THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
PAGE SEVEN
Salem's Building Expenditures Now Gain Steadily and Fast
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1925.
Names of the upstanding
and stalwart citizenry of
the city of Salem whose
reliable information, fi
nancial assistance and
moral support has made
this issue of the Capital
Journal one of the fore
most and important news
paper features ever issued
in the Northwest.
Alphabetical Arrangement
ARMY & OUTING STORE
"Your Satisfaction Is Our Success" -Everything
for the Workingman and Camper
189 North Commercial Street, Salem, Oregon
Next door to Busick's
ATLAS BOOK & STATIONERY CO.
Manufacturers of Rubber Stamps Typewriters
Typewriter and Adding Machines
Repairs and Supplies
465 State Street, Salem, Oregon
ARMY GOODS
Men's Work Goods and Shoes
HILLPOT&SON
305 State Street
BONESTEELE MOTOR CO.
Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicles
Service First
474 South Commercial Street Phone 423
KENNETH J. BROWN
SPORTING GOODS
Athletic Supplies, Fishing Tackle, Outing Clothing,
Guns, Cutlery, Golf
173 South High Street Between State and Ferry,
C. & C. STORE
Located at 254 North Commercial Street
Being Out of the High Rent District Permits Us to
name Lower Prices
Groceries Dry Goods and Men's Furnishings
DIRECTOR'S DEPARTMENT STORE
Salem's Largest Department Store
"Better Goods For Less"
FOSTER & BAKER
Reliable Service Store
GROCERIES
339 North Commercial Street
Phone 259
HUTCHEON PAINT STORE .
Paints Varnishes Wallpaper
154 South Commercial Street Phone 594
HUNT & SCHALLER
Dealers in
FRESH AND CURED MEATS
All Meats at Lowest Possible Prices
163 N. Commercial Street
Phone 1900
They Will Pass the Two Million Mark in 1925
Compared With $549,290 Spent in 1920.
They Grew 276.7 Per Cent in the Past Four Years Which Is An Expression of Financial
Faith in the City and of Growing Confidence That Restoration of Peace Is Assured
By Richard L. Rowe
Cities that Really Grow MUST Really Build Houses. And the Construction Must Go On Expansively. It
can't be expected that the Rale of addition of new buildings will be as fast in times following the disorgan
ization caused by a great war as in favored times of peace. But with Restoration, New Construction has to go
on, and it should grow steadily... In case of Salem, that has been true. Here is the official record from 1920
to 1925 taken from the city Building Inspector's reports:
Salem's Building Record from 1920 to 1924, Showing Number and Value:
TABLE 3
' 1920
No. Homes Built In Year 74
Yearly Value of Horoca 175,230
Yearly Value ol All Penults 459,290
1921
135
323,350
633,020
1922
233
$ 645,200
1,082,270
279
1,285, C23
1924
283
$ 944,080
1,731,210
Tho first six months of 1925 totaled $1,102,325 In Value of Building Permits In the City of Salem,
rate of $3,324,650 for the year. It Is certain that the Two Million Mark will be passed this year.
Gain In 4 Years.
Amount Per Cent
209 2S2.4
$ 768,850 433. 7
1,271,920 270.7
That Is running at the
Gain of Salem's Building Expenditures Visibly Measured
CHART
D
THE' FOLLOWING CHART LINES Show the Comparative Yearly Growth
of This City's Investments in New Structures from 1920 to 1924 and the
Reasonably Certain Minimum Outlay for 1925. The Four-Year Total in
Value of Permits Rose from $459,290 in 1920 to $1,731,210 in 1924 arid for
the First Six Months of 1925 They Were Making a ?2,324,G50 Drive
Close to the Two and One-half Million Level. The 1920-1924 Pace Was
276.7 Per Centum for All Buildings and 438.7 Per Cent for Homes Alone
SALEM'S YEARLY BUILDING TOTALS WERE FOR-
1925 $2,000,000 (by First 6 Months)
1924 $1,731,210
1923 $1,285,632
1922 $1,082,270
1921 $533,020
CII'IIWHHWI
j
1920 $459,290
These Chart lines are accurately
graduated. They express tho spirit of .
Salem's General Expansion Movement
in All Departments as well as in
Building.
It will be seen that every factor featured in Table 3 has been strikingly Progressive. The number of Homes enlarged
from 74 in 1920 to 283 in 1924. The Gain was 282.4 Per Cent in 4 years.
The Yearly Value of expenditures went up from $175,230 in 1920 to $944,080 in 1924. The Rate of Increase was
438.7 Per Cent.
And, the Yearly Value of All Expenditures, for all kinds of structures, rose from $459,290 in 1920 to $1,731,210 in
1924, and in the first 6 months of 1925 were driving at the Rate of $2,324,650.
The city is moving into something like a normal confidence in the financial conditions of state and nation, and
feels safe in making permanent investments. It is a very reasonable, and is a safe prediction, that Salem will pass
the $2,000,000 level in Building Construction Expenditures in 1925.
Is Fine to Look At
Stated in cold print, those figures do not impress the mind as clearly as when measured to the eye in pictorial
form. That is done in Chart D, with this article.
No one can look at the lengthening advance of those Chart Lines and not realize that Salem is Moving Onward
and Upward. And the pace is cheerfully fast. Cheerful because of the proof of progress the movement demonstrates,
and of the very important fact that people of means are of opinion the War is over and it is time to get permanently at
work. Capital goes into new buildings because it has CONFIDENCE and Confidence is the mainspring of all
developments.
Thus, we have the evidence of the banks at home and in the Nation generally; of the Postal receipts on the same
scale, and in the tendency to make larger and more numerous structural improvements, that the better times of
Peace are at least surely approaching. In fact, are in part here the Beginning is Assured.
When people generally FEEL that way, a large part of the hesitation that has stood in the way during the past
four years will automatically disappear. Perfect Financial health to America and the World will come slowly, and a3
the result of wise counsels, real industry, sufficient farmcrops and rehabilitation of the welfare of the farm popula
tion, which means Old Fashioned American Pluck and Push.
There IS Gold at the End of the Rainbow But it MUST BE MINED 1
American History Made There
This, Marion, county is shaped like a gigantic boot. The leg is about 40 miles long and lays east and west. The
boot-top emJr. up against the Cascade mountain range, with Olallie Butte (7,243 feet high) and Mount Jefferson
(10,523 feet tall) sort of acting as bootstraps. The foot stands on its heel back, the toe pointing north against tho
Willamette river. Salem is at the corner of the heel and instep the sole occupant there.
The Willamette river bends westward across the boot toe, curving southward, then northward, and then takes its
general course southward toward the head. Right where that south curve is lowest is Champoeg, whero on May 2,
1843, 102 settlers, pioneers, Empire makers, met and by vote, 62 to 50 decided that this Oregon country should be
American and not British. That little majority of two practically annexed Oregon and Washington to tho United
States. Metaphorically, the Marion county Boot (that was to be) kicked the British Lion out of this Great Northwest!
That was a vote with a Kick to itl
Names of the upstanding
and stalwart citizenry of
the city of Salem -whose
reliable information, fi
nancial assistance and
moral support has made
this issue of the Capital
Journal one of the fore
most and important news
paper features ever issued
in the Northwest
Alphabetical Arrangement
"Eat Honey and Milk Bread"
MODEL BAKERY
121 South Commercial Street
HENRY O. MILLER
Automotive Parts
NEW PARTS FOR ALL CARS
184 S. Commercial Street, Salem, Oregon
THE PASTIME
Confectionery, Cigars and Tobaccos.
Modern, Airy Cards and Pool Room
Patrick & Michels
129 S. Commercial Street Phone 1344
JOHN J. ROTTLE
".Walk-Over" and "Cantilever" Shoes
415 State Street, Salem, Oregon
SALEM PUBLIC MARKET
Fancy Groceries and Meals Fruits and Vegetables
Always Fresh
State and Commercial Streets
FOR QUICK SALE
HOTEL Situated in heart of business district, Salem, Oregon.
Sacrifice for cash. Good paying business ready and assured.
Vrlto at once Mrs. C. M. Stewart, 381 State St., Salem, Or.
THE SPA
CONFECTIONARY AND GRILL
"Salem's Finest"
"When Better Automobiles Arc Built
Buick Will Build Them."
New 1926 Buicks Aug. 1, 1923
OTTO J. WILSON
388 N. Commercial Street, Salem, Oregon
WHITE SEWING MACHINE CO.
"White Is King"
RENT SELL REPAIR
Ask About Our Free Dressmaking School
221 South High Phone 208
WOOD'S AUTO TOP CO.
Our Glass Enclosures Give Closed Car Comfort
Auto Glass Service and Auto Painting
Prompt and Reliable Service
205 North Commercial