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CRANBERRIES GROW
IN TILLAMOOK.
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But few counties in Oregon can lay
claim to raising cranberries, but of thi
few, Tillamook stands pre-eminentlv a>
the leading county of Oregon fitted l<
monopolize that industry, and as on*
which affords ample opportunities for
those who desire to enter upon the profi
table occupation of raising cranberries,
Conditions in Tillamook Countv are such
that the cranberry industry is bound to
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grow to large proportions, and become
a gieat factor in the development and
FISHING SCENE ON THE TRASK RIVER.
industrial prosperity of the county,
w’hether it is developed by local enter,
“In the East the vines are often in projection, is di ep, and consequently
in former years were Messrs. A. Comp«
prise or by those seeking homes in the fested with insect pests, and if the clear of obstruction near the wall of j
ton. Jasper Smith, Krebs Bros., A. C.
Northwest, where they can make com growers have not control of the water rock, furnishing a safe and quiet
Gist, ai d others who owned a dozen or
fortable and independent livelihoods.
the whole crop is in danger. 1 under shelter from north and northwest winds. |
more stands. About 12 years ago Krebs
A few years ago cranberry raising in stand that the pests have been imported
The scenery, viewed from the north
■ Bros, erected a bee hive factory near
Tillamook County was only in its exper here at different times in shipping plants, and northwest of the bay, is splendid,
I Three rivers, where they manufactured
imental stage. Today it is a demon but they soon disappear as they cannot taking in the mouth of Sand Lake,
i the well known Simplicity bee hive, as
strated fact that those who first exueri. live in this climate.
Cape Kiwanda, Sami Cape, Nestucca!
I well as sections, frames, etc., for the
inented in cranberry raising are now
“There are many acres of cranberry Bay and shores, Salmon Cape and Cape |
same. They also had a machine for
possessors of valuable cranberry bogs land in this county situated at different Foul weather.
rolling the wax into foundation, or
It has surpassed al! their expectations. places. The land in its wild state is
The country surrounding it is the
more commonly called “ starter.” Their
To give a correct and concise idea of this worthless, but properly treated, and developed—and far greater undevel-
business grew for a number of years,
industry in Tillamook County, we max planted to the standard varieties of the oped—portions of Sand Lake cran-
until the people, engaging in other and
state that it is only in its infancy.
tame cranberry, it can be transformed to berry district, with its thousands of
That busy little worker, the honey more lucrative pursuits, became neglect
What Mr. W. C. King has accomplish the most paying basis.
cedar timbers and telegraph poles, sur. bee, finds in the Nestucca valleys and ful of their bees.
ed in this respect, every industrious per “According to the best authority, the rounded by stalely fir piling.
hillsides endless quantities of lust ions
When facilities for the lees placing
son can do Like every other industry, chief requisites for a successful cranberry
Its already established cattle ranches, honey drew, so palatable to the taste of the honey in sections, and new hives,
it requires labor and a certain amount bog are, a good peat bed, entirely free with dailies and creameries springing mankind,
could be had, the honey could be put
of capital to develop, and with these from clay or loam ; good drainage, to a up in all parts of the country adjacent, When our oldest settlers took up
upon the market in merchantable con
combined, success awaits those who debth of at least 15 inches ; plenty of to it, furnishing to the outside world their abode in this land of evergreen dition. When this was done, a demand
turn their attention and energy to cran water supply ; and a coating of three the finest productions of their kind, I vegetation and pure mountain water, was immediately created in the cities
berry culture in Tillamook Countv. Mr. to six inches of clean beach sand over the demand a landing or shipping point of | xx here the hillsides were covered with for Nestucca honey, and it gained a
King says :
entire surface.
their own. A town of six acres has i flowers of many species, and the fra reputation which stands champion today
“1 commenced the culture of cranber
“There is money in the cranberry busi been laid out and recorded and a few ’ grant vine maple blossoms were to be over all its competitors.
Extracted
ries in the spring of 1893. I find that ness ami the many bogs of Tillamook lots sold to adjoining the bay at the bane | seen in innumerable quantities in early honey, with the Nestucca insignia at
the vines are well adapted to thisclimate. County are waiting for men of means of the cape. From the town to within spring, their instinct taught them that tached, will sell where other brands will
They grow’ vigorously, and where the and energy to e’evelop them,’’
100 feet of a place for a trapeze landing, | this was the natural home of the honey not, as in this form it may be of a manti.
bogs are properly prepared, they are
enormously pioductiye. While picking
my crop one year I measured off some
ground and picked them carefully, and
found that thev produced at the rate of
one thousand bushels to the acre. Allow,
ing $1 per bushel as a net profit, I do
not know of an agricultural product
that will compare with it, and placing
figures at a minimum.
“It cost from two to four hundred
dollars to prepare the ground ana plant
the vines, including the cost of plants.
The land which has timber standing on
it is the most expensive to prepare,
although none the less adapted to the
raising of cranberries, so long as the
land is made up of vegetalde muck
peat.
“The bog must be so situated that
can be drained off bv means of ditches
the debth of at least 15 inches, and one
must also have control ot plenty oi
water fur irrigation and flooding pur
poses.
Although I have seen some
marshes that were a success without
any water supply, I do not consider it
safe, in view of a large outlay.
“A bog once set in the proper shape
will last indefinitely. The first cost,
although quite large, cuts little figure in
the long run.
SCENE AT A HUNTER’S CABIN IN TILLAMOOK COUNTY.
“1 find that the cranberries grown here
• are of a darker color than those grown
along the shores, a good road lias teen I bee, and at the first oppoit unity, esch factored article. Nestucca honey, in
in the East ; those here are much super CAPE LOOKOUT COUNTRY built. But realizing that they were in settlor purchased a few stands of bees pound section, sells at 15 cents per
ior in flavor, and also weigh more to
advance of a demand for itscomph- I and platted a lot, thus establishing a section, while extracted honey, because
the bushel. The size of the berry is Plenty of Fertile Lands and t ion, the parties an ail the coming de j miniature apiary. Thi*, for the time thequestiun arises, why bee men go to
Abundance of Timber.
about the same.
matid.
i being, was a great help to the settler the expense of purchasing an extractor
I “According to my experience, the Mc-
One-quarter of a toile south, over who w as struggling to secure a livelihood. ami labor to take the honey from the
The most inaccessible, and often the
Fa.laud cranberry is the best variety lor
moat Important localities in a new open land from the town site, is a As time passed the apiary was enlarged, comb and sell it for 10 cents per pound,
the Pacific Coast. Il is the largest and
large stream called Crogstad creek, until finally a surplus of honey yielded when the unextracted sells at 15 cents
o uotry are the last to be developed.
must prolific, a splendid keeper, and by
per pound. This leaves the Impression
Cape Lookout, although extending furnishing an admirable mill site, ad a nice profit.
all odds the best seller. In the East this
two and a half miles into the ocean, jacent io which is a body of thousands of
The honey industry pays exceedinly in the minds of many that the extracted
[sort is considered a poor keeper, hut it
ia joined by the fertile Ian Is of one acres of Tillamook County timber, on well. The Neatucca valleys cannot lie 1 honey is adulterated, but such is not the
appears to be better adapted to this cli
of the moat productive counties of the land well calculated for lagging, and excelled in the advantage* offered for cam. The reason ia, that about two-
mate, and grows to perfection heie.
Northwest, but lias, by reason of its free from rocks to rentier it untillable the producing of honey—California and rhirds of the time of the honey-making
I * 1 have had good success with the
inaccessibility, except as a refuge for or unfit for grazing land.
the Southern states not excepted. White is taken up in making the comb, and
¡Cherry and Bell variety. They yield well
The grades to the bay are laid on clover Is claimed by the most scientific when extracted, the pure honev is taken
storm tossed mariners, been left for
and sell well and are ufgood color. 'Jheir
of less than 10 per cent, even over
i and the blank Cells are replaced in the
future development. It is 800 feet grade
the Cape. A county road from the apiariests to produce the best honey,
flavor is excelled by none, and they are
high, forms a solid, perpendicular lia teach at the mill site, connecting with aud thia seems to be a natural production i hive and refilled, thus giving the bees
of good size, though not as large as the
na I tic rock, and has a government res I the state r<»ad from Woods to Tilla of the Neatucca river bottom soil. White a chance to gather much more honey in
Iftk Farland berry.
ervalion for a lighthouse. According mook City, is graded west of the Sand clover, however, is not (he only source I a season.
■ “The picking season is usually one of
! from which honey is produced, but
Nestucca honey has been on exhi.
to (’apt. Cleveland Rockwell’s coast Lake district.
mleasure, lor several reasons, to both
The climate and range are such that there are endless varieties of wild plants | bition at several state fairs, and at the
survey, it is midway between Yaquinn
[picker and proprietor. The weather is lighthouse and the lighthouse on Tilla for 12 years there has been no time sum. which bloom in succession until late in Mechanics Fair at Portland, and has
mer or winter, when we had any diffieuI-1
Generally fine—September and October
taken the prize each tune for sweetness
inook Rock, 1< stands for future use ty in finding good mutton and beef in the fall.
B-when men, women and childreu come
I our flocks ami herds, ami we have never
Among those who were the most and flavor.
and improvement.
for an outing in the cranberry fields,
, extensively engaged in the bee industry
Owing to a succession of very late
The bay formed sii the toulh by its fed or cared for them by sheltering.
■hey come with a camping outfit, pre
■kotd to enjoy the pleasure of out uf-
■our life, the health-giving ocean breezes,
'and a rest from the city and borne toils.
■ “In picking, lines are stretched across
B plot of ground three leet apart, and
Ba«.h picker works between the lines, the
Bines making a carpet upon which to
Brork. They hang on uprights about six
Mches high, and are truly beautiful to
^■pk upon. The berries, a bright red
^Bor, and, in many cases three and
^Bir deep and touching each other, com
^Btelv hide the vines and ground lx
HBath.
The pickers are giving
^Basure, and are required
^Brrics clean as they go.
^Basure is full it is emptied into a bushel
^Bx, and when the box is full they are
^^Ben a check which is good for 75 cents,
■rd mm urc in attendance to over* c
¡HB pickers and carry away the boxes
tlB best pickers picked about three bush-
TILLAMOOK
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NESTUCCA HONEY A
PRIZE WINNER.
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rains in the early spring the past few
years, it is with regret that we note
our people have not given the atten
tion to bee culture that they have in
the pant. Yet nearly every farmer has
several stands, from which, if properly
cared for ami the season is favorable,
he may realize from .50 to 150 pounds of
the best honey, which, if placed on tl e
market, would yield a handsome return
to each stand.
The bee business of this section is
not overdone, as the outlying range
oilers ample opportunity for the liHle
wot kers to up the succulent weed of
its sweetness, as they will travel for
miles, and return heavily laden ; and,
if necessary, stop to rest while carry
ing their burden.
Tillamook Jottings.
Tillamook is a stock raising countv.
Tillamook hay sells fl'omjli DO to $15 00
a ton.
Tillamook County is a land of milk and
honey.
Tillamook County hns no disastrous
floods.
Tillamook County is a world beater for
grasses.
Tillamook County grows immenre crops
of potatoes.
Tillamook County had only 24 deaths
during 1906.
Tillamook cows keep in fine condition
the year round.
Tillamook dairymen are happy, indus.
trious and thrifty.
Tillamook County is not pestered with
tramps and hollos.
Tillamook riversand streams have plenty
of trout and salmon.
Tillamook County for profitable and
successful dairying.
Tillamook dairy farms are not covered
with mortgage plasters.
Tillamook County dairymen have bank
accounts and loan money.
Tillamook County is being cleared up
fast for dairying purposes.
Tillamook County contains soil that is
especially adapted to onions.
Tillamook County is not troubled with
cheap Chinese or Japanese labor.
Tillamook County grows garden truck
which no other section can surpass.
Tillamook Countv has some magnificent
landscape and rugged coast scenery.
Tillamook honey issupurb, and lor flavor
and clearness nothing can surpass it.
Tillamook County hns large bands of
Angora goats and is n profitable busi
ness.
Tillamook County affords splendid en-
joyment to campers and summer out-
ing«.
Tillamook County is free from insect
pests, for the salt sea breezes soon kill
them.
Tillamook dairymen are paid once and
sometimes twice n month for their
milk.
Tillamook County is an inviting field for
nil classes who are possessed of some
means.
Tillamook County has a reputation for
pure, cold spring water,which is found
everywhere.
Tillamook County will become the great
manufacturing center for lumber in the
near future.
Tillamook County produces splendid
strawberries, Logan berries and other
small fruits.
Tillamook County had 108 inches of rain
fall in 1906, which kept the grass green
the year round,
Tillamook dairymen are making money
and enjoying life, being an independent
class of fai mers.
Tillamook County has been settled for
50 years and no one in all that time
has lost a single crop.
Tillamook meadows are green and nfford
aliundxnce of green pasture during the
hottest summer months.
Tillamook County ia the most healthy
part of Oregon, with a mean tempera-
tare of 51 degs. last year.
Tillamook Countv is the sportsman’s
paradise, with deer and bear hunting,
combined with splendid fishing.
Tillamook County has no snloons, the
people having voted on two occasions
that they were opposed to them.
Tillamook County will soon have two
railroads and one or more electric road
which will all lx completed nest year.
Tillamook County never had a crop fail
ure and the various kinds of hny, oats,
barley and edible roots yield in profu
sion.
Tillamook farmers are wide awake, well
informed, hard workers, indus*rious
and adapting themselves to all the new
devices.
Tillamook Connty is a place where peo
ple can make an easy living if they have
enough means to enable them to own
a small farm.
Tillnmook County raises oats, the yield
being as high ns 100 bushels per acre
on the prairie lands and even better on
the >ich bottom lands.
Tillamook Countv produces many wild
berriesduring the mmnier mil autumn,
such as salmon txrrxs, thimble berries,
two kinds hnckle berries and sallal
Ixrries are most common.
Tillamook County contains whole forests
of big trees, many of them being Vtft.
in circumference and over 300 ft. in
height. Most of the lorest trees men-
sute from 15ft. to 20ft.in girth and are
often freefrom limb« for the first 150ft.
Tillamook County has numerous cheese
factories, and as a same irf what they
are doing, one factory received during
1906. 3.745,480 pounds of milk, made
387,180 pounds of cheese, received for
same $45,484.20, and gave $68.7« per
cow for 881 sows.
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