THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
PAGE FIFTEEN
Oregon Has Magnificent Resources of Majestic Scenery
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1925.
USED
TRUCKS
AT BARGAIN PRICES
2- Ton Master, solid Tires, ingood
shape $600
An excellent truck for wood
hauling.
3y2-Ton Federal, good mechanical
condition $750
3,4-Ton Oldsmobile, slightly used $300
1-Ton Bethlehem, pneumatic tires,
fair condition ; $500
34-Ton White, pneumatic Tires $1,100
(Eeconditioned) .
212-Ton White, long wheel base, near
ly new, operated 3 months; solid
tires, new truek guarantee $4,000
3 Ton White, express body, recon
ditioned, new truck guaran
tee . $3,500
5-Ton ..White, chain .drive, ..flat-bed,
rebuilt, solid tires '. . .$1,750
-Ton G-M-C, pneumatic tires, ..
flat bed, good shape .$450
3- Ton Denby, excellent condition,
completely equipped for lumber
hauling $1,500
MARION AUTO
COMPANY
Open Day and Night
Phone 362 Salem, Oregon
LWe Save You Money
1223 SEE THE POINT,
THREE DAY SALE
Thursday-Friday-Saturday
Granilcware, Buckets, Dishpans and Preserving
Kettles at
50c
Aluminum Teakettles, Double Boilers, Percolators,
Buckets, Preserving Kettles, Dishpans, at
95c
We Pay Cash for Used Furniture
Nash-Smith Furniture Co.
219 North Commercial Street near Court Street
Semi-Annual Statement of the
Oregon Fire Relief
Association
of McMinnville
As of June 30, 1925
ADMITTED ASSETS
Real Estate, Home Office $63,300.72
Mortgage Loan - 8,000.00
Oregon and U. S. Bonds 385,249.65
Cash in Banks 14,455.08
Premiums due and in course of call 62,335.80
Re-Ins. due from other companies - 40.13
Accrued Interest on Bonds 4,225.96
$537,616.40
LIABILITIES
Unearned Premium Reserve $335,075.99
Unadjusted Losses 7,500.00
Commissions and others unpaid claims.... 6,910.92
Unassigned Surplus .. 188,129.49
$537,616.40
B. F. Rhodes, Pres. W. C. Hagerty, Secy
E. C. Apperson, Treas.
T. B. Kay, Local Trustee
STANDLEY & FOLEY, Local Agents
They Are Measured by Mountain Ranges Hundreds
of Miles in Length and Miles in Elevation
They Include Crater Lake One of the World's Most Splendid natural Wonders and Mount
Hood Clothed with Snow and Garnished with Glaciers and Skirted with Noble Forests
They Take in Fifteen Peaks More Than a Mile High, the Pacific Ocean for Summer
Refuge and Cooling Forests for Vacation Camp Life
By Richard L. Rowc
Oregon has not been heralded as the Phenomenal Scenic Arena, but it can match any state in the Union in
Great Out-of-Doors Attractions and Splendid Spectacles. This form of Recreation Capital is not now appreci
ated because there is so much of it. The same was once true of the great prairies, but they are worth Billions
of Dollars now, and legions of people are very regretful that they did not realize their value when the show was
new. Its Scenic Greatness is one of Oregon's very Important Resources. Take a glance at Nature Rare
Festival.
There is the Cascade Range of mountains which crosses the state from north to south. Glacier-garnished Mount
Hood is near the north end, 11,225 feet high, 665 ieet more than two miles, surrounded by forests deep and splendid,
traversed by snow-fed, plunging, picturesque Btreams, often leaping into abysses in whitened trails of spray..
Two hundred miles toward the southern end of the range .is one of the most splendid Natural Marvels on Earth,
Crater Lake. It is a mountain whose peak has plunged into itself, in some stupendous seismic cataclysm. The crater,
with an average depth of 1,000 feet, contains a lake of water, more blue than the heavens, in walls that are fresoed
in stately volcanic colors. This lake is about six miles in dia meter, big enough to accommodate a large city, with the
highest steeples and skyscrapers invisible a little distance from the margins. The lake surface is 6,177 feet above the
sea, and the Government Lodge (it is a National Park) is at the 7,076 foot elevation both more than a mile high. The
destroyed mountain peak, that once was, remains as an island pinnacle in the lake. The region is surrounded with
volcanic spires and multiforms thrust up when the mighty convulsions were in process. The mountain sides are clothed
in forests. About 30 miles to the south by west is Mount McLoughlin, 9,493 feet in elevation. Ten miles northward
from Crater Lake is Mount Bailey, 8,365 feet in elevation, and Mount Thielsen, 9,176 feet high. A little farther north
are three more peaks, 7,668 to 8,792 feet in elevation. The Eugene-Klamath Falls extension of the Southern Pacific
railroad is projected to pass between these peaks. There are several fine lakes by and near them. y
Still More Magnificence
Next come the Three Sisters, 10,352 feet above the sea ; Mount Washington, 7,769 feet in elevation ; Three Fingered
Jack whose fingers point 7,795 feet into the air, Mount Jef ferson, 10,523 feet tall, and Olallie Butte, whose top is reared
heavenward 7,243 feet. ;
There is enough noble scenery in this range of mountains to keep any energetic person a lifetime busy in exploration
and admiration. In season, there is real hunting and fishing. In eastern and central Oregon there are other moun
tains and forests that would be called wonders in any prairie state.
If Minneapolis or Chicago had the smaller of the peaks near their limits, they would let the World know all about
every view and crevice every year. Montreal is very proud of a hill in the city limits, Mount Royal, that is 700 feet
high! so much so, that a lord's title was partly taken from the hill's name (Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal).
Oregon could name all the Lord's and Dukes of history and have hills left for some yet to come (if there are any!)
The Pacific Ocean Too
As the birddman flies, the Pacific Ocean is only fifty miles westward from Salem, and just a nice little drive
with a machine, by the longer roads. There are elevations parallel with the coast which would be immense for
Chicago or Indianapolis people, but are small stuff here.
Bathing at the seaside towns is a growing entertainment, and for the people of states that serve up sweltering sum
mers, would seem like an earthly paradise and a sanitarium at the same time.
There are unlimited square miles of grand forests in which to camp, where real out-of-door life can be lived as is
not possible unless the settings have been made to order by Nature on the scale and in the perfection they are found
here.
The far Eastern states literally swarm in the toy mountains of the Alleghanies, the Catskills, the Adirondacks and
the White group during the summers. What would they do if they had the Cascades? There would be millions of
them there, and for the state, there would be "Millions IN It."
All the indicated Potential Bigness is in the Scenery and Attractions of Oregon, and in time they will be valued
beyond present belief. .
Linen Industry in Oregon
By JOHN H. McVAKY
Flax has been grown In Orojron for 80 years. It n-nn first plant
ed by Albert Johnson in Yamhill county, near Lafayette, in 184C.
Mm, Johnson spun the fibre into yarns nnd other articles. It was
sown for the first time In Marlon county, Oregon, in 1847, by a
rainier residing near Woodburn. The growing of flux continued
until 1871, when there were about 3200 acreft of flax grown In the
Willamette, valley, (he eeed from which was sold to the 1'luimer Oil
coinpfiny at Salem and manufactured by It Into Unoeed oil. At Phil
adelphia In 1876 Oregon flax was placed- In competition with that
grown In foreign countries and adjudged superior by expert. I ro
cllo this history to show lhat the growing of flax In Oregon Is no
lunger an experiment but a demonstrated fact.
Our water Is free from mineral substances which Interfere with
the retting process, and our seiison in midsummer Is Ideal for har
vesting. Ctinfcriuittly. with our soil, water a rid weather, we h.'ivo
every essential (o the development of a great linen Industry In the
Willamette valley.
According to the estimates made by export there are In the
Willamette valley 247.000 acres well adapted in their present atate
to the growing of flax and S05.000 acres lhat could be made suit
able for fiuch growing by systems ot drainage.
Flax mint be shown In the early spring to Insure a good crop,
which would require the draining of uch lands as nro found in
French and Albany prairies. The contemplated mill nt Hulem will
manufacture into linen fibre to be grown on about 8000 ncres,
from which you can determine the extent of the possibilities of such
Industry.
PItOl'OSDD LIKEN MILL
Tho linen mill proposed to be established In Salem will contract
wllh farmers for the purchase of flax at the price of $38 a ton. A
conservative estimate of the production would be at leant two tons
per acre. The cost of raising and harvesting flax since tho Inven
tion of a flax-pulling machine I approximately $21.26 per Acre In
cluding 6 per cent on the land Investment of MOO per ncro. As
compared to other cereals and fruits, flax would be by far the most
profitable crop grown In the Willamette vailoy.
The fibre from the Willamette valley flax has been shipped to
Scotland nnd Ireland, where It has been woven, bleached and fin
ished Into hfghclas linens, settling peyound question Its quality.
An Important factor to the success of our proposed mill at Bnlem
Is nn agreement made by our Chamber of Commerce with the
Dominion Linens Limited, a corporation, of Canada which has suc
cessfully operated four linen mills for a period of approximately 80
years, to transfer from their plants a sufficient number of skilled
operators to run the plant without experimenting with unskilled
labor,
Tn consideration of the opportunity given the Dominion Linens
Limited to purchase 1000 share of common stock at par, it has
agreed In writing to supervise the purchane of the machinery, the
erection of suitable buildings for our plant, and to supervise Its"
management and sales department for a period of 10 year without
cost except actual expenses, the same to be terminated at an earlier
date should the Oregon corporation become dlaMttlsfiei). In view
of the Impossibility of selecting a board of directors In Oregon ex
perienced In the manufacture of linens, such services will be of great
vulue.
01;K LINKN HILL
An analysis of market conditions will fdiow that tho United
Stales imparted In 11)24 over $98.0(10,000 of llnons, $25,000,000 of
which were of tho ebiss Intended to bo manufactured in Salem, A
suffiriont market to keep In cnnnlnnt operation 45 nilllH of tho
capacity of the one in contemplation.
There will bo no competition In tho United States with this
Industry, a flax and water of a quality permitting of tho manu
facturing nf gigh grade linens has been fnund nowhere in tho
United States outside of tho WNlametto valley.
Thero Is a I irlff on such high grade linens of 5(5 per oent ntl
valorem, which h;i been the law of tho United KWitcH 'for moro
than 30 years, thereby establishing a sale) price for linens In Amo
eiica permitting of largo proffts, Canadian factories have success
fully manufactured and sold linens In Canada for almost a half a
century under a protection of only 12 ft per cent ad valorem.
The establishment of such nn Industry will give to tho farmers
of the Willamentte valley a profitable crop, and with tho coming
of like Industries which nro certain to follow, waste lands will be
brought Into a stato of cultivation, the rural population will bo in
creased as a given acreage when so cultivated will sustain more
people that at present.
It la an economic principle that wo can be prosperous only
while our income exceeds our expenditures. Thie principle applies
to the Individual, community or nation.
"We have observed the huge expenditures of the people In Ore
gon In the purchasing of automobiles nnd consumption nf gfiHoline,
noted our vast expenditures in dry good, groceries and machinery,
the money for the purchase of which is sunt beyond our state.
OVtl TKADE BALANCIC
An examination will lead to the discovery that our balance
of trade Is maintained mainly through the salo of timber products,
which for the Inst ten years have been from $56,000,000 to $70,000,
000 annually. Writers and statisticians have estimated that with
the present rate of depletion our timber product Will hecomo ex
housted within a period of approximately 26 years, excepting such
timber as Is grown In our government reserves. If we drift along
as at present, without developing any Industries to maintain our
balance of trade, serious financial embarrassment will become In
evitable. We will then be required to detrmlne whether or not our
luxuries and some necessities shall be foregone In order to live
within our Income or whether we shall continue to live at our
present pace and meet with financial ruin.
Nature endowed us with wonderful forests which have been
the source of our prosperity In the past, nnd nature has endowed
us with a soil, water and climate which will enable us to establish
a great linen Industry In the Willamette valley, from which we can
expect our prosperity to continue,
WHEN YOU EAT
Weatherly
ICE
CREAM
You are building the Will
amette Valley as tons of
milk and cream are used
from the Valley.
Dealers who handle Weath'-
erly ice cream have the satis
faction of knowing that they;
will at all times be in the
lead with any thing new that
comes out with merits, such
as.. Eskimo.. Pies,.. Frozen
Suckers, etc.
J Take a Brick Home
ButtercuP
ice cream co.
Phones 1101-1102, Salem, Or.
HOTEL
MARION
0
Large, Airy Dining Room Always Cool it
One of Oregon's Finest
Treat Your Family lo One of Our Delightful
Sunday Dinners They arc not formal
Come Pressed As You Are.
5:15 to 8 p. m.
MILLS
An Organization Worthy of
Your Confidence
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