DAILY COAST MAIL
L'J:
Vol. Ill
MARSHFIELD, OREGON, Thursday, January 7, 1904
No. 5
Daily Coast Mall
Entered in the I'ostufflca at Maribfield
ai Second Clan Matter.
COOS BAY PUBLISHING CO.,
P. C, LEVAR, F. X. HOFER,
Editors and Managers.
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DAILY: Ily mall, (or advance payment
only, 30 cent a month; 4 monthi for
3i.oo. When not paid in advance the
price ia 30 cents per month, straight.
Isaued every morning except Monday
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Iiaued Fvery Saturday. Terms: In Ad
vance, 91.30 a Year, $1,00 Six Monthi
This speclsl number rnirki the beginning
of the third year of the life of the DAILY
Co Asr Mail. While the daily wit started
absolutely without encoungement from the
people of Cool Bay, not one in a hundred of
whom thought it could live, we hive seen no
occasion to compliln of lick of patronage.
In fid, the subscription lilt is now conitd
rrably larger than we expected to get and is
having a steady and healthy growth, without
solicitation. While we are averse to nuking
promises, we think that we can assure our
patrons of a substantial improvement In the
paper in the coming year. The success won
has been by hard work, and we can promise
a continuation of that system, and that what
ever financial profits come will be devoted to
improving the paper, until Coos Hay has a
newspaper equal to its needs and deserts.
This number has been printed and issued
under the handicap of an inadequate equip
ment, but such as it is, It if entirely a
home product.
We have also worked under the disadvan
tage of taking up the work of another man
where he dropped it after monthi of delay.
A traveling specialist in this line started the
work. Our part was to do the printing, but
when he was disabled from an accident, af
ter working the write-ups and skimming the
cream, we felt in honor bound to carry out
the contracts for which he had made the col
lections, Our next special number will be
not only issued but instigated from this
office.
We wish to thank the business men
for the patronage accorded in the
way of advertising. It will be noted that
nearly every business house In Marshfield is
represented, as well as a pretty complete list
of the professional men. As a matter of
fact, advertisements hive crowded out some
of the reading matter, but thii state of affairs
did not develop until it was too late to get
the paper for more pages.
Over a thousand copies of this edition will
be sent to people outside of Coos county, and
to these we wish to say that this is not in
any sense a boom number. The descriptive
mstter republished from the Chsmber of
Commerce folder was prepared with a view
to presenting the advantages of this section
In such a way that no one coming here on
the strength of the representations made
would be disapointed at the reality. In
their endeavor not to overdraw, the gentle
men have, in fact, under-drawn, so thit a
much more glowing deicription could be
given with absolute truth.
It is beyond question that Coos Bay has
the brightest of prospects for a phenomenal
ly rapid development in the next few years.
The resources are here; the harbor is here;
and there are unmistakable signs that the
outside world is awakening to the situation.
There will be a city of 50,000 on the pe
ninsula enclosed by Coos Bay, within the next
ten years, and those who are on the ground
early will reap a harveit.
You will never have a better opportunity
than now for making absolutely safe invest
ments, that must bring profit. Coos Bay,
all round, is coming to the front. Get in
now and secure the bargains. We have them.
I. S. Kaufman & Co., Mafibfield, Or.
Railroad Proapocta
There has been railroad in the air of Coos
Bay for the past two years with increasing
signs of approaching precipitation. The
GreatCentral project for a road with a trans
continental connection at Salt Lake and a
terminus at Coos Bay was the first to attain
prominence in print. The activity of the
Santa Fe in its work of securing a line up
the California coast to Eureka, oInts to an
extension into the Oregon coast country and
lnryltabyto Coos Bay.
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The thing, however, which perhaps looks
the most encouraging for an immediate real
isation of our hope: is the fact that a force
of surveyors have been at work all summer
making a survey from Drain to Coos Bay.
From IS to 20 men are in the patry, but who
their employers are has not developed. That
their instruments are marked "S. P." may
or may not be a clue. Starting at Drain, on
the S. P. R. R., they have worked their way
down the Umpqua and are now approaching
Coos Bay at North slough. The survey it
thorough, a right of way six feet wide being
cleared and complete field notes taken. From
whatever source this movement emanates,
there is no lack of money to pay the expen
ses, and it has no other meaning than "rail
road". Marshfield
Marshfield is acknowledged to be, for its
slxe, one of the best towns on the Coast, if
not actually the best. It is the business cen
ter of a prosperous community, whose pros
perity rests on the solid foundation of lum
ber, coal, dairy and fruit production, all of
which are permanently on a basis of profit
and ready money.
In Marshfield there is more actual cash
businen trinssctcd in a year than in any in
land town of leveral times its size. It is
growing at a rate that keeps all dwelling
houses and business locations occupied.
Rents are comparatively high, as is always
the case in a live town, so that owners of
improved property are sure of a good return
on their investment. On the other hand,
wages and business margins are good, so
that good rentals are easily paid. In fact,
I this is a town where the penny is not in cir
culation and the penny-pinching policy has
not penetrated.
j Lying at the head of the best harbor in
800 miles of Pacific seacoast, its remote as
well sa its immediate future is assured, and no
town in America offers a belter location for
the investor or to one looking for a new
home.
Errata
By a transpoiitlon of figures in the School
article the enrollment is given as 396, where
as it should be 369.
No place in this whole country has better
prospects of rapid and permanent Growth
than the Coos Bay section. You cannot in
vest your money where big returns, and that
t soon, are more certain. We can sell you
houses, lots in Marshfield or North Bend,
dairy, stock, coal and timber lands, or acre
property at figures that will please you.
I, S. Kaufman & Co,, Marshfield, Or,