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Ten acres of this rich
bottom land means
$5000 a year income
The most liberal of
fer ever made on
high-class fruit lands
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN,, PORTLAND. AUGUST 2, I90S.
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INCOME
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Aptly Termed
"Ihe Land of
Opportunity"
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This land planted
to potatoes
alone will yield
a crop suffi
cient to make ,
your payments
and put money
in your pocket,
each year. WE
CAN PROVE IT.
WooM Yon Like : a Home aiicS
Life iimcoiHfiie of
OOO a Year?
We offer every man the opportunity to secure a home and a tract of fruit
land in the famous Umpqua' Valley of Southern Oregon on' the most lib
eral terms ever heard of and then we will develop the tract for you with
our own money and make the land pay for itself by returning to you one
half the net profits resulting from the growth of small fruits and vegetables
between the trees. Live on the land if you will, but if you are not pre
pared to just now we will care fo it and make it yield you a profit each year
Do . You Fully Grasp Our Offer? We Sell You the Land on Easy Monthly
Payments and Then Make the Land Take Care of Them
Situated on the beautiful Umpqua River just north of Roseburg and every acre cleared ready
to plant to trees. Soil of deep sedimentary deposit, adapted to growing apples, pears, peaches,
walnuts, almonds, cherries, prunes and all small fruits and vegetables and not only equal to
any grown in the state, but ready for market three weeks earlier than from any other point.
Every Foot of Every Tract Is Equal to the Best Fruit Soil in Oregon, and Superior to the Most of It
Delightful climate, fine schools and churches, splendid neighbors, hard-surface roads leading
in all directions from the tract. A Fruitgrowers Association at Roseburg solves the market
problem for you and means a big saving for growers
If you can suggest anything more liberal than our offer we want to hear of it
Gome to our office and let us explain our plan in detailyou will be interested. Price $150 per
acre. Terms $150 cash, balance on easy monthly payments. Development between the trees
will take care of the installments after next Spring. This land will double in value in 12 months
OUR DEVELOPMENT PL 4N
If you are not ready to live upon a tract of this land we will raise straw
berries, 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 superin
tend 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 1 . . ' .
ROSEBURG COMMERCIAL CLUB
J. D. ZURCHER, Manager
ROSEBURG, Oregon, June 13, 1908.
Messrs. Harding & Engen. . .
Gentlemen: Referring to your letter of recent date relative to the Alley
farm, located near Roseburg, I beg to advise you that I have visited the place
a number of times, and also have consulted a number of people in this city,
and from my own observations and from what people tell me, I am a little
undecided as to whether it holds first or second place in rank as to being the
best farm in Douglas County. However, there is about 800 acres of river
bottom land, which cannot be excelled, I care not wh,ere you go.
Ever since I came to this country I have wished that some one would buy
this place and put it on the market in small tracts, and I assure you that when
you informed ine that you had closed the deal for the place I was more
than- pleased.
If you want to refer anyone to me regarding this tract of land you may
do so, and I assure you that anything I can do in the way of telling them the
truth about it I will gladly do, and it will take no "boosting," either, as the
place will speak for itself.
When you place this land on the market I wish to purchase a 10-acre tract,
and if I can raise the money I want a 20-acre tract.
You may show this letter to anyone you wish, as I would certainly like to
" see 500 people residing on that farm inside of six or eight months, and it will
support them, too.
With kindest personal regards, I beg to remain, very sincerely,
' J. D. ZURCHER, Manager.
The Earliest
Fruit Belt in
Oregon
Are you
going.to wait
until every
acre of Oregon
Fruit Land is
under cultiva
tion and then
pay five times
the present
price?
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Telephone Main 5465
Portland, Or.
Fruit Land Specialists
204 Rothchild . Building, Fourth 'and Washington Sts.
Branch Office
Roseburg, Oregon
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