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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1916)
THE COQUILLE HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1916. PAGE EIGHT FROM EUGENE TO POWERS !” The New Railroad Passes Through Many Towns, Summer Resorts and Places of Interest —Terminus in H eart of Port O rford W hite Cedar Country tels and several churches and schools, (by John M. Scott, General Passeng toe ...lore of this lake. er Agent lor the Southern Pacilic i Here is excellent fishing on Lake it is located about eight miles lrom i aiikcmtch. AU of the country round ,i:e mouth of Coos Kay. lines in Oregon.) is heavily timbered, there is Marshfield adjoins North Bend on Eugene, home ui the University oi about me south and has a population of Oregon and county seat ol Lane coun excellent big game Hunting through- 4,000. Here is located the big Smith ty, is substantially built with good ut tins enure district. • which is probably one of the notels, neat business streets and line uardiner station is located on the null, ai.a of Smith Kiver, a short distance largest sawmills in the world. Across residences. Population, U,OOU. isthmus inlet is located the Smith 'the new branch line to the Coos aoore me comiuence of that stream •vast mill. Practically all of the Isay country leaves the main line at « the Umpqua, probably three- lumoer Side manufactured in these two this point. Prom Eugene to Veneta quarters of a mile or a mile. is shipped by steamer to San is Hat {arming country. Veneta to uaiuiner lias a population of 400. mills r i ancisco. Marshfield is a city of iSoti is some flat tanning country, i.oeateu on the north bank of Umpqua good The streets are but gradually changes to foothills of Kner, nine m'!es from mouth ol tnat paved appearance. and there is an excellent mod Coast Range Mountains. river axid a mile and a half west of hotel, "The Chandler,” and a mod Veneta is agricultural center and u&rdiner station, it depends princi ern apartment house, “The Myrtle luilroad station for Elmira, two miles pally upon the lumber industry, it ern Arms," three substantial banks und nas a nice hotel and a number oi cred north. substantial business houses, mercantile establishments. It many Noti, center of agricultural and log itable the Hill mine is located on a little is also the principal trading point for ging district, is near junction of Elk dairy ranches located along the Ump oranch line west of Beaver Hill Junc Creek, Noti and Long lom rivers, ex qua and Smith rivers. tion. This mine belongs to the South cellent fishing streams. ern Pacilic. It produces a low grade beautiful boat trip can be coal in considerable quantity. West of Noti you pass Horse Shoe A very from Gardiner up the Smith Coquille is the coutny seat of Coos Curve and Noti tunnel at summit of made the Coast Kange. This tunnel is 2480 Kiver tor about twenty-live miles, county and has a population of 1,750. feet long. We now follow and cross the scenery is very grand, and there it is located on the east bank of the ut intervals Cluckaliominy Creek, is excellent hunting and fishing. An- Coquille river and has a small saw W ild Cat Creek and, near the station ather very attractive boat trip is up mill. It is the center of a rich agri Austa, come to the Siuslaw, which ihe Umpqua Kiver to Scottsburg, cultural and dairying section and also twenty miles, or down the river nine is the principal shipping point for stream is followed to tidewater to the mouth of the Umpqua Pundon. It is twenty-eight miles At Swisshome on the south bank of miles and Winchester Kay. from Coquille to Kandon by river, the Siuslaw is a curious rock forma Winchetser Kay is at the mouth of small river steamers making the trip tion called "The Old Man Siuslaw." Scenery is excellent along the Sius (he Umpqua Kiver, sheltered by head in irom two to three hours. Coquille law. There is good fishing in this lands, and reached by boat from Gar has paved streets and electric lights, diner or Keedsport. An auto road two hotels, two banks and many sub stream and its tributaries. from Keedsport is under construction stantial business houses. Mapleton, at tidewater on the Srtis- and completed will be three Myrtle Point, population 1,300, is law Kiver, is center for dairying, fish miles when by road from Keedsport. A de the center of a dairying and agricul ing and lumbering. seashore resort, excellent tural section. It has a hotel, two Cushman is the railroad station for lightful nshing and abundance of clams and banks, quite a number of general and Acme, Florence and Ulonada. crabs. specialty stores, paved streets and Acme, population 200, is located on Wie norm oank of the Siuslaw Kiver Keedsport is located on the railroad electric lights. At Myrtle Point you or Kay, a mile or mile and a half from at the south bank of the Umpqua Kiv strike the Smith-Powers logging road, Cushman station. Communication er. It is a new town which has been which runs for eighteen miles up the with Cushman is by boat. lias a established since the location of the South Fork of the Coquille River. small sawmill and creamery. De- line. There are quite a number of Powers is a new town located on pends on dairying, fishing and some nice looking general mercantile the south fork of the Coquille River stores. Depends on dairying and fish in the heart of the Port Orford or lumbering. white cedar forests. It has a popula Florence, ^population ¿00, is located ing. on north shore of Siuslaw Kay, about r rom Keedsport south the road fol tion of about 1,500, several good- lcur miles from Cushman. Commun lows Scofield Creek for some dis sized stores, and a small bank. It de ication is by boat. Launches make tance, then passes through a couple of pends entirely upon the Smith-Power-, run in about thirty minutes. Has a long tunnels and comes out into the legging operations. In this region, .sawmill, hotel, two newspapers, bank lake region lying between the Ump and for many miles south in Coos and and several general and specialty qua Kiver and Coos Kay. It first Curry counties, there is said to be stores. Depends on agriculture, prin strikes North Lake, then Ten Mile some very wonderful forests, princi Lake. These lakes much resemble pally Port Orford white cedar. cipally dairying. Glenada, population 100, is located the lakes between the Siuslaw and the Kandon, population 2,000, is located at the mouth of the Coquille River. < n south bank of Siuslaw Kay directly Umpqua. opposite Florence. Depends on dairy Lakeside station is located close to Here are located several sawmills. Ten Mile Lake. Here is located a | The city depends upon dairying, log- ing, fishing and some lumbering. Leaving Cushman the line follows summer resort colony, made up prin I ping, lumbering and shipping. Sever an arm of the Siuslaw Bay for sever cipally of Coos Bay people. There is al small coastwise steamers call regu al miles, thence through several tun a lather large hotel here, as well as a larly at Bandon. It has a couple of nels until it finally emerges on the couple of stores and quite a number hotels, some new business blocks, shores of Tsiltcoos Lake. This is a of cottages. There are summer cot j \ aved streets, electric lights and a beautiful lake. It is three or four tages scattered all along Ten Mile life-saving station and lighthouse. The miles wide, and probably tea miles Lake and North Lake. North Lake leaches adjacent to Bandon are justly long, surrounded by heavily wooded and Ten Mile Lake are famed fishing I famous. 1 There are some fine dairy ranches rolling hills. The railroad winds ! resorts. along the shore of this lake for many Coos Bay is crossed on a mile-long located along the Coquille River and miles. Three stations are located on bridge. The bridge is of steel con along the Coos River, which empties the lake shore—Lane, Ada and Booth. struction, provided with a draw which into Coos Bay opposite Marshfield. Ada is the point at which we receive is operated by an 80-horsepower gas- There is a good deal of development travel to and from Westlukc. Excel ' cline engine, and can be opened and along the same lines on the various closed in a very few minutes. The sloughs and rivers in that district. lent fishing. Westlake is a summer resort, lo . ridge is fitted with automatic block The principal mode of transportation Is by gasoline launch. cated directly across Lake Tsiltcoos ] signals. from Ada, and right at the outlet of North Bend has a population of Empire is located on Coos Bay 1 2,500. Here are located several saw about four miles from North Bend. the lake. Lake Tahkenitch is so close to Tsilt- mills, a eneer plant and shipbuilding Has a population of 100 and was coos that their arms seem to j*in. plant. It Is a very nice looking city formerly the county seat. It has a The railroad winds in and out along with paved streets, comfortable ho sawmill and two canneries. Reliable Abstracts Made a-: Very Reasonable Prices 1 .1 PKIMINIi COHN IN COOS COUNTY is as important as good parentage in live stock. The farmer was im- piaesed by what he heard and about determined to buy some seed corn from the O. A. C. on the county ’ By H. I I. Bushnell, in Oregon Farmer advice, but his wife inter Man is the only creature who lives Smith hud displayed in his office win- agent’s fered. She thought it foolish to pay nnd enjoys himself in every portion dow. 12 cent3 a pound for seed when they cl the globe. He inhabits the frozen , "Yes,” said he, “corn does fine here had seed that they had always grown. regions of the north, the humid trop- if we have the right varlties and prac- Mr. Smith said no more, but finally ics, the deserts, the forests, the sea- lice proper seed selection. The best the farmer did take his advice. He shores and the mountains. Ills com- verities for this country are the ones bought proven seed, planted and cul p&nion the one animal which has which mature eurly, of course. I tivated it and entered the corn con hardihood enough to follow his foot- have found the Minnesota No. 13, the test. With 10 ears from his field he steps from jungle to glacial ice—is native white and Coos County Yellow won $20 in cash. For the best bushel the dog. And there ought to be a Dent do well. The northwestern ot corn he won first prize again, third, this time some plant, to com f moky dent does well, too. The early which was an order for a lady’s suit, plete the trinity, which gives life, Canada flint and King Philip are also so now both the farmer and his wife grown and mature well. companionship and sustenance. are enthusiastic boosters for good It would be u remarkable plant "We have increased the acreage of seed corn. that could endure such extremes of corn in this county more than the Considerable difficulty has been temperature. No single plant can acreage of any other crop, but the found in deciding on rules for judging follow man, of course, but there is fields are small, naturally, the fields corn. For a square rod in the field one which conics cloRe to it. It is of averaging only about five or six acres the weight of the stalks and ears is tropical origin, bom to grow in the cadi. The largest corn field in the then the number of stalks, the hot, wet lowlands with sweltering county that I know of contains 28 taken; number of ears and the weight of the cays and nights. And yet this plant acres. ears. From these figures it is possi has a versatility as great in the vege ' We have stimulated corn produc ble to arrive at an accurate and fair table world as the dog in the animal tion by contests and the business men basis for decision. The average world, und will tlourish in more ex end the county court have lieea gen- weight of the whole corn, including treme climates and varying condi tious in the way of prizes. Among in the Coquille valley last year j tions than any other we know about. the prizes offered are round trips for stalks, was about tons to the acre. The j three boys and three men to the farm a'-erage in 32 This plant is maize, or corn. the Coos Bay section was I was told when 1 first came to Ore ers' week at the O. A. C., a silo, a tons to the acre, but the corn was thousand feet of tile and the like. gon that corn would not mature here perhaps not so mature. A yield of 60 lut I d«colored that both sweet and All of the prizes have been worth tons was the highest judged. Esti field corn would mature if the right while, and at our fair, when the corn mates in bushel yield were also very varities were planted. In spite of show is judged, it has been a feature. tool nights and short growing season Silage corn does splendidly here and satisfactory. "While we can raise good corn as the yields will surprise you.” corn will mature. grain,” Mr. Smith, “we depend I recall Dr. Withycomhe speaking Mr. Smith told an amusing story in it for said silage chiefly. That is our to the dairymen of the state at Tilla in connection with the introduction dependence. also raise some al mook several years ago. He was ask of corn among some of the farmers. falfa on certain We soils some districts ed about corn In Tillamook county Oi man whom ho visited had been r.nd the stand is good in anil yield and ho said that he did not think growing corn for some years, but excellent. However, alfalfa the it would mature in -•> cool a climate, without any astonishing yields. He general crop in the county.” is not a Tli- good doctor was soiaowhat over- took Mr. Smith out to look at his come when somebody brought In a cod corn and asked him what he The Record says: The local products committee has arranged to have a fine stalk of corn about 12 or 14 feet high, thought of it. display of seasonable vegetables and bearing three well matured ears. Wouldn't Have It Around. fruit at the time of the jubilee ard And so with mo when I went to Co- "Well,” said Mr. Smith, “I don’t have wiitten to the ranchers advising of the wants. It is proposed to j quille valley. Coos county might 1«- want to he rude, but if you ask me I them pay market prices for everything pur- : a remarkable county, but corn was wouldn't have it around I w,ou!d not chased on display. The deliv- | the last thing I thought of until I saw 1 plant it in n field of mine," and then erics are and to put be made so that everything the collection County Agriculturist I I k went on to eixplain that good seed will be fresh. * The Title Company Coquille, Oregon ^ ÿ. J. Conrad Marshfield Office 201-202 Coke Bldg. Free Information Bureau J. S. Barton, Manager OPPORTUNITY :0 [= = ] “OPPORTUNITY knocks but once” is an old and dis- proven saying. Opportunity is continually knocking at the door for the man who is ready to grasp the chance she offers. The man with a bank account is always in a posi tion to open the door when the knock comes and reap the results. How often do we hear the statement: “It is a good thing, if I only had the money,” and the man without the money is constantly letting the good things go because he cannot hold them. Tighten Your Grip—Open a Bank Account. I ! [0 p THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK - COQ.UILL3, OREGON % :a i= =i a: 0