ac Given a good road, then keepidg count of his age we were afraid he it in good condition becomes the could not stand it aud I recom problem. Some vehicles are so mended Foley’s Kidney Remedy, and the first bottle relieved him, designed that they are most de and after taking the second bottle structive to the road. To prevent he was no longer troubled with the injury ol good roads it is wise this complaint.” C J Fuhrman. to require that the wagons should New Counterfeit $ 5 Bills. be suitable for the roads. Wide tires help to make good roads Washington, June 2.— A new where the lop surface is yeilding, counterfeit $5 silver certificate has while the narrow tires quickly de come to the attention of the Secret stroy them. When the surface of Service Bureau. It is the series of the road is hard, the wider the tire 1899, bearing an Indian head, the less the injury, provided the en and is a photo-mechanical produc tire surface of the tire rests on the tion printed on bond paper ot good road. Unfortunately the wcod quality. According to Acting wheel, in general use today, is nec Chief Moran of the bureau, the poor essarily made with a dish, the effect character of workmanship on the of which is to cause only the outer Indian head should be the means edge of the tire to bear on the road, of detecting the counterfeit. The if it is unyielding. It the road is color aud workmanship of the blue soft the outer edge of the tire cuts | 1 seal numbers and large numerals into the ground until the entire sur are excellent, the back of the note face of the tire has a bearing. The being especially deceptive. distance it must cut in before the entire surlace has a bearing is Many remarkable cures of stom slight, and broad tires on dished ach troubles have been effected by wheels improve soft roads, though Chainberlaiu’s Stomach and Liver not so much as though the wheels Tablets. One man who had spent j over two thousand dollars for medi- were not dished. A wheel without ¡cine and treatment was cured by a any dish, such as a steel wheel,! , few boxes of these tablets. Price, and with entire surface of the tire 5O cents. Samples free at R 8 resting evenly on the ground is Knowlton’s drugstore. ear Of In terest t o F arm ers and M e ch a n ic s Farmers and machanics frequent ly meet with slight accidents and injuries which cause them much annoyance and loss of time. A cut or bruise may be cured in about one third the time usually required by applying Chamberlain’s Line- Headquarters at Marshfield. Coquille Branch at Big Ware ment as soon as the injury is re house. FRED TRUE in charge. ceived. This linetnent is also val uable for sprains, soreness of the muscles and rheumatic pains. There is no danger of blood poison ing resulting from an injury when Chamberlain’s Linement is applied before the parts become inflamed and swollen. For sale by R S Oils, cleans and looks after his ponderous Knowlton. locomotive every few hours. In the little deli Washington, D. C., June 4.— cate watch there are wheels which make more Through a decision of the Comp revolutions than those of the fastest train and troller of the Treasury rendered on do it day after day. Is it not reasonable the appeal of Representative Haw that these little wheels should be attended to ley, the army engineers will be able occasionally. Let us do your work for you. to utilize the unexpended balance of the Coos Bay jetty appropriation ALL WORK GUARANTEED of $22,000 in operating the dredge iu Coos Bay. The comptroller con curs in Hawley’s argument that the legislation authorizing the use of this money for dredging in the harbor was in effect a reappropri- tion and there! ire the funds are available up to June 30 , 1910 . The chief of engineer will telegraph the local officer instructing him to con tinue the operation of the dredge in Coos Bay until the channel wotk is completed. Flour, Our Friend, The Engineer This will not inteiest you if you R. i. SHINE.flat Praa are worth fifty thousand dollars, A. J SHERWOOD Pres. but if you are a man of moderate L. H. HAZARD, C*»hler 0. C. SANfORO, A»»t. Cuhler means and cannot afford to employ a physician when you have an at tack of diarrhoea, you will he pleas ed to know that one or two does ol OF C O Q U I l i U H , O R B O O f i . Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy will cure it. T r a n s a c t s n G e n e r a l B a n k i n g B u s i n e s s This remedy has been in use for many years and is thoroughly re liable. Price 25 cents. For sale by R S Kuowlton. R. (’. Dement, A. J. Sherwood, National Bank o Commerce, New York City FIR ST N A T IO N A L B A N K A Corking Story o f our Navy, by Robert Dunn, the well-known w ar correspond ent, with pictures b y R e u t e r - d a h l , the man who threw such a scare into the naval authorities last year; six other fine stories of assorted kinds; four arti cles that mean things, two of which were written for the spe cial purpose of saving you mon ey ; bright, crisp humor— all bound in a stirring Memorial Day cover— that’s the L. Harlocker, Isaiah Hacker, L. H. Hazard, R. E. Shine. Crocker Wool worth N’l Bank, San Francise First Natl Bank of Portland, Portland. Everyone would be benefited by Price taking Foley’s Orino Laxative for constipation, stomach and liver $20,000. trouble, as it sweetens the stomach 200 acres timber land, price $ 15 0 0. and breath, gently stimulates the 45 acre well improved ranch, price liver and regulates the bowels and is much superior to pills and ordi $ 4500 . And other bargains in property. nary laxatives. Why not try Fol ey’s Ovino Laxatives today? C J ¡Call on Ncathery A Gregg. Fuhrman. * -----—- Big Bargains. 180 -arre ranch, all bottom. Many of our citizens are drifting | towards Bright disease by neglec- : ting symptons of kidney and blad der trouble which Foley's Kidnev JU N E EVERYBO D Y’S Remedy will quickly cure. C J Nor Sale By Collier A Getty t j Fuhrman. * ♦ ----- - New line of white linenB, butch er, embroidery or round thread, india, fronting, flaxon, and hand kerchief, also brown and blue in dress linens at Robinson’s.