The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-08-03
NEWPORT ACCESSIBLE
BY GRADED ROAD

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1t will be 16 years next September
since we visited Newport with the Or.
egon editors. This year we were SO
fortunate as to be with the convention
{ that was so royalty entertained there.
In the past l6 years many wonderful
changes have been made in all sections
of Oregon where railroads and new
highways have made communication
!. with the outside world easy, and the
constant emigration of settlers from
4 the east to the Pacific coast has gone
to the communities which have been
easy to get into and out of.
While Newport has made progress
since we saw it last. yet it has been
handicapped by being somewhat iso-
lated with most of the localities west
of the willamette valley. In these
days of motor travel, the vacationist is
looking for localities that can be
reached easily by auto, with the good
roads having the first call. Until this
year the highway connecting Newport
with the Willamette valley has been
impossible in winter and hard road
to travel in summer. The trip from
Corvallis requires about four hours by
train and boat, and while the Newport
beach is the natural resort for the ter
ritory directly to the east, and a
! favorite with all who have visited it,
yet the good roads leading to Tilla-
NOOK and the beaches at the end of
the Columbia River Highway have en-
ticed away many of the former regular
patrons of Newport until many cot
tages are now vacant, the town is slip
ping back and development arrested.
However, thanks to live Commun-
| ity Club. there is yet time to bring
back Newport in all its glory, and this
| year will see the completion of a
graded highway of standard width,
graveled and put in shape for auto
travel in wet weather as we'll as dry.
Even now cars are driving the 68 miles
from Corvallis in three hours with
ease.
The Roosevelt Highway will touch
Newport and cross the Yaquina river
near Toledo. This highway will open
to settlement and development many
wonderful localities west of the coast
range that are now lying dormant be-
cause of inaccessibility. This highway
will give Newport a main all year
round road from north to south in addi- |
tion to the highway to the east just |
completed and put one of the finest |
beaches on the Oregon coast on the |
map. There is no resort on the Pacific |
coast that has a greater variety of |
amusement for the summer outing |
than Newport.
One of the greatly appreciated pleas
ures at Newport is the boating. In
September, after the first rains, you
will see the waters of Yaquina Bay
dotted by many small boats. There
are fishermen who have come from the
inland towns to enjoy the superb
salmon fishing on Yaquina Bay. When
fall run of salmon come in from the
ocean to make their way up the va
quina river there is royal sport in the
bay trolling.
Few places, if any, in Oregon, afford
such a variety of fishing as Newport,
with the ocean on one side for deep
sea fishing and Yaquina Bay on the
other. Vast halibut banks are Just off
the coast. This industry is rapidly
growing and has assumed huge pro-
portions in the last few years.
On the beaches at low tide, crabs
and clans are secured with little effort
as are native and eastern oysters. The
famous rock oysters may be dug from
the rocks at low tide. Newport is the
only place in the United States where
this wonderful bi-valve is found.
During the summer (weather per-
fishing schooners in charge of
pilots, make daily trips over
the bar to the deep sea fishing grounds.
This furnishes thrill to the visitors
long to be remembered. A few miles
drive by automobile, or by motor boat
from Newport will bring you to ,
streams where limit catches of trout
may be made in few hours.
The quest of the agate is one of I
which the summer vacationist never
wearies. Some very fine moss agates /
and forti6cation agates are picked up {
1n the beach as we'll as carnelians, :
laspers, moonstones, and occasionally, :
hat rarest of all finds, water agate. /
There are large number of lapIdists !
1T Newport who polish and set the !
agates in very skillful manner at a I
expense. Newport agates !
ire sent all over the United States and Z
.os the countries across the sea. s
Good hikers frequently make the trip /
foot down South beach to Seal Rocks. +
More ease-loving individuals after q
.rossing the bay take the Waldport T
tage. One of the favorite walks from .
Newport is the trip TO Yaquina Head !
In late summer you will Z
ind plenty of huckleberries a few i
hundred yards back from Monterey.
Agate Beach. one of Yaquina Bays 4
most beautiful resorts, is reached and a
Don you are at the lighthouse. The 4
lighthouse is built at the extreme edge a
# the sea-worn basaltic cliff that juts 2
ut into the ocean. Visitors are well j,
ONE and the view from the lofty q
over we'll repays one for the trip. 4
Beyond the lighthouse you can see h
APE Foulweather. Trips are often Il
made by the tireless young folks to /,
Point, and further up the r
oast to Otter Rocks, Gull Rock. The
)evils Well. and The DEVILS Punch .,