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About Junction City bulletin. (Junction City, Or.) 189?-1901 | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1901)
Supplement to the n QJJ untictlomi City VOL. III. JUNCTION CITV, OltEGON, TIIUIfSDAY, MAY 30, 1001. NO. Bui etin. 14. JUNCTION CITY, OREGON. , ... A Brief Sketch of the Town as It Is TodayIts Business Men and the Resources of the Sur rounding Country. One of the Faireit Towns in the There i a large kcojm- of country, Minute in the Willamette Vtlly, ex tending from Kugene, the county scat 4i Lane county, imrtli for a distance of :iu mill', uiul lying mi Ixitli ideH of tin- Willamette Kivcr, which ha ni.t offered the blight of "yellow jour nal" udvcrtiing. Hut now that i m migration in jKiuring into Oregon from every point f the compass, it i" MiggcMi-d thut the advantage of thin "garden Mit" he presented, in a fair way, to the home Keeker; also, that an adequate reason should . U-iiiiii-I for its partial neglect ii to lllin 1 1 II ! In explanation, it i Mii nt'l out that county seat anil main trading centi r of tin- Valley have hal full Kwing controlling the location of immigration, or, at least, have excr cicd ait organi.cd and well coiiecn trateil effort in that ilireetion, and in which they have succeeded to a con-j-iih rahlr extent. Whili thin" effort on their part show a eonimemlahle spirit f enterprise, it ha brought about a coiulition that, when fairly 4'tplaiui'l to intending buyer, may lie of Mil.-Uhl iill hetielit to them. The iteniH (if most .flam e In I he Mil hr ik I In' quality of t he la in I, next the priee per acre, anil liiial ly tlie environment. At present, the piieix at which hind in In-lit mar the big town are largely nuiil l net lie, that i. in a comparative way. A lo quality, they are no Ixtti-r than JainU more distant ; uiul a to cn iron inent. with eipial facilitieK, eaeh di triet is master f it own destiny. It may In- said in thi connection, in re gard to transportation for thi part of the Valley, that the .Southern Pacific Company operated its system with fixed rice for traffic, thu affording the farmer who ha a carload for ship ment equal benefit with the city lcalcr. The Willamette Kivcr i navigable with from llM to 200 ton steamlHiat for uUiiit Ncveii month of the year, and, coming, a it doc, when the hulk of the farmer' product i la'ing hipM'd to market, wield a U-ncli-eut iulluence Un tranMirtation rate of large hipiuent. With thce facts in view, it i readily determined that there i no advantage to l de rived hy the homeceker in mamg with the congeMcu iraue center, where priccH of land are ko greatly ,K-can. Approaching these grand '"""''l j old mountain, we are confronted Now that the situation i made j w jt, a jr Wretch of low hills which plain, we can, with a jimhI degree s gradual I v increase in altitude until 'f -onlid , pr.Kccd to outline mum (hev lose their identity hv merging of the advantage afforded hy thejwjtj, tiu. mountain proper. These territory under consideration. Thi ! foothill are clothed with a luxuriant M ope ik comprised of ahout il,(NMI j K,-0wtli of nutritious grasses, which acre of land, drained hy the Wil-1 M.rV(. lls ahundant food for thousand lainctte Riser and it trihutarie. It !,,f hi.i.l ..f st.wL- n.-.v..- ...... I .... can he truthfully said that this land, for productive tpialities, is nowhere excelled on the Pacific coast, and also that the variety of products to which it is adapted are almost without limit. Prom the river hottom is harvested the host quality of hops known in hrewer supplies, and the average quant ity per acre is seldom equaled and never excelled in hop culture. Persons engaged in garden ing and truck patch culture on these land are rewarded with yields that are truly marvelous, and which no doiiht, if mentioned to one not initi ated would he discredited to some ex tent. The prairie land of thi sec tion, for cereal production, in every instance where the hushandnian ap plies hi lahor in an intelligent way, gratifies all reasonable, demands. Thu culture of fruit on thi domain is growing in favor very rapidly of late. The scientific, methods heing disseminated hy the Oregon Agricul tural College for the elimination of fruit pest i doing away in a marked degree w ith danger from that wouree, and n the surplus increase improved method of packing for shipment are heing adopted. Organized effort to regulate the amount shipped ha, to Home extent, saved glut in the mar ket, which havo heretofore heen very disiistrouH, and the hetterment of fa cilities for shipping to the Eastern market all comhine to encourage the i ud list r) and make it safe and profitable. Far Famed Willamette Valley. Passing front thi beautiful valley, with it proToii ami happy home", our attention i directed to the Cas cade Mountain, which ImiiiikI the Willamette Valley on the eat. In these inoiintain. from thi oint of view, can he Keen the snow-cap) .! Hiimmit of the inajetic old moun tain w hich hear, the name of our revered Ktatcsman, Jefferon; hIko. farther to the Kouth, in the same r-" -- , m. ... 4 ' : f t range, can l wn the ''Threi' ti tern," and "Diamond Peak." While not o lofty a Mt. Jcffcron. they maintain the dignity of wearing the vear round their hood of w hite. Tim 'Wet ide of the Vallev i hound.Hl hv the Coat Range, and while they lack the elevation of the CiiKcades they have comjvenHting advantage. The Miminit of thi range furnihe a point of view from which, in the long distance, can he wen the Pacific ocean. Thi i a iiht great I v en- joyed hy person who here find their firtii i.oortim tv to ia.e on old these hills are taken direct from the range and sold for use in the hest hotels and restaurants in the count rv, C. P. Cllt'HCU. . w v . ft 1 ami hold their own with any other meat in the market. Thi bring u to the main object of (hi illustrated descriptive supple ment, which j to enlist, a far an KNihle, the attention of coplc win me intention in to settle in the Willamette Valley; and, in thi connection, it in made known that the "Jlulletin" ha no ohject in view other than to inform incoming Kt ranger of the iiiimcnc oportuni tieH that a wait them here, and invite thein to join us, in a co-ojK-rative way, to develop the wonderful re Koiirce that are so abundantly di trihtiteil in thi Valley. Men and women of moral and forceful charac ter are wanted. With plenty of thene, the condition are complete for reaching the highest possible plane of educational, religion and industrial life. We promise all kiu-Ii a hearty welcome, and pledge the good office of our nohle pioneer in making their Iiouick in Oregon the most pleaHiiut part of their journey through life. a 1 ----- n it : u ; IS 4 1 t ' - ' I 1 Jl'NCTION CITV IIOTEt, BCILI)ISU-;O.ST 2fi,000. JUNCTION CITY. Junction City, Oregon, in situated in the northern part of Lane county. 110 mile Houth of Portland, 57 mile outh of ftalcm, the capital of the .State, and 14 mile north of Eugene, the county eat. It i on the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and ha a population of ahout 1,000 inhabitant. It i one of the most prosjerous and enterprising cities in the Willamette Valley. The city is platted on either Hide of the South ern Pacific track, and is in the cen ter of the widest portion of the Wil lamette Valley. All kind of mercan tile interests, professions and trades are here represented. Junction City ha three churches, and a graded school building that cost over ifli.000. The hotel hlock was built hy n stoek company of citizen, ami cost over $28,000. Here is also to le found one of the finest opera house be tween San Francisco and Portland. We have one hank, the Farmers A Merchants', owned by home capital- if " u. . ' R CHRISTIAN CHl'KCH. . . . i .... . . hM h : - : f;id (in fi iVj r I i i f ' I Mil v - it. It i a solid institution. There are three large grain elevator here, two iiewspajar, waterworks, a good steam lire engine. Also a full roller process flour mill, which ha gained an enviahlc reputation for the ex cellence of it llonr lioth ut home and ahroad. Thi mill pay the highest market price for its wheat, and pay cuhJi. It i alo a ound financial iunt itut ion. There in more grain and other pro duce, including live utoek, shimx-d from thi point than, from any other place in the Willamette Valley, LANE COUNTY. Lane county i one of the largest, a it i one of the most productive agricultural counties of Oregon. It extend from the Pacific, ocean on the west to the Humrnit of the Cas cade Mountain on the cant, a dis tance of alxmt 100 mile, and from Doug Ian county on the Mouth to Linn and Rcnton countie on the north, an average width of ahout 50 miles, 7S "'A,- u comprising a a whole, alnait 7,000 square miles. Of this vast territory about one-third or one-forth is valley land, and embraces all the UpK.T Willamette Valley, which is in every sense the largest laxly of good agri cultural land, and the mnt lautiful and attractive portion of Oregon, the -oil Ix-ing very rich, producing abundant crops of grain and grass. The remaining two-thirds or three fourth are hilly and niountainou, the rolling foot hills contiguous to me valley ix-mg citncr ojen prairie lands, or ground covered partially with tituh r and brush, hut afford ing excellent natural pasture and protection to animals. The moun tain sides are densely wooded. The whole of that part of the county lying west of the river and south of the Renton countv line, and bounded on the west hv the classic hills of the far- famed and euphonously named roman tic stream yclept l Long Tom, and on the south hy a line of low hills, lies an area of not less than 3tX) square miles. Junction Citv is situated in the very $ 1 ilti-TlvllWht tf-ir- ' in-1- t-r-x-f -v . ... MKTIIOWST CHCUCH. f 1 1 . I T MAYOR J. H. MILt.EK. center of thi district. Nearly every acre oi ini tract i either hne farm ing or good pasture land, and almog) every foot of it i under fence and partiteoned into farmn, varying in size from lttO to 1,200 acres. Here vast quantities of wheat, oat, barley and hay are annually harvested, while thousand of bushels of luscious ap ples, x'ars, plums, cherries and prunes are gathered from the luxuriant or chards that abound in this region. The price of land in this portion of the valley varies from five to fifty dollars per acre, according to loca tion, improvement and other ad vantage, such as convenience of water, wood and market, while there is an almost unlimited supply of tim lxr on or near the rivor at.n ' , --v.. wil UJC I hank of smaller streams, sufficient to supply t he. demands of a genera I tion, and. when that fails, the moun tain and hills hold an inexhaustible l tore easy of access and unfailing in ,quantity. On many of the ranches stock water is convenient, hut there ! are some where the liquid is supplied ihy wells pumped by windmills. Driven wells are extensively used be cause such an one can lie made in an hour's time, at nearly any point in the district, which" will afford ' water sufficient for 100 head of cattle. I Water is found at a depth of from 14 to 20 feet almost anywhere in the Valley. In respect to the soil and produc tions of Lane county, the opportuni ties for farming, stock raising, hop growing, lumbering and manufac turing are great. Ten times the present jxipulation would not settle the county as thickly as many parts : along the Atlantic seaboard and in the Mississippi Valley, where the I natural resources and advantages are not so great as they are in Oregon. ! The surface of the country is diversi ! fied, havintr much fiwhill which is by far the best for fruit and grazing farms; but besides there are many thousands of acres of fine level prairie and bottom lands, the very lx?st grain and meadow lands in the Mate. I tie sou is found to be very productive. The extensive river bot toms contain the largest hop yards in Oregon, but wheat is the chief staple product. Oats , rye, barley and all kinds of vegetables grow to perfect :on, while the fruits pnxluced are unex celled. Timothy, clover in all its va rieties, and all species of tame grasses as well, grow to profusion, while wool, mutton, pork, beef and horses are extensively raised. Rut little at tention is paid to the raising of corn. Potatoes, Irish and sweet, are both cultivated, the former with fabulous yields of best quality. In regard to the pomology of Lane county, it may be safely asserted that it excels as a fruit country; indeed, no finer of the kinds raised here are produced in any quarter of the globe. Fruit trees will grow from six to eight feet during the first year and bear the second, third and fourth years, accord ing to variety. Apples, pears, prunes, plums and cherries grow in such abundance that trees have invariably to be propped up to prevent them from breaking under the weight of the fruit. The crops have never failed in this section, though, naturally; the quantity varies in different years. The fruits named all attain an unusual size, with excellent flavor and color. Finer plums, cherries and prunes are not grown in France. The average temperature for Lane county is, for spring, 52 degs. ; for summer, 67 degs. ; for autumn, 63 (legs., and for winter, 38 degs. ; show ing a mean deviation of only 28 de grees during the entire year. Well may the residents of Oregon be proud of the prairies of the Willamette; proud of its hills; its copses of oak ; its groves of fir and pine, hemlock and spruce; its unequalled climate; its eternal snow clad mountain chains ; its vast resources and its illimitable grandeur.
