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Notes Preface 1. John Dargavel to the author, May 1, 1984. Introduction 1. Portland Oregonian, Nov. 29, 1981; Eugene Register-Guard, Nov. 29, 1981. 2. Register-Guard, Nov. 29, 1981. 3. Life, 73, no. 7 (Aug. 18, 1972), 52; and Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, June 1, 1975. 4. Interview with Shannon Chamness, April 18, 1984. Chapter 1. Poor Mall's Paradise 1. Marjory K. Cowan, "Historical Sketch of the Coos Bay Country" (B.A. thesis, University of Oregon, 1913), 1. 2. For accounts of the Pope and Talbot venture and the early Pacific lumber trade see: Edwin T. Coman, Jr., and Helen M. Gibbs, Time, Tide and Timber: A Century of Pope and Talbot (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1949); Stewart Holbrook, Holy Old Mackinaw (New York: Macmillan, 1938); Thomas R. Cox, Mills and Markets: A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974). 3. Stephen Dow Beckham, Coos Bay: The Pioneer Period, 1850--1900 (Coos Bay, Ore.: Arago Books, 1973), 31. 4. Oregon Statesman, Oct. 18, 1853; Oregon Spectator, Sept. 16, 1853. 5. Emil R. Peterson and Alfred Powers, A Century of Coos and Curry (Portland, Ore.: Binfords and Mort, 1952), 425-426, 580. 6. Beckham, Coos Bay, 22-27. 7. Stephen Dow Beckham, The Simpsons of Shore Acres (Coos Bay: Arago Books, 1971), 1-15; Cox, Mills and Markets, 166-167, 171-172. 8. John A. Allen and Ewart M. Baldwin, Geology and Coal Resources of the Coos Bay (Portland: Oregon State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, 1944), 60-63; George Case, "The History of the Port of Coos Bay, 1851-1952" (M.A. thesis, Pan American University, 1983), 104-105. 9. Quoted in Peterson and Powers, A Century of Coos and Curry, 394,533. 10. Beckham, Coos Bay, 22. 11. Ibid. 12. Case, "History of the Port of Coos Bay," 104. 13. Quoted in Peterson and Powers, A Century of Coos and Curry, 394. 14. Ibid., 397; Case, "History of the Port of Coos Bay," 104. 15. Coos Bay Harbor, Oct. 23, 1908; Coos Bay News, May 18, 1909. 195 196 NOTES 16. Coos Bay Times, Aug. 30 and Oct. 28, 1912. 17. Peterson and Powers, A Centun; of Coos and Curry, 398; Times, Aug. 8, 1906, and April 4, 1913. 18. A. G. Walling, History of Southern Oregon: Comprising Jackson, Josephine, Dou;.:las, Curry and Coos Counties (Portland: A. G. Walling, 1884), 497-498. 19. News, May 13 and June 24, 1874. 20. Walling, History of Southern Oregon, 494; News, June 10, 1874; Case, "History of the Port of Coos Bay," 13-14. 21. Portland Oregonian, Jan. 1, 1884; News, April 2, 1884. 22. News, April 9, 1890, and March 19,1901. 23. Ibid., Aug. 5, 1874, and Mav 12, 1875. 24. Ibid., Dec. 8, 1875, and Nov. 4, 1885. 25. Ibid., April 14, 1886, and Feb. 17, 1897. 26. Interview with Quentin Church, April 3, 1984. All interviews are in Oral History Collection, Southwestern Oregon Community College Library, Coos Bay, Oregon (hereafter SWOCC Library). 27. News, May 8, 1889, and April 1, 1891. 28. University of Oregon, Bureau of Municipal Research and Service, Population of Oregon Cities, Counties and Metropolitan Areas, 1850-1957: A Compilation of Census Counts and Estimates in Oregon, Information Bulletin No. lO6 (Eugene, 1958), 18. 29. Beckham, Coos Bay, 40-42; Cox, Mills and Markets, 257-259. 30. The sentiments were those of J. H. Upton of the Port Orford Post. The editorial was reprinted in the News, June 2, 1880; also see News, Aug. 24, 1881. Both issues cited in Beckham, Coos Bay, 42. 31. Oregonian, Sept. 27, 1882; Portland Telegram, reprinted in News, June 25, 1884. 32. Frank J. Harmon, "Remembering Franklin B. Hough," American Forests, 86 (January 1977), 34-37, 52-53; Franklin B. Hough, "On the Duty of Governments in the Preservation of Forests," in Conservation in the United States: A Documentary History, ed., Frank E. Smith (New York: Chelsea House, 1971), 1:688. 33. Ralph W. Hidy, Frank Ernest Hill, and Allen Nevins, Timber and Men: The Weyerhaeuser Story (New York: Macmillan, 1963), 130. 34. Cox, Mills and Markets, 227-238; Hidy, Hill, and Nevins, Timber and Men, 210-214. 35. Steve Greif, "A Century of Coos County Railroads," manuscript in SWOCC Library. 36. News, Sept. 9, 1885; Feb. 15 and 22, and April 25, 1888. 37. Oregonian, Dec. 18, 1890. 38. News, Aug. 10, 1893. 39. Ibid., Jan. 9 and Sept. 11, 1895; June 24, Sept. 23, and...

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