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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 190V. THE COOS BAY GRAVENSTEIN APPLE AND THE EVERGROWING STRAWBERRY Hon. j. v. Snovor 01 iarsiuiui(i, delivered the following exposition on the Gravensteln apple nnd the possl- HlltlCB 01 IrUll milium bi.uianj .,mmd Coos Day, before tlio regular I meetlng of the Marshfleld Chamber of ! commerce Friday night. "Mr President, mm uuuuuiuuu ui tte cnaluUi u " "The resources of tho country .mund Marshflold and North Bend law been somewhat extensively ex ploited and advertised through tho columns of tho local press, and tho literature of tho Chamber of Com merce: and the people of tho nation. lave como to understand, In some de gree, that such resources are various an(l abunuam. ouuiu ui mo re sources which are most valuable are but slightly recognized and vaguely appreciated. I do not propose to speak to you of coal, or timber,, or farming lands, nor to utscuss mo ad vantages of tho Coos Bay district as a dairying country. I will simply call your attention to the fact that the bay and water facilities make tho cities of tho Coos Bay district a natural and unavlodablo center, com mercially. All things conic to Coos Bay within a radius of sevonty-llvo miles without railroads or other modern facilities of transportation. n...n..,l lin nnn3 Tinv viPlllitv is :i . ...i.ii, ,ni -,, ,i chamber, because if an export of such vast country, which will some day . ' ...... come to Coos Bay also, making it a center of world commerce. At pres ent wo should take care of our im mediate tributaries, make use of aur transportation; require proper con sideration at the hanjjs of local rail roads and corporations, and Insist that all who come Into this territory shall help us with profit to them selves to make tho best of our natural opportunities and resources. While in Sun Francisco recently, some Information came Into my pos session which had foi some roa:n:i escaped me while at Coos Bay. Yet this information was extremely Im portant to the Coos Bay country. I am persuaded that the attention of the Coos Bay people has for some reason been diverted from one of their most extraordinary nnd profit able resources, bossibly because of the superabundance of wealth in other forms. While In San Francis co I learned that fruit commision men considered that the Coos Bay orchards which will supply the , and tho San Jose scale are never to wunu s uemanu tor ono of the most ' be met with. There are no Insects or worms of any description which affect Coos Bay apples or fruits. There Is nover a failure of crops. There has never benn a klllng rrost and the ccrctry never Has snow enough to amuse the Inhabits . or constitute i an event. There are no Jack rabbits in tho Coos Bay country and there fore the trees are never nibbled or in jured by nnimal pests. Tho hortl-' culturlst needs only to put his trees Into the ground 'scientifically, culti vate and prune them properly and In a space of five years they will bear him a fortune every year. Tho yield from orchards yielding Gravenstelns In tho Coos Bay country averages about fifteen boxes of apples to the tree and there should be about ninety-six trees to the acre. This would make fourteen hundred and forty boxes to the acre. The commission merchant pays thin year, fifty-five cents per box to the producer, which would be $792.00 per acre. Tho cost of caring for the orchard is com paratively small. Now I have been assured that 500,000 boxes would not begin to supply the market and you can understand what an unfail ing source of wealth the farmer has in this. "Please remember what I have also said about the Alaska demand for luscious and delightful fruits known to horticulture. Theso lands awrtar the most part what wo now call Hill and bench land, and where they have been cleared are occupied as dairy farms. No doubt the dairy farmer will still find It valuable in every age to continue the use of a portion of his land for dairying purposes, but he wll) find that the protected hill-' sides which slope to the south are many times more valuable when de voted to the development of tho Gravensteln appje. I may also say that the fame of Coos Bay will be ex tended and rendered permanent as much by this apple, which It can pro duce In perfection as no other coun try can, as by any other of Its num erous and great resources. Since returning from San Fran cisco I have taken pains to Investi gate this subject specially; and while I do not think that I have done so COOS BAY APPLE 2 exhaustively, yet I feel that it is a subject of so much importance that the information which I have should bo submitted to the Chamber of Com merce at an early date. I believe that further investigation should be mado under the direction of this importance can be fostered, it can not fall to be of great value to class of people in our immediate vi-. this fruit. You will readily under clnity upon whom rests tho prosperity . stand that It is a very valuable and of our city and country in a large t peculiar one, as the territory can measure. 1 have met and talked produce no apples whatever and the with some of tho men whom the com-1 people are ready to pay almost any mission merchants of San Francisco j price to get them. The apples which have sent here to capture tho Coos I have referred to as being produced Bay yield of Gravenstelns of this sea son, and I am indebted to ono of them specially, who is an expert In in other districts mature late, and when they mature the avenues to Alaska are frozen up and Alaska does Logan berries attain a large size and a flno flavor. The strawberry has never found a more salubrious and favorable climato and soil. The world can bo challenged to furnish tho EV.perIor of tho Coos Bay straw berry. Why It should ever bo neces sary to Import a berry Into the Coos Bay country for consumption Is hard to tell. But It has to be done at this time becauso the people are more ab sorbed In logging and sawing than In this bonanza line. The Coos Bay country should export strawberries. Tho famous berries of the Puyalup valley in Washington arc in no sense superior to ours and have only ono rival, and that Is the Coos Bay pro duct. In fact the Coos Bay straw berry excels that of the Puyalup in this; while It is as large, as luscious, as well flavored, ias abundant, It grows and furnished a lorge yield after the Puyalup yield Is gathered and the season Is over. The Coos Bay gardens have abundance of strawberries from May to December and the producer is sure to strike a profitable market In some part of the year. "One more word and I am done. You will naturally ask why tho Coos Bay farmer has not been more In terested in the culture of fruit. I think we may as well waive that question by saying that he has at least proven that he has the greatest of all earthly fields for the production of the Gravensteln apple, and one of the greatest, if not the greatest, for tho culture of the strawberry. 'But you ask why does he not get more than fifty-five cents a box for his ap ples if they are so rare and excellent? The answer to that is as follows: Tho orchards devoted to the Graven steln are comparatively few. The men sent to buy the yield from San Francisco find it expensive to hunt up tho orchards and travel long dis tances for that purpose. The yield is small on account of the few orch ards and they cannot afford to pay large prices as the profits would then 1 bo insufficient to warant the trip. I If the area of cultivation can be en- frult culture, much moro than fruC lands which must bo irrigated, thank you for your attention. ADVERTISING POSTALS F0RC00S COUNTRY The "Call of Coos Bay" has been printed on postals and tho Dakota answer also. Now, ir the Massachu setts answer could be printed ns pjwell, J.he throe would make a great combination oi "ionow-up" auverus lng. These arc excellent souvenirs to send eastern friends. The first ono can be sent, and the second ono could follow In a few days. By that time, Interest would be aroused, and then tho third card could bo sent with good effect. and the competition for the Coos Bay apple will become great. It is cer- fruits and understands this subject I not got them. But the Coos Bay ap-' larsed then the prices will Increase thoroughly, for much of my Informa- plo matures just in time to reach that tlnn nnnnlrorl slnoo returning to this i market in al lits excellence. Not city. A personal knowledge how- only this, but the California, Hawaii- talnly the duty of the Chambers of ever, of the conditions In Hood River, an and Oriental markets will take all Yakima and Wenatche, has enabled wo can produce .and the Eastern me to Investigate the subject here market Is no longer deluded with the comprehensively and I do not hesitate i idea that the apple of Now York and to sav that my investigations here ' Michigan excels. In fact, the west- have substantiated fully all of the cm apple is the apple which ( statements which were made to me tho world demands. London ' in San Francisco and that I have been and Paris ,pass right through the i able from all I have learned to reach fruit countries of the Eastern states the startling conclusion that the Coos and make their purchases on the Pa- i nnv nnnntm la nnn nt tho nvnentional ciflr- const. Coos Bay Graven- apple, known as the Gravensteln, was fnUt cmintrlos ,n thlg wor,(1 The steins are rare and famous In San a prize to be seized upon by tho man worW knowg nbout the Franclsco and ar0 suggestlng a de who could get most swiftly into t10'BOonor aH of our lands wnIch are Hclous flavor In European capitals. new wnero it was prouueeu. un in- adapted to such ,mrposes wJll be cul-1 1 say suggesting for you can not vestigatlon I learned that a rivalry Uvated and ma(e t0 yleld great and sup,,0se that thirteen thousand five cAiaieu ill mui null iiiuirnsi. uv.. the various commission men In ob- Commerce of the Peninsular cities to do all they possibly can to enlighten the world in regard to the fruit pos sibilities of Coos Bay and it will soon become evident that any cleared land in this section is worth, if suitable for 9 NORTH BEND HARDWARE STORE A Complete Line TE V - SL ifl, lift W ' ' IW 0oefmm -1" rm "" S Hardware Builders Household Goods Plumbing a Specialty Reberg j Smith North Bend W. J. SMITH - - P. N. KbtJUK Our stack is , Tinm 1 1 II M IIV'l IVfTIIBI 'iWWWWW""'"' mmwmtoi Come Early to Make Selections oi APER fast. A trial ot our ushes Will convince that they are the best on the market Coos Bay Paint & Wallpaper Co. 2nd near C. Street WALL J3 sfome Mv J . flffVtftf 1-ama.a emra v , ! "" I substantial wealth. There is not an itninf In tlm roninrlf n liln nnt.work of tainlng the entire yield, and at the wayg rlyen whlch gQ tQ hundred boxes the'Coos Bay export, will more than give a flavor or a slight fragrance to the great outside same time they were all disposed to m bagln of CoQg Bay Qr the word Another thlng r want to fm facts which are worthy- of note In re gard to the; culture of tho Graven- stein In the llrst place let. me say that the climato of Coos Bay is pe culiarly adapted to that fruit. The cool evenings do not permit tho de structive pests which destroy or in jure apples in other fruit districts to keep tho matter of the superiority of Coqulne rlver whIch , not capable urn loos nay prize a wcrui. "w Qf ly,ng great quantitles of fruit, did not wish the world to know and An other applefj can be prouucea they did nqt wish tho Coos Bay poo-1 thQ yled ,g q a yery ex pie to realize that they are so anxious ceUent quatyi but U)e Gravenstein to capture this particular form of the and shouId be made the Coos Bay products. The Gravenstein j great speclalty u ghould be adver. apple of Coos Bay, I learned was1Uged far ag the fame Qf CoM Bay equal to the Spltzenburg and Yellow, g0ecause ,t wlu bear advertis New Town pippin for which the Qn account of ,t8 merlt Bef0re Hood River, Yakima and Wenatche ' x the BubJe(jt Q the Gravensteln valleys are farmers. But the Hood x want tQ Bpeclfy some ot tne mver, xamma ,ana wouunuo " leys were not adapted to tho pro duction of Gravenstelns of tho slze, Quality, flavor and soundness of those of Coos Bay. Moreover, the Gravensteln of Coos Bay came to ma turity at a time when It could be in troduced into markets which were closed against other apples later In the season. To be clearer I will say that the Alaskan market demands an apple which can bo brought to it dur ing tho open summer months, and the Gravenstein answers this descrip tion while tho Spltzenburg, Yellow Newtown Pippin and Baldwin come so late that they can not bo brought into Alaska in season to supply the demand. I was further Informed that the present demand for Graven stelns In Alaska alone would easily require twenty-five car loads of these apples, but that tho total yield of those orchards which belong to tho Coos Bay country would not amount to more than five car loads at the present time and probably less than that. "You can see that the apple orch ards of this section become therefore ot great Importance and that their product in the one respect that I have mentioned equals in quality anything in the apple line produced In the world and can be mado a source of very great profit to the entire dis trict. The lands within tho area tributary to -Coos Bay, which are specially adapted to tho cultivation.)! the Gravensteln Include many thous and acres. A largo portion of such lands is at present covered -by (a heavy growth of timber, but this tim ber is soon to disappear nnd In its Place something else must be substi tuted. I do not doubt that the solu tion of tho problem of substitution "will come in the form of extensive' nress upon you. The nnest or irri gated apples can not compare with those which are produced without irrigation but with sufficient natural moisture. More than this. The cost of irrigation is such that the horticulturist who can produce apples in a district which does not require irrigation has an Immense advantage of his neighbor in the arid country. Therefore, the Coos Bay country should be and Is the paradise of the horticulturist Who specializes the Gravensteln. , "The fruit expert who visits the Coos Bay country discovers that this region is the native home of all kinds of small fruits. The cherry thrives everywhere and In places ex cels. The wild berries grow in great mmmmmmmmmmmtttttmmmm iOmethiiw That Will Appeal . exist. Consequently the Codlln moth profusion In every conceivable place. immtmtmntffltmnmmm::ttmtttmmmnmmmtttmttm:m Try The .'. 6 DELICATESSEN o For Ice Cream. S y Amounts Furnished PicjOTUQcfeSa specialty. Baked beans and brown bread for Saturday and Sunday. Second and C streets. 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