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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1922)
THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 12. 1922 THE OREGON -STATESMAN,-SALEM, OREGON 9 ' i . 1 1, i 4 . 1 1 :4 I -J' Sheet Masic We Hare the Hits! Gift Films THE SONG SHOP HUUe Street" Opposite Court House We Delhrer Tel. 1774 Hie Angora Rag -Company C. Lachele, Prop. Expert Taxidermist; Tanner of Furs & Leather Old Fan Dyed and ; Remodeled Phone 683 1230 Ferry St. Salem, Ore. DEHYDRATED and CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Oregon Products King's Food Products Company Salem Portland The Dalles Oregon WfflameltcYaDeyJPnirie Association : -,,.'.-.'. , The oldest Association in the Northwest. - V W.T.JENKS Secretary and Manager - Trade L Hifeh Sts. Salem, Oregon A. C. BOHRNSTEDT Realtor , ' Life, fire, health, accident, auto and indemnity lnsur- tince.) .Bonds and mortgages uy Duuaing lomna. 407 Masonic, Bldg.v " Salem, Ore. 'Gideon Stolz Company' 8aem - ? Oregon MnuficVurer of j ?ufe Cider Vinegar : Carbonated Beverages ; and ; ' 1 Lime-Sulphur Solution Truck delUery to all prt of th , : , Willametta Vllef mmmmm mm nana pay, & premium result from the ' ' o if rif mnu nrnnvd , best of care. As direct marketing J. L. Busick & Son j SALEM IRON WORKS Tu60. M, tSBir methods acquaint the grower with ' ' . ' ; vt.vu.tJ? Wa this great premium on the larger GROCERIES E.ubh.h.i i860 gze8 we can look forward to ' , Founders, Machinists and Plumbing, Heating and tme:tsmore intens,Te Productlon SI EM 'aIlrANY Blacksmiths Tinning f the Industry 1 ,it?v The future of the ,ndustry Is wCvDBURN. Corner Front SUto 8u. matter of great doubt with people "'' "e ' V' . f th", 8h e rmi-i ct who have seen prosperous prune . - jCV" poniT for irrigation and other 164 S. Commercial bt. .. . , . , 1 ' 'Eventually You VIII purpo. Correspondenre aoiie- times result in increased plantings ' ' -MICtrf,C ' K. Irrti0B int0TmUtia SALEM, Ore. in a lack of markets to BUY at dUSILIV S ' - Maker of Salem Iron Works absorb the greater tonnage. At . r : . .', . Dr 8,w - I first glance this doubt of the fu- S Oregon ' . p i J n Eyesight Specialists R If MORRIS OPTICAL CO. 1 301-5 Oregon Bldg. a- iuu rooms oi noim lomion ., - nncrnn 1TII ' Salem, Oregon J u t .-d .w.nu.d iron W. W. ROSEBRAUGH a call today may save ' : : j ft - j r CO needless pain and suffer- ; . .. ; .; A HomeAway From Foundry anarchine Shop ms m the future. .:55 Oa..k.U St. Won. 190. Home 17th & lnlfem' I i i . -r We Are Out After Two Million F nr tj r nv w pyine over thre 1. V. Fettyjohn Co. IV. rV L-lyV X o.ortrs of million dollars a year "iZ'W " to the dairymen of thu section ,v , SZrVT ftr ,or mllk- Dealers for: ( VMlT) SalcmV Leading "Marion Butter" GARDNER i3zy Auctioneer i. th Best Bntur inon am ..I " . 1 ' ' Uor Ctfti 'andiBettei Cows U JOKllArl - M 1 i H Sells Everything That Iss erylB Btfcd MITCHrtlX V Dixie Health Bread 1 " MONjCRERY: ...v r 0 mo Wh kununer St. . & PRODUCE CO. F W Pettyjohn Co. ASK Your Grocer s Salem, Oregon ' Salem, Ore. Phone 2488 '279 N. Com'!. . Phone 1260 1 We Pay Salem Carpet Clean fug and ?oh Highest Market Price, The New Columbia Six RUFF RUG "' railways of any city : rOR s.iem . russy rew .rrir.i i WHltl nf ifs S17P '.in i VlP Aotomobile row. II UlYiY J .7 . . lzem me Beef. eal. hoi ani mntloh. lWe SU95 fob. SALEM United States, j ; or Alo batter. All siie of Ilax and Fluff ' I 1 chickena. 1 Rnzs Woven i ' Colbr Compreion Tube " , SmitWnParImM People's Meat Market LJ.Bh&Co. otta,llY,-Jrop- . UUUUiClU I at Lilt LluCS m UUttT 8t ph0M 4 819 K. Col Pbom 51 13H & WUbwr Street THE LOGANBERRY INDUSTRY 'j jHas at A in the District Around Salem : t SlbLLlINU S ALJbiW PIS I KIU I , Devoted to Showing Salem District People the Advantages and Opportunities of Their Own Country and Its Cities and Towns. The Way to Build Up Your Home Town The Surest Way to Get Is to Patronize Your Home People Industries Is to Support Selling Salem District is a continuation of the Salem Slogan and Pep and Progress Campaign T OF THE FUTURE OF THE H OF THE M. J. Newhouse, Whose Opinion May Be Taken as Auinontative, Says the Industry Will Expand, and It Will Grow as Long as New Markets Are Found This Limited Area Must Produce This Fruit in Dried Form and Larger Sizes for Practically the Entire World. (The following article on 'the prune industry of what The Statesman is pleased to call the Salem district, and the prospects for its future growth, may be con sidered as authoritative. Mr. Newhouse is now with the Oregon Growers Cooperative association, and he has" long been connected in a large way with the industry, and more especially .with the FALL SUITS $1750 to $30.00 Ed.Chastairis Upstairs Men's Shop 123 N. Commercial St. 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. SALEM DISTRICT? marketing problems. The article was written by request for th's issue of The Statesman. Ed.) THE PRUNE INDUSTRY IX , IX OREGON . -M. J. Newhouse Oregon's prune industry Is one of her specialized types of farm ing. In common wlththe logan berry, it finds its most .suitable condition for growth in western Oregon. From Douglas county south to a short distance north of the Columbia river the Italian prune is at its best Carefully prepared-estimates taken last year place Oregon's prune area at about 24,000 bearing and 12,000 non bearing acres; Just across, the Columbia river in Clarke county are an additional five! .thousand acres bearing and three thousand not yet of bearing age. This lim ited production area for the Ital ian prune is supplying the markets of theyworld with this distinctive and delicious fruit food. Yields vary from year to year, but placing the average production at one ton of dried prunes per acre, the yield for this 'entire dis trict would be 30,000 tons or,60, 000,000 pounds. Two tons of dried prunes per acre .is a very common occurrence, and authentic yields of three and four tons of dried fruit per acre arer known. In such caEes the trees are fully matured, only twenty feet apart, well tilled and heavily fertilized with barnyard fertilizer. When the young acreage comes into bear ing the .total yield will be in creased from 60,000,000 pounds to 90.000.0-00 or 100,000,000 pounds. This time is not far distant. At seven cents a pound clear to the grower, this tonnag would yield the state of Oregon and Clarke county $7,000,000. So far the market recognizes two distinct varieties the sweeter prune as grown in California and the sweet plus tart prune known as the Italian as grown in the area described above. The so-called Oregon Petite with characteristics common to the California prune is grown quite extensively in Douglas county and is highly appreciated by the trade. Under proper care the Italian prune grows larger than the Petite and fills the dis tinct trade demand for a slightly tart and large prune. lietter Care, Better Prices' Contrary to some impressions. the Italian and Oregon Petite prunes respond splendidly to fer tilization, pruning And tillage Heavier yields and larger sizes ture is well founded. As pointed out above, sufficient acreage has actually been planted at a conser vative average of one ton of dried prunes per acre to. produce 100,- 090,000 pounds of Italian prunes. With few -exceptions, tire. average yearly output to the trade of the Italian prune has not exceeded 25,- 000,000 pounds. The success of the "return air" method of drying assures a much greater drying capacity in a shorter time, so es sential to saving our crop during rainy harvesting seasons. Nurseries are not only complete ly cleaned out of prune stock, but future outputs have been spoken for. Industry Will Expand Y-et In spite of these conditions we consider the prune Industry one that will experience still fur ther expansion provided new out lets at fair prices are secured. It must be kept in mind, as already pointed out, that nowhere in the world does the Italian and the Oregon Petite prunes do so well as here with us. This limited area must produce this fruit in the dried form and the larger sizes for practically the entire world. Fol lowing a slack In demand for our prune, due to the high' prices on wgar during the war, the demand is again world-wide. 103 Prune Markets The Oregon Growers' Coopera tive Association will place this prune this year in eighty-one car load markets besides twenty-two additional less than carload mar kets. The English market from this one concern alone will buy four million pounds. France takes over a minion and Canada over two million pounds. These sales were made on the package basis of the old conventional twenty-five pound box. In Small Cartons In addition this firm will ship out eighteen cars of prunes packed In one, two and five-pound car tons. This has never been done before on such a scale. The housewife who heretofore felt that the sanitary condition surround ing the open twenty-five pound boxes was not the best now takes the sealed packages home with her and thereby greatly increases the ultimate consumption of our prunes. The Dehydrated Prune The dehydrated article, as packed by Kings Food Products company, is finding a large and ready sale. The "ready to.serve" and "dry pack" are increasing in popularity and will add materially to the consumer demand to take care of our Increasing tonnag. The Canned Prune As a canned article the Italian prune has no equal, and larger quantities are constantly being used for this purpose. The Ore gon Growers' Cooperative Associa tion alone Is delivering 25,000 cases of canned prunes to one re tail firm in New York. The or ganized growers of Oregon and Clarke county, Washington, will set aside l-6c per pound for adver tising purposes this year. There is.no question about a creater pruiie Industry for Oregon as long as we continue to 'find market outlets for the Increased tonnage Oregon has the soil and the climate, and ontlnued atten tion to new outlets should find her busy extending her plantings, making full use of Jyr great possi bilities given her by nature. XAIIi IT TO THE MASTHEAD Much has been said by current writers on the Importance of stamina and vigor in poultry breeding stock: one also hears a great deal on the importance of so-called 'utility" strains of poul try, but the following axiom by W. Powell-Owen .a noted English authority, hits the nail squarely on the head: "It is not abnormal individual egg records gained at the expense of stamina, but high flock aver breed. type and vigor,, which con ages, 'combined s with beauty, stitate utility,? THE PRUNE INDUSTRY GEI The Industry Is About 35 AND But It Has Been Growing Strong and Along Up to Date Lines Only During the Past Twenty-odd Years, and the Men Engaged in Every Department of the Industry Are Learning Something New and Useful All the Time. A number of men are yet young and active in the prune industry of the Salem district who helped in the beginning of its solid start, who have stood by and aided Its growth Into greatness, and who are still active in pushing it toward the greater attainments that are promised for the industry in the future. Representative among such men are II. S. Gile and W. T. Jenks, of the Willamette Valiey Prune association, them selves large growers and extensive experimenters in developing bet ter methods and greater efficiency in orchard production as to both quantity and quality. The men still live who first visioned the hills and slopes of the Willamette valley covered with its wealth-producing prune or chards. They dreamed truly. B. S. Cook ajid Dr. H. J. Min- thorn, of the Oregon Land com pany, were very largely respon sible for the comfortable situation which Salem occupies today as the center of Oregon's marketing and prune growing Industry. In those days of the late eigh ties and early nineties, Herbert Hoover as a boy worked In and did chores for the Oregon Land com pany. Dr. H. J. Minthorn is his uncle, and "Bert" lived in the Min thorn home in Highland addition to Salem, which addition was laid out by the Oregon Land company; the Minthorn housa being one of the first buildings in that section of the city, and still In good re pair. The world's greatest food administrator, and perhaps great est engineer, now secretary of the United States department of com merce, saw and was a humble part of the beginning of the great prune Industry in the district sur rounding Salem. (Later Dr. Minthorn died in Portland yesterday.) Unfortunately not many of those who began in the early days of the prune planting Oregon stayed long enough to reap the reward toward which they had spt their faces. During the years 1897-98 and '99 prunes began to bear in this section in sufficient quantities, so that the question of marketing be gan to be a serious one. Prunes were not at that time dried with much efficiency and there was little attempt at grading, and no attfnpt at properly packing; they were sold or consigned according as the growers could find a way to dispose of their products. The real beginning was made in 1900, when the Willamette Valley Prune association was organized out of a real existing necessity. It began an honest attempt to prop erly prepare and market Oregon prunes under its own brand as such. This pioneer prune packing or ganiation in the northwest had passed the darkets days of its career by 1904, and It had consist ently from the beginning parried on a limited amount of publicity and had set high standards of quality for the product which It was producing and selling. A com plete history of this organization would be interesting reading for the younger prune growers. It was no small task to intro duce or rather force upon the mar ket a prune which was a distinct competitor of the California FrencH prune, which at that time More and Larger Those .You Have Why suffer with Stomach HISTORICALLY Years Old In This Section, had just reached the height of Us popularity. The Oregon prune was not want ed by the wholesale merchants of this country, and there was good, spund reasoning In their objection to placing in their stocks another variety of prune entirely different, entirely unknown, and, according to their judgment, of doubtful quality. The result was that at the time when most of our prune orchards had reached the stage of full bearing, there was an .over- pr&duetrdn; measured by the de mand. In fact, thero was no de mand; the demand had to be cre ated. It would be too long a story to recite the experiences through which the prune growers passed and through which this association had paused at about that period. It will be sufficient to say that the product sold at less than the cost of production, which forced matters In two ways. Orchardists also learned that there were certain sections, certain elevations, certain slopes and soils where the fruit produced more regularly and ripened the best quality of prunes for evap orating, while there were other districts which produced the same fruit tetter for fresh shipments. All of these experiences are available by the amateur who to day, wishes to become a prune grower; he can be assured that h will avoid the rocks which have caused wrecks in the past. Fot only hdd home markets to be cultivated, but it soon bocamc apparent that if any large success was to be obtained wje must also secure foreign markets, and there again the pioneer packers of the northwest had a still harder strug gle, coming in direct contact and oiposition with the French prune and the so-called Turkish prune and carrying thi battle very close to the base of their own supplies. A foothold was gained first in England, and from there It spread until practically all of the Euro pean countries, to a greater or less extent, had become acquainted with Oregon prunes, and "were using them more or less freely up to the time of the war. So H. S. Gile, who is still a young man and extremely active In both lines, and many other lines, wasl a pioneer in both the prune industry and the loganberry indus try in this section. He helped or ganize the great Phez company. and was its first president and one of its largest stockholders and is active In the Willamette Valley Prune association and en gaged extensively in the growth ot both fruits. The prune Industry now, with many largo Interests oencerned, and with the acreage and number of growers increasing very rapidly. Even so. the prune Industry here is only fairly started, com pared with the ilmmensity It is bound to assume in future years for the wide wrrld la the market, as the prune cn go to any corner of the world and the finished article produced here Is the pre mier prune of commerce, and it is now generally so recognized. What of the Future? The Salem slogan editor of The Statesman, in October. 1319, said: "Within four years this dsitrict will market at least .100,000,000 pounds of dried, prunes; and the Salem banks will finance- and ttLY III SALEM DISTRICT (Continued on-page 3.) We Will Give Our Best Efforts At all times to assist la any posible way the dtitU opment of the fruit and berry Industries In this tsI ley. i 1 on Packing Ureg Trouble when Chiropractic will RemoTe the Cause I V Your Health Begins When You Phone 87 for - an appointment Dr. O. L. SCOTT r. 8. C Chiropractor Ray Laboratory 414 to 419 V. 8. Natl Bk. Hours 10 to 12 mil. and 2 to 0 p.m.. , v PRUNE' Growers. At last a prone that com- bines both sweetness, large- MchieVemenl ness and that shrinks less !, , DATE The PRIM -With the Date Flavor Mtrk Bag.) Investigation of Date v Prunes matured on the ) :-. ,y ' - trees by the writer is convincing evidence of the y superiority in every way y being over 50 per cent su-y gar and averaging 30 to . i, nnnnrl rlriprl T)pfi1 FRFP upon reuuesu . "Nature's Beat In Trees 1 And Ornaments , kg 'regon VnrsTy Co., Orrae. i fj Cm Ore. Send mm informitioa . referred m ) wilhoat llW obligation t me. ' Ui AddreM . i w - . . i . i... , - kit I 4