IIOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
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Prosperity Follows Good Roads
(Interview In Portland Evening Telegram.) hamuS. "It was mostly Cleared land.
NTIL we obtained good roads, My (arm Is now worth $1600 an acre.
I did not realize what they 1 nave specialized in growing berries
"meant to our prosperity. The by fertilizing heavily and clear $250
paved county roads leading out of to $300 yearly per acre. This indus
Tacoma Into the rural country have try will develop more In the next five
brought benefits bo far beyond my years than It has In the past 25,
expectations that I wonder why we mainly because of having paved
waited so long for proper means of county roads. Most of the berry
transportation over the public high- producers have tracts from one to
ways. By good roads I mean the best five acres, with a home on each
that can be constructed for perma- tract."
nency hard-surfaced roads. The
miles of paved county roads in Pierce Conqueror.
County have revolutionized our farm- ai,e Bwept and garnished her house
ing methods, our industries and mar- with care
ketlng facilities, and they make life Though many the telltale footprints
in the suburbs of Tacoma worth living."
So. Bpoke w. H. Paulhamus, presi-
there,
For childish
Had carried
street.
hands and
the clay
careless feet
In from the
dent of the Puyallup and Sumner Yet over he'r face ehone joy 8erone
Fruit Growers' Association, in giving
his opinion of what Multnomah Coun
ty should do in the direction of a lib
eral policy for better county high
ways. Mr. Paulhamus Is also president of
(ho Western Washington1 Fair Asso
ciation and a former member of the
State Senate. He has packed and
marketed berries from Salem, New-
berg and Vancouver, and he knows
As she tolled to keep her hearthstone
clean.
And I understood as her soul took
wings
And soared above the clay
To sing.
She Bi't her mark on a lofty height,
And upward climbed through many a
night.
But the road was long, and rough, and
steep,
the great area of rich volcanic ash And the clay clung fast to her aching
land tributary to the Columbia River feet,
Highway, which is estimated at 22,- And her hands outstretched Just
000 acres east of the Sandy River and 4 . mlsse 'ne foal: , . . .
S00O acres on the Portland Bide of Tct brave of heal and strong of "ou1,
v c, I i . .? She soars aloft on joyous wings
iu paiiuj. ma uyuiiuu in iicijucuiij And livc, ttbove th6 clay
sought by Oregon fruitgrowers and
shippers. i
Farmers' Vse for Good Roads. She
And sings.
her castles strong and
builded
"The farmer has more use for good Sne get her love on a pedestal;
roads In the country than the city And worshiped at his shrine each day
fellow has," continued Mr. Paulha- To find her Idol's feet were clay;
,,. . ,. . . ., And as he fell the world grew black
mus. "I don t care what they assess Al)d Falth was lost. but Hope came
me for good roads if the money is back,
well spent. There are so many more And to her arms she closer clings
Ana nues auuve uic
fertile acres tributary to Portland
than around Seattle and Tacoma that
every effort should be made to de
velop your agricultural interests.
This can best be done by providing
paved highways into the country dis
tricts so the farmers can get their
products to market at least expanse.
"The marketing end of fruitgrow
ing and farming in general is the
most important end, and here Is
where the apple-growers have fallen
down. Nothing helps the farmer so
much as to make his way to market
easy. Get the fellow who is already
on the land to prospering and there It is worth while remembering that
will be no trouble to get new settlers you are always expected to pay a
on the vacant land. 13ctter roads will good rounj prlce for anything that
do.lt'" , l it i Is offered to you free. The world is
In a district about seven miles long 18 " u0Jont tnctittttinn nnd if
and two miles wide in the vicinity of ot a benevolent institution and If
realized 111. put ..i.on .from l.rrle., ' M " , '
mnatw hlnrkhfirr ts and raspberries. ""' """-" . . , . , .
And sings.
When Life's fierce storms beat grim
and gray
And shut the sunshine from our day.
And Joy Is choked by carklng care
And Faith seems weaker than Despair,
When hopes deceive and all. is lost
And shipwrecked on Life's sea we're
tossed,
O! then we rise on splendid wings
Supremely o'er all Bordld things,
And live above the clay
And sing!
Emma F. Swingle.
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MACK'S Ml'SIC SHOP
847 Morrison Street, Portland, Or.
Durine the picking and packing sea
son $251,865.00 was paid out for
wages to about 12,000 persons. He
declares the Puyallup and Sumner
Fruit Growers' Association plants
constitute the largest manufacturing
concern In the State of Washington.
Fresh berries are shipped in refrig
erator cars to markets as far East a3
the Atlantic Coast. Berries too ripe
for shipment are canned and also
made into syrup, finding a ready mar
ket everywhere.
' Berry Industry. .
One hundred 50-gallon barrels of
raspberry juice recently went to
Rochester, N. Y. During the busy
season the packing and cannery
plants handled 100 tons of black
herries and 75 tons of raspberries
dallv 12-hour davs. Two hundred published:
ears of fresh berries were sent out- l. Me That Tour Heart
sioe me state anu w mm m .ao
were required for filling. The initial
capital was $2300 and now $250,000
is invested, exclusive of the land
' where the plants are located.
Speaking of how tho paved roads
had made auto-trucking cheap in get
ting fruit and farm products to the
association's packing plants and can
neries, Senator Paulhamus cited that
up to November 10 of this year the
association had paid the older rail
roads $131,553.56 for, freight on ,
berries shipped from Puyallup and
$25,119.34 for shipments from Sum- f
ner to lntermoflntain ana eastern
markets, besides to the Puget Sound
and Portland markets. About $20,
000 had also been paid the Milwau-
kee Railroad. He mentioned this to
show that if the railways lost local
traffic because of the competition of
the motor trucks, they more than
made up the deficit from long haul on
the large shipments to outside mar
kets. "To show the Increase in value be
cause of adequate roads and approved
methods of marketing products, I
bought my farm of 55 acres 12 years
aro for $100 an acre," said Mr. Paul-
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