Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-06-06

new paper one sawnill and many other line
OF v mess. The government works are locate,
her and the town enjoys good trade. New
port enjoys the reputation of being the fines
summer resort on the Pacific coast, and durin,
the summer month thousands OF people yisi
t Newport.
south OF New port ten miles is the Seal Rock
summer Res Drt, owned by James Brasaeld
i'ere are loca ted good hotels, fine grounds ant
many neat summer cottages. g.
On AlSea Bay are located two nice Nttl.
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 1,
good saw mill, now engaged in saving lumbe,
Tor the san Francisco market. On the north
side are located the salmon canneries where
annually are canned and shipped from five n
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
1t remains today without ever having had a
dollar ofmoney spent on 1t, is better harbor
than many other Earbors on the coast. Coast.
ing steamers enter and depart regularly with.
outa tug or pi Ct. Cranberries raised OIL the
Aisea marshes by Mr. J. o, Stearns, are pro.
nonnced by experts to be Of tho finest flavor Of
any raised from Oregon to Maine,
ELM CITY is the Oldest town in the county.
ana Is nicely located at the junction of the Big
Elk ana faluina Rivers. 1t has a good hotel,
TWO Stores blacksmith shop and postotiice,
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 welt
located II miles above the mouth of the Bay, or.
the line of the o. p. II. 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. 1t is the center
OF the famous tide-land belt, and will hold her
own by reason of her splendid location. Toledo
mas one tlrst-class hotel, four good general
mGrchendise 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. As a building stone 1t is unexcelled
Large quantities of it are being shipped to San
Francisco where it Is used in the construction
OF fs0me of the mammoth buildings of that city.
The quarry employs II large number of man
and is building up large industry.
ohup the railroad are the stations of Chit
wood, Eddyrille and Little Elk, all of them
| trading points OF some Importance
- The Siletz Reservation.
In tie north part ol 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 settlorNill have in securing n
home frQne Uncle Sam1 The Indians having
I been allotted their lands and one hundred and
eighty th0usand acres remaining which will he
! turned back to the general government and be
homeSteaded and taken under the timber act.
The siletz river is navigable fer 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 I'm
width from two hundred yards to a quarter of
II milc. This territory has never been visited
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 1t is only awaiting the Presidents
w nj inp ant, nfY,f, 10
ment, when the pioneers nx will startle the
wild elk and deer from their natural haun:s
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
Flew old Indians, the ereininants of once power
ful tribe, was heard as they paid their tribute IA
old Medicine Rock, will be heard the music OF
the saw and hammer. Civilization shall con.
quor the earth.
Miscellaneous.
Owing to the mild climate and absence OF
Frost fruit OF all kinds that can be raised in Ore
gon 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 comm ON in the Willamette Val.
ley and California. Lincoln County will be the
| DulneI lTull NDuHlI III 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 this
road makes connection with an eastern road
and becomes a trnns.cOntinental line opening
up the great wool and wheat belts, of eastern
Oregon, Yaquina Bay will then become a for.
midable rival OF other ports on the Pacific coast
Of known fame.
Lincoln County Offers better inducements
than any other county In Oregon for capital.
Lincoln County offers good inducements for
homeseekers.
Lincoln County has many undeyeloped re.
sources only sleeping for the want of capital.
Lincoln County wants business men, working
men, farmers aud capitalists. 1t takes all kinds
Of people tomalSe and develop country. Take
Horace Greely's advise and come west, where
Billiards and cyclones are unknown: where
every mans latch string hangs on the outside
where the warm breath Of the grand old Pacific
paints brilliant cOlOr on mid-winter flowers;
where Ayers Ague Cure Is Ofno more value than
q Jushel Of sand; where fever and malaria are
strangers and outcasts; where an honest, in.
dustrious man can make him home and be az
free and independent as Governor Pennoyer.
II you are AN old man come and view a sunset
down By the sea, rest your mind and DO care free