Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-09

Myrtle Point and entered on thor
ough exploration of the valley down
to Bandon at the harbor, and found
that the Coquille valley is small
hive of industries, with almost un.
measured possibilities. There are
towns and sawmills and cream sta
tions and logging booms all the way
from Myrtle Point to the ocean. There
sits the live town Of Bandon, with
sawmills, shingle mills, wooden mills,
broom-hanlle factory, and last but not
least, fine public schools, churches and
large export lumber trade.
See More Coal Mines.
We supposed we had left the coal
mines over on the Coos Bay side, but
there are a number Of collieries with
coal bunkers on the Coquille river
ready to load vessels that draw from
l2 to 10 feet of water.
There is big trade on the Coquille
river in hay, feed, flour, and all kinds
of staples. Most of this stuff is sent
from Oregon to San Francisco and
then resold to the Coquille river coun.
try, and brought here in schooner loads
at SO and $3.50 per ton, when it might
be brought for the same money from
Portland direct. There is n good har.
bon here, with jetties on each side Of
the channel, and vessels drawing from
IL to 10 feet of water have no trouble
entering and departing. Before the
harbor was improved vessels took out
$4,000 to 100000 feet of lumber. Now
they carry out 100000 to 100000 feet
easily, and there are few days in the
year a vessel is not loading at the
docks or hanging in the ofiing wait
| ing for the tide.
Portland business men could do no
better than to put on 500-ton steam
schooner between that city and the
Coquille, to bring in general merchan'
disc and take out coal. That kind of
boat could 60 right up to the mines,
or even to Coquille, which is only 2S
miles inland, and capture all the trade
of this country.
The wealth of the Coquille valley is
not easily estimated. The salmon fish
cries. in addition to all that has been
| 4,n~aA rtah thn txun
les have to limit the number of boats
that go out to net them. Men here are
millionaires and are hardly aware of
the fact, and it can be said here is a
county without a poor man in 1t, a
county where q child never went sup
PEERLESS to bed, and it bids fair to re-
main that way for many years to come.
We met one man, easily worth a mil
| lion, who came here without a dollar
in 1s67-Adam Pershbaker, now a re
tired merchant and dealer in timber
lands.
Logging in its Infancy.
There are men here who have made
IL a rule of their lives to refuse nc
man a dollar who asked il of them
Jack Tupper, Of Coquille, whose wife
was the third white woman to come
into this region, is one of them. Log
ging on the Coquille is an infant in
dustry. but reaches into the millions
Operations so far have been confined
to shaking out the most beautiful sticks
and dropping them into the water with
a donkey engine.
Stumpage on the Coquille is worth
from cents to 81, and logs at the mil
are worth So per thousand. They are
the various kinds of frs, spruce and
hemlock, Port Oxford cedar (being the
white), and then fine red cedar log
from two to FIVE feet in diameter, and
any length The hard woods, like ma
7ple, ash. myrtle, alder, are being made
up into door panels and furniture, anc
will prove a veritable gold mine. Mil
lions of feet Of logs are brought oye
annually from the booms on the Co
guile to the logging booms on Coos
Bay, booming and railroad transports
tion costing $3.50 per thousand.
The need of vessel 10 ply betweei
Portland and the COquille is shown by
I the fact that freight rates from Port
land via Coos Bay and by rail to TO
guile river points, requiring reload
D ing on steamers going below coquiil'
? CITY. are a and $5 per ton, and hene'
( almost prohibitive of trafhe, whh'
rates from San Francisco are $500 an'
{ as low as 81 per ton to Bandon an
points on the Coquille river,
North Bend Is Progressive.
The nerve and enterprise of the eitl
Of North Bend was manifested in s.