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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD NEW YEAR NUMBER.
Oregon apples are not excelled anywhere in
the world, and Oregon "big red apples,"
which have helped to make the state famous,
grow to perfection in Clackamas County.
The fruitgrower, who raises good Winter
apples, and cares for them properly, will al
ways find a ready sale at good prices. The
Willamette Valley is the home of the prune.
In no part of the world does this crop thrive
so completely. Bountiful yields are grown
both on the prairie and hill lands, and many
thrifty and prosperous prune orchards are
to be seen in full bearing throughout Clack
amas County. Most of these are equipped
with modern, improved evaporators for dry
ing and properly handling the prune crop.
plums, peaches, prunes, apricots, quinces,
cherries, blackberries, raspberries, currants,
gooseberries, strawberries and grapes. Even
figs reach maturity in Oregon City, though
the climate is not sufficiently tropical to
make them a reliable crop here. Blackber
ries, raspberries, huckleberries, strawberries,
plums and crab apples grow wild in abun
dance. Many thousand bushels of potatoes are
annually sent to market from Clackamas
County. Even merchantable sweet potatoes
are raised here. The soil near the
streams is best adapted to potato-growing,
and with very ordinary care a large yield of
tubers may safely be reckoned on. The Cal-
different attention. Especially is this true
in Oregon. Much interest is now being
awakened in the industry, however, and the
annual production is increasing in quantity
and improving in quality.
All the common farm products are suc
cessfully grown in every part oi the county,
except far in the mountains, where the alti
tude approches the frost line. In many
parts of the county semi-tropical crops are
grown. Prunes, peaches, apricots, quinces,
grapes, watermelons and tomatoes are
imong these. The ordinary cereals yield
enormous crops, there being many instances
where more than 60 bushels of wheat per
acre have been harvested, not merely in se-
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Salmon Fishing on Clackamas (Photo Mrs. French) Salmon jumping up falls of Willamette
SCENES IN AND AROUND OREGON CITY
FRUIT-GROWIXC.
Clackamas County is taking a leading po
sition in the advancement of the fruitgrow
interests of the Northwest. Its nur
series send stock throughout the Pacific
Northwest, including British Columbia.
Many of the large html claims that have lain
for years largely wild or with very indiffer
ent cultivation, are being divided into small
er tracts and given over to systematic fruit
culture. Five or ten acres in fruit will yield
as much profit as a large farm in grain, the
net profit usually ranging from $200 to $1000
per acre.
The fruits that grow to advantage in
Clackamas County include apples, pears,
ifomia market receives a large share of the
Clackamas County crop. Onion growing is
also an important industry.
The rich bottom lands are to a consider
able extent being covered with hopyards.
The growing of hops is becoming one of the
leading branches of agriculture in the Wil
lamette Valley. Clackamas County is among
the first half dozen counties in the United
States in the amount of hops p-.uduccd. Buy
ers in London, England, buve agencies in
the hopyards of this county, who secure the
bulk of the crop and pronounce the product
of a quality that is not often excelled.
.-.Like many other things on the Pacific
Slope, the hop business has suffered from in-
Baru of P. V. Morey on West Side
Suspension Bridge across Willamette
(Six Photos by Tumey)
lected garden patches, but in large fields.
Other grains are correspondingly prolific. It
has passed into a proverb that Willamette
Valley crops never fail.
Along the courses of the Pudding. Mo
lalla and Clackamas Rivers and some of their
larger tributaries there is considerable prai
rie land, or land lightly timbered, which can
hardly be excelled for peach and prune or
chards. Farmers in those localities are just
becoming aware of the possibilities of or
charding, and many thousand trees are being
set every year. In a few instances the or
chards have already come into bearing, and
the results justify every hope of making
this a great fruit country.