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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1927)
MiMo&m :M6Mh in SiUem Is to Be ExceedM t Operation of Oregon Linen Mills, Inc., Plant Is First Iteni of City's New Industrial Growth $ 1 2,000,000 Is Conservative Estimate for 1926 i v . --.v. tiuinun Cleans cxcepuonal Prosperity Until Population Catches Up With Industries Factories Here Are New, Growing Institutions, and No Limit to Futur e Scroll Increase in! S 1911 Is Recorded m Statesman Slogan Pages City of I OOiOOO People Is Predicted For Near Future Payroll pf I Population To Keep1 Pace With Industrial Growth Ik-cause tf Salem's Attractions as Residence' CityPeopIe Will Ccme As Fast As Work Is Created For Them- Contrast To Conditions of Fetf Years Ago Is Pictured j&iis rominp year? Judged conserv atively. " has amounted to Jl, 00. oca a month during the pat year, but it must be remembered that startiag almost Instantly Vith the owning of 1327.) there Is to be a Hu st;intial Increase '. over that ,figur the first item of which la the iif;w payroll of Oregon, Linen Mills. lac, Which will be a consider,-jrle amount now and wilf douU?. according to present plans of the corporation, before the year i3 over. The present payroll of at least 51 2. OHO. 000 a year may be divid ed into four sections; an indus trial payroll of 16.300,000 a trade payroll of I2.7S0.000. a fruit har vest payrioll of $1,500,000. and a etate payroll of S 1,540.0.00. There is a Km an educational and pnblic service payroll of at least J500.r 0o. so than only that part of the fruit harvest payroll which is earned virtually within the city, i need be considered to bring the tal to 11.000000 a month. " Obviously, at least half of Sa- lem's people are supported by the &)dustries, a condition which is Jt ell above the average of cities rand which 'forecasts a population growth faster than the industrial Congratulations New First Rational Bank Building' AU reinfdrcing iron unloaded and haul ed -Cement hauled- Entire vault and 2 1 -ton vault door moved, also general draying done by I - v Salem Transfer & 1 Fuel Co. E. L. Kapphahn L. L. Thomas ImmI and Iamik Moving. IaeKing. Phones 529 and 1 3 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 M I I M 1 1 M I M t I I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M IMtllH 4MMIMMIMMHH 1 N. Night r-.tv "ri-, .' :" '.la i I growth.-which itself Is certain to beven more rapid in the future than it has been in the past; and It also presages exceptional pros perity up to the time that the pop ulation catches up with the Indus trial payroll, ifj the belief that it will catch up Is rorrect. " This belief is based on the factl that Falera was an ideal residence city before its preseat phenominaJ industrial growth took place, and is still,, a meeca toward which peo ple who desire to live in a clean, attractive city with a high average of citizenship and exceptional ed ucational facilities, look as a place of residence, and-to wbleh-they will gravitate when its economic progress creates for them the op portunity to make their homes here. Xamber employed Large Prediction was made a year ago that when Salem's industries em ploy" 15.000 persons, the city will hare a population of 100.000. The qualifying part of. this predic tion is just around the corner, and it is apparent that the industries are growing faster than the popu lation. What hould have been said, is that cities which employ 15.000 persons in their industries; usually have a population of 100.- on completion of Claude McKenney IMstiio Hauling Stornge ami Fuel Night phone 1 606 m in f ii 4i Geb;R.Vehrs,M.D. AND . Sander s,' desire to announce the opening of their new offices in Suite 603 Ne,w First Na tional Bank Building Telephone 615 Phones: ; ;i)i Dr. 000; that the industries warrant such a population and that it will eventually come; .but until it does, the people need not be anxious, because in the meantime wealth is , being ereated out of proportion to the number of people who mhst share it. This is in contrast to the Salem . of only a few years ago. when the population was greater than the pr6ductive activity war- Iran ted. - ' Whattht1 era of progress rill mean to Salem' in the end. is abv j folutelv hevond present prediction. I Moat of Salem's present industries ! are new. they are growing and more are coming. In the past year a number of new factories have been added. ' One of these is the ' second linen mill, now commenc ing - operation: another 13 the ' Western Taper Converting Co.. manufacturing many kinds of boxes and packages specialties from paper. Another plant of slm- j ilar type i in prospect. As was pointed out in the Slogan edition of the Statesman in October, manufacturers are gre garious. "One thing brings another; pertiaps many others. The opera tion of the first two linen mills in In Salem will no doubt bring sev eral specialty mills, as soon as these first ones can spin a surplus of yarns of the kinds needed in specialty mills. AH the factories make work for foundries and ma chine shops, and for box and other specialty factories. Growth Now ltapid "Salem's industrial growth seemed slow for a long time; was slow. But it seems fast now, and will without doubt be faster and faster from this time on. "In due time, we will have a million people employed, directly and indirectly, by our flax and linen industries alone." Aijid an editorial in tbe same issue stated: "The Salem canneries in the year 1911 put up about 30,000 cases of fruit and vegetables. The Hunt cannery of this city now puts up that many cases in a three day run, or about 240,000 family sized cans a day. and there are eight canneries in Salem now "And the Salem canneries pack over a milion cases of . fruit and vegetables a year, or; about half the pack of the whole state of Oregon; and the canneries of the Salem district use about a third of all the cans used in the Pacific northwest states of Oregon. Wash ington and Idaho in which to pack fruits and vegetables. And we will have canneries with larger capa city, and more and more of them, to take care of the raw products which we produce and will pro duce in larger volume - And our .canners do not get all our fruit, by any means. Our dryers get great volumes of it. and so do our barreling concerns, fruit juice makers and other processing concerns, and bur fresh fruit ship pers - "In other lines of manufactur ing there has been great growth in the same period, and it is not too much to say that Salem has al ready become a manufacturing city ofoutstanding importance, as 1 1 1 1 I ; v i y 1 ; 5 1 'Xl D. Vehrs 775 Sanders 23 IS M OFFICES OF LOCAL UTILITY -: ' "- '-.: ' - - j -.?":A'T-ar-v:.-. . -'lji .' ;,v.;. .-- . "s..;;::- : ' r - ; ' 1 " 1 ... - - T j , A i . : I . mmm mmm. '?'UJ 1 .111' Salrni he. "-.quarters of tin- '1'ortland thy, HiIlboro cities of her size on this 'coast go "And her more than $12,000. 000 annual; payroll for a city of $25,000, and with her suburbs making up a metropolitan coin munityt of something more than 27,000 gives a better showing, ac cording to good authority, than is to the credit of any other city of the .size in all the Pacific north west. Fact orivs 1 j 1 ge "Salem has the largest paper mill west of theMlockies fcjr the making of the finer grades of paper; and this mill is constantly growing; growing in quantity and average quality of output. It ia now unismng an aauition to us main -machinery i)uucting. to ac- commodate additional machinery that will almost double its capa city. There will be more paper mills in Salem. Salem bad and will have again the largest loganlerry juice opera tions in the world. "Salem has the only fine fiber flax industry in the United States, turning out fiber of the highest grades for the world's markets. The first plant 4o spin these fibers has been in successful operation for .1 year: erected by the Miles' Ivinen company, a home concern. This factory makes twines and threads from the yarns, and even tually will weave various linen fabrics. A second linen mill, be inr erected by the Oregon Linen Mills, Incorporated, will be in op eration in a couple of months. "In due course, weill be sel ling $100,000,000 anuually of flax products, and employing di rectly and indirectly in this indus try a million people. This devel opment, which the writer believes is as certain as the rising and setting of the sun. will justify a city here of many more than 100, 000 nepple. "There was built last year the SUPREME COURT BUILDING : " a t - . . - One of the attractive stute buildings in Salem, liourina; the Oregon state library and other state depart nu-nts as. well-mm the supreme court chambers. j yrefcjis imm -iBk'.j-i". it:i Mil :r,.i ji irj 'j nia:v-.jKi i... !U. a': m k. w.h n -rr.-?;"t5'!i irits m m mm - Announcing ! Removal of our offices to New First National Bank Building Rooms 304-305 Phone 970 ' "- 1 - Socolofsky & Son REAL ESTATE LOAiS INSURANCE ' ; - : ' ; v '-.j " We extend hearty greetings i"qr a Happy New Year and a welcome to visit our' nqw dffices ta a w (Bur's btwwhis tifrts wrft us iK sa ani wswi ; K:ertric i owi'i- "o.. w.iuii opetates in tiiis.city as well s in Oregon and . Helens, C)-v, and Vanccuver, Wa.-h. factory of the Western Paper Con verting company, to make boxes and envelopes and a great number of specialties from the paper of our paper mill, and from its by products. This plant will no doubt eventually employ several hun dred people. IJeM Sugar Plant Next "There is to be built soon in Salem a beet sugar factory: and this will bring manyVsuch factor- 1 ies to this and other5 sections of I the Willamette valley. j "We will have a potato starch j and dextrine and flour factory, a j peppermint oil . refinery. and I others. "All these things will bring There will many more factories.. be a cumulative industrial growth. "Silem now goes to the ends of the earth with her products, bringing in new wealth year after year, and capahde of being contin ued and increased throughout all the ages of the future. "There is 'white coal' enough available to fill all the Willamette valley with the hum of industry; a power t hat may be used and used and. that will never weax out, as Inn? as the laws of nature per mit? the mists to arise from the ocean' and to fall in Hie form of ...new rain to keep the rivers running down Uie mountain sides. "Salem will be a big city, and it will be an industrial city, so prepared fcr by the decree of na ture. And thus it will le a pros perous city sourrounded by a thrifty rural population "And it will be a Gibraltar pro3 tterity, in the land of diversity, in the country of opportunity, where there is seed time and harvest in all the twelve months of every year; something to do and some thing to sell every-day of the 312 or the 365. -k "There iff no such diversity in any other district in the world: no other district in which there - '-4 v t - - - .3 3 wri.iTpffl isxmtrm tmmM m wjm 3ur imr COMPANY i " 1 - 1r- r "1 ' i are so many exclusive opportuni ties, in crops the cultivation of which amount to a franchise "So what we have done so far and what we are doing now furn ish only a glimpse of what our children and children's children wiil do, by merely 'carrying on and enlarging' the lines of en deavor that the pioneers and the 'people of; the present generation have demonstrated are feasible." FRY'S IS OLDEST STORE Ksmblishcd in 1H82, Business Is Kept; Up To Date AlwaysJ Fry's Drug store, established in IS82 by Daniel J. Fry. Sr.. H one of only three Salem businesses which have been in continual ex istence since that time, the other two being: the Iadd & Bush bank and The Statesman newspaper. -The elder Fry arrived in Salem in the aove mentioned year, at the- age of 23, with goods and chattels Consisting mostly of a diploma ? from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in 1880. At tbai time there were only three oitbjer druggists here: fc. H. llubbelj, next door to where the Buster Rown shoe store is now situated;- Ben Belt, in the store how occupied by the Price Shoe Co.; and D. W. Matthews, one door ekst of the Patton book store. In those early years Salem was without a sewer system, and had only a ' very primitive water sys tem, situated on the-river where the Spaulding saw 'mill now stands: ' no sidewalks, electric lights, telephones nor street cars, and along with those convenienc es it lacked many others which Salem people enjoy today, ilorses and walking were the only means of conveyance. A single track railroad ran from Portland to Rosebitrg. But; even at that time a pro gressive spirit prevailed among the leading business men of Sa lem. ahd, it should be added, nas prevailed up to the present time Fry s Drug store was the first Salem business house to remodel its front and install plate glass show windows in place of the old fashioned displays that were rolled in at night and out again early in the morning for that day's business. . At the present -time. Daniel J. Fry, Jr. and Orris J. Fry are own ers of the drug store and active- rj?.7. o:x;:i:'rsu ... We Congratulate The FIRST NATIONAL BANK! and MAYOR T. A. LIVESLEY ' At Their Presentation to Salem of the FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING "OUR FIRST SKYSCRAPER". A CREDIT TO ANV CITY AND A PERMANENT MONUMENT IN SALEM TO THE, FAITH AND PROGRESS1VENESS OF A NUMBER OF . OUR FINEST CITIZENS : . has grownc- and still grows be cause it is kept abreast of ihe times, taking full advantage of every modern facility and method to keep up to date and Tender the highest service that can be given , to the public, the accommodation j which has always been, still is and will always be the hief con-j cern of the men in charge of Fry's . Drugstore. ' ; j All the clerks are graduates of ! tbe best schools, of pharmacy in ' this country. . " There is always a reason for the success of any man or busi'r ness, and in this . case, it is the following of the strict rule of keeping up to date and giving the best possible service to the pat ronizing public. NURSERY HERE SUCCESS Growers In Irrigated Sections Like Valley Seedlings That the Willamette" valley is 'n ideal place to grow fruit trees from Feed was demonstrated anew within the last month, when fruit growers of the irrigated sections of Washington contracted to have R. W. MSthisof the Cherry City Nursery, groiv 10.000 Wenatchee Moorpark apricot trees. Trees shipped to points in many sections of the northwest during the past year were in all cases sat isfactofy.'Mathis neports. Letters expressing enthusiastic approl of these trees were received from every grower. Mathis. who grows all of the trees and plants that he handles. has had years of experience in the j nursery business, in which other members of his family, have been engaged for an even longer time. MOON JEWELRY TO MOVE Takes St ort Room In Oregon Building- To Hemodel ,, The jewelry store of Clause C. Moon, establLshed within the past year on1 Court "street, will move to larger quarters early in Febru ary, in the room in the Oregon building just west of the theatre entrance. This store room is to be com pletely rearranged, with a bal cony and wall cases on. all Rides. The repair department will be in the reajr. Moon specializes in watches,! diamonds and gift goods. ROAD WORK. EXTENSIVE State s4neml !R64,I2.".101 . On Highways In Year Automobile travel has become so essential a part of the life 6f all Oregbn people, that the state spent J649.1 2.",101 on roads and bridges in 1!)25, according to re ports frOm the highway depart ment to' the bureau of publl' roads, recently made public, this amount, 59,6 per cent spent fdr new construction, for maintenance and 3.5 for Of was 18.4 ma- i Henry J. Millie Attorney-At-Law Wishes to announce the removal of his. office from 442 State St. to Room 601 New First .National Bank Building PHONE 2197 i .MimiiMii. 'Russ' 'Smith MILLER TIRE. SERVICE CO. terlals and equipment,. Ad mini t- trMive costs a'ecounted for-.T-por cent, interest -and -principal pnr meats on bonds 7.8 per cent and' miscellaneous. exteviditufLk amounted jo per cent. .1 ; The amount of money raised for road .purposes- In that" yfear was only $664,424,571, -as compared to the greater amount expended. for $115,656,721 was available as a balance from the previous year's - operations. Of tbe amount raised - during 1925, 43.5 per cent was raised by. means of the motor vehicle license fees and gasoline tax. 30 per cent from the former and 1315 per cent from the latter. Sale of bonds ae- ' eountei for 2113 percent and 'fed eral aid 13:9 perjeent. Funds-, transferred to the itate by the . 1 counties amounted -to 10.8 per cent, and -the balance ,was recelv- -ed from miscellaneous sources as follows: Taxes. 3.3 Jper cent;, ap- -propriatidns, 5 per icent; miscel laneous 2.2 per cent . : Although the year's , expend!- ' tures were slightly greater than t the previous year4 total.. $65. 665,207. the balance of $13096, 191 carried over into 1926 iwas. even greater than that of the year , previous. The" rate - of consiruc tioi remained about the same a the- year before. : J , i Eugene Ffuit .Growers have shipped 20 cars dried prunes and still bave 10 cars. - ; DR. FRBB ELLI3 ' V DR. B. D LATCH FORD f i - : Drs. Ellis & Blatchfbrd Announce the .removal of their offices from 502 .U. S.. National. Bank Bldg., to 701 702 , New First . National Bank Bldg. ' . Phone 169 . Mutual Life Ins. Co. of N. Y. : . ' ' Removed to t First National Bank . Building Room -UH Phone' 2107 FRKI) A.'IH'FFY 1 Dist. Manager " " ' ... r...... , .