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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1921)
." ' - : FIBER IFIf I'CI BE ALL THE WIDE V.; The Fibre from This District ByQne of the Largest Linen Factories In, the World, . And the Linen; Industry Is Organized Here in a Way ments in. This Fruitful , For 50 years it has been known' tha.t the Salem district could pro duce as fine a quality of flax fiber JTor the spinning' of twines and what the manufacturers of linens .call yarns as can be produced in the best flax districts in the world; in Belgium and Ireland And at the Centennial exposition In Philadelphia in 1876, forty-fire years as:o, fiber from flax grown "in this district, near Turner, took first prize over samples from alt Tjrer ina worm ana was awaraeu that place by the judges ON ALL THE NINE POINTS which they considered , in making up. tho a wards. - And at that exposition a great manufacturer of linens from Ire land made the statement that he xould take t'wo'pounds of the fi ber grown, in this district '-. and .SPIN A THREAD THAT TdULD REAClt AROUND TltE WORLD: There, have been many eucpess ful spinning of twines from the Salem district fiber; throughout all these .years, 'and some manufac torinff of coarset fabrics. ? But it has remained for Rob ert Crawford. wh6 is now inter besting himself in the organization of an association and a company to develop the flax industry here on a more cpmprehensive scale than has, heretofore been under 'taken, to become instrumental in getting a more complete test than was ever made before. He now has samples of the linen ( 'napkins ment'jned belowat the1 temporary ofLceof the compan ies; being, organized, -in the Ma sonic building; together with the correspondence in regard to the tests, and also the yarns that were sent him from the Belfast mills. All these make up an exhibit . that, leaves no- scintilla of doubt concerning the fact that the Sa lem district can grow as fine flax for the fiber, as can -be grown in any district on the wide earth. Both Warn and Weft ' , Robert Crawford, while he was ' in charge of, the state flax plant at the penitentiary, made a trip to the flax manufacturing dis tricts of this country Canada and t Ireland.. He took samples of flax fiber grown in the Salem district and treated at the penitentiary plant to Belfast, where. he worked in the industry as a boy and young man, having been born in Ire-land.-,.- . r - ;?. He submitted these samples to the York Street Flax Splnninc. t Co., Limited, of Belfast. ; This Is one of the largest linen manufac turing concerns . in the world, 'reaching back; through genera tions for its beginnings. It main- tains branch houses in - London, Manchester, Paris and New York. Through All Processes After the arrival home of Mr. . f Crawford, some months ago, he received samples of the spun fiber from this Belfast mill, with the Information that, so far along the processes of manufacturing it had stood up under all the usnal tests, with the best fiber produced in 'the best f lax producing' dis trict or-the whole world But there had been no weaving of the yarns op to that time, and , a final report could-, nOt, be sub I muted nntil ,the ultimate, try-out j- In the finishing processes. , v ' It Is a long road from the pull Ing of the flax straw in the field up to. the turning ouf .of the da mask table cloth or the linen nap- kin of high quality. A few days ago, however. Mr. V Crawford received samples of napkins showing the entire suc cess of. the final I tests. ' He had received from the York Street vFlax Spinning Co., Belfast, under date of November 9, a letter in which the following words were used: : ' " " . "' ' " "In reply to yours of the 14th September, the parcel of 51 dozen napkins; made entirely both warp and weft from tbp Oregon flax, ls now complete and is being for warded in our regular way to our New York house. We hare asked them to offer these goods to you In the. first place.. . - 'With regard to your further lots of. flax, flax prices are very much down compared, to what ,they. were, but. with the gradual revival of trade,' we think you , would find no difficulty In getting buyers on this side, if you were tq " forward it to any of the well 'known commission houses; unless of course you are able to secure a market, say, from the Linen Thread company In U. S. A., which would save freight," . Organizing tor Business The . Willamette Valley Flax and Hemp Growers Cooperative association has recently . been organized,- ' with -. headquarters ,in Salem, This association is .purely cooperative, backed .t? the - farmers who will grow the flax. , They, will grow 'flax for the company: mentioned in the next paragraph, or for any other company that can use It, FIX 1 Has Stood All Tests Applied Now in the Way ;of Being Promising Great Develop Field. or. for the flax plant at the pen itentiary. The more the better They are in the growing of flax for. their own good and the good of the country, and they do not propose to bold any. grudges or to play any favorites. I There is also being organized the Willamette Valley Flax and Hemp- corporation, which it proposed shall take over or build mills for the manufacturing of the flax straw, with the hope of extending the operations as soon as . possible to the spinning of twines and the making of linens It is expected thatt the farmers growing the flax will take the common stock of this corporation paying for it with the flax they will supply. It will be necessary to sell the preferred stock to bus iness men and others, and, while this will be a more difficult mat ter, the promoters of the new company are already promised a good many subscriptions. These subscriptions will be necessary to provide the working capital of the company. And I tamp, Too The complete success of this newly organized corporation will mean a great deal for Salem and the surrounding country. It will mean the, rapid development of the flax industry here, which is destined to become one of the greatest of all the Industries of this state. It will mean also the begin nings of the development of the hemp Industry, which goes well with the flax industry: and it is now known that a superior qualitq of hemp can be grown successfully on our beaver dam and other richer lands. STILL LOYAL TO E National Association Says Equine Logical Source of Power for Farm ! According to a communication from Wayne Dinsmore, secretary of the Horse Association of Am erica, national authorities, speak ing at the annual convention of the association at Chicago, ! in dorsed the horse- as "the logical source of power for the farmer and the most economical hauling power for city freighting." 3, H. Howard, president of the Ameri can Farm Bureau . federation, is quoted as declaring that this year naa snown fuller utilization of horses, .in order thatfarmers might use the grains on farms and. save on outlay of cash for operating expenses. Secretary Dinsmore said at this meeting that "our farmers are awakening to the fact that nei ther tractors nor trucks have a place in the economical manage ment oi individual farms." EGG YIELD County Farm Bureaus and Other Local Associa tions Can Help The methods favored by large poultrymen for increasing the productivity of their flocks are often applicable on the general farm or in- the back-yard poultry plant Every poultry keeper will. therefore, do well to keep in touch with what the leaders aro doing to increase their profits Certain- localities in Oregon have become famous for their poultry and egg production, and the study that is given to these problems by farmers, .and the owners of big plants, has resulted in a great improvement In their ! practices. Some country farm bureaus have taken , steps through tneir own poultry division to raise the standard ot all poultry in the counties by improving the Quality of fowls used in breeding flocks. This method ot controlling taJ quality ot the poultry 'in a coun ty is expected to result in a rapid general Improvement in tho pro ductivity of the flocks. It should also give the community a good reputation, wherever hatching eggs or birds are sold. Promising development that Is being encouraged in one poultry district is the consignment sale of cockerels. In this, the poultry breedres have been following, the lead of other growers of high ,clasa livestock Cattle breeders 1 m BETTER BREEDING LU have been holding bull sales for a number of years; sheep breed ers have ram sales; hog breeders have sales of boars and of bred sows. ' In - the case of cockerels no pedigree papers are supplied. as they are with other kinds of pure bred livestock. Dot sworn affidavits as to bredln? go with each bird. A white Leghorn cockerel sale was held in one California county recently. The fourteen Pacific Coast breeders who consigned the birds gave sworn statements as to their breeding. According to the county agent, who was instru mental in putting on this sale, most of the 52 cockerels consign ed represented unusually high Dreeamp;, many or them having pedigrees extending back eight or nine generations, with trapnest records. . Most of them had in heritance records of more than 275 eggs a year and some of more than 300. The tact that 1000 catalogs were issued shows the importance given to the first sale of this kind. These two methods of flock improvement ought to be popu lar among poultry raisers in all parts ot the country. They are practical and help to make good stock available to the average poultry raiser who in the past hag had no assurance, other than the breeders word, that he was get ting birds of superior perform ance merit. Few dairymen, hog growers or beef cattle raisers are also good livestock breeders, but methods have been oevelopea that make it possible for any good farmer to build up an excellent herd. It should be just asjeasy for a poultry raiser to improve I his. flock. F . OF WILLG0H I G H ER The California Association Has Already Boosted the Opening Figures The following is a news bulle tin, issued by the Oregon Growers Cooperative association on Tues day: The California Prune and Apri cot Growers' association has ad vanced the price on its 1921 hold ings of prunes of a cent a pound over tis opening prices ac cording to authentic information received by the Oregon Grpwers Cooperative association. An ad vance of 1 cents wa3 made on the price of 30-40s. Prices now quoted by the Cali fornia association on pruned packed in 25 pound boxes f. o. b. coast are as follows: 30-40s, 14c; 40-508. 12c; 50-60s. 10c; 60i7O8, 9c; 70-80s. 8c; 80-90s, 7c; ao-ioos, 7c. Oregon prunes have been sell ing at within a half cent a pound of California opening prices throughout the season and it is expected that, an advance In price will soon be made by the Oregon Growers association. TO MEET ANNUALLY Ttiat Will Be the Result of the Successful Meetings of Last Week The following Is a news bulle tlnj issued on Tuesday by the Or egon Growers Cooperative associ ation: Nearly 500 berry growers met last week in their first annual conference at Salem in the offi ces of the Oregon Growers Co operative association. Attention was divided between consideration of 1 loganberries, strawberries, gooseberries, currants, raspberries and blackberries, all phases of production and marketing receiv ing consideration during the three day session. The loganberry still holds the attention ot the major portion of the berry men of the Willam ette valley. This was clearly In dicated in the record attendance on loganberry day. Large num bers of growers were present at the other meetings of the session, however, and interest in other email fruits seems to be on the Increase. Manager Frank B. Bill of the Sebastopol (California) Berry Growers association showed the growers what .cooperation, has done for the berry growers of his section.; One of the principal benefits, he stated, was that the association provided, an outlet in shipping logans and blackberries fresh to markets in the middle west. In this the California prQ-vrcrs have been very success ful. J. L. Stahl, horticulturist ot the western Washington experi ment station said, in describing the berry- industry of the Puyal lup valley, that the evergreen blackberry had made more money for the Puyallup berry growers than any other fruit. So sunecessful was the confer ence and so enthusiastic were the large numbers of growers that at tended, that it is assured that tie conference of berry men will be made an annual affair. PRUNES 6 VERY ACTIVE Firm Tone Pervades Every Division During Day on New York E-xchange STEEL MARKET STRONG Foreign Exchanges React to Uncertain Political Ad vice from Abroad NEW YORK, Dei:. 28. Stock trading today watf active and, broad, a firm to Ktrbng tone per vading every division during the early and, intermediate periods. Much of the advance, which ranged from one to three points, was cancelled later, however, on the unexpected rise of call loans to 5 xh per cent. Equipments, oils, motors, and metals again were leaders, but rails, shippings, steels aud food specialties participated in more than moderate measure. The strength of sugars was surprising in view of the lower prires quoted for raw and refined products. .Strong Features Xam'edr Individual features of strength included American Car, Pressed Steel Car, American Steel Foun dries, Railway Steel Spring, Pull man, Haskell and Barker, Mexi can Petroleum, General Asphalt Common and preferred, Mercan tile Marine preferred and the cop pers and kindred issues. Among rails transcontinentals led with Reading and other coal ers, also St. Louis and Southwest ern preferred and several of the junior eastern issues. Further postponement of dividend pay ments by Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (panhan dle) indicated that earnings still leave much to be desired. Textiles Miscellaneous Miscellaneous specialties were represented by textiles, namely American American Woolen, Clu ett Peabody, Manhattan Shirt', and Phillips Jones together with Chem icals, Leathers and motion picture issues. Sales 850,000 shares. Foreign exchanges reacted to the more uncertain political ad vices from abroad, the Paris rate being the only allied remittance to show firmness. Italian bills con tinued to weaken and notes to Northern and Eastern European points showed a mixture of ad vances and declines. Liberty Ciroup Gains. All but ce issue Of the Liberty group closei at gains and the gen eral bond list was active, strong and broad. Railroad bonds, es pecially Pennsylvania, Reading, Baltimore, and Ohio, Atchison. Rock Island and Kansas and Tex as made appreciable gains. Total sales, par value, "aggre gated $16,750,000. F : he LINES ME VII Reserve Funds Ought to Be i ; Built Up for the Emer gency Repairs The following editorial from the Portland Telegram is particu larly adapted to the rural or farmers' telephone lines in Pol and Marion counties. Salem has the greatest develop ment of farmer or rural phone service of any city on the Pacific coast, if not in the United States. The Idea advanced by the Tele gram, if generally acted upon by the rural companies, would bo of great benefit to the whole Sa lem district. Following is the TelegTam article: Farmers' Phone Lines The November storm played havoc with every fanners' tele phone line that lay in its path. Many ot them were utterly pros trated. A few ot them, though four weeks have passed, have not yet been restored. Any high wind will damage any country telephone line. When accompanied by rain which turns to ice as it falls, destruction is al most complete. Te restore these lines requires labor and material. Both mean so much cash. Even if no provision had to be made to repair storm damage, a fund should be provided for up keep. In commoni with all other mechanical apparatus a telephone naturally deteriorates, therefore a charge should be made to the users of the utility for the pur pose of keeping the system up to efficiency. Very few of the farmers lines In Oregon have made such pro vision. As a consequence the re habilitation of the destroyed lines called for fresh capital, and at a time when farmers had little or no money to spare. They should profit by the lesson of the Novem ber storm by creating an upkeep fund. Experience has proved that the least onerous way ot creating a reserve Is by monthly install ments a' . regular overhead charge to be paid at the same time as monthly rentals, Author- H Speaking to members of the Sa lem Rotary club yesterday noon. J. W, Chambers Sr., said that during his recent visit in the east he found two classes of men. One prominent man said that everywhere he went on the Pa cific coast he found everybody knocking each other, especially one city saying unkind things about another. The other big business man expressed to Mr. ity to do this will, of course, be granted by the public service commission. Whether it be one independent farmers' line or a group of Unas conected by an exchange, the principle is the s-ame. Aa it is now, nearly all the farmers' lines are inadequately financed, and it 1b far better that a reasonable re serve should be systematically created than that the owners of the line should remain in a posi tion where they may be called up on after any violent storm to put up cash to rebuild destroyed pro perty. TURNER NEWS TURNER, Ore.. Dec. 28. Mrsd Roby Riser . and daughter are spending the week in Salem. Rev. Mr. Pointer or the Chris tian church preached his farewell sermon Sunday , as be and Mrs. Pointer plan to move to Califor nia. Miss Oayette Davis is spending the holidays at the home of her mother, near Pfainview. H. A. Thiessen and family ate Christmas dinner at Mrs. Thies sen's parental home in Newberg. James Hasslet of Hood River, spent the week-end at the home of S. A. Riches. Mrs. Gerald Gonver of Warren ton is visiting her parents at the Baker hotel. Percy Lyle and wife and Frank Lyle and family were back in Turner for Christmas. C. A. Bear is on the grand jury in Salem this week. H. L. Earl and wife spent Christmas in Portland. W. T. Riches and sonof Ash mead dairy lost their star Jersey cow Monday. She died of pneu monia. Mrs. C. A. Bear was a Salem visitor Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gunning were' Salem visitors Sunday aft ernoon. Gasoline Sales Growing, : Kozer's Figures Show A statement issued by Secre tary of state Kozer shows that sales of gasoline in Oregon for the month of November, 1921, exceeded those of the same month of 1920 by 70,416 gallons. Sales of distillate showed an in crease of 70,708 gallons. Taxes emitted by distributors for. .November totaled $39,373.72 under the law of 1919 and $40, 040.57 under the law of 1921, a total of $79,419.29. The total am ount of taxes collected on sales of motor vehicle fuels from Feb ruary 25, 1919, when the original tax became effective, up to and including the month of November, 1921. aggregates $1,741,864.63. Refunds of taxes paid under' the law of 1921, which are authorized when motor vehicle fuels are pur chased and used for purposes oth er than in the operation of motor .vehicles upon the public highway, amounted to $15,500.92 between March 1, and December 27, 1921, or slightly less than 3 percent of the tax collected under this law. Claims for refunds must be based upon oath of the claimant that the motor vehicle fuels were used for an exempted puross and must be filed with the secretary of state within 90 days from the date of purchase or invoice. In spite of the decision of Judge Landis, high commissioner of baseball, Ruth crushed to earth wil Irisa again. Buy Your Lumber and building material in Salem., and.. keep your money at home. We can furnish all your requirements except Builders Hardware. Courteous treatment and prompt delivery. Spaulding Logging Co. Foot Fitly Street Chambers his wonderful apprecia tion of the generous spirit shown all through the west and especi ally on the Pacific coast. One man thought folks but this way were narrow minded and the other, thought the people on the coast were the most broad minded and liberal people in the country, Mr. Chambers said. - Oregon should advertise, de clared Mr. Chambers. During his trip east, no one asked him if he was from Oregon, he said, but the usual question was, "What part of California are you frprnZ'' After an absence from Penn sylvania of ten years, in going back to his former home and vis iting other cities. Mr. Chambers came to the conclusion that Salem is one of the cleanest cities in the country, as back east, where so much coal is used, buildings and cities in general had such a dirty, dingy look. R. R. Boardman, in charge of the physical culture work of the Y.M.C.A. extended an iuvifttion to Rotariana to visit the Y.M.C.A. next Monday afternoon and eve ning, when there will be present ed a continuous program. He made special reference to the vol ley ball game Uo be played be tween the Kiwanls and Rotary clnb teams. Eyesight Specialists MORRIS OPTICAL CO. 204-11 Salem Bank of Commerce Building Salem, Oregon ' A call today may save need less pain and suffering in the future. OREGON PULP & PAPER CO. SALEM, OREGON Manufacturers of High Grade Wrapping Papers and Paper Specialties A. C. Bohrnstedt Realtor Life, Fire, Health, Acci dent, Auto and Indemnity Insurance. Bonds and Mortgages, City Building Loans 407 Masonic Bide, Salem. Or. OUR TREES , Carefully Grown Carefully Selected Carefully Packed Will Give Satisfaction to the Planter SALEM NURSERY COMPANY 428 Oregon Bnilding Phone 1703 Additional Salesmen Wanted. Peerless Bakery Makers ot Peerless Bread 9c13c Try Our Doughnuts 20c 170 North Commercial St. Webb & Clough Co. Leading Funeral Directors Expert Embalmer Cor. Court and High St Phone 120 Silverton Foundry Co. Iron and Brass Castings Sawmill and Logging Re pairs, Hop and . Fruit Stoves, Castings of all kinds SILVERTON, OREGON Phone Green 9X1 260 North High Street Boost This Community by Adver tising on the Pep and Progress Pages Statesman. Classified Ad$. Cost Little But Pay Big Boy the Ore gon Made. W. W ROSEBKAUGH: CO. Foundry and Machine Shop 17th and Oak SU.. Salem, Or. Fbone 816 Build - vent this T Fornaqe tor A h your home SALEM TILE MERCANTILE CO, Brick building tile, drawn tUe Phone 917 Salem, Ort. FAMOUNT DAIRY Schindler Bros., Prop. Dealers in MUk and Cream Wholesale and Retail Phone 725 Salem, Ore.- New Hardware Store Wants Tour Business Hardware, Stoves, Cooking Utensils, Dishes, Tools, etc W.COHEN 220 N. Commercial St. Formerly Patton'g USE BUTTERCUP BUTTER Capital City Cooperative Creamery 137 S. Com'l St. Phone 299 Our Idea: Our Method: . The Best Only Co-operation DRAGER FRUIT CO. Dried Fruit Packers 221 S. High St,, Salem, Or, Always in the marketfor dried fruits of all kinds THE CAPITAL BARGAIN HOUSE Buys and Sells Anything Associated with CAPITAL JUNK COMPANY 215 Center SC. Phone 298 Phcns 1995 HOTEU1ARI0N SALE!.I,OREG0Il The Largest ""and. Most . Complete Hostelry in Ore gon Out of Portland Dodge Brothers, sedah. Bonesteele. Motor Co, S, Coral St, Phone 423 - Myv . n Bis crowds will gather round ibott - To see, flames take your borne. But when tout loss la figured opt ., Yoa stand it all alone. " ; , The Journal of Commerce, statistic show the following fire losses : la Am erica for July 1919. $20,189,600; tor July. 1810, US.135.SSS. ot - Hollow Tile and help pre was te. ... ' "Where The Crowds Always Shop39 THE PEOPLE'S 5ALEII, 0REG0II "SIBLOCO" Piptleti Fcmacei. ' $79M And Up - - -Sen4 for circular, Silvertqn kBlqy. Pipe Co. ; SILVERTONf; OREGON W. T. Rigd6n& Son ' Progressiva . Funeral Directors SALEM 7. II. Grabcnftorst & Co. REALTORS Farm and Fruit Lands Small Tracts and Invest inent Telephone 515 275 State St, Salem, Ore. ' THE BOY SCOUTS deserve the support of everyone who wishes to inculcate high prin ciples of manhood into; the youth of our land. This space paid for hy Thielsen & Rahn CASH STORE i i I! it i! li il II I f ' J i it mt J V . ill , rl . -- -V.-; -.::V -i-