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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM; OREGON. TmniDAT MORXTXO. fTEPTErBETt ' 23; 1 920 Oregon Has a Third of the Water Pc and a Fifth of the Timber of tfee ates,and SalemHas Tributary Supplies of Both, Promising Great Gr o UnitedSt SALEM HAS MADE A FAIR START ONLY IN WOOD USING PLANTS But This Territory Has Vast Timber Supplies and Enor mous Undeveloped Water Powers, and there Will Necessarily be Rapid and Steady Progress in This Field Salem has made only a fair start in wood using plants. She has a paper mill. Just start ing, thkt will bring from the oat side $0,000 to $40,000 a day for Its manufactured products and that will double its capacity, at least, . within a year or two or threo years; .and will probably more than treble it. It has a saw mill, of the Chas. K. Fpaulding Logging company, that has a rapacity of about 110, 600 feet of lumber a day 'And this mill has extensive log ging operations that are tributary to Salem And it has an extensive sash tad door factory " . And a big box 'factory -And it manufactures silos that .are sold hundreds and thousands of miles away from Salem all bringing outside money to be spent here, in large and increas ing volume. The paper mill has and will always have camps for the cut ting of pulp wood In this terri tory, employing hundreds of men,: , in the camps and in the trans portation of the wood to the mill. There are big saw mills at Sil verton. Stayton, Mill City, Falls City, Dallas tod nearly all the surrounding cities and towns, the activities of which add to the business of Salem. One of the big Falls City mills, the-Falls ' Clty-Salem Lumber Co., maintains a yard and an office in Salem. There is a prosperous broom handle factory In West Salem, . just across the river from Salem, owned by the Oregon Wood Pro ducts Co. There are numerous small wood working concerns in Salem. Dut' there is a vast field here for! more wood working plants; with the raw materials coming from the Valero territory. Major F. W. Leadbetter, the moving spirit of the Oregon Pulp it Paper company, owning Salem s new paper mill, has made the statement that Salem has the largest pulp wood , supply tribu tary of any city in the entire world. ' Hants We Ought to Have. Salem ought right now to have a large furniture factory. One of the big furniture factories of Tortland has for years been ob taining a large part of its ash. mapie and other woods from the Salem territory, and floating them down the Willamette, right through this city.. Reference Is made to the Doernbecher Manu facturing company, and there are other wood working plants In and about Portland doing the same thing. The Kind of Wood. The pulp mills consume more wood than any of the other wool using industries la Oregon, and perhaps half, as much as all th-i rest combined. They use largely western hem lock, spruce, noble fir, black Cot tonwood and white fir. . Our Oregon box factories use spruce, hemlock, white pine, noble fir, yellow pine, sugar pine, Doug las ilr and white fir. Our sash and j door factories have spruce, Douglas , Hr, cedar. Port Orford cedar, hemlock, yek low and white pine. For interior work we have, be sides these, ash. maple, oak, sugar pine, alder, etc. , '! For ship building, all of the above are available, with the ad dition of myrtleetc. This Is. true of the furniture factories. A good deal of black cotton wood is used in Oregon each year in the excelsior mills. We have also basket and veneer factories using Douglas fir, spruce, black cottonwood, noble fir, etc. Oregon oak and ash are excel lent woods for pick and ax han dles, and Salem ought to have such a factory, and no doubt will have soon. The broom handle factory we now have (in West Sa lem) is using fir, and our maple and alder r are used for broom handles at other points. A number of our Oregon woods are suitable Tor fixtures and Sa lem ought to be making her own fixtures tor stores, shops, etc., and shipping a. big surplus to other cities. Vast quantities of turpentine from the Douglas fir waste at our saw mills is Tiow going up In smoke, or being lost by decay, and ought to be utilized. ; We have a number of excellent pattern woods, like white pine. sugar pine and red cedar. . For stirrups. Douglas fir. Ore gon oak, black cottonwood. red alder and Oregon maple and ash are suitable woods. For vehicles, we have Douglas fir. spruce, ash and oak and yel low pine, etc. .'? For 'pulleys, spruce.' fir, maple, alder, etc.; For the frames of flying ma chines, as every one knows, the Oregon spruce, of which we have the largest Virgin forests in "the United States, is preferred above all other woods, and no doubt the demand In this line will steadily Increase. The same Is said to be true as to the wood work of pianos and organs and talking machines. Having all these vast supplies of standtag timber in the Salem district, together with many other woods that will do doubt be found suitable lor wood working plants of various kinds, and Laving vast cheaply developed unused water powers near by, there can be no Question of an early great in crease in both the number and activity of wood working plants here in Fa lcm. Next week the. Salem slogan subject is Paper Mill, and the new Salem mill will be described in that isue. OREGON FOREST FACTS TOLD ELEVEN YEARS AGO There Has Been a Great Increase of Timber Operations and Wood Working Plants in This State Since That . Time v MAKING 6000 BROOM HANDLES EVERY WORKING DAY IN SALEM The Oregon Wood Products Co. Has Been Doing Busi ness in West Salem Since the First of This Year Has Good Equipment (The following are some ex-! cerpts taken from a booklet en. titled "Oregon Forest Facts." printed In 1910 by the State Board of Forestry. It should be explain ed that the lumbering and wood working industries of this -.state have greatly increased since that time. In 1910.. the Oregon cut of lumber was less than two billion feet. Last year it was two and three-quarters billions:) "Forest cover Is necessary to preserve the flow of our streams for Irrigation and power purposes, to furnish a refuge for game, and to prevent the erosion of soil in mountainous sections. "Already bringing into the state each day $70,000 of outside money, the industry bids fair to increase five fold in the next de cade. "At present employing ten times as many men as any other manu facturing industry, there is room for the increasing field of labor ten fold, with resulting increased population in Oregon. Any -tim bered section is eventually sure of railroads and a market for farm crops; but the permanence of these developments depends upon safeguarding the supply of raw material. To accomplish this state. aid 13 indispensible. Law enforce ment, compulsory elimination of fire traps, regulation of fire pre ventive equipment used by rail roads , traversing timbered sec tions, and regulation of protection work under the provision of the compulsory law. are matters the state alone can effectively handle. "Oregon has - about 18.000.000 acres of merchantable timberland. of which 10.000.000 acres is pri vately owned, while the remaind er is in the national forests, and Indian reservations. "Oregon has 430.000,000.000 board feet of timber; an amount Salem has a new wood working plant that Is turning out 6000 broom handles a. day. . Every 10 to 12 days there is loaded at this plant a car of broom handles, for the middle west and1 eastern markets go ing as far as New York City. Each car contains 'something like 60,- 000 broom handles. The letter bead of this concern reads like this? "Oregon Wood Products Co.. manufacturers of 'OWPCO brand handles, dowels, tables, ladders and excelsior,, Salem. Ore.; Theo. E. Garbade. pres.. If. W. Wood rurr, v.-pres. ft treas." There Is a monogram. "ORE COX Wod Products Co.," around a beautiful picture of a fir tree. 1 The Oregon Wood Products company commenced business in West Salem, In the building that was formerly occupied by the Sa lem Fruit Evaporator Co., the first of this year. They hare a splendid equip ment of up-to-date machinery. caoable of handling an ax and pick handle business and other lines, indicated by the language of the letter head. But they have so far confined their energies to the making of broom handles, as they find ready sale for all they make, and the supply or fir lumber is plen tiful and easily secured, several mills nearby furnishing it in eluding the Spaulding mill in Sa lem. Seven men are at present em ployed by the Oregon Wood Prod ucts Co.. and it is predicted that the number will be steadily in creased. ; With the great fruit drying con cern of which Bruce Cunningham Is the moving spirit, only a block away, and new dwellings going up steadily In that section. West Sa lem Is surely looking up decided meat's expenses outside national toresta was under 125.000. It is therefore obvious that private owners are not attempting to avoid responsibility. But when the taxes paid by timber and the lumber Industry generally is con sidered, as well as the Interest Of States and rounlln tn Won fnrMl, , .... ' . r i muci uio measure OJ uiuiTruwn- ;f!l!,ln con.dl,,.on. Uxed' Trs "d. though less liberally, by " j nuusuniMi simie appro priations for protection and law enforcement are a vital necessity In every Pacific northwest state. C. S. CHAPMAN. Spalding Bldg.. Portland, Or. equal to one-sixth of the standing timber in the United States, or one-halt aa much timber as is found in the thirty-seven sUtes east of the Rocky mountains. To transport the lumber from our forests would require: , 340.- 009 trains of sixty cars each; or. continuous trains reaching seven times around the earth, or. fifty two continuous trains reaching from Portland. Oregon, 'to New York City. "The last census shows S0.000 people engaged in manufacturing industries in Oregon, of whom 24.500 or Tifty per cent are em ployed In the lumber industry. ' "Of the 830.000 people In Ore gon. 104.000. or one-eighth of the total population, are directly de pendent upon the lumber industry. No other manufacturing industry in te state employs one-tenth as many men aa this one. "Even though the lumber Indus try is yet at the threshhold of de velopment, the annual - value of lumber products Is J30.200.000 or thirty-two and five-tenths per ce,nt of the total value of manufactured products in the state. "Over $70,000 of outside money is each day brought into Oregon by the lumber industry. " Eighty per cent of our outgoing freight is lumber. . "The last census shows that out of fifty-five manatacturlng estab lishments In Oregoa. employing over one hundred wage earners, thirty-three were engaged In the lumber industry. . "Oregon's timber paya a large part of the taxes of the .state; in some counties the bulk of them "During the coming . thirty years. 'next to the land itself, the lumber industry will be the great est factor in advancing the indus trial development of the state and in creating and. maintaining pros-H perlty." in ten years would be earning the people of the northwest about $50,000,000 a year. Something is being done to bring thU about. Natural repro duction reforests most of the land If protected from fire. Such pro tection Is being afforded in con siderable measure by timber own Killing tho Golden Goom. The cutting of the Pacific north west's 'orests is progressing at the rate of about 9 14 billion feet annually. The product, worth about $23.000.000. Is mostly sold elsewhere, hence nearly this yearly um. or, more than three quarters of a million dollars a day. cornea as outside money to be distributed to every citizen through the arteries of labor and trade. Forest fire losses vary with the season, hut probably average -00.000.000 board feet annually. If saved for manufacture Instead of lost, this would add $15,000, 000., or make $300,000,000 the value of the timber taken each year when reckoned as a source of community Income. j Pacific northwest forests owe their remarkable productiveness to a peculiarly fortunate combin ation of climatic and rapid-grow ing species. Nowhere else is re production so swift and certain. Nowhere ran it be obtained with so little effort and expense. Saw timber can be grown In 40 to "5 years; other valuable products in less. - Much such second growth is being cut now. More will be highly useful before the more In accessible virgin timber is reached. While the-, quality may be In ferior to that of the virgin timber cow being cut. It is reasonable to suppose that timber scarcity will give equal value to second growth CO years hence. Then' If the area deforested now In a year were reforest?! and protected, it should in 60 years again bring In $300. 000.000 to the community; each year's growth in -the meanwhile being worth a sixtieth of this, or $5,000,000. The area deforested RIAICE THE FOREST WEALTH OF THIS STATE PERPETUAL the state. But it is by no means adequate, nor will It be while a taxing system that actually pen alises it remains in vogue. Under the general property tax etery adJition to forest value that the assessor can measure is added to the assessed value.. The crop is taxed repeatedly before the harvest gives any return with which, to pay an Injustice to which no other crop is subjected. As soon as the new growth be comes of Importance, thla tax. re peated and compounding, begins its process of confiscating the value to be had when the crop is salable. And even were the net accumulated tax not prohibitorily excessive, the case differs from that of mature timber holdings in that there Is no source of revenue with which to pay. For a time the evil is not ap parent. The owner holds the land because he finds no sale for it. because he wants to protect It to avoid a llretrap surrounding flu ent timber, and because he has hope a way will be found to make the growing of new forest prac ticable, lie can hold as long as the young growth haa no measur able value that the assessor can reach. Rut as soon as it attains such value, the situation changes. The law penalizes reforestation, with a strong chance of complete de struction by fire.. The interest taken because of adjacent uncut timber, and the Ineome from the latter which might be devoted to carrying cut-over land, decreases as the mature timber is cut. Un der these conditions the crop will not be grown nor will the tax be collected. The property tax applied to reforestation thus strikes against the community In two ways. Other forest countries therefore tax only the land an nually and tax the crop upon harvest. They get more forest and more taxes. E. T. ALLEN. Spalding Bldg., Portland, Or. MANY GOOD THINGS. HAVE r , BEEN MISSED IN THE YEAR Some of Them Are Mentioned by Miss McMunn, and Many. More Might Be Named; for the Fact is, This is a Country of Many Outstanding Advantages and Resources in Which it Excels And Do Not Kill the Goose That Lays the Golden Eggs Protect Forests From Fire, and Encourage Refores tation of the Lands DATES OF SLOGANS IN DAILY STATESMAN (In Twice a-Week Statesman Following Day) Loganberries, Oct. S. Prunes, Oct. It. ' Dairying October 21. Flax, October 10. Filberts. Nor. . Walnuts. Nor. IS. Strawberries, Nov. 20. Apples, November 27. Raspberries, December 4. Mint. December 11. , Great Cows, December IS. Blackberles, December 25. Cherries, January 1. 1920. Tears, January 8, It 20. Gooseberries, January IS, 1920. Corn. January 22. 1920. Celery, January 29, , Spinach, February 5, 1920. Onions, February 12. 1920. Potatoes. February 19. 1920. Bees, February 2t. 1920, Mining. March-4 120. Kosts. March 1!. 1920. ns. March 18, 1920. fsved highways. Men. 23, 1920. !rcol. April 1. 1920. 4 April 8. trnnes, April IS. ,aragt, April 22. Lr,9w. April UH Carden, May 8, Sugar beets. May 13. Sorghum, May 20. Cabbage. May 27. Poultry and Pet Stock. June , Land. June 10.' " Dehydration. June 17 Hops. June 24. Wholesale and Jobbing, Julyl. Cucumbers, July 8. . Hogs, July 15. City Beautiful, flowers and bulbs. July 22. Schools, July 29. Sheep. August 5. National Advertising, Aug. 12. Seeds. August 19. Lire Stock, August 26. Autouiotve Industry. Sept. 2. Grains and Grain Products. Sept. 9. Manufacturing. Sept 16. Woodworking and other things Spt. 25. . Taper Mill, Sept. 50. (Hack copies oZ Salem Slogan editions of The Dally Oregon Statesman are on hand. They are for sale at 5c each, mailed to an) address, if. ALL are taken; price for first 50 copies. 10c each.) interest some people to know that these !ack copies r- telling fast tliat, .nearly - every day, orders are received jrom near and distant points .for the whole series. They will j " " uetore me iuiy-io ciuguus uic luun-imu, t"vv - (Following are two communica tions copied from the "Oregoi Voter.'! the Hrst In the issn '..r September 4 and ;the other in fbt ifcsu of September 11. They are worthy of . consideration, suggest ing the way to make the great timber wealth of Oregon perpel Mak Foret Wealth Perpetual One of the most important prob lems requiring attention in the northwest Is protection of forests against fire. Forest protection has . now be come an important national prob lem. Realization that from a na tional standpoint this country must plan for its future -timber supply or be caught lacing a shortage at no far distant time has stimulated present Interest. Furthermore, we don't care to see great Industries vanish. The lumber Industry has been, but need not be. a vanishing industry. Pennsylvania In 1860 stood first among the states in lumber production. As late as . 1899 her annual cut was about the same as Oregon s is today. Hut Oregon now stands third in lumber pro duction and Pennsylvania twen tieth. ' Washington holds firt place in lumber production, cutting an nually 4'billkm bord feet, or nearly twice 4h cut In Washing ten, Oreson and California twenty years ago. These three states now cut three times as much as they did 20 years ago. showing rapid growth of the industry the northwent. AND TIIK XKXT DECADB WILL SEK A GROWTH rXPARALLELED !$Y ANY PAST RECORD. FOR WE NOW HAVE THE P.CLK OF THE REMAIN ING STANDING MERCHANT A RLE TIMDER IN THE UNITED STATES. It has ben stated by many authorities that the answer to shortage in supply of raw material and high lumber prices lies in growin; more timber. In the northwest growing tinker re quires mainly two thing?; fire protection and revision of tax laws; GIVEN THESE. AND. OCR I.ITMP.ER INDUSTRY WILL UK FER3JANEXT, NOT VANISHING In no section of the country have private owners of timber put forward such effort and ex pended such sums to prevent for est fires as In the northwest. The states hare not been similarly pro gressive. States such as Maine. New York and Pennsylvania, once great lumber producing sections, spend far more- to protect their meager fcrests than do north western states to protect their vast forest wealth. The federal government for the past ten years has expended a small amount for forest protec tion in co-operation with the slates. ' This is a recognition of the need for federal participa tion. The stage Is now being set for, very substantial federal aid to those states which are Inter esting themselves in a substantial financial way In the, subject. The western states have 'a real op portunity to secure federal aid in forest protection, by themselves expending a sum -commensurate with the Importance of the work and state legislative assemblies as well as congressional delegations may well aid their states by pro moting greater -state and federal participation in fire prevention. . It mu't be realized that forest protection Is not alone a private obligation. Government, state and Individuals must co-op rate in the expense. Individual timber own ers eannot and do not desire to control aelflrmeat of the eotintry. Thev do not want to prohibit the public from using lands for hunt ing and fishing, nor should they be expected to protect the toot hill country where most of our fires start. Furthermore, no ade quate protect ion Is possible with out good forest laws properly en forced, and such enforcement Is ptssib!e only thrpugh state .ma chinery. Last -year 419191 t 'miter own ers In the states of Montana. Ida ho. Washington "and Oregon ex pended ver tl.Atf9.ft00 to protect their properties,' The. states ei- rended .;eB than-1 109.900 other than In protection f state owned lands, and the federal govern- (Ry Ella McMunn.) Editor Statesman: Encouraged by your kind words and praise, the food upon which my aoul fattens. I leave off my sticky, sweet job of peeling, pears in the kitchen, to rush Into print about varioua things. In this, one of the closing numbers of the slo gan campaign. ; It does not seem possible that I shall have anything to say about the paper mill, never having seen the Inside of one. although I be lieve myself to be rather more in terested In the subject of. paper than any other live human In the private walks of lite, as I use bales and bundles in an effort to get ed itors to notice me. and paper, as you know, costs money, and I am hoping that the new mill will make It cheaper, at least by the carload.. To go back to pears. Why don't they make pear cider In thia coun try? It Is superior In every way to apple cider and sells for a lot of money when bottled and sent east. And our Immediate need now Is for a catsup factory, to take care of the tomatoes cracked by the re cent rain. Our friend. Mark Sav age had 12S boxes early enough to have made him rich for life. If the rain had not caused him to part with them at a sacrifice price. Any tomatoes, whether green, ripe. over-ripe, small or cracked, can be made into catsup, which sella at i 33 cents for a half pint, and while the local market generally takes all the tomatoes available, the can neries should have an emergency kettle in which to stew them In case of unexpected moisture. But I see that I have begun my storya in the wrong place as usual. But as one thumb is out of com mission from cracking black wal nuts for the canary bird, and the other hand is the size of a picnic ham from too much wasp, I think Ishall meander on from where I ajn. " In addition to the industries mentioned last Thursday. I think of the following, that have flour ished in Salem, and doubtless con tinue to do so. Some of them vert In connection with the state insti tutions: Eppley's Baking Powder, cotton gloves, caskets, carpet weaving. maltre making; um brella covering, brooms, button making, day-oid-cbick Industry, ice making, willow furniture: po tato chips, starch factory, axe ban dies, soap works. There was also 'Uncle Billy Billy Wright's bottled horse rad ish; a man with strained honey, someone ' who supplied the gro ceries . with 'hominy and E. O. MoTs country sausage, all of which had reached the Importance of beta; called - industries, and which certainly contributed much to the pleasure of living in Salem. I 'note your plan to lue a book coniairiag the slogan matt Tat the t no law agaitfst a man building a log bouse. I like them best of aiL And If the city street railway com pany would extend Its lines five miles out into the country In all directions from Salem. Including Polk county, things would certain ly pop In the real estate line. A lot of people have machines, but many have not. and it yon take np the map of California yon will see hat an important psrt transpor tation has played In the develop ment of the state, and as all of the real estate men know, the houses out more than ten blocks from the business center of Salem have been a drug on the market nntil necessity compelled their occu pancy. North Front street and South Twenty-fifth street, and the section represented by them are without any means of reaching the city unless, by private conveyance. Even a jitney service would prove a paying proposition and a devel oper. Very well. That Is off my mind. but I seem to feel nervous lest the slogan pages close without a few pralseful words about peaches and yet It Is a subject of such Impor tance that it should be tackled only by an authority. I "have never owned ' but one peach tree. I bought it for an apricot, but as It died. I suppose it doesn't matter what it was. But I learned that yon cannot have a tree In fall leaf. In the midst of a hot July day with any reasonable degree or assur. ance that it will live. That, really Is all I know first hand about peach growing, but one cannot In troduce the subject without think ing of the pioneer growers, Hon. Alex LaFollette and T. B. Jones, who have done much to make Ma rlon county famous as a peach center. Both of these growers chose the celebrated Mission Bot tom, with its sandy soil and shel tering hills to make their initial plantings, and soon Kaiser Bottom entered the lists with equally fine peaches until several hundred acres were In bearing at the close of last year. -. Mr. LaFolltte raised peaches 40 years and In that time had but two failures from frost or other causes, and at the end of that pe riod had aeme trees that he start ed out with, because his system of prunning was such that the tree constantly renewed Itself. He raised 24 varieties, but while all were good, he found the demand was for a much fewer number, so that when the great planting takes place that will replace those that failed to withstand our past win ter, there will be a greater number suitable for commercial pack than before. At his Mission . Bottom farm, and that of Mr. Jones, and William Egan. and Frank Derby, there are good ripe peaches from June nntil November, and in 1910 the shipment of peaches, reached 150.000 boxes, at a valuation of 150.000 so It will be seen how small a margin of profit there was compared to this same output to day when even the peach pits are . j &nm Miches were lost In the old days, but that was before the advent of the canneries and the dehydrator which solves many marketing problems. The year 1919 saw the first, ae-. n mrni far oainces in tnis section. Of course every housewife made Je!ly or them and some tew crates were sold to the stores for the city housewife, but there was no way of working them np nntil then, whea toe Phes people adver tised for all they could get for use In their jelly department. Many quince trees are Just coming Into, bearing, and while the yield will be small this fall, but very few trees have been injured and . bumper crop is anticipated next year. The qnince Is a slow matur ing tree but has a long life. acd. next to honey, whose flavor It resembles, there is no more dell' clous trait grown for Jelly. There Is also a new edible quince oa the market that can be eaten like an apple, but no doubt the demand will continue chiefly for Jelly. In closing (I smell the bacon, frying and I know the pear busi ness Is all over so I can rentnre down stairs). I would like to say something about plums. We have several varieties on our place that never rail to bear, are always sweet and delicious, hare never had one bit of cultivation, water or fertilizer. There Is no fruit that bears so generously In any location, and now that the Phes people are making preserves of plams there will of course be a strong Incentive to plant a suffi cient acreage to make this one of the revenue ' producing - fruits of the country.' Our varieties are Blue Dan son. egg plum, peach plum, native red. and a very choice purple plum of fine flavor, while our ailver prunes are not far from belonging to the plum fam ily. . Man died the other 'day. Ilia death was due to natural causes. An automobile ran over him. Potatoes "We will commence ship ping about October 1st. Come and see us MANGIS BROS. Warehouse: High and Trade Streets Phone 1231 Office 542 State Street Thone 717 you hope to more fully cover the field of Marion county, its Indus tries and resources. No one knows better than I that we have not be gun to scratch the surface of our resources. But. as the present year has not been an average good year owing to our unusual winter and very warm summer, our tanner friends, when called upon next year for stories and experiences wllUglve reports of this year's yields that will be tar from opti mistic, forgetting that our poorest yield haa been sufficient to crowd the warehouses with wheat, etc. until the hop men are wringing their hands (or is it only women who do that? for lack of storage room. Another reason why this year seems the psychological mo ment to place the advantage of this. section of the world before the public, is because of -the marked unrest that Is taking the form of moving to some new place. During paving operations of the Pacific Highway in July. . traffic was diverted to the side roads, and for several weeks an average of 300 vehicles dally passed our door. And as the road was in bad con dition (and there Is still a horri ble hole op by the big tree that Is calculated to mire a feather, over turn an automobile or wreck i truck), a number of machines had punctures, or stopped for water or fruit or to ask how much longer the bad road held out, so that we acquired a great deal of informa tion about the traveling public, and learned that 40 cars out of every 100 that passed contained persons who were changing their place of abode, and that they had no fixed destination In mind. Then, the earthquake, or rather six earthquakes, visiting Los An geles one day caused a number of nervous persons to decide to fore go the delights of the southern metropolis. I infer this from the fact that the day after the quake 20.000 persona withdrew the rr money from the banks and I don't think It was tor the purpose ot buying real estate either. Now possibly, they would like to live in Salem It they were in vlted. and certainly Salem would like to have 20.000 persons from California w h bank accounts. I know. there is a houte shortage. but there is no lumber shortage not by a jugful but the price of lumber makes building the worst form of rioutous extravagance. Wages, of course. Is at the bottom of It. The laborer has forgotten that the war is over, evidently. and keeps on asking the price for his service that be did when the country was stripped clean ot most of Ita man power, so that some of our large northern mills seriously contemplate abutting down since they cannot operate without a 20 per cent loss, as mlghtly fe stocks or lumber are being used. Did you know that just what lum ber yon can pull with two horse a OREGON STATE ' FAIR SALEM September 27 To October 2 37 end of next year, by which time costs from f 10 to 1109? Bat there A wealth of agricultural displays. Magnificent livestock exhibition. Splendid machinery and tractor exhibit Greatest horse show in the Northwest . Excellent, races and high class amuse menti. Special attractions both day and night Ideal camping grounds. -Excursion rates on all railroads. . 'ZJJ For further Particulars Write A. H. LEASecy. Salem, Or. rz U