Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-12-27
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6rlef Description Of Lincoln Cou nty. Oregon
And its Rich, Undeyeloped Rasouroes

-'H"""'HHss' IL mas lhTee ine hotels, Eurre--
Gus stores iii e public school, one waell,.
newspaper, one awmiIl, and many other lines
otsusineSs. The government works arelocstsl
here and the tow Il enjoys good trade New
nort enjoys the ! eputGtion OF being the fines,
summer resort n the Pacific coast, and durinu
the summer MOI ,th thousands of peoule wish
Newport,
south OF New, ort ten miles is the Seal Rocks
summer Resor, owned by James Brasfelj
Here are locate good hotels, fine grounds a, ID
II any neat sur mer cottages.
ON Alsea Bay are located two nice IittI,
villages, one the north side and one on the
south, Good hotels and stores arc found IL,
elmer town. At Waldport on the south side is
a good saw mill, now engaged in saving lumber
for the San Francisco market. On the north
side are located the salmon csnneries vher.
annually are canned and shipped from five T.,
ten thousand cases of salmon of fine grad,
The Alsea Bay is navigable for steam crafts for
Twelve miles. This part Of the County is rich
in lumber both fir and cedar, and is the ideal
dairying country. The Alsea harbor although
it remains today without ever having had
dollar ofmoney spent on it, is better harbor
tnan many other harbors on the coast. Coast
ing steamers enter and depart regularly with
outa tug or pi ct. Cranberries raised on the
Alsea marshes by Mr. J. o. Stearns, are pro.
nounced by experts to be of the finest flavor cf
any raised from Oregon to Maine.
ELK CITY is the Oldest town in the county.
and is nicely located at the junction OF the Big
Elk and iaquina Rivers 1t has good hotel
two stores, II blacksmith shop and postotiice
and being the center OF large farming district
enjoys Il 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 we'll
located 12 miles above the mouth OF the Bay, on
the line of the o. P. r. r., and nearly in the
center of the County, DIR awing the lines to the
compass. Toledo enjoys the undivided trade OF
the siletz 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 tirst-class hotel, four good general
merchandise stores, one drug store two weekly
newspapers one steam saw-mil, blacksmith
shop, fine large public school building. two
churches and other min or businesses.
ElONEI r, or MORRISON, is a station on the
o. p. r. 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 the
coast. As building stone it is unexcellea.
| Large quantities ofitn being shipped to San
| Francisco where it is used in the construction
ofsome OF the mammoth buildings of that city.
Inc quarry employs II large number of map
and is building up large industry.
| Onpp the railroad are the stations of Chit.
wood, Eddyyille and Little Elk, all of them
trading points of some Importance,
The Siletz Reservation.
| In the north part of the county lies the famous
Siletz Indian reservation, now soon to be throw ,
open for settlement. This reservation is amc N,
the last OF the Indian lands to be opened to tb,
whites, and offers about the last opport' init,
the prospective settler will have in secu ring ,
home from Uncle Sam. The Indians HAVING
boon allotted their lands and one hun ired anG
eighty thousand acres remaining which will be
turned back to the general governme ut and he
homesteaded and taken under the timber act
The siletz rivec is navigable for twenty. five
miles up from its mouth for all classes of rive,
boats. Along the river on either side for three
miles inland are large bodies of rich tide land
and for the next twenty miles large sandy bot
toms extend from the rivers edge, varying in
width from two hundred yards to a quarter Of
a mile. This territory has never been visited
| by n fire and there are millions of feet of fnf
| fir, lRrch and cedar timber Large deposits OF
| coal are known to exist, the quality OF which |.
the same as that of the magnificent Depo,
Slough coal On this reservation can he 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 Presidents
PROCLAMATION announcing It open for settle.
ment, when the pioneers AK will starile the
wild elk and deer from their natural haunts,
when capital will take up the echo and soon
where but afew months before nothing but the
wild animals harsh notes and wierd chants of d
few old Indians, the remnants of a once power.
full tribe was heard rs they paid their tribute tC
old Medicine Rock, will he heard the music o'
ilt saw and l.=..u -. G. ..iz' = ----..i e. .
quor the earth.
miscellaneous.
Owing to the mild climate and absence O
FROST fruit of all kinds that can be raised in ore
son 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, conmon 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 miles OF road. And us soon as thi
road makes connection with an eastern roat