Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-09-20
Official County Paper.
LOCAL NOTES

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There is still many good pieces
of vacant government land in Lin
coin comfy.
D. B. Ramsdell, owner of the
Sunset quarry, was down to Toledo
yesterday on business.
J. H. Mcneil is erecting quite a
building at Pioneer. It is 25x6o a
story and half high. He willuse
it for both store and residence.
Oscar Taylor came over from
Salem as far as Chitwood last Mon
day. He and I. J. Pepin will fish
together here dnring the salmon
run this fall.
Rev. Ellsworth, of Newport,
passed through yesterday morning
on his way to Eugene to attend the
annual conference of the M. E.
church, which is in session at that
place.
Word was sent to Toledo Tues
day that men were wanted at va
quina 10 help load the steamer
Homer, and one or two men from
this place went down. Idle men
at Toledo are rather scarce since
the quarries have been at work.
There is decided Improvement
in the tone of business all over the
country. The clearing houses,
@ith bat few exceptions are show
ing an increase in their returns.
Mi, and factories are stalt ting up,
and the prospect daily grows
brighter and better,
To the people on Yaquina Bay,
will state, that I have brought to
Toiedo large assortment of wall
paper, paints, oils, brushes, notions,
stationery and fancy goods. Es-
pecially is my stock Of wall paper
very large, of good quality and
away down in price. 1t will pay
to call: on me before purchasing
elsewhere.
If. OTTo o. KRoGsTAD.
There is a marked difference in
the way the government quarry is
being conducted at present and the
way 1t was run in years gone by.
Under the present quarry superin-
tendent, A. Rochester, only men
who are residents of the county are
given work, unless he caunot OBJ
tain enough help at home. Men of
families are given preference, all
other things being equal. The
men are allowed to board them
selves now if they wish. and as a
result of this several men are keep
ing house in the vicinity with their
families. Heretofore the men had
TO board at the mess house or not
work. BY the changes indicated the
money paid out at the quarry will
be largely kept at home and will
have good influence on local
business.
The tug Roberts hardly makes a
trip from the Coos or Siuslaw coun-
tries without bringing up lot OF
butter, sometimes bringing as high
as 1000 pounds. This butter comes
from the creameries and always
commands good price, Mean
time our people, who live in just as
good dairy country, are buying
this butter at good price and let
thug their own cattle run over the
hills and valleys and their grasses
go to waste. Can people who do
such shortsighted things ever ex-
pect to be anything but poorl The
milk from 600 cows will run a fair
sized creamery. There are twice
that number of cows on the sloughs
and river contiguous to Toledo. 1t
is absolutely flying into the face Of
Providence for our people to con-
tinue to waste this opportunity, A
country that is always buying and
never selling will always be bank
rupt. The Bay country had just
as we'll be selling dairy products as
buying them; just as well have
the money coming in as going out.
Let us do something about cream
cry at once.