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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1891)
of the Maxwell road leads to Netarts, and u j THE COUNTY BY LOCALITIES. A company of local capitalists have secured 1 great many people go there every summer. a franchise tc boom Tillamook river. It has NESTUCCA. The Nehalem country ha» a great future be been cleared of obstructions and made safe fur The Nestucca country is chiefly valuable for Published every Friday morning. loging during freshet». For this, the com puny i* fore it. There i» probably not a region in the dairying, stock-raising, general furniing and allowed a small royalty on all logs floated down Northwest that has more varied and important bee-keeping, though fruit-raising is sure to resource» than Nehalem. This section is now EDITOR AM» PROPRIETOR. the river. prove successful there. Fishing is good in sea W. F. D. JOMM, It is easy to make a living in this country if receiving attention from the government and son. There is but little timber iu this section, you have enough means to enable you to own a soou the harbor will be opened up for commerce though enough to supply all local needs. small farm, or to improve a piece of government and the country will enter into an era of pros RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. The beach below Oretown is crowded with land. Skilled workmen and business men with perity. It would take volumes to fairly des campers from the Willamette valley in the (STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.) capital and experience can find exceHcnt oppor cribe and enumerate the many Ldvantages summer, and the beach at Sand I-ake is also Otoe year ............................. ........... . f. . Il óO. tunities here. and resources of this section, and no one can .......... 7 s. frequented by many people. Six months .............................. .......... 50. The landscape here presents a green appear form an adequate idea of the richness of the Three months To describe this country properly it should ance throughout nearly all the year. The hills Country in mineral,agricultural, lumbering and I m ? mentioned by localities. ADVERTISING RATES. are not browned by a scorching summer sun other resources without paying the country a bio nestvcca . 1 Inch, pet month or blackened by cold wintry blasts. The rains visit. The Big Nestucca river has a large area of Mr. E. K. Scorcll contributes the following are warm and frequent enough to keep vegeta fine bottom land along its course, and has several regarding Nehalem: tion fresh and green. Of the resources of that portion of Nehalem tributaries that have fine valleys. Beaver creek The country is full of wild berries during the Local notices, toots. per line; and jets, after summer and autumn, and that is wh v u man country that lies within Tillamook county much has a large and prosperous settlement and is a part of the course of the Albany 8t Astoria R. R. the first insertion. I can go oilt most any day during this time and has been written and but little said. Lying The same may be said for Three Rivers. Sand Lost, Found. Wanted. For Sale and For Rent tributary to the Nehalem river there are about ’ i shoot a fat bear. Salmon-berries, thimble-berries, notices, fiocts for first insertion and $1.00 per Lake is a rich region, and there are yet several i two or three kinds of buckle-berries and salelle- eight townships of timber ami agricultural lands, month. good farms on government land. There is a about equally divided, that is there is about one Legal notice«, Nonpareil tort», per Mne lor ! berries are most common. first insertion and 5cts per line for each subse ! There ere a few of the Tillamook Indian» yet half that can be cultivated and put into pasture post-office, store, hotel and blacksmith-shop at quent insertion. I in the vicinity ofthe Bay, but they are fast dying when it is cleared of the brush ami timber, the • Dolph. There are post-offices at Hembree, (Sand Lake) Beaver, and Hebo. Woods, near the All local notices will be “starred” or otherwise off, and ere long there will be no full-blooded rest is so rocky ami broken that it is only valu- ¡ designated as advertisements. j Indians left. They were never war-likc. and able for the timber, sandstone, iron and coal, mouth of the Big Nestucca is a growing little town and has a sawmill, a drug-store, two 1 No special position will be agreed upon for . meekly submitted to being crowded out of their and other valuable minerals undiscovered at the present time. But, let us go a little into I general-merchandise stores, a school-house, any advertisement, though we lake especial I possessions by the Whites. pains to display advertising matter effectively ! There are no disastrous floods here, as the speculation and see what this will amount to and is ’to have a newspaper and a hotel. tnd give as favorable position as possible, fre Several residences have been erected lately, quently changing the “make-up” of the paper I streams all have very deep channels except 011 when it is fully developed, that is when the ! and the town is in the beginning of a boom. • the tide lauds where the high tides and back railroad is built and the bar is improved, for we little nestucca . We make a spectiff effort to change or rebuild need both. In the first place our four townships I advertisement* as often a» our natrons desire, water» rise so slowly that no damage is done. Hop-raising has been tried on a small scale in of timber, fir, spruce, cedar, larch and hemlock ' The Little Nestucca country is much the same but make no contract to that effect. ronttln'Va Mir eriin.HH,’ feet Ò ' " Bi« Nl‘luc'a a'‘d ha’ lh® “*"c a'lv"nt«ge.. V the county, but as there is as yet 110 market Nd cuts will 0c used, except out line cuts on here for hops, ha» not been followed. A llthat lumber,'or rive" )<>!■> lumber, or enough to keep ¡0 .0 mill, mill» cutting loo,- , Tl,e T1,e . two ‘wo H"« J°l'> forming furming Nestucca .Nwtneca bay and metal bases. a large Th® * * is needed is to raise enough to pay for the ooofe t each per day, running «> days in the on the ba>’ 1,1 We reserve the right to reject any advertise f bother of shipping, as no country will grow year, for the next I5 years. Supposing they people here are enterprising and have made ment that we deem objectionable. could all be staited at once there would be re- stock-raising and dairying a success despite the , more and better hops than this. « • T erms : Cash in advance for small advertise- | There were only twenty six marriage licenses quired to run the mills at last loooable bodied ' poor transportation facilities. The pride of the meiits, and payment is required monthly or ' issued in the county during I89O. This is a sign men. Half as many more would find employ I.iltle Nestucca henrever, is the fine beach be quarterly on large contracts. i of g4od tunes financially, ait the young people ment in raising vegetables, hay, and with low Oretown. As it is in Big Nestuccft and all the south part Send all money by draft, Postal Note, Money are too busy to think of getting married. When the usual number of women and children Order or Registered Letter, »tour e»pe»»d. people begin to splice in order to economize, it a population of about 5000, or more than as of the county, bee-keeping is a common in many again as there are in the entire county dustry and pays immense profits with little hard Correspondence on topics of general intercut, is an indication of close finances. invited. labor only careful attention. Kinwanda creek The steamer Gen. Garfield does freighting and at present. A'hire»» all communications to towing on the bay and ascends the streams as Nor would this be merely a transient popula has many good ranches. Neskowin post-office I T he H eadlight , far as ti<lc:water extend». There are several tion, for, having the opportunity to dispose of is in the locality. T illamook , O r . | .«nilboatson the bay that do the passenger traffic, the surplus timber and a market for his crops, SILETZ. Little is known generally of this rich section, [ g^-All Post masters in Tillamook county ’ and two other small »teamers fitted tor carrying the home-builders wouldcometostay and make 1 passengers and freight w ill soon be added. are agents for the H eadlight . the wilderness blossom. As before stated, we which comprises the Salmon and Siletz valleys, I In the low rolling foot hills that have been have H4 square miles of agricultural lands that as it is now an Indian reservation. But it is ffW»Copies of this paper are on sale at the Store ofc 11 Wilcowft« ^.stationer» and news burnt over destroying the timber are many good will ultimately support a population of from rich in farming land, ha« plenty of good timber, dealers Occidental hotel building, Portland, I piece» of government land subject to entry, lo to 15 persons to the section, but I have written ’ fine lakes, good harbors and is a very desirable Oregon. | which will make excellent fruit farms. Enough more than I intended, and hope that if this j piece of country. It will probably be thrown good land can always be picked out for veget change does come it will come slowly so a« not : open for settlement soon, though the Indians NOTES AND COMMENT. ables, and the rougher portions will support to crowd too heavily on the ancient settlers and will be allowed ¿0 take homes before white awake them too rudely from lethargy and settlers will get a chance, Much plowing is done in the fall nnd winters stock. California honey ha» a great reputation for peaceful slumber. ns in California. folley valley . This is the natural home for the prune, most Poultry does exceedingly w ell here. Chickens clearness and filler of flavor, out it cannot com Tins valley is really a tributary section to the 8,1 ®ari®‘i®a exceptionably well. By u.ing pare with Nestucca honey. Beek-eepiug is profit are free from disease. ! artificial the «- prune ~ drying processes, - ------ . — ------ -- business ---------- The county la bounteouily su|rp1ied with mng able In the Nestuccacountry and its product is Nehalem country, mh Folley creek empties into ‘ is highly renumerative. Several ° good prune ! highly prized wherever known. The brand the Nehalem river, and the valley has all the ° ---- *■ — nificient rivers and bays. * orchards have been and are being planted. advantages an<l excellencies of Nehalem proi«r 1 or, ’ har <> s ha 'e been and are being planted, The ocean steamer Truckee very often carries *‘Nestucca“ will sell honey in any market be except it 1« «mailer in area. There is a great ! Thc trees «row cl«an an'* thrift’r fore long. out 500,000 feet of lumber over the bar. For hospitality the people of this county have ' Tillamook is about 70 miles from Astoria by deal of fine timber on the Folley and some good no superiors. Strangers are always courteously j water nnd about the same distance from Ya- farms have been cleared up in the bottom. TILLAMOOK CITY. | quina. By way of North Yamhill it Is about 90 MIAMI. received nnd generously entertained. I miles from Portland, half of tlie distance by The head-waters of the Miami and Folley The red cedar is found in many places nnd is , Tillamook, the county «eat, is the largest and j stage aud half by rail. The distance from Forl- are near together, but thc Miami empties into < valuable for doors, windows and shingles. ' important town in the county, and will probably Insect pests of all kinds have failed to find I land by the Wilson river road will be 70 miles. Tillamook bay at Garibaldi. There are many I always take the lead and become quite an im rich ranches on the Miami and a great deal of portant little city within the next two years. this country. The salt sea breeze is against ! Tillamook is 5oa miles from San Francisco. General farming is very successful here, and good timber on its head-waters. When the ‘ >•«. v w r. ■■ »■ wv ».no « L'VU V wuu JJYUpiL UI1U in (JIUW them. The town now has about 600 people and is grow- 1 is just beginning to pay, as there is a market for Albany & Astoria 11. R. “ .is» l»ut1t it will leave hng rapj(Hyf building« going up everywhere. Sheep-raising is profitable in the Nestucca ' 1 »> Kf ion, t f, kl 1 An. ! nr. .4 nn 1 . .. every thing the farmer produces now. The Tillamook bay on the Miami, following it up There country. They htc seldom bothered by coyots are now, three hotels, a drugstore, five various kinds of hay, oats, barley and edible to the divide between that stream and Folley i general merchandise stores, a jewelry-store, or wolves. roots yield in unheard of profusion. Crops never creek, and thence down that creek to Nehalem. Garden-vegetables, turnips, enrols, beets, two saloons, a temperance saloon, two hard redishrs, etc., do exceedingly well and grow to fail here. There is no drouth, nnd the summers Hence, it is readily seen what an advantageous ware stores, a bank, a saw and planing mill, a are sufficiently dry to cure ami save the crop. location thc settlers have who are on these ! ..»eat maarket, two photograph galleries, a enormous size. Everybody who comes to this county Is de-I The sand-spit, a narrow peninsula that sepa streams. harness-shop, large livery stable, two news-pa- NEHALEM BEACH. lighted with the pure, cold spring-water, which j rates Tillamook bay from the ocean, is a popu' pers, and various other shop» and cffices too lar place for picnics, nnd parties go there by From Garibaldi at the entrance of Tillamook numerous to mention. The »Masonic order, I. O. is found everywhere. The Coast range of mountains rise to a height ( steamer or in sail boats, ntid.fiom there is n bay to the mouth of Nehalem river is one of the O. F,,andG. A. R, have flourishing lodges here. of over 4000 feet in some instances. Mt. Hebo, road leading to the light house. Many people finest beaches imaginable. The drive is fine, The town is situated on Hoquarton slough, an go there to gather hucklc-berries, also. There the scenery is grand and the adjacent lakes are In Nestucca, is the highest. arm of the bay, nnd on the edge of a beautiful is a fine beach on theoutside of the sandspit. beautiful. The Bar View House is the only The prairie-lands of this county arc go<al prairie. No finer town-site can be found in the Those who come here expecting to find things hotel on the beach at present, but a magnificent enough, but the tide lands and bottom-lands state. There are many good business buildings, ns they are in theEast will be sadly disappointed. sea-side hotel will be built on one of the lakes private dwellings and a $4,000 school house that! arc not surpassed for fertility. The general appearance of the country, the as soon as is practicable. There is a great deal of fine larch timber high would be a credit to a town twice the size. The GARIBALDI. lip on the mountains which will be valuable for industties nnd many other things are eutlrely court house is a good, substantial structure, and different, and one must come here with the ex This is a beautiful little town just inside of certain purposes after a while. the MethocUits have just completed a beautiful Good grades of live stock are being introduced pectation of accomodating himself to the sur- Tillamook bay. It has a store, hotel, etc., and church. 1 rounding circumstances if he wishes to succeed. the Elmore cannery is located here. There is In the county, ami ere long, Tillamook will The streets a e well laid out,nnda fairground There are rich ami extensive deposits of coal good deep-water anchorage at Garibaldi and have many herds of tine cattle. has been secured and will be fitted up in good 1 on Coal creek, a tributary of the Nehalem. The many predict that is the coming city of the A survey of Tillamook bay and bar will lie shape, and grounds have been reserved frr a made this aummer in order to determine what coal is of excellent quality nnd can be easily bay. college site. The bulk of the county trade IIOBSONVILT.B. brought to a market as soon us Nehalem bar is appropriations will be necessary. Thia place la midway between Bay City and is done here. Pears grown here are as gocxl as any on the improved. There are also large deposits of coal Garibaldi, and the Truckee Lumber Co., of (San coast. They grow to a large size, are fine in farther up the Nehalem, ami no doubt in other TIB-BITS. part» of this county, there being strong indica Francisco,) have extensive mills located here apppearance and never fail to bear. Aliout 60,000 feet of spruce lumber is sawed There arc extensive cod-fish banks about right tions of carboniferous deposits near the luouth daily, and is all shipped per steamers Truckee There are about 20O settler» on utisurveyed miles off Nestucca bay, though they air not of the Nestucca. The government appropriated $60,000 for n and Scotia to Sail Francisco, where it is manu lands in the county, but the government is frequented by fishermen nt present. factured into boxes by the Company. The Com making additional surveys and before long it Nehalem bar is to be improved, and |1o,00o light-house on Cape Mearea, near the entrance pany has a large and well stocked genera! mer will all be open to entry under the U. S. land hns been appropriated for that purpONe. Work ofTillnmook bay. Most of the money has been used in constructing the light-house and other chandise store here which does a good business. laws. will begin there as soon iin practicable. The Leinenweber cannery is located here. Tillamook is aland of flowers. The timber is There is not n ('hinnman in Tillamook, nnd neevasary buildings, nnd it is one of the best BAY CITY. evergreen, the mountains are covered with ferns from the present state of feeling among the light stations on the coast. The government This thriving town will be fully treated of in aud the prairies are almost perpetually- green, will noon begin the construction of a road lead people, there is not likely to be one soon. a sepcrate article. altogether presenting a beautiful and attractive Land may l»c had cheap now, before the rail ing from a point on Tillamook l»ay to the light landscape. house. KILCHIS. road comes There is a g(Mxl chance, also, to The total asaee«ment last year (IW9) was TrtTamook county made about one hundred This is an old settlement near the bay between make money by investing in town property. A life saving station is to be established at tons of butter last year, one-third of which wim 1 | Bay City and Tillamook city. It is a rich nnd $584,000. Considerable was added to this by the the mouth of Tillamook bay, though no lives consumed in the county. It will not be long well improved agricultural and fruit country. sheriff afterward*. When the assessment roll have ever been lost by wrecks on the bar so far. until there wilt be a demand for all that is made There is a beautiful little prairie here and many is completed this year, it will show au increase There were 10» real estate transfers during here, though the amount produced will soon be comfortable anil palatial homes are found. J. S. of nearly ¡00 per cent. There will always be a market for our lumber the total consideration of which amounts increased to double what it it» now. With a Elliott has a fine prune orchard here nnd is to HI 000. This is a great tucrcaae over the railroad, which means <|Utek transportation, all making a success of prune growing. The Kilchis in California, and when the Nicaragua canal is | the surplus will be sold fresh at a high price. is a fine logging stream. opened, all the lumber on this coast will be precerdhig year. much more valuable. The pineries of Michigan, When the Wilson river road to Foreat Grove , There will be but little butter packed in Kalt for WILSON RIVER. the outside market then. | There is a great deal of fine, rich bottom land Maine and the South arc becoming fast ex is completed, there will be three wagou roads •omitcling the county with railroads tn the 1 The last report shows 57I Indians on the Siletz the full length of this river, and there are vast hausted. and the coast will be drawn upon to Reservation which is in the south end of this t todies of flue timber every where adjacent to supply the demand. Willamette valley. There is no use going to the Cascades or Oats yield as high as 101» bushels |»er acre on county. The Indians there are tilling the soil it and the logging business will be carried on ex the prairie lands, nnd even better on the rich nnd following the customs of civilization. They | tensively on this stream. The Wilson river Sierras for scenery. What is more quaint and ! picturesque than the arched rocks in the surf bottomlands They are of a fine quality, nnd have churches and schools nnd are making <•« n" country is an empire of wealth within itself. at Netarts, or old haystack” at the entrance of almost as heavy ns wheat. sidcrable progress. The whole of this reserva HOgUARTON PRAIRIE. Nestucca bay, Castle rock and garden ou Three Pesches, apricots and nectarines will do well tion is not necessary for the Indians, however, Thecity of Tillamook is situated on theborder Rivers, Munson's falls near Pleasant Valley, in the foothills iu localities that are sheltered. and no doubt they will soon be given land in I of this prairie, and it is central y located, be. Thone who can grow these fruits will always be severalty and the I »a hl uce thrown open to tween Hoqtmrton slougli and Trask river. The nnd many other points equally grand and beauti ful in appearance! The whole coast line and able to sell them for fancy prices. settlement. , farms on this prairie may all be termed suburban There ia hut little green timber in the Nestucca Last year was the ffrst that the apple crop property, nnd are bring highly Improved and. the whole Coast range abound in points of scenic grandeur. country, but the settlers get good material for was ham! ed for profit. Al»out lOnO boxes were cut up into small holdings. Over $25o,000have been paid to the government building from the dead fir arid cedar timber »hipped to San Francisco as an experiment ami TILLAMOOK CITY. for lands in this county. Most of it was at the which is generally easily secured the shippers did well on their venture. Thia This is and probably always will be the lead rate of $2 50 per acre for timber land«, but a W. S. Kuuyuti. a Itau Francisco capitalist, hns ! business wilt be conducted on a much larger ing residence and business town of the county the I mmiiii privileges ou the Wilson and Kilchis scale this year, and with the past experimicv, great share of it was for Pre-emptions at $1 25 for reasons well understood by all acquainted per acre We* mention this to show that Tilla rivers. The obstructions known here as “rack- ' with much more profit to all concerned. Tilla- | with the country. Tillamook city is fully treat* heap»“ or drifts are bring removed. mook is justly entitled to a share ofthe govern monk apples excel for flavor ami keeping quali- 1 ed of in various other articles iu this issue. ment appropriations which are being so freely If you like clam» you can find plenty of them ties. There is not a large area of orchards, but I TRASK. luost anywhere on the beach, such ns razor they will be largely increased and better cared ! Trask river is a tlue stream and has much bestowed on rivers and harbors and in many clam», blue shells, Eastern clams, nnd oysters for. Those who have good orchards in bearing ' valuable timber on its headwaters. There is a localities that have never been a source of re- venue to the government. on Netarts Imy Crabs arc easily procured. arc fortunate. I post-office of the same name on the toll-road at It takes the small steam schooners six hours The lumbering resources take precedence I The county is in good shape financially, is L-Crenshaw's (the toll-gate.) There are many over all other» iu thin county. It is impossible not deeply in debt, and taxes are light consider productive ranches on this river, and it is a when the weather ia favorable to make the trip from Tillamook bay to A.toria, It requires to conceive of the enormous magnitude am! im ing the amount of improvements that have been , favorite resort for campers ami fishing parties. generally a little over two days for a steamer to portancc of the milling industry In the uear made on road» iu the past two year». As the ROUTH FRAIRIK. fature. This is the most extensive agricultural dis KO to San Francisco. The San Francisco steamers cminty is prety well aupplic«l with roads now Stock rsising pays handsomely In Tillamook and ha« a g»xxl court house, there is not much ! trict in the county and is a very productive sec have good pasaenKer accomodation«, and stea mers that run to Astoria and Portland can carry Cattle are thrifty ami fire from disease The use of Airther expenditure, ami taxes will be tion The farms are well improved and the passengers very comfortably The fare to San ! rich |tastnre which lasts nearly all the year very much lightened The timber lands that are country presents an inviting appearnce lilies assure the miccvsn of the stock raising industry held by speculators will pay taxes that will south of Tillamook and between Trask and Francisco is $iy, or *» for round trip, cabin pas- I Vine maple in a scrubby variety of maple that Tillamook rivers The same description as to •age Steerage rates are lower. The f. re to always insure good schools and good rmid« grown along the streams. The wood is very hard resources hoi is good for Long Prairie on the Astoria is Is 00 st present. Anyone who ha« been in the forest« here low and in utilized for some purposes llonev that ' vast of it and Burnt Prairie and Pleasant valley 1 here is net a settlement in the county but the twes make from the waxy dewon its leaves ; all desire to visit the big trees of California on the-outh. In fact, the whole of the Tilla what has its school house, no matter how remote There ate whole forests of big trees here, many in of particularly flue flavor mook tivcr basin ia not excelled by anv ether or isolated the locality Some of the school What »Io you think of one »err of grrmml pro ! of them being forty fret iu circumference, ami , region in the county Then- I* a groat deal of house, are rough affairs bnilt by general gather during Suu bushels of potatoes! Such Hehls arc 1 over y<M feet tn height. Most of the forest trees gt»od timber on this river, and the railroad will common in thia couuty, and the potatoes are however measure from 15 to x»fect in girth, ami traverse its course. A narrow- gauge logging ing of the settlers and the furniture of a primi tive kind but giKMl schools are maintained in fine, well developed and solid to the cotv They are often free from limbs for the first i.g) fret. railroad is projected on this stream, and it is a them all the same, and the old school houses I The forests iu many places are so druse that never get soggy when co»«kr<l g.Hx! river for logging. are soon replaced by new ones more comtno- Land seek«!» cau always obtain information there is a gloom next to darkness among them THE SARD sriv. I .lions nnd comfortable The older settled from the settler», though married men with and it 1« generally hard work forcing a passage The Saud Spit is a narrow peninsula separat districts have elegant and well furnished sch.ml families arte, given preference, an they a it of through the dense and impenetrable growth of ing Tillamook bay from the Pm ifie ocean, and houses, the Tillamook building having a metro m*>re help In building up schools and are gcucr timber. is mu h frequented by pleasure seekers. Col politan appearance, and tn it ia conducted a ally mure permanent settlers. There Is a group of beautiful fresh water lakes Geo. Squires, formerly of the Grand Ceutral first« las« school and an academic course is The tide 'ami spruce is very valuable and is the largest of twiug a mile long «ml half a mile Hotel in this city, is building a large summer «.xm to be added Bay city also has an excellent •aed tor Mooring and furnishing It is txtng wide near the beach between i.arihaldi ami hotel on the bench There is a fine weather select school. used ou t/uscoast almost exclusively for making Nehalem bay. These takes air sparkling and Usch from the point on the uorth almont to the N othing bespeak« more tor the prosperity of I ¡‘•»king boxes as it imparts no odor to butter, clear and arc fed by mountain springs The light house on Capa Me.ires There are rome a place than the steady and healthy increase of fruits ur other articles cucloitod in it scenery rnrrounding is enchanting and these pretty places on th Is peninsula. A road is to be mails, and the establishment of new mail routs Tillamook is a world Iwater f»»r grasses All lakes are destined to become popular resorts in built from the sand spit to the Light house ho isolated town in the State has-though kliid* grow moat luxuriantly The wild glasses the summer time, as Nehalem beach uear at ' apt. A T Hallock has a cum mod mu* w harf acquired by demand—better mail facilities than «nt the tide lamin make excellent feed for cattle hand is one of the finest beaches on the const and warehouse here. Tillamook Tn referring to an increase of mail Timothy, red top, ve lvet grans and others do and constitutes a fine »Irtvc for mne miles, in NFTARTS. matter we havea direct reference to paper mail, esct'cdingly well Clover* do well abk>. fact ail the way tram I'illamook bay to Nehalem Netarts will s»»on be the center of Attraction the rapid Increase or decrease of letter mail, and There are no tran>|»a here, and there are no Uav Shell fish and crabs are plentiful here, for pleaaurv seekers in this county The bay is not unfrequently. Is due to a floating population, families depending on charity for sustenance am! there is good fishing and hunting around atnmt three miles long and is situated about fixe • the paper mail is an indea to a steady and per l*roplr in thia county live well and there are the lakes. miles south of Cape Mears It b a very attract few idlers Much ¡»eople are not wanted here ‘ Can 1 do well there in my tniaim*.««**’ is a ive little bay and is navigable for «mall craft manent growth of population Tillamook is and generally receive a “cold shoulder * <|ueatr n that i» often asked by persons writing The brfich below is very fine, and without any connected with Portland by a daily mail from There arc no regular Aret-clOM lour tat s hotels for tutortuatioii Vvu can. if yon can do wvll North Yamhill, and a tri-weeklv via McMinn work will make an elegant drive from the ville and Grand Ron.le. a daily mail to Hobsoa- on the beach yet, but excellent iu v<>mimMlations anywhere without adoubt. Hut those wha are mouth withe bay to Hon J w- Mawdb place eille, and < oanecting with the Astoria mail, are offered for a limited number otboarders at »liss.«ti«fied everywhere, aud spend there last a distance of two miles. The picfurvttque arched three trrne«; a week A weekly mad to Setarts dollar Io 1 here, arc likely to be diwtusted if >011 Since April i. ifcM there ffitlamooli £jeai»li0ht G. O. KOUN QOMFAMY T“JSt “■ FARMING LAND CITY LOTS, AND TIMBER LA Correspondence Solicited. NETARTS BY THE SE W MAXWELL hss platted a town-site on hi» place at Netarts beach Fine sightly residence lots, view nnssr sheltered from the north-west wind. No prettier and more suitable place could be found for * sea-side resort dreds of people visit Netarts Bay every summer and camp for weeks on the Beach. Fine surf bathing, |0od several varieties ol clams and oysters, elegant five-mile drive on the beach, and picturesque arched rocks where tho sea-lions disport themselves every day. Just the place to spend a few weeks this summer «nd select a site for a c the sea. A most delightful location. Several lots bargained before survey was made Come via Sheridan or North For full particulars, prices, terms etc., write to J. W. M axwbll , Netarts, Tillamook Co., Oregon. J THE FINEST BEACH ON THE PACIFIC COI C ohn & Co., V The Leading Merchants of Tillamook County! ------- DEALERS IN * I G eneral merchandise Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Notions, Groceries, Crockery, Glassware, Etc. This house is connected with the well known whole-salo nnd commission house of M ark L. C ohn & Co., 146, F ront S t ., P ortland , O re , and is able to purchase goods in large lots and at a very low figure, thus being able to discount all com petitors in prices. * Country Produce taken in Exchange for Goods. COHN & BROWN B l 'K, TILLAMOOK, OREGON. All Aboard for Tillamook! when you thara fake a look at A dditio Œ MAGNIFICENT PROPERTY is almost in the heart of fa aty. . Perfectly level; commanding view. streets. Size of lots, 50x100; wide Mill be sold on easy terms and at prices that will give the pur chasers a chance to double their money in the next six months. Special in ducements to those who will build. ow is the time to vest, while prop erty is