THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, yOTE3IKER 22. 1903.
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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
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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,
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Tells rrgo 'Bldg.,Clty.
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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. It fits Into eTery
fom of advertising perfectly,1 supplies the highest olass of liter,
ature for use aaieng all inqulrle,"teuppUe the literature at a'
price which is ridiculously small frhen.eonpared with the actual
cost of production, secures for. each oowatnlty the attention of
your speolal photographers, writers and artists, and procures the
inestlnable benefits of the whole Harrlaan eelonlsatlon work.'
I never hesitate to reoonend your plan to conaunitles
and'land coaipanles.; I do not for ataeient heiltate now to go on .
record unreeervedly as endorsing it.
Tours "respeetfullyi
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For further information, address
that is actually in earnest about
" making progress can afford to neg
lect 'the opportunity which the
SUNSET PLAN presents. A special
representative will be glad to ad
dress any meeting in Oregon, Wash
ington or Idaho in reference to the
plan and explain its workings in de
tail. 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.
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