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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1909)
JIW-.JWWIVU., JqoiAt, AiMi,:.bkim, , SATtopAV,, jjfowjg, j 11" IDEAL FARMING AND FRDIT GROWING REGION OF WESTERN OREGON Editor Officiates at a Strawberry Fair and Boosts for Widow. Record Price for Berries. EIGHTY MILE DRIVE THROUGH EDEN Some Grain Crops Light, but Big Hay Crop' Coming on and Plenty of Fruit Great Speed With a Puncture i Proof, Never-Tire Hambletonian Runabout. i One day last week tho writer took an clguty-mllo drive In Marlon and Linn counties behind a good Oregon Btandard-brcd roadster. Out past Salem Heights tho houses are springing up liko mushrooms over night. It Is remarkable how tho hills aro being cleared and sot tied up. Tho roadstdo nnd hilltops aro still picturesque with forest growths nnd beautiful slnglo trcos. The oaks havo a gllttorlng dark green foliage. Tho flra aro darker and Greene:- still, but mottled by tho lighter grcon of newer growth. Many of tho smaller, fruit farms havo nlco woll-palntod houses, and sorno aro cultivating tho luxury of lawni and hammocks. To seo a pretty girl with a big head of golden hair reddish auburn as It grows only In Oregon Btrctchcd out on tho lawn under an applo trco Is enough to mako a miser forgot real gold. There were many fields of spring gra'n, where tho grain was still shorter than tho lupines, tho lark spurs, and cumntt (wild hyacinth) whoso bluo masses of blossoms ri valled tho fndoless colors of tho per fect sky. Fall-sown grain is pretty foul with weeds, but after tho ro- cont rains has a good color. Thoro aro occasional patches' of clovor, nnd many, many young orchard tracts In tho hills. Mr. HIKllcker's throo-year-old pnuno orchard, Just tho other sldo of Prlnglo crook, Is a beauty. Still thoro is an onormous lot of land within four miles of Sa lem that needs sub-dividing. Fruit Inspector Armstrong hns ton acres In apples, pears and qulncos Just sot out, one of the Qrabenhorst tracts Mo son wns cultivating tho young orchard. J. A. Bonoy Is farming part of tho Mlnto farm and Is doing woll. He Is one of tho best men at a plow I ever know. His twin boys wero out by the rond, baro-hended, bright lads, wlio Immediately rccognlzod tho horse and exchanged glances. E. M. Kcenoy hns 90 acres near Jackson's hill. Ho has Interested hlmsolf in tho Improvomont of Jack son's 't'll, an olovatlon of 185 foot from the creek. By a new survey they expect to get over on a sovon per cent grade, which will only tnko three hundred feet farther' than tho prcsont rond. C. L. Rodgcrs is tho present supervisor, Tho prosont grades are 17 and 19 foot at sharp pitches, nnd 10 per cont the rest of tho way. Tho old stage routo was 37 per cent grade.wlth a 45 per cent grndo In spots. "Thoro nre many now settlers In tho Jackson hill neighborhood. More settlers havo como In here In three yenrH thnn in ten years before. On the Jackson hill grade of tho old stage road stands tho old oak stump six feet high and two feet through, on which a Wells-Fargo stago coach was wrecked in tho 'GO s. On top of tho Jnckson hill Is n great golden bil low of Scotch broom. Whoever brought that to tho country might not have benefited agriculture, but certainly helped out tho nntural de coration of western Oregon. This yellow shrub Is said to grow on both sides of the English channol and that tho first king of tho house of Plantngcnet stuck a sprig of it in his crown when he took his scat on the British throne. This Is a pretty fiction and whether truo or not I cannot say, but I lookod up tho meaning of the word planta gotol and It is broom plant. As I remember history henery Plnntag enct wns truo to his name nnd mado a clean sweep of tho generations of office holders who had acquired hereditary privileges, Just as they aro doing today under the specious .guise of civil service Tho British people wore Improved nnd gained liberties every tlmo they were con quered. ' doing down off Jackson's hill soma good road work has been done. At tho last bad pitch lives my friend Abraham Wnltl, who has built hlm solf a new house. His daughtcft wns out gathering fresh eggs. Arnold Wagner was driving homo A, P Wagner's herd of Jerseys. Ho is n bright boy who takes great prldo In his uncle's cows. Across tho valley aro tho flno largo white farm iibu oftke tf&ftrs and Loonoys, with grand Jd lr crownod Loonoy'a butto to the right oi mo om siago statlOB, whore DavM Looney has his model dairy farm. One may travet a long way and seo no such cattle aB tho Loonoys havo. Thoro Is no grander strain in stylo, size and milking quality, vigor, boau ty of coloring ,than tho Loonoy hord. Marion Loonoy. ' who has tho Nod Looney place, is a progressiva farmer ana uniryman. Hon. A. O. Llbby was out with a force putting tho roads In order He says tho present county court Is getting a great deal of vol unteer work dono hnd Is not scatter ing county funds broadcast to do 1L either. Roads nro graded and grav eled out of tho district funda and tho county treasury is barred protty tight. Mr. Llbby mndo n careful and conser vative member of tho lcglBlaturo, al though his nomination nnd election were fought by tho Ilopubllcan ma chine. He Is a member of tho Qrnngo council and does not hcsltato to Bay that If the Republicans nomlnato a machine man for governor a Domo crat Uko Lane will bo clcctod. Llbby has somo of the best Bprlng wheat we saw on tho road, and Mrs. Llbby Is a good cook- Wo were Just 20 minutes by tho watch going from Llbby's to Joffor Bon, nbout as good no any auto- At the Cottnge hotel wo hnd tho bridal chamber, a fine breakfast cookod by Mrs. Frances Wled Campbell, of cof fee, hot biscuit, cakes, eggs and fried pork and French fried potatoos for two of us nil for $1.00. At tho liv ery stable It was 75 conta for ond horse. But It is ono of tho best kopt ntnbles wo over put a horso In. Hq hnd plenty of good bbddlng, plenty of good hay, n blto boforo going td bed and well groomed In tho morn ing. 1 pnld it cheerfully. If Tiny ono Is going to be slighted, I don't want It to bo my horse. Jefferson seems to be growing somo but It wns protty quiet. It was explained to mo that John Auppcrlo wns out of town. Wo pulled out for Scio nnd Lebanon at C o'clock. The air was cool, clear, crisp, with tho tang of fir and tho wind blowing off tho mountains ns In tho evening It blown from tho ocean. Wo passed Idlwyldo farm ownod by J. T. Funk, who hns somo of tho finest grnln In tho vnlloy nnd Is a good, practical, sonslblo farmer In splto of tho poetic nnino up over his farm gate. A Jack rabbit canto bound ing across a Hold to moot us. Ho reminded mo of some of tho mom bora of the Inst legislature. Ho wns all cars, hind legs nnd no tall. S. M. Shores, who lives at Munkora Bays grnln nnd hay crops nro nil right In the valley that Is In tho forks of tho Santlnm. As you go back toward tho foothills It gots bottor had rnoro rnlns. Tnko It tho Willamette vnlloy over nnd thoro will bo fair grain crops and a good hay crop. Tho rnlns put that dnrk green color on grain, which shows It hns got onto Its foot, nnd If thero not so much straw to thresh there will bo Just as much grnln. We wero less thnn nn hour from Jefferson to Sclo. With a fow llvo men In it that town Is Just beginning to wnko up. It hns a roso show, horse fair and carnival Juno 19. It is Interesting to watch tho ovolutlon of n llttlo ploco out of n crossroads into a protty city John Aupperle hnB boon back of about all that has "wont" at Jefferson. Abou the only men I saw working for wages at Jef eorson wero Working for John. Same way at Sclo. Dr. Prill got them tho fair, tho milk condonser and the saw mill. Ho Iti tho Commorclal club, tho roso show and horso fair. Every en- torpriso, wether It's a now baby born or a now Industry talked up, Prill has a hand In IL What a godsond somo mnn like Prill or Aupporlo would bo to a lot of dead and Bloepy places. Tho towns that havo a llvo man who puts them on tho road to Somownero from tho dismal land of Nowhere spend nbout half tholr lime kicking and throwing rocks and try ing to keep under tho man who Is putting them on tho map. But thnt Is what Is called human nature. There la certainly nothing dlvtno about It. Wo mot farmers driving Into Sclo with their wagon boxes chock full of cream cans nnd they wero full, too. Tho great future Industry of west orn Oregon Is dairying. Tho tlmo Is past to lot n dozen or twenty scrub cows ronm over two hundred acres of land, grow starvation poor and thin In winter, packing tho land hard as a brli- yard, roaming over it in tho rain trying to pick up a scant Qxlstonco, nnd not producing enough milk to pay tholr own taxes. In placo of this kind of suicidal land destruction, tho gospel Dr. Withy combo hns preached of clover, root crops, corn foddor, onsllngo, tho buc- culont milk-producing pumpklnB, Squash, gourds, kale, must bo Intro duced. But right thoro our wholo dairy farming system breaks down. As soon as n man goes to building up n big dairy hord and soiling his land ho finds ho can't got competent farm lnbr to handle his dairy farm, Avallablo farm labor don't Uko to milk cows, shovel mnnuro, hnndlo root crops, wash milk cans, etc. Ore gon needs n lot of tho bottor class of foreign Immigrants from Qormany and northern Europe, tho groat dairy countries of tho old world. Wo nocd thai class of laboring pcoplo n groat doal worso than wo do n Inbor com mission and bureau of Inbor statistics without labor enough in any ono lino of Industry to properly develop our country. Wo havo dairy commission ers but n declining dairy Industry. Wo hnvo scores of boards and com missions but no laborers. About ov ory other man who comes to Oregon wants nn office, n position or a dork ship. Nearly nil other states aro se curing foreign Immigration moro or less dcslrnblo nnd Oregon needs nn Immigration bureau moro than It noods forty other bureaus nnd com missions It now hns. Tho labor wo havo will not clear land or work dairies. On tho wholo trip of 80 miles I saw but ono pluco whoro any land was being elenred and thnt was near Salem. Largo parts of the, Willnmotto vnlloy nro growing up to brush for want of common labor to clear tho land. Wo passed nenrly every rig on tho rond but ono llttlo frccklo-fncod, rod hnlrod woman with a kind of cross botweon nn Altamont nnd an Indian pony, who seemed to bo going to tho Orango mooting at Sclo. Aftor sov- oral attempts I gnvo it up and mado up my mind it was Impolite to pass a woman on tho rond. You can nl wnys toll n follow who Is taking a girl buggy riding for tho first tlmo. no wnntfl to pass everything on tho mmasa CHAMPION HARVESTING MACHINERY CHAMPION BINDERS, MOWERS AND RAKES CHAMPION MACHINES have features of con struction that are distinctly "Champion." The force feed elevator of the Binder, the draw cut construction of the Mower and the locking de vice on the Self-dump Rake for holding down the teeth when raking, are features that every user has learned to appreciate It will fray you to investigate the Champion before buying your Binder, Mower or Rake BPWM-ulV'akBBI& r bbbbbiibe Hbbbbbt ' "ii, , nBBhbTknlakkkkikw wis & At! I u IX jfcljJMMMBy,Ma UFj W riVi iv c i u 'w'w" i,J.iHnr5jLjr'"' bhM IIJRX'250 " " IXJlMTl-iJ ' 'M IT DRKWS TH E'BPSR NO PUSH. v II vf Pirs 3airTi road. Aftor ho hns mado a mash and is really in lovo with tho girl ho lets eVorybody on tho rond pass him. No road Is long onough. Tho Ion;" way round Is tho shortest way homo. No woods Is too dark or too lonely. Ho can drlvo wltu ono hand or no hand and hold tho linos botwoon his knoes. I novor saw one lioldlng the lines In his teeth. After they're mnr rlcd they sit up straight anil ho has to havo both hands to hold tho linos. Wo reached Lebanon at 10 o'clock and found the atreots crowdod with well-dressed farmers, who had drlvon in from nil directions. A great many of tho Women and children wofo white dresses. Thoro wore many girls with red dresses nnd low-cut tan shoes with protty bowa on thorn, walking nround two by two with their arms nround each othor's waist. Country girls always look so protty doing that Tho horso parado, with many brood mares and fine colts, was excellent. A well-dressed crowd of Oregon women, all with tholr big plcturo hats nnd artificial flower beds as big as dish-pans, Is n flno-looklng sight and U1U JIUUl UUIBVB UU Jllit IU IUU BUUU' I A red automobllo piled full of m men In whlto and pink flounces wun washtubfulls of nilllloory aud plumes a yard long sticking out of tho sides is vnougn u maao a nacK loara oi Glydcsdalea want to climb tho first bnrb-wlro fonco. 1 mot W. O. Potorson, tho veteran flromnn who used to do.tournamont work with J3nlpm firemen Jn tho old days. Ho spoko in mo highest terms of the work of tho Salem firemen who enmo up to tho paper mills flro. Ho especially pVnisod tho flno condi tion tholr engine wns in. It novcr missed n stroko from tho tlmo It started, whoa other engines gavo out for want of, packing nnd other causes. Tho strawberry nnd flowor show was in ono of tho ompty storo rooms and filled It to overflowing. Tho roses, Bwcot pons and othor spring flowers would hnvo boon n credit to Now York city". Tho strawborry show wns a groat credit to lobanon. A Wilson plant with a thousand borrles on It, somo two Inches In dlamotor, was shown In n window. Flno dis plays of Marshall, Magoon, Excolslor (for canning), Brnndywlno, Wilson nnd Oregon Imporlnl woro shown. J. Illckols was a big exhibitor of fino berries grown on upland. On tho uplnnd soil tho berries got a higher color. Mrs.Hnttlo Ummenho for showed n crnto of Marshnlls that faced nlno to tho box thnt woro deep red and red nil tho way through. She Goo. L. Allon showed oloven va rlotlos of paconloa. Ho grows ovor tweney kinds. Somo of thorn vory threo proprietors, with her brother Chris nnd Q cor go, aro natural-bora, hotel people. Mary loves flowers nnd always kopt up tho flower gar dens around tho depot nt Albany, to which peqp.lo now pro helping tkoM solvcs In a lawless manner. But stw keeps nor dining room supplied ated will soon navo them growing at Uts now plnco. Just caroea tho railroad track from tho old placo. They havo 20 rooms and will double tholr capacity and put in steam heat this fall. Tho Vandran serves tho best meals and has the best beds nnd cleanest rooms In Albany. I went to tho Aico club, which has tho finest gymnasium In tho Btato ouUtdo of t. ortlnnd, and 'then took in tho John son revival at tho big tabernacle. Albany business men who havo got any religion aro not oiram to put up for It. Thoy put up tho building nnd pnlu for this mnn to como nnd hold tho meotlngs, and In nil spent about 13500. It will nil como back to thorn In hotter citizenship and provo a good Investment. Tho samo mon dig for tholr club, havo hired a now boostor, put up for the big conventions, for tho npplo show, ,for bltullthlc pnvomont, now brick blocks basoball games, raco meets and poul try shows, Thoro woro a thousand peoplo at tno rovlval. several hundred in th choir, ministers on the platform, business men for ushers, "Albany- for Christ" in big red lttrt, 4 Jafca son working Uko a steam woodsaw and rock crushor combined) to eoa vort sinners. Whllo I wouldn't. e at 'om In tho same way, I Was satis fied ho was doing his best and doing really good work that was worth all It cost Albany. Ho will probably convert 300 and w kit 1 f iBte a slnglo ono of them taken oat of Uh criminal clou Is worth more tfeam that It costs about J1500 to mA a man to tho ponltontlary on an axr ago, and thon the man Is loet to society. If tho Albany rovlval bm saved ono horso thlof or houso break er It Is worth nil It has cost, and moro too. Aftor tho rovlval I wont oat a did ino town. It was Saturday night and two electric theatres woro crowd ed with people A struot preacher wan holding forth to a lot of working men on socialism. Ho roasted Ilooao vclt to a crisp, but boforo sailing Into Teddy ho cast n searching glance nround to see It thoro wasn't somo fellow close by who would land on him. On down tho street thoro wns a big dnnco going on at tho skating rink. At tho opera houso tho comic opera "Tho Burgomaster" was in full blast. Tho American people aro not raro. Ho has grounds covorlng going unoK on real religion out are acres, and Is tho largest paoony and going to dovclop a still higher ca- dah l arnwnr In thn tato. pnclty for amusement L. P. Hubbs of tho Hubbs-Oteven ., Driving out of Albany wo carao Co. (W. D. Stevens of Albany) Is hrough by tho u. C. Strnttan place, ono of tho men whoso hand Is on nJl"??rZlrCh tho ship of Progress, was a Modfor ff I'Pnli1' ,; booster until threo years ago. The 5""?h,in.r i&'Jih"" " day ho landed was a rod letter day "M!ttftlS for Lebanon ho is a Btrawborry " " ftA0 ,0J',p ?,nrd wnn? Si"B?lrnatt onthuslast. Ho wants to grow bor- n'mtHc'1 " . .. w,',. ? ? !i15m" ries and dig In tho dirt when he i"i,Shr'' ?rJu"J hT0 fr?mi.nJ i ..i- .n.in n.i rnn...A i.. months tour of Iowa, Indiana and ArMym ? to Mm uJS Ml lii hn" th ,,"lt08 ,n "'0 ""'". Including nonff ffn th n.l TT ToXM- " n,d h w no 'arming aTno as Slt?KP 'tUsamX ion ,o Willamette val- 11 a" bn.,CJ?I,,u i ?,., At Alabny f mot Jns. T. Wood- wd in i on8 n(' in0, hum n n out to vls,t " "Ifitor, Mrs. Jnno Rls- L aJl a u bABbn.H. nrZ ly ot A,nn;-. whom ho had not soon gonlnn, a sraduato of Wlllamotto, ,on ftnd Mr RH, ,,nd hfl borrr in Yurnlilll county, and full of cocUed conx Mr. -w-oodwnrd to nr?.nrn'tt whoroho would enjoy a prlso twu builds empires. groon old ago Jool C Mnyor, tho Mayor of tho coming down townrd Buona Vista, city, who runu tho two moat mark- arotmd tho Loonoy Butto. nro had hnstllng tho town of Lebanon to the havo ovor bohold ,n tho Untod atat08, front. Ho io a solid Gorman-Amor- nnd x nnvo boon oyor ,t ,,, BU,nnJor lean buslnoss mnn whoso hoart Is rrom West Virginia to Southern with progross. i California. Tho hillsides dotted Honry Vollstodt hnd chargo of tho,wlth Bront onks, hero nnd thoro a Btrawborry show and ho was uIho ,nimiin fir m rmv nt .. chairman of a commlttoo with Col. Browth. grent blockB of grain flolds, uui.iKui- iu iotuiyu nii n"iuiuu Birontns of Wntor, wldo pnBturea dot- iraws the Br. Altld Traedsiu THE WHEELS wIlL NOT LIFT FROM THE G HOUND, 211-237 State' Street, Salem, Oregfi Mitchell, Lewis & Staver Co, V&liiZU1 visitors nnd thoy did It In grent ahnpo. Tho Murshall berry that rook tho first prlzo nt Lebanon was brought to this vicinity from Ynnuiun Day. Whoro thoy wore grown . by a man named Marshall. Thoy nro not lliu Mnrshnll borry of tho catalogues. Tho fair closed with a groat Btroot mooting which was addressed by Col. J. M Shelley of Ijugono, N. M. Now port nnd pthors, who nro strawberry onthuslnsts, A grcon roso was exhibited by Miss Bva Blodgett, petals, buds and all. dark green. This prlto crato of strawberries was auctioned off and brciuKh 133. which was prcsontcd to Mrs, Unum- enhofer, who Is a hard-working young widow with two boys to look after I added a Bryan dollar to tho widow's prlzo sum for tho honor of Introducing Lio fair borry grower to the largo audlonco, and In my ro hiarks pleased tno crowd by tolling thorn that if I wero n slnglo mnn I wquld porsundo hor to drop tho first pnrt o her name or die trying. It watt a lovely drlvo neroaa tho prairie to Albany, about 20 miles, and wo made It In a llttlo moro than two hours. Mountains for back ground In all directions, with a thin bluo veil ovor thorn, tho air warm, sweet with tho mixture of sunshine and clover blooms, Uot Into Albany In tlmo to tako a bath and a splendid supper nt tho Popot hotel Wo put up our road machlno (a Hambletonian with punc-tnro-proof novor tires, aired by Duroo rrlnco ZA&Vt) at Spoyor Bros., tho Albany stables formerly kopt by Sklpton Bros. They only chnrged ,50 cents, and the horso was woll groomed tho Vandrans aro nicely settlod In their now location. Tho old build ing In which they entertained the public elnco 1885 baa been enlarged and lmprovod and mado over entirely now, with perfect sanitary arrange ments, a wldo porch runs clear around it and keeps tho wholo houso cool, whllo the big windows lot in tho sea breozo when It U wanted. Tho Vandrans kept the Pendleton five and a half years and havo tho widest acqualutanco and the longest continuous record In tho hotel busi ness of any In the state. Miss Mary Vandran, ono of tho tod with bands of cattlo, and to the west tho rlso of bluo mountains, nnd above nil Mary's Peak with Its rid go or snowbnnks. Mr. A. Furlow has n flno place of nbout 100 ucres and makes a llttlo hord o. dnlry cows pay him about 17 a month each. At tho J. -fT. Bvckwlth placo wo found a patont gate, but liko most patont gates it would not work per fectly tho first tlmo. On his homo Placo tho county commissioner has 200 acres of flno well-drained land. It slopes ovory way from his houso. Ono Hold of 0 acres spring whoat easily boats anything wo saw on the trip. It will go 2G buahols to tho aero without any moro rain. Tho approach to tho Beckwltlt place 1b under somo of the moat mag nificent oak treoj In tho vnlloy. It Is a gracious act on tho part, of land owners to leave groves of oaks and Mrs, especially tho monarchs of the forest tnut crown tho high covered, sightly building places. Coming up to tho Beckwlth placo we passed a house on tho old Anderson ranch whoro thoy seemed to bo cele brating tho Fourth. It proml to be a party In honov of thn 37th wedding nnnlvorsnry of Mr. and Mrs. Cnnrlos Hartley, who seemed to bo wolcom ln gaeveral generations of tholr friends and offspring to a goneral good time. Wo wont up tho now survey of the Ankeny hill coming to Salem and tho county court nnd Supervisor Whltomnn havo. dono a good Job, Tho long, easy gradulonts mako the drlvo up or down a plensuro, whoro it was formerly a terror. Our horse went up It a wnrm afternoon, with two In tho bucjrv. and nover tiros- 4lred a, drop, 'ibis Improvement Is on iuq same plan as tho Llborty road --a wldo, grado, woll drained, a road bod of broken rock rolled down, and then finished with tine crushed rock. It will mako nn Interesting direc tory to onumorato the tree advertis ers who havo gono out of business. It sooms If It would be almost a gravoyard of commercial enterprise. It must puzzle some peoplo who go to Salem to trade to, find all these tree advertiser. There ought to be a law requiring a man, wheu he goes (Continued on Pse IS.) f vl I ' j?. I t I A 'I Such, who were In tho rwT.'apSl ImG:"" W "" lr,P W m0r'