TH UKSDAY 3H0RNING,' OCTOBER? 26 1922
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FRUITS I AND VEGETABLES
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Gideon Stolz Company
Snlcm - Oregon
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Manufacturer of
' ; Pure Cider ' Vinegar - ;
Carbonated Bererages
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Lime-Sulphur Solution
Tnrk delivery to 'l parts of the
Willamette , Valley
J. ii. Busick & Son
GROCERIES
Stores:
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Warm Air faraaeaa, plumbing, -
hratinj .and fbeet aietal work, tin
and (ravel rootinf, geneijal ' Job
bing In tin" and jaWanlied Iron
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railways of any city;
' of its size in the
United States. :
Always at your service
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Southern Pacific Lines
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printing trada 4 1
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The Way to Build
Is to Patronize
IE FLAX GROWERS OF THE SALEM
JJ1STR1CT DESERVE GREAT PRAISE
They Have Backed the Industry Through Good and III
Report, in Fat Years and Lean Years, and They Are
Organized to Go Down the Line with the Same
Faithful Program jmd They Will Win Out.
Editor Statesman: '-; -iVj
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Relative to yonr Inquiries for
Information regarding the flax in
dustry, will say that we pw:.hare
signed up over one th'ousand acres
which is guaranteed to be sown
for the next four years. ' We un
doubtedly will hare a somewhat
increasing acreage each year.
The corporation has $50,600
stock subscribed and paid in, most
of which has been subscribed by
the farmers. The farmers have
so far done their full Ebare, but
th busineis interests haw not
taken hold of the preferred' -'stotk
as we wish they might.
We hare not , been .able to do
all that, we .WQUld have likod to
have done In t tire ray of plant
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FALL-SUITS
$17.50 to $30.00
Ed. Chastain's
Upstairs Men's
Shop
123 N. Commercial St.
SALEM IRON WORKS
. Established 1860
Founders, Machinists and
Blacksmiths...
Corner Front 8tat SU.
' Hannfacturrrs of the Shand
' pump for irrigation and other
purpoaea. f'orreaondom-e aolin
ltrd. Irrigation infonnatioil' awp.
pliod.
Makars of Salaa. )tro IV'orka
. Drag Sawa.
HOTEL
100 roodis of Solid Comfort
A Home Away From
Home
F. N. WOODRY
Salem's Leading ,
Auctioneer 1 :
Sells Everything That is
Loose or for Sale
1010 Vorth Rummer St.
Salem, Oregou .
We Pay
HighesV Market Prices'
t - . t 4- -
TOR -
Beef. el. hor.1 and mntton. live
or dresied. Also butter, eggs and
chickens.
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See ns before selling
Peoples Meat Ma Aet
165 X. liberty St. pfcoo S9t
BLIGH
Devoted to Showing Salem District People the Advantages
and Opportunities of Their, Own Country and Its
Cities and Towns:
Up Your Home Town
YounHome People
Selling Salem
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This campaign of publicity for community upbuilding has been made
possible by the advertisements placed on these pages by our public
spirited business menmen whose untiring efforts have builded our
present recognized prosperity arid who are ever striving for greater and
yet greater progress as the years fgoj by.
and eqipment, because we have
not had sufficient funds, and the
directors did not like to go to a
great expense unless they had tho
money in sight to pay for thing.
If the business men realized what
this industry is they would get
back of it.
For every dollar paid but to the
farmer for flax there; 13 approxi
mately two dollars paldt;6ut for
labor. . '
Our total tonnage should have
been, under normal "conditions,
about 1500 to 2000 tons, but on
account, of extremely dry condi
tions this season, the actual ton-
riage was only 4 50 tons.
We! have our plants at Turner
and Rickreall, and at RIckreall
we are especially well equipped in
buildings 'and hope to get finan
cial support enough, to. ba bble to
equip our mill and develop the
water power next reason.
This Is an exceptional Held for
the flax industry.' We liftteVhe cii
ciate and: all conditions necessary.
One man has recently offered
to put in a property worth sev
eral thousand doHars if the busi
ness interests andourselves would
join him in establishing a flax
twine -business. lie thoroughly
understands the business, and if
Theo.M.Barr
Plumbing, Heating and
Tinning
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164 S. Commercial St.
7 I SALEM, Ore.
Buy the
Oregon
Made
j Turnaccs
W. W. R0SEBRAUGH
CO.
;Fotlndry and Machine Shop
17th & Oak Sts., Salem, Or.
Phone 8S6
We Are-Ont After Two Millions
We are now pay ins 'wrer tliree:
'qnartera of a million dollars a rear?
to the dairymen of this section
for milk. , (-
"Marion Butter"
Is the? Best Batter
More Cows and Better Cows Is
the cryin; need
MARION CREAMERY
&PR0DUCfeC0.
ISalem, Ore. Phone 2488
The New Columbia Six
Slm's rlsRsr new arrival in
Aoton.ohiU row.
j 1135 f.o.b. SALEM - ,
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Colhr Compression Tnbes
Kenyon Cord Tires
lL J. Bush & Co. -
319 K. Com'l - Pbobs 451
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District is a continuation of the Salem Slogan and
Pep and Progress Campaign j
gone into it would be located iri
Salem. i f i
This is a brief statement of our
prospeets and troubles, which yo
may rearrange as ydu think bestf;
VVILLAMKTTK VtLLEY
Sc., HEMP GROWERS CO-OPERATIVE
ASSOGiATION.'T v
Salem, Or.Oct. 24h922, : i .
Tho Faithful ;firowers
There are about 125 fatmer
members of the above organiza
tion. They are not quitters., They
are stayers. When it was" an
nounced that the state flax in
dustry at the Oregon penitentiary
would not be in the market for
its usual amount of flax of the
1922 crop, these men bestirred
themselves In making plans to
keep the1ndustry ;here aiive and
progressing. The result was the
organization of the Willamette
Valley Flax &,Hemp Growers as
sociation, making the above state
ment of its status, and of Its
"prospects and troubles."
.'Deserve High Praise
These farmers deserve high
praise. The time, will come. Sh
the belief of the writer, when they
will be considered:1 here as deserv
ing a monument.
They are carrying on, and keep
ing solid the foundations for the
buildinj? here of a great indus
try, which by the' very decrees of
nature is bound to come l!
And conceivably and very pos
sibly at a much Earlier" day than
most readers realize.
At Turner and Itirkreall
"About half the. crop raised last
season is at the Turner plant, and
half at Rickreait The Turner
mill, with s!x men, is turning out
a ton to a ton and a half of tow
a day. Sales of tow are just be
ginning. It is selling at $100 a
ton, and there id a good demand
for it. Owing to the long dry
time in the growing season, about
four-fifth of the crop of last sea
son will be tow;; but a good deal
of it could be worked into coarse
twines and other manufactures it
machinery were available. The
rest will be fibre; worth tiow
about 30 cents a pound.
There Is So Wsutte
Arthur ?Dcmytt Is superintend
ent of 'operation at the Turner
plant, and wiM be at the RickrealJ
plant. He Is from Courtrai, the
best flax district of Belgium, and
he worked 1n the industry jn this
country, at Pott Huron, Michi
gan, before coming here.
There is absolutely no waste at
Eyesight; Specialists
:MOUKIS il'TK AL, CO.
301-0 Ort)ion Bldg.
Salem, Oregon
A call tbday may save '
needless pain and buffer
ing in the future.
. l W. Pettyjohn Co.
s" Dealers for:
GARDNER
JORDAN ,
MITCHELL,
F. W. Pettyjohn Co.
279 N. Conl'l.. Phone 1260
Salem Carpet Cleaning and
FLUFF RUG
- WORKS
All sizes fit x Rug and Fluff
Rnfc Woven .
Old lattre Steaming and
Hfmaking
Otto Ziacker, Prop.
Phm 1154
13 H & Wilbur Street .
f The Surest Way to Get
Industries Is to Support
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HISTORY ID SOME
SflD THOUGHTS 1
Salem Should' Be Manufact
Fishermen of Oregon, a
for the Markets of This
Fiber in the World Grow
Linen is the world's oldest veg
ctablenfibre fabric.
Linen will outlast cotton in
everyday wear in proportion of
one to eight or more; that Js, one
linen sheet or tablecloth will out
wear eight or moro of cotton.
It is extremely i m p o r t ant.
therefore, that the world ishould
have more linen; it is bound to
have more and mor,e; the cry now
is for more and more.
Ireland now manufactures
more than one-third of the linen
of the world; and she produces
only about 3 per cent of the flax
needed in her manufactures.
Ahmit 90 ner cent of her raw
materials have comts from Rus
sia, t :
the Turner plant. They make the
best flax into fiber; the second
best into tow; the next best into
upholstering tow; and then there
is the seed. That makes four
products. The Turner plant makes
a fifth product, or rather by-prod
uct. The bolls or chaff "and the
light seed are ground up,! making
cne of the richest of ail dairy
reeds.
The word hemp is In te name
of the cooperative company, be
cause the beaverdam lands of the
Salem district will produce a very
fine quality of hemp. Frequent
trials ha been lately made, with
most pronounced success. The
manufacturing of flax and hemp
go well together; take the same
machinery in most cases; and no
doubt the hemp Industry will be
finally developed here! along with
the flax industry.
What Is Xeeded ?fow
: What is needed now Is the de
velopment of the spinning and
weaving of flax., That it can be
grown with success here has long
been established. That the farri
ers of this district wilj grow it
la certain. They know how. This
cooperative concern, made up
mainly of farmers, have in mind
the increasing of their plants in
number up to at least ten. They
will make this expansion as the
demand increases.
The Officers ;
The directors of the concern are
Geo. W. Eyre of Salern, presi
dent; D. F. Eastburn;of Aums
viile, vice president: W. Jay Den
ham of Turner, Geo. M Hoyser of
East Independence. E. T. Tidd of
Rickreall, E. L.. Porter of Aums-
ille, and Chas. E. Eyre of Turn
er. . A. C. Bohrnstedt of -Salem Is
secretary-treasurer.
All of these men have worked
bard, and they all, with each and
every grower, deserve much
praise. Geo. W. Eyre, the presi
dent, has given up a great deal
of his time to the industry, with
the sole idea of making it a suc
cess, for the good of the country
and the,, city, and the growers of
flax, 'of which he himself is one,
besides being a successful busi
ness man and a public spirited cit-
! izen.
WillametteYaDey Prune
Association
The oldest Association la
the Northwest, .
W. T. JENKS
Secretary and Manager
Trade & Ilifeb. Sts.
I Salem, Oregon
RANDOM FACTS
FlflX liUSTIIY
uriing the Twine for the
nd the Rugs and the Linens
Country The Best Flax
n Here. .
try In colonial days; making the
000 to 1,000,000 tons of flax
fibeu in her manufactures; with
92 per cent of it all raised in Rus
sia and Belgium.
Russia is! now practically out of
it; perhaps permanently; for be
fore the war it was raised by
Ruslan peasants as a tax tribute
crop. ' ' !
The; United States was a flax
growing and manufacturing coun
try in colonia days; making the
"home-pun" on hand looms in
te houses of the people; each
farmer cultivating a small patch
f flax. .
The United States manufactur
ed more flax in 1776 than she
does now.
But a new day is coming.
A T e c e u t authorative state
ment reads: "It is said that prob
ably the greatest industrial asset
which' the war has given to Am
erica Is the possibility of estab
lishing in the United States a flax
and linen Industry;- that Is the
manufacture of American linen
fromrAmerican flax."
What does that mean to Salem?
This writer is willing to risk
his reputation as a prophet by
sayrag it means millions; millions
annually.
Flax was first grown on a con
siderable scale In Oregon for its
seed; in the seventies and early
eighties for the linseed oft mills
of the Gray family, the mills be
ing located on the present site of
the Salem woolen mills.
In 1893, Eugene Bosse, from
Belgium, who had been experting
flax for the United States depart
ment of agriculture, came to Sa
lem. Ho had been so employed
for two years, the flax being
grown under the direction of the
various state agricultural college
experiment stations-r-and he had
found that the best flax in the
United, States or the world the
best fiber flax was raised in this
section of Oregon.
TWs fact was known before to
a few people, as will appear be
low.
Mr. Bosse raised and treated
flax for its fiber hero for a num
ber of years, with varying busi
ness success or failure: due to
many causes, the story being too
long for detail at this time.
In 1896 Mrs. W. P. Lord, wife
of Governor Lord of Oregon, or
ganized the Oregon Women's Flax
Fiber association, and. under the
direction of this association and
its financing, several crops of
flax were raised. Due to several
misfortues, including a fire, this
association was not financially
able to carry out all Its program;
but it at least demonstrated over
again the superiority of the ffflax
grown here, for its fiber.
Dr. Deimel. tne greatest manu
facturer of linen . mesh wearing
apparel, investigated conditions
here, and lie was on the point of
establishing a mill here when the
war interfered, i
The companies with which he
is connected may yet be interest
ed; and they will have to look
eomewhere for raw materials, at
least.
There have, since been several
flax treating plants in operation
here. One of them, the .Oregon
Flax Fibre company, of Turner,
seven miles south of Salem. buiJt
a plant for making tow and fibre
about five years ago. It was fi
nanced by Theodore Roth. Ed
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More and Larger
Those You Halve-
Why suffer with Stomach Trouble when Chiropractic WIU
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other Salem people, and raised
flax of its own and contracted for
the raising of flax by the. farm
ers of that section, and carried
on its busine.ss till the plant was
Bold, last winter, to the Willam
ette Valley Flax & Hemp com
pany, which, company is now op
erating it. The original concern,
the Oregon Flax Fibre company.
still has on hand unsold a con--sideriVble
quantity of Its manu
factured product, including some
excellent fibre.
, Then there Is the state flax In
dustry at the penitentiary, which
is tlll operating, on flax raised
In former years. There la more
concerning these concerns in
other columns of this issue of The
Statesman.
World's Best Flax
Now for the most convincing
propf of all that this is the best
flax contry oa earth, for the fiber;
Listen:
Mr. Miller, near Turner, took
samples jdV flax fiber grown by
himself to the Philadelphia Cen
tennial In 1876.
His product came into compe
tition with every flax growing
country in the. world. ,
- The judges- drd not-know where
the samples were raised. .They
judged - by points length,
strength, etc., nine points In all.
No one of the judges, however.
knew the findings of any other
judge. When the footings. were
made it was found that the Ore
gon flax had won ON ALL NINE
POINTS.
It was the best flax fiber grown
iruthe world in every single parti
cular. At that time, a great Belfast
manufacturer of linen products
made the statement that no other
country could come up to Oregon,
and that he could take two pounds
of the Marion county fiber AND
SPIN A THEAD THAT WOULD
REACH AROUND THE : WORLD.
The Barbours are spinning
linen thread and Belling it now
at 16 a pound; $12,000 a ton.
Fishermen at Astoria are pay
ing 2.75 a pound for the twine
that goes into, their nets. It
costs them $400 for a net; and.
in the salt water, the net lasts
only two years.
Hence, the high cost of fish.
Why should not Salem people
jvho" could cut these prices In two
several times, put the rug and
twine and linen industries on
their feet Salem by nature des
ignated to do all this?
James J. mil said many times,
that commerce was bound to fol
low the lines of least resistance.
No man, no company of men, no
nation, can for long resist the
decrees of nature.
"Eventually, why not now?"
Eventually, Salem will be the
flax and linen center of the world
Why not now?
WILL FLAX HIVE
TO EKE
If Science Does Not Hurry
to the Rescue, It Sure
ly Will Have to
Will flax have to eke out the
waning cotton supply, owing to
the ravages of the boll weevil? If
science does not hurry to the res
cue, it surely will have to. .
There is no boll weevil threat
ening the flax.
If. that day comes, there will
be none too much land in all of
western Oregon to make up the
gap.
The following touching this
subject is from a recent editorial
article from the Portland Ore
gonian: 'War on Food-Crop Enemies
"The enormous economic Impor
tance of organized war on plant
parasites is graphically illustrat
ora
We Will
Give Our
Best
Efforts
At all times to assist la
any poslble way the devel
opment of the fruit and
berry Industrie in this val
ley. Oregon1
Co.
Packing
tu-moTo uie cause r
Your Health Begins Wnen You
Phone 87
for an appointment
Dr. O. L. SCOTT
P. S. C Chiropractor
Ray Laboratory 414 to 410 U. 8. Natl Bk.
Bids.
Honrs 10 to 13 sum. and 3 to O pjn.
age ne y the cotton boll wee
vll injl92t was far greater thai "
in anjf precious year, fatally f.
fecting 7 per cent of the cotton V
Krowtt:in;the, United States and
actually i preventing the produc-
tion ofj 6.317,000 bales. This was "
a ?1 ferment greater loss than
that of ha year Immediately pre- f
ceding, "and it means that "but for '
the ravages of the weevil , the
whole crop of. 1921 could have
been produced on 67 per cent of
the land that was planted to cot
ton, leaylnf the remainder for th
growing , of other essential sta
ples. ,
"Our ancestors did not number
among their many troubles the
plant pests that have been lately 4
superimposed on the usual uncer- '
tainties of climate and weather to
make agriculture and husbandry '
the gamble , that they are. Cn-
doubtedly, one of the chief reas
ons why our parasite enemies
have gained the foothold that they
have is that their destructive pos-
slbilities were 1 not : realfzeil i
time. In ', pointinsr nut ' that la
early warnings were not heeded.
and that Planter
ing the consequences of failure to
adopt repressive measures lomi -
time -agor, the i department alsi
conveys a lesson widely anniiohi
' every crop that is now menaced h
f a destructive in
kind. - "UJ :
"Probably It l 1.1:1 ' -
forecast that paints the Complete
7v 1 couon growing In '
the Lnited States, w f,i
era. for example, who have eoen m
entire district. In the older state" 1
abandoned to the ravages of bor
er, moth and scale will be too wise l
" frage. as they used-to do
the value of scientific research ,
and united action for pestTp-V
Presslon. Scarcely a standard
commodity ls DOw immune. The
corn borer, smut and rust In
wheat the alfalfa weevil and a .
myriad of other insidious work-: ,
ers threaten our food supply at its
jource. The isolation wS4 was
atlS5aeer 'armr'- Protection
against spread of plant disease
Self 17 Way fc.waoUiont which,
M!?dw c-Jra"e measures of "
the highest type. :
Col, Hofer Commends the
; Efforts of Our People tcT
rroiect Ihemselves
OF PBOFITEEB-
(The following letter, written '
last February, when the cooper- ,
tive flax concern was being or. !
ganled, is self explanatory:)
"Mrs. W. P. Lord, Kaiem, Qre:
gon. Dear Mra. Lorc:Tour long,
abors to establish the flax fibia ; "
industry on the Pacific coast are
meeting with unusual success.;
The farmers In western Oregon,
under the present plan of organi
zation are financing the industry
on a five year baula t,a h&
ductlon of fibre Is to be on a co- '
operative system. v
.As you know our firm handles
publicity for
on a large scale, covering the w
states above named with editorial -
-nicies mat are used by hnn-
dreds of newsnarwr t
. r " - m mil &
ting out some matter on the aw
fnl disparity between the prictV
offered Oregon flhrA nmA Hiari
for i h A a m j. , t . f m . . . .
mm material ano tne
prices charged our fishery fndns-
try for twine made from - this ?
fibre. " v , '
"As I understand fhn tim tli--
stuv V- S . .t
Barbour linen rnmhln. nttmrm
grower 30 cents a pound at the '
OUtsIde and Sella tha flhmn
tne twine that costs 53 cents
pound to manufacture, in whole-
sale lota at $3 a pound. This is
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