Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1915-08-13
LET'S BE UP AND DOING

The following letter. written
bv one of the large timber own
ers of this county, makes good
that would be well
for the reoole Of this county to
Follow. et's aot m these sug-
gestions without dalay:
"Fve~ett. WASH, Aug. 3, 1915
"Mr. ]. B. Miller,
Toledo, Oregon.
"Dear Sir:-As you know, we
own a large tract of timber trib-
utary to Yaluina Bay and for
several years we have been try.
ing to figure out some way
whereby we could commence
operations there, but we have
been unable to find solution
where we could manufacture
this timber and come out whole,
to say. nothing of making a
profit.
in shiDDing lumber from there
by rail, the territory Which can
be reached is very restricted and
you come in competition with all
of the mills through Oregon and
Washington, so that d price can
not be obtained tina. will allow
manufacturing down there. The
same holds true with the water
shipments, as only small boats
can get in there so shipments
must be made TO California only
and everyone knows that Cali
fornia is the dumping ground for
all of the tide water mills from
Coos Bay to Vancouver So, it
seems to us that that country
can never be developed until we
have a deep water harbor so that
boats carrying upwards of a mil
lion and half feet can make that
port.
/ believe that if we go at it in
the right way we can get Con-
gress to make a small approplia-
ton to prepare estimates and
plans for improving the harbor
with the further idea that we
will form a port district, taking
in large amount of timber trib-
utary and that the Port District
will pay a reasonable proportion
OF the cost Of making the i'm
provements the Government TO
pay the balance.
In order to do this it seems to
me the proper method would be
to have the commercial bodies
of Newport, Toledo, Albany and
OF the other towns on the east
ern end of the Corvallis & East
ern road all work together and
petition their Congressman and
Senator to ask for this appropri-
alton at the next session of Con-
gress.
Unless they will all work in
harmony 1t would be useless to
start anything, but If they will
all see the benefits to accrue to
them and are willing to get in
and drill, / believe this can be
accomplished and IL you will
take it up with these bodies and
get the thing started, l will be
glad to come down there at any
time and assist in getting il i'm
shape to present to their repre-
sentatives.
/ believe the present plan
should be for deepening the bar
and perhaps the harbor up as
far as Yaquinas so as to connect
with the railroad, but / do not
believe 1t would be policy to in
"lude any river improvements
AS you know, the River and Har-
bors Committee has turned down
nearly all bills calling for small
river improvements. II we can
get enough to cut out the bar so
that vessels can get inside, we
can then take up the other i'm
provements and probably get
whatever is necessary, so l think
1t is very important to have To-
ledo not insist on having river
Improvement at the same time
One thing that will be nec-
essary In order to accomplish
our purpose will be to have al
the data obtainable In regard to
natural resources tributary &c
this barber. This should take ir
all the territory all the way vi
the c. & e. road. The loca
commercial bodies can probably
get a lot of this information
but In order to have II used al
Washington, It will have to bt
compiled by some competent
man who will be able to put 4
in the proper shape and also
show his authority for the fig
ures, so that whoever introduce.
this measure and ananka m (;