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About The Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 1915-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1915)
3 The Ways of the Whale While the matter of whales is occ upying the public mind a few facts i regurd to this strange water animal jay be nst opportune. Authority r the statements made herein may v found in the works of W. A, llorna ay the naturalist. The largest whale known to man is found in the Pacific between the lino tf Southern Oregon and Central Am erica. This is the sulphur bottom tvhale which sometimes readies a 'ength of 95 feet. It is not as useful to man as the right whale of Greenland lut for size it is the largest animal which as far us the records go, ever lived on the earth. The great extinct lizards or North America were not as large us this whale. One specimen of the sulphur bottom .vlialc killed was 95 feet long; length f jaw bone, 21 feet; girth 39 feet; 1 nglh of longest whalebone I feet., weight of whalebone 800 lbs, weight of whole whale 291,001) lbs; barrels of oil 1 10; not a huge quantity of oil. From a bow head whale in the At lantic, 1)5 feet long. 275 barrels of oil nave been taken and 3,500 lbs of Iv.ilebone. itoughly Bpeaking, whales arc di vided in two great divisions, one with teeth andt he others not. In numbers the teeth class predominates although iu the most of them are small, dolph ins, porpoises, etc., their uumburs arc olfset by the bulk of the other class. The sperm whale is the leading rep re tentative of the wlulos, supplied with teeth. This makes it the most dangerous of the nnlnuils the whalers ek to kill. The sperm whalu will iiirn when attacked and large boats the whole Inside of the mouth. I In feeding the whale swims through a muss of floating ptcropods with its i moutii open and the fringe of the ba leen hanging down to the sides of the i lower jaw. This forms a perfect i strainer for catching the smallest ' creatures afloat. The ptcropods truth i or in a mass ut the base of the tongue und presently arc swallowed. When the mouth is shut the plates of ba lloon are folded within, diagonally. The whale finds its food from 00 to 90' feet below the surface and at ceding lime is comparitively easy to approach. The young of whales is called a calf and is given suckle until it is able to get other food for itself. The mother is very solicitous for her offspring. Seen at sea the whale has one of I the characteristics of an ice berg in that the bulk of its proportions is under water Usually nothing is seen of but the top of its back and a spout ing jet of steam. This last looks litfe water but is only the breathing of the whale. It is the expulsion of air af ter a long dive and is so saturated with moisture that it looks like a foun tain of water. When harpooned a whale sometimes descends 300 ft and lies iu the muddy bottom of the sea. The comfortable time for a whale to stay under water is 15 minutes hut in feeding it some times slays 25 minutes. When struck it will slay below as long as 50 min utes or an hour und 20 minutes. Off Newfoundland there are sta tions where whales are towed after capture und where every part of the carcass is made use of. The whales of the Pacific are the Sulphur bottom, previously described, the Pacific right whale found iu the iUmutta-iimui The trick seems to be: how to raise public funds without any body feeling iv Ar.,1 tnll tii truth it is not as! easy a matter as appears on its face. . S . . . i . . . A piCKpocKCl migm. give expeii. ica timony in the case. ' ... .. h I a . a ! I DO IT NOW! I ! ! i V 1 Just about the time ths hills und plains of the L'nst become frost bitten and covered with snow the benches and slopes of this const section of Or egon ussume their winter greenness. We are patiently waiting for some one to arise in meeting and suggest that the troubles of our marine trans portation of late has been caused by the railroad company which is anxious to make a tine comparitive showing when it opens for business next year. It isn't everybody that is willing to say u good word for Bandon besides the average tin horn boost which is barely worth tho wind that it takos to produce it. Hut let this fact be placed to her credit: thut in the face of lower ing values and incomes she had the courage to raiso her taxation for pub lic school purposes. are nomctinies crushed iu its power-'north Pacific, the California gray ml jaws. .Sperm oil is taken from the head of the animal and is regarded us es pecially valuable although no great nuantity is found in each animal. Although in appearance like u f ish the whale is a warm blooded unimal. It must come at Intervals to the sur face to breathe and its body is protect cd by a thick coat of fat or blubber which protects them the same as if a man had a coat of felt aji inch thick under his skin. They have no hair and the skin is as smooth as glass. The teethless whales are known as baleen whales from the manner wilh v uich the mouth of the animal is e-' i npped to secure its food. The baleen plates form the whalebone of com merce. Although the largest of animals I le hnlccu whales feed upon the sinnt 1 st form of animal life shrimp hue i.usticcuus and swimming mollusks, ijhell fish) which float iu myriads i aar tho surface of the sea. To enable the monsters to feed upon I icse very minute organisms and se nile them in a wholesale way the roOl' if the mouth is covered Willi two real masses of thin horny plates (of liuleboue) .set edgewise on each side i nil very close together. The lower tdges of these plates are frayed into what looks like coarse, bristly hair i ml these frayed edges unite into a weh of filament as long and as wide as whale found from the Arctic circle to Southern California.. This latter never exceeds 16 feet in length and is sav age and dangerous. No Parcels After Dec. 13 Under Present Una! .Schedule, Kilhuru On Thai Date Makes Last Trip North lleforc Christmas Some of the C. 11. pirates must opine that Santa Claus came into Coos this j O year with a disabled rudder. As for tiie rest of us, if he makes us the an nual visit it looks as he would have to J lloat in astride of u plank. , O There is another alluring feature in this preparedness program for the ud ministruiion. The tarilf problem is al lowed to take a back seat. About the most important thing that should engage the attention of the next legislature is the problem of mak ing the averago real estate speculator pay his proportion of the taxes. Now that wo have duly expressed our thanks wo can buckle down to the job of paying the freight by se lecting Christnms gifts. livery cent taken from the public I acIiiiiiIr wnulil tin doubled or trnbhled in a reduction of property valuations in tho city. We are not making any bets us to ' which will bo tho first to reach" Con stantinople, Germany or the Allies but we will Hazard the opinion that which ever does, will realize it has been somewhere. Since Coquillo has had a fling at the gi owing ot maize, the carnival next ye.ir should not over look an exhibit of corn led porkers. W II O P A V S An Optimist A man who owns a Fish Brand Reflex Slicker $3.00 when OKI Prob says rain. W'atcrfirocf, altsohitiiy Oi Protactnr lUt, 75 cent. Satisfaction Cuarantcal Sorol for catalog SCHiM"" i A. J. TOWER CO. II OS TON fn,Rl mm I 'I . r Unless the steamship Breakwater is put on tho run after the present trip of the Kilhurn, there remains but one more chance for persons to get their Christmas parcel post packages away before the Breakwater comec. Tho latest date will probably be about De cember 1!! and packages should be in Marshfield pggtofllcc at leasts .day or two days before that time. With only one boat on the run tnat carries mail, difficulty may be exper ienced gelling Christmas gifts in and out of Coos Bay and in fact the entire county. Now that tho Kilhurn is heading North, she will be unable In he bad. here fiom Portland before December ;! or 1 und it would take her ten days from this date, providing she is not bai bound or delayed anywhere to get back. She would lie unable to make another round trip (hen before Christ -nuts. Postmaster Hugh McLuin is urging the puoplo to get their Christinas pack-1 'ty. trying to get them to hibernate ngoH away early and dxplnks that the ' properly, explains that as they come parcels may bo marked plaii ly on the , soulh ()f Ule e(,ualor whore tho outside "Do Not, Open Before Christ- , . .. . . ,, . ' . . , .. .... I seasons are reversed they hnve a ten nis. This provides for the holding of . parcels that arrive before Santa ,,L,"C' to hibernate in the summer in Ch.us day to be held in abeyance, a 1 stead of the winter. Tho peculiar waiting the Yulelide. A lecent Oregonian has an item tel ling of the struggles of the keeper of ihree Gila monsters in the zoo of that thing about the story is that the Gila monster comes from Arizona and der ives its name from a river in that state If the keeper of the animal wishes to give it a home like- feeling he should keep it in an oven. The Work Thut .Must Be Done Hi v 1 1c Krp.urs and Krp.muig Phone 4'J I' O Box I M Sjiv ! dint A Spci i.illy S. D. Barrows IIANDON, Oltl'tiON Will lilriiiilm fix i.( ill I iml i ml 'iii- Mnlui I )rlr .I'" "'" Ku Uul Miilutt And again he asks thai everything be tied up securely as '.hero will be . many packages in the mails at this time. The same instructions issued from the postolllcc would also hold true for the Wells Fargo express as this fo , taken out via tho boats, though ex- ! press shipments may be miiile cither , it's not the work you d like to do, north or roulh, hoice there would bo . Tim work that pleases most, a chance of shipment after December Or represents the best in you, 13, oven if tho Breakwater does not Of which you really boast; come onto the win before that tiem It's work that's done from loyalty, Cong Bay Times j That means a triumph won; I ,, one's host work must ever bo Ft. Worth, Tox.-As the trap was Tho work thnt niust ,,0 llonUi sprung at tho execution of C. A. My- i is. the hangman's noose completely For ti,no aml iUo wait for no man .ovoivd the head from Meyer's body. I Al"1 n,,t,'ii clnol, ca" Stouifhton. Wis, Mrs. Sie:rid Ijir- ' m"K you do the best you can; ,on. '.15 years old. talked for the first. Ynu ivu yur he"rt nml a11! . . ... I Tl,,,,.l, ( ii. ,-t i r..ii r tunc over a telephone recently. Up; " " to two months ago she was .leaf, but Aml hi,,,1" 1)0 tl,e sun her heariim was rostored to hor sud-! T,, worl(1 wi" JuiK 'ou. apiars j,,ly By work that must bo done. 7" , What though the tack heartbreaking I I hough the Snntu Clam wreck was )u "punted" und later bui1.d, there are ()r J Mm wuHh ,h(J wlo7 do-on. of loud, of goods being daily Thu i)tei, c,own 60nletimes see (.iutr out or tun lonmlfung portions orjM,Bht rt,asm, in thg style. a i The interval of time betw een the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays is very short. As you near the latter date. Times seems to go much faster. Thanksgiving has past. Now remember, 'the quicker you deefde on your Holiday purchases and the earlier you do the shopping, the better the merchants' will be prepared to serve you. Let us now begin to show you desirable gifts in the following lines. L. S. and S. Bath-Robes and Smoking Jackets . . $5.00 and up G. and M. Sweaters for Men and Boys $1.50 and up "Ide" Shirts $1.50 and up Ide "Silver Brand" Shirts $1.00 and $1.20 Florsheim Shoes $5.00 and up "Collegian" Clothes and Overcoats ...... $15.00 to $30.00 ! o I a ! n 1 ! SEE SID WELL Many other articles of merit in Men's and Boy's Furnishings i IN ELLINGSON BLDG. I I ! ! ! I i a i I O i i a i a a i n ii conn na- was more than $05,000,000 iu 1S52. There was somo reaction in 185I, duo eo previous wild speculation, hut a production of about $50,000,000 a year chiefly from placer mines, was main tained up to J SOI. At first the gold was won chiefly from the gravels along the present streams. Those who first got posses sion of the rich bars on American Yu- ' Chapter 15G of the General Laws of chattels, belonging to the person, the State of Oregon for the year 1915, firm corporation or association charg I (a synopsis of which is given below); ,6(1 with such taxes, if he same can . nnd that said taxes will have to be bo found in the county, by taking them ' paid at once, that to enforce this law into his possession, to pay sucli deliu j will create considerable expense to ' qucnt taxes, together with interest, the delinquent tax payer. Wo are there accruing interest, penalties and other fore, giving public notice, iu addition 1 lawful charges and shall immediate- to the post cards previously sent out to each individual tax payer owing de- the hid and in tho wind. Mr. Barker His sorrows what lire they to you? ,of the Slmpaon ritni'li tool: out n nice I , , irovil0 10 fun. . .1 .j... ...i.i ... ....I...... i Kll'lll milM' WHICH Will IIMIUJUII'l.l oil ' Buy IUiImii . J'UltK DKIKJS Do you want pure drug und drug HiindriuH, finu pciTiimi'w, hair lirunlniK, nnd loilol ni'iidi' Jf ho call on ( V, I.OWH, HiiimIoii lUsun City, U. Tlility-two yuan old and inuiricd fiv Miimm Ii the iw ioid of Kind U'ut.-KHuJii-l'iimp-Juiiiy Hutch', who U uwlm uiinsl fur l.iKm l'uid i ii i if ;t U and irrtHVa Iw t'MMtf itu lUlikumeMaw far ttW- 'ryU if" Miimm iK. Ji j QpM And thus ho iloes, us you must do, Thu work Hint inust Ut done. ly advertise such goods und chattels for sale by posting written or print- ba, Feather and Stanislaus rivers and limpient personal property tax, so ed notices of the tinus und pluce of suiue of Hi" smaller streams iu the, that they may avoid this additional sale iu three public places in the coun heart of the gold region made at times expense. ! ty not less than ten days prior to such from $1,000 to $5,000 n day. In 184') I Section 2. That Section 3083 of sale, and if such taxes, interest and $500 to $700 n day, wus not unusual ' Lord's Oregon Luws, us amended by penalty shall not be paid before the luck; but, jn the other hand, the in-' Section 22 of Chapter 181 .of the Gen-j time appointed for such sale, tho tax come of thu great majority of miners 1 eral Laws of Oregon for tho year 1913 collector shall proceed to sell such was for less than that of men who sc- shall he nnd hereby is amended to read proporty at public vendue, or eo much riously devoted themselves to trade or I as follows: j thereof as shall be suflicic.nl to pay even to co.iimon labor. Sec. 3083. On or as soon as practi-1 such taxes, interest and penalties, ami The gold pan, the "rocker", the j cablo after the fifth day of October in shall deliver to tho purchaser thereof "torn" the sluice and tho hydraulic each year, the tax collector shall pro-jUt such salo the "property so sold to "giant" or "monitor', named in the! coed ti collect all tuxes levied in his them respectively, and such sale shall order of increasing efficiency W3re tho county upon personal property, which be absolute. In like manner he shall tools .uues'rively used by tlu miner.! have not been paid before said day, to- lovy upon nnd sell the goods and chat li.to the ".ocker" and the "torn" the' gothor with interest and penalty nf- tcls of any person or persons remov- miner th.veled gravel or "dir"', rock-, ter same has attached thereon. He ing from tho county without paying ing the n.f.cm'ne us he poured in water shall lovy upon sufUcient goods and all taxes charged against them. anil cii'ilnng tho gold, often with thi aid of quicksilver, on rifleb set across fhe bottom of his box. Sometimes a stream uus diverted into a flume to' lay bare the gravel in its lied so t'at j the miner could get at it. In sluicing' the pravel was showeled into u similar j but much longer box throup'i which a I jstieain of wuter was allowed to run.! The lycinulic gaint was empbyed to I wash Into "ng fflcsct sluice immense j j quantities of grnvel especially from) the higher 'Tertiary) deponis n uch of which was too lean to worl. out by Hand, water was brougtt to many j miles in dit-hcs nnd flumes from tht high Sierra and conducted under great head to a nozzle, from which it was projo.ul with remendoiii force u gainst tho grnvel. It wue the vast quantity ol refuso wiblu-d into the streams by these hyd.i ilir operations thut hi.iught about tho conflict mjween inhibit: nt ! ugririi'.i ..inl lniictH, finally ihii.hd In fuvor of he farmers Of hit ytuis the gold obluined from quuru mIii in Cullf'.n iu nun exceed - 1'iitHT discovi:ui:i cold Thu hUtniionlly Important illncov ..... ,,f .,..1,1 ii, C.li ,l ...u ......i.. i.. I . .. . Jmiuury, mu, ut John Huttur' mlll , on Mttiilli I'urk of Aimirlsun Mvur nnuri NOTfU TO TAXI'AVHHK (toMu, n (wliil mdy ll r i fiilliM Vmj urn IwvUy ituMM thut ull Ttlm,L"! ..T" Ht. Aur;vmuu)NAh I'ljoi'itury on wh..i tetm uiWl tw (Id. i,ij mr lH uul tnar, u M iwy - V N () J' A V Ji 1 m liutj into if H lulh tti w I, Bargain Offer! WEEKLY OUECJONIAN, ONE YEAR, .$1.50 BANDON RECORDER, ONE YEAR, $1.50 Hoth Papers to January, 1917, For $2.50 Address, Recorder Publishing (Co. Bandon, Oregon