Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1906-02-09
COAST RAILROAD Is COMING
The Dream and Hope of Years is at Last
Gigantic and Welcome Reality

The Dream and Hope of Years is at Last
Gigantic and Welcome Reality
It, y sure thing. That Oregon Coast
railroad is to be constructed The time
limit is three wears, with probability
OF its completion within six months
or a year less than that time.
The company organized for lhis great
enterprise is known AS the Oregon
Coast & Eastern Railway company, and
its purpose is to construct a line OF
railroad from Portland to humboldt
bay, California, via Tillamook, Siletz,
Yauuiua, Alsea and Coos bays. At
Portland it will connect with the
Northern Pacific and at humboldt bay
with the Santa Fe. From Coos bay it
will stretch an arm across central Ore
gon and on east to connect with the |
Rock Island at Ogden. This will give |
route from Portland TO the east |
shorter by 80 miles than any now in |
existence. 1t will tap the ia nous un-
developed timber belts of Oregon and F,
open to settlement what is destined to |
become the richest part of the state, of |
which Lincoln county constitutes an
important fraction.
Colonel T. II. Supple of Portland has
been in Toledo several days as one OF
the several representatives of the COM
pany aud to him The LEADER is in
debted for the interesting information
regarding the proposed road. The fol.
lowing letters, which 1.-The gentleman
permits us to give publicity, will explain
to our readers the methods OF procedure
il this mammoth undertaking:
Office of William J. wilsey
i0l-402 Stearns Building, 7
Portland, Jan. 20, 1906.
To whom it may concern:
The bearer Of this letter, Mr. T. II. Supple, is
the representative of the proposed oregon
Coas; Railroad Company, and as such repre-
sentative is authorized to secure subsidies in
lands, cash or otherwise, also rights OF way,
water frontage on all bays, etc.
All deeds, contracts, or agreements of any
kind are to be given him, under The terms OF a
certain escrow agreement registered with the
Security Savings and Trust Company, of Port
land, Oregon, copy of which escrow agreement
he has in his possession.
You will note by the letters he will show you
from Mr.. J. y. Teal, Attorney for Transporta-
tion Committee of Cham Der of Commerce, Port
land, oregon, also letters from Messrs. Baker *
Crabtree, OF st. Louis, Missouri that the enter
prise is a genuine one. and the terms of the
agreement will be carried out and the railroad
built, providing the people to be benefited by
the building of said road will assist in securing
the subsidies and rights OF way, so that the
enterprise will be complete success, and
those that propose TO expend their money in
giving TO oregon transportation facilities, may
be secure on at least the cost OF operating the
road, and a small interest OH the investment
until such time as the country is opened VI
and settlement secured.
This proposition is an entirely independent
one and not in any way connected with any o.
the existing transportation ines in the State
OF Oregon.
We ask your earnest support, cooper atioi
and friendship in this most worthy and neces
sary cause or enterprise, and we know that yol
will reap great benefit from the same.
Yours truly W.. WILsEY
Mr.. Wilsey is well-known timbe
and mining operator and is perfect,
familiar with the country through
which the road will pass. To his effort
are largely due the determination o
eastern capitalists to construct the line
Ofice OF Baker e. Crabtree
5l5l6-l7 Fullerton Bldg 7
St. Louis, NO., Jan. II, 1906 }
Col. W. ]. Wilsey
Care Imperial Hotel,
Portland, Oregon.
Dear Sir: With reference to the propositio
to construct steam railroad from Portland
the Coast, and down the coast to Coos Ba!
Oregon, thence to Humboldt Bay, California
as per plans heretofore discussed with you, W
beg TO say that we have made thorough il
vsstigation in regard to this proposition an
are prepared TO finance it and build the roaC
We will do this without delay provided tn
people in the territory through which tn
road will run and whom 1t will most benef
are willing to guarantee and give free
charge all the rights of way that will bs r.
uuired, and grant donations of depot site
water frontage on the bays touched by ii
proposed road, and give sufficient farming al
timber lands as n bonus. or subsidy, TO plaC
the proposition on business and equitab
basis.
We feel certain that the people living in Il
territory through which the road will run al
owning property therein cannot fail to reali
the large benefits that Will accrue to them as
result of the carrying out of oui plans, al
willgive literally toward making the propo'
tion success.
OF course you understand that the road W
not be a paying Investment for the first fe
years it is operated-no railroad is-Dutwe fe
that the citizens OF that part of Oregon cam
help but realize what a railroad would be
ahem in the way of increasing the value
their property and placing them in positi
where the products of their lands and lab