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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1926)
thd ott no 0 ! i'ST AT fl ! t AW ,5 SALEM,1, o n 1 10 QIK Sal ami i j i ; at I I V. -Sir , -. of Salem district who) are contributing to the campaign of selling the advantages and proven r 1 : i : : : ;,: v;. superiorities of the community i i 1 ' 'f 1 - I t J . f 7 - A J f 4 t H PISIITilBBEStOlONDISmiCT i IN TllE WORLD. fi!0W FULLY PRDVETJ It Is the Largest Onion Producing Sector of the Pacific Northwest One of the Earth's Oldest Vegetables- AH Caravans Crossing the Deserts Carry Along Onion? to Munchi to Quench ThirstThe Reason Labish Is Very Dry , Editor Statesman;) ! I am Kla4 to Be The SMiteaman la taking an IntefSBst In a Indus try that will yer! soon bfost Sa lem, notably, the 0nlon greying at Lake Labish, i, " ' ' Now generally ;the mention of oniona always brihga smllep and a great deal of the imerry.rai. On the other hand. 1 telieye Wool worth's would sell jonions say three tor a quarter some peopl might huT them. , thinking ; they , were some very fancy imported flower Tmlhfl. And eTeni after they had set them in fancy flower pots and taken rood care arid watchied them naw and bloom into a very f ra grant and prtt." CpweV s, much like a snowhall. they, would nerer realize their mistake. ; f..; Tt an nnlnn la an onion still "it isn't a hybrid! It is ljust an onion. "Terr, common," ; Webster gays.. Onions are; one bfith old- Afit Teretables grown. The Chal deans and the ariclett Egyptians cultirated them etensiveiy. And yet today all eairaTans crossing the desert carry along a ', supply of onions to munch oa toi quench the l thirst.! ( VolBteader8 please note. The reasoii lAbisWIs rery dry.) " ' .. V There are about ..40,000 car loads of onions consumed by the oeoDle of the United. States each year. Of this about 30,000 to 35, 00 cars are grown,' in this coun- trr. The balance are .Imported Mostly from Spain. Portugal and . MTDt. 1 j- New York state. Illinois, Ohio, Texas and California are the prln Scenes In Labish Onion Fields cipal onion states., each' producing approximately , 000 car loads per season or yean) Oregon, Iowa. Utah,! Washington and Idaho each nroduce In Quantities. Of 'these regon has the reputation of grow ing! the best quality of any state in the! Union. The onions from Ore gon bring the beat prices in the markets all -over the country Lake Labish is now the largest onion producing section of the northwest. The soil of Labish I Is the best for onion culture to jbe found anywhere also tor celery or most any Tegetable grown The season of 19241 the growers of Labish shipped 425 cars of on ions produced on about the same number acres." The gross re turns of " this crop brought them abOut $200,000. , j Therefore the onion growers are doing a great deal toward the de veloping of Labish and their com munity. - ! - t We can't make a fair estimate of the returns of the 1925 crop as yet, as there Is some! of the crop yet in the growers' hands which will be sold.durlng tfcia. and next month.' . ) - 'Si As Salem Is situated about 10 miles from the best onion district of the world, the city also comes in for Its share of the prosperity of Lake. Labish. In short, the enlonj pect to malre Labish! and best garden of the northwest, near the outskirts of Salem. I ; , : V. Ci BISHOP. Salem, Ore., Rt. 9. f February 3. 1926. : , , 'AM ''--if. U mi 7 4 HELPING OREGON Coordination of Indutsrial and Agricultural Develop- ment Reported ! Upper scene: In tlie wlnurows antl in scene: Weeding the growing onions, j icks in harvest time. Lower growers ex the biggest 0 lU FOR A CROP OF FIVE ACRES OF LABI OlONS FROM SUDEAVERDANILAi PORTLAND Ore.. Feb. 1. (Special.) Co-ordination of Ore- rnn's Indnstrlal and aericultural development was thei keynote of the Annual Meeting of the Ore gon State Chamber of Commerce held in Portland on Thursday. ;' That business leaders of Port land have united . with business men. of the state In I a practical working agreement ; k was an nounced by ' Irving K. VIning of Ashfaad, president of the Oregon State Chamber.' Liberal . alloca tion of money from the Oregon Development' Fund and an ar rangement of committee harmony, Mr. VIning declared brings Ore gon to the front more than any other thing that has taken place since the organization of the State Chamber. Land settlement and industrial development were equally stressed on the program, speakers agree ing that new industries would local marketing units and .four federations of units in various parts of the state. . V; "Extension of agriculture , in Oregon depends largely upon rec lamation : through ' irrigation or drainage," said Wilford Allen of Grants Pass, President of the Ore gon Reclamation Congress. "Three things are needed in reclamation land settlement, refinancing of existing projects and new proj ects.' " ; " i -fv . -. j Directors to serve two-year terms were elected as follows: W. S. Nelson of The Dalles, J. D. Fair man of Hcrper, Roy T. Bishop of Portland, R. C. Groesbeck of Klamath Falls, H. E. Walter of Corvallis,. John F. Daly of Port land. L. D. Drake of Astoria and T. H. Ness of Roseburg. The directors re-elected Irving' E. Vinlng of Ashland, president. and elected for secretary-manager, W. G. Ide of Portland, and for treasurer Charles II. Stewart of Portland. Representatives from Albany, Arlington, Ashland, Astoria, Au rora, Baker, Bend, Corvallis, Cot-, tage Grove. Coquille. Eugene,' Falls City. Forest Grove. Grants Pass, Harper, Ilillsboro, Klamath Falls, La Grande, Medford, Mil waukie. North Bend, Redmond, Roseburg, Salem, Silverton, and The Dalles attended the meeting and spoke at a noon luncrfeon. men on thePaciric this winter. " The Dear, wintering i in San Francisco after her 37th summer cruise into jthe Alaskan Arctic in J tne coast Guard, was consiruciea j of thick oak in Greeneck, Scot land, in 1874. : y . ; With $925,000 appropriated by Congress, it has' been proposed to V replace the Bear, following 'next summer's cruise with a t wlh-p ro pe nea seei vessel. ; s , - The doubters" declare? "no steel vesel can stand heavy ice pressure, beeause the metal will first bend and ; then break.- - They also (pre dict that the fee Will quickly rip off one or both twin propellers. of the Buy-a Want Adr-U Pays xposed Bir open up new agricultural oppo'r- Wooden Vessel Called Best for Resisting Arctic Ice Growers Get as High as 600 Sacks, or Two Car Loads, of Onions to the Acre From tne Laoisn union uisinci North of Salem Greatest Heed Now Is a Common Brand, and Better Grading t of the Onions for the Markets V JHEONlOriBESICR&R. ON BEAVERDAF4 LAND " (Continned trpm pr .) . make It a problem tot get rid of them. V Oh, such . carrots j! -They Vurprised the Irea." aaad espe f dally they surprised Mr. Ullen. V 10,000 Gross in Ifear X One year ago.t Mr. Allen sold $10,000 worth of products- from his tract, i That year he had only 12 acres- of his laixd 111 onions. Mr. Allen ' waib asked by the Ktnran editor what wasj his net Editor Statesman: . "f : The onion industry In the La bish bcaverdam district Is far enough advanced now so tnai it brings in probably more money than any other crop In this part of the country. The onion crop this year amounted to ab-mt BOO car?, and sold for from between 1 nrnfit that vear! what he nimseii had left to represent hlsj"salary in worklne for himself. He said it was close to $8000. 1 ' Mr. I and Mrs. Li Allen have no children with them. - They have two daughters in California, and Un. Allen's father Is a Imember of the household ;here. Thev of course have some of their t land devoted . to pasture keep a cow or two,., andj horses and other farm animals., and pro duce the feed ifor them,f besides h tmual vegetable , or i kitchen rarden for their own useiv They find enough to keep them busv on their 25 lacres; wita sea sonal employment for otherhelp which they must ihlre atftlmeW L r. Allen baa no regtets over tranafering" his .home from Cali fornU to Oregon! H If 'aet an Oregon booster ;nd specially has he always ai; good J words for the great things that ma be done nn the Labish i beaverdam land. Constant experiments. beiC made will no doubt show up possibili ties that 'have not yet been count ed upon. That la a great! district, and growing greater every year. All Make Money. The case of Mr. Allen Is not peculiar, i All the onion? growers of-the Lake Labish iectloIuive 2S0.OD0f apd t?P,0,900 , made money. :- All of - them are enthusiastic boosters for their dis trict;: for .their ' "Mf)l!on Dollar Highway.' That Is their project ed county market i paved, r -road, alone which they proposed J a few years ago that they would .eventu ally produce crops! worth annually i binary acreage of. onions,, no ex- a miUion dollars. They are more I pensive equipment is necessary than doing this nowj jpernaps two i main investments being in on millions each year. And tne time will come, and : beforis very long, when they will turn joff, ten iniK lions In cash crops annually onlonrf wUl bring a higher', re- ti!n for a smaller amount of cap ltal nvested than any othr blgr money crop that can be grown on Ha verdam lands. ?In a yea uae tl.n mfesent. ,wttH seea vjry nigu, the test ot seed amounts to only $10 per acre, and,' to grow an or- THE ONION GROtVER I MUST BE PROTECTED j (ContiBited from Ig ) 90 per cent of the cost of raising pickle onions is paid! out fori the labor! which grows, pe0ls and picks ! theml -The American; grower, far ing jAmerican wages for labor which works American' hours, jcan not jcompete with - the European grower, ' paying EurOpeaa wages fnr labor which works European hnnrs. without the protection lof a high (tariff, i As a matter Of jfact. say tie growers, a 35l per cent ta- was llow enough; r a jBO per ent tax ; would have beenj fairer. ..Tb,e Hon. Elsie Maiekayj daugh ter of Lord Inchcape.ithe shipping magiate. is the only woman ap pointed on the Pilots committee of the Alt League in Englandl She has had an air pilot's certificate for three years and 14 regarded as Ion houses, where onions are to be stored after harvesting Two Cars To Acre in a reasonably favorable year, onions should average at least 300 sacks Cone carload) per acre. Tne ordinary price at time of harvest ing these onions runs from si. z to $2 per sack, and anyone going into the' onion growing business ahnniri iiTe on! being able to raise onions and put them on th market for tl per sack, thus leavr lng a fair margin of profit in at least; four out of every five years, according to the way our markets have been in the past. It Is not much out of the, ordin ary to get a yield of 400 sacks per acre,! and there have been yields In the Labish district of 600 sacks vet acre. I know of one grower receiving S4.500 for his crop of five lacres, , and .handling Indirect irom tne iieiaag me mukei wnu- out 'the necessity of putting the oniohs in an onion house. Profitable Crop Every Tear ki the growers get raoro cens tomed to the land and condition! herej they are able to apply ferti lizer! where needed and get a con sistent, nrof liable crop every, yean There was a time, about flve;yeaT J 1 ..!.-': ago, wnen any one wno naa la bish i onions for sale was at a dis advantage, as they had the black eye all through, the trade, but this disadvantage is being rapidly re moved and turned into an advan tage, as the growers are learning to grow a better grade of onions every year. Probably the thing that Is need- ed most to help the onion business in this district. Is the use of some common brand name, and a better grading of dhions before shipping I RONALD E. JONES. Brooks, Ore., Feb. 3, 1926. Transformation of Italian - Art Under Mussolini Reign MILAN, Italy Fascistizatlon of Italian art, with Benito Mussolini, national director, is the next step In the process of transferring Italy Into a Fascist state. j Artists and intellectuals In the ranks of the dominant party, seek ing for a means of reawakening, the nation's moribund cultural ac- one bf England's ptqneer women tlvlty and of creating a truly Fas- rectly with you' in noiirislng new forms and creating the new style bf Italian beauty." 1 tunities, and agricultural - de velopment would offer additional opportunities to invite new indus tries. W. P. LaRoche of the industries committee of the Portland Cham ber was the principal speaker on industrial growth. He declared that Oregon is annually purchas ing $25,000,000 worth of prod ucts more than are being manufac tured, and urged particularly the establishment of new woodwork ing, and textile plants. Mr. La- Roche outlined the work that the industries committee is doing and declared the industries department was glad to co-operate through'the State Chamber with T any of Its, constituent organizations in, solv ing their problems . In - bringing new industries to the state. - Whitney L. Boise, chairman of the land settlement 'committee, tdj& of the results obtained in bringing hundreds' of farmers to Oregon. Satisfied settlers on one- amlly farms are being obtained In kll ,the counties which are utilizing tneir opportunities r to participate in the land settlement program of the Portland and State Chambers. A, "Marketing is the chief prob tern in Oregon's agriculture," said E. p. Faville, chairman of the marketing committee, "We do not desire at any time to promote any particular plan of marketing, but whenever the farmers are desir ous of being informed as to order- y marketing, or are desirous of proceeding wit hit, we are ready at all times to work with them and are in accord with the views of the farmer, as well as the stu dents of cooperative marketing. The marketing committee has assisted in .the formation of 22 SEATTLE Whether it is possi ble to build a steel vesel that can withstand the pressure of ice packs in the Arctic Ocean suffici ently to replace -the cutter Bear is a lively topic among Coast Guard 4 1 . Council woman Mrs. Helen II Green of Cleveland, O., is the first woman In that city to be made chairman of an important council committee. Mrs. Green was rer cently made chairman of the com mittee on rivers and harbors. In ariatlon. Miss Mackay was on the stage for a , time ; where she wen by the name of Poppy Wvnd- ham; - , j -v-j -. . i ' , Silverton Linen mill, bot fac- j tory pickle factory iare prospec- tlve new lnausines. i : i Satisfactory ' Welding i ' iWe are willing to back up our '1 . knowledge of welding acquir 'J fed by many years of practical. . , ... 1 : : ; experience, wim a mouey was . ' quarantee. cist artistic movement, ha de cided to entrust the task to their leader, confident he can succeed where others have failed, i A formal request, to this effect has been made by the Directorate of the Corporation of: Intellectual Professions and by .the National Fascist Syndicate of Fine Arts.: : ) "We desire,' these artists told ihA nremier. "to collaborate ' dl- VALLEY GRILL . Good Coffee -: 7. t ISO South Commercial A v it. J it . ' i i i : . . 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