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THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR.
SALEM, OEEOON, SATURDAY, DECEMBEE 20, 1913.
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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
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ULuiuu siieei-s, uuu tuu paving; Biuru
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lias not yet faltered
The buildings of the last few years
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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
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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
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line is the Willametto University, a de
tailed history of which is given else-
where, but which in passing we may re-
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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-
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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WATER POWER IS
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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
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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
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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
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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-