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RF.flDM'S nrorliirtinn nf fruit
both from a quality and
J I ouafrititv standpoint, consti
tutes an unique record of in
ternational prominence. The
state's fame as a producer of the
finest varieties has spread to prac
tically every counfry of the world.
In 1905 Oregon took first place both
in home and foreign markels, and
last year a carload of Oregon pears
broke the world's record fnr hitih
prices. The shipment was sold in
Montreal and netted the owners over
?S per box.
Practically every county in the
state is adapted to the successful
raising of the better grades of fruit,
and in every section of Oregon fruit
is being raised to a greater or less ex
tent. Many of the valley regions and
numerous districts in which this line
of industry is followed almost exclu
sively have achieved a world-wide
fame, and the general productions of
the state are far superior to eastern
grades.
Oregon Apples.
Oregon apples won a notable vic
tory in 1905. Newtown Pippins from
this state sold in the markets of
London for $5.43 a box. Another
lot of Newtowns, shipped to Edin
burgh, Scotland, brought $4 83 per
box. The same season Spitzenbergs
and Newtowns averaged from $2.25 to
$3 per box in many carload lots ex
ported from the state, anfl four cars
of Baldwins and Kings shipped to
Alaska returned to the producers
$1.25 per box.
Altogether the year saw over 60,000
boxes shipped from the state. Indi
vidual profits were exceedingly satis
factory. An eight -acre orchard
owned by T. R. Castner returned a
profit of $1,153, and a 3'-arre
orchard gave a profit tu Ludwig
Struck of $2,898.
The highest price ever paid for
apples from any orchard in the United
States was received during the year
1905 by Hood River producers. The
credit reflects upon the whole state.
Other sections did equally as well
and enhanced the fame of Oregon as
an apple producing section.
Across the water, Hiigland and
Flame each year rage fly seek the
cream of Oregon's orchards, and the
products from this state once placed
before the epicure are always after
wards in demand.
In reality the apple industry in
Oregon is in its infancy. There are
thousands of acres of land capable
of producing both the quantity and
quality of grades now being raised
in developed sections and which are
reaching to thousands of foreign and
local markets.
Apple trees begin producing their
revenue to their owners at the age
of four and one half years. A 10-year-old
tree often bears 10 bushels
of the best marketable fruit, and the
splendid profits derived are con
stantly serving as a stimulant to the
further development of the magnifi
cent industry.
Among the varieties raised are the
Nifwtown. Spitzcnbcrg. Jonathan,
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Spy, Swaar, Greening, Winesap,
Wolf River and Flora r Winter
I'anana. The market value of the
state's, fruit crop in 1906 was nearly
$3,000,000, and this from only an ex
ceedingly small area of a state the
whole of which are admirably adapted
to the fruit industry.
There is a characteristic stamina to
Oregon soil that makes for the pro
duction of apples that are unexcelled
by none in size, solidity, flavor, color
and keeping qualities. Ten months
is not the extreme limit to which can
be kept a well-packed box of Spitz
enbergs Sylvester Johnson, 11 years
president of the Indiana State Hor
ticultural society, declared at a meet
ing in Indianapolis not long ago that
he considered Oregon preeminently
the fruit state of the union.
Southern Oregon Pears.
Southern Oregon, with its own pe
culiar climatic conditions and fertth
soil, is particularly adapted to the
cultivation of pears as well as grape
and other lines of less hardy fruit
than apples, although the orchards in
the district are nearly as famous a
those in the renowned Hood River
valley. Other sections of the state
are rapidly developing the industry
and Cornice, Anjou, Winter Nclli
and cither Bartlett varieties at present
lead in commercial value, the returns
to the owners of orchards bearing
these grades footing into figures of
fabulous proportions.
During the Lewis and Clark exposi
tion in Portland in 1905 in the fruit
exhibit 14 pears of the Cornice va
riety, raised by '. 11. Hopkins of
Central Point, tipped the scales at 16
pound and 2 ounces. Thirty trees of
the Anjou variety, owned by E. E.
Lock of Hood River, netted $502, and
A. C. Staten of the same wonderful
valley received $97.50 from four tree.-,
which would be at the rate of $1,950
per acre. Cherries raised from Ore
gon trees find a market in all parts
of the United States. Teh ton- of
Royal Ann from two acres is the
record made last season by M. Har
low, near Eugene, and other yields
elsewhere throughout the state have
been as prolific.
Fiuit in Wasco County.
The Dalles and Wasco county are
especially noted for the mammoth
size, prolific yiihl and excellent flavor
of the cherries raised, Royal Amies
and Lamberts growing to perfection.
Last year there were shipped from
The Dalles to 10 different states
41,851 boxes of fruit prunes and
plums or 1.001.579 pounds by ex
press, and 34 carloads of fruit in
cluding some of the choicest varieties
f apples by freight. The Dalles
Fruitgrowers' union supplied the peo
ple of the east with 83,000 boxes of
c .nice fruit grown in this locality,
and fully 25,000 boxes of peaches were
shipped by individuals. The lands
that produced this fruit lie contiguous
to the city, and comprise Chenoweth,
Mill, Three Mile. Five Mile and Eight
Mile creeks, and not over 5 per cent
of the area suitable for fruit is cul
tivated. In the near future, when
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The Dalles will be one of the best
fruit producing portions of the north
west At Mo-ier. P. Henningsen last year
gathered six tons from one acre of
trees. In- net income for the tract
bring $400. A paying crop is picked
from (Megon ehel I trees the fifth
year, the trees hearing for the first
time during the third year.
I-'ive hundred to 1.000 pounds is
not an unusual crop from a single
tree, and many spceimeus of Oregon'-
premier variety, the Royal Ann,
have measured U4 inches in diameter.
Aside from the latter, the Ming, the
Lambert and lilack Republican do
remarkably well, and although the
state's cherry output in 1906 amounted
land for a market which consumes
the entire output of the state. Al
though southern Oregon and numer
ous other sections are as well adapted
to the production of grapes as any
district in the world, nearly one half
of the gi.ipes umsuuied in Oregon
are imported.
Here, again, is another inviting
channel of industry. Crapes grow in
lavish abundance and crop failures in
this product are unknown. Viifeyards
wdiose records are known, show a net
profit running considerably in excess
of $100 per acre. Southern Oregon
especially is recognized as the finest
commercial grape district in the coun
try. The same section of Oregon which
to $114,000. the industry is still in its produces enormous grape yields is
infancy, offering an unlimited field likewise to the fore in the production
to others who engage in the same of peaches. Eastern Oregon and the
central portion ot the state are also
fast coming to the front with the
older districts as centers where
occiipat i hi.
'Grapes in Abundance.
Grape vines from one end of the
state to the other are loaded each
year with the finest Concord, Dela
ware, Muscat, Moore's Early, Niagara,
lilack Hamburg, Sweetwater and
other varieties ot grape.-. Growers
snccess-
Jidlilower, Ben Davis, Northern these lauds are planted iu orchards, do uot have to seek farther than Fort-
peach growing can be done
fully and at great profit
Rogue River Peaches.
Over 90.000 boxes of peaches are
shipped from Ashland in southern
Oregon annually. Orchards on
which the pmpcr care
stowed yield from 300
of peaches per acre, t he-
being about 00 cents per box. An
8-year-old Crawford tree on the ranch
of W. W. Card well, near Roseburg,
produced last Season 45 boxes which
sold for $13.50.
The Oregon Prune.
Oregon prunes have long been rec
ognized as a standard in the world's
markets. Buyers every year purchase
here for the houses they represent in
all parts of the country. The Italian
prune especially is the one in favor
and fancy prices arc always paid for
this product.
The average price paid is $10 to
$12.50 per ton, although Hood River
prune growers exceeded these figures
in the season of 1905. when they were
paid $16 per tern. The cost to the
grower for picking is about 10 cents
per 100 pounds. The net profit per
acre is large, owing to the ease eif
production and little care necessary
to insure bountiful crops
Off of 100 acres Edward Weaver of
Goshen picked one crop which netted
him $2,300, over $100 an acre. All
through the western rcgiins and in
eastern Oregon prune culture has
gained a foothold which will increase
yearly, as new orchards are put in,
the revenues of the farmers in these
districts.
The story eif Oregon's fruit pro
ducing achievements would be far
from cemplete without due credit
being given her magnificent straw
berries which have gained a lasting
place with Oregon apples m the mar
kets away from home. Chicago and
New York consume largely of the
berries grown in the famous Hood
River valley and shipments also
reach every city and town of im
portance between the Missouri and
the Pacific north of Arkansas.
Where Strawberries Excel.
Enormous returns come to the
strawberry raiser and under condi
tions which require much less labor
than in eastern states. Here there
is both soil and climate to help in
the production. An average yield is
150 crates per acre and the average
price per crate $1.85. The average
price at Oregon City for the past
five years has been 5 cents per pound,
netting the owner a profit of $190
per acre. F. G. Church of Hood
River takes $650 annually from one
acre of jerries and many other berry
patches in this section net a profit
of from $150 to $300 per acre.
Hut Hood River is so well known
as the district which has made the
state famous through its remarkable
production ot berries, wliose size,
flavor and lasting qualities are unsur
passed any place in the world, that
columns could be devoted to the re
gion's achievements in this line.
Other sections of Oregon, where
berry cultivation is claiming consid
erable attention, include The Dalles,
Mosier, Milton, Freewatcr and the
has been be- Grande Ronde valley in eastern Ore
to 400 boxes froti. At Ashland. Salem and other
dends and net profits are counted an
nually. Besides this, practically every
section of the state is well adapted to
fruit production. Ml that is neces
sary is a little lalxir, perseverance and
judgment. The land is here, lots of
it: water, air and climatic conditions
could not be more ideally suited to
the pursuit of the industry and the
market encircles the globe.
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FRUIT PRODUCTION.
Oregon is famed for its fruit. West
ern Oregon produces in abundance
fancy apples, pears, peaches, prunes
and cherries In addition to npple.
the Hood River valley and ccrtaiiiHIJ
sections of eastern Oregon are noted
for strawberries and other small fruits
while southern Oregon produces fine
grapes. Jackson county excels in the
production of apples and pears, or
chards covering 25,000 acres of that
county, and yields of $500 an acre
being ot common occurrence. No
other Iruit. however, brings as much
money into the state as prunes, and
two thirds of thp prunes produced in
Oregon are grown in the Willamette
valley. Orchardists are just beginning
the production of English walnuts and
filberts and in time these will add
millions of dollars to Oregon's in
come. Fruit production of 1900 is esti
mated as follows:
.-pplcs $1,135,600
113,410
L hemes . .
Grapes ....
Peaches ...
Pears
Prunes
Strawberries
37,000
172,750
276,250
693,500
288,000
Total fruit produce $2,875,160
A FEW FRUIT FIGURES.
The sale eif nursery stock in the
state of Oregon the past year amount
ed to 3.000,000 trees and 1,000,000
vines and bushes. There arc about;'
1,100 acres of nursery stock at the
average price points through the Willamette -valley present time. The estimated value of
orchard products in lyuo was $1,UIM,
000. There are about 900 acres in
blackberries and dewberries, 210 acres
in currants, 265 acres in gooseberries,
2,117 acres in raspberries and logan
berries, and of other small fruits 350
The estimated number of
broad acres are set in plants which
yield rich returns. Oregon's admir
able summer climatt, preceded by
jtist enough moistine and sunshine to
give all the desired traits to its ber
ries and other fruit products is a
prime factor in making the produc- acres, the estimated number ot ap-
tion of berries so successful. pie, apricot, plum and peach trees in
jt is no uncommon thing to find tnc state 's 6,510,COO.
berry lands in this state which are "
held at a valuation of $1,000 and con- Nowhere in the country do apples
sidering the heavy revenues coming Krow to such perfection as in Oregon,
from the tracts each year this is far The Oregon Newtown for the past
from beini? a hicrh nrice two or three years has sold at from
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than the famea Newtown of Pajaro
There are apple orchards in the valleyj California, or the Newtown of
Rogue River valley which have paid Albemarle county, Virginia.
a net income of $600 per acre f .
years past, and while these figures An idea cf the profit of fruit raising
are high they are rapidly being coun- may be gleaned from the fact that
tcrparted in other sections of the Eisman Brothers in Josephine county
state, especially in eastern Oregon, sold $14,000 worth of apples in 1906
where fruit culture is fast taking fnm their orchard of 35 acres. '
time heretofore devoted to livestock
and other kindred pursuits. Fruit In 1906 Hood River shinned 200
Myrtle Creek dried 230.000 pounds of raising, it has been found, in nearly carloads of apples, fancy Soitzen-
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prunes, winch were sold tor IbJs.UO every section of the state, is an in
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