Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-07-11
LINCOLN COUNTY, ORE.
A: Brief Description OF Lincoln County. Oregon,
And it's Rich, Undeveloped Resources.

new paper, one sawmill, and many other lines
ofbusiness The governmentwo works arelocated
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 Newport ten miles is the Seal Rocks
Summer Res ort, 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
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
it remains today without ever having had Il
dollar ofmoney spent on it, is q better harbor
than many other harbors on the coast. Coast
ing steamers enter and depart regularly with
out tug or pi ct. Cranberries raised ou the
Alsea marshes by Mr. ]. O. Stearns, are pro-
nounced hv experts TO he 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 good hotel,
two stores blacksmith shop and postoflice,
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 we'll
| located u 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 first-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 a 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 it is unexceled
Large quantities Oft 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 large industry.
On up the railroad are the stations of Chit
wood Eddyville and Little Elk, all of them
trading points of some Importance.
The Siletz 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 having
been allotted their lands and one hundred and
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 a quarter OF
a mile, This territory has never been visited
by fire and there are millions of feet of fine
fir lnrrh pnd codnr timber. Large deposits nj
: 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 q
, few old Indians the remnants of a once power
ful tribe was heard as they paid their tribute tC
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 oi
frost, frut 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, common in the Willamette Val
ley and California. Lincoln County will be the
banner fruit County in 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 as soon as this
road makes connection with an eastern road
and becomes a trans-continental line opening
up the great wool and wheat belts, OF eastern
oregon, Yaquina Bay will then become a for
Inidable 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 undeveloped re.
sources only sleeping for the want of capital
Lincoln County wants business men, working
men, farmers and capitalists. 1t takes all kinds
Of people to make 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 colOrs on mid.winter flowers;
where Ayers Ague Cure is ofno more value than
a bushel Of sand; where fever and malaria are
strangers and outcasts; where an honest in.
dustrious man can make him home and be as
free and independent as Governor Pennoyer.
II you are an old man come and view q sunset
down by the sea, rest your mind and be care free
for while. If you are yonnR man come and