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32 OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD NEW YEAR NUMBER. MOLALLA Where the Large Mercantile Establishment of L, W, Robbins is Located store, having a floor space of 3750 square feet, the customer finds a full stock of dry goods, groceries, hoots and shoes, men's and hoys' ready-made clothing, women's wrap pers, shirt waists, capes and jackets, notions, family medicines, hardware and agricultural machinery. Mr. Robbins is special agent for Oliver Chilled and Steel plows, Deering Har vester Co.'s binders, mowers and hay-rakes, Bain Wagon Co.'s wagons, and Winona Wagon Co.'s Rushford wagons. A good Naturally the richest and the most desira ble section of Clackamas county, for all pur poses of agriculture, is Molalla Prairie, and the conclusion logically follows that Molalla Corners is an excellent point for general trade. It is in truth a thriving village, and the prosperous farmers that live around it, cultivating the fruitful black soil, have made it such. But let us not forget that one of the main sources of income of the Molalla farm ers is fat cattle. They supplement their stock a lew ot its (arms are large, too large tor profitable handling, and there is a chance to buy. The large tracts of saw timber in the upper Molalla country have barely been touched. The future, too. will see the devel opment of valuable mines in the mountains. Molalla farmers find a source of profit with a minimum of labor, in sheep and goats, for which the country is well adapted. It is no exaggeration to say that there is i .... i . - 1 . -s i r r ;iili t; him w-. v. M I I. ft , l! i j ' I 41 1 - v '1 ' t 5 farms by extensive pastures on the unper Molalla river, whence they drive cattle late in fall "rolling fat." Favorable, economic conditions have produced on the Molallans beneficient results: they are intelligent, liberal-minded and enterprising. The newcomer who wishes to locate in a place where Nature will be kind to him should keep his eye on Molalla Prairie. Not STORE OP I,. W. ROBBINS. probably no store in this county of 25,000 people that does a larger annual business that that of L. W. Robbins, successor to Levi Robbins, in the village of Molalla. Mr. Rob bins is a young man and in all respects an up-to-date merchant, being a "cash dealer." He carries a large stock of general merchan dise, and handles all kinds of farm produce, always buying or selling for cash. In this stock of plows, drag and spring-tooth har rows are always kept in stock. When you want anything in the machinery line write to this firm for spot-cash prices. Its office is supplied with a long-distance telephone. It may surprise you a little if we say that the Molalla merchant is one of the largest shippers of chickens, turkeys and eggs in the Willamette Valley. It's a tact. v.. V A Mil 1 B P -1 ..r ' -A f '"J x n 1 mini .iHiniitiiiiniii,ii,iiifTTrnr.i...,.iiiiiiiifniiiiiii,iiiiiii ,t ., 1 -1111111111 ill 1 1 , TWIT-)m;i7n-HT-fiiL-1InU FARM HOUSE OF JOHN R. SHAVKR.