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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1899)
SPECIAL EDITION OF THE TILLAMOOK BRIEF AND POINTED EYE OPENERS. fottings About Tillamook County Boiled Down and Told in a Nutshell. HEADLIGHT. T illamook is good enough.” An aged and almost deaf person was attending a protracted meeting, and being asked bv the good preacher if he did not think it was almost time he should lie making preparations to go to the better world, replied ; ‘‘No, indeed ; Tillamook is good enough for me ’’ T illamook C ounty affords splendid enjoyment during the whole season for camping parties. Hundreds of wagons, loaded with campers and their camping outfits, visit Tillamook every year. They spend part of the time camping in the mountains hunting and fishing and go to the beach and rusticate there bathing, clam digging and berry-picking. T illamook dairymen can sell their milk at the creameries, or creameries will manufacture it upon the co-operative plan, which most farmers prefer. The cost ol manufacturing butter last year at one creamery was two cents per pound, and after paying (eight and commission charges, netted the fanner between seventeen and eighteen cents jier pound. About $51 |>er head to each good cow. T illamook C ounty is quite different from the East. Those who come here ex pecting to find things as they are there will lie sadly disappointed. The general appearance of the county, the industries and many other things are en tirely different, and those who come to Tillamook, if they wish to succeed and be prosj»erous, must come with a determination to adapt themselves to the sur rounding circumstances. T illamook C ounty contains whole forests of big trees, many of them being forty feet in circumference and over 300 feet in height. Most of the forest trees measure from 15 to 20 feet in girth, and are often free from limbs for the first 150 feet. The forests in many place« are so dense that there is a gloom next to darkness among them, and it is generally hard work forcing a passage through the dense and impenetrable growth of timber. T illamook C ounty has timber estimated at twenty billions of feet, an estimate probably entirely too small. This will yield to the citizens in stumpage at 50 cents per thousand, the sum of $10,000,000. The cutting, running, rafting and booming will produce, at $5.00 per thousand, about $100,000,000 The manufacturing, at $2.00 jxr thousand, $4-0,000,000. A great part of the mill owners will ultimately reside in the county and then profits estimated at $1.00 per thousand will be $20,000,000. ■ illamook C ounty is a land of milk and honey. ■'' lamook C ounty ’ is a world beater for grasses. ■ ii . i . axook C ounty is not pestered with tramps or hobos. B11 imook ’ s milch cows are in fine condition the year round. ■ illamook dairymen are turning their attention to winter dairying. ■» lamook C ounty contains soil that is especially adapted to onions. ■ <' lamook hay in summer sells from $6.00 a ton and $10 in the spring. ■' illamook chickens are free from disease. Poultry does exceedingly well. i . amook ’ s young women are robust, accomplished, pretty and lady-like, ■'ll. lamook C ounty has no prisoners in the county jail living on the taxpayers. ■ illamook C ounty ¿rows garden truck which no section of the United States I can surpass. ■ illamook farmers raise sheep and it is a profitable industry, though conducted 1 on a small scale. ■T illamook C ounty has been settled fifty years, and no one in all that time has I lost a single crop. ■ illamook farms are not covered by mortgage plasters like the drouth stricken I districts of other places. ■iLLAMOok is an ideal County for general farming, for there is a market for everything the farmer produces, ■ illamook in common with most of the counties of Oregon, will construct bicycle paths in the near future. ■T illamook C ounty ’ has splendid prairie land, and for fertility the tide lands and I bottom lands cannot lie surpassed. ■T illamook C ounty is the sportman's paradise. Deer and bear hunting, combined ( ( NESTUCCA HONEY A PRIZE WINNER. with fishing, afford plenty of sport. ( ( [T illamook farmers are making money and enjoying life. You cannot fiud a more / I independent class of farmers anywhere. Cannot be Surpassed for Flavor, Color or Sweetness— [T illamook C ounty is free from insect pests, for the salt sea breezes soon kill them whenever they make their appearance. Tillamook the Home of the Honey Bee. [T illamook horses are worth from $50 to $125; good work horse about $85; good match span of work horses $150 to $250. T hat little busy worker, known as the Honey Bee, finds in the Nestucca [T illamook farmers are wide awake, well informed, hard workers, industrious valleys and hillsides endless quantities of that luscious honey dew, which is so and adapting themselves to all the new device. palatable to the taste of mankind. When our oldest settlers took lip their abode [T illamook C ounty is the most healthy part of Oregon. The saying is Tillamook- I in this land of evergreen vegetation and pure mountain water, the hillsides covered ers have to go to the Willamette valley to die. with flowers of many species, and the fragrant vine maple blossoms in early spring [T illamook C ounty is a place where people can make an easy living if they have were seen in innumerable quantities, their natural instinct taught them that this enough means to enable them to own a small farm. was the home of the honey liee, and the settlers, each and every one, on the first T illamook C ounty has some magnificent landscape scenery. The hills are not opportunity, purchased a few stand of bees and platted a lot, which made him a browned by a scorching summer sun or blackened by cold wintry winds. T illamook C ounty is not troubled with cheap Chinese or Japanese labor, the ( minature apiary. This for the time being was a very valuable help to the struggl presence of this class having always lieen discouraged. ing settler who was taxing his utmost muscle to secure his livelihood. As time T illamook C ounty ’ raises oats, the yield being as high as 100 bushels per acre grew swiftly on his apiary multiplied until finally a surplus of honey yielded n nice on the prairie lands and even better 011 the rich bottom lands. profit. T ilamook rivers and steams have plenty of trout—great big fellows. It is a The honey industry pays exceedingly well. The Nestucca valleys cannot be out pleasure to fish in Tillamook, for one can always catch trout and salmon on stripped in the advantages offered for the producing of honey, California and the the troll. Southern States not excepted. White clover, which is claimed by the most scien T illamook dairymen are hereto stay. They are thrifty and industrious and tific apiariests, produces the best honey, and this seems to be a natural production with bank accounts to their credit. The creameries pay cash every month for their milk. of the Nestucca river bottom soil. White clover is not the only source from which T illamook Indians are still in the county, but they are dying out fast, the Anglo- honey is produced, as we have stated before, but there are endless varieties of wild Saxon crowding them out of their possessions the same as in other parts of the plants which bloom in succession until late in the fall. United States. Among those who were the most extensively engaged in the bee industry in T illamook C ounty grows pearl as fine as those grown in other sections of former years were Messrs. A. Compton, Jasjrer Smith, Krebs Bro., A. C. Gist and Oregon. Peaches, apricots and nectarines do well in the foot hills in localities others who owned from a dozen or mere stands. About twelve years ago Krebs that are sheltered. Bros, erected a bee hive factory near Three 'Rivers, where they manufactured the T illamook C ounty ’ has no disastrous floods, as the streams have deep channels. On the tide lands, where occur the high tides, tne back waters rise so slowly I well known Simplicity Bee Hive, as well as sections, frames, etc., for the same; they ( that no damage is done. also had a machine for rolling the wax into foundation, or more commonly called T illamook honey is supurb. For clearness and fine flavor nothing can l>e com starter. Their business grew for a number of years until th jieople became neglect pared with Nestucca honey. Bee-keeping in the south part of the county is a ful of their bees in pursuing other and more lucrative pursuits. After Krebs Bros, profitable industry. moved their plant to Woods, and their sawmill, they continued to manufacture T illamook C ounty grows immense crops of potatoes, the ground producing 800 bushels to the acre. They are large, well developed, sound and never get these supplies, but to not any great extent. soggy when cooked. When facilities for the liees to place the honey in sections of pounds and new T illamook yearlings sell from $10 to $12; calves, $6 00; good cows, $35 to $50; hives could lie had, then the honey could lie put upon the markets in a poor cows, $20 to $30; two year old steers are worth $15 to $25 and three I merchantable condition. When this was done a demand was immediately created year old steers, $25 to $35. in the cities and Nestucca honey gained a reputation which still stands champion T illamook is a stock raising county. Cattle are thrifty and free from disease. ) to-day over all its competitors. Extracted honey with the Nestucca insignia The rich pasture which lasts the greater part of the year assures the success of attached will sell where, other cannot as when in this form it may lie of a the stock raising industry. manufactured article. Nestucca honey, in pound sections, sells at 15 cents |>er T illamook C ounty ’ produces many wild lierries during the summer and autumn. Salmon lierries. thimble Ixrries, two or three kinds of huckle berries and section, while extracted sells nt only 10 cents |ier pound. The question here arises, sallal berries are most common. and many are prejudiced a; linst extracted honey, on the theory why the lice m in T illamook C ounty ’ s industries do not include bed bugs. After migrating here will go to the expense of purchasing an extractor and labor to take the honey they are soon called away to Davey Jone’s locker. It is strange, but neverthe from the comb and sell it for 10 cents per pound, while th« unextracted sells at less’ a fact, lied bugs cannot lx* found in the county. 15 cents per pound. This leaves the impression in the minds of many that T illamook C ounty ’ has a reputation for pure, cold spring water, which is found extracted is adulterated. This is not the case. The reason is that about two. everywhere. Campers are delighted with the refreshing beverage and it is one thirds of the time of the honey making is taken up in making the comb, and when of the greatest adjuncts to the making of Tillamook butter. T illamook C ounty never had a crop failure. There is no drouth, and the var ) extracted, the pure honey is taken and the blank cells nre replaced in the hive and ious kinds of hay, oats, barley and edible roots yield in unheard of profusion. refilled again, thus giving the bees achance to gather much more honey in a season. The summers are sufficiently dry to cure and save the crops. Nestucca honey has been on exhibition at several state fairs and at the I T illamook C ounty ’ is a land of flowers. The timber is ever green, the moun Mechanics'fair at Fortland and has taken a prize each time for sweetness and flavor. tains are covered with ferns and the prairies are almost jierpetually green, ) Owing to a succession of very late rains in the early spring the past few years, altogether presenting a most beautiful and attractive landscape. Ì T illamook C ounty is an inviting field for all classes who are possessed of some I it is with regret that we announce that our jieople have not given the attention to capital, but the man with a family and no money has no business in Tillamook, > lice culture that they have in the past. Yet nearly every farmer has several stands for like every other new’ place, there are plenty of laboring men to lie had. f from which, if properly cared for and the season is favorable, he may realise from T illamook C ounty is being cleared up fast for dairying purposes. As much j 50 to 150 lbs. of the best of honey, which is readily seen if placed on the market is being cleared this vearas in anv three years previous by the settlers, new and will yield a handsome revenue to each stand. The liee business of this section is old, yet thousands of acres of rich agricultural land remain uncultivated and not overdone, as the outlaying range offers plenty of chance for the little workers to in its virgin state. sap the succulent weed of its sweetness, as they will travel for mile, and return T illamook C ounty ’ s timber is a profitable’investment Timbered land can l>e bought of the government for $2.50 per acre, or $400 for a quarter section, I heavily laden with their load, and if necessary stop on their return and rest under with addition fees and expenses amounting to about $500. These timber < a— J I. F. WEATHERLY, I their burden. lands will lx valuable property in the near future.