Completion
Railroads to Tillamook Nears BEACH
RESORTS
and shallow enough to be warm.
The hunting and fishing are within
easy walking distance and beach
resorts offering a greater variety of
umuBement for the brain-weary are
hard to find.
The completed road will stand as
a monument to E. E. Lytle, who or­
ganized the Pacific Railway & Navi­
gation Company, and whose efforts
resulted^in the securing of the capi­
After many years of waiting, and tal necessary to inaugurate the pro­
many mure or lea» bona fide at­ ject.
For years he fought against
tempt» to connect the famous Tilla­ discouragements. When the panic
mook Valley with the outaide world, of 1907 came it caused the cessation
the first railroad project to make of construction work.
After the
good will be finished thia year, und flurry had passed Mr.JLytle secured
1911 will open up a new era for the the financial backing of the Harri­
“land bound,” and sometimes “wa­ man interests. Xt is promised that
ter bound,” citizens of this beauti­ I operation of trains will begin about
ful, fertile valley. They have spok­ July 1 of this year.
en heretofore of a trip to Portland
The construction of the Lytle rail­
as “going outside,” and the return road. as it is called in honor of the
to Tillamook as “going inside.” man responsible for its inception,
Indeed the local vernucular indi­ presented probably greater engi­
cates the isolated condition that has neering difficulties than it has been
prevailed. The coining of tbe rail­ necessary to overcome in the build­
road has changed ull thia und the ing of any other railroad in the
In the first place it
citizens of Tilluuiook County are United States.
looking forward to the time when wa t necessary to cut a right of way
they can have all of the convenien­ through dense torests for the great­
ces of travel to which u country so er share of the road’s W) miles of
rich in natural resources is entitled, length. The cutting of this trail
i'erhaps there is no other railroad coat about as much a mile as it is
offers, in so short a mileage, the va­ necessary to expend to place a prai­
riety und wonderful beauty of scen­ rie railroad in readiness for oper­
ery as does the Pucific Railway A ation.
The entire financial outlay
Navigation Company.
will approximate $5,400,000, or about
Leaving Portlund one traverses $60,000 a mile.
for some miles the Willamette Val­
There are many tunnels, several
ley. giving a picture of peace and of them of great length.
In many
plenty. Soon the locomotive begins places the road passes over high-
its heavy breathing und the train is bunked streams and deep chasms.
rushed through the first tunnel ; at Some of the bridges are of height
once there breaks upon the view an and length su ficient to give them
endless expanse of forest that ap­ rank in the list of the world’s great­
pears like a waving sea of green.
est railway bridges.
The grade
Brought into dose proximity, winds around streams, under and
however, the trnveler realises the through hills and over the Coast
size of the individuals that go to Range of mountains, from whence
make up the picture ;
veritable it descends to Tillamook Bay, touch­
pinnta they tire. Miles and miles of ing Bay City and terminating at
them on either »file of the railroud Tillamook City, the county seat of
which penetrates the very heart of the county of the same name.
The road taps a country rich^in
the Coust^Range. This is said to be
the finest standing body of timber natural resources und possibilities
in the world, and seeing it one will of development. There are millions
of feet of standing timber und the
believe.
In the early days of Oregon's his* district is especially udupted to
tory (not so long, ago, either) the dairying and the growing of practi­
beyt citizen was the one that could cally all kinds of agricultural pro­
destroy the greatest number of these ducts.
Monarchs "of the Forest ; the sole
object of life being to -‘clear tlie
land.” The Oregonian is now be­
ginning to appreciate his inheri­
tance ; “beginning” is the word,
The Hill line (United Railways)
because not one tenth of the people
is
now pushing its way with rock
do realize the natural resources of
this great state. If they did, the and dynamite though the Coast
"Lvtle Road,” so-called, would not Range apd within another year will
have waited all these years for out- give Tillamook County another al­
most direct air-line through wonder­
oide]cgpital.
ful
inountian secenerv from Port­
The-finished line will disclose to
view some of the difficulties en­ land to Tillamook City and Bay
countered in bnilding a railroad City. Thia will give us a two hours
through the Const Range, but only train service from Portland to out
the few who actually did the work bench resorts and make it possible
will realize what has been overcome. for the Portlund business man to
Locating a line of railroud through spend the summer with his wife
n country whose contour cun be seen and family at our beach resorts
ill one thing, and through u forest and himself transact business in
jungle with precipitous mountain- the city during the day. Another
aides is another.
The engineer line is now being surveyed from
must find the most economical path Willamina to Pacific City in the
ns to grades und construction, and southern part of the county which
when this is accomplished miles with the surveyed Hill Coast Line
und mile» of adjacent country has will eventually give all parts of the
b.-en surveyed thoroughly.
This county |direct railroad connection
has been n long, difficult piece ol with Portland.
A company has been organized to
work, but the end is in sight.
The trnveler soon finds himself in construct a railroad from Tillamook
skirting the
the Nehalem Valley, and a beautiful City to Bayoceun,
fertile valley it ia ; the road follow» south side of Tillamook Buy.
the river and buy of the nume name
toward the sen until suddenly as
the train rounds Fisher's Point, the
Pacific itself bursts upon the view ,
running very close to the “edge”
Much ns the railroad transporta­
of things for nine miles, thetruveler tion will do for Tillamook County,
is virtually ut sea, for where the expecially in tlie matter of opening
truck rounds Garibaldi Point, just tip our beach resorts to nil of the
outside lillumook liar, it really up- interior, the great movement of
|K-urs to be over tlie water.
This freight, expecially of low grade
wonderful view alone is worth the lumber, must necessarily be by
trip; »kitting tlie bay closely Tilla­ water.
Tillamook County bus three nat­
mook t. ity is reached anil the pnssen
gcis tire landed m the very heart ot ural harlsirs; Nelialcm Bay nt the
th busy little city that has held the mouth of the Nehalem River in the
north part of the county, with an
fort lot over 50 years.
Il takes n great deal of o| timism area of nlaiut i square miles; Tilla­
to see rx tarns from the great mook Buy about the center of tlie
sums expended on such u rond us county, with n tidal urea of about
Illis ; w loir tlie < omillui Il ir» ferì It’s square miles; Nestucca Bay at
tlie impetus nt cuci- the railroad the mouth of the Big Ne»*ucca in
must biiie its time, but eirntnallv the southern part of the county.
they too mil make good, Tlie upet •
Nehalem Bay al the mouth of the
ing up ol this new teiritorv meitne Nehalem River is the natural out
a great ileal lor I ..ill.mil. It tu inga let for over twenty billion feet of
“Iiome” the traffic that hue been I standing timber on the watershed.
tnlmtarv to seaports principally. ■ and around this bay will spring up
The tinffic ot the present with its ' the vast mills to manufacture tins
dairying products anti the supplies j timber into lumber much of which
incident thereto, it is expected, will to reach the markets of the world
greatly tin reuse.
The coming of must go in ocean carriers of not
tlie railroad will cans* ten bladtsof less than one million feet cargo
grass to grow where one has lien. capacity. To meet this condition
I he I>eau1ilul lieuchesmade acces­ i all that ia needed is the deep-
sible will give Portland at least a ening of the channel over the bar
tliree-hour service to several sum by jetties, tlie Port ot Nehalem has
mer resorts that sre not sur|>aasrd voted fflrtrt*’.«» to t>egin the work,
o i tlie Pacific. for here we have not which isslieady in progress and
only the sea bathing tn the same the additional government appropri­
old ocean, but a tine stretch ot hard ation will lie »ecuisd in due time to
sand end several beautiful treah give this bay the needed depth of
water lakes ted by mountain streama water for ocean commence.
Map of Tillamook County, Oregon
PR. & N. C. ROAD
capì
Tillamook County i
Has Sixty Miles
of Sea Coast.
The Pioneer Rail
road to Build to
Tillamook.
Hill Rushing Road
to Tillamook.
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Tillamook Bay with a tidal area
of 13,!j miles and into which pour
the waters of five rivers is com­
pletely land locked,connects with the
ocean through a gorge 750 feet wide
with a low water depth of 60 feet.
The outside bar has a low water
depth of 13 feet which the Govern-
ment Engineers reports can be
easily deepened to 20 feet at low
water by jetties, giving one of the
finest harbors on the coast from San
Franciso to the sound. To carry out
the plans of the Government Engi­
neers giving a minimum low tide
depth of 20 feet on the bar and dredg­
ing the sturgeon channel to the bay
to give a high tide depth of 23 feet to
Bay City and 21 feet to Tillamook
City will require the expenditure of
about two million dollars. Con­
ditioned on the Government mak­
ing the necessary appropriation to
carry out Hie proposed plans, the
Port of Tillamook has pledged its-
self to raise by taxation $450,00(100
of this amount and the Port of Bay
City $200,000.00, or between the two
Porte they have pledged nearly one-
third of the total amount required
to dotlie work. With the favorable
report of the Government Engineers,
with the two Ports contributing
nearly one-third of the required
amount, with the immense tonnage
waiting transportation as soon as
the work is completed, with large
timber interests pulling in favor of
the project, with Portland busi­
ness interests heartily endorsing the
development of this one of its nat­
ural tributaries, there is little doubt
but that the appropriations will soon
be passed by Congress and when
the Panama Canal is completed
Tillamook lumber in large ocean
freighters will be waiting to pass
through.
Come to Tillamook and
Grow Up with this Won­
derful Country.
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TILLAMOOK COUNTY
Has one of the best natural harbors be­
tween San Francisco Bay and the mouth of
the Columbia River.
Has 32,000,(XX),000 feet of merchantable
timber.
Has great natural resources in divers
branches.
Has balance of trade always in its favor.
Has equable temperature, insuring bodi­
ly comfort.
Has good wages for working men in
cash each month.
Has abundant rainfall, guaranteeing
crops and water.
Has good schools within reach of every
home.
Has an honest, law-abiding, peaceful
population.
Has healthfulness, especially absence of
fevers and malaria.
Has laud unsurpassed in productiveness.
Has pure, cool mountain water in abun­
dance.
Has magnificent mountain and beach
scenery.
Has splendid hunting and fishing.
TILLAMOOK COUNTY HAS
No Chinese, to compete with American
labor.
No irrigation, with its expensive litia-
tiou.
No codling moths to destroy the apples,
No potato pests of any kind.
No long severe winters when stock must
be housed and fed.
No severe frosts to destroy vegetation.
No crop failures, from any cause what­
ever.
No earthquakes, cyclones or blizzards.
No tramps or strikes.
TILLAMOOK COUNTY NEEDS
O
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More manufactures in nearly all lines.
Capable, energetic settlers who mean
business.
Harbor improvements.
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Tillamook County is the Most
Prosperous Section of Oregon.
Vast as is Tillamook County’s,
wealth of timber, it can hardly be I
doubted that in its splendid ocean
beaches it has wrapped up almost
as great a source of wealth, and one
that will wax with the coming years
as Portland, the Willamette Valley
and the Inland Empire grows in
wealth and population.
Only sixty miles from Portland,
or an easy two hours run through
the picturesque coast range, and
the tired city and valley dweller can
find himself transported from the
heat oppressed city and valley’ to
the beach resorts of Tillamook
County, “fanned by breezes salt
and cool,” to sport in the surf on
the gently sloping beaches, or
watch the happy children digging
in the white sand, with dull care
banished by the ceaseless lullaby
of the breakers.
With the finest of trout fishing
in the near by mountain streams ;
clain digging on the long stretches
of beach ; Chinook, silver-side and
steelhead salmon in the bays and
tributaries during the running sea­
son ; deep-sea cod, halibut, skul-
pers and dozens of other varities of
fish on the off-shore banks; with
weird colonies of seal lions to visit
where the stretches of beach give
way place to bold, rocky, cavern-
lined promontories, feathered o’er
with primal forests', carved and
chiseled^ into fantastic outlines by
the ceaseless beat of old Naptune's
water-hammer; with fine roads for
automobiling through
an ever
changing scene of »fountain, valley,
forest, or along the hard beach
where the waves lap the whirling
wheels of your machine ; in no
other place can the person seeking
a summer outing find such relaxa­
tion, such variety, such invigora­
tion of mind and .body as at the
Tillamook beach resirts.
Bayocean, Brighton, Garibaldi,
Lake Lytle, Neskowin, Netarts,
Pacific City and'other beaches are
famous, and millions of dollars are
being expended to make them all
that the most exacting could de­
mand in the way of comfort, con-
venience and attaction.
Tillamook County has become
favorite goal for thousands of auto-
moboile parties. One’good feature
about the roads in Tillamook Coun-
ty in the Summer is that little or no
dust is encountered, and with the
delightful cool weather at that sea­
son of the year, is a source of enjoy,
ment to those out for Summer
reation and pleasure.
Tillamook City.
Tillamook City is situated at the
head of Navigation on Hoquarton
Slough and is the County Seat as
well as the largest city in the Coiin-
ty.
It has u population of 2,0®
white people, there being nu ne-
groes, Chinese or Japaneseresiderft
in the County, and but few Indiana.
Tillamook City has a live, pro-
gressive Commercial Club with
commodious premises, being one
of the best club rooms in the state.
Tlie Tillamook Public and High
School, which was erected in 19®
at a cost of $8,(XX). 00) is a fine modern
structure of two stories and a base-
ment. It is heated by steam, and
is provided with a good ventilation
system.
In addition to the public
school facilities afforded the people
of Tillamook City, there is a splen-
did parochial school new under the
management of the Sisters of the
Most Precious Blood, occupying a
large three story frame building in
the eastern part of the city. The
city has several modern concrete
buildings.
Churches of various
denominations
are well repre­
sented, the Adventists, Metho-
dists, Christians, Catholics, Uni­
ted Brethern and Presbyterians
each having their own building.
Pure mountain water is supplied to
the City through a new $50,OOft®
water system.
There is a well or.
ganized volunteer fire department,
and an electric system of lighting
It has graveled streets anil good
sidewalks, also local and long dis­
tance telephone systems. It enjoys
a daily mail, has two banks, two
weekly newspapers, two saw-mills,
two cheese factories, opera house,
as well as the usual number of busi­
ness houses, restaurants and hotels.
Bay City.
Bay City is located on Tillamook
Bay, about seven miles from Tilla­
mook C ity. It has factory sites
convenient to deep water nndto the
railroad "now building. The town
is situated on terraces overlooking
the bay, making it one of the mo9t
beautifully situated towns in the
County. It has a plentiful supply
of pure mountain water, also a first
class hotels, a tine school building,
The lands of Tillamook County two churches, saw mills and bank,
may be classed under three head», and salmon cannery, besides mer­
viz., bottom land, prairie land and chandise stores, etc.
hill land.
Bottom lands are of three classes,
Cloverdale, on the Nestucca River,
namely, ordinary “creek bottom”
bids fair to become one of the lead­
with which every farmer is familiar;
ing towns of the Couuty. Here are
river bottom, which is land built up
located two churches, hotel, cheese
by overflow and deposit of sediment;
factory, newspaper, implement and
and tide lands, being those which
feed store,
general' merchandise
are overflowed more or less by salt
store, drug store and other enter­
water. The river bottom is by far
Small vessels enter the
the most valuable for agricultural prises.
Nestucca
harbor and supply the
purposes, and can be relied upon to
produce from four to six tons of hay stores regularly, carrying out the
per acre, oats yielding the latter products of that end of the County.
amount. Lands of this nature con­ Daily stage lines to Tillamook City
and Sheridan.
stitute the greater part of the bot­
tom lands of the county, and are
practically inexhaustible. The tide
\\ oods is a small town on the
lands produce an immense quantity Nestucca River, below Cloverdale.
of tide land , grass and are used Ocean Park, near at hand, is a fa­
principally for pasturage for young vorite summer resort, where bun
stock.
dreds of people spend their outings
Prairie land is of a lighter char­ from all parts of the state.
acter and must be sustained by fer-
| tilizers. Surrounding the valleys
Beaver is situated about midway
are ranges of bench or table land,
which is most valuable for fruit between Tillamook City and Clover­
dale.
It is the center of a farming
raising or as grazing land.
I community and supports a cheese
The hill lands are mostly heavily-
A hotel and
covered with timber, and are so ex­ factory and saw-mill.
tensive and so valuable that they general merchandise store are lo­
cated here also.
insure the future wealth of Tilla­
mook County.
The hills in the
south part of the county were burnt
Hobsonville is a small mill town
1 over many years ago, ktlling the on the Tillamook Ray. The Miami
I.umber Co.’s mill is located at this
, timber, and they are most valuable place, in connection with whichthey
. for stock raising or as grazing land ¡conduct a general rnerchandist
j for goats and sheep.
«•tore and a hotel.
The surface of Tillamook County
is for tbe most part rough.
The I _^<»ariba*di, a short distance from
Coast Range
Mountains
pass Hobsonville,
_____ just inside
------- , is located
---- to
1.. the Bay. Sa mud
through »he entire eastern part of ' ’fi* entrance
■ the county.
The northern anil BJmore’s salmon cannery is located
at this place, also two general mer­
,southern parts of the county are chandise stores and other enterprie-
I hilly, while the central part is com­
paratively level. The northern part
is the most heavily timbered section
At Nehalem are located gene­
and the southern part has the least ral merchandise stores, drugstott
timber.
hotel, cannety, saw-mill,
gooff
school, etc. Thia place is destined
to liecome a center of industrial ac­
tivity when the timber on the Ne­
halem River la-gins to move.
Small vessels are able to enter tbe
The people of Tillamook County- , the Nehalem Harbor, carrying is
are enthusiastic over good roads, supplies and taking out the pro­
and the County Court is expending ducts of that section ci the county-
the large sum of $125.000 annually
upon them.
It has now three
" heeler ia located on the NebaRff*
rock crushing plants, with three river, ami is a station on the U.K
gasoline road rollers, situated in A N. to.'» railway, with bright pros
different parts of the county, build­ pects of becoming a manufactunsff
ing good roads, and on this account • cente«-. It has a bank and one o
the largest sawmills m the count*.
Tillamook Lands.
Cloverdale.
Woods.
Beaver.
Hobsonville.
Garibaldi.
Nehalem.
Good Roads
Wheeler.