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PROGRESS OF THE LOGAN-
BERRY INDUSTRY IN OREGON
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Some Useful information that Till*-
mookers Should Take into Con
sideration.
TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT « OCTOBER 18, 1917.
ed States. Instead of being satisfied boom. And we can safeguard our-
with the easy sales made to the Gov selves against such a boom if our
ernment, they are bending their en commercial bodies through the Val-
ergies to increase acreage and pro ley will go at the thing sensible.
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duction here in Oregon. Thus they
expect to augment the crop sufficient
First, verify what the loganberry
ly to at least take care of part of the manufacturers will pay, ascertain the
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army demand and the growing public contract terms they offer, negotiate
From the Oregon Coter. •
for the establishment of local presscr
demand for the juice.
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\
ies (several already established, one
Another Oregon dream has come
Will not California and the Eastern in fertile Washington County, one at
true. It’s only a few years ago that a
few enthusiasts prophesied that the and Southern states plant heavy acre Newberg, and another close to Port
loganberry industry had vast possibil age, so as to compete with the Pacific land at Gresham; all serving the fac
tories at Salem and Portland) and
ities for the Willamette Valley. And Northwest?
They have already tried it. The lo see what is in sight. Then take it up
in this year of our Lord ninteen hun
dred and seventeen we wake up to ganberry was a California invention— with the farmer close by, canvass
realize that Judge Logan’s berry is Judge Logan the experimenter' who them carefully, and under the terms
perfected it. It has been thirty years offered get enough acreage planted to
bringing $2,000,000 into our state.
Nearly as productive as the whole since this luscious berry was heralded fulfill the immediate requirements. It
apple crop of Oregon, in dollars and and in nearly every state it has been won’t be necessary to finance a can
cents, is the loganberry crop of 1917. tried. Only on the Pacific Coast has nery, or sell a lot of stock, or do any
it survived commercially.
other of the silly things that have
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And only 200 acres have survived covered the Pacific Northwest with
And it’s nearly as valuable as the
prune crop—that boom crop of the in California—and the berry there is a ruins of local food factories and taken
late ’eighties, which vindicated itself joke compared with the great, lus money for stocks that couldn’t pay
as the years rolled by and has brought cious Oregon Loganberry. It is small and left disappointment in their wake.
No, what is wanted is for the con
tribute to the preceding season’s and dry, and yields very small juice
tonnage compared with the Oregon servative, common sense of Willa
who preserved in loyalty to it.
Half as valuable as a normal hop product. Neither has it the surpassing mette Valley communities and coast
crop is the loganberry crop. And flavor. For it takes the rare combina counties to assert itself in inquiry and
nearly half as valuable as the salmon tion of abundant moisture and climat negotiations with the successful, es
crop of the mighty Columbia. Almost ic mildness to produce the great, per tablished juice foctories. It looks
half the value of a normal wool crop, fect juicy loganberry, a combination good. Investigate and find out if it is
found nowhere else in happy combi as good as it looks. And if it is, go
**befo’ the wah."
nation save near Pacific Northwest ahead. Little risk is involved, as little
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expense or investment is required,
Surely, here is an industry that | Coasts.
Judge
Logan invented a fine berry and that is scattered so it is no great
merits attention. It has grown to the
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point that it commands it. And those I in California. But he builded better burden on any one or any set.
who have followed it closely are be- I then he knew. For from that Califor-
ginning to see that its beginning is I nia start came the Oregon loganberry
And if 10,000 acres can be planted
modest indeed compared with its im- I of today, so far beyond what Judge to loganberry culture this season, it
mediate and ultimate possibilities,
I Logan was able to produce in Califor- will bring cash—millions of hard cash
Quick attention this lusty infant in- I nia that there is hardly a comparison, —into our state, from parts that are
dustry should have, for its main need I From Judge Logan’s plant the Ore- far off. Our communities need the
today is more acreage. Here is some- I gon loganberry was perfected. 1 he money, even our editors need the
thing our Willamette Valley commer- I old jurist wizard of berry plants has money, and its worth the thought, en
cial bodies can take up with a feeling I proven to be one of Oregon’s great- terprise and effort involved in going
of certainty, that their efforts will I est benefactors.
after it.
So get busy, quickly!
bring dollars into their communities I
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—bright, new round dollars that I Our Willamette Valley is one. of the
More Loganberries.
come from afar and enrich farmers I garden spots of earth.
and merchants when they come.
I Today its fertility is being sacrific-
(Salem Statesman)
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I ed to wheat and other grains, and to
The loganberry
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. industry of the
Only 2,000 acres are now planted I bulky roughage. Dairying is helping
to loganberries. This land is worth I save it, but the acreage in dairy farms state is being called forcefully to the
$$50 an acre, or a total of only $300,- I is small compared with that used for attention of the State Fair visitors by
means of a large space carrying ex
,000. And from this $300,000 worth I products that drain the soil.
of land is produced the berries that I The ideal products of the Willam- hibits of loganberry juice by Pheas-
bring $2,000,000 into the state. Looks I ette Valley are the tender fruits. The and Fruit Juice Company; and of
like a small investment.
I moisture is here, and that soft, balmy canned loganberries by Hunt Bros;
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I summer mildness that ripens without and of evaporated loganberries by H.
Immediate planting of 10,000 acres I scorching. The Willamette Valley
E. Gile & Co. Trailing loganberry
to loganberries is what is advocated can be the fruit
cannery and juice vines, uprooted for the purpose are
by leading manufacturers of the tasty pressery for a world of population. It used effectively for decoration and
juice. Demand already established for has all the rich natural endownment, placecards put forth such telling facts
this delicious beverage base is what and no other section outside of the as the following:
"Oregon is the loganberry center of
impels this recommendation.
I costal regions of the Pacific North-
Backing up its judgment, one of I west can ever compete with it in fan the world.”
“A natural monopoly with assured
tile leading juice manufacturers offers cy-priced, quality production.
market.”
to erect a local pressing plant in each I
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“A few acres on every farm better
community that will put in from 200 I It costs little to plant loganberry
to JOO acres of loganberries. And on I acreage. Any farmer can devote an than large plantings.”
top of that, will guarantee $70 a ton I acre or two. Cultivation can be mas-
"Never a crop failure—always a
ior the picked berries, on a long I tered easily, for most Willamette good profit.”
term contract.
I Valley farmers, or their wives rather,
The above statements are generally
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I understand berry cultivation or can well known truths locally, but the
It is only a few years ago that a learn easily from neighbors who have figures named in another card are
cent a pound, or $20 a ton, was the made a succss. Our Agricultural Col- somewhat a revelation to most citi-
amount paid for picking. The grower lege, one of the best in America, is zens of the state, viz:
"An infant industry with $800,000
felt he was doing well to get two ever present to aid the experiment.
The heaviest expense i» the picking, capital invested. Estimated sales for
cents a pound for his product. And
many pickers and growers made mon and the picking season comes during 1917 $2,000,000,”
With these figures appreciated the
ey at those prices, so much so that the the school summer vacation period
planting of loganberry acreage was In Portland and the cities and rural needs of such an industry surely
communities of the Valley are plenty would command the attention of all
extended apace.
With the oncoming of prohibition, of pickers. The wages are attractive. and particularly of the farmer to
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manufacturers I Here are all the elements of building whom the following appeal is primar
several
far-sighted
saw possibilities in the sharp taste of up a vast industry at little original ily made:
"This new industry needs an im
loganberry juice to establish a new | cost,
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mediate planting of 10,000 acres of
favorate as a temperance drink. They
shipped some juice East, and it made
Talking about the farmer's wife, loganberries. How many will you
„ has been earning the fam plant?”
a hit wherever served. As a bar drink, __
she ____
really
The permanency of the market for
it promptly won a place for itself ily living
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artiong light refreshments. At the I been earning it on the few acres loganberry products seems assured
soda fountains it established a quick I around the house. The Lord of the and those closely identified with the
the present
demand. In households, at banquets I household has planted his wheat an- industry realize that
and at receptions and dances, it be nually, gets enough out of it to pay planting of berries will, at an early
Came a favorite for punch, for unlike taxes and keep up his teams, machin date, be entirely inadequate. The na
anything else that was non-intoxicat ery and equipment after a fashion, tional advertising given loganberry
ing "it had the punch”. And prohibi ami plants the following year and gets juice by one of the above named com
enough out of it to pay taxes and panies the
past two
years has
tion is spreading.
take care of his houses, etc., and then brought a national, yes, even a world
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So two years age one courageous keeps it up year after year, without market to our door. Let us provide
the raw material as fast as the market
manufacturer undertook national ad getting much for a family living.
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Meanwhile the lady of the house- demands it. Growers are promised
vertising on a small scale. The iiyjuiry
and interest created was . sufficient J hold (God bless her) has her cows term contracts on the berries, and it
that last winter a large advertising and her hens and her „ garden, and appears to be the right time for all
campaign was undertaken, Six pages sells enough eggs, butter, cream, and the farmers to provide a few acres
of the Saturday Evening Post were a calf and a few pigs and a little wool for a loganberry vinyard.
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folors. from her little flock of sheep in the
contracted,
The cost was 131,000—a big sum of I woodland pasture, and a little garden State Inudstry Exhibit at State Fair
Attracts Hundreds Daily.
a tiny infant industry of far-off Ore-I truck, and gets a little cash in right
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gon to expend—but the actual de- I along through the year. It’s this lit-
Visitors at the industrial section of g
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mand created as the advertising was I tie cash income
run during late spring and early sum- grocery bill, bought clothes and the fair the past few days have in
many beautiful exhibits and
school books for the children and S spected
L
tner more than justified the expense.
’
i the
Perhaps
Another manufacturer operating a beautified the home. All honor to the demonstration booths. ~
converted brewery, advertised his Farmer’s Wife—she has really made one attracting more attention than
the usual run is the attractively fur
brand of loganberry juice in daily the living.
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Of course, since war prices have nished double room home space
newspapers of several large Eastern
been prevailing for wheat, Mr. Wil where I’hez, pure juice of the logan
cities, concentrating his campaign.
lamette Valley farmer has become the berry, is being served in some of the
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Results—they were ipipressive. Dis- Cock of the Main Highway, for he multitudious ways in whiyUi it is use
riches to all the persistent growers has taken in enough to buy a family ful in the home.
Here one may sit in a richly decor
Supply of juice was effected into automobile. And there's an auto to
every part of the country. Carload day in nearly every other farm in the ated room with full home furnishings
and partake of such delicacies as ice
valley.
after carload was shipped East.
cream, gelatine, frosted cakes, candies
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As soon as the 1917 crop began to
Now we don’t want to go crazy etc., as well as punches and highballs,
come in, it was pressed, packed and about the loganberry business, as we in addition to regular service of Phez
shipped. Dealers and venders clamor did over prunes in the late '90’s, and loganberry juice, and they oftimes
ed for more. By autumn, the demand over apples ten years ago. We don’t welcome Phez hot. Instead of stand
was so heavy it made the manufac want to get up a land boom, and ing with the crowd in the aisles and
turers gasp. The widespread charac bring bookkeepers and schoolteachers listening to a tired demonstrator, here
ter of the demand indicated the spec here from all over the world to go you step into a parlor, you are shown
ial results that came from the national bankrupt vainly expecting to get rich easy chairs and may sit at tables,
magazine advertising.
from orchards or bushes. We don t you are welcomed and served by hos
want land to jump up to 8500 and tesses. You carry away with a linger
Then the military authorities caught 11,000 an acre, based on the big re ing taste of Oregon’s new food drink
on They, too,
discovered
what turns that Sam Brown, of Gervais, combined, and a fine souvenir in the
charms there were in loganberry our Loganberry King, has secured form of a beautifully illustrated re
juice as a beverage. At army posts, from his patrimonial homestead with ceipt book, entitled "Phez in the
training camps and cantonments, the the aid of auto tractors and auto Home,” It is a very pleasing and rest
ful innovation and the Phez people
soldiers bought loganberry juice from trucks.
What we do want is to direct the deserve credit for their splendid con
their canteens. Prohibition was en
forced, the army medical authorities attention of farmers now here to tribution to this section of the fair.
Joint hostess with Miss Phez Lo
H
can make for themselves
thought little of “pop’’ as a health what they
drink, and here was loganberry juice, from land they now own by turning ganberry is Miss Jcffy Jell of Wau-
a favorite, that was the healthiest their attention to immediate profits keshu, Wis.—Salem Statesman.
drink that nature and man had ever in sight from growing loganberries.
After our own farmers have been get SICK WIFE’S STORY SUR
produced.
PRISES TILLAMOOK
So the government tried out a car ting the income for awhile and the
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load. This was followed quickly by industry gets on a sound, permanent
ozders for many more carloads. One bases will be time enough to invite
The following haa surprised Tilla-
man’s wife suffer-
Eastern grocery jobber sold ten car the rest of the world in to buy pro mook: A business
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loads of loganberry juice to the gov ducing loganberry land at fancy pric ed from dyspepsia and constipation
ernment on one order. And a carload es. And the chances are that we for years. Although she dieted she
costs $9,000. And nearly all the won't have to invite anybody, for was so bloated her clothes would not
after the war and the closing down of fit. ONE SPOONFUL buckthorn
19 ,000 comes to Oregon.
war-time industries, the land-seeking bark, glycerine, etc., as mixed in
Today,, this fall, the army demand population will be legon in number, Adlcr-i-ka relieved her INSTANTLY
for loganberry juice is sufficient to and people will come fast enough to Because Adler-i-ka empties BOTH
command all next year’s production. the Willamette Valley, and will en large and small intestines it relieves
But the manufacturers are wise. They gage in loganberry culture and other ANY CASE constipation, sour stom
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are >
going
to continue
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national farming as rapidly as they can be as- ach or gas and orevents appendicitis.
advertising, so as not to lose the ad- I similated to their own advantage and It has QUICKEST action of any
vantage of the general market that I the advantage of our valley.
thing we ever sold. J. S. Lamar, drug-
* bas • been created
— * all
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wc don’t want a loganberry Druggist.
through
the it-:.,
Unit* |
Notice
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FORD
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STAR GARAGE.
TILLAMOOK GARAGE.
of
Sheriff's Sale of Real
Property.
Notice is hereby given t hat by vir
tue of a writ of execution issued oat
of the Circuit Court for Tillamook
County. Oregon, on the 28th day of
Sept., 1917, and to me directed, upon
a judgment duly rendered, entered
of a record and docketed in and by
said court on the 3rd day of Marek
1916, in a certain action then in said
court pending, wherein D. L. Shrode
George Williams and Charles Kunze
were plaintiffs, and C. M. Martin and
Mary J. Martin were defendants,
said judgment being in favor of plain’
tiffs and against the defendants, and
by which execution I am commanded
to satisfy out of the property of said
defendants the following judgment:
Three Hundred Eighty-one and
52-100 dollars ($381.52) with inter-
est thereon at the rate of six per cent
per annum from October 16th, 1915
and the sum of $10.00 costs and dis^
bursements of said action, and I have
duly levied upon the following de
scribed real property of said defend
ants, situated in Tillamook County,
Oregon, to wit:
Lots 1, 2 and 3, and the southwest
quarter of the northeast quarter, and
the northwest quarter of the south
east quarter, all of Section 5, Town-
ship 2 south, Range 10 West W. M.
Therefore, I will on Saturday the
27th day of October, 1917, at the
hour of 10 o’clock a. m. on said date,
at the front door of the Court House
in Tillamook City, Oregon, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder
for cash in hand, all right, title and
interest which the within named de
fendants had in or to said real prop
erty on or since the 3rd day of
March, 1916, the date of rendering
and docketing the above judgment.
Also all right, title and interest of all
persons claiming under said defend
ants since said date. Said sale will be
made subject to redemption as pr»-
vided by law.
Dated this 26th day of September.
1917.
W. L. Campbell, Sheriff of
Tillamook County Oregon
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Notice of Hearing of Final Accouzt
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Notice is hereby given, that the un
dersigned has filed his final account
as administrator of the estate of Jes
sie V. Embum,
deceased, in the
County Court.of the State of Oregon,
for Tillamook County, and that such
Court has appointed October 13th
1917, at ten o'clock a.m., at the court
room of said Court, in Tillamook
City, Oregon, as the time and place
for the hearing of objections, if any,
to the said account and the settlement
of said estate.
Dated September 13, 1917.
John Embum, Administra
tor of the Estate of Jessie
V. Embum, Deceased.
Notice of Guardian’s Sale of Real
Property.
Notice is' hereby given, that by
virtue of an order made and entered
in the County Court for Tillamook
County, Oregon, on the 10th day of
October, 1917 authorizing and em
powering the undersigned guardian
of the estate of Reberta Campbell
and William Campbell, Minors, to
sell at private sale for cash to the
highest bidder the real property here
inafter described, the said guardian,
on and after the 15th day of Novem
ber, 1917, in Tillamook, Oregon, will
offer for sale and sell for cash to the
bidder, for cash, all the right, title
and interest of the said minors, Re-1
berta Campbell and William Camp
bell, in and to the following.described
real property, situated in Tillamook
County, Oregon, to-wit:
The Northwest quarter of Section
31, Township 2 South of Range 9,
West of the Willamette Meridian.
Dated at Tillamook, Oregon, this I
10th day of October, 1917.
Catharine A. Long,
Guardian of the person» I
and estate of Reberta and I
William Campbell, minors.!
Notice to Final Account.
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TILLAMOOK, ORE.
In the County Court of the Stile
Stati
of Oregon, For the County of Tilla
mook:—In the matter of the estate
of Charles A. Seamon, late of the ■
county of Tillamook, Deceased.
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Notice is hereby given that the un I'
dersigned has, in the above entitled ■ ■
proceeding, filed his Final Account I Thc
as Administrator
of the Estate ■he ph,
which was of Charles A. SeamoaJ Ecompa:
late of the County of Tillamook, De froice p
ceased, and that the Court haa sp- ■»ally ,
pointed Saturday, the Third Dzy °*| [
r
November, 1917, at Ten o'clock i»| F -■
the forenoon, for the hearing of OH [one tc
jections to such Final Account Ml f :
the settlement thereof.
[enters
S. M. Batterson,
[olitan
Administrator
[d for r
Johnson & Handley,
[on, prt
Robert H. McGrath,
[ice of
Attorneys for the Administrator.
fw' COI
r'atio,,
[For tl
Notice of Final Settlement.
f«ic V.
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Notice is hereby given, that the un- F° listen
• dersigned administrator of the par fat con
tnership estate of Henry Tohl, dr- H voice
eeased, with A. C. Andersen, surviv faph. M
ing partners of said deceased, whd fadred
did business under the firm name *n I hited ‘
style of "Tohl & Andersen,” has filed
these
with the County Court of Tillamo<J|
int
County, Oregon, his final account Bumbe
with said estate, and that said court P' c bee i
has fixed Friday, the 16th day A [c 'vent
¡November, 1917, at 10 o’clock *.rnj F’test f<
as the time and place for hearing oM ri be a
sections to said account and at whicl fai ad-,
time all persons concerned will *91 F'his fie
pear and present their objections. 1 f'he co
Dated this 15th day of Octooer| M-wor
fa' add-
1917.
A. C. Andersen,
’ taken
"tained
Administrator of
Edis
tate.
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handle a High-Grade Automobil
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