The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-08-17
NEWPORT BEACH NOT IN IT,
Says Our Toledo Scribe, When
Compared With Those at
the Mouth of the Siletz.
Pleasant weather.

| Pleasant weather.
Salmon are coming in.
Lots of tourists and campers in this part
/ of the county.
Hotel Lincoln is under new management,
John Blake proprietor and manager.
| I'll tell you what's the reason the chick
ems roost so high at the present writing
campmeeting is in full blast.
| The SiletZ river is as beautiful a stream
as the most fastidious could desire to see.
1t is navigable about twenty five miles from
the mouth-that is for small schooners
drawing not over six to nine feet.
| Miss Eunice Alexander was ALI east bound
passenger on Sundays excursion. She in.
tends to be absent about ten days. Sorry
to lose that face even for that short
period.
| A. R. Chapman and wife came over on
the last excursion, stopping at Mill creek,
where they were met by friends with fish
ing tackle and lunch. A good catch was
reported. Come again "Chappie" you are
always welcome in this curve of the track.
| Fred Horning, while hoeing in the gar
den, accidentally cut himself on the right
cheek, making severe cut about two inches
in length. DR.. Rich, Jr., was Immediately
called and the wound was neatly dressed.
Had the cut been, half an inch higher he
would have lost his eye.
The Government rock quarry will start i'll
about ten days, giving employment to about
forty or forty-fve men at this place. The
officials think this work will last about
fifteen or sixteen months. The government
pays the common laborer 81 SO per day of
eight hours and board or 81 and they board
themselves.
Johnnie Akin naa-the contract for carry
ing the mail to and from the Siletz reserva-
tion. The mail goes three times week at
present but we look for daily mail before
the year is out. Johnnie will have
sscoach and FOUR on the route in few
days to meet the convenience of the people
wishing to see the home Of the Indians.
| Speaking about beach there are but few
people in this country know what a nice
beach is that have not seen the beach
between the Siletz river and Salmon river
Talk about summer resort! Newport
Saint in it" so to speak. | could write
page after page about that beautiful coun-
try and tfren could not do it full justice.
Any question that anyone may wish to ask
will be answered through the column of this
paper willingly.
| The bay is as nice a harbor as there is on
the coast for small vessels. Besides all this
is the provision that God made for His
children; it was not intended that any one
should starve while on the Siletz reserva-
tion. The river teens with all kinds of fish.
The upper river is alive with mountain
trout, while in the lower river they catch
abundant quantities of founders, perch'
and crabs, while the mud fats are full of
razor CLAIMS, and just below the mouth of
the river on the beach you will find mussels
sto the queens taste.
| At last the long looked for event that is
to make our county one of the richest In
the state has come III the form of the Siletz
reservation, which will be thrown open for
settlement within sixty days. A good
many yspeople will, ask ''What benefit will we
derve?" 1t is simply this. In the first
place the Indians will receive $75 per capita
Immediately after the bill is signed or be-
comesa law, which means $4,000 in clean
cash to be put in circulation at once. In the
second place, it pats several thousand acres
of the best land in Oregon on the market
at government prices, ST. so per acre. Mind
you, this is not all farming land all clear ed
and plowed once or twice. However. it is
or large portion of it is-the choicest of
bottom land, covered with underbrush such
as alder, vine MAPLE cherry, chittem, ETC.,
etc. Besides this Is the finest belt of tim
Der land in the Northwest.
A REPORTER.
A Good Thing to Keep at Hand.