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ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1926.
OUR REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT
We have a large list of all kinds of real estate from one acre tracts to farms and stock ranches containing a thousand or more acres. TELL US
JUST WHAT YQU WANT "d you will be surprised to know that we can come so near finding it for you If you are interested in purchasing a
home in our city, or business property that will bring you in large returns, call on us as we specialize in this line. WE ARE HERE TO WEL
COME YOU and give you all the information possible, and we extend to you an invitation to write us for any information you may desire.
Lester L. Bell is With Our Real Estate Department as Salesman
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M. F. RICE
Attorney-at-Law Bonds and Loans
N. RICE
Real Estate Investments
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been a pleasure to us to see our clients satisfied, and also to assist someone along the Road of Life. Should
you at any time need funds to improve your place, purchase additional property, or pay off an existing debt,
we wish that you might let us assist you.
We can secure for you, on first class security. Short or Long Time Loans, Local or Company loans. We
make this a specialty, and always have something in store for the borrower which will be beneficial to him.
It has always been our custom to extend to our lenders and investors the SAFEST SECURITIES ' OB
TAINABLE, and we invite lenders as well as borrowers to this "OLD RELIABLE HOMESTEAD OFFICE."
We have been in business in Roseburg, Ore., for 35 years.
Our
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Municipal, School, and Government
Bonds, and would be glad to expl&in to
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" OUR LAW DEPARTMENT
This department is in charge of
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Attorney at Law
Ml i IM nrYiM l.MT
Mother Nature With Wonderful Prodigality Left All of Her Prettiest Playthings in
ROSEBURG, OREGON-
UNMISTAKABLY THE RIGHT TOWN F OR YOU!
--"The Love of the Soil"
" " (Continued from page 18)
4o the agricultural population.
' The ciilcken opportunities of the
- Pacific const have been rather over
'done. The whole year round the
surplus must go to New York or
Jnto cold storage. It la a long haul
rom one aide of the continent to
the other and express ratca are
'blub.
1' Aa a result last year, for four or
-fl month!, the price of a dotea
eggs In Douglaa waa no more than
the coat of the feed. That meant a
deficit for one-third of the year.
lud many authorltlea are frank to
-ay there la no Indication of re--llef,
unleaa a certain number of
Ipoultrymen retire from their pro--iessloa.
However, certain Lane
-county poultrymen aided them
' selves to some extent by hiring
cold atorage apace and atorlng their
f gga themselves. Thla way they 1
"dded aeveral cents to their aprlng
receipts. J
A man named Fate on Days
r-ciwk makee aeveral hundred dul-l
"lata each year by raining long'
.fleecea of mohair. He bralda the
fleeces and keepa them In a can-;
vas bag strapped to the back of an
Angora goat. This fleece Is used I
-for false balr chiefly.
Now, in some waya, the farming
'Income cannot be measured by the
.cah return. A farm Is a cheap
-place to live, the grocery bills of
' some families being less than $75 a :
.year. And mucb of the moat used1
- la produced on the thridy farm It-j
aelf. Such a place baa its milk.
eggs and usually fuel. These are
I huge Items In the budget o( a fani-.
lly. They are large enough to
; make them worth calculating. The
- value of this part of the story Is
very deceptive, and decldeifly In
favor of the country Inhabitant
and bis manner of living.
f -' Cooperation. I
A word In regard to some of the1
cooperative movement, la It wise,
to join them or la It not? I
- About one-half of Ihe cooperative
companies In Ihe I'nlted States
have been failures. The 'others
t have had periods of success and In I
.' most cases are atlll In operation. 1
Two things are essential to any 1
, cooperative enterprise. First, It l 1
, necessary that there bu Individuals 1
wbo are willing to cooperate ley-1
ally. Kelt, there must be officers!
, w ho are honest and Intelligent. If I
. the members allow their lojalty to
4 abate and permit dealers lo bribe
( them away from their association,
it the officers are not trim to their
trust and ctn not use a fair degree
of judgment, then the plan Is cer
' tain to fall, no matter bow well
' - founded It may be.
However, It Is well to remember
, this one fact. The farming copula
; lion la now In distress, compared
, Iq the laboring and other classes of
Imputation. It Is getting the hard
end of the business game. Hut, re
; gardleas of what politicians and
' leaders aud others may say and
ThAln Ih, ram,M wftk tnvtht,.. h..l '
buncombe. The fnnnlng claas must,
help Itself, by working together,
uoi standing apart. Profit Is what
overy dealer Is after, and it Is al-'
ways very noticeable bow they i
fight price down al buying time.
All the cooperative enterprises'
that have been launched have at
tained one end at least. They have
croated real competition for the
dealers. -Thus, this spring Douglas
wool raisers outside of the wool as
sociation received much above the
market price for their wool, be
cause dealers were trying to dis
credit the association. In most
cases dealers paid more for coarse
wool than the huge fine wool clips
of eastern Oregon brought.
Why any farmer should argue
against cooperative association is
beyond comprehension, for the mani
who Is out of the association often 1
reaps as much benefit aa the man!
who is in. However, the mohair'
clip In the association this year
brought much more than private I
buytira gave iu the spring. So the
rule may soon be different. I
One thing is very plain from Oro
gon experience, the overhead -
pense must be kept down In both1
private and cooiierallve enterprise.
If farming returns are going to be!
more profitable. j
Why business cannot be handled
more cheaply, on smaller margins,
is hard to discern. It now coats
aa much, many times more, to sell'
a Ihlng, Including transportation,'
than It does to make It or produce
It. Hut yet there are commission
houses which do big business, hon
est business, loo, on five per cent
gross margin. A reliable commis
sion house In Portland charges but
one-half a cent a doien for selling
eggs, no matter If Ihe price Is 60
cents or 15 cents a iloien. The vol
ume must be Increased a:.d ex
pense reduced. That Is the prob-,
lem in economics of the near fu-i
lure lor bulb consumer and nn
durer.
Now, In conclusion, permit me to
suggest that fst'inera of the coun
try do not need loans. We see the
life Insurance companies. In.lli l.lu.
ala. farm loan banks, and all kinds
of agencies ealerlrlg to the former
anu rami owner by lending money.
Hut that Is not what the fainting
class need. What they must havo,
now or later, la either some hat
better and fairer prices, or less and
loner expense. Krelnht rales are
extremely high, and labor Is clear
out of reason, compared lo the
price the labor produces In hogs
and giaiu.
Hut to the man who lias the
call ol the land" in his blood, If
thla article has not dissolved the
enthusiasm, let me say thai he can
make a success of agricultural life.'
No doubt Ihe same energy and
work, combined with the appropri
ate amount of aptitude, w ill make I
a greater success in any profes
sion, bul. nevertheless, on Douglas!
county farms success may bo attained.
Mint Growing in Douglas County
That Ihe growing pf mint Is tastier vegetables than is grown In
becoming a profitable industry In ! Suthorlln valley.
Douglas couuty can be seen from j That land values In Suthorlln val
ine following article. . which ap- ley are showing a substantial in
peared recently In the Sutherlin crease In price Is Indicated In eev
gun, published at Sutherlin, where eral sales made here recently. In
the mint is being more extensively j a deul closed the other day for the
grown than any other portion of Vandurkloot tract, comprising 33
the county: I acres a mile east of town, A. C.
Tresent indications lead to the. Brown Pi his son, vilas J. Brown.'
belief that the fragrant odor of J -6,J mo than the son paid for
peppermint will pervade Sutherlin tnu '"! about two years ago. J.
valley the coming summer. There W. Matklns, who recently pur
will be uenuermlnt on all sides and I chased the 600 ncres known as
some between, and no signs will be! l'n'P Tw 1' 3t,000, could un
necessary to Inform the auto tour- doubtedly have bought the prop-
1st that he has reached the "land of
pure delight" and peppermint.
All this has bees brought about
through the success attained by A.
erty two yeura ago lor a much less
price. Among others who have
made recent purchases of lands
caat of town are C. W. Hartley, 14
C. Brown thla year with a crop of acres; John Duer, 6 acres, and
peppermint. Mr. Brown camo to! William Coleman, 10 acres. All
Hill her lin four years ago and these tracts w ill be used for grow
bought twenty acres of land four;"1 peppermint, and within a short
miles east of Sutherlin, expecting time a large still tor handling the
lo engage in peppermint growing. I Product will bo constructed a short
Owing lo an accident, however, one! distance east of town
week after he bail made the pur-' Among thuse who have purchas
chase, which made It necessary ed roots from Mr. Drown and who
for him to use crutches for over I will engage in peppermint grow lug
two years, he was unable to plant xt year, are: C. W. Hartley,
peppermint until last March. Hoots John Duer, W. O. Ulldersleeve,
were planted In approximately two Smith De.Muth. George Sliamp, C.
acrea, and Mr. Ilrown slates that 1). rreeman, Sam Moore, J. W.
the result of the harvest confirmed Wright, K. K. Simpson, John Mer
hls belief that the soil of this val-jrltl, J. M. Irwin, K. K. Uulluck, D.
ley together with climatic comll-l K lttihardson, Donald Street St
lions, were all that could be de-j nro John Alexander, l'erry S.
sired for successful peppermint! Bond, E. A. Hubbard. Ira L. Bayer.
growing.
William Milcham. William Cole
As a result of his experiment he man, Wilson Hartshorn, Vilas Jay
realised fTS) for the oil and ap-!ltron, John F. O .Mara, Dr. I. A.
proximately 2oo by the sale of Hunlnp, Hubbard i Mcflane,
roots for planting. Mr. Ilrown ! Thomas Hoot, Archie It. Leonard,
does not desire to convey the Im- K. D. Kruse, J. T. Kayes, Buhl ft
presslon, however, that big returns Son, Klnier Larson, Allman llroj.,
can be assured every year lo pep- K. Archambeaugh, M. H. llabka.
permlnt glowers. The market for Klla .Murray. Mies Pearl ltobluson.
peppermint oil has Its ups and Mrs. M. E. Smith,
downs the same as do markets for! o
other product. This year the mar-; Oregon produces 45.Wu.000
ket for oil was high 1U to 13 a pounds of prunes annually,
poundbut Mr. Hi-nwn states that o
should the price fall to 13 a pound Oregon's puper Industry repre-
nvestment of $25,000,000.
o-
be is confident that he can realtie sents an
$200 a:t acre from the oil alone.
Not only did Mr. Hrown reallie lHiugiaa county has one third of
good returns from his crop of pep- the 1'atitlc highway nillease lu Ore
permttit, but Mrs. Ilrown likewise 1 gou.
did well with turkeys, ducks and' o
cbickeus. On their small tract or Livestock grates on ranges wltu-
land she raised two hundred fine 'out other feed twelve months in
turkeys, twenty-three geese and the year.
two coops of chickens. She will o
market 10 turkeys during thn pres-j liouglas county was taken from
ent holiday season and the 23 Oid I ntpqua county, and was named
geese. Most of the chickens have after Senator Stephen A. Douglas,
already been sold. What Mr. Ilrown lot Illinois.
and his wile have accomplished II-1 u
luslrates what cat. be done on a IouKlaa county Is fourth among
small acreage of Sutherlin valley the counties of Oregon in tho pro
land. With a little effort In the duction of plums,
right direction, success is assured. ' o
Mr. Ilrown believes that the soli liouglas couitV Is fifth amour
and climate of Sutherlin valley will ! the counties rt Oregon in apples
flax, hemp and agricultural land. .
1,.n KM M.uLl... 1
...... . ,nnl,ls K'HNJ HVing
on less than two acres of land In
uvugias couuty.
successfully produce
and seed of all kinds. It has been ,
fully demonstrated that no locality! Send a copy of the Newslicview
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