Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-06-24
STATE REFORM SCHOOL.
The New Rector Meadow and Fruit
Farm Additions About TO 90
on Market.

out about three miles to the SOUTH
east Of the city Monday to the site
selected by the state board for the
new Reform school, to be built this
summer.
The state mas secured 800 acres to
the south of the old VIM. II. Rector
donation land claim, and upon a
natural eminence, nearly hundred
feet above the valley, will rise this
latest addition to the noble galaxy
of state institutions that almost sur
round the capital city.
THE VIEW
is magnificent one from this eleva-
tion. The spires of the city punct-
uate the perspective. To the east
are the asylum end penitentiary
buildings, while in the center the
state house is visible. The suburbs
of Salem, that are reaching out like
the petals of municipal flower,
can be traced among the natural
groves.
The valley is one rich field of
farms aud waving grain, farm
houses ard orchards, interlined
with the channels of Mill creek, a
branch of the Santiau river that
waters the whole plain. At each
side rise the foot hills that lead to
the higher levels, crowned with
groves of noble oaks and frs.
THE OLD MANSION
of the Rector estate stands off to the
right at the foot of the hills. When
built it was the finest minsion in
the country but one. The gable and
porch Of the second story stand Oh
the old-fashioned pillars, now
crumbling to ruins. Two springs
pour from the hills behind the
house; towering pear orchard sur
rounds the old house, laden with
wagon loads Of beautiful fruit, and
the smooth fields, hundreds of acres
III CAtChti SplVdu AWAY W NlC "Coti
as level, clear and clean as gigantic
tennis grounds. The founder and
for many years the enterprisiug
owner died few years ago in Cali
fornia.
AN IMMENSE PRIVATE PURCHASE
has just been completed, which in.
cludes this valuable estate, the trans |
action embOdying the transfer of an
almost even thousand acres for $685. /
600. The land has just been survey
ed and plated and the title perfected |
by company of ten men. The
purchasers are NJ. l.. Chamberlln,
w. II. Holmes, Leo Willis, Napo-
leon Davis, George Burnett, A. n.
MOores, Charles Weller, Thomas
Hubbard of Salem, and w. It.
Riches and +. +. Mckinney of
Turner. The tract has been plated
and subdivittod into tracts of from
two to ten acres, and is to be known
in the future as the "Rector
Meadow and Fruit Farms" addition
to Salem.
THE SITE
of this purchase is a beautiful one in
every respect. The land is of the
best quality for fruit growing, being
of the same general character as that
which produces the immense crops
of small fruits which are shipped
from Turner station. Water, timber
and good roads in addition make it
unsurpassed for the purpose for
which it is designed. It's just suit
ed for that ideal of earthly happi-
ness which is found in a few rich
acres of fruit land, few cows and
home near enough to have the ad-
vantages a growing city affords.
The Rector addition is almost
completely surrounded by lands pur-
chased for state institutions, or to be
used in connection with them. The
State Reform school will be erected
at once The $40 acre asylum farm
that joins it on the east is being
placed under cultivation. The main
county road runs thro' the middle of
1t and the railroad runs along the
west side.
A proposal is pending to erect n
station and depot grounds are laid off.
The reform school ana the fruit bus
iness that will be developed here in
a few years will make q depot nee
essary, which will give residents of
this suburb n six minutes ride to
Salem. The railroad company will
see its interest in accommodating
the people here at an early day.
These lands will be put on the
market in tracts as described, in
short time ut S. TO 800 an acre.
Any Of the parties named above can
be consulted by those intending to
secure suburban homes in this ia
yorable locality.
NEW MACuINERY,-rh morn