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.
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