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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1926)
4 r-'e THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, 'OREGON. i - - FRIDAY MORNING,' JANUARY 1, 192G ' Miles Linen Coninanv mantis 'arid Kffo; indiistrV! ! licoiuifef 7 r..unfry. ror perauon om.ng from trirt';,V,,4 'a?n-r;n,J!l,j!Lti'.'n bare .old lor , THAT WOULD REACH LKQUND One Unea Will-ba been built In raicm;.anotber la in immediate. Vroapecftv and sereral more are in BlKBt.' There will be more ret and wtitcblnf plants buill. So It may be . definitely tated now that ye are well on theiway to - wards the development of' the lln- ' en fartustry. that will finally brinr in ?10O,00O.00O new money an noaUy, and employ, directly and ; Indirectly a- million people. tPer hapa great many more. In time. The first successful machine flax pulling in the world on a consid erable scare was'doae the two last seasons and the season ' before in toe Salem district. There are 13 such machines owned here now; capable of taking the places of 80 men each in hand pulling. We. also grow here a superior quality of hemp; and this indus try rwUl soon oe dereloped here meshing' in with the flax industry- ; . ,, . . . r,The Oregon penitentiary has a state Vnax. plant, with the largest and finest scutching mill in the world. ' v ' 'T Tb f-IIbert (ndnstry . , DIi-;y know that Salem is permanently the filbert center of 'One of the pioneers in building the linen industry An the valley, ir in thn fall . Pnnl nrwrl with i m-t mKaK t. early Jn the fall. Equipped with wine and linen thread for the sewing of leather. Employing 30 persons, the value of its annual on tout 6u the present sclpdule will be the United States; that this 'dis trict Dow "grows more filberts and has. more youn$ trees and , has lu'ore prospective filbert "growers than' any other;; section of the country; that this is the only dis trict of the United States suitable "fot.illbert growing, excepting part t eern Washington and north- rn California; and that there is money in filberts; that this is acrop that has a number of very fwpoftant ; advantages and that 'there is vast room here for more filbert .growers,; who will take :O0ne of the risks of pioneers in thtt Industry?" 6o, snbstantially, runs a Slogan il The Statesman of six annual ipiitions. ; . ; 3 fThe Salem d Lstrict Js the only section of the United States that -has so far ; developed : the filbert industry on a romniercial scale. 4jtM?4 Iteed. of the bureau of nut Aulture, United States Department pf Agriculture. Washington, D. Cl, j, lilted the Salem district recently " and be stated that we have here Jo thev Willamette valley the fin tfsV filbert soil; also the most pro ' inlslng filbert groves anywhere in the United States. The filbert industry, has an out standing number of advantages In ihis district, for instance: " w i ; chance to' start over apain, along jf VVi M: V the right paths. M ' - : Question is, what WiJL fWctrlo 'lidi i 1 Lpi m with bur chance- you and Iarid jri ."K Vi;; M the rest of us? Wfll we take it M yS r I ' 1 W11 wc!:'-ajt anothcr twclytT t '''" fc: "- WEBB'S nMmr At XQ- fWNERAL PARLORS ((Uv r - "Superior 'Mineral ScnVccS!&J hsTffy Xne no Z. tiWf "r - f- " ' V- ' ' rmmmmm .- ' .. ry- - -a. T;L A-..li .' ,'xr " n V RT - r"' VPCnS 'Wme Thread Production-Oregon Linen Mills Representing an Initfal Investment of $fe0.000 toOperale fefe1 ,Lealmg T F,lal u&cture of Fine Linens. Thereby Materially Increasing the Market for Locally Grown Flax-Early . Vilon of Vast New trees mature youne: the harvMi. Ing is easy crop falls off and all but harrest itself; is a "lazy man's crop." needing little attentipn af ter trees mature. ; In years of high prices, it will be a bonanza crop, yielding from 3000 to 6000 pounds o .the acre TYriCAI Development of the linen . - , ,"J xj.-k. u ucMturi ujf VAfcTCI US IU be ideal for the production of flax. Materially Increased plantings are expected to result to feed the mills located here. '"..' MILF LIXEX MILL the most modern machfrfery approximately $120,000. k i dt here for mature trees, and sales have in some years been as high as 35 cents a pound. ! Figure it out for yourself. Filbert trees are. being set out here as fast as the proper nursery stock can be had. The Walnut Industry "Did you know that Salem is the center of a great walnut in dustry; that the Franquette and Mayette walnuts produced here are the world's best walnuts with a quality and. flavor found in no other; that carloads of walnuts now go out and tralnloads will go out from Salem, the market cen ter for walnuts; and that there is Tast. room for more intelligent walnut growers? The above words are familiar to, readers wha,follow the Slogan campaigns. ' The walnut tree comes into bearing early lit this district, but it attains great age, and becomes more valuable each-year, ' under the proper conditions Sound here. and with the right varieties. Black and other walnut trees '-planted here by our pioneers are te we ring giants and every ? one capable of earnings interest on a large snm. If grafted over to a pure Vrooman Franquette strain. , Large walnnt .1 :Willamete 171 i i . 7A $3000 From the above, the readers may get an idea of the intrinsic value of a large walnut orchard; or even of a few trees, in the com ing years. It will commence bear ing the sixtn year here, and in crease rapidly thereafter. FLAX FIELD in'-iiiRtrv to 4 kv- x.v this mrdern plant began opo.rntion . n .. .. .. . -. i ft It., specializes in the production of linen i " It has been stated that if all the shade trees in Salem were bearing English walnut trees of the right varieties the sale of the nuts would pay all the taxes of the owners of city property. Walnuts can be produced here cheaper than in California (a good deal cheaper) ; and they are worth more sell at 2 cents pound higher for the best grades in the discriminating markets. And land prices are a good deal lower here. The Strawberry Industry This is a great strawberry dfs trict. For some growers, straw berries have been a bonanza crop. There have been yields here reach ing as high as 24,000 pounds to the acre, but the average under the old methods has perhaps been a ton and a half to the acre. It is expected with new methods and varieties, and perhaps some irri gation, to bring this up to two to four tons to the acre. The Salem district is going fast towards a 10 Ouft nrtft. n ual crop vol " j strawberries.' 'a nd onr manufacturing and marketing interests must preparers to' take care of such a crop! , Oregon ' is the leading strawberry? state of tne Union in tonnage canned .and 7Z 1 tngland and Scotland Plant To Be Housed barreled. M.rlon 1 th..ron In wklrti .w. do not col. leading strawberry county in Oregon and; Polk, adjoining, is a close second. Salem surely has the true strawberry mark; and her premiership as the straw berry center of the world will de pend only upon the facilities for properly handling them, keeping up with the growing of them in this district. f , . - " r- . i The Salem district5,alsf.prodac es annually great quantities of strawberry plants for 'sale at home and for .shipment to' out side markets. We ship them, in carloads. j The Apple Industry' Apple growing has been suc cessfully carried on in the Salem district since the settlement of the country.! There have been many apple booms. There "is any apple tree on the Eean farm be-f I low Salem, of the Delicious va riety, that is 77 years old; center stem 50 feet high; 50 feet limb spread; bears 50 bushels of ap ples a year. Nearly all varieties of apples do well in the family orchards here. But, for commer- ! cial pmrposes. nothing should be ' NEW YEAR GREETING Crating Local and Long Hauling 143 S. Liberty : : : : PHONE 930 We 5. i- - -i- " -.vvjftT .. ... . v. v . 3k " ; .... . . - ; 'i.'.Yj,.'1! Valley f o " We can excel in the OrtleyJ the Rome Beauty. the Winter Ba nana, the Grimes, 'the Delicious and others, and we raise as fine Gravensteins as the world can show. -.- - Speaking from ithe commercial standpoint, it ynild be well for the Salem district if nearly every apple tree- in a!1 this section were of one of the above varieties. We can top the market with these and that is where the big money is In any industry. The Raspberry Industry The Salem district is a good raspberry country. It produces as good red raspberries as any grown, and there is no bush fruit line that is more certain of con tinued success here in the Salem district than is the raising of black rasnberries: the blacken of commerce. We have a fran chise on the black raspberry; or what amounts to a franchise: for the black raspberry persists Here. We have bearing vines over 2 0 years old. This is not true of any other district in this nrt of the world. It is not true of west- "V I i ,,,J.I-'Vt IE.! wish to extend to all our patrons the greetings of the season. May the year 11 r ' i j i 4 --4- . . , . '- . .-j. - - Sairf New Flax i in Concrete Structure, of Most Modern Type and Adtuate Proportions . ero w..b.-.. .'b. . ..., -V... ...... C.L.... '..-I.! ,. L L I . .7.1-, ern Washington. the great Ted raspberry country. The jam and jelly trade demands a lot of black raspberries. There is a market demand for increasing tonnages of, black raspberries The Booming Mint Industry The mint industry is on a boom and Salem Is going to! be headr quarters for growing ahd market- I ing the crop of peppermint oil. Dan J. .Fry. the Salem druggist. the largest buyer of crude drugs in the state, is in touch with one firm that will want 50,000 pounds annually and the Salem district, from present indications, will soon be ready to furnish thaf much: and a great deal more. The Oregon Mint Growers Co operative association is active, and it proposes to build a refin ery, to secure a larger benefit and a better ntandardization of the Oregon product, which now stands very high, and which sells to what amounts to a premium of $1 or more a pound over the east em product, owing to its superior quality. So Salem is bound to be the center of the lead in tc peDDermint Fuel Storrge . ...... Moving Transfer 1 926 be Salem's Best Year - 1 f . '1 :.v-. - 5 ' . . - . -. . - v . . -- oil district of the world because the finest and richest mint oil in the world is produced here; an oil with 51, per cent of menthol content, against 36 per cent oil produced in " Michigan, Indiana, and New York and an oil that ranks at the top in flavor. Be sides, our growers get more pounds' of oil to the acre. It has gone -to 85 pounds to . the aero, and 50 pounds." to the acre is common. The present price Is a boom price. S27'to J30 a pound Some comfortable fortunes were made the 'past, season by our growers. They can produce pep- These are times to Plan -mese me iriaisriaisj to uscb! To Know How 72 different kinds Materials 3 1 different kinds Products 10 different kinds' of Sand and Caravel can do the most good for you, see the (Sravf : Hood at Front Street oalem?;. -Sales Increase 2 13 tiins in Four Years. i r ' . . . - ,r-r .; -..j--... a. - ., - .. .J perm! oil here at Jl.SO'Vtd $2 a douI. The I rowing demand for men thol in he candy anil gum trades, and In Irugs, etc.i will pusn the industi forward. (The Salem dis trict Js leaded towards a million dollar i ear peppermint oil crop; and -it ill not be long n arrlr insr; ai it will so lust as much Jfartherls there la a demand for the pil tt remunerative prices- because We have the' peppermint oil 'coil Vnd V climate and know bow, an4organlzation. The acre age win! be largely increased In this d 1st let this year. -(Coninned. on pa'jH 5) If- Building or concrete 5 K pa 0 y 3 t" 1 v - ' : COMPANY ... -V