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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1891)
A company of local capitalist« have secured i a franchise tc t*oom Tillamook river. It ha» | been cleared of obstruction* and made safe for Published every Friday morning. 1 loging during freshets. For this, the company is allowed a small royalty on all logs floated down W. F. D. J ones , - E ditum ano I’ koceietor . the river. It is easy to make a living in this country if you have enough means to enable you to own a small fur m, or to improve a piece of government KATES OF 5CBS< Rll’TION. land. Skilled workmen ami business men with (STRICTLY IN ADVANCB.) capital and experience can find excellent oppor ll.M). One year ......................................... • • • • • tunities here. Six months , ÖO. The landscape here preaents a green appear Three months ance throughout nearlv al! the year. The bills ADVERTISING RATE*. arc m>t browned by a scorching summer sun per year $900 or Idackeued by cold wintry blasts The rain* 1 inch, per month . ” ” 27-oo 3.00 . . foot i » •» . ” ” 45 00 a:e warm and frequent enough to keep vegeta 5°° . ” ” 81.00 tion fresh and green. !>•*» . ” ” 135.ao i The country in full of wild berries during the I5.00 ... 1 ” Local notices, io<*t*. per line; and set*, after . summer and autumn, and thstiawbr a man the first insertiou. 1 can go out moNt any day d*aring th!« time and Lost, Found. Wanted, For Sale and For Rent notices, fiocts for first insertion and fi.00 per shoot a fat bear. Salnion-lx rries, thimble-berries, two or three kinds of huckle-berries and salellc month. Legal notices. Nonpareil, locts. per line for berries are most common. first insertion and ftets per line for < •»•!» siibse There arc a few of the Tillamook Indians yet quent insertion. oiix.-ON in the vicinity of the Bay, but they me fast dying All local notices will l»e “starred” or otherwise off, and ere long there will be no full-blooded designated as advertisements. Indians left. They were never war-like, mid No special position will be agreed upon for meekly submitted to being crowded out ol their any aiJverti.sement. though we take espe<*ial possessions by the Whites. pain« to display advertising matter effectively There are no disastrous floods here, as t’.ic and give as favorable position as possible, fre quently changing the ‘make-up” oi the paper streams nil have very deep channels except on the tide lands where the high teles and back We make a special effort to chnngeor re build Advertisements us often as our patrons <lcstrv, waters rise so slowly that no damage is done. Hup-raising has been tried on a small scale in but make no contract to that effect. the county, but as there is as yet no market No cuts will be used, except out line cuts on here for hops, has not been followed. A llthat metal banes. ■ is needed is to raise enough to pay for the **• We reserve the right to reject any advertise (bother of shipping, as no country will grow luent that we deem objectionable. ' more and better hops than this. ♦ ♦ T erms : Cash in advance for small advertise ! There were only twenty six marriage licenses ment«, and payment is required monthly or 1 issued in the county during 189*1. This is a sign quarterly on large contracts. of good times financially, as the young people Send all mom v by draft, Postal Note, Money arc too busy to think of getting married. WI kh Order or Registered l«etter. at our expense. I people begin to splice in order to economize, it Correspondeiicu on topics of general interest, I is an indication of close finances. invited. j The steamer Gen. Gurfield does freighting and Address all coin 1 mini cat ions to .towing on the bay and ascends the st reams as T he headlight , • far as tide-water extends. There are several T illamook , or . ' HHilboatson the bay that do the passenger traffic, gg^Atl I’iMmasters in Tillamook county ' and two other small steamers fitted tor carrying aro agents for Ilio H r.Ai>LKHir. I passengers and freight will soon he added. rW'-i'opics of thin paper me on sale at the | In the low rolling foot hills that have been Store of C II Wihosk < <• . statimHTh nml news ' burnt over destroying the timber are many good dealers Occidental hotel building, Portland, ( pieces of government land subject to entry, Oregon. i w hich will make excellent fruit farms. Enough J good land can always be picked out for veget NOTES AND COMMENT. ables, and the rougher portions will support Much plowing is done in the fall and winters stock. California honey has a great reputation for as ill California. Poultry does exceedingly well here. Chickens clearness mid fiuess of flavor, but it cannot com pare with Ni’stucca honey. Bcek-eeping is profit are free from disease. The county is bounteously supplied with mag- able in the Nestucca country and its product is highly prized wherever known. The brand ni fl cient rivera and bays. The ocean steamer Truckee very often carries | ‘ Nestucca” will well honey in any market be fore long. out 500.000 feet of lumber over the bar. Pur hospitality the people of thia county have ( Tillamook is about 70 miles from Astoria by no superiors, Strangers are always courteously water mid about the same distance from Ya- quinn. By way of North Yamhill it is about 90 received and generously entertained. The rid cedar is found in tunny places and is I miles from Portland, half of the distance by stage mid half by rail. The distance from Port mbiablc for doors, windows and shingles. Insect pests of all kinds have failed to find I land by the Wilson river road will be 70 miles. this country. The Halt sea breeze is against Tillamook is 5o2 miles from San Francisco. General farming is very successful here, and them. Sheep-raising is profitable in the Ncatucca Is just beginning to pay, as there is a market for country. They are seldom bothered by coyots every thing the farmer produces now. The various kinds of hay, oats, barley and edible or wolves. Gurden-vcgetriblrs, turnips, carols, beets, roots yield in unheard of profusion. Crops never redishes, etc., do exceedingly well and grow to fail here. There is no drouth, and the summers are sufficiently dry to cure mid save the crop. enormous size. Everybody who comes to this county is <le-j The sand-spit, a narrow peninsula that sepa- lighted with the pure, Coldspring winter, which i rates Tillamook bay from the ocean, is a popu i tar place for picnics, and parties go there by is found everywhere. " boats. • ■ ant| from there is a The Const range of mountains rise to a height j steamer or in sail «Tovar 4000 Tert In M.nie iinlun. cu. Mt llvlx,/■□:,<! leading tn th« light boune. Many people IL R. HA¥3, iu Nutucca. I. Ihv hlgln-M. j go there to gather huckle-berrlea. nl, Iso There Counselor at Law and (,'ity Attorney. Chief Clerk Oregon House of Rcpr< ientativ . I ! ill 11 a fill«» lif.m'll «lit t the !»»• < outside 111 I uiil.. of fll- ‘ >111 is fine beach on of the smnlspit. The pt aille lands of this county arc good I Those who come here expecting to find things i enough, but the tide lands and Ixittom-lands , as they are in thrEast will be sadly disappointeil. are not aurpa.sstd for fertility. There is a great deal of fine larch timber high The general app<*aratice of the country, the np on the mountain* which will be valuable for I industiies nnd many other things arc entirely different, mid one must come here with the ex certain purposes after a while. Good grades ot live stock are being introduced pectation of accomodating himself to the sur in the county, and ere long, Tillamook will rounding circumstances if he wishes to succeed. There are rich and extensive deposits of coal have ninny herd* of fine cattle A survey of Tillamook bn y mid bar will be on t’ual creek, a tributary oi the Nehalem. The made this summer in order to determine what coal is of excellent quality ami r.iu be easily brought to n market as soon ns Nehalem bar is appropriations will be necessary. Fears grown here me ns good as any on the improved. There are also large deposits oi coal coast. They grow to n large size, are fine in farther up the Nehalem, and no doubt iu other parts of I his county, there b-*iii4 strong indica appearance and never fail lo bear. There arc extensive cod-fish bank* about eight lions of carboniferous deposits near the mouth of the NvHtUCCU. miles <»ff Neatuccn bay, though they are not The government appropriated for a frequented by fishermen nt pre cut. Nehalem bar is to be improved, nnd fln.OOo light-house on Cape Memes, near the entrance has been appropriated for that purpose. Work iif TitlmiKMik bay. Most of the money lets been used in constructing the light-house and other will begin there ns soon us pmcticablff There is not n Chinaman in Tillamook, mid necessary buildings, and it is one of the best from the present state of feeling among the light stations on the coast The government will soon begin the construction of a load lead people, there is not likely to be one soon. I jt nd may be had cheap now, before the rail mg ft0111 a point on Tillamook bay to the light | house. road comes. There is n good chance, also, to I Tillamook county made about one-hundred make money by investing in town property. A life saving station is Io be established I Nt | tons of butter hist year, one thin! of which was the mouth of Tillamook bay, though no lii ives • consutins! in the county. It will not be long have ever been lost by wrecks 011 the bar so far. until there will be a demand for nil that is made There were mao real estate transfers during ' here, though the amount produced will soon be 1890, the total consideration of which amounts I increased to double what it i* now. With a tu fsti» 000. This is u great increase over the , railroad, which means quick transportation, all 1 the surplus will be sold fresh at a high price preccrdin* year. When the Wilson river ioa«l to Forest Grove There will be but little butter packed in .«alt for Is completed, there will be three wagon roads the outside market then. connecting the county with railroads tn the The last report shows 57I Indians on the Siletz Willamette valley. Reservation which is in the south end of this Oats y ield as high as 100 bushel« per acre on count). The Indians there are tilling the soil the prairie lands, and even better on the rich and following the customs of civilization They bottom land*. They are of a fine quality, and have churches mid schools and are making con almost ns heavy as wheat. siderable progress The w hole of this rcserva Peaches, apricots mid nectarines will do well tion is not necessary for the Indians, however, in the foothills in localities that me sheltered nnd no doubt they will soon be given bind in Those who can glow these fruits will always be severalty and the balance thrown open t aide Io «ell them for fancy prices settlement. There is but little green timber in the Ncstm cn Last year was the first that the apple crop country, but the settlers get good innterlnl for was hand cd for profit. About ,u'o0 boxes were building from the dead fir and cedar timber shlppe»l to San 1'rancisco as an experiment and a hicli is generally easily secured. the ship|M*rs di<l well on their venture. Thii W. S. Runyon, a Man Francisco capitalist, ha« business will lie conducted on a much largei the taxon privileges on the Wi1>on and Kilchia scale this year, mid with the past experience rivers The obstructions known here as ”rark- with much more profit to all concerned. Tilhi IkeapB” or drift« are being remue» d. monk apples excel for flavor and keeping quail If yori like dams you can find plenty of them tie«. There 1« not a large area of orchards, but most anywhere on the beach, such as razor j they will t»e largely increased and belter cared clams, blue shells, Eastern clams, and oysters | for. Th<we who have good orchards in bearing 011 Netarts bay crab« are easily procured. are fortunate. The lumbering resources lake precedence 1 The county is in good shape financially, G •ver all others In this county. It is i in possible | not deeply in debt, and taxes are light consider *0 conceive of the enormous magnitude mid iru , ing the amount of improvements that have been portance of the milling industry in the near I made on roads in the past two years A« the future. ¡county is prrty well supplied with roads now Stock raising pays handsomely In Tillamook 1 and ha* ti k < hm | court house, there is not much Cattle are thrifty nnd free from disease. The i use of ftirther expenditure, and taxes will t»e rkh imstme which lasts neatly all the vem very much lightened. The timber lands that are assure tin- sue < ss of the st<>. k raising in»lu«ti y held by speculators will pay t*\.« that will Vine maple is a scrubby variety of maple that alwaysiusurc g.xxi schoot* and goml roads grows along the streams The wood is very hard Anyone who has been in the forests here low mid Is utilised fur some purposes Honey* that the bees make Itoni the waxy dew on its leaves all desire to vi«it the big tree« of California there air whole forests of bi< tiers here, many Is of particularly fine flavor What do you think of one acre of ground pro- ' 1 of them being forty fe«*t in circumference, and dliving S jo bushels of |H>tatu«s' Such yields are I • over JIM» feet in height Moat of the forest trees eoiiitiion in thia county, mid the |*otatovs are 1 ‘ however measure from 15 to Mifeet in girth, a • nt well developed ami solid to the core They are often free from limbs fur the fl: «t tAO ft The threats in many places arc so dense that I BLIC SCHOOL Ht tl.UINC,. ucver get soegv when cooked. Lan«l a« « kers can always obtain in fom at ion there is a gloom next todarkne*« iiuoug them from the settlers, though married men with and it i< geiiciatty hard work forcing a passage fainihes are given pretcrence, aa they sie <4 through the druse and iuqwnvlrablr growth of more help in building up schools and air gener limber ally more permanent settler*. There I* a group of beautiful fresh water lakes The tide land spruce Is very valuable and ia the largest of being a mile long am! half a mil« ••«■«! tor flooring and furnishing It is being wide, near the bench between Garibaldi and used on thisenaat almost eu Iwsively for making Nehalem bay. These lakes are sparkling ami packing boans as H imparti no odor to butler clear and are fed by mountain spring« Th« fruits or other articles encased in it scenery imrrounding is cuchauting and these Tillam«M>h is a world-beater for grasses, All takes arc dcwtinol to treeome popular resorts in bind» glow most Ininiisiitly The wild grasses the summer time, a« Nehalem beach near at sn the tide lauds make exet lient Iced lor cuttle hand is one of the finest twaches on the coast Timothy red top, velvet grass and others do and constitutes a fine drive for wine miles, in Vsoetlingly w« II Clowrs do well also tact alt th« nay from Tillamook bay to Nchairm There are no tramps ben . and there are no bay Shell fi«h and craha arc plentiful hare families depending on charity for sustenance. vul theic 1» g»Ms! fi*hing and hunting around Froplc in this omnty live well and there are the lakes. few idlers Huch people art not wanted here Can I do well there iu mx business*“ 1« and generally receive a * cold shoulder qntMkMi that ofteu a»k«l b> prravnH writing There are no regular Arst-c'.aaa tourist's hotels fur inK,rmM«,n Van c««. it you can <fc> w, II on the b«Meh y<( bill eicclb nt -m t.-d. t>..i.« ,in>»h«r« wit'ioul ad ,<ibt liu< tlkwe Hb„ an <tíllrtnt00k ¿leftbliplti. -sue- TILLAMOOK ©HE. U. O. IWLA.N SEC’Y. FARMING LAND CITY LOTS, AND TIMBER LAND Correspondence Solicited I NETARTS BY THE SEA W. MAXWELL has platted a town-site on his place at Netarts beach Vine sightly residence lots, view nmurpiu^ sheltered from the north-west wind. No prettier and more suitable pine« could lie found for a sea-sids resort ’ drsds of people visit Netarts Bay every summer and camp for weeks on tbs Beach Fine surf bathing, good several varieties ol clams and oysters, elegant five-mile drive on the beach, and picturesque arched rocks where thoussmi sea-lions disport themselves every day. Just the place to sjiend a few weeks this summer and select a site for a cottip the sea. A most delightful location. Several lots bargained before survey was made. Come via Sheridan or North Y For full particulars, prices, terms etc., write to J. W. M axwell , Netarts, Tillamook Co., Oregon. J THE FINEST BEACH ON THE PACIFIG .COAS C ohn & Co fhe Leading Merchants of Tillamook County! ------- DEALERS IN------- G eneral M erchandise Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Notions, Groceries, Crockery, Glassware, Etc. Tliis house is connected with the well known wliole-aale and commiMiion house of M ark L. C ohn A 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- pctitors in price*. Country Produce taken in Exchange for Goods COHN & BROWN Bi. K, TILLAMOOK. ORBGON. Ml Aboard for Tillamook! end when you get there take a look at A dditio p/zs MAGN7F/CENT PROPERTY is almost in the heart of tkt Perfectly level; commanding view. Size of lots, ¡oxioo; widt city. streets. Will 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 Now is the time to
