Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-06-27
LINCOLN COUNTY, ORE.
THE YOUNGEST COUNTY IN THE STATE
A Brief Description of Lincoln County. Oregon,
And its RiOh, Undeveloped Resources.

Gus stores, fine public school, one weekly
new paper, one sawmill, and man 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 Brasield.
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
good saw mill, now engaged in saving lumber
for the San Francisco market. On the north
side are located the salmon carheries 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
1t remains today without ever having had a
dollar ofmoney spent on it, is better harbor
than many other harbors on the coast Coast.
ing steamers enter and depart regularly with.
outa tug or pi ct. Cranberries raised on the
Alsea marshes b. Mr.. ], 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 Big
Elk and Yaquina Rivers. 1t has Il good hotel,
two stores, blacksmith shop and postofice,
and being tho center Of 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 1t is the center
OF the famous tide-land belt, and will hold her
own by reason of her splendid location. Toledo
has one frst-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. ?. Il. 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 are being shipped to San
Francisco where it is used in the construction
ofsome of the mammoth buildings of that city.
The quarry employs large number of man
and is building up a large industry.
Onu up the railroad are the stations OF Chit
wood, Eddyville and Little Elk, all of them
trading points of some importance.
The Sietz Reservation.
In the north part of the county lies the famous
Siletz 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 a
home from Uncle Sam. The Indians havinc
been allotted their lanes and one hundred ana
eighty thousand acres remaining which will 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 two hundred yards to quarter of
mile 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 0f,sr7
a oDnn ag hot ,f