Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-01-25


inhabitants Il has three fine hotels. numer-
ous stores, fine public school, one weekly
. newspaper, one sawmill, and many other lines
OF ofbusiness. The government works are located
here 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 Resor owned by James Brasfeld
mere 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 fine grade.
The Alsea Bay is nayigsble 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
dollar ofmoney spent on it, is better hsrbor
than many other harbors on the coast Coast.
ing steamers enter and depart regularly with.
OUT tug or pi Ct. Crsnberries raised ou the
Alsea marshes by Nj J. o. stearns, are pro.
nouneed by experts 10 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 iaquina Rivers. 1t has good hotel,
two stores. Il blacksmith shop and postofiice,
and being the 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 L. nlps above the mouth Of the Raw on
! the line OF the Q. p 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
"f the famous tide-land belt, and will hold her
own 10y reason Of her splendid location. Toledo
: has one iirstclass hotel, four good general
merchandise stores, one drug store, two weekly
| newspapers, one steam mill, blacksmith
shop, fine large public school building, two
| churches, and other minor businesses.
| PIONEER, or MORRISON, is a station on the
o, p, Il, r., about three miles from Elk City.
At this place is located the famous Pioneer
Sandstone quarry. Theproducts of this quarry
is becomming justly celebrated all over the
coast, asa building stone it is unexcelled.
Large quantities Off are being shipped to San
Francisco where it Is used in the construction
ofsomo of the mammoth buildings OF that city,
The quarry employs a large number of maf5'
and is building up a large industry.
Onup the railroad are the stations OF Chit.
| Npnnd EIiv,iI1a ~
trading points of some importance.
The SiletE 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
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.
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 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
A done, and 1t 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 u
few old Indians, the remnants OF once power.
al tIue, "" oa:i t.U. iLlit..ii L.,... ~
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 its ter.
minus at Yaquina City, has reached the Cas-.
cade mountains and is operating one hundred
and forty miles Of road. And az 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, Yaquina Bay will then become for.
midable 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.
p sources only sleeping for the want Of capital
Lincoln County wants business men, working
q men, farmers and capitalists. 1t takes all kinds
y 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 thar
bushel Of sand; where fever and malaria are
b strangers and outcasts; where an honest, in
5 dustrious man can make him home and be al
free and independent as Governor Pennoyer.
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