Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-12-13


inhabitants. II has three fine hotels, numer-
GUS stores, fine public school, one weekly
newspaper, one sawmill, and many other lines
otbusiness. The government works are located
here and the town enjoys good trade. New:
port enjoys the reputation of being the finest
summer resort on the Pacific coast, and during
the summer month thousands OF people visit
Newport.
South OF Newport ten miles is the Seal Rocks
summer Resort, owned by James Brasfield.
Here are located good hotels fine grounds and
many neat summer cottages.
On Alsea Bay are located two nice little
villages, one on the north side and one on the
south Good hotels and stores are found In
either town. At waldport on the south side is
good saw mill, now engaged in saving lumber
for the San Francisco market. On the north
side are located the salmon canneries where
annually are canned and shipped from five to
ten thousand cases of salmon of fine grade.
The Alsea Bay is snavigable for steam crafts for
twelve miles. This part of the County is rich
la lLnIve., JU;.. fl and voi,,.g uni'is TIE idea
dairying country. The Alsea harbor although
1t remains today without ever having had a
dollar ofmoney spent on it, is a better harbor
than many other harbors on the coast. Coast.
ing steamers enter and depart regularly with.
out tug or pilot Cranberries raised ou the
Alsea marshes by Mr.. ]. o. Stearns, are pro-
nounced by experts to be of the finest flavor of
any raised from oregon to Maine.
ELK CITY isthe Oldest town in the county,
and is nicely located at the junction of the Big
Elk and iaGuina Rivers. 1t has a good hotel,
two stores, blacksmith shop and postoflice
and being the center of large farming district
enjoys good trade. Thousands of bushels OF
potatoes and many bushels of fine apples are
shipped annually to San Francisco
TOLEDO, the temporary County. eat, is well
located l? miles above the mouth of the Bay, on
the line of the o. p. r. r., and nearly in the
center of the County, drawing the lines to the
compass Toledo enjoys the undivided trade of
the silets Indian Reservation. 1t is the center
of the famous tide-land belt, and will hold her
own by reason Of her splendid location, Toledo
has one first-class hotel, four good general
merchandise stores, one drug store, two weekly
newspapers, one steam saw.mill, blacksmith
shop, fine large public school building; two
churches, and other minor businesses.
PIONEER, or MORRISON, is station on the
o. p X. r., about three miles from Elk City,
At this place is located the famous Pioneer
Sandstone quarry. The products OF this quarry
is becomming justly celebrated all over tho
coast. AS a building stone it is unexcelled,
Large quantities of it are being shipped to San
Francisco where it is used in the construction
of some of the mammoth buildings of that city.
The quarry employs large number of man
and is building up large industry. -
On up the railroad are the stations of Chit
wood, Eddyvile and Little Elk, all OF them
trading points of some importance.
The Silets Reservation.
In the north part of the county lies the famous
Siletz Indian reservation, now soon to be thrown
open for settlement. This reservation is among
the last of the Indian lands to be opened to the
whites, and offers about the last opportunity
the prospective settler will have in securing a
home from Uncle Sam. The Indians having
been allotted their lands and one hundred and
eighty thousand acres remaining which will be
turned back to the general government and be
homosteaded and taken under the timber act
The Siletz river is navigable for twenty-five
miles up from its mouth for all classes of river
boats Along the river on either side for three
miles inland are large bodies of rich tide land,
| oAN iVi 'hAN hS<As t"Vhts hillSo lulBS UOt-
toms extend from the rivers edge, varying in
width from two hundred yards to quarter of
mile. This territory has never been visited
by fire and there are millions of feet of fine
fir, larch and cedar timber Large deposits OF
coal are known to exist, the quality of which is
the same as that of the magnificent Depot
Slough coal. On this reservation can be found
some OF the best agricultural and grazing land
on the coast All the preliminary work look.
ing to the opening of the reservation has been
done, and it is only awaiting the President s
proclamation announcing it open for settle
Iment when the pioneers AK will startle the
wild elk and deer from their natural haunts;
when capital will take up the echo and soon,
where but few months before nothing but the
wild animals harsh notes and wierd chants of Il
few old Indians, the remnants OF once power:
full tribe, was heard as they paid their tribute to
old Medicine Rock, will be heard the music of
the saw and hammer. Civilization shall con-
quor the earth.
Miscellaneous.
Owing to the mild climate and absence OF
FROST fruit of all kinds that can be raised in Ore.
gon do exceedingly well here. Large orchards
OF prunes, apples and pears are being set out
and so far have proved to be perfectly free from
all fruit pests, common in the Willamette Val
ley and California Lincoln County will be the
banner fruit County in Oregon.
The Oregon Pacific Railroad which has its ter.
minus at Yaquina City, has reached the Cas-.
cade mountains and is operating one hundred
and forty milesof road. And as soon as this
road makes connection with an eastern road
and becomes n trans-contnental line opening
up the great wool and wheat belts, of eastern
Oregon, Yaquina Bay VIII then become for
rnidable rival Of other ports on the Pacific coast
| Of known fame.
| Lincoln County offers better inducements
than any other county in oregon for capital.
Lincoln County offers good inducements for
home seekers.
Lincoln County has many undeveloped re.
sources only sleeping for the want of capital
Lincoln County wants business men, working
men, farmers and capitalists II takes all kinds
of people to make and develop country. Take
| Horace Greely's advise and come west, where
! y.I--..lig DLi eye on.g a-s ui,:a.I.n: wt. ~
every mans latch string hangs on the outside;
where the warm breath Of the grand old Pacific
| paints brilliant colors on mid.winter flowers;
where Ayers Ague Cure is ofno more value than
bushel OF sand; where fever and malaria are
strangers and outcasts; where an honest in.
dustrious man can make him home and be as
free and independent as Governor Pennoyer