Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-08-13
three Quarters Of a mile above, where
Henry Nice now runs the Cannery.
KEADY's TOWN SITE.

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Henry Nice now runs the Cannery.
KeADY's TOWN SITE.
Hon. w. P. Ready, former Salem
ite, was one of the original settlers on
Alsea bay. fIe homesteaded quarter
section including part of the level
town site of waldport, and extending
out TO the rocky point at the entrance
to the harbor. Mr.. Keady's land
would make a beautiful summer re-
sort itself. 1t is covered to the beach
with fir, spruce and cedar trees 20 to
40 feet high. 1t is warm and sunny
sheltered from all winds and he is
planning to put on a colony of cot
tages.
On the Ready place is grave said
to be the last resting place of the first
white woman who came into the
Alsea bay country. A split picket
fence encloSes the grave on three
sides, one side having fallen down.
This grave should be preserved as a
monument to the faith and devotion
of a pioneer who penetrated to this
iumping-otf place. could not learn
the women's name, or / would be
glad to print, but | have no doubt
there are settlers still living who re-
member it we'll.
ON THE ROCKS
Besides the wonderful trout fishing
on the Yahats, there are the Crooks"
between that river and Waldport,
where for mile and half the wagon
road runs on top of bench of basalt
only from ten 10 twenty above tn
old Pacific herself. The rocks are
covered with grass. Back Of this is
green timber. The finest ocean fish
ing with pole and line 'is off these
rocks. Here are also the most won-
derful smelt beds on the coast. The
smelt run is here from May to Sep
tember and spawn on peculiar shell
bottom. These smelt are harder and
larger than those we get from the
Columbia and the sound. You can
take them out with your hands. A
man told me he had suit of gunnybag
bloomers with a pucker-string at the
bottom. He puts them on, wades in |
pulls the string and goes ashore with |
a barrel of smelt in his bloomerS. The |
Siletz Indians come here and dry |
them.
SOME ACQUAINTANCE.
At Waldport / met DR.. Given and !
his sons, who conduct a mercantile |
business. Ed Given, or "Battle-axe"
Ed, as his fellow travelling men call
aim, is one of the best men on the
'oad. DR.. Given practices his pro-
ession for twenty miles into the in
,erior. w. e. Wann, who had the
Arnold place at Salem, has a large
anch south of here on the Yahats.
Jhas. l.. Diven is to be the new post
master here. j, M. Collins lives just
Lbove town. He went through to At
anita with Sherman on his march to
he sea, and owned the site of the In
liam farm at Yahats when Geo. p.
Iltchfeld was Indian agent. Collins
aught Coy. Lord to eat clans.
ound Jas. Anderson, the Woodburn
mending nets in can
ery. He and his wife are in splendid
ealth, but lost horse, a COW and {
heir only baby all within a year. He /
as first-class blacksmith shop and
ood home, besides fifty acre ranch.
JEFF MYERS TOOK A WALK.
Col. jeff Myers, who bought lSO
cres of land just below Waldport, got !
apt. w. r. Wakefield, justice of the $
'eace and proprietor of the Alsea
ouse, at Waldport,. to show him c
yer the land. 1t extends from the 8
each to the mountains, is covered t
nth some big timber, and the usual /
catering wealth of salal, huckel-
erry, rhododendron and rhinoceros
errles. Captain Wakefield has a stiff
nee on one leg and a limp ia his
ak. Col. Myers felt sorry for Capt.