Supplement to the
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VOL. III.
JUNCTION CITV, OltEGON, TIIUIfSDAY, MAY 30, 1001.
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JUNCTION CITY, OREGON.
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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
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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.
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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-
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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,
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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
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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
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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.