! . ' .... . ii: .r t:t 1 I . J 0x drop of water does not make 1 a waterfall"' t s - 0te man's effort wilLnot build a community, i . Mill' CMS Oil MORE HEAD LETTUCE . MAY ROLL FROM THIS DISTRIUTTH1S YBR ' A Bumper Crop of Tight Heads The Labish Growers Get Three Crops of Lettuce From ' Their Land,5 Harvesting of the First Crop to Begin Around the Middle of May They Produce a-Wonder-' fully Fine Quality of Crisp, Tender Lettuce The Third Year of the Industry on a Commercial Scale 1 The head lettuce Industry of the Salem .district Is .making excel lent progress.? It ; made , a i fair . start in 1924, after, some years of ; experimenting , In "that year, six . cars of head -lettuce were shipped to. outside markets. -Last year, . eight-cars were shipped to distant market?, and, about the equivalent .of, seven cars. .of the loose pack were sent to the local and nearby ,-iaarlcetsW . a. ,:'! s ;; " . And;4his year, with good luck, there will be upwards of thirty -1 cars'dto, be disposed of; possibly . s high es sixty, cars jnay be pro duced. ' -' J T . 4 Thus there ls being developed i on the LabU.hr " Meadows beaver- dam lands north of Balm'Wtll no 4 doubt within, a few; years become ! a gigantic head lettuce industry. ' The celery growers on those .lands, members of the Labish X Aieaaows Atierj uionurs uuiva, mostly Americanized' Japanese farmers, hare' been! experimenting with head lettuce, for a long time The outstanding f leader, in this -.group IsRoy JC Fukuda, the pio Eeer celery grower who has been and Is constantly carrying on ex- perimental work -with prospectire crops adapted to that locality, There are some 2 S of the cel ery growers : of that district who re also growing head lettuce and i Is likely that her will all pro duce lettuce as well as celery as the industry 'develops. There ate 40 or more of the celery growers now, and the number IS.increas- ' rrvTb MeiBoitoUsedtj:. , j TJve 7 Labish Meadows - growers nAVi Kew Terkvariety of let "ttcenrta 4he; market the! product fU Vnowji as thejeberg. -.j " isfcXteyi pln: the Sseed I in, jgreen shOuseil early in f January. In about a 'month "' they transplant JntQ cold frame hot beds. Inian- ' other month they , begin trans planting in the fields. They; are bbout through with this first rrop field planting 1 now r They hope 1 n Tiata tha flrkt rr on nf head!let- ti ce ready for the -market from the 10 th to Jhe lBth of .May, and Mils first-crop will; last; for about -J ' month, i;.;, ;,,, 4, . ,, : This gives Ihem; the advantage of the early ' market ? after 'the t California- supply is about: gone, aud'the Utah and . Colorado icrop ; Iias not come; on, ; and they j- can pen an iney ran suypij, up iu me middle- of June. After that they have competition, from other i dsl- tilcts. . 4. ', , .... :...!.--- . Fine for Quality There is no doubt as to ; the t-itte-of the Labish Meadows let-tttce.'-FTlieflavor Is fine, -s There is no better,. lettuce. There is some difficulty so. far, in produc ing uniformly 'solid heads; or tigHteab,accT3rdlBff sto x the lrade 'deRlghafl6n. The trade 4- vants tight heads.! - H I - The-distant shipments haye so S h far all be r of the tieht t heads. I ? ; Their experimenting j is bringing 1 1 ! about conditions that will produce : 'uniformly tight heads. Experl- !; iuenting and and proper methods of selection and cultlration. ' Ei- perimenting. and proper selection k and cultivation I f -. The Labish growers realise that 4 - they must sell on quality, it they ; are to make a; big success:- just the same as7 they have done with I, . their celery, till they have gained . .. nation wide tfaror.-.' r'; ! If.) . '. Tha Competition : ? : ; The , head lettuce , growers here : . In the Salem, district have i some li m net it Ion from Troutdale grow crs, who have river bottom Hands and put out a somewhat dlfferentt product! There are other com mercial growers, mostly .In late lettuce, In Oregon.. . There .are nome growers j in. ' the Siiverton ket. . California Is an Immense head lettuce shipper and Utah produces a great deaL There has been a TyT82- expansion of this ia clustrr--!! over the country in the past-fe'tj years, an d-there are In 4 dlcationr that It will keep n ex landing, r Lettuce Is used In the - dietary of. the nation' more and 'wore generally, and the ratura Hon point is evidently a: long way off yet, i- ,.;- - Two Succession Crops '.The lettuce crop of thei Labish 'district does not end with the How great this community mag grow, how prosperous and complete it: may jfYjVtp ; A I I become, depends upon us our willingness and our desire to worktogether--- JIME lOr. Might Make it Sixty Cars in the latter part of June. , . There is a second and third planting, seed sowing and the growing of the young plants In regular succession, as well as the plantings in the fields. The same land is used for thee second and third t crops -that is, j, there are three crops of head lettuce grown each season in the same soil, the plants for . the second crop being taken, off.! " The yield 'is' better than a carload to the acre and handled in this way it may be two crops I to the acre. .About thirty acres are devoted to, celery in the Labish district . this year. Nearly all of this is only fire to seven miles from Salem. .The seed comes from the east and from California. It Is all of one variety, the New York; the Iceberg, as known by the trade. The seed costs from S 2.50 to 4 a pound. It takes about one pound for four acres. Experiments hare been made ln producing home frown seed. . . V The third crop of head lettuce for this district lasts to up towards ThanksgiTing. It laps over the celery season. The carload shipments are made from Brooks and Quinaby. The lettuce goes In "refers." as .the railroad men call them: that is. In refrigerator cars. They, are heavily iced all the way. A car contains 228 crates. Three to three and a half dozens of heads go intov' each "crate. ; ; iThe crates weigh SQL.to ,j60 .pouAda, , without Ice. The crates measure inches, by 12 inches high.,: They bring in Chicago and 'other east era markets $4 to $S a crate: But this gross. 'The heavy1 shipping &nd Icing and commission and oth er charges have to come, out first. The heads of the Salem district head lettuce run large. Some crates carry only two'dozen heads. 1 he quality (a high; the bis fgiht is to get tight heads,' and there is progress in this, as stated above. Ihe car load trade demands tight heads, though loose heads are as cilsp. and fine ' flavored as . the tight ones, and as beneficial in the dietary of the consumers. Pay Much Rent The Labish growers" of liead lettuce,' celery, onions, , potatoes, asparagus ' and other commercial crops pay a lot of rent each year. They pay around $45 aa acre an nually owing to the length of threir contracts. " The tendency is for higher rentals; There is about 10,000 acres ofbeaverdam land available for. intensive culti vation of the high producing, cash crops and a good-deal less than 5400 acres Is now used. That is, in the whole Labish - beaverdam land district. ' And - the annual (.-toss cash returns are now away above a ! million dollars a year. .nd growing every 1 year, r Going toward the ten million dollar mark. ' . - ' . -!: - Jim Ml Tada. Route 9, Salem, is among the leaders of his people there. , probably! next to Itoy K. Fukuda. i He works! 38 acre.-His place is east of the Pacific high way: about a mile east.- The heaa lettuce and celery, acreage v is tbout equally divided between.the west and eas of the highway probably a little more now on the east side than on the west side. Mr. Tada has five acres in head lettuce, 25 acres in ;celery, five or six In onions, andi two acres in asparagn; He sells his asparagus In Salem,? principally. It Is ;;a wonderfuUy f large, tender, crisp asparagus. The outcome may? be conceivably be a , great industry, supplying big asparagus canneries here, as In the Sacramento district in California. t . ?' Mr. Yada is the president of the Labish .Meadows Celery, union. which ships under the designation of the Meadow Brand Celery: Mr Fukuda. - is secretary' Ronald Jones Is manager.! The same or ganization handles the head let- tuee sales and shipments.- S.- O. Kim. Corean. who is a farmer and extensive market gardener In that Kection.Ms member of the celery union. ; ' I ' . HAMILTON HITS CITY POWER OWNERSHIP v.'.-; (ComUnnod from pago X. . , ... . . . . ' and, agricultural : lands, and seu the' products thereof to the indus tries also at cost T ' f ;. ' i w why not -hare the government ae quiro the home' sites for, the em ployes of the prospectire indus tries and erect homes thereon and sell them; ;r. rent them also tat cost'1 and cut out ihe (Infamous profits? - ., . . ' ' "Why not have it acquire all of the commodity ' distribution busi ness and sell clothing, , food and amusements to the same employes at 'cost - and eliminate more un holy profits?.;; ;; ' , ; u; "Why not have the government acquire and operate the banks and loan money to the-new industries also at 'cost' to the government, and thereby eliminate the usuri ous profits of the money barons? "Why not have the government buy the products of .its. industries and thereby create the rery neces sary market,' and then sell said products at cost of selling, thereby ) eliminating the wicked profits of brokers and dealers? "If all of the , foregoing were done, surely industries would be attracted In large numbers. "Then when they were all established, running nicely and paying fair dividends, , as are most of the power , companies today, . should not the government complete the cycle and take over the Industries, it has been wet-nursing, And sell their pYoducts at cost to the dear peepul" because, of the unde serred profits made? -, "When the ''government has taken - orer all the natural re sources, business and Industries, we will all be employes ; of the gorernment except the lawyers, doctors, educators and preachers and may the Lord help them then!" : ' -,. ' , Mr. Hamilton showed' that while the Eugene plant is supply ing only the city Itself, the PEP Co. is going out of Salem aad de veloping the smaller communities. One of the factors n dereloplng a community is us cnamber of com merce, he declared. ' "The great Industrial growth of Los Angeles Is primarily due to the activity of its chamber of commerce members and employes. There are 10,000 members, many I thousands of whom are very ac tive. "The large increase in the In dustrial growth in Los Angeles has also been due to the inclusion of a large portion of that part of the state within the city limits: I to the movie Industry, w: lch lo- J caiea in icp Angeles primarily I because of favorable climatic con- 7 lw I w"va are very essential ""ru ' lV.t Ctiir una o? ; ; T .nVr. r.J dustrles ta locate there and to tha support it gives to existing Indus-1 tries when once established. "Much of Salem's 'industrial growth recently has been due to iue Kcuviiy oi its cnamber of Xer.C1l!er,adlrerti,lnK.a.nd uvTciuy vuuimuniiiea as tbey do orivate businesH The war to dereloo Salem tl the maximum is to actirely- andnand. But it had struck the des substantially support Its chamber I perado in the forearm, and Alf or commerce, as do the citizens in the city of Los Angeles and other cities which hare participated in THREE MORE DAYS LEFT IN BIG VOTING 0FFERla,mot OTertok It.. went through overlook one opportunity to bet-1 ter jtbeir chances to win, they arc taking the desperate risk of losing the big prizes already partially won and 'which really? belong to! them. - The candidate- who falls Edward's gun was empty. He r to do his or her utmost dnrintr I membered. he had fired' three the remainder of this J'perlod" is almost certain to bring dismal dis appointment upon himself or her self as well as their friends who are naturally as interested . lu their success as tha i.a.ndidatMi themBelres: , . Never again during the ' cam paign in the contest will it be pos sible to secure as many votes on subscriptions as between now and 8 o'clock Saturday night; March 27. : To hold back subscriptions now or to depend on promises to subscribe on a later , date- simply means that you wilt- bare- less i votes on such subscriptions. We are putting it up to oti fairly and wiri'niMia EJUECTRip ACETYLENE iTRACToit SnUOCESTS Tracks rete' built up" good as new for less than half .price. General welding' of all kinds Steel, 'cast, iron," alnmlnumjtte. An Oppcn Weld ' ,. ; j ." Has AJwayslTeld rjrsnsn:!. thtj vlacu ... - "CJ5 MlLLut3?A V ;' OIL Jl-.J FRIES: MAKES PAYROLL squarely.-. If you would be declar ed the; winner of one of : the" big ears- you can "not possibly afford to let the big vote period pass without having done your very best, j ;"v." , u " , .' :. Now during the last three day.t of this big 'rote period you can make sure of being the winner ot the big motor cars waiting to' be driven away by their -lire wire;", winners.."'. ,- ,;..- ' Bear in mind that-you can pile up the winning votes these next three, days., A little mathematics will prove it. Before this Satur day night a the year subscription i to The Statesman will count 23 4,-' 000 Votes on the regular rote schedule and remember that the 100,000 vote, bonus for eyery .$20 woith of subscriptions jccuied during this period also ends . on Saturday night at 8 p. m. Keep constantly in mind the fact that the big campaign closes forever two weeks from next -Sat urday night, on April 10. ' ' The Arizona Sheriff Tales of his adrentnnt, Tkls eouzaca, Ills aamor, bla kMB intelllfwjc m ceUvcud by Major Orovir P. Sextan. "Tho Zpaty tiom Tavspal County." How with nlMblo rna and motor cm bo orlnfft swift and uro Jactlco to orUdoon.- I The Spoiled Haircut' ' - fu hot Tne i.rst bootlegger in Miami, Gila county, Arizona, were Mar tine and Frisco Somarano. . They went at it with a venge ance.; Scattered around wnere it would reach the right ears, was their; warning: "I any officer tries to monkey with us, he'd better hare his grave dug." They were bad men, too, both of them almost as bad as a Chi cago gunman. ' Their talk, aimed at the ears of Alf Edwards, now sheriff of Gila county, got there with celerity. Alf Is the friendliest man one could meet in a day's Journey; quiet and peaceable., too. But he was, and Is, an officer. , So when the word came-he got out the Studebaker. ami the -45 six-shooter standard trappings today of Thte Arizdha Sherifr and went out to look over these two gentlemen. He went to thelH house and saw the two of them through a window. Getlng out of the car. he went to U,k to them Martine burst' out of the door with an army 45 automatic pistol In his hand, and the gun came out smoking. Ho had fired two hot his own gun. i . . ... ........ . I ' 1 ne snenn s iirst ouuet xnocs tne Mexican's gun, out or bis was a little ashamed of his aim. with the fellow only ten feet away, He didn't want to leare such an so close .to the first that . they it 43 the only recorded instance In Arizona where a man was shot I through, with a 45 and. knocked I down. Instead the Mexican leap I ed and began grappling with Alf for the sheriff's gun. Koos Tons Moaoy n Ortffoa Boy" alom, Oxocoa M oaatoonto ludo as OAPXTAZ. XCOFTlOBirTAZ. WOXXS 9. O. Jonoo Co.. Proprietor AH Kinds o atcanmontU Work ' !-s-' - Factory u Offleot 8210 ft. Coat 'L. Oprootto X, O. O. T. Comotorr, Box St Pfcooo SSS. 8AUM, QBBOOW 17 TarleUos - Baby Chicks Cnstom HatcMnx ' ' 'lee's:, '."ti ' . HATCHERY 1 Pbono S2T21 . . ; Sales Orogoa W. B. Holcomb Electric Store EotPoiot . Ualvoraal . ' appUaacos 1090 . Capital ssas Overland J (; wiaiyi icnisht : ', Osliknd , t , - ; . Sales and Scrrles : ' VICIC BROS. . ; Ulsh Street at Trade . . other shots and. had forgotten to put In-fresh ' cartridges, j eo he droped 'it 'and the' wounded Mar tine grabed It. : . J . v The rhootlegger , held : it in J his wounded hand and tried to "fan' the, gun two or three times slap ping the hammer back' with his good hand, then, letlng the ham mer' sKp back to discharge - the cartridge. fV . v . , Frisco, the brother; had picked up' Marline's army automatic, and had slipped, up behind the sheriff. He placed . the army gun at the base of the sheriff's head and pulled the, trigger. Alt felt the weapon and Jerked his head to one side. The bullet shot "out a4 furow'bf hair clear across his head and burned his ear.'. !: ..1 ; The husky sheriff floored Mar tine with one blow and while Fris co halted a-moment amazed that tha shot had not killed the officer, he smashed Frisco with his fist on the chin and the fight was orer. Alf reloaded his own gun, put the now tamed Somarano broth ers in the back seat of his car, and even though they were behind him, he watched them through the car's rear mirror and Hook them to Jail in Globe. They had had all the fight, taken out of them. . Sentenced to fire years each, the gorernment authorities asked for them and they were deported to Spain. The sentence Is a de terrent to their returning -to America. But Alf is still peered: Frisco's shot had spoiled a corking good haircut for which he had paid out 60 cents In good money, that rery day. The Somaranos had better not come back to Globe. FILL CONTROVERSY ENDS DIRT SLIDES INTO STREAM, CITY DEBATES MATTER The recent controrersy in which the city of Salenr and F. N. Derby played 'the' principal roles is an parently settled, according to Fred Williams, city attorney. Derby, it. was held by Street Comftiissioner Walter S. Low and Alderman 'Pate 1 Johnson, was somewhat inclined to refuse the city's earnest " petition that he stop dumping dirt-on his location at the west side of the south end of the South Church street bridge. As long as the fill was con lined to his-own property, all well and good, maintained Low. But as soon as the fill began to slide, and splash into Mill stream until that body of water was all but dammed, it was' time for the dirt dumping to cease. This was the opinion of City Engineer Hugh Rogers, as well as that of Low. It is said that renewed tendency of the fill to crawl toward the creek has made obrlous the neces sity to stop work on the fill for the present. : Ink has made men more fam ous than blood. gPECIAX. JuOW P&ICES EVERT .TUESDAY SAXEM CHICJEtEBXES FHOKB 400 (SOOOS 26t Korta Cottago Street Electric Supplies FIXTURE INSTALLING WIRING VIBBERT & TODD ; &rrj and High fits. RADIO , LIGHTING MOTOR SERVCK GIDEON-STOLZ CO. . Manufacturers of VINEGAR. SODA WATER , - .Fountain Supplies .. Salem , Phone SO - f Ore. DUNSMOOR BROTHERS fUts'r . v.. vToloskoao StSt 1 Painters and Decorators . latorloc or Kxoarlor Work , Wo poelaUoo oa Xb tori or work. - lVot w ahevYoo. mm work wo kavo oao. DIXIE HEALTH BREAD Ask Tour Grocer TV THE LABISH MH LID PRODUCES . A WOKDERFULLY Firffi QUALITY LETTUCE Some of It Is So Ricri That It Is Difficult to Get Solid Heads, the Kind Wanted by the Eastern Trade, From It Let tuce Brings in the First; Koney Returns in the Spring, Being Ahead of Strawberries, Says Manager of Ship ping and Merchandising of It - - : t . - '; f; Editor Statesman: ' ; : . . 1 Head lettuce has been grown In this - vicinity for only two years prior to this year, in any commer cial acreage. In 1924 we shipped two carloads out of the state and in 1925 we shipped six carloads, and we hope to have ten cars this year. " ' The lettuce grown in the La bish district is of a very high quality. The only difficulty that we hare experienced is in getting a solid head. ( Some (" of the ground seems to be too rich and the lettuce grows too fast, so that the best quality of lettuce is tnat which is crown on - the ground that has clay mixed with the bea rerdam. The lettuce that we have shinned out has been graded rery carefully in order to build up a verr hieh Quality for this district. The following 13 a paragrapn taken from a letter dated June 16, 1925, from our Minneapolis broker: "Referring to the two cars of lettuce tnat we nave handled fpr you. This was the best lettuce we hare seen this spring from anywhere, in fact, I do not beliere we hare erer hand led any of better quality and pack." .The weather has a good deal to do with making a good qual ity, head .lettuce, as warm' days and cold nights tend to make firm heads, and rainy weather makes a loose head, and some times makes the lettuce slime. Lettuce is usually a very easy crop to grow, but is very highly perishable and almost overnignt a rood field of lettuce can be ruin ed by slime or other causes, de pending on weather conditions. A carload of lettuce consists or over three hundred crates and we can" usually figure on a carload per acre. It has a short growing tea- son, the crop maturing In about ninftT davR. so that if conditions are favorable and the market is right it is a great money maker. ORDER NOW FRUIT AND SHADE TREES, SHRUBBERY From our splendid assortment of varieties for spring planting. SALEM NURSERY COMPANY 216 Oregon Bldg. Phone 2365 i '" Is Your Well Properly Lined? Use our sanitary well pipe, that keeps out surface water, and lets only deep ground water . in. Made of strong ma- terials, and reason- r able in price. OREGON GRAVEL CpMPANY ' Hood at Front , Street Salem .: , SHIP BY ZL. ICivi s OPKRATINO ON A 'REGULAR SCIIEDULB Handling Merchandise and Carload Ehipntzia ' Between SALEM and PORTLAND and Way Landings ' ' . V. . SCHEDULE t Vt - Lnave PORTLAND i OO -A."" M Sundays Tuesdays ..and .Thursdays . .... , . - Leave SALEM ' :00 A. Mondays," Wednesdaya and Fridays f ." : j ... . i . . - , ' nrT mji vni in cutoti vrrMTC' s . f Care supples POnTLAST ; sand A LL clliu .; Lettuce is, the. first crop that brings us . a monetary . return In the spring, It usually cominIn ahead of strawberries by about two weeks. ,'- ' r In order to avaif ourselves ; of the best market conditions It is best to have lettuce here as early as possible, until about thelCth of June or sometimes tha first of July; and then to have another crop come on in tha fall during September and October. Last year- was the -first time we hare had any fall lettuce, and it sold very , well in mixed cars with our celery. - '- ' - - ronald e. Jones: Brooks, Or., Marcb 22, 1926. . (Mr. Jones is manager for the CAPITAL CITY CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY BUTTER-CUP BUTTER j 1Know for iU QUALITY ; ; Buyers of : Best Grade -.Cream. Our Method: Co-operation Our Iideal: The Best Onlr ' 137 South Commercial Street Phone 290 . , : DEMAND "MarionButter" The Beit More Cows and Better Cow Is the Crying Jfeed . Marion Creamery - & Produce Co, Salem. Oregon - Phone 2422 , CUTS T. A. Livesley & Co. ! i Largest Growers, Shippers and Exporters cl , PACIFIC COAST HOPS fi Offices: Salem, Oregon and San Francisco, - - . ' - California - - ' 1 1 ' k Oregon Pulp Manufacturers of : BOND LEDGER GLASSINE v r r -GRELASEPROOFTISSUE, ! i J.- .-,! . - ....... Support Oregon Products Specify Salem Made" Paper for Yctxi Office I VATER and SAVE THE DIFFERENCE; . - .tiMs v. fla, u STEAMER MNORTHWEsrfRN,; Dock rrj'f : sxlzh rocn sad .TAnn::pui:i: -.;?,, . t rooT f Or 'ONE 1UI VlL. rv4 Labish growers ot ' head ' lettuce and celery, in the shipping and merchandising of Jbeso crops. Ed.) . " X. Truth, carries no copyriglit; help yourself to all you want. r Consider -what - Is claimed for Chiropractic methods "and vou will easily realise what a com mon sense science it lay , It aims, by removing causes, ;to eliminate disease, and doctr so success! ully. : -: ? a ???. , Phone for an appolntme&tt Dr.CXL; Scott; D.C. -.-....'!! i. JL . 256 North High Street Phone 87. or 82S-R Oil-O-Hlatlc r..-:" - , - ' - - i - " . - i- . Wha la It? SEE THEO.M.BARR: Phone 192 v , NEW SALOI HOTEL ; Where HosplUUty Awaits Von New Building, New Equipment, . Best Located"" . 1 " fc George Crater, Manager . W. 'C ,CnIbertson, Proprietor DIaesiiig Granite Company Roy Bohannon, Wr, - - ' : V ... . . . i City View Conntery; " " . .. . . - Salem, - Orescn I B. DCTHSMOOB . Salem Wicker Furniture llannfacturins Co. , Wo an Dlroet oaolno Sottoa Boo Qr2Sty rarnitoro ' Xmsbmc, ScflaUMnc, Tplialstr!rX . SSlSStoto SU. StUa, Qrogoa ,v & Paper Co; Stalloneix or cour.r L,r::::::7 tii.iii.iii. ,1.- , - . , harvesting of 4the Jftt jpanHrsgince MtoJ&Vlz$i