Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-07-04
Siletz Reserve,
WHERE AND WHAT 1T IS
AND HOW TO GET
THERE.
A BriefDescriptiOn of the Land
Toward Which Many Are
Looking.

hoW dlll dClluS Tue most attention
from homeseekers at the present
time is the Siletz Reservation. The
reservation embraces a body of land
about "a miles long north and
south, by about IS miles wide east
and west. 1t was formerly situated
in the counties of Benton and Tilla-
nook, but when Lincoln county
was created it was made to embrace
the entire reservation within its
boundaries.
By virtue of proclamation of
President Cleveland the lands of
this reserve, not already allotted to
the Indians in severalty, will be
opened for settlement at 10 o'clock,
noon, on Thursday, July IS, 1895.
TOPOGRAPHY.
The general topography of the
reservation is billy or mountainous,
with valleys along the streams of
varying sizes. The east line of the
reservation runs along near the
summit of the Coast range, and the
land slopes westward to the sea.
The slope does not vary in any
considerable particular from that of
all the other coast counties in the
state from the summit OF the noun
tains to the sea.
The principal questions which
arises in connection with this reser-
walton, are, what are the oppor-
tunities in the way Of getting good
land, and how, and what other
opportunities are open? We would
answer that the following induce
ments will be offered at the opening,
viz: good farm, fruit and grazing
lands, good timber lands, good
fishing waters, and all other busi-
ness opportunities that go with
them. We will take them in order
named, and endeavor to set them
forth in their true lights without
exaggeration. These statements
will be made from personal obser-
walton to large extent.
The agricultural lands of the
Siletz lie along the varies streams
that wind through its hills and
along the low slope of the coast.
The largest stream, and the one on
which the principal amount of arabic
land lies is the Siletz river. The
Siletz river heads near the summit
of the Coast range and empties into
the Siletz Bay. In an air line from
source to mouth it is perhaps not
more than thirty miles, yet so
winding and sinuous is this stream
that it is estimated 10 he from 90 to
ITO miles in length. All along its
length are valleys, or bottoms of
varying width. In some places
these bottoms will contain hundreds
OF acres of the richest land that an
Oregon mist ever fell upon or the
sun ever warmed with its genial
rays. The bottoms are something
of the same formation as the famous
beaver dam lands in some places in
the Willamette valley. They are
the overflow and deposit decayed
vegetable of years accumulation.
In the places where these lands
have been cleared and farmed they
have abundantly yielded in every
thing tried upon them. The soil is
second to none and the climate is
the same as other coast counties, all
that could be asked. The Salmon
river is the next in size TO the
Siletz, and lies in the north part OF
the county. The same description,
except as to size, applies to it that
describes the Siletz. 1t empties
into Salmon bay. Drift creek and
Schooner creek, streams of con-
siderable size, empties into Siletz
bay, while Spencer creek, and
several other small streams empty
into the ocean direct, and along all