Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1895-07-18

inhabiten s. 1t has three fine hotels, numer-
ous stores, fine public school, one weekly
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ofbusiness. The governmentworksa 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 Newport ten miles is the Seal Rocks
Summer Resort, owned by James Brasfield
Here are loCs 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 Aisea 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
dGirying country. The Alsea harbor although
it remains today without ever having had a
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. CrNnberries 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
rno Is nicely located at the junction oi The big
Elk and Iaquina Rivers. 1t has a good hotel
two stores, blacksmith shop and postotlice
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 II miles above the mouth of the Bay, or
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 o.
the Siletz Indian Reservation. 1t is the center
OF the famous tide-land belt, and will hold hel
own by reason of her splendid location. Toledo
has one first-Class hotel, four good genera
merchandise stores, one drug store, two weekly
newspapers, one steam saw-mill, blacksmith
shop, fine large public school building, tw,
churches, and other minor businesses.
PIONEER, or MORRISON, is station on tn,
ORR. r., about three miles from Elk City
At thi place is located the famous Pionee
Sandstone quarry. The products ofthis quar-,
is becomming justly celebrated all over tn,
coast Asa building stone it is unexcelled
Large quantities oft are being shipped to Sar
Francisco where it is used in the construction
| OF some OF the mammoth buildings of that city
The quarry employs Il large number of maj
and is building up a large industry.
Onup the railroad are the stations of Chit
wood, Eddyvile and Little Elk, all of then
trading points of some Importance.
Ths Siletz Reservation.
In the north part of the county lies the famou
Siletz Indian reservation, now soon to be throw
open for settlement This reservation is amoni
the last of the Indian lands TO be opened to tn
whites, and offers about the last opportunit
the prospective settler will have in securing
home from Uncle Sam. The Indians hayinl
been allotted their lands and one hundred an,
eighty thousand acres remaining which will b
turned back to the general government and b
homesteaded and taken under the timber act
The Silctz river is navigable for twenty-fv
miles up from its mouth for all classes of rive
boats. Along the river on either side for thre
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 IL
width from two hundred yards to quarter o
a mile, This territory has never been visite,
by fire and there are millions of feet of fin
fir, larch and cedar timber. Large deposits o
coal are known to exist, the quality of which
the same as that of the magnificent Depo
Slough coal, On this reservation can be foun,
some OF the best agricultural and grazing Ian,