TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 19, 1908.
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Are You Satisfied With Your Present Income?
Come in and Let Us Tell You of the Land of Opportunity
If you want to better your condition, to find the means to get away from the limits of a salary, if you desire a permanent
income of $5000 a year, and one not affected by financial panics, if you want something SURE to protect you and your
family NOW and during the years to come, then let us show you how a small investment ON EASY TERMS in a Roseburg
Home-Orchard tract situated in the beautiful Umpqua Valley will solve the problem. Let us explain our development plan
which means that you will have an income NEXT year from a tract of this land; how it will PAY FOR ITSELF in two years
To the Home-Seeker
No more delightful country in all America than this
beautiful Umpqua Valley. An ideal climate, a rich soil
that will grow, without irrigation, anything under the sun
except tropical fruits. You have within easy reach fine
common and high schools, churches of all denominations,
fraternal organizations, a thickly-populated valley, splen
did drinking-water, rural free delivery mail service, tele
phones, scenic surroundings, good neighbors, nearness to
market, and only seven hours to Portland. We will have
on this tract not less than twenty-five families next
Spring, which means your own little community. Inter
tree development of your tract will give you a good in
come at once. Potatoes alone will yield $150 net per
acre each year. Poultry-raising is a profitable side line.
Secure our booklet with full information, maps, etc. .
To the Fruitgrower
If you know Southern Oregon, you know that the
Umpqua 'Valley is the center of the greatest Fruit Belt
in the State. We have 960 acres of bottom land on the
Umpqua River, just north of Roseburg, with a rich
alluvial soil a true sedimentary deposit a soil with
depth from 25 to 50 feet, that will grow abundantly
apples,- pears, peaches, walnuts, cherries, plums, almonds,
berried and vegetables of all kinds, and does it without
irrigation. Average annual rainfall 35 "inches. You can
market your produce through the Roseburg Fruitgrow
ers' Association, at the least possible cost, .and member
ship in this organization costs only $10 a year. This is
. the earliest Fruit Belt in Oregon, and fancy prices are
obtained in Portland and other markets for your early
berries and vegetables.
Every acre of this land is ready to cultivate no trees,
no stumps, no brush and the price is less than asked for
uncleared land in other sections of the state, that had
been more widely advertised, and which offer in many
ways fewer advantages than this favored valley. If you
are not satisfied where you are, if you are making less
than $5000 a year now, see us quick and Select one of
these tracts. You can't avoid an income of $5000 a year
on these tracts if you give the trees half a chance. We
can take you to fruitgrowers near our lands who are
making from $4000 to $10,000 every year on small tracts,
and we will be pleased to do so any time you can arrange
to make the trip.
If you are not ready to live upon a tract of this land we will raise
strawberries, raspberries, currants, cantaloupes, melons, potatoes,
onions, asparagus, celery, etc., on ,your tract, put up the money for
seed and labor, market the produce, and at the end of the season
pay you one-half of the net profits. If we didn't absolutely know
that this proposition would pay us we wouldn't put our money in it
and you are going to make a dollar every time we do. We can put
small fruits and vegetables on the market two weeks earlier than
any other section in Oregon, AND WE ARE GOING TO DO IT
NEXT YEAR. We have an orchardist and farmer of 20 years'
experience who will superintend this work, and a member of this
firm will give his personal attention to the property. The soil is of
great depth, and development between the rows does not affect the
prosperity of the trees; Experiment has shown this to be true. One
half the profits of this development plan will pay for your tract in
two years, set it to orchard and put money in the bank for you.
You will then have an orchard tract worth, in the open market,
twice the purchase price. We are NOT GUESSING at what we
can do here, but this plan is the result of careful study extending
over a period of many months. If you want to join this successful
fruit-growing plan, come in and talk it over -with us before this
tract is sold. DO IT NOW!
To the Salaried Man
You don't intend to be on a salary always. Perhaps
you have been waiting for something to turn up. Mean
time, other people have been gathering in the dollars,
from opportunities which you have let pass. This is
something within your reach. ' Make a' start now for in
dependence from the toil and limitations of a salaried
position. We will develop your tract for you and help
you pay for it. We will make it pay for itself in two
years, and then you will have a tract free of debt, and
you can either live upon it, or we will continue to culti
vate it, paying you one-half the net profits.
If you cannot handle ten acres, on our easy terms,
then get a friend to join and take five acres each. Or
maybe we can introduce you to some one who will take
five acres of your tract. Come to our office and talk it
over, and don't wait until the tract is sold.
To the Investor
You may feel that you want to put your money in a
business that you can give your personal attention to, but
are not ready now to give up your other work and go into
fruitgrowing, even though you are convinced that the
latter is more profitable. Our development plan for non
residents means that we will, give as careful attention to
your ten acres as we would if we owned the land, be
cause we will put our capital and labor into it, and must,
therefore, make it yield a profit.
We have engaged competent and experienced men to
do this development, and it will bo done right at the
right time and on business principles. We propose to pay
you one-half the net profits and we invite your attention
to the following table of estimated earnings of a ten
acre Roseburg Home-Orchard tract.
Total Investment made
In small payments In three
years t
Ten-acre tract J1500
Cost of setting tract
to trees, care and
cultivation for three
years "BOO
Taxes, Interest, etc....... 100
Vonr share of profits from a
ten-acre tract, conservatively
estimated, will yieldi
First year .$ 750
Second year 900
Third year 1000
Total $2650
Value of land end of third
year $5000
Total J2100 1 Total 76o0
Tour annual income after the fifth year will be from
$4000 to $5000.
Where can you invest a small sum, divided in easy
payments, that will be as safe as mother earth and pro
duce such returns as this ? -
Let us show you that we are right in this estimate.
Ideal climate, mild Winters, Summers never too warm to
be comfortable; aptly termed the Italy of America.
The Umpqua Valley is the center of the greatest Fruit Belt
in Oregon.
This is an income investment, as sure as a Government bond
We are not offering immunity from work, but eight months'
work annually will bring you an income equal to your desire
to spend the other four months as you wish.
Act today, do something; it is the secret of success.
"ur automobile meets you at Roseburg, and we will show
you that our statements are based on facts and not fiction.
Go down to this country with us and meet the men who are
making from $5000 to $10,000 a year on small tracts.
Ten acres will produce an income better than any $5000
salary. .
B, A. Booth. Pres. E. U Parrott, VIce-Pres. J. H. Booth, Cash. J. M, Throns, rt. Cashier.
ESTABLISHED 1883
Bouslatf Count? anfe
Roseburg, Oregon
Messrs. Harding and Engen, Aberdeen, Washington.
June 11, 1908.
Gentlemen: In reply to your inquiry regarding the 1300-acre tract of land
known as the Alley Farm, with especial reference to its value as orchard and
small-fruit land, am frank to say that it is the best tract of land of equal size
that. I have ever known in Western Oregon, or anywhere else, for that matter.
I regard it as the best fruit proposition in any county Vest of the Cascade Range
of Mountains, on this Coast.
The river bottom land, of about 800 acres, is a rich, sandy loam, especially
adapted to the raising, of vegetables of every description, including" especially
potatoes and root crops, while its value and adaptability to fruitraising is evi
denced by the orchard now bearing upon the place, and that on theadjoin
ing lands. . .
I have known this land intimately, every acre of it, from my boyhood, having
been raised in the immediate neighborhood of the place, and speak advisedly
when I say that I regard the bottom lands cheap at $150.00 an acre, for either
an orchard or small fruits, or vegetables.
When, you decide to place this land upon the market, I shall be glad to have
your plat of survey shown me, that I may choose a tract of some twenty acres or
more of the land at the above price, and I am also asked to select some addi
tional tracts for some of my friends.
I am aware that this is rather a strong statement in reference to the value
of this land being ahead of the Rogue River Valley for fruits, but I have known
that country well and was for ten years a resident of that Valley; I have
handled farm lands all my life, in one way or an'other, and believe that I know
what I am doing when I say that Douglas County is the best adapted to fruits
' of any county in Western Oregon, and this tract is one of her very best.
If I can serve you at any time, please command me.
Very truly, J. H. BOOTH, Cashier.
Splendid hard-surface roads in all directions from the tract.
The earliest fruit belt in Oregon.
We need intelligent work you can buy a farm with it.
This wonderful valley ships the finest Pears in the world.
Where the soil is rich enough, and sufficiently deep for
inter-tree development, making your income begin at once,
is not a bad place to live.
Every acre ready to plant. No trees, no stumps, no brush,
and overflow water never reaches a foot of this land.
A fruit tract here means a home, an income, and the best
life-insurance policy on earth.
Fruitgrowing is classed as a profession in Oregon.
The small fruits and vegetables raised the first two years
will pay a profit equal to the cost of the land, and setting
it to orchard.
204 Rothchild Building
Fourth and Washington
Fruit Land Specialists
Phone Main S46S; Portland, Oregon
Branch Office, Roseburg, Oregon
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