Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1915-05-14

water on Ine Ddy anu hCoi eno
ocean, like the plat on the New
port side of the bay. Toledo
made no free proposals. Sew
eral places were spoken Of but
all had to be paid for. Gust
Olson Olson offered a three-acre
tract located on the tideland
and includes the old ball grounds
for $4,000. One thousand dol
lars to be paid down and the
twelve hundred to be paid in
| three years at per cent. inter-
est. In this case the county
would get no deed to the land
for three years and the people
of Toledo would have to put up
the $4,000 with the interest, be-
sides the ground is on tideland
overflowed every winter when
Nhigh water and big tides come
in. don't believe the people Oh
Lincoln county will want to put
permanent buildings on land
that is submerged every Winter
by the high tides. A. T. Peter
son offered to continue the lease
on his land for another year for
$50 if the people wished to con-
tinue to hold the fair there.
Other offers were made by the
neople of Toledo, but the land
was back on the hills and did
not seem to be favorably con-
sidered. The people Of Toledo
seemed to have got tired of the
Fair. 1t did not pay and as
some of them said it had really
got to be considerable of white
elephant.
, M. S. Durbin, head ranger oi
, the forest service, come to New
, port from Tillamook with II
| pack burros. He was on his
= way to Waldport, where he viii
a load the little doukies with wire
v and equipment to extend thu
:. telephone line from Waldport tt
e Florence and from Waldport t
Y Table Mountain, where a look
il out station will be established
s Mr.. Durbin says the forest ser
e vice force is well organized an
: is doing efficient work in pre-
l, venting forest fires and othe
2, destruction of the timber. MI
r. Durbin had beeh in Tillamoo
1, with a force of men plantin
A, trees in the burned districts. II
J. saws it is much better to set tn
e trees out when two years old In
,e stead of sowing the seed. Nine
j. per cent of the trees gro'
when set out while forty-five pc
:, cent grow when the seed
III sown. Table Mountain is a ne
l. ted place. 1t rises 1000 fet
N above the level Of the sea an
II contains about two sections
j. land. To the Indians it wa
ld a sacred mountain. Here it we
III that the Indian prophet an
D. medicine man went to commur
~ with the Great Spirit and
u make medicine. Here he wou
u sit and listen to the roaring
rs the waterfalls, the signing
III the wind as it passes throue
c the forest, the scream of Il
e. night hawk and the howl Of Il
m. wolf. Here he would go thu
Oy his mysterious incantations n
then he would return to b
vd tribe and tell them he had be-
n talking with the Great Spil
ed and whatever he told them w
M the same as though the Gre
m Spirit was talking to them.
ne represented God and they mu
a. do Just as he told them.
as took up his medicine by absor
ed ton and gave 1t out by meant
"a tions and beating of the to
F toms. The prophet or medici
lat man had great influence wi
&C. his tribe and they would
,m about as he told them. He W
AS generally blessed with eight
vim ten of the prettiest women
win the tribe as his wives. He
rec no work, not even to hunt
ing the forest or to fight in battle