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TIIJ3 OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1926 5 3 alem is the Centr of a Growing mber of Basic Industries That Challenge Universal Attention and Bring Money from the Marke ts of the World tp be! Expended HejeU iwaffed' for 'the PWuction anH ffie tbinol:iiiihes in Which Our People Excel or Can Excel, or Can Produce or Perform to Better Advantage or witK Greater Profits Tnan Other Countries of Sections fRaisVg This pistrict Alxvethe Dead Level of the Line of Mere Competition or on an Equal Basis Marvels of Soil, Sunshine and Showers Country Beautiful, the City Beautiful i h I . , ON October 9, 1919, ts States ,in an tmdertook a i em Slo ran, campaign to ran dn Thursday In the Daily a on Fri days In the Twice-a-We : States jnan through a year exploit tav j&JJ most - important jasie in dustries aj)d interests f , Salem nnd- the Salem district- ; the Dally and on Frid a in the Twice-a-Weejc Statesma through V'a -yeai to exploit the Clmoat im lortaht basic industriesJtnd inter . esta of Salem and the jalem dls-Xict- - . To inform men of j nius, vis ion", enterprise capit . .and in dustry the. wider w.orhl ver wha't Salem and the urrourkuK coun try have to oferMten -rj : t And also to; take stqt of our own advantages, o thutwe who Jive and do business here lay bet ter realize hpw,fortunite ye are; what a great future w have? what opportunities , are at o,ur "doors; what "Acre of pi iaonds" .are in our own land waiting for jlhe digging of our own people " ' And -it is nipt too mxtfh to say that this campaign hqS been a) revelation to all of us-; For the campaign -is now on -its jseventh year, and, great surprises "Uave come to all of nsjeoncernipg the possibilities of groith and de velopment, and in moit cases the actual growth and levelopment, of our industries in the months uud years that have gone by. f , So the Slogan edit6r has under taken to give, for "the benefit es pecially of the prospective' new comer, a sunjmary of the matter in the Salem Slogan Issf&s of The " statesman. ' Of course the following review lean be only a review 1 f'an only barely touch the high places: for it would take many hundreds of pages to print all the matter in' regard to the dif ferent .subjects that have appeared in the Salem Slogan issues. , Following is the summary: ' , The Ioganberry Industrj' - The story of the loganberry is an epic It is called the logan berry because it was - discovered bv Jud J..VL -Logan, of : Santa Pruz, Cal. in !. J fUftrom ..seed planted.; in bis garaeo,- aje con iuded, after investigation,' that 'it j! , . was a cross between the Augin baugh blackberry and the red raspberry. Judge Logan' is now a resident of Oakland, Cal. There have been attempts to improve the loganberry and , even the great "Luther- Burbank made, an attempt of this" kTnd! but the loganberry remains one of the great berries of commerce, with aft ever widening field of favor. And Salem is the loganberry center of the world; 50 of the loganberries, of the world are raised' alm,ost within sight' of the j Oregon ipitol dbrhe. Most, of .) the, loganberries of the world will ! always ', be raised V-rwithin the j lengthening shadows pf the dQine j of the capitol in. Salem. This is the loganberry lann; net Willam ette valley sbil and sunshine, and showers gfve this district a virtual franchise on loganberry growing, j It is the king berry of all our bush fruits,., though others also excel here. ' . The loganberry industry as wo see it now started on one leg. There was only one way to mar ket loganberries abroad in the dried state. Then came the juice industry, then canning and jams and jellies, and dehydration and nqw the. cold pack, shipping in barrels, or frozen in large cans, going in 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 pie trade.' The market is a wide one; widening. England now takes nearly "half of our canned logan berries. There ft; no doubt but the in dustry will be a permanent one. Whenever the industry is properly organized, the frozen berries alone will be marketed in as large quan tities or larger than they are at the present time produced: going largely to the pie. hakers of the big cities. The juice business is due for a world wide extension of markets. In that form, there ar many uses, in homes and hospitals and in the soft drink parlors ev-errwherer-niora, uses than for (.any other single fruitrown. Dates of Slogans in Daily Statesman (In Twico-a-Week Statesman Following Day) ra (With a few possible cli.;rtgcs) 1Kanberr!es, October 1 ' " Prune, October H Dairying, October '15 Flax; October 22 Filberts, October 2f Walnats, November ." Stravleries, November 12 Apples, November lO Raspberries, November 20 Mint, 'December ft Ileans,' KtcJ, "December lO lUackberrieV Ieceniher 17 'berried. Decern ler 24 I'oars, leceinjer 31 Coosebrrles, .Iniuiai'v 7. l!2-" Corn, jtnrtiry 14 'eler.Y,i 3aniur.v 21 Spinach, Mtc, January 28 Onion's i'tc, jFebruary 4 Io(atoe, ic, February 1 1 Hcos, Vcbruary 18 I'ou H ry and Per Stock,, Feb. '2T VV y ltenutitul, Ftc, .March 4 (iveat Cons, JIarcli 11 Paved. HigbwiyH, March 18 II cud lettuce, March 2." Silos, F.tc, April 1 Leguiii", A pril ' 8 Asparasiis, Ktc, April 15 Gnipe;, Ftc, April 22 Drug (i.irdcn, April 2! Sugar Ileets, Sorglium, Ktc, May Water Powei5, 3Iay i:t In Ration, May 2t Mining, May 27 Iand, Irrigation, Ktc. June :t Floriculture, June U r Hop, t'nbbage, Ftc, June 17 Wholesaling and Jobbing, June 24 Cucumber!, Ftc, July 1 Hogs, July 8 (oats. July ! Sc hools, Ftc, July 22 She:p, July 2f National Al vert ising. August Seel.s, F- Aiigust 12 Livestcx-k, August lO Crain and (irain Products, Aug ust 2f Manufacturing, September 2 Automotive Industries, Setem lxf 1 WooIworking, Ftc, Septen:ler Paer Mills, September 2.1 Bar k copies of the Thurs day edition of The Daily Ore gon Statesman art on hand. They arefor sale at 10 cents each, mailed to any address. Current copies 5 cents.) The Prune Industry Salem is permanently the prune capital of, all -prunedom; for prunes of ."quality: for the tart sweet prune and of late the sweet or French prune is being developed , here, of large sizes; graduated from the I'etite kind. We are making the big from the small (Petite) variety. The three counties of Marion. Polk and Yamhill, composing the Salem local market district, have over half the prune acreage in Oregon. The planting inx these three counties will before long be 25.000 acres. County Fruit In spector S. II . Van Trump, of Mar ion county, says-full grown prune orchards in this district ought to yield five tons of dried fruit to the acre. Multiply 10,00 by 25. 000 and you will see that the im mediate local Salem district alone is. well on the way towards the half million pound mark annual ! ly. 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 bo had here for STf. to 8-3 00 an . acre -owmis to the distance from market! The prune industry here is young yet. There are men yet old Oregon Land Co.. gave the prune industry its first great im petus in the Salem district. II. S. (Jile and W. T. Jenks of the Willamette Valley Prune associa tion, 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. There is mo hey in prunes in the Salem district-i some vears it has I been and in some years in the fu ture it will be a bonanza crop. Hut the thing is, that it is a relia- hie money crop, paying sure prof its that will justify values for de veloped prune orchards of S500 an acre and over; and finally this is hound to run up to $1000 to ?2ij(0 an acre. So the man who starts, now, and develops even a small prune orchard, will gaiii in dependence for himself and his si.ildivu and his children's chil drun. The Dairying Industry "Did you. know that, in the mat ter of dairying, our dairymen are at-least 7 cents a pound of butter fat ahead of the dairymen east of the Kocky mountains; that there is at least tli.it much difference in favor o four dairymen, on account of i lie 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 raising their . families and in their own comforts; that this one fact, if it coitl il he generally understood, would fill the Willamette valley with a population as dense as that of Relgiuni V" The above is part of the lan guage of one of the Slogans. We have produced nearly all industry a sacred calling: a pro-, and engage Jn that industry here fession, if the reader will .allow! that term, that must be respect ed. ; . . Dairying is profitable here in the Salem, district.-on its own ac count, add increasingly so as bet ter and letter dairy cows are pro- duced; and the dairy cow Is neces sary to keep up the fertility of the soil; to increase the productivity of the land, so that it will never wear out. but on the contrary grow better the longer it is used. Oregon has made more progress in the past ten years than any' other dairying state in bringing up the average production per cow. Of all Oregon cows in 1024. 4.GrJ- were purebred! Of all In the United States. 3.2. 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 where your profits will be larger and larger1 and your comforts greater thnn in any other coun-j try. ' The Flax Industry "Did you know that oars is-the best country in the world for the; production of flax, for fiber for the making of yarns, twines, threads and linens ;$that our wa ter, being 'soft. is just fightJCpr the treatment of the flax-straw and taking it through ail of te" processes of manufacture from the retting to the weaving of 'tlie cloth: that when these .facts be come universally known Jhe flax industry will be fully developed here and that it will bring to our valley a- hundred million dollars annuallv?" T , The abovd are familiar and true words from various of Tbe Statesman TJie Salem ditrl ;af&'ih'"tne''tinited Slogan Issues - v - : - .. ct is the only : place in the "Unitedi States w lie re the flax industry i$ developed -for the production of kite Yiner fiber' on a commercial scale, 4 and . ihis branch of jthe ndusVy will' grow j ve?y fast from now oa. , V ! - '- v-1 Flax for the Beet) ) as grow nere u, ay anq ;' -jeaipTfic and Salem had a 'successful, lin seed oil milU owped' by thetray-; family; on the site JCay woolen mills. Away hack In 48?. at the Phil adelphia Centennial, . after -f Jar grown near Salem took the first prize against the flax of all other countries, on ,At THE NINE of' the. "present POINTS considered and at tJiat time -a great' Belfast manufacturer said take two pounds of (Continued on pagn 4) by the judges; tt that hQ cou Wie the Salem dis- young and active in the industry the world rec ord Jersey cows, and who saw and participated, in the the greatest cow of all time, of beginnings of its solid start, who any breed, any age. We have the have stood by and aided its growth into greatness, and who are still active in pushing it toward the greater attainments that are pro raised for the industry in the fu- best dairy country in the world. The recent discoveries in diet ary science, showing that a virile race that thinks high thoughts and achieves frreat thinKs cannot. ture. Herbert Hoover, now the i bf maintained without milk; that world's most widely known and j children must have milk if they loved citizen, as a boy aided his j are to grow and develop normal uncle. Dr. H. J. Minthorn, who. in icy; that there can be no long life company with R. S. 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