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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1916)
V THE COQUILLE HERALD. PAGE TW ELVE BANDON DISIRlBUill IffllH FOB NATURAL WEALTH Located on Deep Water Harbor and in Midst of Section Rich in Timber and Coal, where Grass Grows Throughout the Year and Every Agricultural Product of a Mild Climate Thrives Bandon, like the other cities of Coos county whose development has been retarded by the lack of trans portation facilities in the past, olfcrs a virgin lield for development at the hands of capital and men. Resour- «es are present on every hand, al most unlimited resources, practically untouched. Because of its location on the only iKtp water harbor between Coos Bay ..id Humboldt Bay, in northern Cal- iiornia, Bandon is naturally the dis tributing center for a rich territory 1 lg er than some of our states. It lies midway, or almost so, between tlie Columbia river and San Francis co, being dUO miles south of the for mer and 350 miles north of the lat ter. The town was established in 1373 by Lord Bennett, who brought a colony of settlers from his home in Bandon, Ireland, and established a settlement at what was then known a the Ferry, on the south bank of i r Coquille river. From this meager si art the town has grown into one of t i most important lumber manufac turing and shipping ports on the Ore gon coast and today has a population o! over 3000 people. Its bright out- look for the future is based on the following facts: Bandon is the natural center of •peration for logging, milling and t hipping of a large part of the fifty billion feet of standing merchantable timber in Coos county, as well as h.ige bodies in northern Curry coun- t . Tributary to it is the largest ., It of l'ort Orford cedar in the world. '1 lis is the wood which Sir Thomas I, pton uses in the construction of . yachts and which is considered uperior to all other varieties in the construction of ships, railroad curs and railroad ties, of which latter nearly half a million are shipped from Bandon every year. Tele phone and telegraph poles, fence pests, match wood and broom handle material, also of cedar, make up many a ship's cargo during each month. However, it is from Douglas fir, white fir, spruce, hemlock and red cedar ti at most of the lumber is manufac tured. During a normal year the three large mills along the river and the smaller plants situated back in tlu weods will average to cut about 35,000,000 feet of lumber, practically i ll of which is shipped to San Fran cisco and other points along the Cal ifornia coast. Lumbering operatiens alone furnish employment for over 1000 men in Bandon and the imme diate vicinity As a manufacturing center the city ha an ideal location, with low water tiansportation rates to the market centers of the coast, vast supplies ot coal for fuel right at Ijpr door and an abundance of raw materials at hand. Besides the plants which are turning out rough lumber alone, there are located in Bandon three planing mills, a box factory, two shingle mills, a '•n eer plant and broom handle fac tory, woolen mill, creameries, ma chine shops, foundry, ice plant and numerous other enterprises. Coal, large deposits of which run ning north and south through the center of the county, are bisected by ihe Coquille river a few miles above Bandon, figures prominently among the exports o f the city. According to government surveys the coal fields in the county extend southward from Coos Bay for a distance o f about 50 miles and reach their maximum breadth of 15 miles in the Coquille valley. While thousands of tons are shipped from mines along the river to Portland and San Francisco, by way of Bandon, the industry is still in its infancy, only three small mines being in operation on the river at this time. The coal is a lignite variety end well suited to domestic use. Be cause of the fact that the coal is carried direct from the mines to bunk er:- on the river over short tramways and there loaded into vessels, the cost of mining is small. Second only to lumbering among the industries is dairying, which is TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1916. carried on expensively in the lower Coquille valley and on the wide coast al plain south of Bandon. The coun try is particularly adapted to this in dustry and iu growth during the past few years has been rapid. There is practically no snow or cold weather during the winter and the summers are cool. Glass grows the year around and preen feed ia always abundant. Cow testing associations have been formed and the dairymen are beginning to specialize in regis tered stock, while silos and modern machinery are supplanting old fash ioned methods. ’Though it takes a little money to get a start in dairy ing and the work is hard, success is sure to those who watch details and the profits are large. There are thou sands of acres of good dairying land to be had within a few miles of Ban don and, for the most part, the prices asked are very reasonable. Also because of the mild climate in this section, stock raising on the legged-off hill lands is profitable. The agricultural lands are rich for all farming purposes. Practically any thing grown in a mild climate can be successfully grown here. The low lands produce abundant crops of grasses and vegetables and in the marshes cranberry culture is becom ing an important industry. On the hill lands, thousands of acres of which near Bandon are suited to this pur pose, apples and small fruits and ber ries can be raised on an extensive scale. On all sides o f Bandon mining is go ing on. From the black sand depos its platinum and gold are being taken in paying quantities and several plac er and quartz outfits are working pay pay dirt in northern Curry county. Prospects for oil are good and several companies are carrying on develop ment operations. Government geo logical experts have reported good oil indications in various sections tribu tary to Bandon. Bandon harbor, one of the best on the coast, is supported by the govern ment and the taxpayers through the Tort of Bandon. Close onto half a million dollars has been spent in im provements to date and more work is to be done as soon as the survey (now under w ay) is completed. Through this port the Coquille valley and other portions of southern Coos and prac tically all of the Curry county trade passes. Besides the boats which now ply in and out o f Bandon to Portland and San Francisco, the extension of the Willamette-Pacific railroad down the coast will add another link to the city’s transportation facilities. Here are located the Coast Guard station and government light house, two hotels and several boarding hous es, establishments representing every line o f business, public library, mu nicipal water works, electric lfght rigs- PLAYGROUND OF IHE MASSES IN THE SURF AT BANDON • _•____________ fc > ______ Most Beautiful and Picturesque Beach on the Pacific Coast, Embracing Almost Every Type of Seacoail Formation, Offers Every Seashore Recrea- 1 tien Found Elsewhere, and Others To the 6,000 or 7,000 visitors who are coming to the Railroad Jubilee Bandon not only extends its welcome, but to each and every one o f those who are seeing Coos county fo r the first time she sends a personal invita tion to visit and become acquainted with the most beautiful beach on the Pacific Coast. In the years before the coming of the railroad Bandon Beach has been known as the playground of South western Oregon. Today, by the magic of rail connection with the transpor tation arteries which tap all of Ore gon, Washington, Idaho and Califor nia, the number o f people to whom she may cater as a summer resort has be come tenfold enlarged and the slogan of the city by-the-sea is widened to “ Bandon, the Playground of the Pa cific Northwest.” Confident in the old adage that “ seeing is believing” and placing her trust for the future in the gospel spread by satisfied vis itors, this little city at the mouth of the Coquille river has a welcome for all who enter her gates. Locally the name Bandon Beach is applied only to the two or three miles of picturesque sea coast stretching away southward from the jetties at the mouth of the Coquille river. This is the spot which Victor Murdock des cribed as, “ the most beautiful beach I have seen in my travels over the world. Outside of the Jersey coast of France, I have seen nothing to com pare with the natural beauties you have here and even that world-famed resort must bow its head to Bandon beach.” Backed on the inland side by bluffs rising abruptly to heights varying from 25 to 125 feet above the sand, the beach here is from a few yards to a quarter o f a mile wide. In some places these bluffs extend out into the surf and the dashing waves beat against their base at high tide and low. For the whole length o f the three miles huge rocks, some grouped together and others standing alone, appear as ssntinils guarding the ot a crisp and invigorating e iif^ coast. Year in and j ear out the curling morning, or raking the deep pools whitecaps rise and recede against around the rocks for crabs to really these boulders, completely covering get into the mood of the beach. And, the smaller and lending sheets of after the long, full day there is the tpray to wash the tops of the larger cheerful gathering around the big ones. Nature has been the sculptor, driftwood fire to smooth away cares but the never-quiel waves have been and troubles which, unbidden, force the tools which have carved away at their way into your mind. It is the these rocks until some of them are campers, sleeping, waking and eating wonderful in their representations, ir. the open that carry away with such as the giant face o f the Sphinx them memories as bright as the ag rock. Way out in the first line of ates that they pick from the agate breakers seals bask in the sun on the 1 beds. To leave Bandon without a smaller rocks, while thousands of 1 souviner agate is a crime, for they are muir, sea gulls and other water fow l scattered over the pebble beaches by seek out the security of the ragged the thousand, to be had for the pick- islands as a place for the nests in I . ing. which to rear their young. For bath Southern Coos county and the coast ing the beach itself is ideal. N o peb legion o f Curry county, for which ter bles mar the smoothness of the hard- ritory Bandon is The commercial and packed sand and the slope into deep social center, bears the reputation of water is so gradual that there is no being one of the most fertile game dapger of one getting in beyond their sections of the country. Deer, bear depth. cougar and wild cat are plentiful in Bandon Beach offers everything in the brushy fiats of the coastal plain the way of seashore recreation that is arfd the unbroken wildersess o f the to he found elsewhere, besides a few upland sections, while hundreds of exclusive attractions o f its own. Ilert geese and ducks await the shotgun ar deep sea fishing from the rocks and jetties for perch, rock cod, ling, hali tist along the streams and lakes. In all, Bandon beach is approxi but, sea trout and other salt water species is not a game of "watchful mately 15 miles long and embraces al w aiting;” good catches are the rule most every type of seacoast formation rather than the exception. During known. To the great cellestion of the season salmon and trout make the natural attractions the people of Be n- Coquille river and its tributaries a (.on have added amusements and ar paradise for fishermen, while hard- tificial comforts for those who do not fighting mountain trout are plentiful care to “ rough-it.” Modern cottages, in the upper reaches o f the many lit furnished and unfurnished, are for tle streams whose outlets meander rent during the summer months, pret across the beach into the ocean. ty camp sites are plentiful and the Lakes, separated from the ocean bj hotels offer good accomodations at only a narrow strip of sand, offer an reasonable rates. Direct auto stage opportunity for a lazy dip in the surl lines over good roads connect Bandon with Coquille, on the Willamekte-Pa- followed by an invigorating fresh wa cific railroad 20 miles inland, and ter plunge. Only those who pitch their tents in Marshfield, 32 miles away. Fast and ent of the many delightful camping comfortable boats also connect with the Willamette-Pacific at Coquille spots can see, feel and fully appreci i.te this wonderland o f Southwestern r.nd the trip down the beautiful Co Oregon. One must be out on the quille river will not soon be forgot- ✓ beach after clams during the low tide ten. plant, eight churches, two banks and standard in every particular and an a weekly newspaper. The education accredited high school is maintained. al facilities are unexcelled. The cen As a city of homes Bandon ranks high and many beautiful residences have tral, or High School building, is a been built during -he last few years. modern 20-room building, built at a _ . _ cost o f $40,000 and equipped up to the Q u ite E asy. latest ideas in school furnishing, while Mother (annoyedi-l don’t see. Elsie. the $20,000 Eastside building is of how you can be Bo naughty. E lsie- still later construction and fully as Why. mamma, it isn’ t a bit hard.—Boa complete. The course o f study is ton Transcript P la in as D ay. | They [,ati ordered dinner and had walteU fur „ )mlf i,our without results, „ onder what makes tUe waiters ,n tLlg p|Bce so thln aml huu|fry look- ing?” sbe remarked. “ I suppose it is because when they ; d t down to eat they are waited on by the other waiters, he replied. 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