OAIliV OAFITAIj JOURNAL, SALEM, 0HKG0N. MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1010.
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IDAHO
PAPER TELL
S OF A BIG MAN
WHO DID BIG THINGS IN A DIG WAY
' David L. Burley When Made General Passenger Agent of the
-Oregon Short Line Proceeded to Advertise Itfaho He Was
a "Smohalla" Who Made His Dreams Come True He
Gave Free Transportation to Everyone Who Would Go East
and Push IdaliQ. and Irrigation. -r .-r-
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NOW HAS DREAM OF SPUDS
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Has Studied Potatoes Until He
Is an Authority on that Argus-Eyed
Fruit, Knowing
More About It Than Pizarro,
Who Discovered It, or Grubb
or Burbank, Who Are Famil
iar Enough to Be Chummy
With It.
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The Boise Capital News, one of
the coast's "wide awakest" newspa
pers, in its issue ot March 14 has an
editorial under the caption, "A
Dreamer's Accomplishments," that
is one of the best and most artistic
ally written descriptions It has ever
been the Journal city editor's good
fortune to read. Not only is the edi
torial good, but the man whom it
depicts is a remarkable man, one
whose acts all tend to the upbuilding
of any community he becomes Inter
ested in; one who doesn't know what
mossbacklsm means; who Is a.3
bright as a polished needle, as en
ergetic as a mountain wood-rat; a
progressive, go-ahead, never-say-die.
optimistic man who does big things
In a big way and sets the pace for
others to follow by showing them
how things can be done. The edi
torial follows:
"The world is Inclined to laugh
at dreamers. They are pronuunced
impractical and with that their Ideas
are dismissed with a smile, moro of
toleration than aught else.
"But there Is a great dreamer who
has done much for Idaho, nnd who
lias, perhaps, never received the
credit due him. And the peculiar
thing about It Is now that his early
dreams are coming true, instead of
'waking up' he continues to dream
other dreams.
"T!l!s Man some twenty years ago
saw for the first time an irrigated
tract of land. He didn't know a
thing about irrigation, but he saw
things that others failed, to see;
he dreamed. He saw thousands of
families cultivating the soil of Idaho
made fertile by the transmission of
water where but single families were
then found. He appreciated what
it meant to have water to seep into
the soli, reaching the seeds and roots
of grains and trees, just at the very
time that water would do the most
good, for he had lived In Nebraska,
where water was often lacking just
at the moment when Its presence
would double or treble the crop that
was produced when the crop did
come.
"When David L. Burley accepted
the position of general passenger
dgent for the Oregon Short Line
railway, he was not satisfied to see
his trains loaded with people ticket
ed to Oregon or Washington points
or from those points through to
some eastern point; he wanted to
see the time arrive when his trains
I would be carrying passengers .back
and forth in Idaho and carrying
'tickets from outside points to points
E-asy WalKing
That's the
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within that state which carried so j
many miles of the Short Lino sys
tem. That ambition helped him
magnify his dreams, perhaps, but
(lie first work he did was to set
about Inducing people to come to
Idaho.
"HT'had a dospernte time of it,
and frankly (acknowledged that It
cost him moro to get one man lo
cated In Idaho then than it does to
got a thousand of them today. He
first adopted the theory that tho
man who know by personal experi
ence what Irrigation would do, wa3
the proper man to send among tho
farmers of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas
and surrounding states. According
ly he furnished free transportation
to all who would take the trip from
Idaho to go back and preach the
dlctrlne Of irrigated iands. Those
approached however, looked with
suspicion upon the accounts of tho
productiveness of Irrigation, and re
fused to believe what they were told.
"Then what amounted to a detec
tive agency was adopted. When
ever it could be learned that any
whei'e In the central western states
it was learned that a man had sold
his farm and was thinktng of going
elsewhere, agents were sent 'to him
to present the claims of this wonder
ful Idaho land. Still the results
were unsatisfactory, even though
personal sollcitation,was resorted to.
"But Burley dreamed on. Thesn
western men who had tried irriga
tion and knew what It would do,
were not believed. Some other plan
had to be devised. Every land agent
of every railway running west of
Chicago and every real estate agent
in all the towns of that country was
made' agent of the passenger depart
ment of the Short Line, and they
were paid a commission upon, every
sale of Idaho land made through
thenj. They exerted every energy
to induce people to visit these won
derful lands. Passes were given the
agents so that they ihight come and
see for themselves and might know
that they were not being asked to
misrepresent. They came and, of
course, were more than satisfied.
Tlie stream of immigration was
started.
"Then the new and more exten
sive Irrigation plans were made and
carried into execution.
"The dreamer began to see the re
alization of his dreams.
"He is dreaming again now. He
sees Idaho producing potatoes to
feed, the world. This dreamer who
has the habit of making his dreams
come true, thinks nothing but pota
toes, he can talk nothing but pota
toes he even dreams potatoes.
"Satisfied that no other country
is so well adapted to potato culture,
this dreamer sat in his office in Salt
Lake City and planned a campaign
which in the end will tax the full
capacity of the railway which he in
part represents to make provision
for.
"Ho got Into correspondence with
the best potato raisers tho world
knows. He studied the question un
til Grubb, tho 'Potato King,' could
sit down and take lessons from Bur
loy, tho man who "never raised a
potato. He knows to a pound how
many potatoes are required annurl
ly to feed tho people of America.
He knows where these potatoes are
raised and he knows how many
bushels per acre can be produced in
every section of the world; he
knows who has raised the largest
and best hill of potatoes In the world
and how he did It and he knows
who has raised the largest and be3t
acre of potatoes In tho world and
how it was dono.
"He engaged some of tho most
successful and best posted potato
raisers In tho world -' ordored a
special train and sent thorn to ovory
village, hamlot and town along the
Oregon Short Lino In Idaho to toll
the peoplo about It.
"Ho didn't end thorc. Ho has of
orcd cash prizes for tho production
of potatoes. Theso prizes are not
io bo paid by tho railway company,
they are to bo paid by D. E. Burloy.
tho dreamer.
"He has studied how to make
slilpmonts of those potatoes cheaper. .
Ho know that a car could not bo
filled more than a third full, or
something like that, because thoj
weight of tho potatoes above would
crush and brulso those below; he
has had worked out a new1 kind of
box, cylindrical in shape, which will
cost no more than tho ordinary po
tato . sack now in use, which will
hold half-bushels and bushels of pb
tatoes and which can bo stacked Into
a car to tho very roof, protecting
the bottom potatoes as complete),'
from bruises as are tho lower ones,
"Theso boxes can bo shipped In
flat and aro-so made that they can
bo readily set up and filled with tho
fine product of this irrigated Idaho
soil.
"Ho learned that ambitious but
unscrupulous potato raisers else
where had Injured the market for
all potato products by first packing
the best potatoes at tho top; when
discovered at that by opening the
bottom, they learned to put good
ones both at top and bottom, and
finally, when sacks were opened on
tho sides, they learned to put a
stove-pipe down tho center, filling
It with stones, scrubby potatoes,
dirt or anything which would givo
weight and add to dishonest prices.
"To guarantee this Idaho product
he is preparing to havo established
at potato centers in the state at
St. Anthony, Idaho Falls, Twin Palis,
Boise and other places a machine
for packing potatoes.
"He learned that orango growers
had a machine which first took tho
orange, cleaned it with a brush, then
passed It along a carrier until the
largest struck an electric pin, which
caused that orango to drop to one
side into a -box prepared for it. The'
others passed along until tho next
largest was separated from tho rest,
and so on down to the small ones,
which were dumped into tho last re
ceptacle. "As the oranges wero turned to
one side, they passed onto a basin,
where a machine picked up a wrap
per already printed and prepared,
placed it over a hole, rolled the or
ange onto the holo over tho paper,
dropped It through Into the packing
box, where It was placed, all wrap
ped and ready for shipment!
" 'That is just tho thing wo need,'
said this dreamer. 'Wo will clean,
polish and pack those Idaho potatoes
that way, and thus will establish
Idaho potatoes tho world over as
the best market potato produced and
the most reliable.'
"And again this dreamer of a
great Idaho will make good to an
extent not yet dreamed of by most
Idaho people.
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Notice of Intention to Improve Win
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Notice Is hereby given that the
Common Council of tho City of Sa
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proposes to Improve Winter street In
tho City of Salem, Oregon, from the
North lino of Court street to North
Mill Creek, in said city, with
crushed rock cement pavement, ac
cording to tho plans and specifica
tions adopted for such improvement,
and on fllo in tho office of tho City
Recorder, which said specifications
are horeby referred to for a more
perfect description of said improve
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at the expense of the adjacent prop
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provement. Remonstrances may bo filed
against said Improvement within 10
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this notice.
Tho date of tho first publication
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March, 1910.
ByO rder of tho Common Council.
W. A. MOORES,' City Recorder,
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