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About Semi-weekly Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 1910-1915 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1914)
ft Semi-Weekly Bandon Recorder, March 20, 1914 iiiniiniiiiinminiiiiiiiiitniimiiiiiniw f I DO YOU KNOW ! l The City Market has the most up-to-date Sausage Kitchen in Southern Oregon Having just installed modern machinery to facilitate turning out tempting, juscy sausage. The City Meat Market Geo. Erdman, Prop. Phone 193 f T I BANDON TRANSFER LINE t Gatchell Brothers, Props. ah hinAa nf lmiiw niifl lipht draviner. Phone orders riven prompt aiicniion. .Barn corner First & Edi- TO:K T-nnn.4ir Tnlnnhnna 41 . : loll -l IWllwi -J a. ii vm. ..... ) - Got Any Time To l Spare? Use electric appliances for the household work and you will have time for other things. Let us demonstrate them to you BANDON POWER COMPANY W. E. STEINOFP THE HARNESS MAN A new supply of suit cases, trunks, shopping bags, robes, etc., etc. Readers of the Bandon Recorder, and Friends: Special Bargains in Farm Lands and City Property s?s SQUARE DEAL REALTY CO. ABSTRACTS Bandon Branch Office of TITLE GUARANTEE AND ABSTRACT CO. Ik'iny SuiiKHtiickun, Mki. In MuNttir Hardware Building, in charge of I'. II, POOLE J'tMHiplM" Kttlahllll) cmmmmmmmifimmmmmmmmmmma MKrS W, W, WOLFE iwHAH im ur PIANO PURE DRUGS Do you want pure drug and drug sundries, fine perfumes, hair brushes, and toilet articles? If so call on C, Y, LOWE, Bandon Hotel Bandon;; iind J. 50 per iln ' Jmhuiikiii j'liiu, room Industrial Review Itrrtit of Intret Copcerning Th Doing of the Entire State Sulcm. Or., March 19. Goo. Gcis- 'ndorffr. and experienced box man ufacturer, lias started a- big box fne- ,ory at Bandon. Lane county manufacturers have ulnnted resolutions favoring the use of Oregon building stone nnd Oregon made Steele on public structures. Steel for the $800,000 Southern Pa cific bridge across Coos Bay is being rushed to the scene of construction. Drewscy in Harney county is to be the scene of an electrical develop ment and an electric railroad. Smithfield, Lane county, farmers are agitating for a cannery. A lanrc sand and gravel plant is being installed at Shady Point, near Suthcrlin, with a spur lrom tno sou thern Pacific. Albany's city council has adopted resolutions looking to acquiring a municipal light and power plant for that city. J. M. Eddy and associates have or ganized a company to operate a basalt rock quarry on Kentuck Inlet, North Bend. The Oregon Power Company will ipend' $10,000 on a new fuel plnnt at Eugene. AH industries will be relieved in Oregon by the decision of Judge Mc jinn allowing semi-annual payment if taxes. Twohy Bros, of Portland will cm- oloy 400 men building the Echo-Coy' ite cut-off of twenty miles on the 0. V. R. & N., to cost $800,000. Oscar E. Heintz has contracted to build a five story block for the Blake McFall Paper Co. of Portland, lOOx 00 feet. The five large shingle and lumber plants at Raymond, Wash., have de cided that the 1500 men employed by them shall work under open shop rules. Clackamas county will, build a steel bridge at Burton"ovcr the Clack amas river and install a rock crush er at Sandy. Gutherie, McDougal & Co., of Portland have the contract for con structing a large section of tho Pu get Sound and Willipa Harbor R. R. T. J. Scammon of Goldcndalc is starting a large private fish hatch overy plant in the Ten Mile region near Coos Bay. A new cannery to cost $10,000 and a new "high school are planned for this spring at Springfield. Proposed laws menacing to indus trial development in Oregon are tho $1500 tax exemption and the taxa tion of properties of over $50,000 of decedents for a fund for the unem ployed. The Eugene flouring mills have run steadily since il895 without a shut dow and turned out' $1GO,000 of pro duct in 1913. Construction of tho Gold Hill ce ment plant has gone on steadily since work was begun January 1st. A suit to tost tho ' Oregon Blue Sky law is being pushed up to the su preme court for an early decision. Tho Baker Packing Co. is putting in a $4,000 automatic refrigerating plant. Eugene Christian Scientists are planning the erection of a now church Tho Corvallis & Eastern will re model its station at Toledo and ex pend a largo sum on improving yard facilities. The Dallns Planing' mills have add ed a furniture manufacturing de partment. . Durkeo, Baker county, is to be the site of a million dollar cement plant. R. A. Harris informed the Salem ministerial union that minimum wa ges and eight hours arc to be follow ed by state imploymcnt of tho unem ployed. The Peoples bank of Silverton will bo remodelled. Caples & Co. will build a fino brick block at Forest Grove. Tho Eugeno suwer system is to bo rebuilt In the next four years. Tho Rosoburg Browing & lee- Co. has a contract for icing cars, that necessitates doubling tho capacity of their plant. Plans um completed for u Cariuiglo library at Hillxboro, CoiiHtruction of a railroad from l'rliii'villo to Metollus Is to begin thin month, CHEAT SALT LAKE PRESERVES TIMBERS (From Forest Service, U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture) In rebuilding a railroad trestle re cently burned along the north shore of Great Salt Lake, engineers have just found that the piles are perfect ly sound after 43 years of service. Looking for the cause,since these were only of local pine and fir, they found the timbers were impregnated throughout with salt from the lake. At another point on the lake, 18 inch piles, sot 29 years, arc similarly preserved with salt which has pene trated to their very center. Tim bers in the Southern Pacific trestles across Salt Lake, placed in 1902, ap pear to be as good as on the day the piles were driven. They have been preserved well above water line by tho salt dashed on them by the waves, a fact apparantly anticipated by the engineers who built the trestles. The first transcontinental tele graph line, built before the railroad, extended west from Salt Lake City through the prosperous mining camps of Eureka, Austin, and Virginia City When the railroad was built, tho tel egraph line was transfcrcd to follow it's right of way nnd tho old poles sawed off at the ground. An engin eer who recently examined the butts left in the ground in the salt desert near Fish Springs found that, altho fifty years had passed since the poles were cut oft", the old butts were per fectly sound. Telephone and electric companies in the Salt Lake valley have used the local salt for preserving polos When set up, about 75 pounds of salt Is placed around (he pole on the ground. This method cannot be us ed, however, when the pole is on or near a lawn, or in any place whore vegitation is desired. It is pointed out that the reason why the waters of th Salt Lake act ns a strong preservative, as distin- guished from the ocean waters, is because the lake water is so mnch saltier, being practically a saturate of no use in ocean piling against the attack of teredos and other marine borers. Experts in the forest service who have been investigating the preser vative treatment of timber offer the suggestion that ties and poles which have been immersed for some time in tho waters of tho lake ought to be imprevious to the decay if tho salt is not leached out by the action of tho elements. It has been suggested that this can be guarded against, for example, by painting the butt of tho pole with a coat" of creosote which will keep out the moisture, and keep in the salt. A . D. Mills Real Estate Fire Insurance Notary Public Rentals Good Lots in Azalea Park, $25 Down and $10 per month. Bargain in Business Lot on First Street. Order Your Freight Sent hy the Old Reliable S. S. ELIZABETH Large Two-Berth Outside State Rooms With Run ning Water. Eight Day Service Between the Coquillc River and San Francisco. FIRST CLASS PASSENGER FARE, $7.50 FREIGHT RATES, $3 ON UP FREIGHT i Reservations: J. E. Norton, Coquille; Perkins', Myrtle Point; E. B. Thrift, Langlois. J. E. WALSTROM, Agent, Bandon J'or Con lily (,'ltrlv, A li llojiul)llciil, I luiruby ihio mytit'lf it k u dttiiilliliilu fur Um huiiiIh Hllon ut tho priinuriiw U) lift hwM Muy 16th, fur Hut oIIImi of Count (1tl. If I miii nonitmilH ii lid wlwuud i will tiurtiiK w If rin uf HW (iw ail lu lw)Utl(lHIMU "tul tJutii W)HU- imI w mmmamUf a i mmmMjjmJ m mm mum m ' tmf mi mtlm . if i INFORMATION CONCERNING THE BROTHER JONATHAN F. B. Tichenor formerly of Port Orford but at present a resident of Seattle, writes to tho Port Orford Tribune relative to tho loss of the side wheel steamer, Brother Jonathan which writers have heretofore stated went down off the northern Califor nia coast, in the vicinity of Cresent City harbor, in 18G5, carrying $1,000- 000 in gold. Mr. Tichenor says: "I have in my possesion a manu script handed down to me from my grand father Capt. Wm. Tichenor, one of the eariy sea captains running between Snn Francisco and Portland. 1 have never made public tho con tents of this mnnuscript. My fath er kept the secret up to the time of his death. In the early days it was tho intention of my grandfather to try to securo the wealth that went down with tho Brother Jonathan. It was understood at tho time that the government would only nllow about $10,000 for tho finding of tho gold. "I am giving you the following in formation simply to protect thoso who will probably squander several thousand dollars on false Informa tion. "The Brother Jonathan did not sink off the California coast, but tho bottom of tho ship fell out off tho Oregon coast. Tho upper part of,the vossol did not sink but floated for ma ny dayti. The plunging of tho vessel, bucking a strong north wind drove the contents of her freight through bur bottom unil an eye wittnexs to tho affulr guvo tho information to my grandfather, iih Jiowuh wutdilng tho veuMil when the iicciilent took place. would ho tin trouble In loritu the tiiinloiiU of tliU viwmiI during the miiuiiier iiiMMtlm, UN Ihi' biid of tln odMin l of u uuiiiuiit foriiiutloii unil (lie wify wihiIiI not b wvuml with miu, mid j hid willing Ut kIvo uny tjwt I Imu, M I Will Mvtr IdilM Iktf Ji'j'r!iii!lUiii ytntidfUf fM u mmmeto Equipped with wireless S. S. BREAKWATER ALWAYS ON TIME SAILINGS From Portland Every Tuesday at 8:00 P. M. Fro"ni Coos Bay Every Saturday at Service of the Tide. I Confirm sailings through M. F. Shoemaker, Bandon t K PHONE 142 Hotel Gallier Rates $1.00 to $2.00 per day. Special rates by week or month Sample room in connection Bandon ::: Oregon TTTTT fTVI VTTTVTTVVTi V'l'rVTTV VVVVT V E. T. WOLVERTON II. C. DIPPEL Coos County Means Opportunity See Bandon First 'k DIPPEL & WOLVERTON CHOICE FARM LANDS AND CITY PROPERTY GUY DIPPEL FIRE INSURANCE NOTARY PUBLIC RENTALS BOOK-KEHPING CONVEYANCES REAL ESTATE FARM LANDS INSTRUMENTS AUDITING ACCOUNTING BANDON :: :: :: :: OREGON FIRST STREET, OPPOSITE POSTOFFKJE DO YOU USH YOUR TELEPHONE TO ADVANTAGE? WHY NOT It is cheaper to talk than to travel. We have toll stations in Coos and Curry counties and connect with the Bell system at Rosoburg. COOS BAY HOME TELEPHONE CO. Automobile ancl Machine Work Bring your work to the (j'jiriigi :iud Miichine Shop, Kverything done will) ncsiiiicwi iind diKpat'b. AjjMit for Huirk Automobiles M. D. 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