The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-09-10
COOS
COUNTY
BOOMS
Its Bright and FlOuriShing
Capital City on the Bay is
Lively.

MARsurIELD, Sept. S.--The business
prospect is flsttering at present and the
town lie gradually growing. Every avail
able man is at work Of some kind, and
is hard matter to get an empty
house, and there are no idle store build
inQs for rent. All business men seem to
Lave plenty Of businesP. The strike has
been somewhat hard ON shipping here,
az longshoremen have refused to handle
freight until things have been settled in
San Francisco. Vessels here have been
hampered and all loading and trimming
has been done by pickup crews.
I The bay has been quite lively the past
week, and today there were several
81, ners in. The South Portland, Of
New York, the Arcats, of San Fran cisco,
the Brunswick, OF San Francisco, the
Signal, also from San Francisco, besides
there are two new schooners lying here,
receiving their rigging and cargo. There
are several smaller schooners now load
ing with lumber. ALI this makes things
lively.
Captain Reed returned from San
Francisco on the Arcata and will imme-
diately begin work on large four masted
bark, one OF a contract foe six, all being
about 100O-ton ships. This means en-
rloyment for large force of men for
over year. A new schooner lies at the
wharf nearly loaded with
products of this vicinity. Another
lies at North Bend yard being trimmed,
and still another nearly ready for launch
ing. When it is considered that nearly
the entire outlay for making these ships
is distributed right here in this town, it
is not to be wondered at that things are
lively here.
The past week was fair week and the
iown Na' full o. people, and the coun-
iy's 1000 population was we'll repre-
sented. The fair was good, considering
that it was practically Coos county,
though it is district fair, the exhibits
we're all from this county. The races
we're good and the only outsiders that
,ame to the fair were the gamblers and
he officials who live at Roseburg.
The salmon cannery is running, but
he run OF fish lie yet quite light, but is
Increasing as the season progresses.
Our railroad now has another new en-.
zine, and new round house is being
luilt.
The mills and mines which we're tenn
,orarily shut down, owing TO the strike,
nave all resumed work again.
Today crew OF 30 men, under the
OF Master Shipbuilder
Huet kendorff, sailed i.om here for
Unimack Island, Alaska, where they |
will p Vt the schooner James Sonnet into
deep water. The schooner is high and
Try on the sand, This is a big under
aking. The ship that takes the crew
mp is loaded with fuel and provisions.
The British Bark Baroda, that went
ashore near Bandon last Thursday, is
high and dry and it will probably be
another vessel added to the boneyard Of
the great Pacific. She was bound for
Portland.
1t is said that the spreckleS Company
Is going TO extend the coal opera tions
here 10 large scale and put on two
more steamers to run TO this point. The
contract is let for the building Of a very
large steamer here, which when COM
pleted will carry between here aud San
francisco.
The Coos River mines are now bring
ing their coal here, and il is expected
hat in the near future the Simpson
Company will ship coal on
arge scale TO San Francisco.
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