Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-28
WEDDING GUESTS
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ing the town, peninsula covered with
great frs and hemlocks and surround
ed by the bay and valued at 100000
Autos were waiting and all visitors
were taken through this beautiful grove
and around the city, and delivered at
the train with twill be with you tomor-
row" and all kinds of good wishes. At
Marshfield things were doing and for
once that measley bunch of Cherrians
got what was coming to them. AS fast
as one appeared on the ear steps cou-
pie of brawny loggers gre oDed him and
hustled him helpless across the wharf
and on board the old convict ship now
on exhibition there. They were not kept
jugged long, but subsequent events
made some of us wish they had been
Kept there for life, especially the fel-
lows who gave the serenade on that old
melodeon and to the accompaniment of
q bass drum early Sunday morning
However, it were useless task to try
Sunday edition of big city paper to
contain fair synopsis.
A Rich Section.
The trip was revelation to all, an
object lesson in the way of showing us
old webfooters how little we really
know about our own state. Coos is the
leading dairy county of the state, it has
so far as is known the only coal fields
in the state and they are of great ex-
| tent. The lumber industry is vast one,
the largest sawmill in the world being
located here with capacity of 100000
day In the parade feature
was great train of 40 cars of immense
/ logs from the Powers Bros. logging
road. The line of parade followed this
road for some dozen blocks and the
train was run into and made part of
the parade; and very interesting ex-
hibit it was too with some of the logs
measuring ii feet in diameter. This is
mentioned here to explain just what
that big mill can do. Someone asked:
GLOW long would that train load of
logs last the Smith millf' The guests
ranged from three days to two weeks
but an employe of the mill being asked
to decide it said: "The ears are little
heavier loaded than usual and would
keep the mill busy for nearly five
hours. In other words the mill cuts
more than so carloads of logs every
eight hours or carload every siv min
utes.
Loading the ships at this mill was
also an interesting sight, the great
cranes picking the lumber up in punches
of thousand or more feet and drop
ping it in place apparently without eff
fort This is but one of many mills and
with their combined capacity the tim
Der is gaining on them growing and
developing faster than it is cut. There
is also great cedar belt along the bay
and extending down the coast through
Curry where it is known as "Port Or
ford CEDAR and which is great finan-
cial asset.
Its Lumber Shipments.
In this lumber business Coos Bay in
1915 shipped 30 per cent of all the lum-
Der shipped from the state, 1917 ,000, 900
feet. During the same year 1896 tons
of dairy products were shipped with
I45 tons Of fish and about 10000 tons
of other products.
The harbor is good one with a width
of 400 rect and depth of 80 The gov
ernment has spent considerable money
dredging and improving the channel,
spending to date some 81 800 900, but
this has been supplemented by the eff
forts of Coos Bay which bonded itself
for 100000 for aiding the work. When
work was begun on the bar there was
but 10 feet of water in the channel.
Now there is 30. In connection with
the Smith mill is the steamer Adelne
Smith especially built for carrying its
products to points on san Francisco
bay. She has been on the run since early
in 1913 and has carried out of Coos Bay
in that time about 100000 900 feet of
lumber II year. Her record in 1915 was
9S,345,747 and this year il will be well
above that amount. She has lost but
two days during the year.
There Is great coal field its extent
being indicated by the outcrop of mas.
sive sandstone evident for 10 miles.
from well above Mapleton at the head
of tide water ON the Siuslaw, to Marsh
field, how much further south Of course
j cannot say.
Material for Bottles.
Great mounds of white sand blown
up from the sea beaches greet one near.
ing North Bend. \ cursory look at it
indicated it was almost pure silica and
with Coos Bay 3 unlimited coal, suggest.
ed possible source Of supply for Sa.
lens "Loiu" and "Phez" bottles.
However, to deal with and do justice
TO the Coos Bay industries and possibil,
ties is beyond the scope of this brief