DAILY CAPITAL JfOljiWA&l HiJLjEM OREGON. Magnificent "Equipment for Teach ing Scientific Agriculture, Horticul ture and Animal Husbandry LENDID INDUS N SCHOOL ED 8 COL E. HOFER Jjj Ib i b 1 sl GORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, MODER BUILDINGS DESCRI HE -Splendid Assets of Cnrvullis. Besides Doing ono of tho threo great educational cities of tho state, and surrounded by a splondld farm ing and. fruit growing region, Cor- vallls has tho following prominent features among its assets for community-building: Throo railroads, and on tho lino of tho West Side extension of tho Oregon Electric; two sawmills, ono now and ono doubling its capacity; two planing mills, ono canntory; two National Banks; two department stores; larg est Agricultural Collego Wost of tho '.Rockies; a flno now high school; ton churches and nil tho principal lodges; two newspapers, oho a dally; two commercial hotels; a cannery and cement block factory. From a transportation standpoint, tho City of Corvallls also Is especially favor ed by bolng at tho hoad of naviga tion on tho Willamette River." Corvnllis 'Commercial Club. This city maintains ono of tho most efficient commercial organiza tions in tho state, having its own woll-nppointod homo, built espochtl ly for its uso in tho Bonton County National Bank Block. Tho rooms nro beautifully finished In fir, and oqulppcd with all that goes to make a modern club houso, and promotion headquarters. Ono aftor noon In tho wook Is BOt apart tor tho Indies, and ladles day 1b liberally patronized. Tho oflicorB of tho Commercial Club aro B. W. Johnson, president; N. II. Mooro, vico president; W. P. Qrovos, Bocrotnry; A. R. Woodcock, treasur er, Board of Trustees, B. W. John son, N. R. Mooro, W. H. Savngo, W, P. Qrovos, W. P. Gnsklns, Robert Johnson nnd A. B. Cordloy. Tho on torprlHo'of tho club Is Hhown In three ways: First, in listing n largo mem bership, practically ovory livo and onorgotlc man In tho community be ing onrollud. Second, In a splondld sp'rlt of goodfollowshlp ontorlng In to Its monthly mootlngs. Third, in carrying on a very onorgotlc public ity campaign. With auoh an organi zation to promotQ Its fortunos, tho City of Corvallls Is bound to bo a loader In Western Orogon. County Well Advertised. Ronton county has nlwuys boon tho homo of a largo livo stock in dustry. It Is ono of tho largest horso, shoop, hog nnd cnttlo countioB in tho wholo stnto. Horso shows nnd county sohool fairs nro qulto common. Tho county was also ad vertlsod by successfully conducting aovoral largo poultry shows. Noxt tho county was advortlsod by organ izing tho Bonton county Citizens Longuo. This was gradually morgod Into tho lnrgor movomont known aa tho Orogon Dovolopmont Longuo of which tho Corvallls Commercial Club bscnmo an notlvo mombor of 1907. That organization grow until U was safoly housod in Kb now quar tors, whluh nro among tho flnoet In tho stnto, nnd would bo n credit to a olty of 20.000 population. Tho county wns tlrst glvon wldo publicity through an axhlblt mndo by n Bon ton county real oatnto firm, consist ing of fruit nnd vegetables, which It tool; to tho Portland Exposition in 1801 nnd surprlsod tho moss-backs of Ronton county by taking sbvon Jlrst premiums. This county axhlblt attracted n groat deal of nttonlon to Bonton county. It wns tho most beautiful nnd conspicuous exhibit and wnH Holootuil by tho Stnto Board of Immgmtlou for Ifltistorn ndvortlH- tng purposes. B. W. Johnson went (MSl with It and did tho first roul aatntp boosting for tho Wllamotte V'alloy -when for nluo montliB ho traveled through the Eastern atates with the exhibition train of Woatern Orogon produots. lie was probably tho first man to realize how nbso lutaly Ignorant the pooplo of tho United States were In regard to the uroduQta of the Woat. Mayor mul Fruit (Jrowttr. "Virgil B. Waiters la the present mayor and n believer in the future of tlu fruit industry in Benton county. While serving as county judge he organized and held the first SALEM JOURNAL applo fair over held in Benton coun ty, in 1903. As county judge he built orte of tho flniest public roads in Western Oregon, that connecting Philomath and Corvallls. Mr. Wat ters has been an inspiration to fruit growers by bolng tho firat man to cut up some of tho largest ranches into orchard tracts. Ono farm of 2G0 acres he sub-divided and planted in flvd aero tracts, keeping about CO acres for himself. It is known us Pleasant View ranch. Recently he has cut up the Harding farm of 400 acres threo miles north of tho city of which ho has already sold off 200 acres. Ho has seen fruit lands In Bonton county advance from thirty to forty dollars per acre, to ono hun dred and fifty to two hundred dol lars per aero. It is impossible to converse with Mr. Watters withput becoming enthusiastic over the fu ture prospects of Corvallls and this part of tho Willamette Valley. Ho is convinced and can convince any one that hero are the most splendid opportunities for Investors and for tho establishment of commercial or chards. Building Prospects at Corvnllis. It is always a question In consid ering a city from tho standpoint of tho homeseokor, whnt ano tho chances of employment? Aro there any opportunities for mechanics to bo omployod? The situation at Cor vallls for tho year 1910 Is very fav- orablo Indeed. Not only aro large buldings bolng constructed on tho Collego Campus, by tho state, and thoro will bo a largo expenditure for street paving, sldowalks, and sowern. but tho outlook for building opera tions is very flattering. Besides sev eral hundred dwolllngs, tho princi pal hotel 1b to bo romodoled and modernized at an oxpenso of about $15,000. Steam heat and batlu. and hot and cold water throughout aro Included among tho Improve ments. Tho largo sawmill plant is being entirely rebuilt, and ono now sawmill Is nearly completed. Tho following now buildings nro being planned and put under way for con- Btructlon during tho coming year. A brick block 75x100 for a modorn dopartmont storo, to bo orected oy Oust Harding; tho Mnsonlc Lodgo is contomplntlng tho orectlon of a $2G, 000 brick building. J. N. McFnd don, a two-story brick, 50x100; Miss Paulino Kllno, a two-story brick 50x100; J. W. Foster, W. A. Wells and J. L. LowIb, two-story brlclc 75x100; tho Union depot, 30x130 Is indor construction, of oonareta blocks, tho same stytlo as tho Al bany dopot, but larger. A number of Qonoroto bloak atruaturoe have been orectod tho past year, two story. 30x100. The cement blook Industry Is a thriving ono horo. Or namental fnoo brlok, porch columns nnd oapa, oapa and stlla and omw oreto foundations aro also uianufaa turod extensively. A first rate quality of red brlok and tile are manufactured at Corrallla. Mayor Virgil 13. Watters, Prominent Kstate EDITORIAL ON C0RVALLIS FROM THE SALEM DAILY CAP ITAL JOURNAL Corvallis is a fine school city of the Willamette valley. It has everything from a college of a national reputation down to a well sustained public school system, Corvallis is one of the finest home cities of Western Oregon, The quality of. the homes and grounds in that town are bet ter than one finds in cities of that size, Corvallis is also a good church and lodge town, There are enterprising real estate men and fruit growers in and around Corvallis, Corvallis is an attractive theater and amusement town of the better sort, There are people in Corvallis not above taking a drink or betting on a horse race, but the majority do not rely on that for making a living, Corvallls has always been a -good hotel town, and they have been well kept, The banking interests in Corvallis are pretty strong, and there are enough Johnsons to make up a militia compnay, The Corvallis Creamery Co, is. handling about ' half the cream produced in the Willamette valley, Corvallis is a railroad center, and one of the largest ship ping points in Western Oregon, It has both water and railroad transportation, and commu nication with the whole state bvtwoteleohonesvstems, Connection with the other world is maintained by ten - . ' churches, The business men maintain a fine commercial club, with headquarters that any large city might well be proud of, There are not many cities in the United States that have better foundation for growth than Corvallis, Given the natural location, productive soil, fine climate, live men result a growing city, The federal government, the state government, the coun ty government, corporations and capital conspire to make Corvallis a city, Agronomy Building nt tho Corvallls Corvnllis tho Cantor of n Lumbur Industry, This olty has by tho construction of the Corvallls & Alsea River Rail way become tho oentor of a larg lumber Industry. There nro on the river front sites for a number of large sawmill plants and at least two of these aro being developed. Tho Occidental Lumber Company with G. O. BasoU aa general mauager la baoked by such men as A. J. John eon. John P. Allen. O. A. Dobell and Dr. Harris ot Eugene. They have ample capital to rebuild and In crease the capaolty of the old null Fruit Grower Mmi. and Corvnllis Ileal Agricultural College, nt Corvnllis. at tho foot ot Second street so that Ho oooupled the samo position In It will bo nblo to turn out 50,000 tho old Bonton County Bank. Tweu- feet per day. Tho company owns a ty yonrs ago on tho 7th of next April large body of timber on tho Alsea this institution was nationalized, and Lake Crook ombrnolng about and has onjoyad n substantial in- three billion feet which' can bo oroaso in buslnoss, On Novombor "brought to Corvallls to bo manufac- 1G, 1909. tho annual roport showed tured for the local and shipping doposlta of $600,187.00, and they trade. Tho company's plant oocu- havo boon materially Increased since pies about nine aoros with three that time This bank employs a blocks on tho water front and rail- working forco of elovan poople, and road tracks for loading and unload- 1b notod for carrying tho largost per Ing. Dry kilns and planers are bo joontage ot cash and Immediately ing pm in Huon as are required by , any modorn sawmill. Mr. Bassett has a long record as a practical and AND successful operator of largo sawmill plants, having servjod in that capac ity for olght years in tho Coburg and Springfield mills owned by tho Booth-Kelley Company. He retired from tho latter job to enter upon tho development of the Corvalll3 plant. He Is thoroughly allvo and enthusiastic as to the possibilities of the lumber business in this city. The Corvallis Lumber & Manufac turing Company has just finished building a new mill at Corvallls, where Mary's River empties into the Willamette. It will have a capacity of 50,000 feet a day. This mill was erected by McCready Bros, and Geo. Gerlinger, experienced sawmill men. They aro working about 30 men to start with, but will rapidly enlarge thfc plant to Include planing mills and driers. Logs are brought In over the now Corvallis and Alsea Railroad. Corvallis also has two planing . mills, and sash and door factories, andplants for doing mill work for building and finishing houses. Well equipped establishments for rapidly turning out all kinds of mill work aro very Important to modern architecture. There has been such a change in the stylo of all private dwolllngs and public buildings that mill work to turn off tho finished material has become a science. About twenty men aro employed on the machines nearly all the year round. All tho mill work for the new Agricultural Collego buildings, for tho now Presbyterian church and for the now high school building wns furnished by these mills. A now steam "lightning drier" dry kiln with a capacity for 6,000 feet a day has been Installed at tho Bux ton mill. It is tho most modern In vention for curing lumber without cracking, warping or shrinking It. 'It is not dono with hot air but by a dry steam process. Mr. Buxton hos nil nlftna P-OTrmlotprt fnr lmtlrHnir now two-story plant 50x100. and he ' I rt n1lnMAliiW - 4.- rt Inn t n f i"v 18 co"s1,d"ie thectln; a fl nrnnr millrlinr T-Tia nlnnf lino ifo proof building. His plant has its own railroad tracks the river shipping. and access to Corvnllis a Solid Banking Town. The county seat and railroad cen ter of Benton county Is a solid city financially. Tho people and the community are out of, debt. Tho pioneer bnnker and community booster is M. S. Woodcock, president and principal stockholder in the First National Bank of Corvallls. convertible seourltiya of any bank In the Willamette Valley about 50 per cent. Woodcock conftnea himself almost entirely to financial investments. He is a man of slow, deliberate judgment, always hope ful and optimistic on conservative lines. This trait in his character la so strong that ho has an almost un broken record of having made no mistakes In h!s career as a banker and Investor. His great faith in tho Willamette Valley and Western Ore gon In general was put to the test during-the panic years of 1893-1897. In those dark days ho not only sus tained tho high character of his bank but showed his ' confidence in tho future of tho country. He liter ally believes in tho Willamette Val--ley climate, soil and people. He be lieves this will grow into the ideal productive homo community and that the time Is not far distant when this part of Oregon will have a mil lion population. Mr. Woodcock is an enthusiastic believer In tho transforming power of electric rail roads, and believes that the early construction of the Oregon Electric extensions would not only prove profitable to tho Investor, but would exert a remarkable transforming power upon tho Willamette Valley land values and cities. Ho has avoided a political career, although onco serving as mayor of the city. Ho was for a number of years owner of tho Corvallis Gazette, and estab lished tho practice of that paper in not allowing It to bemean members of other political parties than his own. His hobby is tho development of a beautiful ranch homo west of ho city, which ho has stocked with thoroughbred cattlo and sheep. Second Largest Creamery Establish ment in tho State. The Corvallis Creamery Company under the management of H. W. Kaupisch has in nlno years attained a rank that is second to only one similar institution in the Northwest. Mr. Kaupisch left the Columbia Creamery Company of Portland nlno years ago and located in Corvallls. He leased an old warehouse and opened up on a small scale, doing "business of about $15,000 tho first year. Ho now occupies threo floors of a largo building on the river front, where . ho owns a block of ground, has his own railroad tracks, and steamboat docks and did a busi ness in 1909 that aggregated ?500, 000. Cream is received from about fifty different shipping points and in the height of tho season employs from eighty to ono hundred people. Shipments arrive from as far as . Sluslaw, Waldport and points on Ya qulna Bay. Ho has shipping stations from Brownsville to Canby, from Lebanon to Almsville, from Corval lls to Forest Grove, from Toledo and Junction City via Albany to Corval lis. Tho plant consists of a modol up-to-date creamery. It Is probably the only creamery In tho stato that has a perfect pasteurizing procesSi -whero all tho cream is hoatedxto20?f degrees,- thus killing all possible germ's, then Is cooled and Impreg nated with tho proper bacilli for fer mentation and then warmed ngainv to the right temperature for churn ing. Mr. Kaupisch has manufac tured as high as 16,500 lbs. butter in one day and 1,000 gallons of ico croam has boon distributed in twen-ty-four hours. Tho plant also man ufactures ice ami that produce as well as butter is shipped in car-load lots to tho largost markots! Hia but or commands several conts above tho market price and is always sold In advance. Tho buslnoss Is still grow ing, and the secret of its success lies in tho thorough mastery of his profession, "it la our pride" never to lose a customer. Our ambition is to treat tho trade at both onds of the line so as to hold all wo havo and got mono." Corvallls Is very favorably situated for transporta tion purposes, having three rail roads and steamboats on the river. The Masons of Corvallls have pur chased a lot and will at once com mence the erection of a inagnlflcont Masonic Temple. (' VP- "to I