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" MMM m KUJjMM aSHM M BM MBPJPJlMPJPPJMMnSjnnMHB We-Wi EM DISTRI.C 1. Buy tha X Oreron Had furnace EL L I NG I SAIi Give O Best Effort J 3 r. j V. V. ROSEBRAUGH CO. foundry and Machine Shop 17th Oak Sti., Salm. Or. Phone &8C wajAr Oat Attn Tv UnUou W r onir prli( Tr thr qtart.r of mlllioa dollars jr m thm dairjnnaa of this aoctioa fox silk., , "Marion Bottcr" ' Xa taa Bt Bsttac Kara Cava and BUar Cava Is ta cryla aaad MARION CREAMERY & PRODUCE CO. Salem, Ore. Phone 248S DEHYDRATED and CANNED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Oregon Products j King's Food Products Company . Salem Portland The Dalle - Oregon " 1 ;.. Oof Ideals ! Tha Baa Only" Our M.Uiod: Cooparatiaa Capital City Co-cpsrefire Creazery aoa-profit rraaistio evnai entirely by Uxa dirynin. Qiva a trial. .. Haanfaetartra ef BnKareaa Batter 'At yaar Groear" . Paoaa 299 137 a Ceat'l St. Gidscn Stoh Co, - Manufacturers of Dependable Brand Ume-Sulphnr Solution. The brand you can depend . .on for parity and teat , Prices upon application . Factory near corner of Summer and 1III1 Be i Salem,- Oregon " Wilhneite VaDsy Prune . ; V t Asscciatioa v. The oldest' Association la the Northwest - Y.T. JEIIKS ; Secretary end Manager Trade A High Hta. SALEM. OREGON " NELSON BROS. Warn air Taraacaa. ptamfclng fceaUac an4 ahaat natal work, tta tad graral Mafia taral ok al im Ua aad rTaU4 in SSS dsaukats Ct. - naae 1909 There is a difference in bread. FOR YEARS AD YEARS Tha ItiUnua an an p ply las tha vaata ef tha critical ah artnOac trada Froof poatuva w aia ariaurs al warth and aaarit. Madera anlpnant and Idaas ar lha asat 'Vat cat by. Statecinan PubKching Coitipany Fhoae 3 or 583 SIS S. Com'l St. The Way to Build Up Your Home Town Is to Patronize Your Home People MORE THAN HALF CDUMRY'S WHITE - -v- IN OUR COAST STATES; VAST WATER POWERS ABE HEAR The Largest and Cheapest Proposed Water Power Proj ect, Which Will Finally Transform This Whole Region Cheap Powers Near Salem More than, half the water pow ers of the United States are in the three pacific coast states: the lar gest and cheapest water power project In the world Is the Colum bia river power project And within a radius of 100 miles of Salem there can be de veloped 300,000 to 400,000 horse power of water power . And an extension of the radius to 200 miles would Include nearly all of the great water powers of the state, running up to three to four millions j . And engineers find that with modern methods of transmission 200 miles is no distance worth worrying about i in the transmis sion of hydro-electric power; that it 13 merely, a matter of longer transmission lines supported by more tall poles. In California electric power Is conducted 400 miles or more from the points of the generating plants to the places John Bowers i Wbt A Man A Ma" At: the Oregon DAIRY Perfectly Pasteurized MILK AND CREAM Thone 725 lutter-Nut "The Richer, Finer Loaf CHERRY CITY BAKERY HOTEL BLIGH 100 roonu of Solid Comfort A Hczie Acay Frca Home Devoted to Showing Salem District People the Advantages and Opportunities of Their Own Country and Its Cities and Towns. Selling 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 go1 by. ; T of use. That distance would place Salem within the reach of all the powers ever to be developed in Oregon. . .. ' ; NeBrby Powers There are water powers capable of development within a radius of 50 miles of Salem that will aggre gate 150,000 horsepower and more some of them . comparatively easy and cheap. of development. - Some of the Xear Ones Following are some " of tho available powers coming within or near the &0 mile limit of Salem: Project No. 1 Source of sup ply. Fish, Clear, Lava and Lost lakes. Location:; Section 8 T, 34 S R 7 B W M. Fal. 968 feet. Horsepower, " 45,000. Estimated cost, $3,000,000. Project No. 2 Source of sup ply: North Fork Santiam river. Location: Section 7, T 10 S It 2 W W M. Flow: 220 cubic feet per second. Horsepower, 600. Project No. 3 Source of sup ply: North Fork Santiam , river. Location: Section 13, T 9 S It 1 E, Marion county. Flow: 750 cu-. bic feet per second. Fall: 130 feet. Horsepower, 11,000. Esti mated cost, $600,000. Project No. 4 Source of sup ply: North Fork Santiam river. Location: Section 28. T 9 S R 4 E, Marion county. Flow, COO cu bic feet per second. Fall, 105 feet. Horsepower. 7,755. Esti mated cost, $800,000. Project No. 5 Source of sup ply: North Fork Santiam river. Location: Section 12, T 10 S R 5 E W M. Flow: 600 cubic feet per second. Horsepower, 10,227. , j Project No. 6 Source of sup Dly: North Fork Santiam river. Location: Section 20. T 10 S R 7 E W M. Flow: 600 cubic feet per second. . Fall: 475 ; feet. Horse power, 29.000 Eestlmated cost, $2,000,000. . z Project No. 7 Source of sup ply: Marion lake, Puzzle creek and Whiskey creek, tributary to North Fork Santiam. Location: Section 36, T 11 S R 7 E W M. Flow: 160 cubic feet per second. Fall: 1465 feet. Horsepower, 26, 636. Estimated cost $2,000,000. Many Smaller Onos : The total available undeveloped horsepower, in the above enumer ated projects alon; foot up 130, 218. They are all within fifty miles of Salem, and most of them nearer than that. Within ! the same radius there are many water powers that have not been ' sur veyed or estimated; some small ones, and many that would show up to be of considerable size upon examination. A I ..it tie Flirt Iier Away " A little further away from Sa lem, but easily available for use here, there' are at : least 100. 000 horsepower of water powers on the McKcnzie river. And nothing has been isaid in the above of more Salem Carpet Cleaning and Fluff Rug Works Rag and fluff rags woven any sizes without seams. New mattresses made to order. Old mattresses remade. Feathers renovated. I bay all kinds of old carpets for flatting. , ami Otto 3 F. Zwidter, Prep. rnone lis HW and Wilbur street 0 SALEM District is a continuation of the Salem Slogan and Pep and Progress Campaign or less of available power running to waste down the Coast Range, that could easily be made avail able for use In Salem. Had You Thought of This? The Portland Electric Power Co., serving Salem and the sur rounding country and towns and cities, is now developing what it calls Oak Grove project. This will be brought Into use before long. The whole development will bring In 105,000 horsepower; will be the greatest project of the kind noiv under process-of full headway in the northwest; and its total cost will be- about $10,000,000. Its great value Will hinge on the fact that this will be a steady just the same the whole year through. A Salem Project Had you realized that this is as much a Salem project as it is a Portland ' project that the - Oak Grove plant is on the uper reach es of the Clackamas river, and about the same distance from Sa lem as from Portland about 60 miles on an air line? The water flowing to the great' plants comes from the eastern ends of both Clackamas and Marion counties; about as much from Marion as from Clackamas and a good deal of it from Marion county .comes from the eternal snows of Mt. Jef ferson. ; What Is more, the great wheels up there in the Cascades, in the Oak Grove plant, will for all fu ture time give Salem her quota of power just the same as they will give Portland hers; in proportion to the use made of it in the motor driven machinery of the two cit ies. ; ;.. ' And Salem's use of it will no doubt grow fast. The power used for machinery and lights by the Salem paper mill equals the vol ume used in all the rest of Salem partly because the heavy load In the rest of the city is for only about eight hours; while in the paper mill, with its three eights hour shifts, it is steady during all of the 24 hour day. This' explains why power for such factories can be supplied at a much lower rate than must apply to power for ma chinery and lights that have their peak loads once in a day, and for the greater part of the 24 hour day nse little or no power at all. Our Partially Developed Powers Growing , Our partially developed water powers-In Salem and vicinity have been growing during -the past year. The water powers in Salem and vicinity, so far listed at the office of the states engineer, show the use of slightly more than 6000 ihorsepower, and available on full development 24,371 horsepower. The latter figure has more than doubled In tho past year. They are as follows: Company Stream Developed Total Ore"gon Pulp and Paper Co., Mill Creek and $ Salem, Oregon Santiam River 483.24 1,804 Portland Electric Tower Co., Electric Bldg., Portland Silver Creek 1,875 Oregon- Grain Co., ' ,: , - Turner, Oregon Mill Creek 273 273 Oregon State Penitentiary Mill Creek and r r Salem Santiam River 218 ' 218 A. D. Gardner and II. E. Ben- North Santiam nett, Stayton. Oregon River 933 1,500 A. D. Gardner, Stayton, North Santiam Oregon .Hiver 13,636 Crown Willamette Taper South Santiam Company -River : 400 613 The Scio Mill and Elevator Thomas Fork . Co., Sclo, Oregon of Santiam 105 105 Molalla Electric Company, Aurora. Oregon Molalla River 125 125 Mountain States Power Co., South Fork - . Albany. Oregon Santiam 1.023 1.023 Mountain States Power Co., Lebanon. Oregon - South Santiam 2S4 284 Fischer's Flouring Mills, Silverton Silver Crrek 73 73 Sherm Swank. Aumsville, Santiam River Oregon and Mill Creek- 50 169 Falls City Power Co., - "' S. IX. Francis, Kings Lucklamute River 197 200 Valley, Oregon Lucklamute River 25 50 Jefferson Mill Co.. . North Fork Jefferson, Oregon Santiam Kjver 650 . 650 Hammond Lumber Co., Mill City Santiam River 750 1.078 Sidney Power Co., Salem Santiam 200 200 L. Ames, Fulietron, Calif. ' Silver Creek 60 60 City of Scio, Sclo, Thomas Creek ' Oregon . Fork of Santiam 85 92 Thomas Creek City of Scio " Fork of Santiam 115 341 : , ; --Trr? "C 71 ' . - - - : . 6.053.21 smti 30010 EXPERIMENTS IE BEING CARRIED ON BY LUTHER BURBAI A Visit to the Great Plant Wizard at His Home in Santa Rosa, California- Foremost Man in the World in His Field, He Is a Lover of Men and a Hard and Most Humble and Patient Worker , (Leslie Burton Blades, writing In "Association Men" for June (the magazine of the Y. M. C. A.) after a visit to Luther Burbank, the plant wizard, the genius who has worked and is working mir acles with fruits and flowers, after conquering Illness, poverty and ridicule, apart from the Introduc tion describing his trip; says: ) t At nine o'clock ray wife and I were at his door. We were shown into the parlor and told that Mr. Purbank would be in presently. He was in the garden. . In a few min utes he came, a gentle white-; headed figure, clad in work clothes, and no whit troubled by the fact. -His is a dignity of spir it, a gentle, democratic character, a nfind of high Ideas, and great dreams. "You are at it early," I said, as he shook my hand. "I am always at it by seven In the morning," was his answer. "There is always so much to do with growing things, and I am a genuine farmer." : We sat and chatted about mir acles, , before a sun-filied window. Through it a bank of great dahlias could be- seen holding their heads erect and proudly formal in their white, crimson, gold and purple loveliness, j My wife, 'who had been a school girl in Santa Rosa, glanced across the street toward the cottage op posite, j ; "You lived there .when I was a girl in school," she said, "and all along your fence you had red Cali fornia poppies. ; We children used to pick them as we passed." ' "I know," he smiled, "that's one of the; reasons I had them The Surest Way to Get Industries Is to Support there; I wanted the children to enjoy them." That brought us naturally to his own childhood days, spent far away in Massachusetts. lie had played more with flowers than with other boy and girls. The thirteenth of 1 5 children born to Samuel Burbank, he was not with out brothers and sisters, but the flowers possessed a charm that he could never resist. ' From Factory to Field. As a lad he was put to work in a plow factory and although he had no natural liking for the shops, he applied himself diligent ly to learning what there was to learn, doing what was to be done, well. ' .'' When the opportunity came for him to exchange the factory for the field, he welcomed It joyously and was again among growing things. Already he had - deter mined that his life work should be with plants and now his days held more than a task well done, for the field was a source of happi ness. '.. j : ' ' -J . ' Quietly, without talking about his dream he set himself to devel op a better potato than any the world yet knew. The result was the Burbank. "I sold that potato plant," he told me, "for one hundred fifty dollars.. I was poor those days and that seemed like a great deal to me. . Of course, that price pur chased all rights to the plant. I could not go on growing and sell ing them. 1 "Not long ago, with the help of some overnment men, I estimated that the potatoes grown from that plant and its progeny would .fill a freight train, long enough to reach from Santa Rosa to any point on the globe, that is, some thirteen thousand miles." In 1875 Mr, Burbank came to California for his health. At the time he was not only sick but pen niless a3 well. His first home in the town of his adoption was an abandoned chicken house. His first work was as roust about, doing whatever odd job came his way and all the time he dreamed and planned his garden, a garden where patience, knowledge, work and ideals would make old fairy tales come true. , "There were stories of flowers that grew, and grew like the bean stalk of Jack, for instance. I knew that in Nature's wisdom1 were se crets that could make such things possible if only men knew how.' I wanted to find those secrets but for my fellows." It was not long' before his health improved, and with- returning en ergy, came the money with which to secure a piece of land. Then Luther Burbank began his life as a nursery man. - : "Thank goodness," he said. "I never studied 'boiany, As it was taught In those days it was dry enough to make any interest in plants a desert of Indifference. I was unhampered by formal laws about plants and trees. I wanted to eee what could be done." "It all sounds very simple," I remarked, "but how did you go about it to get such a miracle as the shasta daisy, for example?" The magician smiled at me and the light of his love for his work was in his eyes. ; "It is largely a matter of selec tion," he answered, "I choose the best of a species and by patient work with i( develop it to its ut More and Larger Those You Have my raff er wltH Etomac most. Of course budding and grafting helps with trees.'' , There was ah occasion in his life as a ' nurseryman when an order for 20,000 plum trees was sent him. It came at a season when practically none of the trees would do well and was to be filled within six months or the order was cancelled. . v : ' Burbank set to fill the require ment. Nor wa3 he willing" that, a single tree should be delivered un less it was the best quality. Of all trees, the almond alone could grow at that season. Burbank set out 20,000 almond trees and with all his skill worked .to develop them. At the proper time he cut them, and grafted plums to the liv ing base. When the six months were elapsed he delivered 20,000 flourishing - plum trees. IBut to select, the properplant Is not always easy," I said,' "one can never quite be sure." "Experience , and knowledge help," he suggested, "and then,, patience is essential. I' have one experiment I have watched for twenty-seven years. . It Is at last a success though not yet common ly known. That is my. walnut tree." I .. ' " Infinite- Patience V I was mentally confronting the scope of his jthought when he spoke so calmly of patience. That word means something " to every man, but I doubt if .there are many who understand it as Bur bank does. He could' work and wait for 27 years, never tiring, never, discouraged never for a moment losing interest ;in the dist tant result. I listened and mar veled In silence.' . "The walnut- wood used by manufacturers of pianos," he con tinued, "is hard and slow of growth. I wanted to ' develop a quality of walnut as hard as the best but more rapidly, grown.-To do so I crossed the English -walnut with the Australian black. Then I planted a score of seeds or more. It took nine years to get the best saplings mature and selected. With the best of them I started over again, crossing and grafting and budding. "Ordinarily, a walnut , tree wiil increase its girth by the thickness of a finger nail during one grow ing season. I wanted mine to do better than that. . . ' ."After' 27 4 years of selection and work I succeeded. rj.Iy walnut wood is so hard that the ordinary knife will not cut it and a tree increases Its grith by the thick ness of a man's hand every grow ing season."! - "That' will do much to prevent a scarcity of -walnut,' I exclaim ed, remembering a friend who complained that such wood ' : was rare these days. , "It will," Mr. Burbank rejoiced, "and I am glad to think that it will very soon be growing in for ests.", - -v": ' "Of course," my wife remarked, "we have a. Burbank plum in Our yard. They are a wonderful fruit. How did you do it? ' v Mr. Burbank turned towards her and threw out a hand. "Do you know," ho said, "1 suppose that the' plum , is one of HERE, MR. HOMEBUILDER- lm the ',' BEST, SAFEST STRONGEST, ' and. 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J This-free Information tins good materials at fair prices will give you more for your money than you are accus- 1 tomed to getting. f Oregon Gravel Company An Independent Organization 1403 X. FIIOXT. rilOXH IF ) my big struggles with nature. I once burned acres to save a si: - gle tree. Ihave had over 300, 000 varieties in my place at P bastapol until lately. I have t duced the number greatly now. "Did you come through Vac. ville? They say I made It wit I my plums."" He spoke reflective ly, not with cbnsciousness of self, but as a man reverently tells of a great accomplishment in which hi feela that ' the hand of God may well have aided him. "Jt w,n formerly difficult to get a plum that was ' solid enough to staad shipping. I wanted to work out that problem and I finally suc ceeded. Vacaville ships plums to Europe and they arrive in excel lent condition." He was talking enthusiastically, his eyes aglow with gratitude to the Source of All Life, his word full of respect for the miracles of growth. . "I have a blackberry," he wer.t on,; "a fine luscious fruit thnt grows on a thorniess vine. It Is a wonderful thing to see. I watch it day after day with a feeling cf mystery at ray heart. "And do you know," he laughed happily, "my men, familiar as they are with the things these plants do, -would not weed those vint-a for me. I offered $1000 to tho one who got a scratch, but now of them would risk tl. I weeded them' myself." "And the cactus," I put in, "Jt too, is robbed of Its barbs. Truly, that Is a blessing. The cattle rau ers on the dry plains of . Arizona and Sonora would do well to plant and cultivate it." "Yes," he agreed, "In dry years the cattle teed on it and I am toold, have the thorns sticking by thousands In hteir mouths, poor creatures." "The time will come when ble thorniess cactus will grow every where. It is as smooth as can be. You can rub it against your cheek and it feels liko velvet. There arb little holes like pores in tho (Continued on pago 9) CO. 017 ( BnUdlng Tile, Brlct, Tile. L 0 -9