Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-05-24

Drawn and muscle, not mass meet
ings i'll halls by hot fires, where the
heaviest work done is to elect
chairman and appoint committees,
and we wish further to state that
Toledo worked roads by both vol
unteer muscle and hard cash before
the county was even divided, and
before it was thought of for county
seat. Toledo is connected with the
eastern part of the county by a
good wagon road, which has been
travelled for years. TO the Drift
creek and Fall creek country good
trails are already opened and work
is progressing rapidly which will
open them up into good wagon
roads.
These roads are part of sys-
tenn of roads leading from Toledo
to the Drift creek country, the Fall
creek country, the upper Big Elk
country, and to the upper Aisea
country. We have every conf
dence that these roads will be COM
pleted this summer county seat or
no county seat. They were in
augerated and planned before the
county was divided, and it will be
remembered that in 1891 Senator
Crosno secured a state appropriation
for this road in the omnibus road
bill, which bill was afterwards
vetoed by Gov. Pennoyer.
On these roads Toledo has con-
tributed $500 in money and work
of which account has been kept
and fully as much more of which
no record was made as twas purely
volunteer. These routes bring all
portions of the county into easy
means of access to Toledo, except,
perhaps the Lower Alsea and
Beaver creek country The former
will be reached by a road over
from Pools slough which will
bring the town of Lutens, on the
Alsea bay, within fourteen miles Of
Toledo by wagon road, This route
is feasible, some work having al
ready been done on it, and it is
already used as trail. The Beaver
creek people will tap this road with
one up Beaver creek. Thus it will
be seen that all parts Of the county
will be and is now much more ac-
cessible to Toledo than any other
point In order to make this more
clear let us make some
COMPARISONS OF LOCATIONS,
10 get to the county seat al
Toledo the people Of Newport will
have to travel ID miles by boat and
rail or eight miles by wagon road
soon to be shortened to six. The
people of Beaver creek have t.
travel fifteen miles via Yaquin:
and the river or the same distanc,
by wagon road. The people o
Alsea Bay will have to travel q
miles, which, when the road men
toned above is completed will b
shortened to fourteen miles. ,Th
people Of Yahats will have eigh
miles further to travel. The peopl
Of the Upper Alsea will have 1
miles to travel over the Fall cree
!
road. The people Of Big Elk wi
have 81 miles. The people {
Nashville and Little Elk will hav
1i6 miles and Drift creek and FL
City ten miles each. The longe.
distances are for the settlement {
Lobster and Yahats, which al
{. very lightly settled. The oth'
outside distances average about
miles, and the distances grow le'
with the heavier populated parts
the county. With the county SCI
at Newport the Yaliats Alsc
people have gained no materi
distance, while Upper Alsea will
. s2 miles, Big Elk 20 miles and 9
;, ;, the upper country in proportion
The only localities benefited
: distance will be Beaver creek al
: Newport. There are no roa
;. leading to Newport except Il
D Toledo wagon road and the roa
: :. leading up and down the beac
- The other parts Of the coun
= would be shut off almost complete
&c from the county seat, and it wou
y be years before roads could
opened, as an entirely new syst'
" Of roads would have to be opent