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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1888)
THE WEST SHORE. onulrntwL It given those who acquire property there an interet in promoting with their best efforts the common welfare of the community. It is desired to male the country productive, and inducements are offered to farmers to inveat in fruit farms near town, fire, ten, or even twenty acre tract. These may be obtained at prices ranging from $ 15.00 to $75.00 an acre, according to the improvements that have been made upon them. The object is to induce people to make home there, to improvo the land, to secure from it the tx'ht renulta of a combination of favorable natural conditions and thorough culture. The im provement of tliec tracts is continually being made. One man has this season set twenty-two hundred tree, another fourteen hundred, and a company is preparing to act seventy acres with eleven thousand fruit tree, (Irxxl tree are obtained from several nurerie in Oregon at reasonable prices. In from Hire to five years after setting, an orchard should War well. 1'erhatHi the year after planting a healthy trw will produce a little fruit, and tho product will increase until the maximum amount is reached. The plat of the town of Newberg is laid out with pjxvial reference to its ad vantages for residences. Every resident of the town came from tho eastern Ute Not a saloon exiU there and not a Binglo ar. rt has len made in the town sinco its settlement These faeU, comhined with a surpassingly loautiful site ami tho commendable management of iU affairs, give Nenl.org attractions for a place of residence that are rarely equaled. The numlor of fine residences now there attest the fact that tho tanefiU of the lo cality are not unappreciated. Town lots may bo purchwM for from t'Kl.OO to I10O.00 each. As tho lots in the plat are disposed of others are laid out in tho contiguous lands, and real estate in the village may always be obtained at reasonable prices. Build ing materials are not expensive. A good quality of rough lumber, such as serves most purposes in con structing dwelling houses, is obtained from saw mills near by at $8.00 per thousand feet, and other materi als cost proportionally. It is the most desirable plan for those who propose to engage in fruit culture to purchase a residence site in Newberg and a fruit farm of a few acres a short distance away, where land is cheaper than in the immediate vicinity of the town. It must not be inferred that the resources of the Chehalem valley are by any means exhausted. The conservation of natural forces which is observed in drawing out the wealth of the land, would make its exhaustion impossible, even if every foot of ground were being tilled. But there are many acres still in a wild state, and much more, easily obtainable, which might bo more closely cultivated, and would yield handsome results. A statement of the exceptionally favorable conditions for the finest branches of agri culture which exist there, renders unnecessary any mention of tho ordinary products of the soil, which, of course, could not but prove successful The large grain warehouses attest the abundance of the cereals. Tho patronage of the railroad as well as the general appearance of the section shows the character of the industrial development, and indicates clearly that tho residents of the Chehalem valley, while they ex tend a hearty welcome to industrious people from abroad, who may desire homes among them, are not themselves unappreciative of the advantages which surround them.