The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, June 01, 1924, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Textj ' )-: . .Phone UiO 525 Court Street I I Phone 97. is.LtlL "tSSSi tTpU7' I f j w ' i ..n, UNION 'ABSTRACT- COIIPANY Announce the removal of their place pf business to better J and more commodious quarters at 525 Court St. , Opposite the court house. - " ' ' ' ' " ' t ' ' l Before building your new home hare us examine the ab stract and be' sure that it is correct. IV 8. PAGE, President. IV. E. HAXSOX, .Secretary. PIPE AMD PIPELESS i- FURNACES Installed in Your Homa at Factory Prices Over 200 Satisfied Homa Sl ices r fled V Users in Salszi . A FUEL SAVER PERFECT CONTROL I "anufactured and iold fcy V CC3 KorUi Hi;h Street I . ' phones 104S21 : , LL.oa . SC3 North liberty- EL "v. t .' " i t 3G - IjfiUlS A pply 11 0 1L- VU VLU. ? If you. are one of 750 persons In Salem who do not own your Lome, here. Is probably your reason and a suggested eolation t 1 ' ') ";- V""'''"-1-- : - t - V:, .; :y, . ' 1 .-; ... . i . . , i -, j ; You have dreaded the expense of upkeep that comes 'with' an ordinary house. Then possibly you or, your wife i ha vq an inborn fear of fire, and hate the heat of ,'. urnmer and cold of winter that you experience in an o rdinary house. J . A; : T MILESTONE home ; vill remove the usual ob "Tr. ejections -to home-owning, f::-"-: the enpencive up-keep, ; and other dreads and fears. AVhat will it cost ? Come in, we will gladly tell you ! MILESTONE : Concretes Products !. OEGOIJ GRAVEL COMIVaNY ! 11C3 JJOniTI FIIONT PHONE 180 Attractlre large corner, close in, house is modern in every . detail, $20,000. i r ! Large corner, 11-room house, $11,000. 7. Large corner, 9-room modern house, ,a splendid business propo- sition as well as a beautiful home. $19,000. : " Gertrude J. M. Page x 492 NORTH COTTAGE We Yrite Fire Insurance L'. D. BRANDON General Painting Contractor Painting in All Its Branches 23r South Church Street LABISH BEAVER LAND i (By J. L. B.) The work of reclamation gen erally means Irrigation, but that is only a small part of Its mean ing. , Reclamation means to re claim land and the best job of that kind being done in Oregon is In Lake Labish. .Eleren years ago a beaver lake held sway in the rich bottom land 10 miles northeast of Salem, but to make the story complete it is necessary to go still further back. -Way back before Oregon was even a state there were some -famous swamp lands in this terri tory. They were so rich the wil lows grew into trees and shrubs were unknown. Then the federal government wished these swamp lands onto the state of Oregon when it came into the Union. John II. Miller, a man of vision and fore-sight purchased 35,000 acres of these lands scattered over the state.!. He purchased them for a song and was permitted to sing the t song himself. At his death his widow found herself in pos session of the beaver lake known as Lablsh. ' She did not know what to do with the land and In her extremity appealed to E. A. and J. O. Hayes of Santa Jose, California, whom she knew very well, and asked them to take the land and do the best they could with it guaranteeing her a mod erate living through life. By the way, this Is about the best place to say that the Hayes boys car ried out their-agreement gener ously and Mrs. Miller is living in comfort taking . trips, to Europe when she desires and going wher ever she pleases. It took vision to see flourishing farms in this, waste, land but the Hayes men had . vision. , They came up here and began spending their money; they k have been spending It for 11 years, and now have a plantation worth a thous and dollars an acre. They raise the best onions in the world, the best carrots, the best potatoes and please bear in mind the potatoes have eight per cent more starch than potatoes raised any place else in America. That Is enough of preliminaries. "One morning of the past week I boarded the automobile of L. O. Herrold to inspect the Lake Lablsh country. The central thought was to seethe proposed million dollar highway. The price is given too cheap. " At . least double, that amount could be raised on that highway. In the next yejar or two double and by five years, four times', that ; amount. On Friday of this Week a delegation will come into the ' city asking that the road be hard surfaced. They propose a parade and if they do parade Salem will see a. bunch of high grade capable citizens, men working hard In the development of a great tract- of land and, who are growing crops as abundant as if they had some one rubbing AI ladln's lamp for them. They are entitled to Shis highway. "We left the Pacif ie highway and the first place visited Was the Jap anese colony on the M. L. Jones farm, who are raising celery. This Japanese village was a busy place. Fifty workers around the Immed iate vicinity, plowing, planting and weeding. Then we went back to the main road past the Mrs. Lord and Billy Lord tracts. Mrs. Lord has never wavered In her faith In Lake Labish. -'The Hayes plantation contains 700 acres, 650 of which will be in cultivation by next year. This was a new world, a busy, energet ic, active world. ' Hundreds of peo ple scattered around in several little tracts of land were caring for the onions, caring tor the po tatoes. I learned one thing in 7Z 1 ' .- au-7-. -. t-ifi'T iA LOANS . On. Modem Homes , - -' . - r - . - . .-" . 5Vi7o Semi-Annual Interest 5 ; Yeair Losurn V iU Loan Up to 50 of Value ALSO 3 Percent Monthly Payment Loans Far Cheaper Than Any Buudins & Loan Co. ia the Northwest particular here onion sets are se cured by planting j the big onions so thick they crowd and cannot grow big. Big onions are given room for - development. Whereas sets are sown In little beds about three inches . wide! running the length of i the ; field, leaving a small place giting a toe hold in the fight on the seeds. Mr. Her rold told me that t was a contin ual fight. The weeds grow Just as fast as. the vegetables and fruit. Then they have to fight gophers and insect pests. The onion mag gots are controlled by planting a. bunch of large onions and putting poison in a little Vessel under lt-J rne iues wnicn aeposu me gots are attracted to this poison and are killed, j " Mr. Herrold is clearing for the Hayes interetss 200 acres of land this year.' "These j trees were jcu't' a year ago and carried of recently. Then the branches were piled up and, fired - the one on this field was the big fire which frightened Salem so much six weeks ago. A number of caterpillar tractors' are at work in various parts. of this land pulling out the roots and stumps. Following this work another tractor plowing deep in turning over the soil. This will be planted to potatoes. Although the big fire was six; weeks ago it is still burning and one of the most curious things Is that the soil is so rich It will burn to the water's edge. A crew of men get up at 3 o'clock every morning in order to find where the soil is burning. At this time they can see the little blue flames of smoke. In, the morning another crew puts put the fires. This is necessary In order to prevent the- entire bottom from burning up. This soil is the rich est in the world, and it gets an increment-added every year in the winter this land is from six to -10 feet under j water in the and It is drained with the Hayes ditch system so that the farming work can j begin' early. The Hayes Interests hare done a wonder work in the Labish mea dows. They have not only cleared the land and put It to use, but they have a large number of far mers who have become Indepen dent raising crops Ion their land. The Hayes men are ' good land lords, and are willing to help any deserving man get a start. They meet deserving menj half way. "I have been with the Hayes interests for ;li years," said Mr. Herrold, -'and I know that this development is tracable entirely to them. They " have not merely been handing out the money to do the work,' they . have ; an under standing and ' sympathetic Inter est In everything ; that has been done. They have studied the qual ity of . the land and: know exactly what fertilizer, it j needs." The Labish beaver country Is one vast garden of soil so rich that when horses walk over it they sink to the fetlocks and when an individ ual walks it W springy. - 1 I have seen many ambitious ef forts to makeland bloom as the rose, but the Hayes' Interests have made this land grow fruit In auh abundance that it is almost a fairy tale to read of the production. Over 400 carloads of produce of various kinds were raised along this million dollar road last year an everything this year Is in abundance. It is paradise for the worker. I An opportunity for the thrifty man to make a com petency - la a! few years. : It is bigger than any factory we could have. J. O. Hayes, Jr., Is In charge of the farm work and he has made friends on ' every hand. The Hayes' Interests made a test last year on certain fields and charged all necessary overhead to these fields, selecting average ac reage. The result was that there was 9 310 profit in the crop. The land valuation was $1000 an acre. i i r n ii nvi ri There are probably 50 farmers liv ing around there who made from four to seven thousand dol lars clear each, last year. These farmers are not complaining, they are -working hard but are giving employment to many men.. The entire Labish country Is a golden, opportunity for men who ; work with their head and their hands to make money. I LOWER DEATH RATE I NEW YORK, N. Y., May 31. If statistics affecting ,15,000,000 persons in. average walks of life may be taken as an index, the death rate for the first quarter of 1924 in the United States and Can ada has been the lowest ever re corded for the first three months In any year. " . The deduction made by Dr. Louis L Dublin, statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., is based upon the mortality among the company's industrial policy holders, comprising practically one-seventh of the combined popu lations of the two countries. The figures compiled, revealing the death rate reduction for January, February and March, refer chief ly to city wage earners; and their families. .... . In this urban industrial popu lation the ' quarter's death rate was 9.2 per 1000 lives, aged one year and over. This may be com pared with a rate of - 9.7 in the first quarter of 1921, which was the previous record first quarter for low mortality. . -Improvement, as compared with prior yeartCls shown In almost every cause of - death:, t There has been marked improvement In mor tality from diptheria. Scarlet, fev er Is running lower than for sever al years past Influenza, which reached epidemic prevalence early in 1923, has not been at all Im portant this - year. Tubculosls mortality again shows a gratifying decline. Mortality from diabetes droppedS2 as compared with me ursc quarter . of last year among the white policyholders and 17 among the colored. Lower rates are in evidence for all of the degenerative diseases. The most pronounced decline 'in this class is that for organic heart disease,- but important : decreases are also recorded for apoplexy and Bright's disease. For the. first time since 1920 there was a drop In the mortality from alcoholism, amounting to more than 17 M as compared with the corresponding months of 1923. The suicide rate has shown a considerable decline, i STATESMAN WANT ADS The shortest distance between buyer and seller. MOW CLASS AH Sizes. ; . neadqnarten For - SEERWni WEUAL3 PAnrrs FRY'S DRUG STORE . gso N. Commercial BU rlkturally! One of onr first ambitions is to own a HOIE." If what yoa want la not listed here call in and see us. room bungalow fn South , Salem, lot 80x143.' All modern. Price S24SOO. Terms. 1 ' .. -- ' . " . "-""v.''.". ' B-room modern bungalow In Richmond addition. Garage, full basement and furnace. - Price S3.000, or will seU furnished for $3,400. .Terms. - -i ' -' ':;-'-:'r: :- J J:;-:.;:' rt:; '-: : 6-room modern house on North 17th street, on car line. Price S300. Terms.' Mcican & LJlrich Rnilrlinff Economv Favors Those Structures in Which Products of Clay AreUsed, Says Good Judge "Once Well Done Beats Twice Done" - - First Cost Against Upkeep - - A Few Yers of Use Will Wipe Out, the Slight Original Differ ence in Cost of Clay Products Dwelling Over Those Built of Wood "It isn't the cost It's the up keep." " ,The phrase has often served its purpose when some one wished to refer to father' golf clubs or sis ter's birthday tiding habit which necessitated tre purchase of a horse, but nowhere does It have more significance than; in the purchase ot a home. . vs 5 There is an - inherent stability about the word home. - The man who designed it as the place where he-hung his hat" showed that he was never at ease, for he said nothing about his slippers. He was always ready to go at any mo ment. : "j , . When a man makes up his mind 0 proceed about the Important business of shaking himself loose from his landlord and acquiring a home tor himself, one of the first questions the 'encounters Is the problem of the material from which he shall build his home., From some vague portion of bis mind there comes to him the mem ory of the banker in his old home town. He had -a,' brick house,- and with chfldish simplicity. -he reas ons as he. did ' years ago, that therefore it must be expensive. Other folks had wooden houses. . - Price of Brick Lower .. That may have' been more true a quarter of 9 -century, ago, but one can do a lot. of forgetting in those years. While the cost of lumber has been climbing all un known to our prospective builder HIP VUOb . and they haye almost. inet. V Therefore It Is that the builder who investigates ; will .discover, somewhat to his astonishment that the use of brick is an actual econ omy. It actually, saves dollars and cents.' : ' S- 'y .l: :,"v:", . T . fnM Vt a rt.ot nAflt m mil fi the builder argues with., reason. "I fa the upkeep." ' And with thls in" mind, brick Is the'only building material. It's nriv, n le i munlfold. hut none Is more cogent than the fact that Perhaps ' You Cannot Replace Them Did you ever think of the loss you might sustain If your valuable papers such as deeds, mortgaged;; bonds and insurance policies-were stolen or destroyed by fire? Perhaps -you - never would be able to replace theun and even so, .much time, and effort would be wasted In se curing duplicates. - , . , ; '." - Insure your valuables by placing them In a Safety Deposit Box here at the United States National.'- The cost of protection is almost nothing less than a cent a day. . ' ; : United States National Bank Salem. Oregon. ' A JUL -' - X' Eleclbric Reunite ; . - PemoimsiiXsiiLEoini , ; : : ; c i; ' ' Vr: 1 v'v";''--'1 I 1 - - - r By Miss Beryle Mashburn- Home Economist ' Gookuig Classes Monday Tuesday Wednesday 1 : June 2nd, 3rd and 4th 2 to 4:30 P.M. ; 237 North Liberty, Street Solera, Orccn " 1 Financial Scrvico : c-r-a e::. Piazs 1427 122 North CommerciaL Phone 1334