Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-06-20

Z new paper, one SaWnlll, ana many Otner lines
otbusiness. The governmentworks 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 Brastield.
Here are loca ted good hotels, fine grounds and
many neat summer cottages.
J 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
n 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 a
dollar ofmoney spent on it, is a better harbor
than many other harbors on the coast. Coast
ing steamers enter and depart regularly with
out tug or pi c. Cranberries raised on the
Alsea marshes by Mr.. j. 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 q good hotel,
two stores, a blacksmith shop and postotice,
and being the center of large farming district
enjoys q 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. 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
, 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 a station on the
o. PR. r., about three miles from Elk City.
At thi place is located the famous Pioneer
t 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
OF some of the mammoth buildings OF that city
The quarry employs large number of man
1 and is building up large industry.
e Onup the railroad are the stations of Chit
= wood, Eddyville and Little Elk, all Of them
n trading points of some importance.
e The Siletz Reservation.
In the north part the county lies the famous
tS
open for settlement. This reservation is among
n the last OF the Indian lands to be opened to thu
G whites, and offers about the last opportunit!
D the prospective settler will have in securing
B. home from Uncle Sam. The Indians havinl
I been allotted their lands and one hundred ant
g eighty thousand acres remaining which will b.
l. turned back to the general government and b.
homesteaded and taken under the timber act
u The siletz river is navigable for twenty-fv
H. miles up from its mouth for all classes of rive
Il boats. Along the river on either side for thre
s. miles inland are large bodies of rich tide land
IL and for the next twenty miles large sandy bot
T! toms extend from the rivers edge, varying 4
Oh width from two hundred yards to h quarter G
H. mile. This territory has never beeE visite
10 by fire and there are millions of feel:of fin
fir, larch and cedar timber, Large deposits {
coal are known to exist, the quality OF which
or the same as that of the magnificent Depc
w Slough coal. On this reservation can be foun
y, some OF the best agricultural and grazing Ian
a: on the coast. All the preliminary work lool
H. ing to the opening OF the reservation has bee
e. done, and it is only awaiting the President
lf- proclamation announcing 1t open for settle
'st ment, when the pioneers AK will startle tn
ly wild elk and deer from their natural haunt'
H. when capital will take up the echo and sool
he where but few months before nothing but tn
ut wild animals harsh notes and wierd chants Of
ne few old Indians the remnants of a once powe
os full tribe, was heard they paid their tribute
IL old Medicine Rock, will be heard the music
is the saw and hammer Civilization shall col
en- quor the earth.
ne Miscellaneous.
" owing to the mild climate and absence
frost, fruit of all kinds that be raised in orr
~ -, gon do exceedingly well here. Large orchard
~ of prunes, apples and pears are being set on
ed and so far have proved to be perfectly free froi
e. all fruit pests common in the Willamette Va
~ ley and California. Lincoln County will be tn
'n banner fruit County in Oregon.
lg The oregon Pacific Railroad which has its tel
ne minus at Yaquina City, has reached the Ca
cade mountains and is operating one hundre
and forty miles of road. And as soon as th
ID road makes connection with an eastern roa
a. and becomes a trnns-continental line openin
n up the great wool and wheat belts, Of easter
I'd Oregon, Yaquina Bay will then become a fol
I'd midabe rival Of other ports on the Pacific coal
. of known fame.
be Lincoln County offers better inducement
n. than any other county in oregon for capital
A TincoIn County offers uood inducementg &c