Show NEW HARRIMAN HARRIDAN LINE TO REACH COOS SAY PORTLAND July 13 To To Coos bay Or which whick is probably the best beat harbor between sound and San Francisco Francis France co Co is bein being built a railroad which will put this country for the first time in direct di touch with older rivals for the commercial s supremacy of the Pacific coast The rO road d is the Ore Oregon on Western now under bader construction by the Southern Pacific from Drain on its main main line to Coos bay three seventy miles south west Here Her midway between Seattle and ana San Francisco Franeisco is located the natural outlet for foi a a. thousand miles of interior country whose resources' resources are hardly known much less developed Sixty billion bil bile billion lion feet of timber topping hills hills' under which lay uncounted millions of tons of coal surround a harbor that tl affords the tha safest haven for shipping for mil miles s north or south a a. climate unsurpassed I II I anywhere and a soil that will raise almost almost almost al al- al- al most everything that grows rows These ar arthe are the foundations on which three thriving towns Marshfield North Bend and Empire Empire Em Em- pire pare City have already ady sprung up I around the bay V Lumber is the main traffic to be developed developed de do- alon along the route of the Ore Oregon on Western railway to the coast Experts have estimated that thero are twenty- twenty five live hundred million f feet et of red fir h half halfa lf a billion feet of white and red cedar maple mame and oak tributary to Elk creek and the Umpqua river The V road fol lows this creek to its junction with the I Umpqua then along the course course of the river river to it its mouth and from this point i runs in an ina a a. souther southerly y direction close to the tho coa coast to o M Marshfield eld |