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About Daily coast mail. (Marshfield, Or.) 1902-1906 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1904)
a North Bend, the Manufacturing City W,XZWVw'WVVW wt raJuiatai" UKm)t aKri1 im nr year, lias itrvrloprd In- l to one of ihr forrmoit towns not only in Coot Hay, hut in Southwestern Oregon. Un- lUniM'llll In thr ablr management ot Mr L. J Simpson, thr pr id inavor, the growth o! North Hrnil has tirrn simply plirri'irnrnal. One year ago ih lownsitr was a hum oi brush ami timber, today ynu olortvr a bust ling Cily o( about 1200 proilr New Hangnr, wliich attained celebrity last year ai tlir future tciminui of a trans-continental railroad, from Salt Lake Cily, Utah, through central Oregon, via Koseburg, and to Coos Hay. In 1902 the original town of North Hend consisted of thr Simpson Lumber Co.'i sawmill and thr homes of the employee!, numbering about '100; of Yarrow, consisting of half a dotrn dwellings nearer the bay, the landi surrounding them brin); a fomt of fir and underhruth; and of Porter savwm'1, then lying idle, the surrounding lands hting alto covered with forest Adjoining the Foundry Is the Sash and Door Factory, of the North Bend Manufac turing Co., an extensive building with two Immense dry kilns. This Industry fills a long felt want, and employs 75 hands. Next to the Sash and Door factory and lying on the cily wharf, is the immense plant of the North Hend Woolen Mills, which has just commenced operations and will run night and day. This mill has advance orders sufficient to keep It running night I rnd day for over two years, and will manu ' tacture ail kinds of w:olens and "mploy KSkkkkkkskkkkkkLskkkkkKcfKH'''''' 'aW'i 3?!r:feuA.s3MfllHIBH NORTH HEND THE MANUFACTURING CITY hous's arc springing up as if by magic; An enumeration of thr principal industries arrets arr graded; churches and schools already established will Indicate the solidity built, slorrs, warehouse and manufactories of the foundation on which the prosperity of 3ir finished, In operation and under thr thr tiw town rests. ptoorss of construction. I Just wit of MarshfMd, along th? wsstern Thr cmpiratr lllmils of the nrw town rm- line of Com Hay at the village of Porter Is brace what were formerly called North ihesou h-ni boundary lin-, and a! tlu' point IVaU, Yanow and Porter, lying adjacent to is the Simpson Lumb-n Co. plant No. 2, em- rach other for a distance of about our milr ploying about 150 men. along thr shore of Coo Hay and about two North of this plant is the site of the Fouii- miles north of Murshheld. Adjoining thr dry and Machine shops, a new undertaking Inwriiilr on Ihr west is thr lovwuile ol to give work to 50 men. from 200 people upwards. Last but not least is the Simpson Lumber Co.'s plant No. 1, located in the north part of the old town site of North Hend, giving em ployment to about 100 men and shipping by the fleet of vessels lying at her doc's, lumber to all par's ot the world. In the city of Norfh Hend there is at prot ein in the course of construction a Catholic hospital to cost $25,000, a banking house, the largest general and department store in the state of Oregon and a commodious hole containing 120 rooms. mm; I ,- "- - A - mm7 J" -A., .i. twSKk& 4JaJHbaw-. .7jSsSKKiuc PORTER MILL
