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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1893)
A Description of the County .—Ita Many A<l% antages. About fifty miles south of the mouth of the Columbia river is the cutrance to Tillamook bay, ami here is the center of a count y rich iu resour ces. and maguificient iu its possibilities. Tilla mook county extends fur about ninety miles north and south along the coast, and inland to the Coast Range, an average distance of twenty miles. The county has an area of 2000 square miles, and is larger than some of the smallest states, and capable of supporting as great a population as some of them. market for all their prudacr right at home Some good uxed towu» are sure toapring up on Tilla ■nook lay and on Xehalem river a» won a. the lumbering UuaiMM get, well Marled rhe lumlmriug inUreat» are by far the inoM miporlaiil resource of the county, and thi. re- aonre, cannot powibh be exhanaud within the next hundred yearn. The improvement of the harbors and the opening of the Nicaragua canal will briiyt all the lumber produced on thia coast within reach of lhe Atlantic coast market, and there will al-o at thal time be a greater demand for lumber on thia coast as a general degree of prosperity will begin oll thi, Ckia„ 0B there is a canal across the isthmus and the high trans- «mtincntnl rat«» broken. dairying . Next in important* to Tillamook s lumbering resources, are the dairy interests. Grass is g«s>d here the year 'round. Feed is plentiful and easily produced, the climate is so temperate that cattle thrive, and all the conditions here ron- tribute towards making dairying successful- The grass«-» and natural feed are of a kind that produces the best milk and butter. The climate is so even aud cool, ami the water so pure that the butter here possesses the finest flavor if any care is taken in making it. This business is found very profitable here and nearly two hundred tons of butter have beeu hipped from here during the past year. Gene ral stock raising goes with dairying here gene rally. and is very profitable. Tillamook is in about the same latitude as St. Paul, Minnesota, though the climate heie is much warmer and more even. The Japan current warms the shores of this region in such a way I hat winter is hardly noticed here. There is little or no snow generally, and when it does fall it soon melts away. The principal feature of w’nter is the longcontinued rains, always warm I and this season of the year is remarkably health ful. The summers are unsurpassed No finer climatic conditions exist than those of a Tilla- j mook summer. This is the dry season, generally , speaking, but there are refreshing showers oc- ( casionally. and the sea breeze tempered by the ' farming . Japan current, is perfectly delightful. People . General farming pays well here, espei ially camp out doors six to eight months in the year when done in connection with stock raising. here with perfect comfort Markets are getting better every year, and as THE TIMBER. soon as the wagon roads are put in be iter shape, The immense forests of this county are its which is being done rapidly, the farmer will not chief and greatest resource. It is impossible to have any trouble in finding a good mark-t for convey an idea of the magnitude of this item by his produce all the year. Of course there is no any description. If is necessary to travel through railroad yet, but the freight by the steamers is <>ur dense forests in order to even comprehend low, besides there is a home market at present the least idea of their extent and immensity. A for a great deal o produce. Barley and o.its great portion of the county is covered with a grow here to perfection, making yields equal to growth of trees, the like of which can not be the richest sections of California or Oregon seen in any other po tion of the United States. Hay of various kinds does as well here as in any There may be a few larger trees in the redwood part of the United States. Potatoes and garden forest of California, but the fir trees of this sec vegetables of all kinds are at their best here, lion will almost equal them in size and they and the yield is simply enormous. Hops grow stand so thick that they are much taller: and and mature well wherever tried. There La much more imposing in appearance. A man large area of prairie and bottom land in this can not enter into the gloomy shades of our county, and it is capable of supplying a large dense w oods without feeling a sense of awe, if population. The hill lands are good for fruit nut reverence, towards the giant monsters of lhe and for grazing, and there is plenty of this kind finest. Trees ten and twelve feet in diameter of land, with occasional patches of table land or arc often found, and the average size of the fir i ’ bottom land, that can be obtained under the trees is perhaps six feet in diameter. And many | government land laws, Land much less pro of these trees are 250 and 300 feet in height. The; ductive than this in the eastern states is being tranks are very straight, and taper so slowly farmed. In fact there is very little of this county that it is hardly noticeable, and many of them *)Ut what can be made productive in some way. have no vestige of a limb for the first hundred 1 The tide lands here are exceedingly rich, and fi et above the grouud. Near Skookum lake, in I much more of it could easily be reclaimed from this county, is a tree thal is twenty-eight feet in I the litlal overflow and made to yield immense diameter near the ground, thus almost equaling crops. A great deal of the tide land is covered in size the famous "Big Trees of California." with a thick growth of nutritive grasses, and it < Bice see the big trees in Tillamook county and is the most remunerative land that the county \ou will lose all desire to see the California | has. Cattle aie often allowed to roam in the monsters. Here, it is possible to travel for miles hills, and even in the woods, all winter without and miles through dense forests of big trees, any other feed than the natural grasses, and come and all of them being wonders in size to people j out in good c mdition in the spring. The hills who are accustomed to the tooth pick timber of that have been denuded of their limber by fire Minnesota or Michigan. The largest specimens j make good sheep lauges. Fruits of all kinds ol timber in lhe eastern or central states, are grow to perfec.ion here, especially apples, pears, mere telegraph poles in comparison with the prunes and small fruits, such as blackberries stately fir of Oregon. In places were settlers strawberries, raspberries, etc. are prolific bea- have tried Io clear out a garden spot on their re.s. The woods are full of wild berries, there homes, it is a common thing iosee a large tree being almost a dozen distinct varieties of huckle that has been felled, used for a fence on one side berries, besides salmonberries, thimbleberii.s of a lol. Near this city, on the public road is a and many other kinds, which goes to show that log serving as a fence in this way that is twelve this is a natural fruit country. Bee-keeping is feet high its it lies, being higher th m t he top carried on in some localities, and the honey pro biggies which pass by. In fact a man would duced here always commands the 1 igl.est price have to be on top of a load of hay to look over being of exceptioiittbly fine flavor. A livingcan into this particular field. These stories regard be made hereon a very small farm, and farmers ing the i nmensv size of the timber here are hard can always do well here. They arc the class I >r people to believe who have not seen it, and that is needed. Improved land here sell at J20 to those who have read the fullesi descriptions of 140 per acre and unimproved land is worth from f5 to f2a per acre. A farm of ifco acres can be them are surprised to find them so large. There are several kindsof timber here. The fir obtained from the government by residing on it is most abundant and is in the rough and moun i five years. Or by residing on it fourteen months tuitions regions. The tide land spruce is plenti and paying the government fl.25 per acre. There ful along the coast and on the rivers and the* | is yet much vacant timber land which can be sj race attains as large a size as the tir. Cedar had on the same terms as above, .or may be is found in many localities also, and larch grows ’ bought outright from the government without on the summit of the coast range. These are ail I residing thereon for $2.50 per acre. This land is valuable timbers. The fir (properly' Douglas ! selling to timber speculators at prices varying spruce) is a very durable and strong wood, and from J800 to $t6oo per quarter sec. ion of 160 acres is manufactured into rough lumber for all pur and will soon be worth a great (leal more. poses. and is made into flooring and rustic ETC. ETC. weather-boarding largely. A great deal of fir is Salmon fishing is carried on during the fishing used for ship masts. Timbers, 150 feet long have season on Tillamook bay. on Nehalem bay. and been sawed from it in many instances. Spruce ' sometimes on Nestucca bay. '1 he output of is a softer wood, is white and is used mostly for canned salmon amount* in value to >50.000 to finishing lumber and for boxes and barrels. >2ao,ooo every year, and gives employment to a Being odorless, it is good for packing butter great many fishermen. There aie canneries at and fruits. The largest area of spruce in the each of the above named places and the item of Northwest is found in Tillamook county, and as canned salmon amounts each year to much it is growing scarce elsewhere, it will be of great more than the wheat of some of the grain value in a short time. Most of the lumber man producing counties. ufactured here now is made from spruce. The Coal is ¡oiind in abundance on the Nehalem c dar takes an elegant finish, and is the very and of good quality, 'these deposits will be best material for doors, sash and shingles. It worked soon. Coal is also found in other locali ties, and other minerals are known to exist in commands a high price at present Nearly all of the timber in this county is ad- various parts of the county. There is no better field f »r the sportsmen than jacent to streams that will float logs, and with a little labor all of it can be put in streams where Tillamook. The hunter can find elk. d«.er, the winter freshets will bring it to the bay. The wateifowl, bear and cougars here; the fishe. man expense of logging here will always be small. can yank thousands of fine speckled trout The county is a net work of rivers that cheapen from the mountain streams. Trolling for sal the cost of logging light at the stmt. Many of: mon in the bay is an exhilarating sport. The these riversare good sized streams on their lower salmon is a gamy fish, and sometimes it takes bring in one of these lively courses, but lhe Coast Range prevents their be half an hour ing very long, and dozens ofcreeks course down fishes, and some of them weigh as much as fifty the innumerable canyons of the range, uniting pounds. There is no finer fish than the Royal into one large stream. No less than five rivers Chinook Salmon. For those who like to tak empty intb Tillamook bav. The lower courses the world easy there is a fine fish which can be of these streams are affected by the tide and so ciugiit more readily. We lefer to the succulent fir as the tide water extends inland, steamboat clam, wmeh grows in the sand bars and mud navigation is carried on. This makes the navig flats every where on the bay or beach. A com able extent of Tillamock bay and its aims very mon farming utensil, a hoe or a shovel, is all great, and the facilities for rafting logs are much that is needed, or you can dig them out with l»etter than in most countries. There is at Hob your hand. They are delicious in various ways, sonville. on- Tillamook bay, a mill that cuts and there are several varieties of clams, oysters 40.000 feet of spruce luml»er per day for the San and mus els. ( tabs are plentiful also. In the Francisco market. Two vessels are employed bay. flounder, sturgeon, porgy, and other fish are in carrying the lumber there and it is all made found. Deep sea fish are plentiful. into lioxes, mostly for raisins and fruit. At Bay 1 Nehalem beach, Netarts beach mid Nestucca • ity is a small mill that cuts almut 2?,o<o feet of beach are favorite resorts for campers, and they lunilier per day, the product of which is mostly are frequented by wagon loads of campers every consumed at home. The Cooperage works at year who amuse themselves by digging clam* Bay City are capable of working a great amount gathering shells and bathing. There will soon *»f spruce into barrel staves, and a large new mill l>e better road* to these places, and they arc sure is partially built. At Tillamook City there is a to become popular resorts. The same general de cription is practirall) saw mill that runs steadily, cutting alsiut 20,000 feel of luml>er per day, mostly for local use. good for every locality in the county, and as Tais mill has a planing attachment. At Woods, lack of space will not permit a special review of *m the Nestucca river, in the south end of the each valley or particular neighborhood, we men county is a saw and plaifng mill that supplies tion a few of the special features only of each the local demand and there isanother local mill locality: Nehalem is particularly noted for its *m the headwaters of the Big Nestucra. On Ne vast resources of timber ami for its < oal. There halem there is a mill that supplies the local is, also, much fine bottom land on the Nehalem, wants, also a large mill and box factory, which and al the mouth of lhe river will be an excel is capable of working 40,000 feet of lumber per lent harbor when the proposed government work is done. The Nehalem river is a very fine day into loxes. Other large milling industries, tome ofthem stream and for scenic grandeur is not surpassed much larger than any mentioned, will be started even by the majestic Columbia. The river is soon. A logging railway has been surveyed into more than one-hundred miles lo.ig and thou one of the finest holies of timber in the county, sands of sections of magnificent timber are tri tight of way secured and ample grounds for butary to it and Its branch« s. The giealest area yards, pastures and mill sites have been pro of farming land is arou.id Tillamook bay, and cured. It will not be long until active opera on the various streams tributary to Tillamook tions on a large scale will Iwgin. and the im bay These streams will l»e the means of bring provement of the bay and liar of Tillamook and ing large laxlies of timber to the saw mills on Nehalem, both of which are being provided for the 1» «y Netart» is famous aa a summer reaort by the government, will give a great impetus and some fine bodies of spruce timber are ad to the 1 uni tiering business of this county. A low jacent. N« stucca is a farming and stock raising country, the^limber having been burnt away estimate puts the amount of lumber in our forests at 20.000.000. oto feet, and the wdrk of years ago. The people In that section are pros cutting thi« into hind »er, with all the prelimi poring South of Nestucca is the Silrtz Indian nary work of logging, will give a large p.»pnla- Rcs»Tvatioti. covering one third of the county, tion <>mploy mviit for many years to come A and containing much fine agricultural land great d< al of money will lie distributed here, The hidiaus are di«appe.«ring fast, and the In and the farming community can find a ready diana hating land alkited tn them in severalty after which the reservation will be opened for settlement. There are twenty po*t-oflicc» iuthecouuty. and several little village.-* besides Tillamook City, the county seat. On (' *• -- • • — • the Nehalem, Tobi's landing and Nehalem are striving for supremacy. There are good stores and hotels on both places, and a large saw mill at the first named place. Garibaldi at the mouth of Tillamook bay is a picturesque little hamlet, has two hotels, a store and a cannery, and is a favorite resort. Hob son ville has a hotel, the Truckee Mills, and a large general merchandise -.tore, also a cannery. At Bay City there are good hotels, mills, a church, several stores and various business en terprises. Bay City is the largest town iu the county excepting Tillamook ami has a popula tion of about 300. There is a store and hotel al Dolph in the south part of the county, and at Woods near the mouth of the Nestucca is a thriv ing little town, with stores, hotels, saw mill and school. Tillamook city is the commercial center of the county, and is situated at the edge of a beautiful prairie on an arm of Tillamook bay at the head of navigation. It is the natural loca tion for the business center, and is built on a natural townsite. The farming country is nearly all tributary to Tillamook and it is destined to become a large town in a short time. Tillamook city has now a population of about Soo, has a good system of electric lights, telegraphic con nection with Forest Grove on the Western Union lines and with Bay City, Hobsonville and Neha lem. This place has churches, excellent schools, ’ lodges of the various secret orders, good hotels, all the ordinary lines of business an<l professions , well represented, a bank, saw mill and s news paper. The streets are gravelled in a substantial ( shape, lighted by elect licity and there are miles of good side walks. This will make a beautiful place for homes, as well as becoming a prospe rous commercial town. The place is incoporatrd and the people take an active interest in improv ing the appearance of the town. HOW TO GET HEBE. A San Francisco' Paper Would Form an Interesting Addition fo Your Winter Reading. THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY N ational , THIJ. • • • W eekly E xaminer v 'IkiBUpIg, WASHINGTON, D. C. 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It bellevea In the greatest P imm I to tile greatest number of our people, and ths a week from Astoria, and the Columbia liver Irhest development of our inatitutioua—iu Natioual steam boats from Portland connect with the '.'u l-. and exalted loyalty. Elmore in Astoria. The Elmore carries freight . and passengers. The Truckee Co’s steamers, the Homer and the Truckee, running from San Francisco to Portland every ten days, stop here on their return from Portland, and load with claims to give more and better matter ibr the sum lumber at Hobsonville. They carry passengers. of It iuo rents a we« k than any other publication. There is a stage line from North Yamhill, on Every line that appears In It Is written for it, ami has ai< <1 in no other paper. It u*>e« no lyndnui« the S. p. K. K. from Portland, on which daily i>pp< or boiler-plate inntter. Address stages, carrying mail and passengers, run to THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, Tillamook. The road from Forest Grove to WASHINGTON, 9. a Tillamook is completed and a daily stage will 1729 how York Ave., be put on this route goon. The.e is a good wagon road from Nestucca, in the south end of THE DICTIONARY HOLDER Did you «ver learn what fabulous results grew out of the the county to Sheridan on the P & W V. R R. (nanufaciure by M Moyes of an ornamental stand to hold the Other routes of ingress will be opened up soot: diction iry I The story reads tike a fable, but to tell it one musk ask anolhei qucbtion : Have you ever noticed the aHvertisemeal and the H eadlight will keep its readers in of the Asimetur Company, which sterta out as follows; formed as to progress in railroads and other en terprises. Persons w ho r< side at a distance and contemplate coming here, will do well to corre spond with the editor of th s paper who will give free information as to the best route to take, according to the time of the year, and will also give other information regarding the county in will Maorain *92 a fair and reliable maimer. Write for printed A Steel Windmill and Steel descriptive m. tter. . Tower evory 3 mlnutee. CJ- These figure* tell the story of the over-crowing, Teacher's Examination. Consisting of eight beautiful reproductions from masterpieces of the world’s great est artists, the whole collection bound iu a handsome bamboo leatherette case; Or a beautiful reproduction, in all of its original colors, of the famous histórica» painting, 22x28 inches, Columbus at the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella. And besides all this, THE EXAMINER will this year distribute arnon? its subscribers 9,000 Pre- XXUUS13, aggregating in value the stupendous sum of $130.000. 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Then, having considered the matter,call on us an I pl .ceacombin dionsuh- scripliuu fur THE Y/EEKLY EXALIINEIi aud your home paper, and so save so of tlia cu-t. $1 aYeaf payable, it) aawtiltfr 43 sold In '88 2,288 sold In '89 6,268 sold In '90 20,049 sold In'91 60, Notice is hereby given that for the pur pose ol making an examination of all p isons who ii.av offer lliemselvt s is can- ilitates for tea* hers ol lhe sclxsils of Ibis county, I lie county school siipm inim'lrut thereof will bold a public examination at Tillamook city, beginning at I o’clock P M., Feb H, 18’3. Ap| licai t* for Stale (’ert ¡ficates or State Diplomas should be present at the above named date. E. K. B arnard , County School Superintendent ul Tillamook, Oregon. one goes others follow. I we Take the Country." <•11. that establishment l.alu ka La Verne W Noyes, and the »cans with whish it was built U| until it is the third largest a er<f»t cllinthoWert( en| only exceeded by two of the great H.nvevter companies) was «holly furnished l>y the Dictionary Holder business, bxngs us back to the Holder, and Suggests inquiry as to how it took ante held and Still holds the field, increasing rapidly from year to year The secret of that success is this; Mr Noyes has made a moat perfect, artistic and meritorious article, and has maintained a high standard of excellence and supplied the article ala low price. The merit of these Dictionary Holders has been so great that they literally sold themselves, and in such gre it q'lanti- ties that a small profit on each one has made the result above mentioned. They have gonetoalmostevery habitable portion of the globe, even to the remote i lands of the sea, and are kept by all xookaeHers. Stoves « 1 ni ware Everything New ■ They have a tinning, plumbing and repairing shop in connection and have secured the services of B. II Bunn lo attend to Ihis department have opened their new hardware ¡Store and have it fully slocked with all kindsof heavy and shelf hardware. They ar»* receiving new goods by every boat <IppowitM Larsen House. Tillamook, Oregon y ■ I ■ ■ ■ ■ I COHN & CO to your own interest, you KÍNG’S and make cash Special iiidiKUMiients are is marked down < ’oine and se« Every Steamer that arrive« ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ a ■ ■ a ■ ■ a a a a * A LARGE SUPPLY 01 Flour, mill feed, grass seeds, groceries, and general prouisions e have a complete assortment of A lfred W illiams , DRUG STORE! a a of boots and shoes Hutchins Corner. Tillamook, Oregon FVLL ZLIZSTZEZ OF ind complete lim DRUGS & PATENT MEDICINES Prescriptions Compounded a a • At all hours. THE & BUREAU • A SALOON, C. H. SMITH, Proprietor. alno winli to buy a ■ •a ••••••a FINE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. st St., Opp. Occidental. TlllamockfOre .
