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About Western world. (Bandon, Coos County, Or.) 1912-1983 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1915)
The Official Newspaper of the City of Bandon CHRISTMAS NUMBER-FIRST SECTION WESTERN A 6 AN DOH x’ 7* -43 WHERE PRODUCTIVE SOIL AND TIDE WATER MEET VOL. IV WORLD LUMBERING, MINING, DAIRYING, STOCK RAISING BANDON, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1915 NO. 4 .---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- A Community of Many and Diverse Resources $20,550 Spent in Municipal Improvements in 1915 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ / » Dairying a Leading Industry Band'n. local.d at the mouth of it is supported by tlie dairy indus the Coquille river, is a seaport on the Southern Oregon coast in Coos coun try. Being naturally adapted for ty, 350 miles north of San Francisco ■ cows, that industry has developed and about 300 miles south of Port ' more rapidly during late years than I any other. The bottom land along land. It is the gateway as well as the the river is so rich that onj acre will commercial and industrial center of keep a cow the year around, while the Coquille valley and northern Cur the hill lands make excellent graz- ry county, which section constitutes i ing. Green grass grows practically an empire by itself, peculiar for its the year through, and the absence many and diverse resources. The fu of snow or severe weather in winter ture prospects of Bandon are far and excessive heat in summer makes I renter than those of the average sec other conditions ideal. Cow testing tion, being based on the following associations have been formed in ev ery community and the dairymen are facts: beginning to specialize in registered Timber Supply Unlimited It is accessible to an unlimited sup stock. There is much land available ply of commercial timber, being the for this industry and the people en- natural outlet for a large part of the fiftj billion feet of stand ing timber in Coot county and of great bodies situated in northern Curry coun ty. It is the center of the largest belt of the famous Port Orford white cedar in the United States. This wood is considered su perior to all cithers for the construction of ships, railroad cars; and for railroad ties, thousands of which arc being shipped ever) month; telegraph and telephone poles, fence posts, match wood, etc Sir Thomas Lipton builds his yachts ol Port Orford white ced ar. Other woods are Douglas fir. white fir, spruce, hemlock, myr tle and red cedar. Choice Manufacturing Location It is a choice loca tion for manufacturing affording water trans portation, coal for fuel, timber and its by-pro ducts. At the present time there are I courage newcomers in this line. It three large and several small saw requires a little money and some mills, several planing mills, box fac | hard work to get started, but it tory, two shingle mills, veneer plant ! means positive success. and broom handle factory, woolen Stockraising Profitable mill, creameries, machine shop, iron I Its vast acres of timbered lands foundry, ice factory and various oth skirting and covering the hills, offer er plants. There are unlimited op possibilities for stock raising, which portunities here in many lines, the owing to the mild weather at all sea sons of the year, can be conducted only requirement being capital. on a minimum scale of expense. Vast Coal Deposits Soil is Productive It is the natural outlet for the vast coal deposits, which as yet have only Its agricultural lands are rich for been touched. Coal mining has al all farming purposes Practically ways been considered a leading in anything grown in a mild climate dustry and possibilities for future de can be successfully grown here. The velopment are wide. The coal fields low lands produce abundant crops in this county extend north and of grasses and vegetables. In the south about fifty miles with a maxi marshes cranberry culture is becom mum breadth of 15 miles. It em ing an important industry, while on braces about 30b square miles. While well drained soil experiments in gin there are no large mines in opera seng and golden seal are proving tion, the extent of the coal field is highly profitable. On tlie hill lands, so great that there is opportunity for thousands of acres of which near much development. The northern Bandon are suited to this purpose, part is intersected by Coos Bay and apples and small fruits can be culti the southern part is the territory vated on an extensive scale. It is through which the Coquille river real farmers that this section wants j flows and gives the place special ad first of all. Cheap logged-off lands vantages, as there are few places in are available, small capital and a de- | the world where coal can be mined sire to work being the only requi so close to tidewater. The coal is sites to success. (•real Mineral and Oil Prospects of lignite variety and Is good for domestic use. It is sold extensively Its surrounding hills and its beach in Portland and San Francisco and sands offer prospects for unlimited ; is used by many river crafts. Steam mining possibilities. Gold (placer1 ers are now making regular trips and quartz I and platinum have been from the Coquille river to Pacific produced in large quantities, while coast cities, carrying coal mined at indications have proved beyond a the Riverton mines near Bandon The doubt ‘.he presence of vast iron fields coal is sold in outside cities for 15.- also copper, sine and some iridium, 50 per ton and retails at home for a very rare metal Coking coal has |5.00 per ton. The mines are on the been discovered, as have deposits of river and tlie cost of mining is small clay, arsenic, limestone and a natu- ; A Future Summer Rewort ral cement. More mining and pros- j It has the most picturesque beach pecting is going on this year than i on the Pacific coast, offering oppor ever before. Prospects for oil are tunities for a great summer resort. also good, and various companies are The beach is lined for six miles with now carrying on development opera beautiful rocks and reefs, forming a tions. Government geological ex- • vast playground with fine cottage perts have reported indications of oil sites. The cool summer climate and In various sections tributary to Ban ocean breezes are already attracting don. many from the heated interior, who Government Support« llarlsir spend the summer camping on or It has a deep sea harbor, support-, near the beach. Numerous lakes and ed by the government, and by the small streams adjacent to the city 1 taxpayers through the Port of Baa- offer pleasure In plenty to the fish don. At the present time $300,000 i erman, and farther out the woods | has been spent in improving the har- ; and mountains abound with both 1 bor and river. Coastwise steamers * (Continued on last page. 1st section i ; large and small game DO YOU BELONG? -TO BANDON If you like old Bandon best, Tell ’em so! If you’d have her lead the rest, Help her grow! When there's anything to do Let the fellows count on you! You'll feel bully when its through Don’t you know! If you want to make a hit Get a name! If the other fellow’s it Who's to blame? Spend your money in the town, Where you pull the shekels down; Give the mail concern a frown— That’s the game! If you’re used to giving knocks, Change your style! Throw bouquets instead of rocks, For a while. l/:t the other fellow roast, Shun him as you would a ghost, Meet his hammer with a boast And a smile. When a stranger from afar Comes along, Tell him who and what we are— Make it strong. Needn’t flatter, never bluff, Tell the truth, for that’s enough, Join the boosters—they're the stuff, Let’s belong, —to Bandon! Twenty thousand five hundred «nd Fifth, street and Ninth street. Cost fifty dollar«, in round numbers, is of the repair. $122.50. Contractor. the total of expenditures for muni W. H. Webb. cipal improvements made by th» City Keser Improvements of Bandon during the year closing Sewer district No. 8 -Garfield ave and that at a time during which in nue from Fourth street west to Cross dustry was at Ils lowest ebb through street, consisting of an eight inch out the country and the always con sanitary sewer, complete with the current retrenchment cry at its property laterals. Total cost to the height. Two of the projects are yet property owners. $377.36. Work to be completed, but the last work done by the city. will come within the 1515 docket. Sewer district No. 3—Consisting of Oregon Avenue Planked a 12 inch sanitary sewer, in Balti The largest project of the year has more avenue from deep water of the been the improvement of Oregon Ave Coquille river to Second street east; nue from Wall street to Thirteenth a 10 inch sewer on Second street street by W. H. Webb, at a cost of eaHt from Baltimore avenue to Ore $12,495.19. An 18 foot roadway of gon avenue; an 8 inch sewer on Wall four inch plank, wooden sidewalks, street from Oregon avenue to Ban curbs and gutters are called for in don avenue; an 8 inch sewer on First the specifications. Nine of tlie elev street east from Baltimore avenue to en blocks to be improved ure now Bandon avenue; and an 8 inch sew ■omplete and open for travol and rep er on Alabama avenue from First resent an outlay of $6,545.70. Com street east to Second street east; to pletion of the remaining two blocks gether with ull tlie property laterals Is problematical. The work consists at a total cost to the property owners >f a heavy cut through the crest of of $4,806.01. Improvement Is now the bluff from Fourth street to Wall completed to the amount of $3296.96. street that is necessary in order to Contractor. W. H. Webb. secure the grade planned. The Cath Water Department I niproveineiita olic chuch, the west boundry of whose Water lines From Ninth street property the cut is to follow, has se west from Franklin avenue to Har cured an injunction against the work rison avenue, consisting of a 4 Inch and until this has been finally thresh Matheson pipe laid by the city at a ed out in the courts the work will cost of $198.00 for installation, the be at a standstill. pipe having been bought from the Another line of improvements, Bandon Water company and includ which this year brought as a new ed in the original purchase price of item to the city, is the water works. $48,500. All of these water depart Due to the fact that bonds have been ment Improvements were done by the sold for the permanent improvement city at day labor. of tlie system, nothing beyond what Grand avenue From Tenth street was absolutely necessary for tlie to Eleventh street 2 inch wood line. maintenance of tlie service was done and the totHl improvements diaburse- Cost, $58.45. TelUli street wuat From Jackson ■nonts in this dcpaTtnienr fell nfhund avenue to Kensington avenue 2 the $2,bill) mark for the year. One item of interest to be noted Inch wood line. Coat, $7 0.75. Ninth street west From Frank Is that for nearly 5<( per cent of the lin avenue to Douglas avenue 4 Improvements the city was its own inch redwood pipe. Cost $179.28. contractor and the work was done Fourth street West From Ore inder the direct supervision of City Engineer .1 S. Sawyer, whose list of gon avenue to Cleveland avenue Improvements for the year 1915 fol 6 Inch redwood pipe. Coat, $334.26. Oregon avenue From Thirteen low: th street to Eleventh street 4 inch Street Improvements Oregon avenue From Wall street from Eleventh street to Fourth to Thirteenth street; consisting of street west, six inch redwood pipe. grading, b I x foot wooden sidewalks, Cost. $1999.86. Cleaning of reservoir No. 1 (Com curbs and gutters, and an eighteen monly known as the Big Reservoir! foot by four Inch plank roadway sur face. Total cost to the property own $99.87. Cleaning of reservoir No. 2 (Com ers of $12,495.19. Improvement is completed from Thirteenth street to monly known as Little Reservoir!, Fourth street west, at a cost of $6,- $34.90. Total water department expendi- 545.70. Contractor. W. II Webb. Baltimore avenue Slide. between I tu res for Improvements, $2,975.37. A Few Facts About Coos County Coos county, of which Bandon is i lie second largest city, lias an area f 1,628 square miles, or about one third larger than the state of Rhode Island, and resembling that state in the extent of Its waterways. About 1 me-seventh of Coos county's area, lining In the extreme northern and .out hern portions, is a national for est. There are also about 20.000 acrcB of unappropriated government land in remote parts of the county The entire balance of the county is in private ownership and nearly all of it has, at one time been heavily timbered, Leas than 20,000 acres in the entire county is actually under cultivation. Probably one-third of the acreage of the county, when cleared of forest and brush, can be tilled. The balance will always be most valuable for re-forestatlon. The county ranks second In the state In dairying, second In lumbering and fourth in apple raising It hss a population of approximately 23,000, of which 80 per cent are American born. Southern Coos and Curry counties, which Includes the country south and directly tributary to Ban don, Is principally a dairy section at thia time The bottom lands are cut up into fine dairy ranches, as Is much of the hill land which has been cleared But there la much more land now being cleared and put und er cultivation than at any previous time, and there arc many good op portunlties to build up productive ! ranches, as the land can be obtained on very reasonable terms. A num ber of creameries and cheese far- I torl<-w are operated there the great- •er part of the year The average value of logged-off land per acre Is $15 au<l the average cost Of dear ing that land is $60 per acre. The soil is very similar to that In all sec tions of Coos and Curry counties, having an underlying strata of sand stone, rich in lime deposits