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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1895)
. .. ...... 1 i.,r 'Vi'.ivw: H . A. am.. Ud . Groceries, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes Etc.; Etc., At COPEiAITS STORE. Wc have just received from the Famous SAN JOSE WOOLEN MILLS, a fine, assortment of era w ill! ra LINCOLN COUNTY, OREGON YOUNGEST COUNTY IN THE STATE. Brief Description of Lincoln Countv. Oregon. And its Rich, Undeveloped Resources. U?hZ P"TY ,vLf,etra,e4 by a.t of I inhabitant,. It lias three fine hotel., numer- ai fr,11, ? '""V3; 1S93-,nd ou 8tore8- flne pub iy 7 ? I J det,ad frm nm- "W- on. -wmra. and many other line, nc I! ?k C0U;UJe,8; " vb0,:nded 0U of busine88' The government work, .relocated he east by Benton and Plk, on the south by here and the town enjov. a good trade. New- kTn;h h!.Tm rtvePTnn0Ce,"v' ' "Joys the reputation of being the finest h . , , Til'"nrk m The count- 8um w on the Pacific coast, and during has a coast lino of fifty mile and an area of ; the summer month thousands of people visit 1,440 square miles, and a population of about Newport. 3,000 inhabitants. The temporary county seat j South of Xen port ten miles is the Seal Rocks 1 " permanent county seat location Summer Kei ort nuiDennaiiy determined at the recalar June cicmum in loan, ine act crutiinr tne Countv : mam- ni provides that the candidate for the dountrre-i OnAls n.v i.,. ... n..i. ceiving a majority of all the votes ca shall be : villages, one on the north side and on. on th. the permanent county seat. At the rceular ' south, finnrf hni. ..,. ,..,.. election in June, mm, thero were four candi- either town. At Waldport on the south side is dates in the Weld tor permanent county seat, a good saw mill, nowengaged (n sawing lumber and no place received a majority vote, hence '. for the San Francisco market. On the north mere was no election. At tne next election side are locate! ih .Mum ,.,.i. owned by James Brasfleld. j Here are loca ted good hotels, fine grounds and the two points receiving the highest vote at last election win be the only candidates, and therefore a decision will be assured. The two contesting points will be Toledo and West Ya qulna. 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 tine tide lands and rich bottom lands, soon to be opened to settlement. Seven miles south of Salmon river the Siletz where annually aro canned and shipped from five to ten thousand cases of salmon of fine grade. The Alsea Boy is navigable for steam crafts for twelve miles. This part of the County is rich in lumber, both fir and cedar, and is the ideal dairying country. The Alsea harbor although it remains today without ever having had 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 pi ct. Cranberries raised ou the Alsea marshes bv Mr. J. 0. Stearns, are pro- river, or bay empties its sparkling waters into uounced by exports to be of the finest flavor of tj.tcc.ld Tariflc Area!'.. Thl- rtrenm drn!n n ' ctiy rr.l-cd frtn Oregon to Mtiirte. large scope of country and affords the largest EI.K CITY is the oldest town In the county, volume of freh water of any river In the couif and is nicely located at the Junction of the Big ty, having many feeders. For this reason it is ( Klk and Yanuina Rivers. It has a good hotel, said that moro salmon enter it than both the 1 two stores, a blacksmith shop and postofilce, Alsea and the Yaqulna combined. The- Siletz j and being the center of a luvge farming district river heads in and nenr the summit of the Coast j enjoys a good trade. Thousands of bushels of range of mountains in Polk county and runs j potatoes and many bushels of line apples are nearly all the way through the rich valley of ! shlppod annually to Sau Francisco, WHAT IS GRAVITATION! the siletz, now an Indian reservation, soon to be thrown oren to settlement. Twenty miles south of the Sllotse Bay the now famous Yaqutna Bay mingles her commerce laden waters with the old Pacitlc. Yaqnina Bay proper is about 14 miles long, but is navig able for small crafts for thirty milc from the mcMth,, There are many tributaries emptying into the Yaqulna, and many fine farms dot the valleys and hill sides. Eight miles above New port are large bodies of rich tide lands extend ing on up the Bay for six or seven miles, many j acres of which are being dyked, reclaimed and , cultivated, and when once cultivated are said to be the richest lauds 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 wurzols, etc., and particu larly to the culture of sugar beets. The anal ysis of beets raised on the tide-land near Tole do showed IB per cent of saccharine matter, be ing the highest percentage obtained in the state. Leaving the tide-lands aud for ten miles on up the Bay, or now the Yaqulna river, arelarge Sandy bottoms In and around Elk City, the gar den spot of the county. Above Elk City and on up the Yaqulna river and alon t e line of the O. 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 the cast line of the county, are large or chards of prunes, apples and pears, showing that fruit wilt do well even so near tho summit of the Coast range, Eighteen miles below Yaqulna Bay 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 productsof the fertile valley of the Alsea river. The country contiguous to the Alsea river resembles that of the Yaqulna very much. It Is settled with in dustrious and thrifty people, and promises to develop rapidly Its lotent resources. - The Dairying litiinstrr. Llucoln 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 puro spring wa ter, it Is an idoal dairying country. The cli mate is such that grass never dries up but re mains green during the entire year, thus af fording annual grazing and rsduclng the cost :ol iceaing IO a minimum. 1 lover is uniumu; Napted to this country, growing oh the high' iills or the lowest bottoms, wherever the . Scattered. Frequently our Termers oui clover from their meadows In one en known to cut three. Silos A three crops can be obtain- ago. Steps have been tak iery piaui at auiuiu, uuu X-it't that a creamery A211 here at an early Hness once estab ' v-,nnty, the In dmltted in X'oduced " ue- TOLEDO, the temporary County- eat, Is well located 12 miles above the mouth of the Bay, on the line of the 0. 1'. It. R., and nearly In the center of the County, drawing the lines to the compass. Toledo enjoys the undivided trade of the Siletz 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 tine large public school building, two churches, and other minor businesses. 1'IOXEEU, or MOilltlHON, Is a station on the O. P. R. R., about three miles from Elk City. At this place is located the famous Pioneer Sandstone quarry. The products of this quarry is becomming justly celebrated all over the coast. As a building atone It is unexcelled, Large quantities of It arc being shipped to San Francisco where it Is used In the construction of some of tho mammoth buildings of that city The quarry employs a large nnmber of man and Is building up a large Industry, On up the railroad are the stations of Chit Wood, Eddyvllle and Little Elk, all of them trading points of some importance, The Slltts Reservation. In the north part of the county lies the famous Siletz Indian reservation, now 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 lands and one hundred and eighty thousand acres remaining which will be turned back to the general government and be homesteaded and taken under the timber act The Siletz 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 extend 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 and there are millions of feet of tine 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 agrfcultural and grazing land on the coast. All the preliminary work look' ing to the opening of the reservation has been done, and it is ouly awaiting the President's proclamation announcing it open for "ettle ment, when the pioneer's ax will startle the wild elk and deer from their natural haunts when capital will take np the echo and soon where but a few months before nothing but the wild animals' harsh notes and wierd chants of a few old Indians, the remlnants of a once power f ul tribe, was beard as they paid their tribute to old Medicine Rock, will be heard the music of the saw and hammer. Civilization shall con quor the earth. Nlscellaneeai. Owing to the mild climate and absence of frost; fruit of all kinds that can be raised in Ore gon do exceedingly well here. Largo orchards of prunes, apples and pears are being set out and so far have proved to be perfectly free from all fruit pests, common In the Willamette al lcVawrtallforula. Lincoln County will be the , nner fruit County In Oregon, .e Oregon Pacific Railroad which has Its ter at Yaqulna City, has reached the Cas, suntalns and Is operating one hundred Titles of road. And as soon as this nectlon with an eastern toad rans-contlnental line opening wheat belts, of eastern y will then become a for ports on the Pacific coast Soma Example. That Seem to Answer the Weighty Question. Two men at antipodes on the earth's inrfaoe are drawn directly toward each other. Each Is at the apes of a cone of the other. These oones Interlock at the earth's center and are there equal, bat the greater part of the mass of each cone and consequently the greater mass If gravity holding eaoh to his place is past the center of the earth and culmi nates at the feet of the other. Every1 point of the earth's surface pulls in a straight line through the center of the earth, not stopping at it; losing part of the pound in proportion as it approaches the center; then, pass ing, regaining it again in proportion as it approaches the opposite snrfaoe. So that half way past the center the pound which at the oenter was nothing has Dow beoome a half pound, and at the antipodal surface a pound again. Make the oenter of the earth the com mon apex of an indefinite number of cones radiating to the surface. Accord ing to mass, gravity pulls from the oen ter, and the oenter is again the point of nugation. If gravity is an active esienoe pro duced by molecular motion, if being a living essenoe, it is therefore a perish able one, it follows that in a conglom erate mans, as the earth, some snbstanoes will probably exhaust sooner than oth ers by reason of expiration of moleoulor aotivity, if that be its prodnoer, or from other or any oause. Being an active ex pending force, it must have a produoer, and that produoer must have supplies of force produoing matter. These supplies, owuver gi'euw muni, oauuuac uiuui- ent qualities of matter may contain this force producing quality in differing de grees and qualities. If so, the minor will sooner exhaust. A feather, a leaden ball and a dry stiok will fall through space to our atmosphere with equal speed beoauso their atoms and the atoms of the earth mutually attraot eaoh oth CIGARETTES AND THE TEETH. A Dentist Saya th. Merree In Them Are KUled by Nicotine Poisoning;. "There is one bad result of constant oigarette smoking that very few people know anything about, '-' s,qtd a Brooklyn dentist "The result Itself has been ap parent to me and to all dentists for a long time, but the cause has been a mys tery until very reoently. For yo:vrs the nerves of teeth in every other way por feot have been found dead. A careful examination of a dead nerve found in an unexposed tooth reoently revealed tho . fact that it had been poisoned by nico tine, and thereby the mystery referred to was solved. Nicotine poisoning from oigarette smoking -is killing the nerves in the teeth of smokers. It is a most serious state of affairs, although most people will not understand. They think a dead tooth is as good as a live one. They will find their mistake some day. "A young woman -whom I have known for some time cam 9 here the other day and wanted a tooth attended to. I worked on the tooth some time, and some of the instruments I used should have made her soream a little bit But she never made a sound, and I naturally concluded that the nerve of the tooth was dead. It Surprised: me because the tooth was a good one and tie nerve un exposed. Vell, I. extracted tho uorve. and the minute I saw it I knew what was the trouble. " 'Do you want a live nerve left in your bead?' I asked. " 'Why, of oourse,' she replied. " 'Then stop smoking cigarettes, ' I said. " 'Why, doctor, what do you meanf ouu .uuMuii. tuyii. u0 "... on a treat show of iudignatioa 'My dear young lady,' 1 said, what's the use of talking so? I'm a dental aurgoon and kno"" a thing wboi 1 see it xou nave been BinoklTiRoiKa- rettes for a long timo, and my advice was given in a perfectly friendly spirit' Well, she oollansod then, aoknanlerltf rl er regardless of shape or size, , Gravity the truth of what I bad said, and that is atoraio, and every atom is the equal ended t ., I don't think that oigarette of every other atom, no matter bow smokers figure, this result of nicotine llel Vand V better Inducements ref on for capital d inducements for , findeveloped re, fiirt of capital. working diffuse or how oonorete the mass of the object of whioh thoy are parts. But tho dry stick may have lost its eotive prinoip.e gravity. Its essence produo ing prluoiples may have boen exhausted. Nevertheless it would be grasped by the overwhelming gravity of the earth and brought down in company with its fel lows. Gravity pulls laterally as well as per pendicularly. The weight of the earth has been oaloulatod from the pull of a mountain on a plumb line. A person standing in a narrow can yon, witn walls towering hundreds or thousands of feet above him on either side, has much better footing than if on the pinnaole of a monument. In one oasu he is held up by lateral gravity. In the other he is without support R W. Musser in Cincinnati Enquirer. Wearing of Olaas Eye. It is a fallacy to suppose that people who wear cork legs and glass oyes are Indifferent to their personal appearance. They are often vainer than ordinary individuals. A rich man, for instance, who is obliged to wear an artificial eye will wear three differont eyes every day an eye for morning, when the pupil is not very large; an eye for afternoon, when tne pupil is smaller; an eye lor evening, when the pupil has extended to its full sua A London eyemaker, who gave this information, said he made about an equal proportion of glass eyes for men and women. Borne people keep quite a stock in their possession. In f uot, no less than 13 eyes have been made by my in forrnant fot one gentleman Within three months. Els son had got one eye made from measurement, and that eye fitted so per fectly that the old gentleman, in an out burst of gratitude, wrote off for 1 1 oth' er eyes. The eyemaker admitted that this was an exceptional instance. Pittsburg Dispatch. Too Smart for th. Doctor. The daughter of a well known jockey was very ill, having oaugbt a severe cold. A doctor was sent for and was buttonholed by the mother, who request' ed him to favor her by advising hor daughter not to wear low ankled shoes. The daughter was sent for, and, after her tongue had been given the usual out oi-rdoor exeroise, the man of medlolne said! "Ah, yon are suffering from what we xnedloal men oall a low shoe oold, and I must prohibit you from wearing suoh shoes In the future. " The young lady started, and, taking off one of the offending shoes, exolalm di "Since yon are so olever, doctor, as to look at my tongue and tell me what if poisoning- ia'With the many other in jurious effects of the weed, but to my niinfl it is the most dangorons of all. " New York Sun. THE MONEY ISN'T THERE. A Plokpocket Wa. Wsw foolish Enongh to steal a, Lady's roeketbook. "I just swiped a leather, Jim," said . a piokpooket to another of his profession as be came aoross him sitting on a benoh in Union square. "Wus it one o' them purty ones what the women carries. round de street in der banasi''' '" 'Tea, I swiped it np on Fif t' avener when she wus lookln inter er windy. " "II vera been in de bizuls as long as I hev, yer wouldn't er took it " .','Wby?" --..r. " 'Tain't wuthit" "A feller might strike er big haul, -' though, that way some time, " 'Not on yer life he wouldn t I've swiped a load ou 'em, an I never got one yit that I oould git a beer out on. Dey don't carry money in dem leathers. ' Dey 's only er bluff. Try dat one yor've got and see if it's enny good. " . Glancing about him warily to make sure that no one was watohing him, the 'piokpooket opened the purse. Ho found three samples ,of sUJcolino, a patent glove bnttoner, a oard advertising a lo tion for removing blackheads from the face, a sheet of flesh oolored oourt plas ter, some samples of sorlm and Madras, a list of prioes of carpets, a oiroular showing an illustration of a patent hose supporter, a oard of small safety pins, two slabs of ohewing gum warranted to cure dyspepsia 'anr'tfcSrd bearing her address' and instructions to take her there if she met with an accident "That's all dare is in it" said the man who had "sNvlped" the pookotbook as he turned it upside down and shook ' it, with a look of disgust on his faoe. ".uian't 1 toll yer. " remarked the other. "I've 'swiped' dem t'ings till I'm tired. Dey 're all de same. De wo men don't carry notbin but trash in em. ' De money ain't dere, neverl" New. York Herod. Do Not Sleeps on th. Left Side, There is littlo doubt that an immense number of persons habitually sleep on the left side, ana those who do ox never, It la said, be strUtty healthy. It Is the most prolltio oaube of nightmare, and also of the unpleasant taste in the mouth on arising in the morning. All food enters and leaves the' stomach On the right side, and henoe sleeping on the left side soon after eating involves a sort of pumping operation wblob is any thing' but oonduoive to sound repose. The action of the heart is also seriously interfered with aud the lungs unduly compressed. Henoe it is best to oultivate .mi, witf. m ft will rm ha kind Uhe babisflf always sleeping on the right enoush to look at my feet and tell me ,ldo though Bandow and other strong whether my fringe is properly adjust' ed?" . He gave tip prescribing for smart girls. London Tit-Bits. men are said to Invariably sleep on their baoks. Philadelphia Times. A. a Genua Court Martial. I Captain (presiding) Then I am to , I understand that the accused offered you olqar when you were doing sentry rxaor. 5d?" Id, your honor." did be make?" ,' your honor." t 9 Aalatal Bipct On. Another's Bights. Truth f oroes the observer of nature to admit that birds and other creatures ap portion the earth among themselves just about as man does. A bear has his boun Carles beyond whioh his fellow bear does uot trespass with impunity the wild rabbit you see on your lawn in the moonlight la the same innocent little creature you have been seeing every night all the summer time and even the robin that gathers the early worm for his breakfast from your garden will show fight when another comes maraud ing on his preserve. Nor does this last a he misohief fear only, for there is good evidence that Vthe same bird wm come baox to tne elalm it staked off the year previous, What meenau wuumij. '- A Devote, of Browning, rvled Borne of Browning's worV'' .1 J I. I ryj M the gentleman!'"' TOrtalniv. Tne want's1-