The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, September 21, 1922, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextCompare Theses Prices with the ones you have been paying for tires and you will buy Oldf ield the next time you neea a tire. 30x3- Fabric .$6.95 30x3H Fabric 7.93 30x3 Cord,. . 11.95 32x3Vfc Cord ...17.21 32x4 Cord ..21.8S These are a standard make of tire and all fresh stock. We buy in carloads and are giving you the benefit of our buying price. See us when you need tires VICKBROS. High St. at Trade More Barfiini Eiery Day 'U'". At ' .The New Store Worth & Gray DEPARTMENT STORE Successors to W. W. If oort Dedicated to Stimulating Our Present Industries And to the Establishment of New Ones The Way to Build Is to Patronize Up Your Home Town Your Home People The Surest Way to Get More and Larger Indus tries Is to Support Those You Have 177 N. Liberty St. Salem, Or. ill Eat a plate a day WEATHERLY ICE CREAM Sold eyerywhere BUTTERCUP ICE CREAM CO. P. M. Gregory, Mgr. 240 South Commercial Street Salem This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public spirited business men men whose untiring efforts have builded our present recognized prosperity and who are ever striving for greater and yet greater progress as the years go by. tts Own Why Mm Witt InsmI TinUi CMrpreI WO Your Health Betfns When Yon Phone 87 for an appointment , DR. O. L. SCOTT P. S. C. Chiropractor Xaj Laboratory 414 t 4lt u- ' Bk. B14' Hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 6 p. m. if t "t , DRY GOODS r NOTIONS WOMEN'S READY-TO-WEAR FURS h CORSETS n '" "' '' - 4S State St.. Fhone 877 IIGITI IS nEEDED EVERY YEAR III EVERY PART OF SALEM DISTRICT Some Years More Than 0th ers, Of Course Yields of . Some Crops the Past Season Under Irrigation in '!, the Santiam Country Loganberries and Beans That ' Made Remarkable Yields A Study t)f the Accom '': parrying Table Will Sho w the Reader Why Irrigation Is Needed Every Year in the Summer Season. What would it hstve meant to the loganberry grower of the Wil lamette valley who saw his ber ries drying up on the vines dar ing the 90 days drought or 1922, to have at hand, ready for hi3 shovel to direct it, an inexhaust ible store of water for the thirsty plants? It would have meant thi3: Three times as many berries, twice as fast and efficient pick ing for himself and his family be cause the fruit was no much larg er and closer set, a longer seaso.i instead of a feverish ripening of all at one time and not enougn help to pick the staff, and pick- 1 Jgyei Tested; Glasses Fitted Hartman Bros. Jewelers and Opticians j Salem, Oregon ! You&CIotties t ' lavs Work ta Wont t r r ta "trf work om T ' : '.,. - , . . Salem "Laundry Company 136 Liberty St. Phone 25 OWPCO. Broom IUndles. Mop Han- a, Pimor : Pines. Tent Toggles, all kinds of Hard Wood Handles Manuf ae: tured by me Oregon Wood Products Co. . West Salem Capital City ; Laundry Quality and Service Phone 16S KING'S FOOD PRODUCTS COMPANY DHydrators and Canners Oregon Fruits and Vegetables Salem Portland The Dalles .-" .' j. .' ' . 'V -. Oregon. - Wiring v Fixtures Mazdas k -Electrical Appliances Salem Electric Company "It ItW electric, come to os. Masonic Temple. Phone 1200 MONEY TO LOAN On Farm Land FIRE INSURANCE on Your Buildings REAL ESTATE L A. HAYFORD 305 State St. SALEM, OREGON Our efforts will be to assist in every possible way the development of the fruit and berry industries of this' y: , valley n OREGON PACKING COMPANY A Licensed Lady Embalmer to care for women and children la a necessity In all funeral homes. We are the only ones furnishing uch service. Terwilliger Funeral Home 770 Chemeketa St. Phone 724 , SALEM, OREGON Monuments and Tombstones Made In Salem , This l tk nly nnuml worki ! Big Stock on Display ' Capita Monumental Works S210 ft. Oem'I Oppottu Cnaatarr FhoM 689 . 1 - Made In Salem by experienced Swiss Cheese C"-'v .- maker ";t'-. ' t I Swiss Cheese , Cream Brick Cheese Y . Limberger Cheese Order from the factory or trom your grocer . Salem Cheese Factory ' Phone 81F11 1 -' ' ,i ! On paved ''tonu rwo We carry the following lines of PAINTS, Sherwln Williams Co. and Bass Hneter Co. Also Everythlnic In Baildlnx Material Falls City-SalemLumber Company A. B. Kelsay Mgr. s 349 S. 12th St. Phone 813 Dixie Health Bread Ask Your Grocer a SATTERLEE AUCTIONEER Phones: Residence, 1211 Office. 1177 SALEM :: OREGON W An Oat Aftac two MUUobi W r now pylBjf Of tit br rtn f miliio doHan rr to tb diryiB of tkig toetioa for milk. "Marion .Batter",-.-. V ts tts Bn SaUt More eova nd 9mtUt eowt it tko eryinf Btoil MARION CREAMERY :jk PRODUCE CO,,:, Or Pboae 2i BETTER YET BREAD T It Satisfies Made By ' MISTLAND BAKERY 12th and Chemeketa Order from your grocer ers clamoring for jobs in his heavily laden fileds because they could make real money where the crops were worth while. It would have meant the possi bility of turning loss nto profit, c'iscourasement and hate into joy and decent regard, the slavery of women and l'ttle children inta seif-respecting work that is paid for at a decent wage. It would have meant hope and satisfaction and better clothes and an honest appreciation of one's business as a farmer, instead of ragged, glow ering or despondent drudgery. The p'tiful thing about irriga tion possibilities in the Willam ette valley is that assured crops hpfve always been right within the reach of the valley farmer, and an almost perverse, willful ancestor-worship has kept the varley from xeaMzing on its natural riches. Worshiping the ancestral pioneers who found the country without irrigation and still lived to good old age: worshiping the ancestral hunting dog and fishing rod and the coast vacation; clinging to the( habits of the long ago as to sacred fetiches; refus ing to te9t the bounties that lay around them, and trqstfng fatalis tically that the drought demons would pass them by western Or egon has certainly contributed to her own agricultural downfall whenever there is a real crash like that of 1922! The Irishman's Pigs There is a story of an Irish townsman who transplanted him self to the country, and essayed to grow pigs. He knew what con stituted good bacon: fo he start ed to feed his p?gs for this prize quality. "Sure an' it's a sthrake av lean an a sthrake of fat that we want," he said, sagely; so hf fed the pigs lavishly for one week, and then gave them nothing a all for the next week. When they up and died, during the lean week, he thought that Nature was treat ing him rough lik? the Tans corps in No Man's Land. If he had studied biology, he would have found that equalized feeding was the only way to grow pork of any kind. Life must have a continuing supply of the ele ments that make it. Take away any element water, air. food and life of every kind fails. Sup ply any one clement in excess, or in a less quantity than is needed, and any kind of life R'ows mor bid or fails utterly. Cut off the 'upply of bone in'.kir.g foods from the ehild, and it will Mot he!p him a bit though he b hair-combed or battered over w'.th bones or p'eces of lime he will have the rickets because the bone-making materials are not supplied continually, and in the right manner. Deprive the man of water for a week, and then shove him. fathoms deep, in to the sweetest, coldest spring water and he " ill drown like a rat. where a liUI.-j to drink each day would have kept him in splen did health. A nerson is not clothed, wearing only an Artie fur cap, or a pair of impervious rubber or leathern boots; one might freeze, or burn, or be mosquito-bitten to death, with this form of attire, even though there was enough material in cap or boots to fully nd rationally clothe and protect and adorn the whole body. Water When Needed A study of the accompanying precipitation chart cught to show to the most ardent stickler for "Nature as she stands," that the distribution of rainfall is the one big" factor in raising crops. It will be noted that of ail the local ities represented, tha coast, in cluding Oregon, li33 the least pre cipitation durin? th crop grow- Searnless Hot Water Bottles and - Combination Syringes Guaranteed Not To Leak Prices from $1 up V Brewer Drug Co. 405 Conrt St Phono 184 ing season. Orn&ha. Nebraska, has more than six times as much as the points in the Willamette valley during July and August; Hismark, North Dakota has four times as much, Topfjka. Kansas, has six times aj nuch. All of these other : tatas have a consid erably smaller total annual pre cipitation than does the Willam ette valley; out where they have rain during the growing season, they can produce crops that make Orecon look like a piker. This last statement, perhaps should he explained. The Oregon soil and climate malre for tremen dous crops of most kinds. It has never happened hat the total an nual precipitation was. insufficient to produce world-record crops, if it had been carefully distributed. But crops are aomwhat like liv ing with a rope around one's neck, and the rope tied to a limb of the tree above. So lon as one keeps his feet on the ground, he's all right; hut if ihi rope would shrink and hoist him a quarter of an inch above the ground, the coroner and the undertaker would have certain jobs wth him as the chief topic of conversation. "Av erage" precipitation means exact ly nothing worth a rickel; it's the rain-when-it's-needed that counts. The Crons Suffered This year, there vas practically 90 days without a dron of rain, in this section or the Willamette valley. The gravelly sells, under laid by a permanent stratum of water, usually at very shallow depths, do not dry out too read ily; S'ant roots grow a long ways to find water, and eood cultivation may even serve as a siphon to bring the water to th surface for plant use. Rut even the best cul tivation can't always actually produce water where it Isn't; and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops sufferel. Some of the grain crops, especially the spring sown grain, were failures Some of the berries produced only about a half crop; pastures have produced about a quarter crop. Plenty of Water And yet there is water coming down from tne rxeat Cascade range, that would water most of the fields of th valley; water that can be had fo- email cost can be instantly, always ready for service; water ilia will give the "sthrake av lean an" the sthrake av fat'' on the ribs -.f every Ore e"on farmer, water that the Ooo Lord put there in the hills Just as He put the r'.it. fertile acres in the valley, intending mankind to use them together, water that will keen the farmer's feet alway? on the firm ground and not leave him dangling in the noose of drought. A Wonderful Crop The story of "thiee times as many loganberries to the acre." may sound aoochryphal. But it is n't. The Statesman reporter writ ing this article 'ast veek visited the only field of tctuaily irrigated logans that he knows in Marion county and they produced four tons of berries to the acre; the average yield way less than one and one-half ton.i. Had this one field been properly irrigated, and properly bro'ight up to the pres ent bearing season, one or even two more tons would have been almost certain. The field nelongs to Bruce Howne. near West ftayton. The farm has been cultivated for al most 60 year?; to wheat, a good deal of the time It was good soil, once, though it has become somewhat lopsided. i:ke a grass hopper developing hi-, Ugs and his petite by us:ng them most. It cannot nw be called gooa '.arm, any more than a man or a horse or a car is good after having lived 1 0 or 30 cr 70 years on a starvation diet. But It rroduced four tons of logans to the ace. this year, and Mr. Bowne sold the terries to tho Stayton cannory and has the eheiks to prove it. The Statesman has written fre quently, thi year, of the great ein possible for the Willamette berry grower, if be could grow 'arger, easier -ricked berries. When others wer-s anguishing about not getting enough pickers to harvest the'r fam'shinr hrrfe for 2 cents a pound, the Bowne field was turning theia away by the dozen and still It paid only DIAGRAM SHOWING DISTRIBUTIOh OF RAINFALL AVERAGE. RAINFALL PER MONTH FOR PERIOD OIVEM. COMPILED rWOM U 8. WtATMM BUW1.AL DATA. wimm 10 I 0 1 J H imm . . , , t iiiiiiJJiiTi BURttS. OfTE. SPRINGFIELD. ORE. EUGENE, ORE. GRAMT3 WS?,0RC UMATILLA, I7- 9 , SM liltfii MTO-rx 4 SArfTA FE MM HAVRE, MOttT. SATt AMT0f1l0.TEX CHEYENME.WTO. SFOK AN E, WASH. r I , L p- 4 1 o all III 1.11131 DENVER. COL. 1 1 1 j "ll fclffir -"th-- HI K. PLATTE, riEBR. TOPEtjA.KAM. BISMARCK, MD. m.Kiij iiii inn o . , SALT LAKE CITY, L. T Si ilH iilli. fflffl: MILWAUKEE, WIS. MlfiriEAP0LIS,rtrlrt OMAHA, KEBR. The accompanying chart, while not giving the figures for the pre cipitation at the points named, is accurately proportioned from the official precipitation figures. It shows that while the Willamette valley points have considerably the heaviest total precipitation for (the year, the rainfall here dur ing the growing season is practi cally nothing. Wichita and To peka, Kansas, for instance, with an annual precipitation of a lit tle in excess of 30 inches, havo respectively 12 and 15 inches of rainfall during June. Uuly and WICHITA. KAN. 03HK0SH.WI3. BAAA AMD CUHNriKAM August, where there is lesa than two inches in the Willamette val ley points. The diagram shows, graphically, the distribution that makes for regularly large crops; only by irrigation can the grow, ing season deficiency be made up for such sections as the Willam ette valley. a cent a pound, with a quarter cent bonus. Tncy made more money on those wonderful berries at that price, fian almost any where else in the valley at the higher price. 'Je difference to the owner if he paid the bonus on every pound, would be exactly $60 an acre; that wa his profit. PoKKibK (Jaidon of Kdon How could Oregon sit down and piously fold its hands to the summer-water question, with the rivers running bank full and the crops sizzling in the fields and the dust deviU dancing down the parched road and then accuse Trovidence or "the capitalist" or the government or "they" of damming up tahe road to prog ress? And of oppressing the down trodden producer? There is a vast tract of land in the Stayton section, several thousand acres of the most beau tiful looking country In the state, surrounding this Bowne farm that raised four tons of logans to the acre; most of that land, this year, is as barren and as profitless as the sagebrush desert east of the mountains. It is virntently. pois onously bad; it rob3 men of their strength and their morals; it robs children of their happiness; it robs women of theJr hope and their good looks, and mortgages every life that stays with it. And yet all that land should "be a veri table garden of Eden an irrigat ed garden, a savings hank for every one fortunate enough to live within reach of 'a bounty. Irrigation Projects Two Irrigation projects have al ready partly materialized to cov er this land. One of these, Wil lamette Valley Irrigation, com pany project, usually known as "Fullacres," proposed and ntarted by W. L. Benham of Port land, and designed to cover about 20,000 acres, fell into the hands of the Hartman & Thompson bank of Portland. The first glit-' tering plan to make a great kill ing by its development failed, partly because of the war that tied up so much industrial money; the Case is now in the courts, and the lands lie idle, though several miles of canal have been built and the water for this Itowne farm was taken from this company's ditches Bowne paid $10 for the water for 10 acres this year. Another project, the Willamette Valley Irrigation company, also initi-ated by Mr. Benham, covers 6940 acres adjoining but forther up the valley. Water for both projects is taken from the same diversion point cn the Santiam river at Stayton. This diversion is below the Stayton power plant and is an inalienable right, as the wr'tr understands it, nnder the Oregon laws. The water supply is adequate for watering both projects, a total of about 27,000 acres, without any storage in the river;. However, It is planned that j storage will he provided eventually at Marion lake, the headwaters of the Santiam, and at some other mountain lakes, where by building retaining dams at the lake outlets a great stor age can be secured, for especially dry seasons. i Why Not? Why baa not Oregon utilized this water for raising crops? But why, Indeed, didn't somebody write the Declaration ot Indepen dence a thousand years ago; and why didn't Napoleon have a fleet of steel tanks, to wipe out the British squares at .Waterloo? If Washington had had a few regi ments armed with the new Spring field rifles he'd have cleaned up the British in jig time! Perhaps the best answer la, that mankind wouldn't use the things laid bo close to band, for his own good. The water has always run down the hills of Oregon; the summers have always been dry, and the winters filled with rain; but man refused to co-ordinate the sea sons, and he richly earned thi disaster that the dry summer al ways, brings. Plenty of I "all There is a remarkably Tapld fall in the alluvial Santiam val ley; even in what looks like a dead-level plain, the grade being about 20 feet to the mile. This grade prevails over the three quarters of a township that Is nn der the two ! projects mentioned. Indeed, it is almost a troublesome grade; the water has to be "stepped down," because it would 'have too much current in straight ditches, and would seriously erode the banks. This treatment, how ever, is easy; the country will Ir rigate magnificently, and it has enough drainage to keep the soil sweet and cleant Only gross otver waterlng would ever "alkali" the soil. It would be a hard soil to damage in this way, because of Its gravelly nature; with prudent f (Continued on page 3.)