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FIFTY-TWO MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES HERE; MIGHT BE MUCH EXTENDED " Salem Is the Center. of a Growing Number of Basic Industries that Attract Universal Attention and Bring Money from the Markets of the World to Be Expended HereA Campaign' VjWaged for, the Production and the Doing of Things in Which Our People Excel or Can Excel, or Can Produce or Perform to Better Advantage or with Greater Profits Than Other j Countries; or Sections; Raising this District Above the Line of Competition-Ours Is the Country of Diversity and the Land of Opportunity-Marvels of Soil, Sunshine and Showers .Oa October 3. 191, the States man undertook a Salem Slogan . campaign to run on Thursdays in , the Dally ond on Fridays In the T ice-a-Week Statesman, through - a year, to exploit the 52 most im portant basic Industries and Inter ests of Salem and, the Salem dis trict ' To inform men ot genius, vision, enterprise, capital and industry the wide world over what Salem and the surrounding country have to offer thorn ; 'And also to take stock or our own advantages, so that we who live and do business here may bet ter realize how forunate we are; what a great future we have; what opportunities are at our doors; whatr'Acres of Diamonds" are In our own land waiting for the dig ging of our own peopl "And it is not too much to say that this campaign has been a rev elation to all of us ' For the campaign is sow on its fifth year, and great surprises have coma to us concerning the possibilities ot growth and .devel ' opment. and' in most cases the ac tual growth-and development, of our Industries in the months that : have gone by. So the Slogan editor has under taken to give, for the benefit es pecially of the prospective new comer, a summary cf the matter in the Salem Slogan Issues ot the ; Statesman W ; Of course the following review can be only a review ' Can only barely touch the high places; for it would take several handred pages to print all the matter in regsrd to the different subjects that have appeared in the Salem Slogan issues, following is1 the summary: ;, The Loganberry Industry ; The story of the loganberry Is .an ' epic. It Is called the logan berry because it was discovered by . Judge J. II. Logan, of Santa Cruz, Cal., in 2881, from seed planted in his garden. He concluded, af ter investigation mat it was a cross! between;, the Auginbaugh blackberry and the red raspberry. ' Judge Logan is now a resident of Oakland. CaL.f There -Jlave ... been attempts to improve the logan berryand even -the great Luther Burbank made an attempt of this kind. But the loganberry remains the great berry of commerce, with an ever widening field of favor, ; And Salem is the loganberry center of the - world; SO per -cent of the loganberries of the world are; raised almost within sight of the; Oregon capital dome. Most of the. loganberries of the world will always, b?, raised " within ' the lengthening-shadows of the dome of, the capRol in Salem. This is tht loganberry land; the Willam ette valley soil and sunshine and showers give this district a virt ual franchise on loganberry grow ing. ; It is the king berry or all our bush fruits, though others also ex cel here. ; i The loganberry industry as we see it now started on one leg. There was only one way to mark et loganberries abroad in the dried state,. Then came the juice industry, then canning and jams and jellies, and dehydration ' and now the cold pack, ''shipping in barrels, or frozen in large cans, going lii that form to the concerns of the east' making fruit syrups for the soft drink and ice cream places, and . manufacturing jams and jellies and many other food products, including the great pte trade. The market is a wide one. widening. . The canneries of Mar lon county alone packed 126,053 cases of loganberries last year. There is no doubt but the indus try will be a permanent one Whenever the industry is properly organized, the frozen berries alone will be marketed in as large quan titles or larger than they are at the present time produced; going largely to- the pie bakers of the big cities. The juice business is due for a world wide extension of markets. In that form, there are many uses, in homes and hospitals and in the soft driuk places everywhere. be continued will stand out for California The Prune Industry Salem Is permanently the prune capital of all prunedom; for prunes ot Quality. The three counties of Marion, Polk and Yamhill, composing the Salem local market district, have over half the prune acreage in Oregon. The planting in these three counties will very soon be 25.000 acres. County Fruit In spector's. H. Van Trunmp, of Marlon county, says full grown prune orchards in this district ought to yield five tons of dried fruit to the acre.' Multiply 10.- 000 by 25,000 and you will see that the immediate local Salem district alone is well on the way towards the half million pound mark annually. Mr. Van Trump says "there is no better prune district on earth. and our marketing conditions are absolutely the best." He says that land that is suitable for prunes may be had here for $75 to $300 an acre owing to "the distance from market. ' ' The prune industry here is young yet. There are men yet young and active In the industry her8 who helped in the beginning of its solid start, who. have stood by and aided its growth into great ness, land who are still active in pushing it toward the greater at tainments-that are promised for the industry in the future. Her bert Hoover, as a boy, aided his uncle, Dr. H. J. Minthorn, who, in company with B. .S. Cook, of the old Oregon Land Co., gave the prune industry its first great im petus in the Salem district. H. S. Gile and W. T. Jenks of the Wil lamette Valley Prune association, who were the pioneers of the wide marketing of the Oregon prune, are still young and very active in the industry, as growers, packers and buyers and sellers. - The Oregon Growers Coopera tive, association has undertaken the most ambitious program ever outlined for putting the merits of Oregon prunes on the map. The "MIstland" tame has been adopt ed for the Lest brand of Oregon prunes and for other Oregon fruit and nut products, and large sums are now being expended in adver tising. This will till "MISTLAND" like "Sunkist" fruits. There is money in prunes in the Salem- district some years it has been and in some years in the fu ture it will be a bonanza crop. But the thing is, that it is a relia ble money crop, paying sure prof its that will justify values fpr de veloped prune orchards 'of 5Q0 an acre and over; and finally this is bound to run up to $1000 to $2500 an acre. So the man who starts now, and develops even a small prune orchard, will gain in dependence for himself and his children and his children's chil dren. This district produced abuot 42,000,000 pounds of prunes in 1923. of Belgium; and did you know j the adequate protective tariff, in that Salem has doubled in a year) the Fordney act. Flax for the as a dairy center " ' becd was grown here 60. 50 and The Dairying Industry "Did you know that, in the matter of dairying, our dairy- The bove is the language of one of the Slogans. We have produced nearly all the world record Jersey cows, and the greatest cow of all time, of any breed, any age. We have the best dairy country in the world. The recent discoveries in diet ary science, showing that a virile race that thinks high thoughts and achieves great things cannot be maintained without milk: that children must have milk if they are to grow and develop normally; that there can be no long life with out milk, make the dairying in dustry a sacred calling; a profes sion, if the reader will allow that term, that must be respected. Dairying is profitable here in the Salem district, on its own ac count, and increasingly so as bet ter and better cows are being pro duced; and the dairy cow Is ueccs- 40 years ago and Salem had a successful linseed oil mill, owned by the Gray family; on the site of the present Kay waolen mills. Away back in 1876, at the Phil adelphia Centennial, fiber flax grown near Salem took the first rrize against the flax of all other countries, on ALL THE NINE POINTS considered by the judg es: and at that time a great Bel fast Jinen manufacturer said that he could take two pounds of the Salem district flax and SPIN A THREAD THAT WOULD UEACH AROUND THE WORLD, J So we are on the eve of a great flaxt and hemp industry develop ment. This- one industry alone most surely will eventually justify a city several times larger than Salem is now; and it will furnish a very profitable use of thousand? of acres of our farming land The Walnut Industry "Did you know that Salem is the center of a great walnut indus try; that the Franquette and May ette walnuts produced here are the world's best walnuts with a nut ty flavor found in no other; that carloads of walnuts now go out and trainloads will go out from Salem, the market center for wal nuts: and that there is vast room for more intelligent walnut growers?-' The above words are familiar to readers who follow the Slogan campaigns. The walnut tree comes into bearing early in this district, but it attains great age, and becomes more valuable each yer, under the proper conditions found here. cold packed, and disposed of in other ways. The Salem district is going fast towards a 10.000,000 pounds an nual crop of strawberries, and our manufacturing and marketing in terests must prepare to take care of such a crop. Oregon produced 5 per cent of the strawberries grown in the United States in 1919 Marion county is the leading strawberry county in Oregon, and Polk, 'adjoining, is a close second. Salem surely has the true straw berry mark; and her premiership as the strawberry center of the world will depend only upon the facilities for properly handling them keeping up with the growing of them in this district. The Sa lem district also produces annu- and with the right varieties. Black I ally great quantities of strawber- THE 52 MOST IMPORTANT BASIC INDUSTRIES AND INTERESTS OF SALEM AND THE SALEM DISTRICT (Being the Slogan Subjects with Dates) Loganberries, October 4 Prunes, October 11 Dairying, October 18 Flax, October 25 Filberts, November 1 Walnuts, November 8 Strawberries, November 15 Apples, November 22 Raspberries, November 29 Mint, December 6 Great Cows, Etc., Dec. 13 Blackberries, December '20 Cherries, December 27 Pears, January 3, 1924 Gooseberries, January 10 Corn, January 17 Celery, January 24 Spinach, Etc., January 31 Onions, Etc., February 7 Potatoes, Etc., February 14 Bees, February 21 Poultry and Pet Stock, February 28 Goats, March 6 Beans, Etc., March 13 Paved Highways, March 20 Broccoli, Etc., March 27 Silos, Etc., April 3 Legumes, April 10 Asparagus, Etc., April 17 Grapes, Etc., April 24 Drug Garden, May 1 Sugar Beets, Sorghum, Etc., May 8 Water Powers, May 15 Irrigation. May 22. Mining, May 29 Land, Irrigation, Etc., June 5 Dehydration, June 12 Hops, Cabbage, Etc., June 19 Wholesaling and Jobbing, June 26 Cucumbers, Etc., July 3 Hogs, July 10 City Beautiful, Etc., July 17 Schools, Etc., July 24 Sheep, July 31 National Advertising, August 7 Seeds, Etc., August 14 Livestock, August 21 . Automotive Industry, August 28 Grain and Grain Products, September 4 Manufacturing, September 11 Woodwork, Etc., September 18 Paper Mills, Etc., September 25 (Back copies, of the Thursday edi tions of the Daily Oregon Statesman are on hand. They are for sale at 10 cents each, mailed to any address. Cur rent copies, 5c.) and other walnut trees planted here by our pioneers are towering giants an I every one capable of earning interest on a large sum. if grafted over to'a pure Vrooman Franquette strain. Large walnuts trees in California have sold for 53000. From the above, the . readers may get an idea of the intrinsic value of a large walnut orchard; cr even of a few trees, in Jh"eom ing years. It will commence bear ing the sixth year here, and in crease rapidly thereafter. It has been stated that if all the shade trees in Salem were bering English walnut trees of the right varieties the sale of the nuts would pay all the taxes of the owners of city property. The reader is referred to a special article in this edition on walnut growing. ry plants for sale at home and for shipment, to outside mrkets. We ship them in carloads. men are at least 7 cents a pound of butterfat ahead of the dairy men east of the Rock mountain ;s that there is at least that much difference in favor of our dairy men, on account of the fact that they are not obliged to combat the effects of the intense summer heat and the winter cold in the keeping of cows; that in addition they have the same advantage of rais ing their families and in their own comforts; that this one fact, if It could be generally understood, would fill the Willamette valley with a population as dense as that GRAVES CANNING CO., INC. Main Office: Woodburn, Oregon t; CANNERIES AT Woodburn, Sherwood and Sheridan, Oregon Packers of the famous "GRAVES" brand fancy, fruits Our Motto: "QUALITY JFIRST i i - i- WE ARE IN THE MARKET AT ALL TIMES : . FOR FRESH FRUIT FOR CANNING N J PURPOSES "It Will Mean Money Saved to See Us First" r sarry to keep up the fertility' of the soil; to increase the produc tivity or the land, so that it will never wear out. but on the con trary grow better the longer it is used. If you are a dairyman any where in the world, outside of the Salem district, it will pay you to sell out, even at a loss, and come and engage in that indus try here where ycur profits will be larger and larger and your comforts greater than In any other, country. The Flax and Hemp Industry. "Did you know that ours 13 the best country in the world for the production of flax, for fiber for the making of twines, threads and linens; that our water, being 'poft. is Just right for the treatment of the flax straw and taking it through all of the processes of manufacture from the retting to the weaving of the cloth; that when these facts became univer sally known, the flax industry will be fully developed here and that j it will bring to our valley a hun dred million dollars annually?" The above Ere familiar and true words from various Slogan issues of Th3 Statesman. The Salem district is the only place in the United States where the flax industry is developed for the production of the finer fiber on a commercial scale, and there is every promise that it will grow in size from now on. Now is the opportune time. Russia, the former great flax reservoir, is down and out. Mrs. W. P. Lord, of Salem, away back in the days when her husband was supreme judge and I later governor of Oregon, began ; work in the interest of the flax j industry here and 6he continues 'in this noble work to this day: and she is recognized the world over as an authority. She is still very active. " On here farm in the Labish Meadows district in 1920 a plat of ground was devoted to hemp, the seed being furnished by the United States department of ag riculture. The experiment prov-i od a great Success hemp has! been grown every year since, afM now there are prospects that the, Salem district will also take the leadership In the hemp industry along with flax. "We can raise the hemp here as good as ia grown tu Italy, the great hemp country. The rapid development hero of both the flax and hemp indus tries will bo aided materially by There is greater activity in the Oregon penitentiary flax plant. and that plant will no doubt within a few years render the in stitution self supporting, 1 and a good deal more including the making of it a model institution of its kind. The Filbert Industry "Did you know that Salem is permanently the filbert center of the United States; that this dis trict now grows more filberts and has more young trees and has mdfe prospective filbert growers than any other section ! of the country; that this is the only dis trict of the United States suita ble for filbert growing, excepting part of western Washington and northern California; and that there is big money in filberts; that this is a crop that has a number of very important advantages and that thero is vast room here for more filbert growers, who will tke none of the risks of pioneers in the Industry ?" So substantially runs the Salem Slogan in The Statesman of five annual editions. The Sajem district is the only section of the United States that Jias so far developed the filbert industry on a commercial scale. Mr. Heed, of the bureau of nui culture. United States Department of Agriculture. Washington. D. C. visited the Stlem district recently and he stated that wo have here in the Willamette valley the fin est filbert soils; also the most promising filbert groves anywhere in the United States. United States Senator Chas. I.. McNary of Oregon, whose home Is in Salem, is a pioneer grower of filberts here, and his enthusiasm is undiniishi-d. and he predicts a great future jor the industry. T'.ie filbert industry has an out standing number of advantages in this district, for instance: The fiiiK-rt is frost proof: the trees mature young; the harvest ing is easy crops fail off and all but harvests itseir: is a "lazy man's crop." needing' little atten tion af.er trees mature. In years of high prices, it will be a bonanza crop, yielding from 3000 to 500 pounds to the acre here for mature trees, and sales have in the past few years been as high as 35 cents a pound. Fig ure it out for yourself. Filbert trees are being set out here as fast as the proper nursery stock can be had. The Strawberry Industry This is a great strawberry dis trict. For some growers, straw berries have "een a' bonanza crop. There hava been yields here reach ing as high as 24,000 pounds to the acre, but the average under the old method has perhaps been a ton and a half to the acre. It is expected, with new methods and varieties, to bring this up to two and four tons to the acre. The Marion county canneries packed 117,939 cases of strawber ries last year; a hig increase over 1922. when the Salem canneries packed 60,000 cases. Besides great quantities were sold freah. The Apple Industry Apple growing has been suc cessfully carried on in the Salem district since the settlement of the country Thare have been many apple booms. There is an apple tree on the Egan farm below Sa lem, of the Delicious variety, that is 75 year3 old; center stem 50 feet high; 50 feet limb spread; bears 50 bushels of apples a year. Nearly all varieties of apples do well in family orchards here. But, for commercial purposes, nothing should be grown in'whieh we do not excel. We can excel in the Ortley, the Rome Beauty, the Win ter Banana, the Grimes, the' De licious and others, and we raise as fine Gravenstelns as the worlo can show. Speakin ; from the commercial standpoint, it would be well for the Salem district if nearly every apple tree in all this secton were of one of the above vareties. We can top the market with these and that is where the big money is in any industry. black raspberry can be successful ly and persistently grown here, 1 This is not jtrue of any other dis-., trict in this part of the world. ,It is not true of western Washington, the great red raspberry, country. The jam and jelly trade demands j a lot of black; raspberries; "and : there is no bush fruit line that is more c?rtan If continued success : here in the Salem district than is ? the raising of Munger black rasp- J berries; the. blackcaps of com merce. Our. cannery pack of 1 black, raspberries climbed from ; 1200 cases each of reds and blacks in 1922 to . 23, 133 cases of reds jf Him cases ox Diacas . in 1923. ": ... : . . Tin; Raspberry Industry The Salem district is a good raspberry country. It produces as good red raspberries as any grown. But it has a franchise on the black raspberry; or what amounts to a frar".hise; for the Munger The Rooming Slint Industry The mint industry is on a boom and Salem is going to be head quarters for growing and market ing the ' crop of peppermint oil. Dan J. Fry, the Salem druggist, the largest buyer of crude drags In the Btaie, says he is in touch with one firm' that will want 50,000 ' pounds annually and the Salem J district, ; from present indications, will soon bo ready to furnish that f much; and a great' deal more; ' The Oregon Mint Growers Co operative association is active; and C ; it proposes lo build a refinery;' to - . secure a larger benefit and a bet- ter standardization of the Oregon i i product, which now stands Tery?v, high, and which sells to what ,: amounts to a premium of $1 or?gJ more a pound over the eastern product, ; owing to its superior ' ' quality. . i .. 'i . So Salem is bound to be the ' . center of the leading peppermint ' oil district of the world because t ; 4' the finest and richest mint oil-in; the world is produced here;" an : -oil with 51 per cent of menthol ; content, against the 36 - per cent : oil produced in Michigan, Indiana, I and New:' York; and an oil that ranks at the top In flavor. Be- i sides, our , growers get , more j pounds of oil to the acre. It has V gone to 70 pounds to the acre, and ' ; 50 pounds to the acre is com- ' . mon. Mint is as good as clover ior the soil. -some say better; . and the f mint hay. makes good feed, and it is a safe crop.' . The White Michem variety does CREAMERY GROWING INSTITUTION . . ' 1 Capital City Cooperative Makes Good with Patrons Through Fair Dealing Policy Controlled Entirely by Dairymen; Bates Manager The Capital City Cooperative Creamery is one of Salem's most rapidly growing institutions. It has made good with customers and patrons alike because it has dealt fairly with the producer ai.d has given the consuming public a quality of butter that has met their approval. This institution has been oper-1 ating as a cooperative creamerj for eight years. It is a non-profiting organization, controlled en tirely by the dairymen. C. F. Bates is its mat ager and last summer ; Mr. Bates decided to meet the need or the times with the new innovation of grading all cream. The highest price was paid tor first grade cream and a lower price for inferior cream. This policy has been accepted by many of the creameries over the state as the salvation ot the dairy industry. The people are demand ing and are entitled to the high est grade butter. Such butter can be only manufactured with the best cream. Mr. Bates reports that by this policy he lost a tew patrons who did not desire to de liver first quality cream but gained others to take their places. In tact, during the past year the growth ot the creamery has been enormous. Their output of butter was 289.041 pounds. During the preceding year it was 187,536 pounds, showing an increase of 101.38." pounds, or almost 50 per cent over the preceding year. This is the best evidence of the fact that the farmers appreciate a cooperative creamery and are willing to do their part of the co operating by producing first qual ity cream and aln that the cream ery has ben able to please the public with its butter and there by find a market, for this enor mous increase. The product has been raised from medium to the highest grade by this method of cream gradi!.g and now sells on the Portland market in the new butter exchange lor the highest price paid in that market. During the past year it paid back to its patrons in dividends $2,029.66 besides paying them the I V highest market price for their cream. ' Many of the most substantial dairymen in the Saleni district are . members or the organlzatloi. and its officers are leading dairy men who exercise active' manage ment in the concern. They .are: R. N. Magnus, president; J. II. Whiteman, vice president: War ren Gray, secretary; R. W. Hogg and T. J. ' Shippler, directors; with C. F. Bates as manager. - 4 The officers of the association believe that cooperation in the j dairy business is the key-note to;. success and that by this method the highest prices may be secured X for the product because of the cooperation the dairymen will . give in producing a better quality of cream for their own asocia tion. It is by this cooperation ibey aTe able to pay not only, tha ' highest market price for. cream. but also to vote back to their pa- : tror.s a handsome bonus in the tdiape or the dividend paid them annually pro rata according to ; ' the amount of reant that is shipped. Oregon's Highest Grade Butter IS MADE IN SALEM FOR SALEM PEOPLE Miiuul'uclurcd under Hie most sanitary and modern conditions, from GRADED CREAM Only first, ffinde cream -or into our first-grade butter, from famous Salem district world-famous cows. . BUTTERCUP , and FOUR C brands of butler will please your taste. Ask your grocer for our brands CAPITAL CITY COOPERATIVE CREAMERY 137 S. Commercial St. Phone 229 Salem, Oregon A nun-profit organization, controlled entirely by the dairymen ' v T