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.