The new age., 1907-01-05
BEAUTIFUL COOS
BAY COUNTRY
A Section Rich in MatsrialRasOuTCes
Invites the Attention Of the
Farmer, the Miner an6 the
HOmeSeeker.
UnparelIed in Locatisn-The Gateway TO the
Orient Unsurpassed Deep Water Harbor-
Soil and Climate and Natural advantages
Make Coos Bay an Ideal Place ID Build a
Home and Lay the Foundation Of i Fortune.

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One who notices the trend of activi
ty as indicated by periodical literature
commercial and railroad reports, mus
concede that the eyes of the world are
at this time turned towards the Pacific
Coast. Oregon gained an advantage
by the Lewis and Clark Fair because
previous to that time it had neglected
to advertise itself, therefore the ele
ment of astonishment was added with
regard to Oregon to that of the pleas
ure over the showing from the whole
Pacific Coast. And if this was true il
reference to the whole state. much
more so was it in regard to that par
of it, the Coos Bay country, up to this
time almost terra incOgnita to al
but it's own inhabitants. Perhaps the
most universally commented upon and
admired feature of the Fair was the
compact and beautiful Coos County
building, which called the more atten
tion to itself as the only county in the
state to have a building of its own
Since that time, wonderful as has been
opment of the state in other directions
it is Coos County that has attracted
the most attention, and has felt the
most strongly the in-fowing tide of op
portunity.
Handicapped as Coos County had
been in being accessible only by boat
and by difficult stage lines across the
mountains, yet it had an internal rail
way running over the ridge and along
the COquille river, and this had
brought the products of the inland to
the shore.
In lumber and coal Coos County is
especially rich It is estimated there
are ~ O00, 900 600 skauait Fest of
timber Ia tlie county, and this is of
the finest and most marketable quail
ity. Port Oxford cedar, found only in
this and Curry county, is used the
world over for shipbuilding. The yel-
low fir (the Oregon pine) abounds,
and there are the red fir, oak, ash.
maple, madrone, yew, chittim, and
other choice varieties. Elsewhere in
all the territory Of the United States,
outside of the Philippine Islands, there
cannot be found such a magnificent
Bay country.
The coal-bearing area around Coos
Bay covers 400 square miles. The coal
is Ignite of excellent quality for
domestic and steam purposes and even
in this timbered country will be a
great inducement for capital to put
up manufacturing plants. The mines
at Beaver Hill and Newport are
equipped to put out 10000 tons per
month.
But more lasting and important even
than the wealth of mine and forest is
the growing dairying industry of the
county, for which it is an ideal place
Cattle have green feed the year
around; the climate is equable, so
they do not need shelter, and there is
a remarkable absence of flies, ants and
mosquitoes; besides the apples grown
there are worm free. The ranchmen
are investing largely in Jersey cows;
the annual product is already worth
about a million dollars, with it's cheese
taking the prize at the State Fair, and
It's butter selling at fancy prices in
San Fran cisco and Portland. The
salmon industry is also worth noting
and is destined to be of great impor-
tance. There are two canneries in
operation: the chinook salmon here
is of the best kind, and the state has
erected a hatchery on Coos river which
has a capacity of 6,600.000 eggs.
While the county has been accredit-
ed as the richest in the state in natural
resources its greatest asset is Coos
Bay, running up into the county for
number of miles and turning in tri-
angular shape so that it forms
peninsula which is the natural centre
of the commercial activity of this part
Of the country and of all that may be-
come tributary to it, To quote the
words of the chief engineer of the
United States in his report of 1902:
Coos Bay is the principal harbor be-
tween San Francisco and the mouth
Of the Columbia and it is almost ex-
4ctlv midway. 1t does not require
vivid imagination to conceive of it as
a great shipping point when the rail
roads which are making that way shall
1ave made an outlet for all Southern
OREGON and for the states eastward
Of it.
1t may be asked why has not this
splendid harbor been utilized hitherto.
The answer lies partly in the fact that
The other harbors with railroads and
more settled country back of them
we're sufficient to handle the compara-
lively limited trade between the Amer
can side of the Pacific and the rest
IF the world. But with the growing
activity in this direction and the fact
that not only is the whole trend of i'm
migration in the United States towards
he Pacific slope, but our new relations
with the Orient have given an inn
petus to commercial and business ac-
.ivity which bid fair to make the Pa
cific Ocean rival, if not surpass, the
as highway for the world