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About The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1909)
THE J OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNINO, MARCH 21. 1609. jmm l mi jLnuuiam imifi i Do Mot Let Land Get . the 'Best of Yoni-GETr THE BEST OF LAND .- v YOU CAN DO THIS BY BUYING J'. r mm rot ' '.:.''.-' :f: , :r'v..-.- .-;V..' -' , We plant five-acre tracts and cultivate them for four years, turning over to the purchaser a first-class orchard for only $200.00 per acre; a five-acre tract will cost you $1,000.00. You can make a small cash payment and the balance either monthly, quarterly or semi-annually at 4 per cent interest v . : I Dairy and Truck Farms We are also cutting up several thousand acre into smalj dairy and truck farms. iOne acre of this land, under proper care, will support two cows. From 600 to 800 bushels of potatoes can be raised to trie acre, and all other root crops will do equally as well. This land will be sold onytry reasonable terms at from $100 per acre and up, according to location and distance from towns.ite. . Cranberry Lands We have several hundred acres of the finest cranberry : land on the Pacific coast. ' We willrplant this land and care'forjit until it comes into fujl bearing for $500 per acre. A small cash payment .will handle it. Crittenden Canal and Flores Lake Crittenden Canal, connecting the ocea-n with Flores Lake, will be under construction within the next 30 clays and completed in the early fall,' making Port Flores the finest harbor between San Frapcisco and Puget Sound, where the largest ships can enter the port at any time without being barbound. The making of this wonder ful harbor is as simple as it is stupendous. Don't criticise it until you have- called at the office and in spected our engineer's plans, .which, when successfully completed, will starve the engineering world. - Crittenden Tpwnsite The new city of Crittenden, that is tow being platted orc the banks of Flores Lakev overlooking the lake andr ocean, is one of the prettiest townsites on theNentire coast. Its beauty and commercial advantages must be seen to be appreciated. With' the completion of the canal, VALUES WILL JUMP FROM HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS OVERNIGHT. These Lots Will Be Placed on (he Market (he First Day of April at $100.00 and Up According to Location One Town Lot Will Be Given Free With Every 5-Acre Orchard Tract at $200.00 Per Acre ' THE CLIMATE cannot be excelled on the entire Pacific Coast. THE .SOIL is an alluvial deposit of rich, black, sandy loam, washed down from the hills for thousands of years past, and is from 5 to 25 feet deep and will grow anything planted to the highest degree of perfection." You will find here, growing vild, huckleberry TREES 35 and 40 feeHiigh, salmonberry TREES '50 feet high, rhododendrons 60 feet high something you cannot find in any other part of the world. r ' f MARKETS-With the completion of the Critten den Canal we will have at our very ddor the markets ,of the entire world for everything we can produce. ' If you are looking for a home or an investment that cannot be excelled anywhere, see Port Orford Orchard Tracts before you buy. Don't take our word, but go see for yourself. Our Office Is Open Every IMiQlit Until 9 o'CJocR, and Sunday From lO V. IVI. Until 4 F.IVI. it "JuCS 1 1 11 H mH m BOW IDLER (COo ... v 303 to 313 Abington BIdg. GENERAL SELLING AGENTS Portland,. Oregon PORTLAND LEADS ALL OTHER CITIES IN QUALITY OF PUBLICITY WORK If 15 :-r; rCJr! 1 y&5A :f i . v hts -.. - iilf.-.--,'-..s-'--1, mi' ( - ; ( " 7 . v Four Tons of Oregon Literature Bound for Pr oppective Settlers. Portland and Orron re unquention bly th lodMton for mor tx'opli' In lhr United Hitnp at tli prent 4im than any othr propectlrp hor.i.; country In the world Take any mn, anywhere, anytime, who ban any Idea if tearing hla home and etartlrig n tievr one aomewhere rise and ten rhaneea to one he'll know mor about Iortland and Oregon, and can turn 10 more reliable facta about them a! tiotlca than nioat Oreironlana oull find. w If betiuM the publicity people of Portland ara on tha trail f every po albla settler. Talk about the aecr.M io- Jfca of Koaata and the apeclal Aenn of tha Britlah ovf rnmnl ' They afeBT tlT i rUfthln with the rail roads and the commercial oriranlx- lona af Oregon. Lt a man tell hi .' neighbor that ha thinks ha ll look about and try to atart over a rain aomewhere - eaes. " lla rrobabr fxiraeta atwnrt ttten nlnutea afterwarda and the neil da If you aaked him Kom he told he couldn't tell yoa. In about ten days rta heokJat' derlMng- Oregon. "J la lan't through -andertng where It ram feora when he rela a whole pack n vt them dtwilHm e-rery todfrld wal community In re-wn and airing i) tha flgurra asd facta about each. Oata yaraowal &atara. H get eonfa ef the Portland p'peya eta ailrW Ceiling all bcn I ha rail ratea aut era. He r4a pT ennal lettera fre-m the Chamber of I'MMnm and t he Commemal clob a4 front rrrry ratrroad agnt la re loo. He vtaita 'he ttcket imt In hw . n town ar4 be talk t rer t t,m ''rw r-e know a w baa heraed the train for- the went and he doesn't (ret off until he reachea Portland. And the beet thing about It la that whn he doea get here he knowa pa much ahoiit the stata-mnd about that partic ular part of it that he haa decided to live in that he knowa better how to make a living here than loe the oldeat Inhabitant and he almost alwaya iuc ceeda ' I'ortland haa three hot beda of pu! liclty -the Punaet linmreekr's bureau, the Chamher of Commerce and th" t'ommerclal cluh. The llnmeaeeker'a bureau haa aent out to tona of adver tising matter about Orcron In tha past year The reaulta are being found in the big Increase In colonists traval to Portland and Oreron. shown In the first week of the two months colonist excursions. figures on this trarel show an increase of 101 over the Har r.man lines alone orer the firs: week of the Iravel last year The same aowree the Harriman lines has Issued lS lei f lei a ad rertlalrg tha excurstons to Oregon, has sent phetograaha ( ' ftnm tltg cf "nery In Oregon e er whera In tha world aad keepa three men a lectprer. a lantern slide operator and an seels -ant trarellng orer the country throughout the yewr. adrert Islng (r gow and shearing news of this stata f-ofUaaa tea is tha War. The ""Community rteiti" plan of a4 rertielr.g whvrh M originated in Portland is generally regarded aa be ing the mrtst systematic and srmpre hesaite anbltctty work now biat e-rw-bere Horkiela are tsae4 -y the t-menHcrsi Bare a got v In at 1 tractrrc form a-a ep-f!iTa tpr, with. the workmanship and printing of tha highest rnagsxina grade and es be.-xn-tiful photographs aa can he procured. The-ie hooka appeal largely to th bet ter claaa of people and as a "exult the travel to Oregon this year has been of an unusually high class the colonists are mainly highly desirable cltU-iM. poople of Intelligence, some means and good com mo a sense. They ara the kind that buy :. home to live In. Invest In a business or a farm and become valuable assets to the citizenship of the state. They come from New England all the N Kn glanders haven't come weat vet by any means from the south which Is just, beginning ta appreciate the future the Pacific coast holds for Its young men and from that vast territory known as the middle e-st They are eo-tntng on every train .nd tbev ere buUdlng up 4h clt- tint va Iters of Oregon In a way that no other state haa ever been botlt o Eiirona ta sending Its quotas too. and every larr shipment of advertising -natter tkat learea Oregon for the. east mt'ainl several boxes for rsrrous Iroftaan count-lea. taraemoaa Witon. Tha work Is not merel v that of lean. Irg bnokleta It Inciaaes tha raat ftrld of magaxina work tha lr f 1 ue-or 1 ng ef magai ne writers no thst ther wl be come entbwved a Host Portland sad Ore-go-i and write about tbewv Wil'ianji sacMnrray. a ha directs niHi -t iba work hera haa an Id -a that If yea ewfhwae f man with a rabe--t haw go ing ta be-foewe more valuable aa '"booner" of that r.iWt than to. rrn wha ara just toid m &IL H enakea It a point io enthuse all his own n alstants and they tour the country lit erally - inspired by the thougnt of making Oregon great. This Inspiration has counted for more than all the other features of the work put together. It's really the se cret of the Oregon publicity plitn. It ontliUHPH the would ne colonist. Wit ness this letter received by Mr. Mc Murray the other day, and which ig but one of hundreds received daily by the commercial organizations and rail fends: "Danville, Vs., Feb. 23. Sunset Homeseeker's Bureau, Portland, Or. Gentlemen: This is to tell vnu that I appreciate the information and the lovely and instructive booklets you so kindly sent me. Also. I received In- formation from all along the line. "truly, the last west is the best west, for, from no other quarter of- the globe could one get so complete infor mation. There Is no doubt in my mind but that Oregon and Washington will eo,ual if not surpass Pennsylvania and New York states in due time. "Me! I'm well pleased at the pros pect of going west and I'm going there. I have two acres of land just outside the city limits of Danville, and am saving a little monthly, besides. It may be six months or a year vet but I'm coming, sure. "The 'misty rains' of the Pacific are the thing for prosperity, also good for man and beast. "Climate is the main thing, as all intelligence proceeds from it. "Thanking you again for the boun tiful favors shown. I am verv truly ours JOHN J. DOGOETT That's the kind of letter that shows that the writer was enthused: it cer tainly makes Mr. McMurray enthused, and It shows that- everyone who con siders tha advantages to be gained by living in Oregon must be enthused The Portland Chamber of Commerce Is also a most Important factor In the publicity work dona hare in behalf of Portland and Oregon. Thia organisa tion receives hundreds of letters week ly rrom inquirers In all statea of the union ana rrom foreign countries con ceming the prices of land In various parts , of Oregon, from intending set tlers, possible investors, tourists and from "residents of surrounding towns who wlahi Information regarding firms In Portland from whom ther wish to 1 purchase goods All of tha lettera are given individual attention. They are answered and various kinds of liter ature sent. If tha Information sent Is not contained in tha printed matter, full details ara given by letter. Among tha moat prominent literature aent Ig tna dook on Oregon, printed by the cnamoer or commerce and tha Cham ber of Commerce Bulletin, which aMvea op to data statistic pertaining to tha aaie ami city. .Also at intervals there are published issues of tha Bulletin de moted entirely to certain Industries sucq as poultry raising, walnut grow tag. - manufactures, etc Tbeaa books ara fully Illustrated and contain mat tee and facta which Convince- This book also contains a col ored mas of tha state, on ta back f which Is a reaume of tha land and school land laws and ether Information of particular Importance ta tha Iji tend ing settler. At the anion deaot In Portland la lata a law directing the settler, home eekee. Investor enl tourist t tha free bur-ess of Information aad exhibit of Oregon rewourcea of tha Chamber erf romnteree, located on the second floor ef the Chamber of Cwmrnere building Te effiplnyea St the depot also give thtg. In forma Mn y wwrd af nmHfc j At tha exhibit are ebnvrs Brndwts frean ail startle f t atate fcortl- JESUITS MAKE, PORTLAND THLIR PACIFIC COAST HEADQUARTERS I - .rw 'rv ' , . - - vvVv- x:! - h- f"fj I r ' 1 - ' - ii ii ill- i nr "i V ' ' U A4 . f Fl . ''.' -H 11 4 . - U- x - e - - ' I T I i isi--v. I Mil i s ..... w . Stress. I St. Ignatius Schoool at Forty-First and Powell Fully $70,000 has already been spent by the Jesuit father of tha Catholic church in establishing near the end of the Waverlv-Kichmond carlina their headquarters for all tha territory west of the Rocky mountains. - This includes tha building of a school and provin cial headquarters while probably much more will ba spent improving tha lo cation In the future. Tha establishment of the- Jesuit headquarters hera haa been going on aver since the Ban Francisco fire when their headquarters In 8an Fran cisco were destroyed. They have built a school for Catholic children, and also a building In which the provincial headquarters sre located. Father Oeoree Dels Motte Is the provincial. The Jesuits ara a branch of tha priesthood of tha Catholic chtirch. which takes for its work the task Of educating tha Catholic ' children, of tha country. They hare achoole all over the United States. In Santa Clara. Kan Francisco. Fpokane and Seattle on the Pacific coast, and In many eaatern-cities they hare colleges An Colombia university already pro vides tha children of the Catholic church hera a place for their higher education no effort will be made to establish Jesuit collee-e here. i It has been almost a year el nee tha moving and establishment of the provincial headquarters Were com pleted Previous to this time thev hsd been located at San Franchsco. but aw ing to tha extreme southern location it wss found Inadvisable to rebuild the hnlMln-a ftm 1 1. .1 1 . cordlngly they were built hera Instead The provincial father with bis aecre ' 1 - - ' buiii vi inp nemoquar- irrs meat uiie a lime colony. Cultural, mineral, agricultural. . f or retry, etc. Ijere the; superintendent In cnarge ny means or ins exhibit an maps, literature, and a rast fund o personal 1iforms.Uoa. gives full detaila regarding the state wjtH the result that trs visitor la at one Impressed with tha Interest that ta taken In him and asks questions which are alwa j fully answered. Tha result of this work la very ben eficial in- airing tha Inquirer Informa tion in a abort time which would oth erwise e obtained only through great effort and perhane expense "to hfmsetf and family. I or instance if a man de sires te go Into wheat raising, ho is aent to tha wheat countries, or for fruit raialng be is d tree ted to the frwlt con c I tea Prior la tha eatsl.llahwu.nt mf 11. bureau ef information and exhibit 1m-r-ihreantn eery often purrhaeed nd In i-aattUee not waited to their Aaa mt fannlpg and the result was that their letter to their old homes were not as opumistrc aa they should havs been. Tna result waa felt by thia state In the fact that Immigration went mora gen erally to other atatea aad Oregon get merely the stragglers. Many ara. tha . families which after having received literature from tha Chamber of Commerce come to Port land and wend their way Immediately to the Chamber of "Com merr-e where they are well taken car of. The other dar a man came Into the secretary' offlne from Wisconsin. Tv years aae Ke rec-1 ved a booklet on Oregon from tha Chamber f Commerce. Klnce that time he ha been trying In sell his farm which he finally sw needed ta doing, and cam to the Chamber of Commerce with tha Informs now that ha haa ft fn his poasesalosv and that hi family, cf wife and eren children, are on Ihetr war alee. nd asking fr wis Is format ton. Wbea Investor cent te lie Chasaker of Commerce they are taken around eity by ewe of tha wfrtte-a r ganitatlon and gives all the Inform IS community i to sernr claaa thejr members of rbs business whom they are llabl tafornsattoa of tha wish, L-at year the Chamber ef Commerce printed a M.MS edition of nags book on Oregon. Thon sands of thee were aent -to the rkrtona railway of flee In the. I'm ted Plates to real re. tate oureewa wbe bsve effleee In the east: many were dlstrlbated by Port lander who visited In other atatea. end of eweree through te wethAd de embed as-swe The efftrlaka of the Chamber of Commerce prepare atj at-v-ona article which are pabltabed In le Csl and owtertde pspers eecreloTd'. and caber works of rf1ntr gieea for atere-tw-es pni-pna. a s-e fnrwsbed free te Wlnr-r, sts ttmncriDl . ui cats t hewapaprr sa4 aaaaaainea.
