The Oregon mist., September 10, 1909, Image 6

cost, ,t tho clearing of tho land 'finished lt
RAINIER
dairy Induatry of Oregon, which ia
HNauining vnata proportions. Itep
reaentativeK of these three herds
will compete lit the dock ahow, to
take pluci) in Kepteiuher, and we
have no doubt they will bring
glory to the home county. Butter
milking ut Heappooso is advancing
with rapid strides, and the out
put is increasing annually. Owing
to our mild climate and abundant
gniss the conditions for this in
dustry are extremely favorable.
The principal butter makers are
Mr. Culvin Johnson, Messrs.
Ilegle, and the Honeymons, and
their product is of a quality to
satisfy the taste of the most fast
idious. Fruit raising has its principal
exponent in Mr. Asa Iloladay of
the Monta Vista nurseries, who is
an enthusiast in his calling. His
is modern in every respect and
would be a credit to any city in
the state.
The Soappoose neighborhood is
well worthy the attention of the
homeseekcr and investors and it
is rapidly settling up with a very
desirable, class of citizens. When
the electric road is extended from
Linntown, Scappoose will be
within thirty minutes of Portland,
and its farms will be cut up into
small tracts, and land, now selling
for from $15 to $30 per acre, will
easily bring $300 per acre from
those who desire to live in a coun
try neighborhood, where their
children can have high school ad
vantages while the head of the
family can carry on his business
in the city.
There is no more beautiful place
for a country resideuce than the
Threw yarn f" lhiinior had ii
popuhitio'n of 6'2!l. Today it num
bers over two iIioumiiiuI inhabi
tant Tho city in mtuatod on tlio
Columbia Kiver, 40 tniln from
Portland, mid 49 mile front As
toriu. Kainier Iihm nix mile of
water front on one of tho limwt
IibiImhh of the tto. There tit a
projection of land on the lower
Ji.lo of t ho city that protect tlio
liMi-lxtr from tho owun winds, and
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puce, unn on in Mir
everything that in rained in thin
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vicinity can l sold right in tlio
home market.
CLATSKANIE CREAMERY.
year, where children
On account of this l.nv;,. t "4,,vu l" '' pohhiMo e, u-
ffi t a , V. ' 1K?.!.n,"r "? . " of tho finest
lan lM ciii, - . . i l 1"0H0 ,, i tho country for farm
H..t.'1 lw V!" at n very product of every desertion. r ,1
iKiiiiiwiu or no and on
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tJir projection on tho utixr side
drive all tho debris to tho Wash
ington aide of the river in esse of
high water, no that all shipping
in thin harbor ha xrfect protec
titni. Kvery fKit of tho aix mily!
of water front ahovo mentiotitMl
hi divp water, o that the larfrt
triwrU coining up tho ('olunihia
ltivi r can land at, the wharfi. An
other imMrtaitt featuro rr(;ard
t! xhippini; fat'ililiiM is that car
p can I laithd on tho variotm
wliarfu and hid t'V rail with
out transfer, ax th Astoria and
Colintihia Kiver lUilway runt
.mi!!.1 with tho river with just
enough room fur manufacturing
piirf4M U-tweon railroad and
river. Hainier Iwing a "(Vuuniiui
.Shipping roint," pve hhipM-rs
Uie -.niim ratem on freight a any
of the larpn citieH on tho l'acilto
Cant, which it lark'" item to
Uth larp? and Miiall MiipiHT.
l'ri maniiftttturiiiif Mte will
I jjivrtt to any worthy company
dmiriiiK to hValo hero, whiclt
mmni that what a manufacturer
,.ul. pay for a aito in ui-t other
citi'- il( build hi plant here,
la t'olnmhia County alone there
are t n lultioiis of merchaiilaluV
tiinUr still Mundinjr, while ld
liiiin of other limlx-r are inlm
tiirv (.. this citv, includinir tir,
a-h. onk, cottoliwHl and juue, wi
tlmi the ruw iimlctml can U- hud
f..r uiatiufitciiiriiig put po" at the
Inwr t Hetxllile nrt,
Tln ie ure eijjhtwn shingle and
oiiw mitU nod other factotii-s in
and aU.ut lUtnicr, together with
lumL-r ciiinpM, which give to Kui-liK-r
a pay roll of fifty thousand
'.ImII.ii--. n-r month.
Iliiinicr UmMsof the fiuc-t farm
lan.li for tiM-k, dniryinj;, fruit
au.l diveniiliiMl farming in the
fluted States. KxHrt in fruit
who have thorounhlv in tRuUsI
the Hiv.ililitii-i in thin region, do
rian' that nowhere can Kiicrior
fruit hind he, found. It in no un
common thing to aec oat.s that will
run from w to 100 hushels ar
acre, ii ii. I when rut for liny four
tons to (he aero in tho umial run.
Al fulfil grow four crops in
the stMisou. Timothy in often s-n
nix mid seven feet in height, while
corn wits sent to tho Mule fair
from Hainier last year menstiriiig
II feet and II inches in height. It
i no uncommon thing for tho
first crop of potatoou on it patch
f land to pay for not only tho
LOGGED-OFF LANDS
$6 to $10 Per Acre
The Best Soil in the World for
Fruit of Grain
For Information Apply to
J. B. DQAN
mu. . P.p RAINIER, OREGON
RAINIER PU0UC SCHOOL
VaM quantities of brick clay are
found in and near the city. Quo
brickyard ia now being elab
lidiwl, and live others are negoti
ating for location.
It year Hainier put in it own
water work at a cowl of $.10,000,
which ia now M'lf-aupporting. A
reservoir holding lHio.OOO gallons
wan plac I on an eminence which
gives the city a water preamire of
h.'0 jKiunds, and one oi the Uncut
tiro rottHl:iona in tho Mate.
Thia year over two miles of
at reel are N'ing graded and ma-
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cudiiiiiied. The work is to lie ;
linidicd this fall, and will give
tho city M reels espial to any of tho j is in January, when we get an w
largv i ities in the Male. A new j caxional froM, and snow is seldom
newer fVMem in also being put in,
which will reach all parts of the
citv.
Tho hwal telephone exchange
has 100 telephones, and has con
nections with every part of the
country.
A s'plemlid electric light niul
power plant was put in ojwration
several years ago. The power is
furnished by water, ami Hainier
enjoys a lighting plant which fur
nishes a '.'I hour lint rule as cheap
as can found anywhere. Horse
power can lie furnished in any
(plant ity cheaper than tho fuel
cost of running a steam plant.
A lino sfl.VHK) public school was
The city is situated on a tract
of land which slopes gently up
ward from the Columbia kiver,
and Nome of the finewt residences
on the Columbia Kiver are built
in the city limits, with a view of
the Cout llange and Cascade
Mountains, together with tho snow
capped iieaks of Mount Hainier
and St, Helens that cannot bo sur
parsed anywhere.
Our climate ia equitable the
year round; the thermometer
ranging from CO to 80 degrees in
the Miinmcr and from 40 to GO de-
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gnvs in what is usually called the
w inter season. Our coldest weather
seen hero. Any information con
corning Hainier and vicinity will
Ihi furnished to any one address
ing the Secretary of the Commer
cial Club, Hainier, Oregon.
SCAPPOOSE.
lieirinniiiir at the southern ,
boundary line of Columbia county 'Vs wo,rt? ' m . Ver cr:
is what' is commoulv called the i 1 he culture of the English walnut
Scappoose eoimtrv, divided from i would prove profitable m the
die upper Nohulom by a range f Senppooso country. In Scappoose
hills and embracing one of thej.H he found two good general
most prosperous ami fertile Rce-i '-rchniulise 'Stores, blacksmith
tions of Oregon, with tho village j ""op postoftice schools, church,
,.r u "a iiu .n.i;,.T nninf and railway station. This section
The principal industries are di-
versitled farming, dairying and
fruit raising, tho most important
being dairying, which includes
t l,e makiiiL' of butter and the
shipping of cream to the city of i
Portland. The Scappoose country
is peculiarly adapted to this in
dustry, as it embraces both bottom
mid hill land. In the early sum
mer tinio tho high water in the
Columbia generally backs up the
water of what is known as tne
AVillametto slough, and the dairy
men and farmers ore compelled to
jnovo their eattlo to the higher
lands. This is somewhat of an in
oonveniocp, but is moro than off
set by tho increased fertility of
tho land, caused by the sediment
.i.nnui(od bv tho overflow. Here
wo find three of tho best herds of
tine registered eattlo in tlio stare
of Oregon. In fact, we do not be
lieve they can, bo eonaled in any
community on tho Pacific coast.
Mr. Harry West breeds Jersey;
Mr. Frak'es Priesion Holsteins.
and tho Honeymans, with Mr. Col-
as mnnacrnr. favor the AjT-
shires. They breed the best of
thoir respective types, ana nave
never failed to receive more than
their proportion of awords when
ever exhibited. They are not only
a credit to the county, but also, a
great benefit to the stock and
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favorite apple is the northern spy,
and he raises them of a quality to
challenge the admiration of all
lovers of this, the greatest of all
fruits. Ilia apples have uniformly
taken the blue ribbon wherever
exhibited, thus fully demonstrat
ing their excellent qualities. There
are a number of other fine or
chards in the ScBppoose neighbor-
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' hood, among them that of Mi;
rml I'angertield, who takes great
pride in his fruit. It seems to us
that no occupation offers greater
inducements for intelligent in
vestment than that of apple-growing
in a country where stump land
can be' bought for $5 per acre.
Ia'I us assume that it will cost
f 150 per acre to put this land into
bearing orchard, and then it is
W prove i no crop returns.
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of country also enjoys the benefits
V free rural delivery.
Scappoose is within eighteen
miles of Portland and undoubted
ly within a few years an electric
line will give the country between
tho metropolis and St. Helens
rapid and cheap transit. It is one
of tho most progressive agricul
tural communities in the state of
Oregon, and takes especial pride
in its educational advantages. The
district has the best school house
in tho county, built at a cost of
over $16,000, and offering educa
tional advantages seldom found in
small communities. With such a
school wo naturally expect ana
find comfortablo and even elegant
homes. It is a revelation to the
eastern traveler, who possibly ex
pected to find a semi-civilized set
of backwoodsmen living in shacks
and log houses, when he is shown
resiliences that would bo no dis
credit to tho better portion of the
residence section of tho city of
Portland. In a very few years
from now Scappoose will be recog
nized as a suburb of the city of
Portland, and land which can now
bo purchased for $50 per acre will
be selling for ten times that sum.
The prido of Scappoose is its
new schoolhouse. It is by far the
best in Columbia county, costing
in the neighborhood of $16,000. It
SHIPS LOADING AT RAINIER.
low hills in the Scappoose neigh
borhood. H0ULT0N.
Is located npon the A. & C. rail
road and its town site adjoins that
of St. Helens. The two towns are
practically one, and whatever of
good in the development line
comes to one of them cannot fail
to favorably affect the other. In
fact they should and in time
doubtless will be under one city
government.
There are many fine farms and
good orchards in the neighbor-
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hood, but there is also an immense
amount of unimproved land to be
purchased at a very low figure,
adapted, according to its location,
to hay and grain, vegetables,
small fruits, or orchards. A great
mauy trees have been planted in
this neighborhood during the past
IN TAKING STOCK
Of our assets, we place the highest valuation on your good will We
will go to almost any length to obtain and retain it. We strain every
nerve and fiber to have our Clothing dependable and the best possible
value at the price.
That we've succeeded in our efforts so far is proven amply and com
pletely by the steady growth of this business, but in all this present
success we do not rest content, but simply keep on and on, always try
ing to better our previous best.
We rather think that our $15 and $25 lines of Suits for men and
young men are quite the best values we've ever had. We'll be greatly
pleased to have your opinion on them.
Salem Woolen Mills Clothing Go.
Clothiers, Furnishers, Tailors
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year, and the apples raised are
not excelled by those of any other
portion of the country.
There is-no business a young
man can go into that is more cer
tain to insure him a competence
than apple growing in the Yank
ton and Bachelor Flat neighbor
hood, tributary to lloulton.
A great natural resource that is
destined at some time in the
future to unite lloulton and St.
Helens in one thriving manufac
turing town is iron. Immense de
posits of iron ore of a high grade
have been discovered by the Pres
cott brothers, gentlemen who are
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COOPERACE COMPANY'S FACTORY
thoroughly acquainted with the
iron business in all its branches.
The iron has been tested and has
been proven to be equal to that of
the famous Mesaba range. The
quantity is practically inexhaust
ible aud it is of such a nature as
to be easily worked. This iron is
Seventh and
pierced by the railroad of the
Masten Logging company, which
makes a cut about twenty-five feet
in depth through a body of the
ore. Capital will soon be inter
ested in this and a fcmelter event
ually be established at St. Helens,
giving employment to hundreds, if
not to thousands, of well paid
workingmcn. There is no other
place on the coast where a great
and rich deposit of easily worked
iron ore lies within three miles of
a river capable of accommodating
the commerce of th; Orient. Na
ture has marked th:s place for a
great manufacturing future, and
the petty obstacles that are placed
in the way by selfish interests that
desire to confine manufactures to
the eastern coast of the United
States, will soon be swept away.-,
The coming of the great fleet to
this coast is one step toward the
consummation of th'u result, as it
can not fail to attract the atten
tion of capitalists to the fact that
the Columbia river should have a
government shipbuilding yard,
both for the construction of new
vessels and the repair of old ones.
The chief, and, in fact, the only
important manufacturing institu
tion located at lloulton at the
present time is the stave and
heading factory of the Western
Cooperage company, which has
branch institutions at different
points on the coast. The presi
dent of the company is "Watson
Eastman, of Portland, but the af
fairs of the lloulton factory are
under the direct and efficient con
trol of "William E. Belford, the
superintendent. Peculiar to the
Pacific coast is the complete man
ufacture of staves, headings and
barrels by one company. This
company, a superb, successful or
ganization of specialists, with
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every officer a cooper and every
employe trained to special duty,
has grown in less than fifteen
years from a small beginning a
Los Angeles to its present propor
tions. Its growth has been en
tirely from the profits earned by
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Stark, Portland, Oregon