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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1910)
DAILY OAJPITAIi SOVONAli, 0AJUBI, OSBQON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1010. PAGE TOTIEjB RICHEST SOIL GARDEN SPOT OF THE VALLEY iankLumber Yard an .1 Fruit Tracts and Onion Lands New Residences flomeseekers Attention ! The sub-dividing of the Dimick Homestead near Hubbard, Oregon, places on the market 5 and 10 acres tracts of land suitable to any purpose, and properly worked wilf produce enough in one crop to pay for the land, ' Fine Beaver Dam bottom land at $75 to $400 per acre according to the quality and location, Some of this land now netting $500 per acre as onion land, Upland, well drained, ready to plant, suitable for orchadr tracts, at $150, $162 and $180 per acre, Beautiful building sites with standing timber in small tracts, $112,50 per acre, ' Roads to every tract; water for irrigating; in fact, everything you want to get perfect crops results, It will pay you to investigate this opportunity to obtain a piece of the finest farm, in the Willamette Valley, Plat is now ready and .land open to inspection, Above prices only good to May 15th, after which they will be raised! ; Hubbard Investment Co. Hubbard, Oregon C. H. TRULLINGER, Pres. and Gen. Mgr. John SchoSl 8c i HARDWARE AND LARGE STOCK OF Vehicles, Pumps and Gasoline Engines ML Beck & Son Lumber Yard and AS! Kinds Building Material Lets Figure on Your Supplies II p C JL JL JL hJ CHOLL MOTORCAR AND BICYCLE REPAIRS General Machine Shop-Gasoline Engines Put in Order Son FARMING IMPLEMENTS DESCRIP ENTl TION OF HUBBARD BUSINE ORCHARD TRACTS, ETC. ERPRISES, Hubbard hos nearly 500 people, Is situated on the mdln line of the Southern Pacific railroad, 32 mllo3 south of Portland, tho state's me tropolis, and 22 miles north of Sa lem, the state capital and county seat of Marlon county, and In the heart of tho renowned Willamette valley. It Is named for Charles Hubbard, who originally owned all of the land In and around the city. Perhaps no other part of Marlon countyvls better adapted to generU farming, stock raising, hop and fruit growing purposes than that portion surrounding Hubbard. In fhe midst, of this rich agricultural region the city of Hubbard appears an an emer ald sotting, and the cultivated fields which may be seen on every side are an indication of the prosperity and industry of our farmers. Tho surrounding country ha ben producing one of the finest var ieties of hops In tho world, but u gradual trend Is being made to moro diversified farming, and especially towards horticulture on a commer cial basis. Mr. M.S . Shrock, one of our leading horticulturists, says: Ever since the first pioneer orchards were planted, this part of the Willamette valley has been noted for producing tho finest fruit obtain able, but owing to the desire for quicker returns, and the wonderful fertility of the soil in growing other crops, horticulture has been serious ly neglected." One of llest Towns. Hubbard is one of the best towns in Marlon county. Its business men are organizing to push it to tho front, are laying off fruit tracts, building many new houses, laying sidewalks, and encouraged by out side capital coming In and putting up tho price of land. Orchards arc coming into bearing, Industries are being built up, and there Is a gen eral forward movement. Now Itnuk Going In. The first concrete fire proof build ing, 24 by 40, going up and will be occupied by the State Bank of Hub bard, capital $25,000. It will ! e located at tho corner of Third and D streets, one of the best corners 'n tho city, The officers will be Dr. S W. Weaver, president; Georgo M. Pry, vice-president; Jos. L. Calvert, cashier: C. H. Trulllnger, Geo. N. Beck, Bud Thompson, and Geo. W Knight, with the officers, 'are tho Board of Directors. The bank will be run by home capital and home men and Is a strong organization. Hubbard Investment Co. Anothor local influence that will do a groin deal to bring Hubbard In to tho limelight is the nbovo corpor ation to handle fruit and vegetable tracts. The officera aro C. H. Trulllnger, president and managor; Geo. N. Beck, treasuror: Win. Hurst, secretary. This company hxs "bought the J. B. Dlnilak ranch 'f 320 acres and lias had It platted in 5 and 10 acre tracts. It is ihe finest body of fruit and vegetable land in Oregon, with over an nun dred acres of the world-famous Beaverdam onion land. It lies in lli and a ha'f east of the city, has main roads on three aides of It, a sixty foot road is laid off north and south through the traot, and anothor driveway on the bench go that there aro many" .sites left for fine resi dence place, with groups of fine old trues, orchard tiacts, and garden tracts on tho lower ground. Thero Is the finest kind of water undor this land, running streams, tlmbor and a oil of wonderful richness. Big cherry, apple and pear trees show that tills soil Is well adpptod for fruit, while berries of all kinds grow remarkable crops. The onion land and tU,e upland has records of prod uction that will bo furnished by the Hubbard Investment Co. for a period of forty years that oannot be equal led In Oregpn. Soil of This Section. The soils of this section are prin cipally a dark, rich loam and beaver dam, with a little sandy loam on river bottoms. The products are hops, onions, grain, grasses, abund ant xfrults, berries, vegetables und dairy. Timothy and clover grow r abundance, and cattle, sheep, goats, hogs and poultry are extensively raised. Much Interest Is being mani fested In breeding blooded horses. Almost everything that grows in the temperate zone will thrive here. and some seml-troploal plants do well. Dr. James Wlthycombe, dlreoto of tho Experimental Station of tho Oregon Agricultural College, Is authority for tho stntomont that tho strip of country running from Scotls Mills through Hubbard and west for a distance of 36 miles to tho Coast Range, is not only tho cream of tho WlllamottoV alloy, but the richest anr most prolific soctlon in the world; that it will produce a larger varloty of crops and respond to an intense cultivation with moro profit than any other known spot. Ho bo- Hoves It possible for every aero l.n this belt to produce a profit of $500 annually, and predicts that within a snort time, as soon as tho largo farms are cut Into smaller tracts and settled with now people, tho entire country will yield an average profit of $50 an acre. Tho Onion Industry. Hubbard is tho homo of the onion industry and the story of tho soli proves conclusively than an aero of this land will support a family. Two to three acres will support tho owner in comfort, if ho hires all his work done. Mr. A. Sandprs has for six years taken an averago of $500 an aero off three acres put In onions. In 1908 his three acres turned off $2400 of tho tearful vegetable. The writer has seen a great deal of Wil- lamotto Valley benvordam land, but none so good as tho Dimick land on tho Pudding river bottoms. Ho ha3 seen uie Hon, j. u. uimicK run a six-foot wooden rnko handle down Into It full length with one hand and pull It out as clear as it went In and water was within a foot of the top in July. Land Values Advancing. While lands are still cheaper at Hubbard than at almost any town In tho valley, town lots, acreago and farm lands aro all advancing. Lands that sold about five years ago nt $50 an aero are selling at $100 to $200 an acre. Near tho Dimick farm Mrs. Mills recently sold 20 acres ai $44 00. Forty acres of tho Hatchard place sold for $G000. Six acres one mile from town sold for $1500. Mr Gearls bought 19 acres of tho MUler place for $3000. Two Hood Itlvor men bought young orchards east of town for prices not to bo named. Hubbard has tho finest soils In tho world. Garden Spot of Valley. Go to Hubbard In early spring and you will find all vegetables ad vanced, clover six inches to a foot high, fruits and flowers Iri bloom, rhubarb ready for pies. Tho soil Is rich deep brown mold, no sand or gravel, not a rock to .almost any depth, land that seems to havo In it all tho original fertility and an in- oxhaustlblo wealth of productivity. Good wells aro found at twenty to j fortjv feet according to location on j the prairies and springs bubbling 1 out of all the ravines. The finest cherries, strawberries, blackberries, loganberries, raspborrles, currants, gooseberries and all kinds of vege- Tho Odd Follows own their own lodgo building, ono of tho best in the county. A Doctor Who Docs Things. A public spirited professional man is a godsend to a small town, and Dr. S. W. Weaver is to Hubbard what Dr. Scarbrough is to Creswell or Dr. Dedman Is to Canby. He has practiood medlclno hero for 24 years. He was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Balti more in 1882. Ho has an oxtenBlve country practico and travols nearly all tho time. Ho is a progressive man and uses an nutomobilo to save tlmo in getting to his patlonts. Dr. Weaver Is a booster for Hubbard. Ho is dead certain that Hubbard has the best location of any town on tho railroad. Tho ground drains In every direction from Hubbard. Tho and at Hubbard is higher than any where on tho lino between Portlnnd and Salem. Dr. Weaver says thero has been no typhoid fever at Hub bard for 18 years and tho town Itself would not support a physician. Tho streets aro clean and dry sum mer and winter. Thoro hi splendid drinking water at Hubbard and only ono saloon In tho town. Climate nn1 LTcnlth. Ono of tho strongest factors In tho development of this section Is tho equablo weather condition Snow is rarely seen and very seldom does the thcrmomoter register below 20 degrees above zero. Sunstrokes are unheard of hero and a temper ature of 90 degrees Is about tho maximum In Summer, with cool nights. There aro no tornadoes oi cyclones, no blizzard or violent elec trie storms. Statistics show tho an nual menn teniporaturo to bo about 52.3 degrees and annual mean pre cipitation about 44.18 inches, which is less than in soma of tho Eastern States. This location is especially favored with excellent drainage, which in all probability Is tho cause of tho vory low death rato, as shown by tho following data pro pared by Dr. S. W. Weaver, of Hub bard. "Owing porhnps to Its peculiarly favorable location in rogard to drainage, Hubbard occupies an en vlnblo position as to health. The health statistics for over 20 years that being as far back as wo can got-r-show deaths as follows: Ty phoid fevor, 3; scarlet fovor, nono; dlptholra, none; pneumonia or lung fover, 2; soptlcaemlt, 1; tubercu losis, 5; cancor, 3; apoploxy, 3; ac cldont, 1; appendicitis, 1; heart db east, 3; old ago, 1; total, 23. Of thoso 'hero were: Infants, 3; be tween 80 and 97 years. 5: between CO nnd 80 years, 5. A glnnco at (heso figures will show that Hub bard coniwues moro than favorably with nny place known from a sani tary point of view." A Local Industry. D. W. H';schborgor who lives it tables are grown hero and dairying j mile enst of Hubbard has built up a olfer and npplo buttor Industry that Is entitled 'to a great deal of credit. Is very profitable. Schools, Churches and Lodges:. Hubbard Ib an Ideal home city and 1ms a flno' ton-grade high school with one of the best principals In the state in tho person of Wm. C! Gauut, who is giving tho city splen dm satisfaction, me lour rooms are crowded with chlldron, all doing good work. The district has about 200 chlldron. Thore are flvo churches, Catholic, Methodist, Con gregational, Adventlst and Free .Methodist. All havo houses of wor ship, the last named owning nn old nop waroiiouse wnoro tnoy are as happy In tholr sorviaes us they would he In tho finest cntliedrnl. Lodges are represented by Odd Fol lows, Good Templars, Knights ot PythlaB, and a lodgo of Rebekahs is about to ba organized. Hubbard Iirh all tho social and moral advantage of large places, I'Jne Armory Hero, The publio hall and opora house. was formerly the armory of "E" Co., Oregon National Guards, which dis banded after the war In tho Philip pines. Hubbard sent sixteen men to the Spanish war, under diss. Plats, as lieutenant, and J. M. Povetnan of Woodhurn captain. The armory is 34x80, owned by the olty, but after the guardsmen returned from thai Philippine the military organiza tion disbanded and the large hall Is now dedicated to public occemblagea, social dances and school mooting. Ills pure home-made apple I) u iter lias hnd a good sale whorever intro duced nnd one Portlund Jobber of fers to take nil ho can produce. For flvo years he haH beon doing nn In creasing business. This yoar If the apple crop Is good ho oxpoote to put up 500p gallons nt loast. Ho Is hav ing u neut label mado to put up the apple butter in small packages for family use. Mr. Horschborger also has a feed mill. Hubbard Is favor ably located to build up an apple buttor Industry. There Is a I urge amount of fruit going to wusto oach year. The raw material can he ob talned so chonply that If dqos not pay to adultorato the npplo butter and Mr. Horschbargor Is determined to build up his trade for an absolute ly pure artlclo. Tho Jobbers of this state all speak highly of the Hub bard apple buttor. Ie will also make Jellies und older vinegar. Itccluaiiliig Clover Heed, L. h, Herschberger Is building up a find trade at his large warehouBr reoloanlng clover and grass seed and vetches. He also rocleans grain Largo amounts of clover and vetch seed are grown about Hubbard. In addition he handles onion sets at hi, wuruuouso, oi which largo quantities are grown In this vicinity. Crops are rotated ,aa follows: wheat and elover two years, followed by pota. (Continued on page four.) 9 CR TTENDEN Real Estate City and Farm Property Properties Exchanged CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED Knight & Susbauer erchandise AH Kinds of Produce Boug LARGEST STOCK IN NORTHERN MARION COUNTY D. W. Hershberger CIDER AND OLLER FEED MILL Cider, Vinegar, Apple Butter and Jelly Our Specialty "Home Made Apple Butter HUBBARD MARKET Fresh and Cured J. fol MISHLER Buyer and Shipper of Live Stock LEE L. HERSHBERGER Special Facilities For Re cleaning Clover Seed Seed Merchant CLOVER SEED, GRAIN AND VETCH RCCLEANED .V; . : : I TlsSffffjrf!ftilffl