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. TELEPHONE, MAIN 451. 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 WKKKLY 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. L; 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,