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THE COQUILLE HERALD.
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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walteU fur „ )mlf i,our without results,
„ onder what makes tUe waiters
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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. Spo
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