Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-06-06
The Land d EA9 S!lttl.
A Description Of the Land
Toward Which Many PeO-
pie are Looking for
Homes.

BY virtue Of a proclamation OF
President Cleveland the lands on
the Siletz Indian Reservation not
allotted in severalty to the Indians,
will be opened for settlement on
July IS, 1895, at IL O'Clock noon.
In view cf the general interest
elected in these lands, short des-
cription Of the reservation, its
general topography and character
of the land will not be amiss, per-
haps, at this time.
The Siletz reservation contains a
body OF land "a miles long north
and soatb, by about is miles wide
east and west. 1t formerly was sit
uated i'll the counties of Benton
and Til;anook, but when the county
of Lincoln was created, the north
line Of the reservation was made
the north line Of the county, and
hence the entire reserve lies within
Lincoln county.
TOPOGRAPHY.
The general topography OF the
reservation is hilly or mountainous,
with valleys along tie streams Of
varylng'sizes. The east line of the
reservation runs along near Tie
summit Of the Coast range, and the
land slopes westward to the sea.
The slope does not vary in any
considerable particular from that OF
al! the other coast counties in the
state from the summit Of the moun.
tains to the sea.
The principal questions which
arises in connection with this reser.
cation, arc, what arc the oppor.
luni,es in tie way Of getting gooi
land, anl now, and what othef
opportunities are open? We would
answer that the following induce.
men S will be offered at the opening
viz; good farm, fruit and grazing
lands, good timber lands, good
fishing waters, aud all other busi-
pess opportunities that so with
them. We will take them in order
named, and endeavor to set them
forth in their true lights without
eXaggeration. These statements
will be made from personal obser'
vation to large extent.
The agricultural lands of the
Siletz lie along the various streams
That wind through is hills ant
along the low slope of the coast
The largest stream, and the one OF
which the principal amount of arabic
land lies is the Siletz river. The
Siletz river heads near the summit
Of the Coast range and empties into
the Siletz Bay. In an air line from
source to mouth it is perhaps moi
more than thirty miles, yet sc
winding and sinuous is this stream
that it is estimated to be from 90 tc
no miles in length, All along its
length are valleys, or bottoms Of
varying width. In some places
these bottoms will contain hundreds
of acres of the richest land that an
Oregon mist ever fell upon or the
sun ever warmed with its genial
rays. The bottoms are something
Of the same formation as the famous
beaver dam lauds in some places in
the Willamette valley. They are
the overflow aud deposit decayed
vegetable of years accumulation.
In the places where these lands
have been cleared AMI farmed they
have abundan,ly yielded i'll every.
thing tried upon them, The soil is
second to none and the climate is
the same as other coast counties, all
that could be asked. The Salmon
river is the next in size to the
Siletz, and lies in the north part OF
the county. The same description,
except as to size, applies to it that
describes the Siletz. 1t empties
into Salmon bay. Drift creek and
Schooner creek, streams of con.
siderable size empty into Siletz
bay, willie Spencer creek, and