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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
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Scroll Increase in! S 1911 Is Recorded m Statesman Slogan Pages City of I OOiOOO People Is Predicted For Near Future
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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
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1 Fuel Co.
E. L. Kapphahn
L. L. Thomas
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Moving. IaeKing.
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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
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IMstiio Hauling
Stornge ami Fuel
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Sander s,'
desire to announce
the opening of their
new offices in Suite
603 Ne,w First Na
tional Bank Building
Telephone 615
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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
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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
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state library and other state depart nu-nts as. well-mm the supreme
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- Announcing !
Removal of our offices to
New First National Bank Building
Rooms 304-305 Phone 970
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REAL ESTATE LOAiS
INSURANCE
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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'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.
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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
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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 "
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