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3 FACTS OF PRODUCTION FROM THE HEART OF THE SNAKE RIVER FRUIT SECTION OntarioOregon Metropolis of Snake River Valley Rapidly 'Pioneers and Newcomers Unite in Making Statements of k i Growing Center of Fruit, Grain, Alfalfa and Livestock Industry. Greatest Importance to Homeseekers and Investors. DAILY CAPITAL JOUHNAL, SALEM, ORBOON, TimtSDAY, APRIL 14, 1909. M GAS AM) OIL BOOSTERS, Who aro the men entitled to credit for making this tho contor of the oil nnd gas field of tho Snnko River Valley? Tho work of prospecting has been going on for two or throe rears, tho Dig now at uniano is from a well started less than six montliB ago nnd reads llko a fairy tale. A million snares of stock woro put on tho market. It was sold nt 2 conts, 6 conts, 10, 25, and now ns high ns 35 conts, and thero Is still half n minion snares iieia oy mo promoters, only enough sold for do- velopmont. Tho big flow of gas which now registers n pressure of 120 pounds to the square Inch, was struck nt a depth of 2210 feot, Fobrunry 15. It blow off with r. roar that could bo I Ontario Oil Well. honrd for miles for threo days nnd nights until tho plpo could bo caped and the gas got undor control. Tho company hns put In n $5000 rotary drill and will go down 3500 to 4000 feot for oil. Tho mon who havo mado tho sac rifice, put tho brains nnd heart Into tho undortnklng thnt promises to mnko tula anotnor Cotfoyvlllo, Knn., aro David Wilson, J. R. Dlncknby, ... . Iloyor, W. 13. Lees, Ward Can flold. G. A. Poguc. A. L. Sproul. J. J. Durbrldge, C. II. Emerson and W. II. Doollttlo. Thoso nro local capitalists who aro not nfrnld to sink a hundred or n thousnnd dollars on any venture thnt promises to put Ontnrlb on the map. Thoy uro tho mon who nro nintung Ontnrio known, who nro doubling tholr money on all thoy touch, whoso roal ostnto Is ad vancing, who ore Investing In Innds, in city proporty, and who will mnko this olty a railroad nnd manufactur ing contor. Tho groat prosperity of Ontario and surrounding country Is Its only drawback. Dairying, small fruit nnd other Industries languish for lock of working pooplo. THK SUGAR IIKKT CHOP PHOF1T AHLK. A. J. Quackenbush, two nnd a half mllos from Ontario, had 20 aoros of sugar beets last your that raised 62, 700 pounds por ncro. or ovor 2G tons per nere He sold ! crop for $4.50 per ton. netting him $71 76 por aoro. John Kay. six inllos from Ontario, raised 596,309 pounds on 11 aoros, selling at same price. And there aro others. The beet sugar faotory Is at Nam- - pa. Just across tho rlvor in Idaho. Sugar beets are a splendid adjunct ot dairying and nog raising and this Industry i.as a groat future. Tho factory turns ou. i:o0 Backs of sugar a day. A FKW PLAIN FACTS. A. P. Doyor haB an orchard ad joining tho city, and took $20 to the tree from his orchard this year. His crop this year netted him $135 per 100 boxes, after paying for picking, picking and freight. Ho shipped his apples to Galveston and Dallas, Tex. "A. F. Gramse, who came from Hood Hlver ono year ago in Febru ary and bought 145 acres adjoining the town of Ontario, with an old 10-aore orchard This he cleaned up and last fall sold off ovor 3000 boxes of apples. It had never before been sprayed or cultivated to nruount to anything. Ho cut from 20 acres of alfalfa that averaged three tons per acre and sold it for $S per ton. The Beojwd cop west to seed and brought him $1100 This was an average of 90 pec acre for the hay and alfalfa seed Mr Gramse says that he bad one of the beet orchards In Hood River and says this country Is Just as good an apple oouatry ni Hood River. The biggest berry paten In this part ot the country U ran by M B. Sherman, one mile from town. He grows Immense crops. lets them dry on the vino and throshos thotn out with n flnll, nnd gets 30 cants n pound for tho dry rasphonlos. Ho has mndo as high ns n thousnnd pounds por ncro nnd has In sovon yonrs made from $100 to $300 por ncro C. K. Amldon throshed G2 bushels wheat to tho acre. O. W. Mollett threshod 90 acres wheat In lt08 that avornged 54 bushels. Tom Jonos had 23 ncros oats that went C2 bushels to tho ncro. 13. D. Conklln, threo nnd a half miles from Ontario, raised last year GO to 75 bushels corn to tho ncro. J. M. Uutlor, four miles from Ou- tnrlo, raised 10 ncres corn that wont 70 bushels to tho aero last year. Pour ncres wont ns much as 80 bushels to tho ncro. Mover saw bettor corn In tho corn holt of Iowa. 12. D. Conklln, Ontario, on two six-year-old trees, matured largo crop ot almonds by August. Gather ed continuously for several months. tu. D. Conklln, Ontario, pastured 35 head of stock (eight horses, rest milch cows nnd young stock) on 10 ncres from April 20, 1008, to No vember 1, 1008. Gavo them no oth er feed. Cut .four loads of hay bo sides. A. K, Van Duron, Ironsides P. O., on Uppor Willow Crook, lion ranch- llimliivM lUck III Ontnrio, d 10 years nnd Inst year had n flno fruit crop, consisting of prunes nnd npplos. V. D. itnnnnh, who hnndlos 250 ncros, mostly to sheep, mnkes his Innd pay $76 an ncro. It Is Irrigated land, but sheop nro run on bluo grass pasturo and fed nUnlfu In winter. Mr. Hannah was raised In Indiana, Just ncross tho Ohio Rlvor from Kentucky. Ho snyx this valloy In bluo grass will support at least 15 sheep to tho ncro, whllo In Ohio nnd Kentucky tnreo to flvo Bhcop to tho ncro Is tho limit. With Irrlgntlon nlno mouths' pasturo Is possible horo, nnd It Is posslblo to grnzo sheop nil winter. J. D. Lnckoy, nenr Nyssa, has boon hnndllng nlfaun sovon years. Hns I T"MTiT'HMi5iMM HaHHLLB9nBLHBisi(BHnt TMWIflLfBraiMBM' ft "fwLFi mnmmwml B .fHt smW v , BBSEm, , i i ,mWBSmmWmi VsHHHn9HvS8rfl mbuT .2LW lHn' Wi lull iaaVai. UK J.HIHiH !if Uh nHKHHB. hmhbhHbHHkKMMB whbj mmmMBmMKmmmmmmmwmmmmmmMn'i-!MmM. m FinA WallBfaiif JmmmmmmmMKmB9 ffiBi MmSsrn lis wmM9mmmm L?!bbbVbmBbbSW UjHHBWLBBHaHBHBHKMlBr MBSppiPI AJPVJHH The Oregon-Idaho Development Congress. This organization hns secured t ho onnctmont of n gonornl port com mission net, tho passage of nn amendment to tho Oregon constitution to pormlt counties, cltlos nnd districts to build railroads and highways, nnd secured tho passago of a now law In Idnho for district construction of railroads. Governor Chamberlain appointed following highway com mission to work out tho details of n railroad from Uolso to Coos Hay, and othor linos needed by tho peeple: George Putnam. Medford. Julian C. Ilyrd, Hums. Wm. Grimes. Mnrshflold. 0. K Swlgort, Portland. G. W. HRldwIn. Klamath Palls. Drake C. O'Uollly. Portland. A. II. Dovors. Portlnnd. GO norea and avoragos sovon and a half tons to the aore nnd soils for $C a ton In the stack. The D. P. Tussing orohnrd, throe miles and a half from Ontario. Is only sovon and a half aoros. Picked, packed and shipped 5742 boxes nnd averaged not $1.50 per box. This would bo $J610. or ovor n thousand dollars per" ncro He was offered $i000 an aero by a Yakima man the past week and refused. W. R. Shlmp. Am running 40 cows. Ship 100 pounds cream u week to Walla Walla. Am milking 27 cows nt prosent Make $10 a ton feeding tho hay for dairying. tfOhn Dless, two miles south of untario. Raised two tons alfalfa seed on seven acres, and 17 tons hay besides. Net $605. A. H Toepelt of Lewis county, Wash., bought 160 acres on Willow Creek Says climate is dry and can almost any time of year la entirely free from rheumatism. J. P. Doty Rented 10 acres al falfa land and got 80 tons. Get steady work all the year ronnd. Jos. W. Robertson, 20 miles south on the Owyhee Raise 130 bushels on one and a half acres corn. It was the big Missouri corn. J..H. Rlgsby. on Owyhee Raised 11 tons potatoes on less than one and a fourth aores. Jos. W. Robertson, on Owyhee Raised 17 boxes Jonathan applee on ono tree 12 years old. Chas Bradley, on Owyhee Raised 239 tons alfalfa on 30 aores. Sold for $4.50 a ton. J. H. Rigsby. on Owyhee On 12 aerea took 600 bushels barley. Sold crop for $1 05 per cwt. last fall It j sold for $2 this spring. J. II. Guerln, Ontario Hnvo 10 acres In fruit. Halso strnwborrlos, dowborrlos nnd raspberries. My 10 acres will turn off from $1200 tolr.. .,.i .! n,.,. t,,Bt in jiboo n year. t)ntdA nlrnwlinorlnitl In Novomber. No troublo to rnlsolonuni8ln8UC nU0Ul uuu BCCUOU "8 u,u two orops a year with water. Will Iteose, four miles from On- tarlo Milked four cows In Decem ber, foil on nntlilni? lint tlilnl p.ntttnir alfalfa hnv. iini! noiil $KO rronm. not nftor paying oxprossngo nnd hauling, Y. P. Doano, flvo miles south of Ontario Drv fiii-mlnir on nnw cmunil turned oif 3D bushols wheat to ncro. Tested three por cont boter thnn No. 1 John Forbes, on tho Owyhee, south ' of Ontario, got 15 fau.h.1. alfalfa! seed as n first crop. 000 pounds, nnd sold nt 12 conts u pound, or over $100 por ncro. It. W, Clement, four miles from Ontario, husked 50 bushels corn from half an acre. W. P. Doano, Ontario Milking 13 cows nnd ot $70 In March for cream. Besides, raised calves and 90 hond of hogs from tho skim milk. II. W. Clemont, four miles from Ontario, had oota that wont 87 V4 bushols to tho ncro. Sowed May 5, 1008. J. P. Sclutll, bIx miles from Ontn- with V lew of 1'iwwiiKcr llt'pot, rlo, says nlno tons nlfnlfn Is regular crop. A HO.iKY I1KAVKN. Tho honoy producing statements hero nro a surprlso oven to n tnnn who hns lived In tho coast country and knows tho resources of tho Const Range for yielding this most dolee tnblo of a., swoots. Tho necrot of tho honey production horo, which Is larger than nny section I hnvo any iiccounts of. Is thnt such n largo acroago of nlfnlfn Is nllowod to go to scod. Tho mllllonH of tho llttlo purp'o biooms of tao luzorno clovoi Into which tho boos enn work ovon onslor than Into tho whlto olovor, afford a product from bees that Is puro and porfectly whlto. Honoy la destined to become ono of tho Inrg- eat articles of export beoniiBe nlfnlfn seed growing Is an established Indus try. W. II. Pennington, nine miles south of Ontario Handle threo to flvo hundred stands of boos, produae annually about 40,000 pounds ex tracted honoy. Soil for $0.50 per d 00. Find ready market. Honoy Is water white. Compures with boat quality produced In any country. Sold $1100 worth comb foundation last year. W M. McKlbben leased flvo acres and put on 160 stands of bees. This fail as a product of those bees he aom 32,500 pounds extraoted honoy. Worth $2800. S. H. Render of Sllverton has lo cated on a ranch within four miles of Ontario and Is very enthusiastic over the country. He has a large family and will make himself a rich home in the Irrigated 'section. KTILiNO KXKCL'TIVK OOMMITTKK. Tho executive and flnanco commit tee of tho Oregon-Idaho Development Congress named at tho Ontario meet ing, which was tno largest ever held In tho stato, was as follows. Win. Hanley. Burns, Max Mayfleld. Bolto. David Wilson, Ontarie: L. J. Simp son. North Bend, Henry Sengstacken. Marahfloid. J. S. Teal. Portland. They will have cnarge of the Hefse. Central Oregon and Coos Bay cam paign. Kx-Secretary of State Gibson of Idaho addressed the congress on ir rigation and showed how wortbieas lands in tho Snake River Valley were made worth $250 an aore with water on them. Irrigation and railroads went hand In band as developers of wealth TALKS OF PRODUCTIONS RY THK PIONKKRS. I tnlkod with n grout mnny plo- 1 noers who attended tho Dovolopmont 1 t.nt.....f,...f nltiltna UUIMHIJ V'UIIIU-l.luullUDi Win. Morfltt has lived in tho Snnko Hlvor country bIuco 18G7. Ho hns scon this section ilevolop from in wilderness to a Kiirdon spot. Ho did tho first fnrmliiK In what Is now Hnlhcur county In 18G8. In n UUc Mnlhotir county In 18G8. In n tnlk 30 tons nolatoos on Uppor Willow Creole, on ono ncro. Thoy woro tho Blue Meshnnlok. Cabbnges 15 pouiuls tU h,ond for fo.ur "S'8"'11,!! cont.ii pound. Potatoes B0ld for 2 conts n nou ml. Thero Is n irrent field In this country for n des- Bleating plant to put up vogotnbles. I had nlno acres alfalfa that wont 10 tons to tho ncro for sovoral years. I raUod Klbortn peaches last year 12 Inches In circumference Had to qunrter to got thorn Into Mason Jars." David Dunbar: "I hnvo been nt Ontario slnco 18G7. Hnlao rrult of nearly nil kinds, bucIi iih npplos, pears, chorrles, plums, green gages, peaches and Italian and Petilo prunes. Northorn Spy nnd Hon Da vis npplGs will keep till June." Oregon 8h ort Lino of llnrrlmnii TriiiiHcoiitlneiitnl Unllrwail Hyatom. , Jacob Stroup, Just ncrosn tho Snnko Rlvor from Ontnrio, hits been In this vulloy 30 yoara, nnd was ono of tho first to grow nlfaUa. Ho anya: "Alfalfa sown In tho hprlug, woll cared for, will Out two to threo tons por ncro tho first yoar. This altitude Ih n little over 2200 feot, nnd Ih n most favored soctlon. Tho best part of tho vulloy Is for 100 miles up and down tho Snnko, from Glonn's Forry to Wolsor, nnd from Vnlo to ISmmott, 00 miles wide An uvorago crop ot alfalfa Is nt loast nine tons. On twenty ncros, nftor first crop for liny, I took off 203 bushols soed. For this I got 7.80 per bushel. My neighbor got 250 bushels scod on 30 ncres." "My apricots hnvo not failed In 20 years. Apricots do woll on n locution on dry bottom land nnd nenr water, Threo troos ou my place will pro duce 400 to 660 pounds each." Mayor G. A. Poguo, who has boon In tho Snnko River country at On tario for 20 years, has been culti vating CO ncros for souio years Ho has taken off regular paying crops of wintor tipples, highly flavored nnd highly colored. Last year ton car1 loads woro shipped -out of Ontario. In nlfnlfn ho gets eight tons to tho ncro from 35 acres, nnd took tho gold modal at tho Lowls and Clark Pair. A. A. Brown. Ontnrie: "Wo out nl fnlfn threo tlinoH. An average orop. all buy, Is sovon tons. Por soed wu only out first orop. The seed arop Is gut Oatohor 1. A fair orop of seed Is nbout 500 pounds to tho, ncro." Honrv Eldrldco. 12 mlloa from Ontnrio, sold $3800 worth of nlfnlfn seed at 12 cents n pound, irom 55 ncres. Seed froquoutly brings as high Tvs $75 nn ncro. Win. Merfltt: VMy Btrnwborry patch last year yielded at rate of S1G00 an ncro." WHAT HOMK N15WCOMKIIS SAY. Slopp, Plnkorton & Co., real estate, law, loniiB nnd Insurnnco, hnvo boon In Ontnrio only n month, coming to Oregon from Oklahoma. Thoy brought tholr famlllos nnd nro ac quiring homes. Thoy liko tho cli mnto about 50 por cont hotter thnn whoro thoy enmo from, tho woathor bolnir far more sottlod nnd cnunblo, judging tho year by tho month of March. Thoy aro ngrccably surprised nt tho high class of tho citizenship thoy find lit eastern Oregon. In tho now towiiB of Oklahoma nnd Now Mexico thoro Is u mixture of races not found horo, nnd Uion tho Btnnd nrda of Intelligence horo nro inuoh higher, Tho pooplo nro nil prosper ous nnd tholr methods pt doing busi ness nro up-to-dnto. P. II. Naylor & Co. la n now firm In r'nnl oulnto Itinurnnrn nml lnnn. Mr. Nnylor hnvlng landed horo on March 1. Ho Is n Philadelphia!! and whs In litiBlncM for somo tlmo nt , Development CongrcBs would Nnrth Yakima Wnsh llo Is u cloo oot l,'"ro l"n tho occasion of tho oil X? nnd1 ,,SBmido"S Uiorough opening f S Investigation of tho noli nnd cllmntio IJ!t In this neighboring city of conditions of thnt section und also Ontnrio. of tho Snnko River Vnlloy. It 1b his i ... o Judgment, bused on nctiinl oxporl-l HTnoNfl COMMERCIAL CLUB. OtlCO 111 tllO tWO SOCllOtlS, Hint tllO nnlnrln Tnminnrnlnl dlllb ?,Zr yIiiJILvSIJ 1nrS?c K m,a.,,?,ntrShlM3rcluli hel,,db. y'nnd VllnCo'Tho Siter ul.m that would be ; orod.tiiblo for thero went to 24 dogroos bolow tero "J lror city. Tho officers nro Dr. nnd killed tho Poach trees, whllo ' 'ffi! ,' Adan," tho coldest climate hero lust vlntor "". vloo prw dnnt: U Adon . wns from two to sovon degrees above Kr""J7JnwalllVI "; nw "bw zoro, nnd no fruit trees killed or 'W11 ft w Z dnmuged. Thero Is not nearly so '. W- T. luinpMn. O. W. Long, miinii lnd nnd dust ns In ptislnrii '3 I' niser. W. H. Doollttlo, direct- WMhlnVton nnTl.!,Usoil" i" r".r-. rL00 richer and not so atony. It raises ' "hould address Mr. I'"!!, a Krcater variety o Krnlns, frultal Aihouk Industrjos thnt might f nd and veaolublos Tho so and ell. foolhoW Rt Ontario aro n planlug "'! ??.?"" ?",... M.... .."L-Vi.. mill (thero are two lumber yards). pUte7to prod clng tho fMt aY- fniri. ..n,i nsnodallv for Hroduoliig ni- fnl fa. nnd nanoolally for nrodualng nl fnlfu seed. Mr. Nnylor Is very much plonsod with tho counlry mid Uoeu not hosltato to recomineud It to hln frlendB In tho Kvorgreen und Koy stono stntos. H. B Tromain, who enmo lo On tnrio Inst June from Fremont, Neb., snys tboro is almost ontlro nbsonco of tho harsh winds und Hiiddon changes that prevail in Nebraska. Tho lint wenllier of sumnior is not opprossUu horo ns It Is In Nebraska nnd tho cllmnto In winter Is mild und free from'storms. Itader Bros, & Lnmpkln nro hero threo years running n xouornl inor- a 3 TT 0VLQPMCnr Or THE. ?HO - GRECO chnndlso business. Tho Itndor broth ers nro ot Gorman extraction, born merchants, nnd nlso conduct nn ex clusive shoo Htoro In Uolso. Thoy camo from KniiBns to tho Snnko Hir er country sovon years ago, nnd hnvo built up n largo trado. Prank Under, who Is tho genius of tho firm, Is a very optimistic booBlor for this boo tlon nnd hns ronson to bo, for It has dono very woll by him. Ho snyat "I llko tho cllmnto nnd tho pooplo. Tho wlntorn nro far moro ovon than In Kansas. That section ot tho United States seems to bo nt tho Tory parting ot tho equinox, bo to Bponk, When tho winds nro not blowing from tho north thoy nro blowing from tho south, nnd my, how thoy do blow. Wo nro frco from those torrlblo winds horo. nnd cyclones aro unknown. Wo do have boiuo warm weather In sum mer for a fow weeks, but no hotter than any othor place. Wo need warm woathor to mnko this n corn nnd hog country. If you think wo can't raise corn, go Into our Commorclnl Club nnd boo tho samples." A. W. Trow, ono of tho locturora ot tho Btnto Agricultural College ot Minnesota, and nn oxport in tho fruit business who llltS tmVOlod OVOr R grent dent of country, linn locntod horo with full fnlth In tho Ontnrio country ns u fruit region. Ho hns put out 40 ncres In npplos nnd uhor rlefl hnlf n mllo onat of tho city. To show how now n town Ontario In, Mr Burbrldgo o. Burbrldgo & Doollttlo, In todny tho oldest ronl ostnto mnn tu town, nnd ho linn only boon dealing In dirt for flvo yonrs. Ho linn boon a constnnt ndvocato ot tho Malheur project nnd atlll bo , llovos In It. This firm hnndlos nil kinds of binds, Improvod nnd itnlm provod. llouiestondltig Is nbout piny- ed out. and In tho pnnt nix wooka nenrlv nil tho homoHtendH woro gob- I i.lod up. Tho riiHh Into this part ot .Oregon Is rnustniitly Increasing. Frank M. Northrop of Kugono 'owns 1G0 ncros neur Ontnrio. Ho hns put It under tho Irrlgntlon pro ject nun will develop It. It cost him : $7.50. When irrigated it will bo worth $250 nn nnru. Tho electric road from Uolso to Caldwell htiH udvnncnd land from $100 to $600 por ncro tho ontlro length ot It, nnd It wun tho second rullrond, ' Mr. Griffith Htnted that In May a creamery, u brick yard an Ico Plant, n cannery, a woo on mill nnd Hcoiirttig plaiu, a cold atorago plant, .sundry nnd ninclilno sUop, electrical siippiien nnd fruit drlorn. Tho op portunities for n desslrntlng plant, w, vegoinbles mid fruit, and nat ural gas. nro extraordinary. HOOhftKK KIHTION OF 10,001). The Ontario Comemrclnl Club has engaged 10.000 copies of this odltlon showing forth tho fa"" of prndur tlon and resources of tho soli und olluiuto of llio fmnmiH Bunko river vnlloy. Ontario Is nlno located nt tho Junction or the Mnlheur rlvor with tho Hnnko rlvor, nnd Is ou tho lino of tho now trmis-oontlnontnl railroad. COHGRS& II ?l