Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-12-23
The Wallace Properties
Consisting Of the Salem Water Co."
The Willows Fruit Farm,
Sidney Power Co., salem Cannery and
Evaperator, Warehouses and
FIGURING Mills.


! manager Of the Wallace properties
= took hold Of the various interests pos
sessed by the Wallace estate on Janu
AIRY ], 1893, and has bad sole charg,
for the past six years, during time
Of panic and depression,
lie began his work with but one ob
ject, that of carrying out the plan
Of the late II. S, Wallace, as he hac
projected them aud would have car
ried them out himself had he lived
So far as this community is con
cerned, he has been a faithful guar
dian OF these enterprises. lie has had
all the responsibility of control and
management of the largest orchard in
the Willamette Valley, the Salem
Water Company, warehouse busi-
ness, an eYaporatOr aud caHncry plant
and Touring mill and a wheat Gle
yator. Such variety OF enterprises
requires good head for business, a
capacity TO plan and carry out details
and considerable executive ability.
To look after these properties requires
a knowledge Of engineering, hydraul-
les, manufacturing, entomology and
finance. Mr. Wallace has carried
these enterprises through remarka-
BILE period Of depression, and has
placed them upon sound financial
footing, where they can all be safely
classedin the list Of paying properties,
The Salem Water Company under
his management has become one Of
the most valuable plants in the north
west. The service TO It's patrons and
to the city Of Salem has been con-
! stantly improved and for the size Of
the city and the extent OF territory
covered, IL Is probably one Of the most
efficient on the Pacific coast. An in
n n'ory OF the plant In 1893 required
taking oil $4,000 on It's value on ac-
count of deterioration in value Of
material. This did not appall Mr..
Wallace. with iron at 80 a ton that
formerly cost $40 TO $50 a ton he made
all repairs needed on about 30 miles OF
pipe line. All improvements we're
made with iron at depression prices
| and results in the past year or two
showed the wisdom OF this policy.
During 1898 $4,000 improvement
has been carried out 10 the shape Of a
new crib In the Willamette river,
which has been fully de 'cyibed In our
columns. 1t consists of - wells lOXlO
aud - feet deep, extending s feet be-
low the bottom of the river. The top
OF this crib is two feet below low
water IL is covered with inches Of
planking and eight feet og gravel
The first feet of the sides Of the crib
are tightly enCased. In eXcayating
for the crib they passed through two
feet Of hard pan, clay and grave
cement tnat is imperyious sto water.
The crib was sunk6 feet below this
into a body Of clear gravel, thus COM
pelllng all the water pumped from.
this crib 20 come up through the
gravel from below the bottom Of the
river. The crib Is connected with the
pumping station by foot main Of
rlyeted steel thoroughly protected |
and perfectly san!;ated, This was
placed in position by Engi neers Brown |
and Bennett Of the Salem Water.COm-
pany who both mastered the art of |
diving and thus were able 70 person
ally inspect all the Joints Of the great /
main, sunk in the bottom Of the RIVER, |
and insuring absolute protection .
agaiust leakage. The capacity OF the T,
water works is much larger at presen .
than the requirements of the city. In .
;he winter only about 100000 gal |
Ions are u'ed daily. The summer
service with irrigation requires
1000 900 gallons the full capacity is I |
To q million gallons daily. Tue city
gets additional protection against all /
accidents from having TWO million
gallon reservoir situated on Fair
Mount Hill. All arrangements have
been completed and the gravel has
been hauled 20 give the reservoir a
concrete cement lining. These i'm.
proYements in the water service
have all been made by Mr.. Wallace
without any assistance or al
any public expense, merely To give the
City of Salem the most highly i'm
proved service. Everything has been
done by Mr. Wallace in this line re.
gardless Of expense. When 10 is re.
membered that the Salem Water Co.
has meyer paid dividend, and that
the president receives but $500 a year
for his services, the people Of Salem
have certainly no reason TO complain.
The next enterprise in magnitude
and importance is 1.-THE Willows"
t'uit farm, the home Of the late r.
5. Wallace, aud really the work which
lay closest his heart when he was SO
suddenly and Unexpectedly removed
from this community by death. Ill
embraces 333 acres OF rich bottom
land, some of IL rolling, and is located
y miles northwest OF Salem con
nec,ed by tine gravel road. The ,
orchard comprises $4,000 fruit trees
aud during the past season there were
% car loads of Bartlett pears and
1000 boxes OF apples shipped TO New d
York aud from there distributed To {
European boints. During the fruit |
eason the farm employs about dfty G
'eople, during the winter pruning .