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works, with a capital stock of $20,000.00, all 0f which
was subscribed within two days from the time the
stock books were opened. Work on the system will
be commenced at once, and it is expected that the
works will be in operation before the end of the year.
Another matter in contemplation is a sewerage sys
tem. When water works and a sewer system shall
have been constructed, RoBeburg will be one of the
beet equipped municipalities in the state. Situated
as it is in the midst of one of the loveliest valleys in
the west, possessing a most healthful and delightful
climate and surrounded by fertile and productive
farms, it certainly holds out many inducements to
the business man, manulacturer, farmer and fruit
grower.
NEWBERG AND CHEHALEM VALLEY.
THE charming Chehalem valley, lying but twenty
five miles south of the city of Portland, is un
dergoing rapid development and is fast becoming one
of the leading fruit growing regions in the northwest,
especially in the vicinity of Newberg, the commer
cial point of the valley, where fully twenty thousand
fruit trees were set out the past year, and which has
become the center of the fruit interests of that por
tion of the famous old county of Yamhill. Orchards
are not being set out in the slovenly way so common
in former days in Oregon, but are being planted with
great care, both as to the selection of choico and vig
orous trees and their proper transplanting and subse
quent cultivation. One orchard in particular is de
serving of special mention, Oak Fir orchard, the
property of the proprietor of The West Biioiie. It
contains twenty-four acres, upon which are twenty,
five hundred trees, all of the moBt desirable market
varieties. These trees are from two to four yean
old and some of them will War largely this season.
Around the orchard is a neat picket fenco, and in a
beautiful oak grovo is a splendid building spot for a
residence. A largo portion of tho country aUmt
Newberg is being cut up into small tracts of from fivo
to thirty acres for fruit farms, and in a few years the
town will bo surrounded by a largo lumber of such
fine orchards as Oak Fir. Splendid roads lead out
from Newberg in all directions, along which neat and
tasty residences aro Wing erected, making tho valley
Bssume a most cheerful and homelike apxaranco.
In a very short time, a few years at moat, Chehalem
valley will bo ouo great orchard and garden, and will
bo visited by pleasure seekers in great numbers. In
fact, preparations aro already bring made for tho ac
commodation of thoso who will deairo to visit this
charming valley on Suudaya. Tho managers of tho
Portland & Willamette Valley railroad havo put on
two extra Sunday trains betweou 1'ortland ami New.
berg, leaving each plaeo in tho rooming and return
ing in the evening, with a round trip faro of only ono
dollar. This will enable tho citizens of Portland to
spend Sunday in Newberg aud thoo of tho latter
place to do tho samo in Portland. This most dealr
able accommodation for tho publio was secured by
tho exertion's of Mr. Samuel, tho proprietor of The
Wkht bwoiu:, who secured tho guaranty rnjoired by
the company for tho maiuteuaiico of tho aerviefl tho
first four mouths. In many resects tho towu of Now.
berg is making great progress, and is growing falt
er than any other valley town in Oregon. At tho
present rate of progress it will havo two thousand in
habitants in two years more. Small tracts of thole
fruit laudi can Ik) secured from tho Chehalem Valley
Hoard of Immigration, at NewWrg, ami from prirato
citious, who havo cut their farms up into small tracts
for tho purjKtao of selling thnn to individuals who
will convert thorn into productive orchards.
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