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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. Stewart,
McCoy. ,
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