Morning Oregonian., February 04, 1911, Section Three, Page 5, Image 37

THE MORNING OKEGOXIAX. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1911.
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BLUE RIBBON COUNTY'
IS THE SLOGAN OF POLK
Lumbering Is Engaged In on Big Scale Some of Finest Flocks
of Coats in Country Are Owned.
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PM.K County, wkkk adopted
Its loa the -Wue Klbbon County
of Orrron." la situated In the Terr
heart of the Willamette Valley. It Ilea
on the weal aide of the Willamette
r:ir. between Brnton and Yamhill
rnuntle. It contains about TOO square
miles of territory, and la watered br
numernua rlrr and creek, chief of
which are the WttlnnieMe. Yamhill and
l.urkUmulo Rivera and I-aCrenle and
Sim 'rea. The Willamette l nl
Me for ordinary light-draft ateamera
ton tt entire Kastern border of tha
county. -
Tha eastern half of Tolk County U
ratlin Und. with low fitultl between
t';e at'r tiutf.f It i all choice
f armies- and fruit Und and la In a high
tte cf cultivation. The original do
nation clalina of and acrea are
eteadl.'y bring divided Into amailer
tracts to provide homea for a constant
ly Increasing population, with the re
mit tl.at the land 1 receiving more In
tense cultivation tt.an It waa poealblo
t le It under the old order of thing.
The we. tern liatf of the county la
marie up of mountains and foothill",
with nunieroiia amail mountain valleys
whtcb are unexcelled for rlchneaa of
il. Mr! come th foothllla. covered
with a thrifty growth of young fir and
grub oak. but affording an abundance
f good stock range throughout the
ear. West of theae foothllla are the
mountains properthe Coaat Kange.
1'olk County eitend westward to the
ummit of thla range, and. In places,
even beyond It to the Pacinc slope.
Here are the vast forests of the
l.uckUmute and the Mleta. famous the
world over a among the finest bmllea
ef atan.tlng timber on tne American
continent. Here are treea measuring
from to l' feet In diameter and :
feet In height, with a ells l a nee of from
1 to lie feet from the ground te the
Iowcm llmh. Here ae found single
trees containing $i worth of lumber,
even at the present low market prices
prevailing In the Went. It has often
been proved, by actual calculation, that
one of these forest giants would furnish
sufficient lumber to bulid an ordinary
five-rn dwelling and leave the build
er enough scraps lo Inrloee the door
)ard with a plank fence.
The greater part of thla timber la
Ifetuglas tlr. or "Oregon pine." as It Is
known in the lumber markets of the
Mast and Mi.Mle .-tales. In addition to
the enormous quantity of rough and
finishing- lumber sawed by the folk
I'oitnly mi:: each ear. many tratn
loa.la of poles and piling are shipped
from these forests. A large amount of
f:e pl'.lng ned In the construction of
the lUrrlman trestle acrosa the north
ern arm of Sail Ijake was cut on the
leadwaters of the l.uckUmute Klver.
The s.Mpyarda of the Atlantte Coast
draw hravi:y upon Polk County timber,
the tlr being unexcelled for tnasta and
pars.
Other varieties of timber In these
mountains are larch, hemlock, cedar
and spruce. Large sawmllla located at
Ial!aa. Kails City and li;-k Bock torn
out millions of feet of lumber annually,
and lege from the Iucktamute are
baul'd by train to the mlHa at Newberg
and falera every dav. With aJ of this
activity, however, the area of logger' -o(t
land, aa compared with the to' l
acreage of timber, as aa yet Tery T II.
The great timber belt of the t ta
basin has not been touched by the
woodman's saw. There la, howe . no
timber Und subject to entry, t for
ests having been taken up by aettlera
year ago.
Polk County, once exclusively a
wheat-producing county, still furnlshea
a large supply of that cereal: In fact,
grain raising can atlll be said to be the
principal Industry. The yield of wheat
an acre ranges from IS to 3S bushels.
The soil Is also well adapted to the
growing of oats and barley. Alfalfa
la a new crop and one that la rapidly
rrowlnr in favor with the farmers.
Progressive ranchera In all parts of the
county are experimenting with this
crop, and all expresa satisfaction with
the results. Three crops a year are
harvested and the total yield reachea
an average of from six to eight tons
to the acre, besides furnishing a con
siderable amount of pasture for stock
during the Summer. With the Increase
In the acreage of alfalfa, hog raising
Is now beginning to claim the attention
of the farmers, and many are the anug
bank accounta that are being accumu
lated by men who are devoting their en
ergies to this combination. Many farm
ers living In the river bottoms declare
that hoc and alfalfa are even more
profitable than bops, and hop field
which have mad fortune for their
owners are being -.inverted Into
meadow.
Po;k l one of the Important hop
counties of Oregon. An enormous acre,
age I planted to this staple and the
amount of money brought Into the
rounty hy the bop Industry reaches Into
hundreds of thousand of dollars an
nually. The principal hep district are
the vatleys of the Willamette Yamhill.
J.aireoe and Lucklamute River. A
bale of hops grown In the Independence
district was awarded the gold medal at
the Paris FTposPlon.
No branch of Indu-trr In Polk Coun
Ir Is showing a greater or more profit
able growth than that of slockratelng.
fredlt for this deelrable condition l
due to a few firmer who pioneered
the movement for better flocks and
herd by spending fortunes for bloo-led
breeding an'mals. flraxlna? contentedly
in the pastures of Polk County are to
b e.'en prliewmnlng cattle. s'leep.
goal and swine from all of the great
livestock fair he'd In the t nlted plates
and Canada in the lt decade. Polk
County I the home of the Nelson
herd of rattle. Imported direct from
Jersey I!and. Here are blue-blooded
Angora goats from Turkey and from
S.tth Afrl.-a. and hg which repre
sent a bank check of four figures In
the purchase of a single animal.
Tt " dairying Industry W showing a
teadr growth and la contributing ma
terial!' lo the welfare of the farmers.
A ready market for butter fat la found
at the creamerlee Jn Independence.
Wlta and Pal la City. The mountains
and foothllla afford abundant rang"
for cattle, and kale, vetches, clover and
root crop thrive on every farm.
ImIU Is the center of the Angora
goat Industry In Oregon. The pool
of moha'r marketed here each year U
the largest In the etate. and Ita sale
l an event of Importance In the live
stock world. The pool usually amount
to from Ti.O" to loe.ooe pounds of
rholce mohair, and Ita value ranges
trum I IS. to '.. Heretofore thla
ool has ben sold to iwegon buvera
Tor shipment to textile mills ia the Vew
England etate. bnt now that a mohair
mill I I" operation tn Portland It la
altogether probable that future poola
win find a market In Oregon.
Polk County ranks fifth among the
goat rountle of the t'nlon. The show
held In Pallae each Winter l officially
recognised by the .National Angora Uoat
Association, and I second In Import
ance only to the National show held
la Kansae City.
Horse breeding ha been neglected
tn this county for many year, but with
the eteadilr increasing demand for
heavy draft horses more attention is
being given to thla Industry than for
merly. Wltiiin the last few yeara sev
eral Belgian. Percheron. Clydesdale and
Coach bargee have been Imported from
Llurope. The purchase price of these
animate range from $3000 lo HOoO. Few
purchases have been made by Individ
uals, the farmera preferring to form
a stock company and thua divide the
Urge outlay of money neceasary to ae
rure the best animal.
' Polk County ha excellent tranepnr
lation farliltie. The Yamhill division
of the Southern Paclfle provide com
munication with Portland, which la
only mile north of Julias, the
county seat of Polk. The Salem. Falla
City ' Western Railway cmei the
county from east to west. Thla road
ta owned by Portland capltalteta. Ixigs
are hauled from the western termlnua
at Hla.k Pock to the mill In Dallas
and are also dumped Into the Wil
lamette P.iver at West Salem. The road,
originally IS mile In length, waa ex
tended from Ialla to West Salem last
year. The company now ha 29 ml lea
of track, with modern rolling stock.
In addition to the heavy logging traf
fic, the trains handle a large volume
cf freight and paseenger buslnesa an
nually. The Independence Sc. Monmouth
Hallway, owned by local capital, han
dle alt of the Southern Pacific busi
ness south of I "alia In the county and
also maintains two mile of It own
track between Monmouth and Inde
pendence. Thirty-two train arrive at
and depart from Dallas daily.
Polk County ha no debt, notwith
standing the fact that a Courthouse
was erected only a few yea re ago at
a cost of HO. ooo.
P.xcellent educational advantage are
offered to the children of f.imlllea set
tling In Polk County. Beside the nor
mil school at Monmouth and Dallas Col
lege at Dallas, high schoola are main
tained In Dallaa, Independence. Falls
City, Monmouth, Perrydale and Ball-
aton. There are 7 achool districts in
the county.
Modem roadbulldlnc Is receiving
more attention with each aucceedlng
year, and the county now has hun
dred of mllea of well-Improved hlgb
wava. The county own a rockcruaber
and roadroller. which are kept busy
the greater portion of the year.
Dallas, the county seat and principal
town. 1 located In the geographical
center of the county. It la 14 mile
west or Falem. and two mllea eaat of
the foot of the Coaat Mountain. It la
a busy, thriving town, with numeroua
mllla and factories, which furnleh a
large monthly payroll. Dallaa hna elec
tric lights, macadamlxed streets and a
splendid water system. Pure mountain
water la piped from Canyon Creek, a
distance of eight mile. The town has
modern buslnesa- buildings, handsome
schools and churches and many beauti
ful home.
Independence, the second town of the
county, la located on the Willamette
Iltver. ten mile southwest of Salem. It
I the center of the hop industry and
is a prosperous, growing town. It ha
all the modern Improvement enjoyed
bv many cities of greater slxe. the
latest public Improvement being an ex-,
tensive aewer system. Like Dallas,
which built a $10,000 high school last
Summer. Independence has Just com
pleted one of the best high school
buildings In the state.
Monmouth Is an educational center.
Here I the Oregon State Normal
School, a high school and a largely at
tended puhlaj school. Monmouth la a
homelike town, with broad, well-kept
street, handsome homes and substan
tial buslnes buildings. It 1 rapidly
coming to the front aa a manufactur
ing town, having recently built a can
nery, flour mill, fruit evaporator and
creamery.
Palls City, the youngest town in tne
county. Is rapidly forcing Its way Into
the front rank In point of growth and
conimer. lnl Importance. It I situated
at the head of the l.ucklamute Valley
end Is the gateway to the vast timber
region of the Lucklamute and the
Siletx. It has large lumber mills and
Is the supply point for numerous log
ging camps. It la also destined to be
come the center of an Important fruit-
growing district, the mountiiln "and
surrounding It being unexcelled for
orchard purposes.
"OLD YAMHILL" ADVANCES
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the bearing age, which la usually about
ten years from planting. Mr. Prince
Is enthusiastic over the returns from
his Investment, and la planting addi
tional grovea on hi 00-acre farm. A
14-year-old walnut tree growing In a
MrMlnnvllle dooryard bore IIS pounds
of nuts, worth at retail about $3S.
Yamhill County clover seed ha made
a name for Itself In the F.aat nd Mid
dle West, and a wide market at good
prices la the result. Twenty cara of
clover seed were shipped out of thl
county In 190J.
Yamhill Is one of the leading hop
countlea of the atate. and small for
tunea have been made In bops In one
season. Approximately :000 acrea are
given over to the liopyards. and loo
pounds of cured hopa Is a normal yield,
tlrowers say they are able to produce
hop profitably at T cents a pound.
Wheat, as a staple production. Is giv
ing way to dairying, fruit and oilier
crops, yet the county atlll haa lis prolit
abla wheat farma that yield with near
ly their old-time frultf uIdcs.
Hay follow grain pretty closely In
point of profit. P. A. Slmonnon. of
McMlnnvilie. cut 4$ ton of mixed vetch
and oatji-ty from 11 acrea. and U. A.
Hobba St Son. rive mllea south of that
city, cut vetch hay from ;i acre that
retted them $114. or $ii an acre. Prom
an experimental field of alfalfa near
McMlnnvilie. P. W. Martin obtained four
and one-bait tons of bay at two cuttings.
Shorthorn rattle. Cotswold. Shrop
shire and Southdown sheep, Berkshire,
Poland-China and Duron hogs, with
I'ercheron. Clyde and other draft and
road horses, are being bred and grown
with considerable protlt
With It Increasing nnirber of dalrv
herds the county ranns Tilgh In Its
production of butter fat, much of which
Is sold to local creamerlea, but a great
deal going to supply the demand from
the city. Three condensed milk fac
tories In aa many different point in the
county offer the dairyman a superior
market for hi milk, taking It from his
door dally and paying good prices. Thua
the dairy Interests are advancing with
the cutting np of the wheat farms and
the multiplicity of forage and root
crop.
The lumbering Industry of the county
I growing In Importance. Groves ol
tlr and oak grow througnout tne en
tire county, and In the western part.
In the region of the Coast Mountains,
are found large bodies of Or and codar.
There are quarter sections that will' cut
anywhere from 1.000.000 to 1.000.000
feet, and It Is estimated thnt the
amount of standing timber In Yamhill
County Is 1.042.000.000 feet.
M'Minnvllle I the county seat and
chief town In the county, at the head
of navigation on the Yamhill River,
and on Hie lines of the West Side and
Yamhill divisions of the Southern Pa
cific. The Oregon Electric haa been
granted a franchise to build through
the streets, and purchased terminal
grounds In the city during the past
Summer, at a price of $17,000. The
city haa free mall delivery, macadam
streets, a good sewer system, a gravity
water system, a municipal light and
power plant, a large milk condenser,
sash and door factory, two flouring
mills. Ice plant and cold storage, brick
and tile factory, machine shop, handle
factory, fruit dryer, and numerous
minor manufactories, McMlnnvilie Col
lege, Baptist, and a Cathollo fVm-
Mount Angel College
Mount Angel, Oregon
Boarilinir school for froiirifr men and boys.
Full rollcriale course ; commercial and pre-
pnratory departments. Twenty-fourth year.
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420 Acres in Nursery
Established 1863 by J. R SetUemier
The Woodburn Nurseries
Growers of Choice Nursery Stock
F. W. Setllemier, Proprietor Woodbnrn, Oregon
SA
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OREGON'S SECOND CITY
"SHE FLIES WITH HER OWN WINGS" AND IS ALWAYS AT IT
1900 CENSUS GAVE SALEM 4258
1910 CENSUS GIVES SALEM 14,095
SALEM'S GROWTH
Salem's property. values have grown $i,67 1,878 annually
for the past five years. ' .
Salem's combined bank deposits have increased' 587,
429.06 annually the past three years, or since Oregon has had
a banking law. - ' ,
Salem's- Postal Receipts havc.incrcased $5,017.40 annual
ly for the past five ears.
Other institutions have grown proportionally.
The country surrounding Salem includes a large portion
of the best lands in the very wealthy and fertile Willamette
Vajlcy. It is being rapidly settled up with -a superior class
of farmers from all parts of America, and offers possibilities
for good homes and profitable investment seldom if ever
equalled.
SALEM
STANDS
FIRST IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
HIGH SCHOOLS
PRIVATE SCHOOLS
COMMERCIAL SCHOOLS
HIGHER EDUCATION
CHURCHES
GOOD WATER '
GOOD SEWERS
CIVIC BEAUTY
PAVED STREETS
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
SOLID BANKS
PAY ROLLS
MILLS AND FACTORIES
STORAGE WAREHOUSES
FRUIT PACKING HOUSES
FINE RESIDENCES
GOOD CLIMATE
FIRST-CLASS STORES
OTHER FACTS
Salem has the best hotel in
the Northwest, size of town con
sidered. Salem ships more carloads of
fruit than any city in Oregon.
Salem ships more hops than
any station in thp world. These
and other products bring in a
constant stream of wealth.
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THE SALEM BOARD OF TRADE
Inary are numbered anions the edu
catlonal Institutions, and a 150,000 high
school building; has been completed
the paat season. The third National
bank for the city opened tn July. The
cloae of 1910 witnessed the completion
of a four-story hotel in addition to the
year's bulldlna; activities of three brick
buslnesa blocks, two church edifices
and numerous dwelling's, and a mod
erate amount of street Improvement."
McMlnnvllle's tax roll shows $1,864,333
of property In the city.
Newbera; Is 3 miles from Portland
on the Willamette River and Southern
Pacific The town's manufacturing; in
dustries Include a large sawmill, fruit
cannery, milk condenser, brlrk and tile
factory, flouring; mills. Ice plant,
creamery, sash and ' door factory,
handle factory, fruit packing-house
and other enterprises reflecting the
wideawake spirit of Its people. Pacific
College.- Friends, Is located at New
berg;. Small orchard tracts and berry
patches Five the town a large and
thriving; rural population. The assess
able property of Newberg; Is $903,773.
- Sheridan Is located In the southern
part of the county near the magnificent
timber belt of the Coast Mountains,
and Is the junction of the Southern Pa
cific and Sheridan & Wlllamlna rail
ways. The town's chief industries In
clude flouring mills and a large saw
mill, which contribute , much toward
Sheridan's exports. Large tracts of
land near town, and on the foothills,
have been platted and set to fruit and
walnuts during the past year. The
taxable property in the corporate lim
its la $370,411.
Carlton, eight miles north of McMlnn
vilie, has one of the largest sawmills
In the state, and the building- of a
flouring mill Is contemplated. A rail
road. Incorporated as the Carlton &
Coast Railway, is now under construc
tion to the vast bodies of timber lying
to the west, with a view to supplying
the mill with logs. Grain and hay ship
ments from tnis place are of consid
erable volume. The assessed valuation
of Carlton is J2I9.140. x
North Yamhill is . near the northern
lln of the county, and rnnks high In
the prune-drying Industry of the coun
ty, and Is also the acknowledged hop
center. Inexhaustible bpds of potter's
clay near the place will furnish the
nucleus of a great future Industry, and
hundreds of carloads of the product are
now quarried and shipped annually to
be manufactured el8e"wnere. A sewer
plpe factory is conducted there on a
small scale. North Yamhill's property
ls assessed at $152,685.
Dayton, on the Yamhill seven miles
east of the county seat, numbers
among its industries a large evaporat
ing plant for curing vegetables and
drying fruit. It la the largest factory
of Its kind In the Northwest, and In
former years Its product has gone
largely to supply the Alaska trade.
Dayton's assessable property Is $150,
9J0. Amity Is one of the oldest towns, and
lies near tho southern county line. In
a rich dairy and fruit section. Amity
has a large milk condenser, much of
the stock of the institution being
owned by the farmers in that section.
The assessable property of tho town Is
$132,723.
Lafayette, the pioneer town of the
county, is a little city of very pretty
and comfortable homes. On the hill
side east of town Is the famous Lowns
dale apple orchard, the largest apple
orchard on the Coast. Lafayette's300lnhab
itants own property assessed at $120,140.
Dundee Is east of Lafayette, and Is
the center of the walnut shipping In.
dustry. The large walnut and prune
orchards of Thomas Prince overlook
the town, and the largest prune or
chard on the Coast is at Dundee. The
assessable property of the little city la
$74,130.
Willamina, six miles from Sheridan,
at the western terminus of the Will
amina & Sheridan Railway. Is one of
the newest towns, and is growing fast.
HOME
Do You Want to Be Happy and Prosperous?
If So,' Come to
SILVERTON,
The Land of Opportunity, Where Peace, Prosperity
and Contentment Reign Supreme
Silverton lies only 47 miles from Portland in the heart of the hest diversi
fied farming' section of the far-famed Willamette Valley, which needs no
comment on its productive soil and mild climate.
If you want to live in a farming section where 3 011 can grow fruit, grain,
potatoes, grasses, hops, vegetables or most any semi-tropical plant, or if you
want to go into dairying, chicken-raising or stock-growing, this is the place
for you, or if you want to live in the best little cit- of 2000 inhabitants, with
the brightest future before it of any city of its size in the Willamette Valley,
come to Silverton; it is not only situated in a rich farming section, but it
has immense timber and other resources back of it.
If you want to know more of Silverton and vicinity ask for descriptive
booklet illustrated with actual photographs taken near Silverton, or write.
Silverton Commercial Club, Silverton, Or.
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