Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-09-07
Newport and Nye Greek.

Hon. G. B. Moores and family passed
through Toledo Tuesday morning, re-
turning to Salem after two-months'
stay in their pretty cottage by the sea.
Under date of September l, Mr.. Moores
has an interesting communication in
the Salem Statesman. We reproduce
Mr.. Moore's article because it has the
correct ring, in that it gives some plain
and sensible talk to individuals in one
community who put in their valuable
time knocking another. Read it:
Editor Statesman: Nothing has add.
ed more to the gayety of the closing
days of the season at Newport than |
the article published in your columns
yesterday, signed Fred r. Waters, lay
ing bare the infamous designs OF Nye
Creek spectators who are "doing ev-
erything possible to destroy Newport"
Considering its length, this article is
the richest and most varied compendi-
UNI of misinformation that has ap-
peared in the columns of the American
press for many years. We need no
assurance that the writer is familiar
with both Newport and Nye Greek"
He has the original and entirely ex-
elusive information that "Nye Greek
property manipulators are in trouble
with the town people Of Newport over
the terminus OF the extension of the
G. & Z. r, R."
He tells us that sit would take the
telescope eye of an eagle to discern
what advantages Nye Creek has over
Newport"-that "at Nye Creek the
constant breeZes fill the air with parti-
cles OF sand and dust and this blows
into your houses" etc.-that Nye Creek
has "a very ordinary beach to gaze at
and monotonous waste of gray ocean,
) without single sail, ship or moving
object to arrest your attention. that
: 'no sailing vessels or steamers will ever
stop there;" that 'it is bare of any
gift of either land or sea to make it a
l city," and that "there is nothing to be
4 had at Nye Greek but what can be had
/ at Newport, along with its thousands
, mot hundreds)of additional attractions,
4 tadvaDt Dtages and conveniences to the
tourist, the pleasure seeker and the
tradesman."
:, Such desolate picture as that should
forever settle the future of Nye Creek.
| Nevertheless, while there has been no
e movement in the original town of New
port for fifteen or twenty years there
f has been a remarkable advance in Nye
t Creek, especially during the past three
years. Prominent men from Portland
e Oregon City, Salem, Albany, Lebanon
f Corvallis, Forest Grove, Hillsboro, Nc.
+ Minnville, Dallas, Monmouth and towns
as far south as Ashland have come to
, Nye Greek by the hundreds to buy
: property and build cottages. Thous
ands of others have come from these
. same localities to Nye Creek to CAMP
! and rent and board. Take Salem as ar
;, example. Col Hofer owns cottage Oh
the bay side at Olssonvlle. So far as
the writer is aware no Salem man has
Il invested in property in what is known
as old Newport. The following nance
. are Salem residents and ex-residents
i' who if not gifted with "the telescope,
eye of an eagle must have been bun
II coed by property manipulators" int
buying property in Nye Creek "barrer
e of any gift of land or sea" and alon,
>. the shores OF q ''monotonous waste o
i grey ocean," viz: John H. Albert
d George G. Bingham, George j. Pearce
1t Fl. B. Thielson, A. N. Moores, r. b
IS Fleming, DR.. j. F. Calbraith, Prof. Z
NJ. Catch, FL. ]. Minthorn, Dr.. D. a
Paine, Wm. T. Gray, c. X. Spaulding
Prof. u. NJ. Parvin, F N. Derby, Franz
10 w. Durbin, G. Marsh, j. A. Simpson
N. j. Damon, George Collins, Georg
Griswold, Lyman Reeves, George Z
Ia Hatch, II. M. Branson, A. j. Basey
VIM. Boeschen, John Henderson an,
others.
le Nye Creek and Newport are both in
cluded in the corporation which i
known as the city of Newport. Resi-
dents of Nye Creek, in addition to thei
)6 own advantages, enjoy every advantag
which old Newport offers. Every even
ing supper has to be either hastened @
delayed to allow every Nye Creeker tn
privilege of going over the ridge t
Newport to see the boat come in, an
after the arrival of the boat the side
walks leading to Nye Creek LITERAL
swarm with the crowds returning home
The principal support of Newport mel
chants and tradesmen during the seaso
comes from Nye Creek. Residenss {