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; THK OREflON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON GREATER SAT-EM -T 73T?.7CT ' Zr.rr.7 -" M .rCTT 1923 WESTERN OREGON . NUTS BEST Acreage in Wateuisin Western Oregon; is Now 9000 to 10,000 and is Growinj Now at Rate of 2000 Acres a Year; Rapid Gain Rcpected as Nurseries Become Able to Supply Grafted Trees; Salem District Produces the Super. Nut The Salem district now ha bey ,tween 9,000 and 10,000 acres planted to walnuts; that Is. west ern Oregon; has about that. -The acreage Is being Increased as fast t as grafted trees of the right var ieties can be had. The Increase llcr thl year will likely be above f jto00 ueres; and this will grow ; year f thereafter from the present outlook. . yj X. '. : ,:.yj it. is estimated that . Oregon - last year f produced about 350 tons of walnuts, which is perhaps I a 8 0 per cent Increase over the ' year before. The increase will i be progressive from now on ge ometrically progressive. If the i reader will allow the term; from larger acreage and the Increas ing maturity of trees. , ';' . ! ; -. Industry Young Yet The industry, as an industry, is "JUj young yet. But it is getting Its Stride. . i - . t . . ; . I There Is a seedling orchard of t 11 acres I near Jefferson, belong '. lag, to aJ I. Page. This orchard y produced last season 13 tons of 'nuts, sent to the Oregon Grow ers' Cooperative association plant n Salem. This orchard is the H oldest f of so large a planting In Oregon. It Is .about 30 years old, and : the trees compare wltb ! mature oaks In size. , ; . Good Increase Here, ' 's The membea ' of the , Oregon G rowers' Cooperative association ' marketed through this organisa tion: In 1921 about ,100,000 pounds of walnuts. They mar keted last' Tear about 1S0.000 'rounds. ' This Is an indication of tb growth through the, matur- tot of the trees, mostly. J- All these nuts are brought to for any walnut grown I in, the wide world. 1 The other nuts graded down! in price to 18 centa a, pound; the latter price being tor seedlings of low grade. The Oregon Growers Coopera tive association is using the Cali fornia standards for grading. In one course, Oregon walnuts "will V advertised: ; . One of the talking points will be the fact that Oregon walnuts are- . unbleached absolutely. There never will be any bleach ing of the Oregon walnuts. The nautral color: of the Oregon wal nut, clean and properly dried. Is the best possible color . for the raarkets. i t Salem. will tell. Our lands are much lower than theirs in price. In the very nature of things, we are Better Hum California's ' The Oregon super nut, the first rrade crafted Franauette. has for two yeas sold at a higher price bound to catch up that the best California grafted; down there they call it budded. Our di3trlct is a better walnut country than any part of Cali fornia. The California walnut is the next best.1 The growers down there got the start of our grow ers, in time. They have over 40,000 acres to our scant 10,000 acres; and their trees are on the average much older than ours, and therefore more, nearly In "full bearing." : But we will catch up. Quality will tell. Just as in horses (and men) blood SALEM DISTRICT FILBERT TREES Grading Interesting Process ' All the walnuts received at the w Salem ! plant nave been cleaned and dried by the growers. Here they are graded and packed and Sent to market. The nuts are flrst run through a - grading , ma tcMne, which sorts them as tp sraes. .Then they are picked over j by women, who take out j the Culls -the discolored, cracked or oddly shaped nuts, etc rV Then they are packed Into la J belled sacks for the markets. ' . The sacks are- all branded I OREGON WALNUTS In big let ,' ters. The first - grade, the super t nut. is j, the Mistland - Grafted. ' Then come, next below in grade. a Fancy Franquettes, Fancy Mfcrranquettes. Mistland Grafted i Kc; 1, Mistland Grafted No. 2. ' te.y.. - y ;'T: I1-. ; - f.vv .--h:';; . l.r. Th r grading ; machine so '. far nsed turns out, about ' four tons-a v day. " ' . . i Tbe enlls are, used' fqr,crack P in. . The association . Jast .year sold 'walnut meats to the jtradel , cracked nuts. " ' ' . , irbe: supply of every grower rs ! carefully kept - on' a - grade eh'reet -so' he gets .credit fdr his; best I product as "well as his' poorest '" and the benefits that' belong; to . him 'on account of ' the superior article, if 'he supplies any.; 'This grading and 'packing costs Only about one-tenth of a cent a pound. .v ' "' " i ; ; The . Oregon - walnuts have so far gone mostly to the Pacific northwest markets,: but last year i seme . orders : went to eastern points, largely for the purpose. of getting the trade acquainted with V'ihe superior qualities of the 'Ore gon nuts; for the benefit of the growers in future -years, - when 'they will hare to depend" more k and more upon the outside trade. Beet the. .World Produces . . There Is no donbt whatever .that the Mistland Grafted brand r of Oregon walnuts Is the very .. . jLest grown in the world. , It Is . Ithe super nut. Some of these f : , nuts: were- sold by " the Oregon .Growers Cooperative association. last year, wholesale, at 35 cents v .'. ponad. That is the top price L -:&y-: ., COS 0Sy. -.-V? , - V- 7- ' '"'fc Never Grow Old Talking of "full bearing.' walnut tree In a proper location. like the Salem district, never . . . a W comes into "run Deanng." never grows old. Only Its heart wood grows old. The life line Is yearly renewed in every tree, and lt Is just as yoang In .the giant ihat has withstood the storms of centuries as in the sapling of a single ; year. The living tree -fa always young. There is a wal nut tree 600 years, old in the Vatican at Rome. One over 1000 years old is In the Crimea near palaklava; and lt bears as nigh as 100,000 nuta a year; over a ten. In California single walnut trees have sold at as high as fXOOO. There will be a fortune in the future in every grafted Franquette walnut in the Salem dletrct. All the Franqnettes come from a single walnut tree in southern France, near the Ital ian border. THE FIIUKRT, TOO Salem Is the filbert center of North America. All the filberts grown commercially in the Unit ed States are grown in the Wil lamette valley, excepting a tew j have IC.QOO acres; perhaps later in Clarke county, Washington, which la practically a continua tion of this valley. There is no age limit- known to the filbert tree, . any more than to the walnut. Some trees in Europe are known to be hund reds of years old and in England 150 years and more. Our filbert trees get "better and better" every year, and will for our children and children's children, and on down the centuries. The Salem district has about 1000 acres in filberts now. The acreage was doubled last year. It will be doubled again this year, we will have 2000 acres within a few weeks. The new acreage has for two years been limited only by the available nursery stock. It will be so for three or -four years yet. We will soon 0.000 and more. , : ' ' Filberts Bear Early' . Ton can easily get up an argu ment on the question of which is the better tree to plant here, the filbert or the walnut. The fil bert tree bears early, for , one thing. An Albany farmer gath ered 30 pounds to the acre from filbert trees four years old. One may ; depend upon a commercial crop from trees five to six years aid. . They Are Productive A pioneer grower in the Salem district says filbert orchards here In full bearing will produce 5000 jrunds to the acre; and he avers that half this , production wilt make them the most profitable and safe of all the orchard, crops. Fancy filberts sold last year at 30 cents a pound; they averaged around 25 e?nts. There is not much overhead in a filbert grove. They almost harvest tbemseleves," and cure themselves put In a dry pUce. One grower calls them the lazy man's crop.'! One grower , declares that fil bert trees. . of the. right kind, with the proper pollenizers. will at 12 years bear 5000 pounds ot nuts here to the acre and he says they are "frost, proof, rain proof, have i no serious peeti or diseases end this section has no American or even New World competition." There is little doubt that, with in a few years, the present fil bert boom here will result In the production ofr train , loads o these nuts which one roan calls "hazelnuts with a colfege educa tion," to be sent to the markets of this country and even to oth er countries, hungry for them. T MONITOR CITY OF WEALTH- Center of Trade of One of Marion County's Richest Sections Fruit Culture, Dairying, General Farming Among Its Resources Born the Day the Monitor Sank the Merrimac Local Bard Tells History of City's Growth in Verse "CSS J United States "Senator Chas. L."&lcNary is one of the pioneers of the filbert industry in the Salem district. Several years ago he saw the viaion, and he made a study of the industry and wrote a series of articles concerning filbert growing that were published In The Statesman, and afterwards were issued In pamphlet form.' ' Senator McNary. and W. T. Stolz of Salem have' a farm on the bottom land north of Salem where they , have a filbert grove that gives an example of what can toe done with these nuts under the conditions existing In that section. The upper picture is from a photograph taken In their orchard, showing a seven year old Bracelona filbert tree with W. T. Stolz in the foreground. The lower cut shoVs a row of filbert trees In this orchard with Senator McNary standing in front. t The beginnings of filbert Interest In the Salem district are due partly to the enthusiasm and publicity of Senator McNary. and the present status of tha Industry shows. that, if he didnot build wiser than he knew, he certainly did build wiser than most of his neighbors knew. , ! i ' ; - Hoh.'John H, McNary, brother of Senator McNary, has on his home grounds, corner of North Summer and Center streets. Salem, some fine specimens of the Barcelona filbert tree, one of which trees is the largest Barcelona filbert tree in the United States for its age; so pronounced by an-expert from the United' States department of agriculture. Nestling cosily on the banks of Butte Creek in the northeast ern part of Marion county is the prosperous little city ot Monitor. Located as it Is, In one of the richest agricultural, fruit and dairy sections of the valley the growth and development steady and permanent. An elec tric railroad out from Oregon City and terminating at Mt. An gel, furnishes excellent transpor tation facilities for Monitor and community together with an auto truck and stage service. This little city is only about seven miles east of Woodburn, the Pacific Highway and South ern Pacific railroad. Monitor i also four miles north of Mt. An sel, and enjoys the trade of the fertile Butte creek valley and ether prosperous tributary conn- This little ity has a modern new school building, which em ploys, two teachers and has about 70 pupils enrolled. The town also has three good churches and a number ot live fraternal societies and farmer organizations. A prlrate system of water works supplies the town with good, pure water and nearly every line of business is repre sented there. The Monitor State Bank with a capital of 315,000 and deposits aggregating 1 90, 0 takes care ot the financial needs ct the town and community. One of the oldest and best of the valley flour mills Is located at Monitor and Is operated by wa ter power, and is equipped with a modern roller process plant. There is a large lumber, shin gle and tile warehouse and yards at this place which supplies all kinds of building materials at reasonable prices. : One of the large rock crushers which sup plies ; materials for -road con struction work is also located on Butte Creek at Monitor. Amcng the, most needed insti tutions at Monitor' at : the. pres ent time is a modern fruit and vegetable cannery f to, supply... . home market for the large quan tities of fruits, berries and veg etables grown in that community. which are now marketed at .the canneries. In neighboring cities. Monitor and community, affords excellent , opportunities for those seeking homes . In a good little town and prosperous . commun Ity. .. . . . More detailed Information re garding Monitor is contained in the following under the, head of "The Monitor of Oregon," which is told in rhyme by I. E. Dimlck. one of the managers of the local flour mills. f - Put, oh! the work there must have been . To fasten them together with ' a wooden pin! With ceaseless labor and not a fear, - . Ie finished his mill In just a ' year. .- 'j So this you see was in sixty- four. And right now I must tell you some more. The very same day he made flour to fill a sack. The Monitor ship sank the Mer rimac. Next day when his wife her bread did bake, ' TheJMonitor Mill was the ship's namesake. Mr. Eagon in tjme did reach his goal, . ' So to Peter Shuck the mill he sold. r- And when a new man was at the wheel, I Now I'll have to continue with my spiel. . Mr. Shuck for years the mill did run. Now and then he would change - her some; ' He finally threw -the old burrs . away And replaced them with the roll- . er way. : . -; His flour was better and in great demand, Business grew beyond his care. So he sold to W. E. Owen halt a share ' ., ' And ' Monitor flour was sold everywhere. - Other things also came in sight. In the merchandise business they started right; ' v -"V y Order Pear , " ; ' -,- - . ' ' i s Apple s Cherry ' '- : - Prune : Trees U Ornamental Stock From Our List for Spring Planting v ! Salem ! Nursery Co. I 428 Oregon Bldg. . Phone 1763 . The Monitor of Oregon There is a little town here In the west " .. 1 - lhat Is somewhat different from the rest, v This information I give you . by request; Although I am no poet, I'll do my best. To reveal to von some of the mystery ' And '' give you some past and . present history; ' But time and space does not permit Me to' give you exactly all of H But the one important; fact 1 . ; know , .. v .. Reaches back - to pioneer . days sixty years ago. ' When a man named Eagon har nessed old Butte Creek; Of course at first they called it freak. y Think! DearN readers, and you'll agree. , That from the year Eighteen and S'xty-three ' t To , the present year Nineteen and Twenty-three j Somewhere there must be some history. - , ':' - :.. In the days of sixty they had.no Yet with this they were not sat isfied, :-' To Uncle Sam for . a postoffice they applied. Uncje Sam says, "Certainly, l'H do that." Then the little town of Monitor . was on the map. Tears rolled by and the little town grew. But Shuck and Owens split her Jin two. ' '1 ' -: : ' " t ' Mr. Owens kept the old mill for a while Till he met a man with a nig 1 broad smile. ... s This man's name was S.' K. Noel, , But too much from the farmers he did toll. The store was sold to P. Short : and Sons. And the mill by , a man -named v Pullium was run; - ' But Mr. Short was a man with - crust and crown. And finally owned the whole ; blame town. Then to Mr. Gilles the mill he did sell, , Who was full of ambition, an business progression He remodeled the , mill ' m to Its present perfection, Gave us our first electric light and fire protection. : Now I must bring the history up to date. From now on the , tacts to you 111 state. ... .' .' Dimick , & Conyoe are millers White, , : ' . .; -i. . I Who make the flour that's made just right. .. . ..-k From L... D; Lenon your :grocerie yon buy. - : ; - -' -r. . f a v-Vj i F. MILLER m SXNS J G.E N E RA L M ERC HA NDI SE,x MONITOR, OREGON J -.Notions and Novelties School Books and Supplies . Dry Goods Boots and Shoes Farm Machinery The International Lie ', , - Agents , - - ' . -, ' . . ' Du Ponts Improved Pacific Stumping Powder Primrose Cream Separators v Miller Sons boots keep your . feet dry, . V. Carmichael, furniture and and hardware; Luithle is the guy that cuts your hair. G. C. Pomeroy, . man. Extracts a dime can. our pool hair i when ever he H. patches your S. LeFebvre shoe. T. O. Thornton he does too; C. W. Conyne whose money you borrow, But you must pay it back to morrow. Jensen's garage sells- you air. The druggist your prescriptions .. prepare. - . . ' : A. N. Moshbergre sells you your fare, A. K. Nelson keeps shingles and lumber there. We have a dentist here once a week. Who knocks you cuckoo, then pulls your teeth. WilHg and Bennett are black smiths two. On your horses they can put a new shoe, Fred Knprr is our butcher, that's no mistake. He ships sauer kraut and wienies in by freight. There' one more thing to keep on your mind, A busier town of its size in the state yon can't find. Once Join In our town, your friendship we have won, In M-O-N-I-T-O-It ot O-R-B-O-O-N. Monitor Blacksmith Shop . General Blacksmlthlng - . Horseshoeing . Wagon Work and Auto Truck Beds Made to Order rVcd . TfllKjr; Proprietor - MONITOR, OREGON:' I,'mj - .' ? . . '- - The Monitor Mutual Telephone system is a valuable asset to the town and commulty, and the American Express Co., maintains an office in the town, the writer was Informed by Postmaster W. L. Miller. The Salem district needs two great leaders two men who will organize the, seed growing and the drug garden Industrie. Where are the men? .We need many other leaders, too, to organ ize numerous other lines for which nature has made provi sion in this district. T. 0. THOrUITOIJ Harness. Saddles. Whips. Robes. Gloves and all kinds ot Leather Goods, Auto Trlm- mings; Shoe Repairing Cory Thsrnlsjj Mssmcth Bhckbsrry Nearly double the size of tbe loganberry with a flavor like a wild blacffberry coreless and one of v the : best - new' :berries known": 1 r .. i r v y,'l ;piant:-'ro.saie;. TJ Or Tliornton,' Monitor," Ord. f " Monitory Oregon Grant-B. Dimick', President ; F- Giesy,yice President C. W; Conyne t Cashier : We live up to our Slogan; ft 4 : . - t Service and Courtesy" Ea- flour for bread; y One bright summer day Mr. gon said: .yyy "I . have harnessed old Butte Creek to develop power, -' And I will build a mill to grind our nour. t , - - A at once huge timbers i were '.hewn and laid, I-'-HV From these the foundation ot the Monitor Garage . . P. Jensen; Prop: Essex and Overland Cars Acetylene Welding, Batteries and General Repairing : FISK AND GOODYEAR TIRES ',-- ; y , :y- .:y.v:;: . ,. . . v; ... .1 , ... x Mom ' ; C. V. Carmichael i ; - ' ' ' . ' - y ' " Dealer in Hardware and Furniture, Ammunition, Paints, Oilsr ' Rugs, Linoleum . y . Fairbanks Gas ' Engines; Oliver. Farm Implements, Universal and Colonial; Ranges y- Roofing- and Building, Paper MONITOR, OREGON V 5 MlMIIIII IMMMtltMiMiMIHHMUMIiKt; ... . 1 - . . , , .v -r . ; j ., . j t MONITOR LUMBER GO. , MONITOR. OREGON Lumber. Building Material Sash, Doors, Glass, Windows, Lime, Plaster, Cement,' Land Plaster, Shingles, Moulding of all kinds. Tile, Brick, Fence Posts, Egg Cases, Broccoli Crates. Apple Boxes and all. kinds of other work don In factory In lumber, yard. Paints and Oils All kinds of truck hauling done promptly. ,: :' yf I ' , - i fl7T? I TC V AT TD AD HE" D e k a m a 9 nillMllltlMIIIIIIIMMIIHMMiMiMIMiiilH Monitor F lour Dimick & MM " ' ; v - Conyne lis , "Monarch Blend" Flour Poultry and hairy Feeds and V ; Supplies- -' , Monitor, Oregon ' mill was made. - t