| home Myrtle Point Enterprise Myrtle Point, Oregon Chronological, with keywords NOV 16 - DEC 28, 1895 MPE 1896MPE 1897aMPE to newspaper menu [M. Aug 2004 I don't know where original of pg a 0 is.] Tot-MP condit-progress boomer MPE (a0) Sat Nov 16, 1895 The outside world should know that Myrtle Point is improving right along in spite of hard times. It is a constant, steady, substantial growth that will eventually transform the town into a bustling commercial city. + AHB Tot -MP crop item MPE (a0) Nov 16, 1895 A.H. Black to carry a full lot of general merchandise and produce, etc. AHB fruit boomer saying? MPE (a0) May 16, 1895 A.H. Black is paying 25 cents per bushel for apples and they were neatly boxed and shipped to the city where they will no doubt commend the highest market price. Coos county is apparently keeping up the reputation of Oregon’s famous “big red apples.” + AHB Tot items novelty-woolen MPE (a0) May 16, 1895 A.H. Black sells ribbons and laces, underwear, hats, dealer for 2 prominent woolen mills and has sold over 160 suits cloths for them. RR prices-rates OR & N Srh MPE (a0) Nov. 23, 1895. The Southern Pacific, by its latest cut, offers to haul passengers between Portland and San Francisco, either way, for $10 first-class and $5 second- class, exactly one-half the rate established November 1 on the Shasta Limited train, which leaves both cities every five days – on the O R & N Co.’s steamer sailing dates. The regular date [M. typo?? = rate??], in effect for several years, which applies yet to regular trains, is $25 first-class, including Pullman sleeping-car berths, and $15 second-class. + Agric Coq Valley boomer RR MPE (a0) Nov. 23, 1895 There is no place in the country where the soil is more fertile than in the Coquille valley. But the time is not far off when the Coquille valley will be traversed by a railroad and then all people will possess the garden spot of the country. + BH AHB condit agric dairy MPE Nov 23, 1895. (a 0 ) The Beaver Hill coal mines are proving a great benefit to the country in more ways than one. A.H. Black & Co., of this place, alone, furnishes the mines every week with 600 heads of cabbage, 20 bushels of apples, and an immense amount of poultry and eggs, besides furnishing them with the famous brand of “Myrtle Creamery Butter.” + Spreckels beet-sugar needed Tot MPE(a0 ) Nov 30, 1895. Editorial saying Claus Spreckels intends to put up 3 new beet sugar factories on pacific coast this next season. Argument is why it should be located at MP. All the advantages here, etc. = other-mining MPE a 1 Nov 30, 1895 [article on MP mining and develop co. struck fine looking tunnels.] ONG organize entertainment Hermann Tot MPE a1 Nov 30, 1895 military ball given at opera house by Oregon Natl Guard. Road "first" misc-word MPE a 1 Nov 30, 1895 [first reference I've seen to corduroy road. Other articles in other papers have spoken of planking roads or using wood, but did not use term corduroy. ] Interest Srh MPE a 1 Nov 30, 1895 [why ship's bells rung; what stand for.] Hermann-block Tot-MP MPE a 1 Dec 7, 1895 [article on Hermann block which quite new at tt time.] Dairy MPE a 1 Dec 7, 1895 [article on various creameries] Spreckels sugar-beets [MPE a 1 Dec 7, 1895. ] (a 1) [more on sugar beet-Spreckels issue.] [M: All I have in notes.] [cp] Other-mining MPE a1 Dec 14, 1895 [article on new process for extracting gold. [natl not local] Srh novelty-brick conditions name Tot-MP MPE a 1 Dec 14, 1895 Why is this? The Coos Bay News [news in italics] says: The Arago brought up a quantity of brick from Perham Bros. It seems that brick can be purchased and shipped from the city cheaper than it can be secured from Myrtle Point. [M. is all article from CBN or is last part MPE ed?] Entertain holiday MPE a1 Dec 14, 1895 Valentine's Eve Ball to be held Feb. 14, 1896. AHB food candy MPE a 1 Dec 14, 1895 A. H. Black also sells cracked wheat. Candies. Novelty-wood Locale? MPE a 1 Dec 14, 1895 A furniture store is selling fancy turned work from curly myrtle wood. Nq Xmas MPE a 1 Dec 14, 1895 Christmas news. Other-mining MPE a 1 Dec 14, 1895 mining news. Agric dairy BH AHB [MPE a 1 Dec 21, 1895.] The usual weekly consignment of poultry, eggs, vegetables, apples, and Myrtle Creamery butter was made to the Beaver Hill coal mines by A.H. Black & Co. Fri morning. + [cp] Tot-multi AHB [animal?] BH holiday [MPE a 1 Dec 21, 1895.] nq. man fm Bridge brought 44 fine large turkeys to town for A.H. Black who has the contract for supplying Beaver Hill with holiday turkeys. [cp] Entertain MPE a 1 Dec 21, 1895. playing whist and having a dainty luncheon served after game, having prizes and booby prizes. Not quote. BH coal RR-extension [MPE a 1 Dec 28, 1895.] Five thousand tons of coal was turned out by the Beaver Hill Coal Company. They are sinking a slope from the 700-foot level and are driving two gang- ways from a 300-foot level, and when this is finished the output will be 15,000 tons per month. The company has completed a road from Marshfield, their shipping point, to Myrtle Point, and will extend it to Roseburg to tap the Southern Pacific. + [ M. doesn’t say how long it took to make 5000 tons output. ] Novelty-woolen-mill outside-Tot MPE a1 Dec 28, 1895 a woolen mill at Pendleton Prices-rate-war RR OR&N [MPE a 1 Dec 28, 1895.] The rate war between the Southern Pacific and the O R & N Co. which has been in progress about a month has ended. S.P. has decided to advance rates. The first-class rate of $10 will be raised to $15, the second –class to $7.50. [M more to article. Did it say between what points?] [cp] disaster Tot-Coq paper utility food MPE a 1 Dec 28, 1895. [ Tells of ] Coq. City sustaining another destructive fire last Tue morn. [paper printed on Sat.] Started Shamrock saloon spread to adjoining building occupied below by Lyons' butcher shop and poultry store and Bulletin office above. This week's Bulletin to be printed Marshfield. Plea for fire protection and a system of water works. [says cp] = Xmas entertain Tot MPE a 2 Dec 28, 1895 [article abt town] Xmas tree in MP and also abt masque ball.] home 1896MPE 1897aMPE 1897bMPE to newspaper menu |