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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
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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.
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