Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1915-07-02
SOME EARLY YA0uiNA
BAY HISTORY

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In the EARLY Days" column
of the Portland Journal, Fred
Lockey, the special staff writer
of that paper, has the following
to say Of one of our pioneer cit
liens, DIR. F. M. Carter: ~
'In 1865 when / was 10 years
old | enlisted in Captain Nv. w
Rinehart's company" said DR.
Franklin M. Carter OF Newport
Henry Mulkey had come to Eu-
gene from his farm and rode
through the streets shouting fol
Jefferson Davis and Booth and
saying Lincoln got what was
coming to him when he was as
lsassinated. We arrested him al
Long Tom and while l was act
ing as orderly sergeant with the
soldiers taking Mulkey to Fort
Vancouver for a military trial
was thrown from my horse at
Lancaster near the present town
of Junction City and injured.
Feeling was very strong so years
ago. Joaquin Miller's paper at
Eugene had been suppressed for
saying that the South was right
in defending her soil from the
northern invaders. After Lin
coins assassination much bad
feeling was caused by Oregon
copperheads celebrating his
death and toasting his assassin.
One man was nearly killed for
proposing this toast in a saloon,
Here's to the man who pulled
the trigger that killed the man
that freed the Niger
after being discharged from
the army for injuries received in
being thrown from my horse |
took up the study of medicine.
l have been on the Siletz agency
or at Newport for the past 40
years. This whole country has
been held back by lack of trans
portadon. We have had a
checkered career along the line
OF railroad promotion. When
DR.. James r. Bayiey of Corvallis
built his house here at Newport
at an expense of $4,000 it was
said that a railroad was to be
built from the entrance of va
quina bay to Boise and that the
wheat and wool of the inland
empire and the timber of the
Cascades would find a market
through Yaquina bay, but the
dream faded and DIR. Bayley lost
his beautiful home and the seven
acres of land on which it is built
on a mortgage of $1,000. DR..
Bayley, though once wealthy,
died in poverty and his body lies
beneath a simple stone in the
cemetery at Corvallis. The his
tory of the building Of the road
is interesting from the TIME the
first tie was laid to the day the
whole property was sold to Ham,
mond for 100000. The South
ern Pacific, which now owns It,
is making extensive repairs on
the system.
"In 1868 DR.. j. r. Bayley, r. r.
Biddle and T B Odeneal incor-
porated a toll road company
which widened the Indian trail
leading from Kings Valley to the
head of navigation on the va
quina river to a wagon trail. In
1866 they assumed additional
powers and in 1871 their attor-
ney filed supplemental articles to
permit them to secure a land
grant. Congress knew nothing
about Oregon and it didn't cost
the individual congressman any
thing, so they handed over to
them without a murmur every
other section for six. miles on
each side Of their wagon road.
In 1872 the toll road company
took in Colonel T. Egerton Hogg
as a partner in their enterprise.
He brought no money to the
company, but lots of optimism
and enthusiasm.
prior to this there had been
various efforts to get a railroad
to the coast. On August Is,
1867, articles of Incorporation
were filed of the Willamette Val
ley & Coast Railroad company
by r. Irvine, T. B. Odeneal, John
Kelsay and IL other residents of
Benton county. The road never
got beyond the blue print stage.
'In October, 1871, a second
company was formed, the incor-
perators being DR.. ]. r. Bayley,
Ben Simpson and A. B. Mea-
cham. This also died a-born-
ing.
"On October Ia, 1872, still an
other railroad cOmpany was