Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-07-04


GUS stores, fine public school, one weekly
new paper, one sawmiu, and many other lines
oibusiness. The governmentworks arelocated
her and the town enjoys good trade. Now
/ 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 Res 9rt owned by James Brasfeld.
Here are loca ted 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
a 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 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
ii remains today without ever having had a
dollar ofmOney spent on ii, is better harbor
than many other harhors on the coast Coast
ing steamers enter and depart regularly with
outa tug or pi Ct. Cranberries raised on the
Alsca marshes by Mr. J. o. stearns, are pro
nounced by experts TO be of the finest flavor of
any raised from Oregon to Maine.
( ELK CITY is the Oldest town in the county,
and is nicely located AT the junction of the Rig
Elk and Naquina Rivers, 1t has good hotel,
two stores, Il blacksmith shop and postonice,
and being the center OF a 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 II 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 Siletz Indian Reservation. It is the center
OF the famous tide-land belt, and viii hold her
own by reason OF her splendid location. Toledo
has one iirst-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. r. r., about three miles from Elk City.
At thi place is located the famous Pioneer
Sandstone quarry. The products of this quarry
is becomming justly celebrated all over the
coast. Asa building stone it is unexcelled.
Large quantities ofita being shipped to san
Francisco where it is used in the construction
OF some of the mammoth buildings of that city.
The quarry employs a large number of man
and is building up large industry.
Onup the railroad are the stations OF Chit
wood, Eddyville and Little Elk, all of them
trading points of some importance.
The Slletz Reservation.
In the north part OF the county lies the famous
Silet2 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 n
home from Uncle sam. The Indians having
been allotted their lands and one hundred and
eighty thousand acres remaining which viii be
turned back to the general government and be
homesteaded 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,
and for the next twenty miles large sandy bot
toms extend from the rivers edge, varying in
width from twohundred yards to quarter of
/ "a iHlAN' Inns tSllINolS A4ts HtNtI ueeu NlhltOu
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 Presidents
/ proclamation announcing it open for settle
ment, 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 a
few old Indians, the remnants of a once power
ful tribe was heard as they paid their tribute to
Old Medicine Rock, viii be heard the music of
the saw and hammer. Civilization shall con.
quor the earth.
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