| Title | The Yachats River. A fertile section of Benton County just opening up -- eleven pioneer families |
| Publication Type | Newspaper Article |
| Year of Publication | 1886 |
| Authors | Buoy, H. |
| Secondary Title | The Morning Oregonian |
| Pagination | p.3 |
| Date Published | 1886, Mar. 4 |
| City | Portland, Or. |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Valley microfilm AN .U5 O66, Electronic Subscription |
| Keywords | general ecosystem description, historical, Yachats (Or.), Yachats River |
| Notes | As the Coast Reservation began to be broken up, previously unavailable land became open for white settlement. This is a typical 19th century "booster" letter singing the praises of frontier land. "The Yachats is a short stream, and about five miles up from the mouth it forks and branches out, the small streams coming in from all directions. All these small streams have more or less rich bottom land along them, some of them covered with good wild grass..." |
