Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-08-08
LINCOLN COUNTY, ORE.
THE YOUNGEST COUNTY IN THE STATE.
A; Brief Description Of Lincoln County Oregon,
And it's Rich, Undeveloped Resources

inhaDitan s. IL has three fine hotels, numer-
GUS stores, fine public school, one weekly /
new paper, one sawmill and many other lines
ofbusiness. The government works are located |
her and the town enjoys good trade. New.
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 New port ten miles is the Seal Rocks
Summer Res ort, owned by James Brnsfeld. |
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 line grade.
The .,lsea 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 oimoney spent on 1t, Is Il better harbor
than many other harbors on the coast. Coast
ing steamers enter and depart regularly with.
out tug OF pi ct. Cranberries raised OH the
Alsea marshes by Mr.. J. q. Stearns, are pro.
nOunced by experts to be Of the finest flavor of
any raised from Oregon tn Maine.
ELK CITY IL the oldest town In the county,
and Is nicely located ut the junction of the Big
Eli snd Naqulna Rivers. y has 2 good hotel,
two stores, II blacksmith shop and postoillce,
and being the center of large farming district
enjoys u good trade, Thousands of bushels of
,,n,o;oa, ga ,,,sno,.'s n,n a,',,ns sa
shiuned annually Tn san Francisco
TOLEDO, the temuorary County. eat. Is we'll
located - miles aboye the month of the Raw. on
the line of the q. T. r. r.. and nearly in the
center of the County. drawing the lines tn the
eompass. Toledo eniovs the undivided trade of
the sil.tz Indian Reservation II "a the center
, of the famous tidelsnd belt and will bold her
, own by reason of her sulendii location. Toledo
. has one drst.elass hotel, four good general
merchandise stores. one drug store tvo weakly
newspapers. one steam s,w.mil, blacksmith
/, shop. A fine large pnblic school huildiny two
, churches. and other minor businesses
, PIONEER. ar MORRISON a. a station on the
lOpR r. nb,ut three miles from Elk CITY
g At tbi nlaee is loeated the fnmous pionee,
4 Sandstone ouarry The uroJucts of this ouarr,
. is becomminy iustly celebrated all over the
i. eonst. Asa huildinv stone II IL unexcelled
l.. Large ouonttties of II are beinv shipped In Sar
!. Francisco where Il Is used I'm the construction
a of some of III, mammoth buildinys of that city
The ouarry employs n lnrye nnmher of mar
!, and Is building mn n lnrye industry
o On I'M the railroad nro the stations of Chit
,. wood. Eddyyille and Little Elk. all of then
n trading points of some i'm nnortance
n
IA
= III 'ne nor'h P"r'"i i'hee"uh'y lies 'he taihou
n eleN 'huih1i reservation, NOW sooh 10 DC throwi
~ open ior settlement rms reservation Is anon
M 'he "s' "i ,he ih"i"h iahos I" pe opened 10 IN
ne Mhi'eS' anu oners np"", tne last oPPor'uii'
- .he prospective settler VIII nave III securing
r. NOME from .hcIc sam. me ihuiaiis ha'nh
~ 'eeh "iio''eu 'neir 'ahos ana one huharea an
4, esh' thousahu acres remaining ""ich VIII
.a.,a,ao, -, - 49,. ,t,'., 40
en- The siletz river IL nayiyable for twentv.dy
H. miles ,,p from It's mouth for all classes of riy,
H. boats. Along the river ON either side for thre
's- miles inland are large bodies Of rich tide Ian,
he and for the next twenty miles large sandy bo
r! toms extend from the rivers edge, varying |
oi width from two hundred yards to quarter
n II mile. This territory has never been visite
TO by a fire and there are millions Of feet of fin
iir larch and cedar timber. Large deposits
coal are known to exist, the quality of which
Tor the same as that OF the magnificent Dep
Dw Slough coal. on this reservation can be fOur
sy, some OF the best agricultural and grazing Lar
IA: on the coast All the preliminary work loo
H. ing to the opening Of the reservation has bet
re. done, and 1t is only awaiting the President
af- proclamation ANNOUNCING It open for settl
ost ment when the pioieer's AK will startle Il
lily wild elk and deer from their natural haunt
sh- when capital will take up the echo and 500
he where but few months before nothing but Il
tut wild animals harsh notes And wierd chants o.
me few old Indians, the remnants of once powe
los full tribe, washeard NJ they paid their tribute
in old Medicine Rock, viii he heard the music
l. ho Sn~ nni hammer. ii2l!l,a'lin shall "'
zen quor the oarth,
he Miscellaneous,
ia Owing to the mild climate and absence
no FROST fruit Of ALI kinds that cn,, he raised in O,
nc. yon do exceedingly we'll here, large orchar
Aid Of nrunes annles and nears arc heiny set q
ed and so far have nroved n ma e,tec,,y fres ,ro
nc. all ,rr,, ,a.,s cn,rwon In the wi,lame,ts v,
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