Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, December 25, 1908, FIRST EDITION, Image 15

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Newspaper Page TextV i JA1LY CAPITAL JOURNAL, 8ALKM. OKEGON, FRIDAV, DECEMBER SW, 1908. UUMETTE YALLEY IS K INTERURBANIZED ble Development Thai Is Taking Place Along tne une or me uregon Uectric. 5ENTATIVE OF THE CAPITAL JOURNAL TAKES vt v IP ON A MODERN ELECTRIC LINE THAT RlH 1 TIliv 7IFTV TO SIXTY MILES AN HOUR THE NEW SUiii'it IMMUNITIES BETWEEN PORTLAND AND THIS C TV lntorurbanlzlng movement id Southorn California with of electric rnllronds. The ik Una lioon done in tho iwoen Seattle and Tncomn. dono at present for the Valloy. Portland south toward Sa- kddltlon to three lines of tern Pacific, olcctric linos ling their systems on both ,'tho river. Tho Portland rLlght and Power Co. has )regon City, with a branch rn, whoro its great powor arc located. This samo rfaas lines southward from nearly as far. But tho sys is constructing tho most Unterurban lino in the WIN Palloy Is tho Oregon Elcc- jeti has a high-class single- in operation to Salem, ll, and another to Hlllsboro. Fast Trolley Line. ovor tho Orogon Electric tnco any one that this Is lenco, tho fast trolley lino. Lai City Flyor and tho Roso 1al now mako tho 50-mllo hittlo ovor 90 minutes, not rtho two stops. Many of ivy Pullman stylo coaches, tfcot long, run 1500 miles repairs. Panoramic Trip. it of Portland wo enter prl- of way and begin to climb Park, 475 feet abovo tho to. tho sconory is a com- of beauty and grandeur not luallcd. Noxt wo como to 1111, whoro lots now soli for ono will bo able t orocog- bo niiis nvo years nenco. tl bo covorod with homes, -substation is at Multnomah, "high. Tho train sweeps ontlo curves. TrcBtlcs ovor fed feet high occur froquont- "rondbod 1b solid, as tho on- Is good. Not a car has tho track. Noxt is Garden auction, whoro tho lino to Irovo and Hlllsboro branches eso aro two prooporous cities ttngton county, tho latter 15 ray, Is tho county scat. An .platform nnd "Y" track Is it In at Garden Home so that through excursion cars can bo run either way to Salem. Metzger Is eight miles out, having many now homes, nnd acre tracts sell at $200. Horo aro largo fuel stacks, howing a town out of the evergreen forest, an evergreen route up the valley, tho more the country . c'(:'arod u,) tho Kroner It becomes. At Tlgard tho limited train passes us. This Is a German settlement, whoro the farmers roll In n groat produce business. Tualatin is fourteen miles away from Portland, In n rich coun try, and horo aro many new homes going up. Secret of Electric, Speed. Wo havo made all thoso stops and come this far In half nn hour. Tho secrot of tho electric system Is thnt wo got up speod In a carlcngth and stop nearly as quick. Thero Is no long, slow starts and stops. It's off again, on again, gone again. That Is whoro It gains time over n steam road. It Is also a fact that the elec tric car picks up or Iobcs powor ob It approaches or leaves a substation. No ono can rldo on tho pilot cab of of an electric car driven by tho high powor used on this lino and not real ize that occasional bursts of speed mean faster timo is poBslblo to bo mado than anything yet attomptod. Reduction of schedulo timo from ono hour and forty minutes to an hour and a half, an hour and a quarter, and oven to doing tho fifty miles in an hour, aro posslblo and prob able Onto tho Willamette. Wo noxt pass tho rockplts, a cut through Bplondld natural matorlal for making strcots and roads. A rock crusher is to bo Installed horo. At Mulloy wood, potato and onion shlpmonts aro tho big traffic Items. Wo now elide along 55 to GO miles an hour, and on each shlo aro tho twinkling lights of now homcB In tho clearings. Big farms all along horo aro cut up Into fruit tracts and sub urban homes. Wo now pull Into Wllsonville, whoro many now houses aro going up somo of them would bo n crodlt to Salem or Portland. A bank has boon, oponod horo and houses nro springing up on tho east bank of tho rlvor. Hero will bo a On the Long Tangent. Wo cross the high s'tcol bridge, which, with trestle, is 2160 feet long, swing around a light curve and nro off on tho long tangent an air lino across tho level French Pralrio to tho suburbs of tho Capital City. Tho twenty mile nlr lino runs on a levol trnck and heavy rnlls permit of nil nnd8i f 8,1?.ed- Wo mSf through Donald, a fine to vnslto named In Honor Of tho rnnotr inMnr. ., The olectrlc hcadllcht nrnkoa Mm olos sh'ne like pMlars of silver as vvo flash along through tho night. The track Is well ballasted nnd equal to any speed. Wo noxt pass Broad acres. ost Woodburn, Wnncondn, Chomokota and Qulntby. Tho lino pnsses a mile from St. Louis, tho first settlement on Fronch Prairie. At some or these stations nro ware houses and Btores, but nt most of tliem ; these luxuries are yet to bo f.,")),,lo,ti-. Qu,,' Is nnraed after tho half-breed son of tho first white man to land on Clatsop beach. Another curve nnd tho train files ror nenrly two miles through tho suburbs of Salem and down High street Into tho heart of tho Capital uty. o havo mado tho fifty miles front Portland about imir thn iin. BIG CHERRY STORIES OF THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY My chorrlcs yielded nt rato of JG40 por acre. Row F. N. George, Salem. Sold from ono troo 800 pounds of cherries at 5 cents per pound. D. A. Whlto, Salem. Clenred, above all expenses, from two acres of cherries, $700. A. Ver cler, Ut. 2, Salem. For twenty years a Governor Wood cherry treo has yielded nn ttveroge of 500 pounds a year. J. B. Shepard. Zena. (Address Salem.) I bought ton acres of chorry or chard for $1500, and first year 1907 sold $1700 worth. Enos Prosnnl, Salem. Sold' 400 pounds of Royal Ann cherries In 1907 for $20. from ono tree 14 years old. A. Vorclor, Ut. 2, Salem. Sold from eleven Itoynl Ann trees $130 worth of cherries. J. W. Do lap, Ut. 2, Salem. Sold $54 worth of chorrlcs from six treos. C, L. Weaver, Liberty. I picked 415 pounds of Uoynl Ann cherries from ono 14-yonr-old treo In 1907. C. F. Wnttcrs. Tho Salem Mutual Canning Com- pnny bought from tho locnl fruit ,i . . , ----- --. " i linn uuufcin irum mu iukiii nun Itlil1'1"!',""11 ,0.nfod. o growors.in 1907. ovor 400,000 lbs. flno city on tho Wlllnmotto rlvor. coming year. rest of tho time to tnko up tho thirty The Oregon Electric Is building up a fine freight and express business. There Is possibility of a night fast freight express, by means of which tho vnlloy merchant can order his supplies by mall or tolophono In tho nftornoon nt Portland and havo tho samo dollvcred to him tho noxt morning. It 1b stated on good authority thnt tho now intorurban lino will mnko a good flnnnclnl shoeing for tho first yonr's business, something unusual with Buch properties. New lines nro bolng extended to other points in tho Wlllamotto Vnlloy and tho outlook for Its development Is very bright. Progressive Official. Tho Orogon Electric is mnnngod from offices In tho Corbett building, Portlnnd, nnd at tho bond of tho cor poration stands Its Orogon represent ative, Guy W. Talbot, ono of tho most successful mnnagors of oloctrlc lines In tho United 8tntes. Tho traf fic management Is in tho hands of Goo. F. Kevins, for somo yonrs gon oral suporlntondont of tho Corvallls and Eastorn. Thoso gentlemen havo dono n groat donl to popularlzo this lino nnd put In effect tho progressive policies that aro winning tho public confidence and n largo volumo of frolght nnd passenger business. Thoy were In Salem sovoral times this month and stated that If all tholr plans cnrrlcd thoy would construct a now lino from Salem to Albany this of Itoynl Ann cherries ntono nnd of other vnrlotles nearly as ninny. From 143 treoB In 1907 I sold 14 tons Uoynl Ann cherries at $100 per ton. B. I. Ferguson, Ut. 2, Sn lein. From threo Uoynl Ann chorry trees I Bold $05 worth of chorrlcB. A. F, Uenrdsloy, Salem, Ut. 8. Four Uoyal Ann chorry trees which I sot out in 1894 yielded $13 net por treo In 1907, bostdes nn abundance for family uso. F. Q. McLonch, Lincoln. Picked in 1907 over threo tons of Uoynl Ann chorrlcs from two ncrcs, sold for 5 conts. Cyrus H. Walker. I sold 400 pounds chorrlcs nt 5 conts from a 10-year-old Uoyal Ann treo. T. II. Ulundoll, Salem. I havo four Uoyal Ann chorry trees that havo nottod mo $40 por year for sovoral dlfforont yearn, and ono Lnko Duko chorry troo, $10 por yoar for a number of yoara. -Miss N. Taylor (Polk county). Address Ut. 1. Salem. From threo acros of eherrlos I sold ten tons. L. T. Uoynolds, Ut. 9, Salem. . Havo a Blng chorry troo that yield ed $30 worth of chorrlcs In 1907, nnd n Uoynl Ann $18 worth. M. Muths, Salem, Ut. 1. From 20 trees I sold $100 worth of cherries nnd from six trees 3100 pounds. Sold nt 5 conts. C. J. An derson, Ut. 9, Salem. o From 40 ncrcs of votchen I nottod from hny nnd seed $1000. J. II. Shepard, Zena. Address Salem. STORIES OF GRAPES AND OF PEACHES (From Ono Thousand Facts of Pro duction, compiled by Wlllamotto Valley Dovolopment Lengue.) Our grnpcB, Burgundy and IIoIb llng, nottod us 800 gnllons of wlno por ncro. William Krnmor, Mt. Angol. My grapes avoragod about six toiiB per ncro In 1907, nnd notlort from 2i4 to B contB por pound. J. A. Peterson. I sold $900 worth of grapes from threo ncres In 1907 W. K. Newell, presldont Stnto Board or Horticul ture. In 1907 1 rnlscd ovor 300 pounds of grapes from four vlnds, 7 yenra old. Jns. II. Edmundson, Salem. From ono grnpo vino I Hold $30 worth of Isabella grapes In 1007 nt 3 Mi to 5 cents por pound. (1. O. Holinnn. Ponchos. I havo sixteen vnrlotles of poaches. Commenced shipping pciuhoR July 1 nnd continued without liiUninlsdlon until November 0, when 1 gathered my Inst troo of 21 boxoi, 30 pounds inch, of merchantable fruit. Wm, II. Egan, Brooks. From 1C8 peach trees I sold 2375 crates, 20 pounds each, nnd 150 bushel boxes. A, Lnfollott, Gorvats, Ut. 3. I sold $500 worth of poaches In 1907 from 400 bearing trooo, nt $2 por bushel. Uohert Howe. THE V0GET BROTHERS AS HOME-BUILDERS Tho four Vogot brothers began tho lumbor nnd building material busi ness In n small wny among tho big timber near Brooks. Thoy loamod tho business from the Rtump to th6 finished houses thoy nro now oroot Ing to tho grent crodlt or tho Capital City. Thoy camo to this part of Oro gon in 1901 nnd started cutting lum bor with n smnll portnblo sawmill near Brooks in 1902. In 1903 thoy bought out n lumbor yard at Salem, nnd added ono dopnrtmont nftor an other until today thoy havo a per fectly oqulppod establishment ror supplying ovorythlng ncodod to put up a finished houso from tho rough lumbor to tho finest finishing pnlnta nnd hardware for door trimmings. Thoy havo a record for completing fifty houses for thomsolvos nnd for othors in tho few years nlnco thoy started. Thoy aro building six now houses at present nnd havo a num ber for Bale roady to movo Into, Thoy build or soil on roiiBonnblo torms, and for cash or on tho Installment plan. Tholr lumbor ynrds and Ware houses aro located on Fourteenth street, opposite tho Southorn Pacific dopot. DEAF-MUTE SCHOOL. j. MAY BE MOVED HERE This institution is in chargo or SttpL and Mrs. Tllllnghast and has at present nbout eighty children lu at tondnnco. Thoy nro taught on tho most Improved plans for tho educa tion of thoso dofoctivo in hearing or speech. Thero nro In all nbout twon-ty-slx employes, divided ns follews: six lltornry teachers, flvo industrial teachers, two moil on tho farm, two cooks, threo domestics, two carotak ors, ono physician, nn engineer, night watch, laundress nnd assistant. Tho school for doaf mutes was lo cated six miles awny rrotn tho city on a ronl cstato and political deal, and thoro hns always been n strong demand thnt thoso unfortunnto chil dren who learn almost entirely by seeing should not bo Isolated on a largo rarm half way botweon tho Btato reform school and tho farm for tho Insane. Tho buildings nnd land nro now needed for n ward for tho tuberculous Insane, nnd It 1b prob ably that In tho courso of a fow years something will bo dono to tnko these unfortunnto children out of tholr present unfavorable environment. LARGEST CANNERY IN STATE AT SALEM Tho plant of tho Salem Mutual Cannery Company Is ono of tho Inrg est nnd best oqulppod, on tho Pacific coast. It Is by far tho largest can nory for fruit In this Btato and putH up annually from thirty to fifty thousand cases. Mr. Jos. Fisher la tho local manager nnd Geo. W. Hoi comb, of Portland, president and prlnclpnl ownor. Tho work or tho ennnory starts on strawberries and goosoborrloa In tho spring, then fol low raspborrlca, loganberries, black hordes and apples and plums until fall. Tho pack of Oregon gooseber ries Is Increasing, now totalling the product of twonty acre under con tract. Canned goods aro moving off moro rapidly and the management announces that thoy will run tho can nery right through tho season ext year, nnd will doclaro tho nnnual divi dend In January. I havo an old orchard or eight acros which I sowed to spring wheat. I mado $300 worth or pork from windfalls nnd whoat. tho hoga har vesting tho grain. I also sold ton tons of Crult. tl. L. Stowart, McCoy. By actual measurement I raised ovor 900 busholn or Jerusalem artl chokoa on threo fourths of an acre. Paul Kloppln. Salem. I ran my throshlng outfit 35 dayii in 1000 and avoragod 1000 saoka por day. In 1007 ran 27 1-2 days and avoragod 1150 sacks. 8. L. 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