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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1908)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, yOTE3IKER 22. 1903. ...iimuniinrsTmfTT'rerTnriratn"rT"B !.'ililln:niliiiniililiiniiii i. i - im-.- i hiim - ' -Mru-U"k MU,,mdaiiUMUiiaWiiii1Miidi Tw"'Si''i mr-Tin. ( tt ' 'W,"Wflj"TT7Ttnr'n !iTWtT-r!ir"'''!l,Hl'n:rB:"' "nr irifH ''""'Mil "n""j)ll1 DOUGLAS COUNTY, climatically the best part of Southern Oregon, has an area of 4800 square miles, nearly equaling that of the State of Con necticut. It is one of the largest counties west of the Cascade Mountains and contains approximately 2,000,000 acres of land. By reason of its size and its relation to the Coast, mountain and valley, it is greatly diversified in scenery and resources, and its elevation ranges from tide water to 5000 feet or more. Its main water courses are the North and South Forks of the Umpqua River, which unite near Eoseburg and flow out to the sea through a succession of valleys and narrow passes in the northwest part of the country. These valleys' are very fertile, the soil being a very rich, sandy loam of great productive capacity. The smaller "H" are excellent orchard lands, and the higher hills, when not too heavily timbered, are excellent grazing lands. The general industries of the coun ty are varied, lumbering and mining in the mountains, and agriculture in the valleys. Stockraising is an important part of the farm life, and stock do well in the open all the year, often going to market without further feeding. Eoseburg, the county seat of Douglas County, has a population of more than 5000 Inhabitants, and is surrounded by a rich agricultural country, which is divided into 5 and 10-acre tracts, making a population of nearly 8000 people within a radius of ten miles. It is very centrally located, and has no competing points in a wide area, being 75 miles from Eugene on the north and 99 miles from Grants Pass on the south. It is 198 miles south of Portland, Oregon, and 674 miles north of San Prancisco, CaL, and is located on the main line of the Southern Pacific Company. Eoseburg has 3 banks, 3 hardware stores, 2 hotels, 2 shoe stores, 6 dry goods stores, 3 jewelry stores, 7 grocery stores, an art store, 3 meat markets, 2 bakeries, 3 furniture stores, 11 churches, 2 schools, 1 high school. 2 second-hand stores, 2 flouring mills, 3 planing mills, 3 printing offices, 1 daily paper, 2 semi-weekly papers, a brewery and ice plant, a cold storage plant,-creamery, 2 theaters, 2 plumbing shops, 3 livery stables, United States xjh t v v V- 1 -- i, 5- : - 5 - J t 4 "t1 Land Office, U. S. Forest Reserve headquarters, U. S. Weather Observatory, Southern Pacific division point with a payroll of $35,000 per month, and numerous small establishments. Eoseburg needs more people, a fruit cannery, woolen mills, an iron foundry, a broom factory, a tannery, a vin egar and pickle works and numerous other enterprises, and offers good inducements to anyone wishing to engage in any legitimate business. Eoseburg is now engaged in paving about 20 blocks of streets with bitulithinc pavement, and will continue the good work until all of our streets are in first-class condition. Land in Douglas County can be purchased at prices ranging from $15 to ?250 per acre, according to the location, improvements, etc. This land requires no irri gation, as our rainfall, which averages 35.35 inches annually, is sufficient for all crops. Our climate, with its average high temperature of 79 degrees and its aver age low temperature of 35 degrees, makes Douglas County an ideal fruit country, as we have no snow or ice in Winter or oppressive heat in Summer. Profits from fruitraising run from $100 per acre to $600, but the average is about $250 per acre. We do not wish to convey the idea that money grows upon trees in Eoseburg and all you have to do is to pick it, but we do say that with hard work and perseverance a man has better opportunities here than in any other place on the Pacific Coast. Relative to Eoseburg as an apple-growing section, Mr. J. B. Smith, a man who has made a success of the business and who has been in every fruit section of the West, says: "If people will take care in placing their orchards, that is, select the right kind of trees for the right kind of soil, there is no place in the United States that can excel Eoseburg and vicinity for apples as to size, color and flavor." This is a broad statement, but practical demonstrations have proven it. In this country 60 apple trees are planted to the acre, and at the age of five years should produce, if properly cared for, one box of first-class apples, and will then gain one box per year for a number of years. The cost of production is 50c per box, and your apples should bring you at the least $1.50 per box f. o. b. Eoseburg, leaving you a profit of $1 per box. At the age of 9 years your trees will bear 5 boxes, or a profit of $5 per tree, which, multiplied by the num ber of trees to 'the acre, 60, will make your net profit amount to $300 per acre. The foregoing is not a supposition; it is based on actual facts. As a prunegrowing country Douglas County has no superior, our prunes bringing the highest price of any on the Coast. Dur ing the season of 1907 there were shipped from Eoseburg 6,000, 000 pounds of dried prunes, which brought the grower 6Vk cents per pound, or $330,000 for the season's crop.- With one exception Douglas County has more standing timber than any other county in the state, and a conservative estimate places this amount at 23,000,000,000 feet, which is 1.15 per cent of the standing timber in the United States today. Poultry-raising is a very profitable industry in this country, as we supply the markets of San Francisco, Portland and the Sound cities with the holiday turkeys. During Thanksgiving week of last year Douglas County shipped $14,000 worth of tur keys, more than any single shipping point in the United States. Dairying is one of the coining industries of this section, and at present is carried on in a limited way throughout the country by almost every farmer. At several places are modern cream eries, doing a good business and paying their patrons well. Any one wishing fnrther information relative to this country can receive the same by writing the manager of the Eoseburg Commercial Club at Eoseburg, Oregon. Y i MELON -PATCH ROSEBUEG is one of the twenty-four communities in Oregon, "Washington and Idaho which have adopted the SUNSET PLAN for community publicity. This plan embodies twenty important features (two new ones having recently, been added), and it is the only plan that offers communities a complete campaign for result-producing publicity. There is no uncertainty, no experi mentation about the SUNSET PLAN. It produces far-reaching re pults because it gives to communities the services of experts, and it pro vides for every feature of a well directed and comprehensive cam paign, extending over a period of one year. It is the only plan in exist ence or which has ever been formu lated in the history of publicity work whereby two-thirds of the necessary expense to carry out the plan is borne by other interests than the community directly benefited. This plan not' only offers this very re markable thing, but it assures com munities even more the earnest and cordial co-operation and backing of the Passenger Departments of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and Southern Pacific Lines in Oregon coupled with the vast facilities of the great Ilarriman system, with its ramifications extending over the en tire world. This plan is not only . something new in community publicity it is epoch-making in the results that it is producing of a direct and indirect character. No community, therefore, n Oct. 8. v anaL ATTumott CO PIES TO SPIOAt L itC Mr7.TmEIttl tails,. Sunsat lraszm Hoo eekers'Burcwi, Tells rrgo 'Bldg.,Clty. Vttr Mr?WUBt- I sa ljipolled t adult. lo spltaof thsfaet that you are dr cr less of oompeti tor that your preposition with Its eighteen points constitutes the "beet "bargain la advertlelng X bare er.er seei for conaunltles. end landlaanpurles. 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This plan has received the unquali fied and unsolicited in dorsement, of news papers, communities, advertising experts and others who have investigated it. One letter (absolutely un solicited) in reference to the plan is repro duced herewith. M&IIs Igf&o Boadin pr liA.l .v attMiai1ML.,u1BMK1sn,tqul1.11itfiill4tUrtu..;aai;,?,;) mttiysss.f i b, sitoiuui.aiV.l1tWiViWtilis.iitiifcwl .,iii,llilLUlliiaui;i,.iiii..lf lalUaliaUjiiili!'. UllAl U Ul I
