Capital journal., July 28, 1925, SALEM SURVEY EDITION, Image 11

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Marion County
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COME AND SEE US!
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1925
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Highly Favored with Extensive Resources in Fertile Lands,
Commercial Timber, Abundant Water Power, Growing In
dustries, Stayton Has a Very Encouraging Future.
Stayton May Become
a City of 5,1
Reasons Why It Is Not One of Ten Thousand
Hopeless Country Hamlets
When any real business man of extensive experience
steps into Stayton, he is at once impressed that here is an
exception to the hopeless, lazy, country hamlet.
There are doubtless 10,000 such cross-road places in.
America, dead, without forward movement, just sleeping
in dry rot. Here is a town that has risen out of no better
conditions than many of the mummies possess. It is going.
It has ambition, a Plan for Progress, Expansion, Success.
There are grounds for genuine Future, Expectations.
Why this big difference? It is in the people. Oppor
tunities are favorable and there is vision, courage, execu
tive power to use them. It is not extravagant to believo
that Stayton may have 5000 population, justified by busi
ness backing, in ten to twenty years. What are the rea
sons? Reasons Back of Stayton
Most undertakings here are executed by Community
cooperation, a model plan for nil communities.
There is very fine waterpower here, another founda
tion reason why Stayton has a sound future. Already it
is operating factories, providing light and other service
for the town and neighborhood. This big factor is referred
to in another statement on this page.
Reason Number Three Indispensable to success of
any town or community the LAND. Besides plenty of
commercial timber, the Land of this region is abundantly
fertile in grains, flax, fruits, dairy opportunities, livestock,
including sheep and goats. The highlands round about Stay
ton produce fruits and berries of superior flavor for can-,
ning and the commercial markets at home and abroad.
The country is beautiful to look upon. In the grow
ing season, every view of farm and associated groves is a
grand picture. This is a noble country in which to live.
Such are some of the principal Reasons why Stayton has
present ambition and visions of a cheerful future.
Stayton's River Energy Is
16,000 Horsepower
And During Flush Flowage the Stream Will
- Double That Working Force
Stayton 's greatest economic asset, next to the Land,
is the very fine waterpower that may bo developed from
the North Sanliam River, which flows through the city,
a picture stream. Of this, 1,000 horsepower is now avail
able and very soon another unit several times as large will
be added, and gradually, as needed, full 16,000 horsepower
will be in use here.
That 10,000 horsepower is the constant minimum
which may be derived from the river, 90 per cent of the
time. For fifty or more per cent of the time, about 30,000
horsepower may be realized. In other words, the river
can generate a yearly average of close to 20,000 horsepower
and with storage impounded by dams, doubtless that volume
may be far exceeded. Hence, there is here an exceedingly
fine chance to create one of the most successful industrial
centers of Oregon. As 1,000 hydroelectric power may usu
ally be depended upon to manufacture goods worth $1,
000,000, Stayton has the possibility of an industrial scope
of $20,000,000 of products, and a population to match
20,000!
Industries Employ 225 Pay $175,900 Yearly
Already, Stayton has within its limits six industries
which give employment to a minimum of 223 persons, and
pay them not less than $175,000 per year an average of
fully ? 1 1,058 per month. Besides, many thousand dollars
go out to the farmers and material people for materials and
food supplies. Most of this money returns to Stayton busi
ness and people for maintenance and profit. Most of those
industries were established here by genuine home enterprise
the kind that will get more and make this a much larger
place at no distant day.
Stayton Flouring Mills
This industry has been long established, and manu
facturers Santiam flour, feed, millstuffs generally. It em
ploys from four to five men and has a yearly payroll of
about $0,000. The product i3 used locally, in the main.
Such a mill is needed in any farm community. It is oper
ated by home waterpower.
Itayton Is an Ambitious,
Enterprising Town
It is located in a Rich Agricultural region of Marion County, Oregon, about 15 mile3
southeast of Salem, the Capital. . The North Santiam River flows through the place. This
is a beautiful stream, fed by Cascade mountain snows and run-off from highlands. Stay
ton's 1920 census gave it 619 inhabitants. Its Industries now justify a 1,200 population.
That is a growth of 551, or 84.9 Per Cent in 5 years. Stayton is a Modern Town, of Good
Schools, Representative Churches, Community Co-operation, Cheerful Ilomcs. Its streets
and walks arc paved and country roads well paved or graveled. It has sound reasons to
expect to have at least 2,000 residents on the plat by the census of 1930.
How Stayton's Bank Resources Grew In Past Ten Years
Those Chart Lines Literally Measure the volume of Bank resources for the given dates. They also picture
the progressive increase between years and for the ten years. The ten years gain was $443,300, and at the fine
rate of 155.85 per cent. The 1920 line represents the inflation peak, following the World War. It will be
seen that Stayton's bank resources have passed that low-dollar value bulge by a good margin. This chart
proves conclusively the business expansion of Stayton and development of surrounding country.
RESOURCES OF STAYTON BANKS, JULY 1, EACH YEAR
For 1925 $710,800.
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For 1920 $663,000.
For 1918 $459,000.
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For 1917 $403,000.
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For 1916 $330,000.
For 1915 $277,500.
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carefully to scale.
Those Who Presented This Page
Enterprising and generous firms and citizens of
Stayton, named below, that arranged to have this page
published for belter appreciation of Home Advantages
and Larger Progress and Prosperity for town and com
munity :
First National Bank and First State & P:i : c-
Lank.
Sanliam Woolen Mills.
Adams Hardware Store.
G. A. Smith, Real Estate.
Mountain States Power Company.
Stayton Co-operalive Canning Corm
Harry Humphries, Stayton lint"'
Gchlin Brothers.
L. H. Wright, Feed Store.
Thomas Service Station.
Baker & Ryan, Gas Station
. J. II. Hendershott, Cafe.
Yeoman Brothers.
Walter W. Miller.
Stayton Meat Market.
The Community Home Bureau
This is conducted by Mr. George A. Smith, and its
purpose is to provide buyers of improved. farm lands with
information and offerings at right prices. Such lands nro
suitable for grain, many varieties of fruit, and flax. Also
pardons. Some of the lands are especially well adapted
to grow English walnuts.-Mont of the farms have groves
of timber. Excellent water for domestic uses can be found
on nil the farms. Mr. Smith will bo glad to give full in
formation to inquirers, in person or by mail. Address him
at Slayton.
The Mountain States Power Company
'I This organization supplies heat, light and power for
tho Stayton district, including Stayton, Scio, West Stayton,
Sublimity and Aumsville. It also supplies ranges, wash
ers, motors and sweepers that use electric motivily. Mr.
H. .1. Howe is mnnager of the Stayton office.
The Stayton Lumber Company
' This firm supplies the building material for the
.iiimunity sash, doors, roofing, mouldings. It is newly
reorganized, and plans some progressive changes later on.
It is not operating the sawmill at present-
The First National
Bank of Stayton
Very Modern in Plan and Scope and
General Civic Leader
The First National Bank and the First State & Savings
Bank of Stayton are housed in a fine two-story pressed
brick building the interior of which has the finish appear
ance oc banks located in towns of 5,000 to 10,000 population.
In fact, few such institutions are as broad in scope and as
well adapted to serve their communities as this financial
headquarters of Stayton.
It is The Firsts National Bank, associated with the
First State & Savings Bank, under one management. It
is a member of the Federal Reserve System, of the Oregon
Bankers' Association,, of the Marion County Bankers' As
sociation. It is equipped with safety deposit boxes and
vault, has the burglar alarm. It is the home of the town
library, and has a room for busiiress and local meetings.
It is the Community Center, the hub of general leadership.
For the size of the town, it is the most complete and city
like the writer has seen anywhere while doing business in
82 states and the main provinces of Canada.
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Santiam Woolen Mills
Chief Industrial Factor
This Institution Employs An Average of 120
Persons the Year Around
This mill expends $150,000 annually for stock and
other items. The payroll totals $125,000 a year, and dis
burses in cash for work an average of $10,417 per month.
To say that such financial output is a vital benefit to the
town and farming community is self-evident. The woolen
manufacturers are wholesaled in distant markets.
The 1920 census of Stayton was 649. The employes
of this mil), expressed in families and supplementary lines
of service, will number 720, or 71 more than the total of
the last federal census, for nil of Stayton.
This is how factories build up cities, financially and in
population. With an abundance of cheap waterpower,
this town is prepared to add many good industries, which
combined, will justify here a city of 5,000 or even 10,000
in course of years.
Stayton's Cooperative
Canning Company
Preserves About 1,000,000 Pounds of Fruits
and Beans Per Season
This establishment makes a market for farm produc
tions amounting to $30,000 per season, and pays out $15,
OOo in wages, to from 40 to 100 persons an average dur
ing the canning season of sixty-five.
Its special brand is canned loganberries, which grow
in particularly fine quality for canning in the highlands
near the town. All other products are barreled, straw
berries up to 720 barrels per year and 400 tons (mind you)
of Evergreen Blackberries. Black and red raspberries and
cherries arc also preserved. Besides the fruit, Kentucky
Wonder Beans are canned. All goods from this factory go
out under the Santiam Brand.
This industry has been operating four years, and is
n valuable asset to (he producers and the town. It deserves
big success. Mr. George Kecch is president and Mr. U. D.
Hoke manager.
The Phelps Woodworking Company
This industry deserves growing prosperity, as it serves
as a good local market to consume native woods, abundant
in this locality. It is getting started", pays from 7 to 8
hands around $.'!Q per day or about $9,000 a year. Signif
ican of the quality of its products is the fact that they go
to the salesrooms of Montgomery Ward & Co. Its presence
is one of the factors that give promise to Stayton.
Two Cheese Factories Help the Farmers
The Sanliam Cheese company manufacturers full
cream cheese in Stayton. This is a newly started industry,
nnd has the special value of cerating a larger cash market
for farm milk. The product is wholesaled. Mr. Matt Mil
ler is proprietor and manager.
Not far from the town limits is located the Cream
Brick Cheese factory of Alois Imper, that has a rating as
a fine dairy product. His output is limited to his own
labor, but still disburses considerable money to the farm
dairymen.