Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-03-04
bay and in Oregon.

Forty years ago schooners use to
load lumber for San Francisco and
other Ports at a point where Toledo
now stands, and we who lived there
then looked forward to the time
when a railroad would be built into
the Yaquina Bay country and a
commerce would spring up and a
great city would be built on the
shores of one of Oregon's natural
Harbors, the Railroad did come and
we still waited for the Railroad to
develope the country, and build the
city. But we have learned that
Railroad companies are some what
like individuals they are looking out
for number one. Yes, the Railroad
come and as it came it showed,
hauled, blasted and shoveled all
the logs, dirt and debris from off its
right of way into the Yaquina river
and Bay. The ebbing tides carried
it on down the bay until it lodged
on the sand bars and obstructed the
channels until to day where, the
schooner use to load lumber, a
small farmers Launch gets stuck in
the mud. They only quit dumping
this dirt and debris into the bay
three years ago when the War de-
partment's attention was called to
the fact that it would be of no use to
ask the Government to spend money
clearing out the channels when the
Railroad Company was filling it up
faster than the Government could
dig it out.
From the fact that much of the
Siletz timber is over ripe. Timber
owners will soon he compelled to
move theis timber to market, and
If at that time the people have
taken the steps to deepen their Bay
d Harbor the timber men will surely
stand in and help them, fol it will
save them many millions of dollars
it they can ship their lumber by
Ocean route, therefore it is well that
the people of Lincoln county have
decided to wait no longer but are
determined to dig out the channel
themselves. God helps those
who help themselves" !" 1t seems
to be the policy of the Government
to help those who have first tried to
help themselves. The taxes may
be little hard at first but the in
crease in the value of your property
and the advert of capital and the
tin bucket brigade will soon off set
these taxes.
Newport has been waiting for the
Railroad company to build four
miles of Railroad for over twenty
years and if the people had taken it
upon themselves to build this four
miles of Rail road and had even
made start and surveyed it, the
company would have built the road
They want the territory sometime
in the future or rather they do not
want any other company to build
in and whenever they see it is to be
built, then they will get in and
scratch some more dirt into the
Bay.
Railroad companies would greatly
profit it the Yaquina Bay was clos.
ed up entirely The cost of remov.
ing the timber just to tidewatel
alone at the reasonable sum of $4.O(
per thousand feet, would amount tc
$40, ,000,0 900, and if the Railroads
are to move it on to the East they
would receive probably hundred
million more. Naturally they dc
not want to see this timber moved
by Ocean route. The other branch
of the S.P. r.. R. that has built from
Salem to Falls City will soon hav,
the timber East of the Coast Rang,
moved, and unless the Yaquin,
Bay Harbor and Bay is improved