Lincoln County leader., December 13, 1894, Image 3

LINCOLN COUNTY, OREGON.
THE YOUNGEST COUNTY IN THE STATE.
A Brief Description of Lincoln County. Oregon,
iwuu, uuaeveiopea resources.
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Lj ,v , was created by an ac t of
the Legislature on February 13, 18P.1, and
was formed from territory detached from Ben
ton and;Tillamook counties. It is bounded on
the east by Denton and Polk, on the south by
Lane, on the west by the Pacific ocean, and on
the north by Tillamook and folk. The county
has a coast line of fifty mile's and an area of
1,-HO square miles, and a population of about
S,000 Inhabitants. The temporary county seat
Toledo. The permanent county seat location
will be finally determined at the rpp.lar .tuna
election in 1890. The act creating the County
provides that the candidate for the county re
ceiving a majority of all the votes caM shall be
the permanent county seat. At the regular
election in June, 1894, there were four" candi
dates in the field for permanent county seat,
and no place received a majority vote, hence
there was no election, At the next election
the two points receiving- the hicheat vni at
last election will be the only candidate, and
therefore a decision will be insured. The two
contesting points will bo Tofedo and West Y-
There are four bays within the limits of Lin
coln County, all abounding in fish of all kinds.
Salmon river, or bay enters the ocean near the
northern boundary of the county. Along this
stream are line tide lands and rich bottom
lands, soon to be opened to settlement.
Seven nilleB south of Salmon river the sileta
rtver, or bay empties its sparkling waters Into
the old Pacific Ocean. This stream drnllis a
large scope of country and affords the largest
volume of fresh water of any river In the coun
ty, having many feeders.' For this reason it is
said that more salmon enter it than both the
Aisea ana tne 1 aquina combined. The Siletz
river heads in and near the suinir.it of the Coast
range oft mountains in Polk county and runs
nearly all the way through the rich valley of
the Silet j, now an Indian reservation, soon to
be thrown open to settlement.
Twenty miles south of the Sileti Hay the now
famous Yaquina Bay mingles her commerce
laden waters with the old Pacific. Yaquina
iiay proper intt'uuut li miles long, but I? r.sv'g
ablc for Braall crafts for thirty miles from the
mouth. There are many tributaries emptying
into the Yaquina, and many fine farms dot the
valleys and hill sides. Eight miles above Xew
port are large bodies of rich tide lands extend
ing on up the Hay for six or seven miles, many
acres of which are being dyked, reclaimed and
cultivated, and when once cultivated are said
to be the; richest lands in the world! the soil in
many places being sixty feet deep; The lands
are admirably adapted to raising all kinds of
beets, roots, mangel wuraels, etc;, and particu
larly to the culture of sugar beets, The anal
ysis of beets raised on the tide-land near Tole
do showed.16 per cent of saccharine matter, be
ing the highest percentage obtained In the
state. i
Leaving the tide-lands and for ten miles on
up the Hay, or now the Yaquina river, are large
sandy bottoms In and around Elk City, the gar
den spot of the county. Above Elk City and on
up the Yaquina river and along the lino of the
0. P. railroad are fine bottom lands. On these
bottom lands fruit of all kinds do remarkably
well. Several hop yards have been planted
on these bottom lands and the result has been
very satisfactory. Hop culture promises to he
one of the prosperous and profitable industries
of the county at an early date. At Nashville
near tto east line of the county, are large or
chards of prunes, apples and pears, Bhowing
that fruit will do well even so near the summit
of the Coast range.
Eighteen miles below Yaquina Hay the Alsea
river and Bay empties into the Pacific ocean.
The Bay is of a considerable size, and the en
trance is deep enough to permit coasting ves
sels to enter and carry away the products of the
fertile valley of the Alsea river. The country
contiguous to the Alsea river resembles that of
the Yaquina very much. It is settled with in
dustrious and Jhrlfty people, and promises to
develop rapidly its latent resources.
IX Dairying Industry.
Liucoln county is admirably adapted for
dairying. With our mild climate, where snow
never lies on the ground to exceed one day,
cool nights and abundance of pure spring wa
ter, it lean ideal dairying country. The cli
mate is such that grass never dries up but re
mains green during the entire year, thus af
fording anuual grazing and r jducing the cost
of feeding to a minimum. Clover is naturally
adapted to this country, growing on the high
est hills or the lowest bottoms, wherever the
seed is scattered. Frequently our farmers cut
two cropB of clover from their meadows In one
year, and have been known to cut three, Silos
cuu oe built and threo crops can be obtain
ed annually for ensilage. Steps have been tak
en to establish a creamery plant at Toledo, and
there is but little doubt but that a creamery
will be in successful ojieratlon here at an early
date. With the creamery business once estab
lished at some place within the county, the in
dustry will rapidly develop. It is admitted in
all markets that butter and cheese produced
from the milk of cows that graze upon the suc
culent grasses of our country excels that of any
other region. Tho day Is not far distant When
the dairying resources of bur surrounding
country will be a source of large annual income
to our people.
Timber) Coal aid Uranltf.
Commencing three miles north of Toledo and
extending on through Lincoln county is the fa
mous green belt of fir, spruce; hemlock, larch
and cedar timber, only awaiting capital and
enterprise to manufacture it into lumbar and
place it on the markets of the world.- ,
Two and one-half miles from Toledo, on the
headwaters of Depot Slough are the richest un
developed coal mine in the state Of Oregon. A
local company have thoroughly prospected this
coal belt, and numerous assays have been made,
the last by California experts, who pronounced
it as being the only coal on the coast suitable
for steel works.
North and east of Toledo are located granite
roines in unlimited quantities equal in quality
to the Maine and Vermont prnntte, with water
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machinery necessary to furnish rock for build
ing and monuments.
Towai and Tillages.
YAQCIXA CITY is the terminusof the Oregon
Pacific railroad. It has twohotels, three stores,
a church and a school house. An academy has
recently been instituted there, and promises to
be a successful institution of learning. A con
siderable volume of business is transacted at
Yaquina City. At this place are the wharves
and warehouses which are used by the ocean
steamers, two of which ply regularly between
that norland San Francisco. The town -site is
owned by the railroad company and has never
been placedon the market.
WEST YAYUINA Is across the Hay from" Ya
quina city and is well located on deep water.
It will make a good town as It will enjoy apart
of the trade from the south end of the county
in the near future.
NEWPORT, "Down by the Sea," Is th largest
town on the Bay. It bat population of SOU
Inhabitants. It has three fine hotels) numer
ous stores, a fine publio school, one weekly
newspaper, one sawmill, and many other lines
of business. The government works are located
here and the town enjoys a good trade. New
port enjoys the reputation of being the finest
summer resort on the Pacific coast, and during
the summer month thousands of people visit
Newport,
South of Newport ten miles is the Seal Rocks
Summer Resort, owned by Oames Brasfleld.
Here are located good hotels, fine grounds and
many neat summer cottages.
On Alsea Hay are located two nice little
villages, one on the north side and one on the
south. Good hotels and stores are found In
either town. At Waldport on the south side Is
a good saw mill, now engaged in sawing lumber
for the San Francisco market, On the north
side are located the salmon canneries where
annually are canned and shipped from five tb
ten thousand cases of salmon of fine grade.
The Alsea Hay is navigable for steam crafts for
twelve miles. This part of the County is rich
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dairying country. The Alsea harbor although
it remains today without ever having had a
dollar of money spent on it, is a better harbor
than many other harbors on the coast. Coast
ing steamers enter and depart regularly with
out a tug or pifot. Cranberries raisecj ou the
Alsea marshes by Mr. J. O. Stearns, aw pro
nounced by experts to be of the finest tlavor of
any raised from Oregon to Maine.
ELK CITY Is the oldest town in the county,
and Is nicely located at the Junction of the Big
Elk and Yaquina Rivers. It has a good hotel,
two stores, a blacksmith shop and postotlice,
and being the center of a large farming district
enjoys a good trade. Thousands of bushels of
potatoes and many bushels of fine apples are
shipped annually to San Francisco.
TOLEDO, the temporary County- eat, Is well
located 13 miles above the mouth of the Hay, on
the line of the 0. P. It. K., and nearly in the
center of the County, drawing the lines to the
compass, Toledo enjoys the undivided trade of
the silets Indian Reservation. It is the center
of the famous tide-land belt, and will hold her
own by reason of her splendid location. Toledo
has one first-class hotel, four good general
merchandise stores, one drug store, two weekly
newspapers, one steam saw-mill, blacksmith
shop, a line large public school building; two
churches, and other minor businesses.
PIONEER, or MORRISON, is a station on the
O. P. R. a., about thro miles from Elk City,
At this place is located the famous Pioneer
Sandstone quarry. The products of this quarry
Is becomuiing justly celebrated all over 'the
coast. Asa building stone it Is unexcelled.
Large quantities of it are being shipped to San
Francisco where it is used in the construction
of some of the mammoth buildings of that city.
The qnarry employs a large number of man
and Is building up a large industry.
On up the railroad are the stations of Chit
wood, Eddyville and tittle Elk, all of them
trading points of some importance.
The Slltti Beservatlon. '
In the north part of the county lies the famous
Sileti Indian rcservatlon, how soon to be thrown
open for settlement. This reservation is among
the last of the Indian lands to be opened to the
whites, and offers about the last opportunity
the prospective settler will have In securing' a
home from Uncle Sam. The Indians having
been allotted their lauds and one hundred and
eighty thousand acres remaining which will be
turned back to the general government and be
honiesteaded and taken under the tlmber'act,
The Silets river is navigable for twenty-five'
miles up from Its mouth for all classes of river
boats. Along the river on either side for three
miles Inland are large bodies of rich tide land,
and for the next twenty miles large sandy bot
toms exteud from the rivers edge, varying In
width from two hundred yards to a quarter' of
a mile. This territory has never been visited
by a fire aud there art millions of feet of flue
fir, larch and cedar timber. Large deposits of
coal are known to exist, the quality of which Is
the same as that of the magnificent Depot
slough coal. On this reservation can be found
some of the best agricultural and grazing land
on the coast. All the preliminary work look
ing to the opening of the reservation has been
done, and It Is only awaiting the President's
proclamation announcing it open for settle
ment, when the pioneer's ax will startle tho
wild elk and deer from their natural haunt;
when capital will take up the echo and soon,
where but a few months before nothing but the
wild animals' harsh notes and wierd chants oi a
few old Indians, the remiuantsof a once power
ful tribe, was heard as they paid their tribute to
old Medicine Rock, will be heard the musie of
the saw and hammer. Civilization shall con
quor the earth,
Mlsrellaneoas.
Owing to the mild climate and absence of
frost, fruit of all kinds that can be raised in Ore
gon do exceedingly well here. Large .orchards
of prunes, apples and pears are being set out
and so far have proved to be perfectly free from
all fruit sts, common in the Willamette Val
ley and California. Lincoln County will be the
banner fruit County in .Oregon.
The Oregon Pacific Railroad which has its ter
minus at Yaquina City, has reached the Cas
cade mountains and is operating one hundred
and forty mllea-of road. And as soon as this
road makes connection with an eastern road
and becomes a trans-continental line opening
up the great wool and wheat belts, of eastern
Oregon, Yaquina Hay will then become a for
midable rival of other ports on the Paclficcoast
)f known fame.
i Lincoln County offers hotter Inducements
than any other county In Oregon for capital.
Lincoln County ellers good inducements for
homeseekers.
Lincoln County has many undeveloped re
sources only sleeping for the wan t of capital. '
Lincoln County wants businessmen, working
men, farmers aud capitalists; It takes all kinds
of people tomakeanddevelopacouutry. Take
Horace Greely's advise and come west, where
.i ;j cjoon'.n n j l-.j!:,: nr vl'r-
every man's latch string hangs on the outside;
where the warm breath of the grand old Pacific
paints brilliant colors on mid-winter flowers;
where Ayers Ague Cure is of no more value than
a bushel of sand; where fever and malaria are
strangers and outcasts; where an honest, In
dustrious man can make him a home and be as
free and independent as Governor Pennoyer.
If you are an old man come and view asnnset
down by the sea, rest your mind and be care free
for a while. If you are a yonng man come and
grow up with the country. If you are a mon
eyed man come and double your capital. If you
are a single plan comeand ntourglrl. If you
are a sickly man come and got your health, If
you are a tourist come and see our evergreen
hills, our Newport, our S"al Rocks, come and
stand on old f'aqe Poniwesther. the farthest
oiiil wrst, and cast our eye out on (he foam
Ing, rolling, rextleiw. dashing, breaking, roar
In, aap-ry ocean waves, and e In them a like
ness ol tho human family, always moving,
always restless, always striving to reaoh the
Yaquina Day and Lincoln County.
Hotch Patch From Yaquina,
"The wind it blew, the dust it
flew, and raised particular thunder,
with skirts and hoops, and chicken
coops, and all such kinds of plund
er." Or if it had not been to damp
for dust, and any of that kind of
plunder had been lying around loose
at both ends. In lieu thereof it
blew down the high walk running
from the R. R. track up to the Ya
quina Hotel building, which, by the
way, has been devoutly prayed for,
for sometime, as the walk, owing to
the work of the teredo on the low
er ends of the poSts was getting to
be almost a self supporting institu
tion and was actually dangerous.
Women and the school children
were constantly passing over it in
order to keep out of the mud.
I heard a man on the street speak
ing of the late blow say; "Why, I
never have seen anything like it in
my lite; What do you suppose was
the cp'ise os'ich a wlrirUfvm ntiv-
how?V And the man always ready
with a plausible and perfectly reas
onable explanation replied, "Equi
noxial. Always have .'em about
this time. Sun crossing the line
don't you kuow." Now as for my
self, I would just about , as soon
think it may have been caused by
the President of the United States
possibly contemplating crossing the
line, or perhaps the failure of the
Oi A. C. football team to get across
the line on time. In the former
case it might be well for our ex Gov
ernor to say something, in the latter
fnt the hoys to stop blowing for a
while. But this is only one defeat
after many victories. Up and at
them again boys. Anyway; we. feel
a great deal more pride in the liter
ary and educational attainment,? of
our pet O. A. C. than we do in
their prowess as footballers;
The Steamship Homer hatf been
kept inside and Steamer South-
Coast outside for a few days on ac
count of the atmospheric disturb
ance. ,
The extreme high tides ti; con
nection with the howling South
Wester has damaged the crib : work
somewhat between Yaquina and
Toledo.
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Some timber was blown down
across the Yaquina-Alsea wagon
road which will stop teaming for a
few days, but our enterprising
Beaver creek neighbors will soon
put that to rights dgain.
A lot of the saw logs from A.
Parker's mill at Oneatta, got con
siderably scattered, fortunately
most of them went up stream with
the flood tide and will be recovered.
Captain Geo. Malony and J. N.
Stark have been repairing a portion
of the sidewalk in the lower end of
town, and have made a tiptop good
job of it so far as they went.
Thanks boys, now some of the rest of
us will get in and drill and finish the
job up to Mulcahy Avenue, so we
will not have to get on our lubber
boots to get up towiu
Judge Blue is breaking up the
old government crib that was origin
ally built for the starting point on
thasouth beach jetty.but proved at
the time so impracticable a scheme
it had to be abandoned, and the
present successful plan taken up.
The crib contains I am told over
100,000 feet of twelve inch square
timber and the Judge will use it in
constructing a bulkhead ill front of
some of his West Yaquina property.
; Will the O. P. sell this time?
Oznola.
fillet :Neiv.
, We are having some cold weath
er, especially last Thursday, when
we had a sample of snow. It fell
pretty thick on the mountains.
1 hat seems to give us a pretty good
'dei of what, the winter will he.
James Ross, who has been selling
sewing machines here for about two
weeks, let his team run away from
him the other day. He was on his
way ,to the Agency from Scott
Lane's and stopped to shut a gate.
The shutting of the gate scared a
pig out of a fence corner. The pit?
jumped up with a grunt, scaring
the team, causing them to run,
Mr. Ross gave chase but was not
swift enough. The team came
down to the east end of town when
some one run out to stop them.
This caused them to turn short and
upset the buggy. Fortunately noth
ing but the double-trees were bro
ken. Of course Mr. Ross got lots
of exercise trotting a little over a
mile. Be careful how you close
the gate.
Mrs. Grant, mother of Rev. U
S. Grant, has passed away from
this world, after a sickness of only
a short time, but being old she
could not stand much illnes. She
died on the io, inst. We feel for
the ones sheleft behind. We may
be young and strong, but if our
time has come we got to give up
the worldly pleasures. All we can
do Is to live right and be ready to
meet death when it comes. This
makes' two death in a few days;
They will bury Mrs. Grant at the
Agency cemetery i
W. C. S.
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Elk City Items'.
Eik City will have a Xmas tree.
J. K.' Dixon has been on the sck
list for the past week, but answered
to roll call this morning.
Jesse Craft and other Big Elk
ranchers passed through town yes
terday on their way to Toledo, to
file on, their claims, as they will be
subject to entry today, Dec. 12th!
People in Lincoln County want-,
ing claims better not delay as time
and tide waits for no man, and
thisvspring will bring in lots of set
tlers' who will not wait for others
to file.
it the boys in the vicinity of
Harlan would study the fish law it
will be an eny matter for them to.
beat the girls or at least to compro
mise with them.
The wind storm on Saturday
night, made it very unpleasant for.
Mr. Burkholter's new house, but J,
H. Van Orden has it back on the
foundation today.
While the telephone is not com
plete to Elk City, gossip says Rob
ert (J. is married. We wish him a
pleasant journey through life.
The question of "Women's
rights" will be the subject for de-'
bate at the literary Saturday night.
We note two improvements in
Elk City last week, a new woodshed
at the school house, and a place
graded at the railroad station for
teams td turn. -
Dec. 12, 1894.
Jack.
Real Estate Transfers. '"'
The following are the transfers
of real estate filed for record in the'
county-clerk's office since our last
report:
Charles A. Gove and wife to
Wm. Reid arid John A. Henkle;
lot 6, block 3, Abbey's ad. to Ya
quina Heightsj consideration $300.
Wm. Reid, John A Henkle and
Mary E. Henkle to Gove; quit
claim, lot 6, block 3, Abbey's ad.
to Yaquina Heightsj consideration
$300.
Wm. Creger and Wife to C. F.'
Gallant; blocks 23, lg, 5, 22 and 3,
Holliday's ad. to Yaquina City;
consideration 400.
J. T. Vincent and husband to
Emily Burns one acre on Ollala ,
slough J consideration $60, ,
W. Si Newbury and wife to G.
W. Poole' lot 5, block 6, Jones' ad.
to Toledo) consideration $10.
Dan'l Qrady and wife to N. J.
Leabo; lot blk 22, Toledo; con-
sideration jjSioo.
Dan'l Grady and wife to N. J. J
Leabo; lots 5 and 6, block j, town
of Caledonia, (Toledo); considera
tion $500.
Z. S. Derrick and wife to H. E.
Derrick; one acre of land j consider
ation $10.
C. Kubler to J. A; Hall! undivid
ed Yi of northwest of the north-'
west of sec. 8, township 1 1 south
consideration, 300.
For Hale.
Two good residence lots in the
town of Toledo; one corner lot and
and inside lot adjoining. Size of
lots 50x100 feet. Well located,
and will be sold at a decided bar
gain. Call at this office.
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.s J'i'obaffi Coitrtt
It the matter of the estate of
Ldrenzi ltyloni, an insane person.
Final account of Oscar Tom, guar
dian; filed and accepted and guar
dian discharged.
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