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TITE MORNING OREGONUH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL. 3, . 1916. BROWN FARM" ONE OF SHOW PLACES piiiuiiiiiiiiM;i!iiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiii::iN I FStt JZZ9 EJ JESS "IT i 7977 7 ir rises Olympians Greet "Farmer" Smith and Party Who Are . Guests on 2600 Acres. First Prize PAYING PLANT OPERATED Modern Agricultural Institution Destined to Be One of Greatest In "Western America, Says . Addison Bennett. BY ADDISON' BENNETT. OLYMPIA. Wash:, April 3. (Special.) Farmer Smith and his party left Castle Rock Saturday evening and came here to inspect the farm of A. L. Brown, which is located .12 miles east of Olympia.- And, after passing several hours in going: over the Brown plant, I can say truthfully that it is worth a trip of a thousatid miles to see it and inspect it. I had often heard of the Brown place before when in this city, but never be fore had an opportunity to pee it. Now 1 iyn compelled to say that it was the irijst interesting visit I ever paid to an agricultural plant of any kind. What is botheriner 'me now is the tall in ir of the story, or even outlining it, in -the f pace at my disposal." One could write a. page about it and tlren not have covered the details. We were met at the beautiful new depot of the O.-W. R. & N. at this place upon our arrival in the special car, by the following persons, who accompanied lis in their auto's: C. J. Lord, president First National Bank; F, W. Convery and his son, Fred. Mr. Convery is the proprietor of a 15-cent store here; F. W. Carlyon, real estate dealer; C. H. Springer, president Olympia Door Com pany; Joseph Reeder, grocer; Jess Springer, of the door company; Kagle Freshwater, of the Washington Stand ard. Also Mrs. Springer and Mrs. J. O. B. Scobey. And the following mem bers of the railroad party; Farmer mith; T. I. McGrath, traveling freight and passenger agent, Olympia; Wit liam Carruthers, district freight and passenger agent, and the representa tive of The Oregonian. Brown Farm'i Acreage 2000. Tfce Brown place consists of 42600 acres. Of this 1600 acres originally was overflow or tideland and 1Q00 acres of it is upland. Of the former 1200 has been reclaimed by dyking and the other 400 acres is well under the way to reclamation. The place really consists of a farm, a poultry plant, a packing plant, a cheese plant. a butter plant, breeding plant for cat tle, horses, hogs and poultry with such extras thrown in as a pheasant farm, a duck and goose breeding plant an electric light plant, a machine shop, a planing mill, a box factory, a black smith shop, a water works plant. feed mill, a telephone plant and such other equipments, paraphernalia and "plants" as a fertile brain, backed by half a million dollars, could think of conducting, building or installing upon a larm ot llKe size. Mr. Brown began operations here about 12 years ago and confesses it will take two or three years more to get all of the land in tilth and get the output up to the point he has mapped out. Just in passing let me say that lie soon expects to kill 60,000 hogs a year, to market 100,000 head of poultry annually ana to marnet sometning nice 6000 dozen eggs a day during the busi ness season of the hens and to milk daily 600 cows. Do those figures stagger you? They need not, for even now he Is killing 1500 head of hogs a month, is milking 200 cows, has nearly 10U0 head of cows and young stock on hand, is getting nearly 2001 eggs a day, already this Spring has hatched 15.600 chicks, has 7880 eggs in the incubators to hatch next week and has more than 1500 hogs not counting several hundred suckling pigs. . Year before last the poultry output was 45.000 head, and Mr. Brown says he will double easily that total when his plans are matured. He sells no young chicks, the youngest being the young cockerels for broilers. He keeps two varieties White Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds. His stock is all good but he does not cater to the fanciers with silk-stocking stock. Packlns-Hoase lntprrf. The plant that interested us most perhaps, was the packing-house. This Is a concrete building three stories high and 80x80 feet on the ground. It Is from top to bottom as clean, neat and sanitary as any plant could be and is equipped with the best of machinery. It also has a large, model smokehouse. When we were there, about 50 dressed hogs were on the "cooling hooks and about as many -more were in the passing stage between "pork" and hams, shoulders, bacon, lard and all, just the things you can buy in a grocery or delicatessen store that was once part of a hog. Listed there are, nely .30 of these products, such as sausages' of various kinds, liverwurst, headcheese, scrapple, entirely too many to men tion. And all of the "Brown farm standard," which command a higher price on the Seattle market than any other like products offered. , And just here let me say that Mr. Brown, from the beginning, has been obsessed with the idea that he could build up such a reputation for the "Brown farm products" as would allow him to put them up a little better, a little neater, a little sweeter and more tasteful than any competitor and then sell them for a higher price than others asked. And that obsession has come to be a reality. Mr. Brown gave us liberal samples of about every product. In the milkhouse, cheese factory, butter factory, wherever you go on the Brown farm you will find everything in the highest stage of sanitary perfec tion and the products being turned out of the highest order. For his butter he gets a couple of cents a pound above the top of the market and more orders than he can fill. Here is made all sorts of cheese, smear case (spell it to suit yourself) and buttermilk cheese. It this building as in the packing-house every bit of machinery and equipment is of the latest wrinkle. One Cow Sent to Morgue. Then into the great cow barn where 300 cows are in their stalls, over 200 of them giving milk; then to the calf barn, where there were several hundred head ranging in age from a day to l year. Only last week the state in spector came and went over the herd, animal by animal. Not a single symp tom of tuberculosis. -Only one cow failed to pass and she had hurt a knee which had caused a sore. The injury Bent her to the morgue. Then through the poultry plant, the largest any of us ever had seen, past the pheasant yards, the geese yards, the iuck ponds, to the great horse barn. Jiere we saw some famous thoroughbred breeding stock Kentucky saddle, Ger man coach well, I did not get all. But Mr. Brown has not found this branch of the business profitable, so he is going slow with it. If, in the future, there comes a demand for fine horses he will go ahead with this part of his business, but that may be several years bence. For please remember the NOW, the convenienceof a Taxi is within everybody's reach! The same quick , irvice the- same swift, luxurious Taxi- which you are accustomed. Our new system enables us to cut prices so radically. The Yellow Taxi tariff is based on strictly cash. You do not help pajNfor many slow and uncollectible accounts. cai New Cut-Rate Yellow Taxi ror instance:-- The reilow Taxi charge for one to four pjhsons from Hotel Port land, or anyqual radius, to the Union Devbtrs 40c m No Extra Charge for 2, 3 or 4 Passengers First !3 mile . . . . 20c Each additional Vz mile 10c Each additional passenger above four . . . 10c EacH 6 minutes waiting 10c By the hour . . -2 . i $2.50 Yellow Taxis have the f ai world over for their dependal skilled men. The large resou your liability -protection. Fiat '"motors, known the Our drivers are all :esoi tnis company are When you think of a Taxi, think of a Yellow Taxi! Remember our phones Main 2-3-4 or A2-3-4-5--day or night. Remember, service and. luxury are not sacrificed. Everything is the same-except thejprices. Brown farm is not run for fun nor for sentiment. It is run for profit and any thing that does not come lip to the standard gets short shrift. The entire plant now occupies the attention of about 80 hired men. I asked him if he had any trouble in getting milkers or other help and lie said he did not, that his hands were principally permanent. He pays good wages, gives his men good food and other accommodations and they usually give him good returns. His superin tendent, Ai Wood, has charge in the absence of Mr. Brown and he gave the same story about their trifling trouble with help. l'nclflc Highway Is Close. The farm is in a bend of the Nisqual ly River. The main buildings are about one mile from the Northern Pacific Railroad and about two-thirds that distance from the Pacific Higliway. It is connected with the Seattle office, where nearly the entire output is dis posed of and there is a telephone sta tion in practically every one of the 30 buildings and in some of them a half dozen, and one on every portion of the farm. There is an artesian well right at the milkhouse door which flows 300 gallons a minute. All of the machinery is run by electricity, which is developed on the place, and every barn, stable and other building is lighted in the same way. Any man that thinks of developing a large dairy should come to Olympia and go out to the Brown place. Remem ber it is not run as a show place, but as a money-making farm.- And it is fulfilling its mission fulfilling it so well that it is pretty safe to say in five years from now it will be the finest farm of its. size in Western America. That is, provided Mr. Brown lives and keeps charge of it. I do not believe there is a man living who could jump in and 'take up. the work and carry it on as successfully as he can. One or more branches of the business might prosper, but as a whole its management takes a genius of the order of its present proprietor and manager, A. L. Brown. By the way his mail address is Nisqually, or Se attle, Wash. $254,147 SUI1 IS FILED J. K. RICK SON, H AIL WAY COX TRACTOR, IS DEFENDANT, Complaint in Court at Seattle Makes Charge of Violation oCAgree u nirnt for Timber Deal. SEATTLE, Wash., April 4. (Special.) A suit asking a judgment, for. J254. 147.38 against C. J. Erickson, wealthy railroad contractor and president of the Erickson Construction Company, was filed in the Superior Court Monday by F. E. Scott, who alleges that Erickson violated a -erbai agreement in regard to the purchase of valuable timber land in Jefferson County. In 1912 and 1913, the complaint sets forth, Scott got options from private owners for the purchase of 480 acres of"- patented timber land in Jefferson County in the Rocky Creek watershed. There was 200,000,000 feet of stand ing timber on the land, which was adjacent to valuable Government land. Mr. Scott says that; he also obtained a contract to purchase the Government land. Mr. Erickson made a verbal agree ment to furnish the capital for the enterprise, the complaint alleges, and Mr. Scott transferred the options to him. Mr. Erickson then is charged with having refused to keep his part of the contract in purchasing the land and allowed the Government contract to purchase the land to be forfeited. . Read The Oregonian classified ads. SLAYER OF 2 INDIGTED M. D. BOSSMAV, SR., HELD FOR VILDERVILLE MURDERS. Grand Jury nt Grontn Fasn Retarns Two Bills Against Man Who Killed Mr. and Mrs. Altera. GRANTS PASS, Or., April 4. (Spe cial.) M. D. Bossman. Sr., the con fessed slayer of Mr. and Mrs. Luther P. Akers at Wilderville four weeks ago, was indicted for murder in the second degree by the grand jury on two counts today, one indictment for the murder of each. ' The prisoner is being held without bail for trial in the Circuit Court, which will open next Monday. Indictment for second-degree murder was necessary, as first-degree murder now carries no punishment in this state, the penalty, death upon the gallows, having been voted out of the statutes. Conviction for seconcr-degree murder carries with it imprisonment for life in the State Penitentiary. When Bossman was before the grand jury he detailed practically the same story that he had previously told. Alfred Hutchinson, charged with wantonly killing an animal, was in dicted also. His bond was placed at $.200. When the grand jury returned the indictments in court it reported that it had completed its labors except for the examination of the county property. NEW QUEEN 10 APPEAR SEVEN UNMARRIED MEN TO NAME OREGON CITY CANDIDATE. A. King Wilson Tells Live Wires That Demonstration Road Should Be Built to Show Value. OREGON CITY. April 4. (Special.) Some Oregon City girl will be chosen within the next 24 hours as the can didate of the Commercial Club foi queen of the Portalnd Rose Festival. Seven men, all unmarried, and all en thusiastic members of the Live Wires, will select the candidate. They are: J. D. Olson, H. Leighton Kelly, Charles T. Parker, Harry E. Draper, Harold A. Swafford. Dr. Fank Mount anfDr. J. A. VanBrakle. ... At the luncheon of the Live Wires today Miss Valentine, of the Rose Fes tival Association, explained the method of electing a queen and maids for next June's Festival. A. King Wilson, Mayor of Oswego, talked on permanent highway construc tion and said that a hard-surfaced road should be constructed by the state from Portland to Salem through Oregon City. He said that the county shrould put down five or six quarter-mile pieces of hard-surface road in as many dif ferent sections of the county, to dem onstrate their value. Mr. Wilson said he would vofi for no candidate for the Legislature who did not favor con struction of a main highway con- CASTOR 1 A y Tot Infants and Children. ThJ Kind You Hara Always Bought Burs the necting Portland and Salaam at the ex pense of the state. , ' The Live Wires adopted unanimously a resolution urging arbitration between the railroads and their employes over the question of an ncrease in wages and shorter hours, in order that the in dustries of the northwest might not be paralyzed by a general strike. J. W. Reed, of Estacada, and E. L. Pope, of Parkplace, Republicans, and Charles W. Risley, of Concord, Demo crat, all candidates for County Com missioner, and H. C. Stephens, of George, Republican candidate for the Legislature, made brief talks. JAPANESE POOR HELPED Salvation Army Starts Movement for Consumptives' Hospital. TOKIO, March 25 The Salvation Army of Tokio is vigorously pushing a proj ect to build a hospital for poor con sumptives. On February 11 the anni versary of the first Emperor, Jimmu Tenno, the army issued a special num ber of the War Cry with the idea that it would be sold extensively, and that from 3000 to 5000 yen would be real ized for the hospital project. The pub lication contains several articles by specialists on preventive hygiene writ ten in easy Japanese and designed to be of service to the poorer people of Tokio who, because of a lack of know! edge of the elementary principles of hygiene and sanitation, often fall vic tims to tuberculosis. Many of the large Japanese firms bought big orders of the publication, and the Imperial Government Railways headed the list with 5000 copies. The hospital will cost about 48.000 yen ($21,500). and Colonel Yamamura who heads the Salvation Army here, says he hopes to start work on the building this year. The hospital is to be known as the Booth Memorial Hos pital. LADD ESTATE COMPANY PRINCIPALS Take any city and you will; find that the high grade residential districts are on the higher ground sites that permit of a view not limited by the house across the street. Portland ' is favored by nature with ex- tremely desirable view prop erties, remarkably close-in to the business section. ' In the consideration of such propr - erties for your home, do not over look these facts. - ' is the only property of its kind. Unlike similar property, the view from Westover Terraces extends east, and many lots can be chosen which also command a wonderful northern view, taking in the bend of the Willamette. Buy where you will have "10,000 square miles in your front yard." 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