Show HillS EYES ON COOS GOOS DAY BAY RICHES ICES Southern Pacific Accordingly Wakes Up and May Build Road to Lumber District District UTAH MAN IS INTERESTED DIhl David at Outs Ono TI Time c Seriously the tim Proposition of oC lie tho Announcement that tho In Intention tenton or of the Southern Pacific to buil build Iho ho 11 Bay 1011 toad II Is expected Eon roon conies from Crom Tacoma Wash anc antI revives tho droopIng hopes of oC the pc pie pIc or of tho Ilso middle shores or of Oregon along the Ja Bay extension by enn rs watt wan Ie IC ported lae Into II in 1903 and le led the of that section to believe that the tho roar would b ho bum built The construction of the tho Coos bay ln line w wIts s by the thc Southern Pa cle in but W latel suspended I It Is not generally known ono one JC C capitalists WM was at ono one tIme near to th the point ot of building the Co Coos bay bayrd rd road and I It was wars only through the at which the tho adjacent lauds lands were held whIch tho con Colt summation of the idan Now It Is ro tat that the or of the tho Southern PacIfic Is accentuated b by rumor that James J Hi Hill has hIs eye eo on the ins Im Immons mons menno timber tonnage of oC that country His invasIon of Oregon Is taken tu to mean that more than one line will 0 be a added de to the railroad mleE mile mileage E age e of oC the tho Webfoot state IncludIng the Oregon Inc line and another In lIne from Odel In the Ho Head Hirer aler alert t to not fal far north of the tho CaI Call fornia and Nevada cada lne line RICH TERRITORY ISOLATED For years tue people of oC Coos ba bay which Is located abut about or of the tho state north and south on the Pacific o ocean n hd had no railroad at al all The Tho wa was spa sparsely 1 settled and though the thc harbor at Cos Coos 0 bay was capable or of great rat p and thu th country roundabout wa was densely tins bored and the climate WI was equal to tonn toan nn an 01 on tile the Oregon coast yet et the Coot Coos ba bay country wa was Isolate isolated on account or of the tho fact that there were no roads lads In or out and and that PAts paths leading to and tom groin Cos Coos b bay led lcd re else Theis ci a little local railroad between Marsh Marshfield al h feld field te the count counts seat t of Co Coos county all nail Point a town 15 01 or 20 mie further down the tho Ost was construct constructed e ed In t the hop hope that the tho Suther Southern Pa Pacific or oe other would rn con the branch to Roseburg the then nearest pInt on the Southern who whose e lne lIne passes up to Portland through the state tte 60 miles or more In Inland land rne lne hop hope ot or the people of oC Coos COOR l be was blasted for the road at 1 Myrtle rte Point an and thO Souther Southern Pa elSe refused to buIld buld The h horizon 10 ed dark for th the Inhabitants or of list se see el Uon for the they had almost their ni all on the tho outcome or of the tho ra railroad II rd Tho They hail had billIons of oC feet of timber the they hd had climate the had soil they hd had the oan ocean ad arid al all the es of oC a a good h harbor br and a se sea ct coast to town n nand and g were I located tc In the of oC one of oC tle the best states In the unless Te They to offer oer In the way n ol of olIn In inducements for tor a railroad even V en going Ing t to the tho expense or of 20 mies miles Q cit lne line themselves But theIr plea W was unheard the railroad remained away D DAVID VID ECCLES INTERESTED I Ten Then the people or of C Coos s bay wont went to David Dald Ece Bodes the Utah millionaire railroad nuns who operated 3 a railroad mies miles Ion long in eastern Ore Oregon Oregon gon To The rC road he ha had In operation was begun a at n a lumber rd but had reached out In the up of oC the country countr through whIch I It passed and cle an Important Jc or of cons com commer mer II lii the tho sectIon cHon It had hod ben been the means of developing Several exten hd had been bui built to the rad road and other others had l been n for COI the tutors The Tito people of oC Oregon Oreon had confidence in David Eles because he had shown thom Item that list he was as there to stay and to build up tip their state They went to him with a a proposition to Lul build the balance of oC the tho branch Ir of the Cos Coos ba bay Ino line from Crom Myrtle Mrtle Point te tc Roseburg Thc The gae hIm statistics o of the ho of oC thus count county and told loIn huts him ho how much uld 0 be had for a railroad They hIm that they real really had a proposItion alluring Ing to an railroad buIlder and made hint Im offers to build Mr Ecle Bodes considered the plan lOl buy and deeply I It looked gd good to hIm hini This Th hopes of oC the people Ioe rose nain again and for Cor Cora fora a tIme It louko looked Ik like the Roseburg lIne tino would b be finally buit built But the unexpected always alway happens and r ns It was In thIs C case sharks shark controlled much of the nece necessary a rIght or oC was anti demanded extortionate and In sortie c prohIbitive prices for Cor their holdings Te The Utah Utah capItalist finally gave vo up tho project which n agaIn n 13 lay Idle Idle until repent h d It that James JamesJ J Hi HIll wa was going Into the country hiIs Oregon Trunk LIne nn and Oregon F Eastern em Inc lIne and al all the enor energy and capItal lint Iw 1 Is known to possess pOes with hInt him Int thC tInt ne now field Ten Thou the Southern Pacific got bus and the 1 ro port Is now circulated that tho the popl people or of Cos Coos b boy are at lat last to have 1 a railroad wi will extend from Crom DraIn Draina Il a staton station on the PacIfic lIt In Dulas county t isi th the coast and southward Into Coos Coo with the that the branch to th the south and cast eastward ward toward Rose Roseburg burg wi will bl b completed at a later date |