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The Daily Capital JoMireal PAGES 9 TO 16 THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. SALEM, OEEOON, SATURDAY, DECEMBEE 20, 1913. PRICE, TWO CENTS. BTjiNuNriTBDcENT8l ttltllllll)tt)tHtttllllHIII))MHtMlltllllllllllHlltlllllll Ml MM i t .MMt.Mttn(tt)t((,n,ttntMMMMt MMM M--MMMM IT of tie Yai lean SECOND SECTION 0 li " Cilv aid e? II II me 11 OPPORTUNITY AND MM4M4MMMMMMMMMM4MMMMMMMMMMM There is no state in the union that can boast a prettier capital than can Oregon, though some of them can dis count her for size in this line. The census of 1910 gave the capital city a population of 14,094. A comparison of the school census of 1913 with that of 1910 shows that if the proportion of school children is the same as then, and u protiauiy is, oaiem snouid now nave . schools, gives assurance that they will about 18,000. always be maintained at their present The first thing that impresses stran- high standard of efficiency. The as gers coming here is our streets, which S08ed valuation of property in the city those who originally planned the city, iSj in r0llU(i numbers, $13,00Q,000, and wisely made, none of the main ones, less a special tax for school purposes of 7.8 than 80 feet and some a full 100. Thore mills is levied in addition to the county are some narrower, a fow, only, and and state tax, for aid for the schools, these not near the business portion of The school buildings are modern, with the city. abundant playgrounds, and the high Only a few years ago streot paving fl(!i100i jg the city's especial pride, it bo was begun, but now there are upwards ig one 0f the finest in the state, of 34 miles of well-paved and splendidly Jn Bd(,. . , ft educational l .... t : ULuiuu siieei-s, uuu tuu paving; Biuru . 6 ' 1 b 1 lias not yet faltered The buildings of the last few years lnai. TT a TvT ' . ..... would be called fine in cities much larger than Salem. r-nlein is well supplied in the way or uor the supervision of the Methodist water, a private company owning the church, but it is attended by those of jdant and getting its Bupply from a auy creed who desire to do so. largo well sunk in the middle of a big sandbar in the Willamotte river, and be fore the water can get into this, it must filter through half a mile or more of eand. The water system reaches all parts of tho city save, perhaps, a very small portion of the suburbs, and tho supply is abundant, sufficient for many years yet, and for a city several times as large ns ours. I The city also has a splendid sewer "system, costing neacrly half a million dollars and reaching practically all lavts of it. I Its business men are up to date i;i every way, and stocks in Salem store t are such that almost anything that can lie purchased anywhere, can be found in them. Tho street car service reaches nearly : "very part of tho city and is good and dependable. It has a 12 and 15 minute service, the cars all starting from a common center at State and Commercial streets in the business section. Another beautiful arrangement in thoj laying out of tho city was the parking of ono block through its center. On this parked portion, however, there was built the court house in the center of one block. In the center of the next block east is tho postoffice, a beautiful brown stone building. Then comes the state house grounds, with their magni ficent trees and verdant lawns. At the west end of those ground is the Brey man fountain, facing the street and providing a nover failing supply of fresh and pure water for man and tieast. In the grounds about a block to the east is another fountain which is Salem's especial pride and which is the gift of E. M. Wiaito. There are foun tains and tountains, and then there are colored fountains and this is one of that kind, and one of the very finest, too,ilic denominational school, is also locat- there being only one larger in the Uni ted States. This fountains plays con tinually but only shows itself in "its true colors" on certain evenings of each week during the summer, and it attracts all strangers and many of the residents, and this the more since on tho evening the fountain plays, the local band docs the same thing, and eyes and ears are thus both treated to pleasant things at the same time. The state house grounds are beauti fully laid out, are well shaded and con tain many trees, specimens of which can be seen nowhere else in the United .States. The capitol is an imposing structure built in splendid lines and well arranged for the officials located la it, but in the last two or three years proving too small, principally because the legislature has given birth to such a large and uncpected family of boards, commissions and other law-making and law-enforcing bodies, that the building could not accommodate them all. To meet this an annex wns provided for, that is now nearly completed, at a cost of $320,000. This will house the su preme court, the state printer, and some of the overflow alluded to. It is a showy and solid building with lots of light ss a feature, and it will add much to the beauty of the "official row." Salem is a city of churches, practical ly all denominations being represented, with fine church buildings and parson ages, so that strangers coming to Salem .to make their homes, are assured of Ml MM WEALTH FOR ALL church services according to their be liefs. It is also a church-going com munity, as the number of fine places of worship indicate. The public schools rank second to none in the whole country in a city the sie of Salem, and the liberal aid granted by the state and the always generous appropriations for conducting the . ., wn tt ... i line is the Willametto University, a de tailed history of which is given else- where, but which in passing we may re- 1 niark has sent out from its doors many of the bariny men who are now fore most in all lines in the state. This is denominational institution, being un- MMMMMM The Sacred Heart Academy, a Catho- ed hero, and is a splendid institution. Under the constitution all state insti tutions were located at Salem, and though this is now changed, most of the institutions were placed here before the change was made. There is a separate story of each of these in this issue, but here we will say that the state prison, the asylum for the insane, the home for the feeble minded, the tuberculosis hos pital, the boys industrial training school the industrial school for girls, the school for the deaf and dumb and the school for the blind are all located here. Of course through these there- is considera ble money put in circulation here, and while it is like everything else that puts money in circulation in a place, an im portant adjunct in a business way, it is but an Incident in that line, for Sa lem has around it elements that with all other enterprises abolished, would still push her to the front. Situated In the center of the Willamette valley, one of the richest in the world, her future is assured. One-half the agricultural lands adjacent to her and which will always find here their market, are uncultivated but they are mpidly being brought un der the plow, and jiutt as rapidly adding to the fine showing of exports from the Capital City. The hop crop of the coun ty, the bulk of which was grown within a dozen miles of the city, is valued at 3,500,000 this year, and the prune crop at nearly half a million. She has also an easily available water power of more MM than 100,000 horsepower from the San- tiain river, which forms the southern boundary of the county. In timber there is an unlimited quantity within reach of our mills, and this industry is now bringing several hundred thousand dollars into the city yearly. In the way of transportation she has the Willamette river, boats running daily to Portland, giving the cheapest of service, and serving as a safety valve on railroad charges. The main South ern Pacific line from Portland to Sjan Francisco passes through the city with almost hourly service, and it has a branch road running to Dallas and Falls City and into the exhaustless timbered section of the coast range, and there are six trains a day over this road each way. The S. P. also has a road recently built connecting the city with Silver ton and the rich section to the east and north. The Oregon Electric from Portland to Eugene passes through the center of tho city with 11 trains each way daily. The service is first class and the road has addod a large new territory to that al ready tributary to Salem. Hero are lo cated the Thomas Kay woolen mills, making first class goods, and with a fine payroll; and there are several can nories, handling the berries and fruits grown near the city. Some idea of the work they do, can be gathered from the fact that one man alone lias a "patch" of loganberries that are just coming into bearing and that will produce next season more than 500 tons of this new and popular berry. In and near tho city are numerous prune driers, han dling the more than half a million bush- -ft, M(I1"P ... 4 4 m els of prunes grown within a few miles of the city. Theso are some of the things that keep the wheels of progress turning in Salem and that are making it grow in a way that would make Jonah s gourd a real back number, but they are far from being all of them. We have named just the principal things doing in and around the city but enough to show the solid foundation on which her prosperity is built and on which her future can so safely rely. To undertake to describe all hor industries and products would take the whole is- sue and thore are other things that pre- vent this. With average conditions, the city will crowd the 50,000 mark in 1920, when the next census is taken, and it is possible that this may be far exceeded. Anyway, it is a good place for the young and ambitious man from the East to drive his picket pin and be come a Salemite. SLOW READING. They say that football is a game Of muscle and of skill. Accounts of it seem rather tame And strike me with a chill. I cannot read of football much; I cannot get its hang. They write about tho game with such A aucity of slang. HER COMPOSITION "Is that servant ' yours made of iron!" "No; maid of all work." Fruits and Berries MMMMMMMMMMMMH How many residents of Marion coun- J'0"' tl10 J-'0' according to the govern ty know anything of its resources! mei,t st"'8''" was 485,272 bushels. Could you, who read this, if some Strang-j That is certainly some prunes, as you er should ask you, "What amount of woh1j 1)9 convinced had you to pick hops does your county produce," answer even a thousandth part of them. This himt Some of you could, no doubt,!'8 0U8 of tuo nl08t profitable crops but if you could it would be because you were either a hop grower or dealer. Could you tell him what the total crop of any kind in the country was . last year, or any year? The answer is no; unless you were cither engaged in grow ing or handling that product. As a matter of ftict this is inexcusable on tho part of each and every loyal citizen of the country. We each of us should kilow something of our country, so that we can talk intelligently about it if the occasion re quires. We have gathered the figures of many products, but as this is diffi cult to get absolutely correct without an immense amount of work, wo have taken the figures given officially in the census of three years ago. Most of the crops would show a good increase this year over the figures given, for the rea son that the areas planted and in bear ing have been stoadily increased. This is notably true of berries, especially of logans, and it is safe to say that these will next year, with the big fields com ing into bearing bo more than treble the figures given in 1910, and the in crease this year is at least 100 per cent over the figures taken from tho census. i J4 I' AX" Street Scene In Salem. Alarion county is preeminently a fruit and hop section, though it grows consid- erahlc grain, much clover and forago plants, and has a large dairy industry, Hore then are a few figures as to what is produced in old Marion. Apples, 153.IH3 bushels, and where the trees are properly cared for and sprayed, there are no finer anywhere. It must bo confessed, though, that heretofore, orchardists have neglected their apple troes, and it is only in the last few years that thoy are awaking to tho im- portance of properly caring for them. The outlook now is that this yield will be more tluin doubled In tho very near future as many orchards are being planted ami also cared for. I Too litf ,0 attention has been tnid to growing peaches, for they do well here 7 I - w'T.wnwc- and tho exhibit at tho state fair this poked through a concrete mixer, yoar was one that would make either "Oraelous, my son," cried his moth Delaware or California study in sur- er "what in the world havo you been prise and envy. The product in 1910 was of peaches and nectarines, 10,9SH bushels. Of pears, the county had three years ago, 'M,2)H bushels to her credit. As a cherry country Marion will rub up against any place in the world for first place and win. Hnlern Is known as the "Cherry City" and her Cherry carnival is one of the events looked forward to and attended by people from all parts of the state. It is an annul event that is growing in importance yearly, and tlsit Is with Its wealth and variety of this early fruit a revelation to all who viiil us. Neither Salem people nor those of the MM country at large are full of prunes, though they could certainly fill up here without the prunes being missed either. The county produced this year about 20 per cent more than in 1910, and that grown hero aud has another good feat ure, and that is, that it gives weeks of steady employment to hundreds of people who need the work, and the pay. At this work many children are employed along with their parents, and this work helps make the winter more comfortable to hundreds of families. Nor is the work ended when the prunos are gathered. From the orchards to the driers they go as fast as picked and there other hundreds of men and wo men as well as bright-eyed girls and sturdy boys find employment in the drying, sorting, facing, packing and the gotting ready for market this most de licious of all dried fruits. Tho Rose dale section, a mile or two south of Sa lorn, ig a vjist prune orchard for miles and it is steadily growing "vaster." But littlo attention has been paid to the growing of grapes but still the county produced .101,725 quarts, 100 tous. The strawborry crop amounts yearly to about 300,000 quarts, to 245, 145, in 1910. This is another crop in which the area cultivated is growing steadily. The berries are of tho very finest quality, and outsido of not stand ing shipping quite as well, are of as fine flavor as those of Hood Kivor, ur any others grown anywhere Raspberries and logans wore given at 423,143 quarts, three years ago, but the yield Is probnhly twice that now and rapidly increasing. Ono patch about three miles from Salem will come into bearing next yoar. It contains 80 acres ami should produco from fivo to six tons to' tho acre, or about 400 to 500 tons. This would bo about 500,000 quarts, or much more than the entire 'yield for 11(10. Black and dew berries 'added 12,H:i3 quarts or about 12 tons. These were nil used in the local market. JUVENILE FOOTBALL. (Youngstown Tolegram.) When Willie raino into the house his face ami clot lies lucked as if he had doingt" "I'lnyin' football," said Willie, "lint how did you get so dirtyf" "It's the way the game goes," Wil lie explained, "You fee, one of the boys holds the bull in his hands ami 1 st n iid right Illicit nl him. lie yells, 'One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, ' and passes the bull back to me, then nil the other boys .lump on nie and rub my nose In the mud." HER VIEW, "I see that Pres'deiit Wilson is (join' to rend his annual message to rotmrcss In person." "Is het Well I a'pose he knows they 'd never read It for their selves. (I , ''ill kfrU MSESifcJL. V.iw..-; II d Ml , . H -I Q. ' "t1 it, , t 1 MtMMMMMMM IMMMMt MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM WATER POWER IS MMMMMMMMMMM-MMMM. M , I I ttMMMM Few if any Oregonians realize the vast wealth the state has in its water power, Indeed few ever give the mat tor a thought other than those who real izing its future value are busy gotting possession of it. Thoro is now in the whole United States a total of 5,356,680 horse power devoloped from the streams. Of this vast power, tho cheapest in the world, the North Atlantis has developed 1,746,303 horse power. The South At lantic has 459,652, the eastorn Gulf of Moxico district 139,758; the wostorn district 12,071; the Mississippi basin, 537,080 on its eastorn Bide and 331,739 on its westorn side; the St. Lawrence, 1,018,283; the southorn Pacific coast 423,707 and the northern Pacific, 472, 1C5. In Oregon in 1010 there was about 175,00 horso powor under control. Now thore are probably 50,000 that is in use. Recently a dam was finished in the Tcnnossce river costing about 9,000, 000, and this furnished less than 200,000 horse power. At other points, in order to gain and control powor, vuBt sums are expendod. Hore in Oregon owing to the rapid fall of the streams, com ing as they do from the mountains down . to sea lovel or near it In short distances, and giving a fall of sovernl thousand feet in this distance, thoy are ideally situated for easy and cheap control, and consequently that much more valuable, as the expense of putting the harness on them is small compared to tho cost in other places. Another thing is the heavy mln fall, or Its equivalent snow- fan, and its certainty. The sun lifts far out on the Pacific thousands of biriim,. f f. nf water fmm tl, hi ocean, which tho breezes from Japan, following tho gulf stream, carry to the high places in the mountains of the northwest and store away for man's use in the shape of snow. To tho thought li, the amount of water lifted In this way and left hero in Oregon, would bo astounding, and even to those who havo , not done a little figuring on tho sub ject it will prove a revelation. Here is something for you to do a littlo thinking about. There aro 43,- 520 siiuiirn font In an aero. A cubic font of water weighs about 02 pounds, but for this little story and to make it count easy, wo will throw off the 2 pounds ami cull it 60. There is a rain fall In Oregon averaging above 40 inch-! e annually. Then on each sipiare foot of land there falls yearly 40 inches of water or threo ami one-third cubic feot. This at 110 Miuiiils to the cubic foot would weigh exactly 201) pounds, weight of water falling on an T'1" t,r8 would bo 43,520 times as grout, or , tkiiy have something to tell his east 8,704,000 pounds, 4,352 tons. On a friends of Orognn 's Institutions af sM tion or square mile, the weight j tor having seen theso magnificent builil would be C40 times as great as In 1 ngs, GREATEST ASSET acre oi1 2,785,280 tons. On your lot hero in Salem there falls every year, the lot being 100 by 150 feet, or 15,000 square foot, 200 pounds on each foot, or 1500 tons of water. One would think from this that the purchasing of water for irrigation in the summer would be foolish, yet it is necessary, for all this vast quantity of water very fortunately removes itself. If it did not, and it had to be hauled way, there would be no "back to the farm" movement, for if a man could haul away 12 tons a day, and owned one acre it would make him work every day in the year to clear that one acre of water. Those facts are mentioned to call at tention to the immensity of the weight of wator doposited in the mountains that must find its way down the streams, and back to the sea, and that by its weight may be made to do an amount of work so vast that tho mind cannot even begin to imagine it. Just figure in a round way the number of square miles of land contained in the Cascade range and then multiply this sum by 2,785,280 and then understand and realize the results if you can. Wo have noted that there is now harnessed and working for man la the Unitod States 5,350,680 horse power. Here in Oregon it is estimated the eas ily available water powor is at least 3, 000,000, and somo estinuvtes place it a high as 6,000,000, or more than the en tire powor in tho Unitod States now un dor control. This one groat gift is worth count loss millions to the people of this state if thoy rotaiu possesion of it, The time is coming when this cheap power will concentrate manufacturing industries along oi t hor side of the great Cascade raugo, through the Coast range, along tho Siskiyous and the foothills of tho 13 1 1 1 o mountains. This may sound like a vision of hashish; but it must be remembered that Oregon and the great Northwest is still in swaddling clothes, and that tho tinio is coming when the wholo Columbia basin will be filled with busy cities, when tho Willamette valloy mid tho country west of the Cascados will be supporting 500 to the square mile instead of 5, Then again it should not be over looked that along with this vast powor, Naturo has placed the grandest forosts in tho world, forosts whose products that world is even now demanding and with ever iucronsing urgency. This timber will be cut into lumber and mado ready for markot by the waters that flow from under it, aud these in turn, after doing thoir work will again swoop out to the great ocean from whouco they came, aud as thoy go they will, still laboring for man, carry on thoir bosom the lumber thoy have man ufactured, down the mighty current of the Columbia to tho broad Pacific, and then well that is a big enough job for ono lot of wator, and the big ocean and 1 the great steamships can, and will, do ,lle r08'' STATE SCHOOL fOB THE DEAF, ' The 8ttttB B,,houl for the Dca( ' otn,,r of the etttto institution of which "1,e ""V woU tooi Pruu''' U hM bcen undor the iWn.ent of its present Pri''ten.loiIt, . 8. TlllinghaBt for 'W't years. For some years it was lo- eatoi ln t,,e u"'linK occupied by ,he ""'1t''" ' tuberculosis, but throuh 11,0 untlrin effort' of Mr TU- l'Khast the legislature a few years ago made arrangements for a new plant which was orected In the northern edge of the city, and which are among the finest of all tho state's institutional buildings. There are now 02 pupils and those are taught practically tta same branches as aro taught in the public schools. In addition to education along usual lines, ninny trades are taught, the ob ject being to turn out pupils qualified to take their part in the world's work. Agriculture, gardening and dairying ro colvo special attention and there are nearly twenty pupils ln tho carpenter shop learning that trade. Printing is also taught. Among tho girls cook ing, dressmaking and other things in the home building line nre taught. Superintendent Tilliiighnst has spent the greater part of his life in this line of work, his father having devoted his life at the same work. Tho strantrer I visiting Salciu should make it a point I to visit the deaf school, for he will cer-