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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1925
PLEASED TO MEET YOU!
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WOODBURN Is a Wholesome
American Town of 2,000
Population, Located in Mar
ion County, Oregon, in the
Midst of Very Fertile and
Productive Farming Lands
Those Farms Yield Fully
Twenty Profitable Crops
Its Canning and Preserving
Factories Pay Help $109,
000 Yearly, and to Farmers
for Supplies $505,000.
The Graves Canning Company, Inc.
Woodburn is fortunate in having for its leading indus
try the Graves Canning company, an extensive, modern es
tablishment that disburses in wages and salaries yearly
about $100,000, and returns to growers for their crops of
fruit up to $367,391 annually. Any person of experience
knows the immense help to the community of such a home
market and spread of money as this company provides. It
creates the ideal form of reciprocity between the farms and
the factory. The business is ably managed by Mr. Roy
Graves, whose products are known in the general markets
as among the best in commercial berries and fruits. He also
creates a large demand for cans and crates for shipment, all
of which adds to the prosperity of county and state. He de
velops Home Industries directly and indirectly.
Co-Operative Fruit Growers' Association
This is a mutual co-operative working industry doing
business for its own membership of 174 farmers. It packs
strawberries only, but buys and ships other fruits of the
region to the extent of 850 tons per year. During the sea
son, it gives employment for about six months to 100 per
sons, and pays them $4,000 yearly. Its farmer members
receive for their productions $110,000 annually, though it
is expected that the works will have to be enlarged soon,
when the consuming power will be much greater. Out of
season the works employ from six to ten men. Mr. Ray G.
Glatt is secretary and manager.
There's Millions In It The Pickle Factory
The California Packing Corporation has established
here one of its working industries and warehouses for buying
and pickling cucumbers. The factory tanks are teeming
with little cucumbers, millions of 'em, all grown on farms
and gardens nearby. During the packing season this place
employs about 25 persons, and in off periods between seven
and eight. Its yearly payroll is close to $5,000, and the
growers receive about $25,000 per year. The preserved
products are distributed under the popular Del Monte brand.
Enterprise That Should Be Appreciated
The following named public-spirited citizens present
this page to the people of Woodburn and Marion county in
order to give them a higher appreciation of this good town
and country. It will also enable friends of the Woodburn
community to prove its many merits to people anywhere:
Graves Canning Co., Inc., fruit canning and preserving.
John P. Hunt, insurance, president Community club.
Bank of Woodburn.
First National Bank.
W. H. Broyles, Mayor of Woodburn.
Moore & Beers, druggists,
J. H. Bontrager, grocer.
F. S. Eyerly, Variety Store.
A. E. Austin, dry goods store.
S. A. Hoefer, Valley Manufacturing Co.
F. G. Havemann, Ford garage.
M. J. Lindahl, real estate,
Becker & Son, garage.
Lake Larkin, billiard parlor.
Pendleton & Lucas, Woodburn garapc.
J. C. Wageman, real estate.
Bomhof f Cafe. '
Perle Love, automobile tires.
Rigdon & McGonegal, filling station.
Co-Operative Fruit Growers' Association.
C, C. Store, merchandise.
Woodburn's Business Growth Proved by Bank Resources
THE FOLLOWING CHART LINES EXACTLY MEASURE the Combined Yearly Resources of Woodburn's
Two Banks to June 30th each year. They show such Totals for two years before the World War, one War
Year, and two years following. That for 1919 is for one High Inflation Year when values were expanded over
100 Per Cent above 1914. In spite of such big inflation, the Resources for 1925 Exceed those for 1919 by
$248,538 or 31.4 Per Cent, and the Ten-Year Expansion was $495,414 or 91.1 Per Cent. The Yearly Average
was 9.11 Per Cent a healthy growth for disordered World War Conditions.
Woodburn's Bank Resources for the Given Dates Were
For 1925 $1,038,991
For 1919 $790,453
For 1918 $681,344
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For 1916 $562,184
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For 1915 $543,577
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These Chart Lines are drawn
precisely to Scale. They
measure the numbers to
l-lOOdrcth of an inch.
The Chart's Significant Pointers
It is easy (for some people) to claim that a town in which they are interested in making good progress. To
prove it is quite a different matter. The chart positively demonstrates that Woodburn is a going, growing place,
enjoying a very healthful business advance. Now, towns nor cities, expand merely of themselves. Thy are the re
sults of causes. The chart likwise make3 certain that there must be productive country around Woodburn, the kind
that makes centers of financial health and provides the best that there is in civilization. Any town that can keep
up an average development of its general business of 9.11 per cent yearly, in disordered times such as have been with
the nation and the world during the past ten yars, has a genuinely sound economic constitution. That's Woodburn.
There is the proof.
By Richard L. Rowe
Transportation Education In General
Woodburn's public schools are housed in two grade
buildings and one $75,000 high school structure. The teach-.
ers include six men and eighteen women, and the latest
school census showed a total school age of 5G0. Like nearly
all Western schools, these are high in merit. A parochial
school is conducted here, with four teachers and 159 pupils.
The state is erecting a new Industrial school for boys along
the Pacific highway, one mile north of Woodburn's limits.
The building will be modern in construction and equipment.
The site includes 300 acres of land to give the boys light
employment. The Church of God religious denomination
holds its annual con
vention at Woodburn,
lasting a number of
days. Those in atten
dance number 300 to
400.
Woodburn is favor
ed with one of the
most complete trans
portation systems of
any town of its size in
Oregon. The main
north-south side line
Df the Southern Paci
fic system passes
through the place,
with a more easterly
branch running south
lo Albany with various
connections. The Nor
thern Pacific electric
connects here by a
branch, with the Port
land, Salem, Albany,
Corvallis, Eugene
trunk and branch lines
The Pacific Highway
and other well-paved
roads make quick trav
el to all important
points in this great
Willamette Valley and
beyond more of a hol
iday affair than a
task. Woodburn it
self is well paved with
7 1-4 miles of hard
surface in the city
limits; and while free
from hills, is in sight
of mountains.
The Valley Manufacturing Company
One of the industries that deserves success is tho Val
ley Manufacturing company's wood-working plant at Wood
burn. It operates a short-log hardwood sawmill, and works
up such forest materials into ax, hammer and tool handles,
turned construction supplies, telephone brackets, ladder
rungs. Its productions are all staple, and have an almost
unlimited field for sales. It employs an average of three
persons the year around, and for wages and materials pays
out $7,500 yearly.
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WOODBURN Stands for Ex
cellent Home Conditions,
Modern Schools, Well-Attended
Churches-It Prac
tices Community Co-Operation
In Affairs Which Con
cern the Town-It Has Ex
cellent Paved Highways and
Superior Rail Transporta
tion There Is Abundant
Commercial Timber For
Building and Manufactur
ersHas Plenty of Electric
Power.
Woodburn's Remarkable Banking Facilities
Most towns of 2,000 population, and even more, have
little, old antiquated banking equipment in rooms which
show no taste nor enterprise. Nothing like that in Wood
burn. It has the Bank of Woodburn, elegant and citified in
interior construction and furnishings, officered by Mr.
Keith Powell, president; Alice Bingham Powell, vice-president,
and Mr. Eugene Courtney, vice-president and cashier.
The First National Bank is also a modern financial in
stitution in all respects, member of the Federal Reserve
System, housed in handsome quarters and furnished to im
press persons of experience with its worthiness to serve a
very progressive community. Woodburn certainly is fortu
nate in its banks and bankers. The First National officers
are: Keith Powell, president; Eugene Courtney, vice-president;
Cecil J. Sspy, cashier.
Resources That Underlie Woodburn
The country surrounding this place is practically one
vnst, very fertile crop and timber-producing region. The
soil is rich and deep, and the farm yields are among the
most abundant found in the United Stntes. The crop va
riety is remarkable, seldom surpassed anywhere. Good
money crops of asparagus, potatoes, onions, celery Bfld or
dinary vegetables are taken as a matter-of-course. Immense
growths of strawberries, red and black raspberries, longan
berries, evergreen (native) blackberries, cherries, pears,
apples, are made with moderate care. Filberts and white
walnuts, black walnuts, seem to chum with this country.
Many varieties of flowers are produced in dreamlike per
pection. Grand crops of wheat, oats, barley, rye, are the
rule. Some corn is grown, nnd wonderful hay crops. Dairy
business is :tcnsive nnd increasing. This is a fine coun
try for poultry, hogs, sheep nnd goats. Bees work success
fully. What more could anyone want of the Land?
Woodburn's Industries Shown Collectively
That Woodburn has made a fine start toward industrial
support which means a larger population nnd improved farm
markets, let the following manufacturing summaries be
shown as evidence:
Paid
Employed. Payrolls. Producers
Graves Canning Company, Inc. 150
Co-Operative Packing Company 100
California Packing Corp. 25
Valley Manufacturing Compnny 3
Automobiles, etc. (estimated) 22
$100,000 $370,000
4,000 110,000
5,000 25,000
3,000 4,500
80,000 144,000
Totals
300 $148,000 $C53,500
Besides the foregoing industries, one of the largest
nurseries in the state is located here, operated by F. W. Set
tlemier. The county-ownd Woodburn paving plant which
prepares materials for roads, streets and walks is an im
portant local industrial factor. Woodburn is also a general
distributing center for both the Union and Standard Oil
companies. It is doubtless within bounds to say that the
various industries disburse fully $1,000,000 from this cen
ter, and pay around $200,000 in salaries nnd wages annual
ly. And such expenditures will no doubt increase with the
years.