The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-10-24
RAILROAD
HELPS
Southern Pacific Has Plan for
Marketing Products.
Agents Will Send in Lists of
Quantities Of Products on
Hand.

Further efforts will I've made by the
traffic department Of the Southern Pa
ciHc to stir the producers OF Western
Oregon to greater activity by making
known TO the outside world what the
people there have for sale. While the
compan does not intend to act as middle
man in disposing of the products Of the
farms, orchards and pastures, it will try
TO bring seller and buyer together, thus
assisting in bringing the products Of the
soil to ready market.
With this end in view the Southern
Pacific has issued the following circular
to all its agents in Oregon.
Comm ncing November next, and on
the first of each month thereafter, please
forward to the general freight office, by
mail, a list of marketable products OBJ
tainable at your station or vicinity for
shipment. Include all commodities for
sale, such as livestock, hops, wool, hides,
lumber, fence posts, apples, green and
dried fruit. potatoes, onions and other
vegetables, cordwood, brick, title, nursery
stock, etc, in fact, anything Of conse-
quence for which a market is sought, Civ
ing name and address OF owner or ship p-
per, and, where practicable, the prices Of
the different articles.
The data, when received, will be com.
piled and published for the information
of those interested, and in various Ways
brought TO the attention of intending
purchasers.
II is hoped in this way to make known
to acertain extent, at least, the resources
OF each locality, and agents can, by lit.
tie effort, see that their stations are
properly represented.
Quantities less than carload lots cannot
be expected to be reported, but where
farmers have less they ina, possibly club
together and Thus dispose OF carload lots
The Portland office will take the inlorma.
tion thus furnished and compile from II
a statement which will be sent TO com
mission men and other buyers in Port.
land, the Puget Sound cities, Spokane,
San Francisco and even Salt Lake City
aud Denver. A man desiring a carload Of
beef cattle may find on this list just
what he is seeking, and may 90 directly
aud buy it.. So with other products.
The most complete exhibit of grain
and grasses ever collected in Oregon will
be sent from Portland to the Charleston
which opens at Charleston,
$. c., December ]. The collection was
gathered by the Southern Pacific Com
pany for the Portland Exposition and
Carnival, which has just closed. The
has been augmented by ad-
litions until it is now the finest Of it's
kind aver produced by the State of Ore
yon.
Grains standing from seven to eight
'eet ia height and grasses almost as tall
will surprise the Fasteners as they see
them arranged in rows at the Oregon
headquarters. People will learn with
surprise that the iar-off Webioot state
grows something like 20 varieties of ma
live clover on its hills and plains, noun
lain slopes and valleys. They will be
amazed to see 500 different samples Of
grains and grasses all grown along the
lines OF the Southern Pacific in the VIII
annette Valley, and they will want to
,erne West to see soil so productive.
The exhibit will be placed in charge OF I
Colonel II. Il. Dosch, Oregon's Commits
'ioner to the Pan-American and the
Charleston Expositions. In addition to
his, several bundles Of flax in various
stages of growth, will go to complete the
Exhibit,