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iff Statesman, Correspondent
. G5RVAIS While The. Ore
gon . Statesman was g o i n g .
through its infancy in Oregon
City 90 years ago settlers were
arriving on- - French Prairie,
here St Louis' was the trad-
ing. center - until . the ' town of
Gcrvtis was laid out in 1870. -'
Other? improvements 'rapidly '
followed establishment": of the.
Ml 1. - - . i .
. Brothers;' warehouse and geh
ewl1" store.'.',' "; '.;.'. ,
;'AlthougV population" has not
?feased rgreaUyJ in '-recent
' years:, the improvements have .
v ot ceased.v ; Approximately 3,000
. feet of copc.re.te sidewalks were
. laidthls past winter.. The city, '
x once possessor of board streets
and, wooden sidewalks, now has
. a system of concrete thorough
' fares andwaUts.i :,!
- ; Early to its; history, Gervals
.
--jecamei a,
registered. Of . this number 28
are seniors. A school bus, car
rying 38, makes two trips morn
ing, and afternoon to and from
the school.' Three men jand two
' women comprise the faculty;
the, fifth teacher, was added aft
er the opening of school last
fail.. In 1931 the city built an
auditorium, which was turned
over to the school district in
1934 when the new $14,000 high
school was built , ,
Building activity this year
has been considerable: A new
concrete " jail, several new
residences and the enlarging,
- remodeling and modernization
- f one store have been com-
- pleted In addition to a num
ber of smaller" Improvements.
; Gervais is well located. It is
14 miles north of Salem and a
quarter mile west of the Pacific
highway, from which a paved
road leads into the city. It cen
ters a prosperous farming and
fruit-growing area. Onions,
grain, poultry and some hops are
'. included in its produce. One
warehouse ships' seeds to almost
By tyRS. p. G. LOONEY
i Statesman Correspondent
HAZEL GREEN Eight miles northeast of the sfatehouse
stands the schoolhouse which is center of Hazel Green, a name
originally applied in derision but deemed appropriate and more
thoroughly appreciated in recent years.
When district number 65 was organized December 5, 1865,
it embraced a tract of tlmberland with a border of Howell
prairie on, the east and a strip- - . .
of Lake Labish on the north; in
fact, the present district of La
bish center was included in the
district Then it. was that the
settlers on the prairie termed
the district, with its dense un
derbrush of hazel shrubs ''Hazel
Green."
Adaptable to Fruit
When the fir giants 175 to 200
feet tall were removed, the soil
was found to be exceptionally
well adapted to fruit as it was
rich and well-drained.
Today its residents Droudlv
refer to it as "the garden spot
Its; history,. Gervals warenouse snips seeas w almost . . , ,. "uen spot commercial piantingSj. and
-ClMweh-uid-schoot'-- acreage is going in
WninnM rthii. countries. older mckname connotes luxur- sorine.
ily orchards, and Ralph Gilbert
has a commercial orchard.
Berries Thrive .
Strawberries have been mar
keted successfully in Salem by
Hazel Green growers since the
early 80s, reaching the peak iln
1931 when tons of Etterbergs for
the cannery and Marshalls to
barrel .were harvested from
more than 500 acres.
I To some extent Youngberries
and Boysenberries are replacing
strawberries. Both Alvin Van
Cleave and Alex Sharp have
pnmmArmal nlantmn. J v .... ...
cd in the Hazel Green commun-
ity. " "
Celery Shipped '
Labish meadows celery is ship
pea. to eastern markets, where
the fine quality is widely known.
Some of the green variety,
known as Utah , celerv. whinh
c . . - , r-
does not require bleaching, is
grown here now. Investment in
labor, fertilizer and water is con
siderable. A new industry is the raising
of seeds, whichvwas begun two
.years ago when N. P. William
son had 16 acres and Allen
Looney and Glen Looney 9.5
planted to turnip seed. This was
threshed by combine. In 1940
Williamson had 40 acres in rutabaga-turnips
for seed. The yield
of one field was considered ex
ceptionally good. This year Mr.
Williamson has sown two acres
to fescue as an experiment.
Various Seeds Produced
Last autumn Allen and Glen
Looney put nine acres into stock
beets; in turnips Louis Garberino
had three? acres and Glen Looney
six and a half. For the first year
six acres were sown to white
clover by G. M. Looney. Spinach
', center, wiw pioneer Catholic
and Baptist . churches 1 active
here. The Baptist church later
fcecames a J Presbyterian, mis
sion Church. .w.r, -V-. , -'
Since 199 the Gervals Star
has been, published as a part
bank was established in .1907.
Gervals early had telephone
lines and! electric lights.
" Ztarollment in the union high
countries.
; New industries this year are
the drying and shipping of
Scotch broom and digitalis. The
broom is used in making medi
cine used in the treatment of
diabetis; the digitalis as a heart
,sUmulat.Qne
shipped several thousand
pounds of the dried product to
eastern markets during the, last
few months.
iant growth. It might also well
refer to filberts, which in their
wild state are hazel nuts, culti
vated .here with considerable
success.
Apples have thrived since the
seedlings planted bv first tt.
old tree on Albert Johnson's
farm. There are many fine fam-
this
spring.
On Lake Labish the market
gardens have been develbped
from 20 acres and dne small
greenhouse in 1920 to 56 acres
and nine large and small green-
nouses. Last year 50 carloads of
20
by W. D. Lowery who had it
rented.
( Flax grown here has a long fi
ber and yields well.
For a number of years Ralph
Worden has been harvesting two
or three crops of hay from his
aiiaifa. Ladmo clover, when irri.
nf nninnc an4 rriiel K.. i.m.!nlr1.' t
r muni i ; aafcM'wwiwtoMWM. hwv w wiiiMMiMisT,ysMtmayytsfl
quantities or early vegetables, successful for pasture for cows
during the greater part of the
year.
beets, carrots and lettuce were
j
marKetea irom the area includ-
Ssed Industry Most
RapidlY . Growing
In All Oregon
$ STITCH Y STITCH
f. Most-rapidly developing phase of agriculture in Oregon is the
seed industry, 'according , to G. R. Hyslop, professor of farm crops
at Oregon State college." ; - .
Nevertheless, the growing of such crops as clover for seed is
not new. Surplus clover seed , from the Willamette valley found its
way to eastern markets' as . early as the 1880s. But it was slow in
..1 1M1 , Ma... -
.HELPING AMERI
CA PREPARER
With ofitnlion to intrkal
dttailt, matttr craftsman
or now producing this vital
wtapon for dtftnit . . . th
60-mm mortar, vttd to wipo
out machine gun nttt$. In
tailoring uniforms, dotails
also crtoto ptrftcfion.
- 20 ( yearti later.' the Willamette
J valley acreage-In seed crops is
?0 times as large as in any pre
' :vous year," declares H. A. White
cf. JSalem,; pioneer dealer" who
has watched the industry grow.
; Lest year's seed crops probably
, brought the - state ; between
15,000,000 and ' $8,000,000. ; , f
- - 'Reasons for this tenfold in
crease are- several, but heading
' .U' f
, t ditioni and 4 .California's clima-,
' tie upset, yf White. :;
11 Lersmes . Lead " .;r;r t ' -
Field seed onee- jesfHiially -
' prevalent, i has become it sec
ondary importance. and legumes
hive laken? a definite lead.
Southern'states . haye been Ira-
. pehnnt'U'mvkYV'tWithcotton'
acreages cut" and" cover crops
required to rebuild the soil. Gov
, emment AAA allotments have
encouraged Increases in corn
and -oats acreages which have
mounted 500, per cent. Growers'
' who discovered that land which
' had produced but 12 bushels of
. com, per acre t could be madeito;;
- produce 43 bushels ; after two
or three years of legume cover--r
age have . boomed the. demand
' for egume seeds such as vetches
, , and Austrian peas. ; . y
V Not .only ; has , Europe ceased
to Export "seeds to this country
but the demand for seed in the
war-ridden countries is consld
erablc, While other Oregon agri-
' .. . eulture, notably certain sections
of the fruit; trade, suffers from
. Europe's 1 hfted, demands, the
seedindustry thrives. 1 -.
. In 1934 the United States used
, 11,0,000 pounds of ... legume
seeds, . of 'which I probably two-"
thirds was ;US raised, f Last year
little or none .of the. 60,000,000
pounds used jWas; imported., and
W pet cent, of :it .was produced
in Oregon;.this" yesr Oregon will
produce 53 pcy cent of the na-..
, tka's k.Tume-seed requirements.
C:t,Jre2s.lfte f-iU:fr-,.-d-'.
- i.He grass, grown in Oregon
fr set J -over a period of 27
yc :r,: Utal?d:23,000,00d "pounds
11 cf s:; J for pasture and lawns
produced jin the, state was $300,
000. Fescues are increasing in
importance and value.
; Onion, carrot, radish, turnip
and other -"smalT seeds are
grown here in . good Quantity
"and the acreage in quality sugar
beej seeds s lre in the Wil
- lamette .valley, although the
1 beets themselves are not con-
sidered as desirable from a
manufacturing standpoint as
those raised in other sections.
DETAILS CREATE PERFECTION
Rich in Produce
LABISH CENTER More than
.a .million dollars', worth of pro
duce is t hauled annually -over
the -highway that runs through
the heart of this district"
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