Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, July 08, 1909, The Cherry Fair Edition, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextThe Che Edition DAILY SALEM, OREGON, JULY 8-9-lO, 1909 I I J 1 Cl I I CAPITAL JOURNAL . I .op I '' f "" had I , nod I 4 ,or. I iili , 1 w J THE btS I 1 CHERRSES W ON EARTH Willamette Valley Challenges the World to Produce; Anything in the Same Class Salem wne christened the Cherry City by the State Board of Hortloul- iture when it mot here two years ago. It was the Cherry City long before- that, only mere naa wn hhrliitenlnar It la a dlffloult teak to write of Willamette valley cherries Just now. for the exhibit is here. If one liad tne voeaouiary 01 nwn WcbMer and the flowing language ot Solomon they would be Inadequate, for no matter what we written. wh ever read after seeing the cher ries themselves, would smile nt tne writer's paucity of words and lack of descriptive power. That It is in deed tho Chery City S 111 be demon strated to anyone who will take a walk through tha residence district. Every yard has Its cherry trees and every tree Just now Is drooping tired ly beneath Its wealth ot crimson or gold or brov.n. The limbs hang with solid clusters of cherries as closely packed together as grapes in the bunch. Tans and tons ot them are going to waste Just beemistj one has but few cherryleee neighbors, and with only a tree or two no one ran to bother about picking them for sale Hut the cherries in Salem are only samples to get an idea ot what the country is producing one should visit the peeking honse .At the Fru't 0 rowers' Union, where thousands of boxes are handled .-ar go down to the cannery on Eweirtn ;rett, whore a bVMtfSU neapift or more arc employed Just now in handling cherries ana where tlione- andn nt cana sro put up dally. And besides tha vs amount "tinned" I there are hundreds ot barrels of the verv Hum seiecieu to ue maae mioi M A ln . jthl MA " no.. In frlla ffVM t l,A, go into the cocktail that follows the flag ur -nin : the world, and also into the dainty warm weather confec tion that delight the lips of Beauty. It U only the most p rfoct cherry that can enter the Maraschino cln and wherever the morning cocktail 1 taken the Oregon cherry enters Into It to Its betterment and fur-, nlsheti additional pleasure to the gentleman who takes his matutinal. On i he businesi side there Is no limit to production. Let the man plant the tree and Rive it proper at tention and Oregon rain and Wb foot sunshine will bring from the prolific earth the perfect cherry. In color, slse. navor. julceneai and utter dellclounness Oregon holds her fruit up for the world to emulate It it can. und Salm holds iu her cher- rlo.- Lambert and Bin and Roy al Anm- riyai all aiafnat the unl- verst She Ih the Cherry City in the Wieart of the cherry valley, and none Iran outclass her Just ko over and Open Day and Night SALE! AUTO GARAGE J. F. PRIEHS, Mgr. Supplies Repairing Phone 386 Salem, Ore maxhii" While in Town Don't Forget to call and see our Wire Fences, Hop Baskets. Screen Doors. Shingles und l'osts Salem Fence Works 230 Court St., Salem, Ore, take a look at the cherries on ex hibition and then oome over to the Journal ofllce and till the reporter how sorry you feel for him when lie is given tli Job ot trying to tie crlbe them. ;GUY E. ALLEN, THE ivnuni i rioncnmMiu Our B. Allen ot Woods, ok-fon, has. like Jonah, gono Into the fltlr business nil over. He want it known that he li on the Inside and can give the public the beet therjiAls In the shape of fish. That he iP3n tff Ul' job li demomtrnted by his ad which appears In The Journal, and that he can and will furnish anything In the flah line, or caught on It. from the lordly Minion to V e humble oatflih, Is hli boact, fresh flah from ealt wat er and unit fish from the barrel. THE DEMAND FOR JREGON APPLES " .INCREASING Mr. Newell, President of Board of Horticulture, Says No Danger of Over-Pro- duction. After a thorough study of the eastern markets, Mr. Newell, preil dent of the atate board of horticul ture, Is convinced that there I '" danger "or overproduction ot Oregon apples. He Is alss convinced or the Importance of lessening to the mini mum the present large expense that goes to tho e between the grimu Hd the consumer. It is the lUttanimoun tutlmoin if otuerrera that product Ian in tin ont , is decree Ing. Orchard lntn u-y:i- n triiaton "tu compute "wMie" wm nroduot sent from Oregon. Man- of the orchards art- of am lent nlnnt B, and haw never bi-eu n" w. -n i ...i .1 IIIV; (lit- BIMUIK'I III !.,, OH.4 ' ownor, hVe not felt lustlfl.-d ! kl,0.lin up tne ,(,, ok'i n- . . poatH The latter mum liiereosid I nunibt'rs and varlotio uiiHi the n ' HgaluHi tbem in in.in Hiaun lnu b come an unequal ontoi It 1-. li iun' of theie Infl'ionits that H cintntry'H crop ha-i Kradnally 1 cicuHtd until tho ii mil ci up In In'' years has been nil oKroKuti yield t ' about 23,000,000 buireU aga'nst i former output that inn as hlieli n 88,000,000. It probably means, n Mr. Newell malntuln . that there i little possibility of uii overprodu tion ot Oregon fruits As suggested, the orchard 1st s ovso it to themsolve '. by pruning tl charges of middlemen to lessen n far a possible the cost to the con sumer It ha become an lndutn too vast for Its usufruct to be dNi I pated by those who prey upon tl transit and sales or the output ' cs refill study of the system of dK trlbution may reveal a way to c-lim inate a considerable portion ot the waste, and this is an activity the , growers cannot affoid to overlook I u Established 1868 We do a general banking business, offering patrons every accommodation con sistent with conservative banking. No interest paid on deposits. Wc have no public funds Salem Oregon SALEM'S RAPID BROWTH DUE TO DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTRY AROUND IT HAS A NEW BUILDING EVERY DAY AND IS ADDING STEADILY TO ITS SYSTEM OF BEAUTIFUL BROAD PAVED STREETS Salem ban ron more In the last two. years than In ten years before. It ha- he-n a healthy growth, ton. t ndy and mtiniious, and not spnsmotlr By actual count there were built In 1908 In tho c'ty 300 itous's, mostly residences, but some ubstantlal bu laess buildings. Th! year that record will be broken and the number of residences will ex coed one a day. They are good sub stantial buildings, too. not 1 in un together for sale, but in most erected for home by their rwni-. In addlt'in to these the buildings for business purpo os are keeping pace with the growth or tho cltv Itaaliie Unlltllng. The new n -inn . I inillillur now undvr ii-n u iim fm i ti Unltrd Fin nhImh.,1 ImhIi iiil hl li w i'i 'i inn.'i ii-d tM- Mil m linquesi. ii il.U U . fi" i l.n 'J .if 1 . .il mi (iii irj Titi. I the kind in the (ale outside of Portland li will ( n. inund num ber. $100,000 anil uil' lm. it-r modern convenient- P. H D'Arcy has a flno two-story brick going up on Court btreet, and ibt (jt-miou IlulldiiiK usK'latlon will soon begin the erection of a hand some brick on the corner of Cont inental and Ferry street1. The building oa the eorner ot State and Liberty is being remod tdbd and modernised with solid plate glass front and aides and will be practically new The Odd Fellows buUding and the new hotel are both undtr consideration aud one and probabl) both will be built r begun this ear. The Kn'ght of Pythias will soon commence) work on their ca He hall, which will be an ornament to the clt) The plans eall for a regulai "caotle ' aud the building will 'e fsSsBsSSBBBBBBBBBBBBTWfS 3 OJilllrBlKSUM NsUsannnnnnnnnnnanWsHr JL.fi F80!?ssbIbB VisisiBiSBBVssasBi' i. Viiik ul M 3- - iaWLia fhWvlHssl SSSt&BLSSSBBBsBltejm 4- t -fy 1 I 7l ifW - -,"f' SSSsl ssslanVBsHSsllUr wHj"rm! J mtf'H'. tk&MUlPMVSifii t MZ Brmat 9 T T iTr iiii TTiii iliMnPi dtHHrVr -"" mr 1 h isfflHni siBSsBKwi 9bf -V vssnurPasH S.W.1II0.WS0N&CO ;: H'ate. Phone 176 ; . i lent, Oregon Wuchc, Diamond, Jewelry, hoIIJ Silver- Mur und Cut Cjlatk. modeled nfter the old baronial strongholds. Be lde these there are many oth ers ilmt only tho scarcity of labor and nintiriiils are holding back. Many Ktmtte raved. A great deal of other work hai been -done toward .upbuilding aun beautifying the city. Six blocks have been paved with botulfthlc this year and Court street from High to' TmiUi'i ! now being put In condl- 'ii i in p.nod. A block on Iferry i ml i i mi Liberty and Centei Mreot from Commerelnl to the stool br'dn will nlo bo pnvod this year, nnd it Ih more thnn probable High hi i imi win in- paved from State to Mill I In to Murks li uiii'.r bo li irnj. In mind also Im' ti'i Mouth nt Salem is but thtf i i il u x if Mie rowth of the sur- ninil'ni' i hit Falem is In tha t ''' nf titi f li lirhest narloul- in n i V .ii old. in llloom tural districts in the world, and It, toi. Is feeling the quickening pulse fi'iin the injection of new blood fhire was a time when the whola Willamette valley was voted to wbeat raising Indeed In earlier das that wai about the only crop that oiuld be grown profitably, for Oregon was shut off from markets, i except for Us cereals or something that would stand a voyage around the Horn. TtM Viilimblo for Wluvit. The touting of the railroads and incrteini competitions between tbem has made It possible to ship other products, and this in turn has shown that the land Is too valuable , for wheat grDwing. It can be made to yield :-o much more in other prod ucts that land convenient to ship I Ing points is ho longer used for i wheat growing, and the larger hola- lags are being cut up Into smaller tracts gh-en to diversified farming, to berry nnd trult growing, and where a wheat farm ot 160 nore was considered small, one-fourth ot that nren in orohard is n protty good sized farm, In wheat tho land produced from $12 to $30 an ticroj In orchard it yields from $200 to $1,000, Applai Again lniiious. In early daya tho Orogon "rod applo" was famous nil over tho coast, but when tho fruit posts enmo tho orohnrdlets ot thoso days, or rather tho farmers who owned or chards, not knowing how to combat them Just turned tho orchards over to tho bugs nnd wlshod thorn God speed. Llko tho boy with tho itch, nil thoy did was just scratch, with out trying to Improvo conditions. Now It Is dlfforont tho fruit posts are Just as prolific, but tho orchard 1st of these days knows how to doaT (Continued on page 3 ) ROOM HERE FOR MORE TO THE MILE THAN ANYWHERE Some of the Densest Popula-Hons-UttlG Strip on the Atlairao Coast Among Thorn. That the population ot Uerlln de cllned 4.410 In. 1908 Is not n sur prising result ot (Inanolnl depree slon. iv' AlthcxugJi'Ttlie Qermaa empire has 6L000.0(un9ople in an area much smaller thnn Texas, no pnrt of It 1 wry densely peopled. The new "Greater Derlln," which Is planned on an area more thnn twice New York's, will not oontaln so many peo ple. The center ot densoat popula tion In Oorninny Is not Uorlln, but ('rofeld, hut the Industrial roglon of I Ulmnlih Prussia and WeUphnlln does net oontaln more than 6,000,- ooo. Belgium, with more than 7.000 peo ' rle In an area leas than Maryland', i.i considered an example of extreme density. She feed C2S people to the sniiiire mile by the aid of vast innniifin 'nrlnp industries Java, with -," noo ponpie In a space less iiuiii Inn ii, upports C74 to the iii.i'i. mil,. i,y agriculture alone. Th.' Inliiiiiiiril portion ot Rgypt sup iii h uip-loulture nearly 1.000 to tin squiiri mile Tho Chinese province of Knngua l HuppoHod I) bupport 16,000,000 iieiiplt in the area of Illinois, but theie I no exact centus, Still the imrtton of the province rnnnlag from Shanghai to Nanking along the rail road, the grand canal and the Vnng stoklang river, an area like New Jersey's, Is one of the three great hives of humanity known to the world. The other two are Bngllsli and Anierioan. A strip of 220 miles by forty Qonuectlng Loudon and the coast north of Llvorpnl contain In lets than New Hampshire's area more than 10.000,000. nearly its many as Brazil or Spain. In the I'nlted State n strip 460 mllen by fttantlnuod on pnee 4.) 1 K-K4-W-re-l-W-NH40-r-l U. S. National Bank Salem's Most of Banking U. S. National Bank! Salem ETSNI ON'S BERRIES A Perfect Fruit the First Re quisite, Perfect Packing and Handling Is the Next. The following rules tor packing oherrlos havo heon promulgated by tho Salem Fruit Union and aro printed to show oonsumors tho enro used in putting n psrfoot product on tho market and Just what to ex pect whon they purohaso Salem cherries: Cherries must not be picked while wet. Cherries must be picked boforo they got soft. Cherries must he handled very carefully. Use only small veeeels to pick In. Do not drop them Lay them in tho boxes carefully. Pick cherries only n the cool nt of the day. Always keep them in the xhade. Always plok cherries uwlUi tho stems on. This le absolutely neces sary. In ploklng ohorrlea take hold of the ute in and not the fruit. Packing. No culls in the boxes. Put nothing but fair alsed cherries In the boxes Use 10 or 30 pound boxea. Tnko the bottom oft Uio box and turn tho box top down. Plaoe the ohorrle In rows with tho stems up so tho oherrlos will lay on tho sldo. Tho second layer Should bo placod so an to cover the spnaee hotwooii tho chor rles in the first Inyor. Fill tho roat of the box without plnolng In lnyors. Fill the box full, lenvo no vncnnt plaoes. Mpaelnlly nt tho corners or they will lie short weight, sottlo, spoil your paok. and bring lo s money. Packers must be required to sort out all fruit ttmt la small, blemished, bruised or without stems. Ure elean boxes and keep thorn from being spoiled. Always keep the packed boxes In a oool place. Haul In spring wagon nnd use wagon cover to keep out duet How They Tve Seattle claims that sho Is now build lag r steel plant wlilah Is to make that elty mnUer of the Pnclllc northwest. Hut. auoordlng to the highly encouraging prospootui, she To build till plant on Port Town send hay, forty mllos from Senttlo. To haul Iran ore from Snohomish county, forty mile from Seattle. To haul fuel from Tseoinn, forty mile i from Seattle. Seattle has neither Iron ore nor eoke sot even a level piece of ground on whlrh to locate the plant. Wo ml erf n I Seattle! Taaonia Tri bune. $ ? Progressive Institutions MA OR Oregon I Vor Itcllabla (ioodt Soo I h stelle)ll0fi'ttiansisnsntase)f !