Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-09-11


leading citizens and industries.
Florence has a full grade hign
school, and several churches are rep
resented. The Episcopal and Pres
byterian churches are on the north
side and the Methodists have a
church at South Florence.
There is a creamery and two
cheese factories on the Siuslaw a few
miles above town. The dairy indus
try is growing rapidly and this is
destined to be a great dairy region.
Hogs would be raised more IL they
could be shipped.
The Siuslaw Port Commission was
organized about a month ago and
the recent decision of the supreme
court was received with great demon.
strations of JOY. The port will nave
100000 available at once, the bonds
selling at par and above, and every
dollar will be used to deepen the
mouth of the harbor, which the Uni
ted States engineers refuse to recon-
present commerce is insufficient.
The members of the port of Sius-
law commission are |. b. Cushman
of Acme, r. A. Yost of Florence, G.
B. Camp and Peter e. Jackson of
Mapleton and e. p. Waite OF Acme.
They are considered strong organl-
cation
The Harbor Improvement Commit
tee we're /. b. Cushman. W. II.
Weatherson and D. NJ Kemp, and
they did great work.
I. B. Cushman conducts the port
commission as president and is gem
eral manager of the Siusaw Lumber
Company at Acme. The cut is about
$4,000 day-the same as other saw
mills. They can cut $4,000, but gem
orally you can say $4,000 a day is a
good cut. II all goes out by water
o. w. Hurd, the head OF the saw
mill and navigation corporation OF
that name. came into the Siuslaw
country 27 years ago. The company
owns three three-mast schooners and
tug Roscoe. The schooners carry
10000, 100000 and 500 respect
lively. There is ~ to IA feet OF wat
er on the bar, one outside buoy, but
no lights. When the tug does night
work on the bar she puts out her own
lights. Captain Hurd built the first
creamery on the river. now rented to
the Hazelwood Company of Port
land. He has $4,000 residence at
Florence, where the family make
their home. Mrs. Hurd was a daugh-
ter OF Captain Cox, who has the big
sheep and stock ranch at Heceta
Head, where he owns three miles on
the ocean front. He has thousands
OF sheep and cattle and Is one of the
land kings of the coast country. His
son, Chas. Cox. also has a fine ranch.
Captain Hurd and Captain Cox are
progressive and public-spirited devel-
opers OF new country and are en-
titled To a great deal OF credit for
what has been accomplished in the
development of the Siuslaw.
Capt, A. F. Hurd, a younger bro
ther, runs the steamer Hazel and has ,
been on he river "a years, 23 years
at steam boating. He has built a
handson5 bungalow at Mapleton.
where h makes his home He owns
a home at Florence also, has invest
ments q Eugene ard Portland. and
has under consideration a beautiful
residence at Oakland, Cal. That
would be aR ideal errangement-.o
live south in winter and on he sius-
law T.. the sImmer.
The .orega1 anG California saw
mill, James Brett Supt., and o. w.
Hurd, general manager, is the larg-
est on the river, II has a new refuse
crematory that destroys every scrap
that is not merehantable for a cut
of $4,000 day. The log haul is a
chain hoist that picks the largest
sticks up bodily and lifts them TO
the dock. where the carriage runs
them TO the saws. New machinery is
on the ground for two band saws
and a new engine is being Installed.
The quality OF logs and lumber sawed
here is very fine. This company owns
the tug El Roseo.
James Britt, the new superintend-
ent OF the oregon and California mill
and logging corporation, is reVolu-
tionizing the whole plant. The old
drag-saw methods are being aban- I
doned, better wages paid. the pro-
duetion increased, and all lines mod c
ernized by a live man.
Thos. A. Yost has been on the Sius- Q
law for 10 years. He Is a Pennsy- a