Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-05-23

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Gus stores fine public school, one weekly
b newspaper one sawmill and many other lines
OF business. The government works are located
here aud the town enjoys good trade. New.
port enjoys the reputation OF being the finest
summer resort on the Pacific coast, and during
The summermonth thousands OF people visit
Newport.
South OF Newport ten miles is the Seal Rocks
Summer Resort, owned by James Brasheld.
Here are loca ted good hotels, fine grounds and
many nt II summer cottages.
On Alseq 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 cauueries where
annually are canned and shipped from five to
ten thousand cases of salmon of fine grade.
The Alsea Bay is n6vigable 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 harbCr although
it remains today without ever having had
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 ou the
Alsea marshes by Mr.. j. o. Stearns, are pro.
nounced by experts to be OF the finest flavor of
any raised from Oregon 70 Maine
ELK CITY is the oldest town in the county,
and is nicely located at the junction OF the Big
Elk and laquina Rivers. 1t has good hotel
two stores, II blacksmith shop and postofice
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 well
| located II miles above the mouth of the Bay, on
| the line OF the o. 2. Il. 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 tirst-class hotel, four good general
merchandise stores one drug store, two weekly
newspapers, one steam saw-mir, blacksmith
shop, fine large public school building, two
churches, and other minor businesses.
| PIONEER, or MORRISON, is a station on the
TO. p. 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. As a building stone it is unexcelled
Large quantities ofitare being shipped TO san
Francisco where 1t 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.
Onup the railroad are the stations of Chit
wood Eddyvile and Little Elk, all of them
trading points of some importance.
The Siletz Eeseryation
In the north partolthe county lies the famous
aietz 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 n
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
Inc siletz river is navigable for twenty-hv,
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
II mile This territory has never been visited
by fire and there are millions of feet of fine
tr, 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 it is only awaiting the Presidents
| proclamation announcing 1t open for settle
ment, when the pioneers AK will startle the
wild elk and deer from their natural haunts;
When capital viii take up the echo and soon.
| Where but few months before nothing but the
| wild enimals' harsh notes and wierd chants of a
tew old Indians, the remnants of n once power
iul tribe, wash heard they paid their tribute to
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, common in the Willamette Val
ley and California. Lincoln County will be the
banner fruit County in Oregon.
The Oregon Pacific Railroad which has It's 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 trans.continental line opening
up the great wool and wheat belts, Of eastern |
Oregon Yaqulna Bay will then become a for
midsble rival OF other ports on the Pacifceoast
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. u takes all kinds
oi people tomake and develop u country. Take
Horace Greey'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
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