East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1904-12-28

temperature. This is an ideal dairy
ing country. as our butter makers re-
quire neither ice in summer nor arti-
ficial heat in winter.
But besides dairying and farming
such as you have, this region can
boast of number of big-money crops,
all risen to the magnitude of special
Industries. We ship from this state
from four to six million dollars worth
of hops. The hopgrower produces
for cents pound a finished pro-
duct which he sells in advance at 30
to 25 cents pound. The Burbank
potato is staple, thousands Of car
loads going from Texas to British Co
lumbiR and throughout the inter-
mountain region. Prunes are grown
on large scale. one firm at Salem
handling 100 carloads a season. Our
apple shipments are Increasing each
year. few of the choicest carloads
stopping this side of New York; many
going to England. Wool and mohair
are staple products. Mining and the
lumber industry are in their infancy.
building a wagon road into a group
of mines whose output of copper,
lead and silver will be simply incal-
culable.
The forest of Western Oregon has
barely had little brush trimmed off
its edges. Other big-money crops are
strawberries, small fruits, cherries.
and last, but not least, wool and mo-
hair The Angora goat thrives to
perfection, and large bands of these
hardy animals are run on rough
land, used to clear up brush farms,
and when well handled they pay
about 200 per cent profit.
Now, l am going to quit boasting
about Oregon and give you a few ex-
amples of actual products that 1 am
personally familiar with. A five-acre
field of strawberries. one and one
half miles east of Salem, this year.
1904, produced 500 crates, that sold
at s1.25 a crate. netting the grower
So cents. One hundred crates went
unpicked because he could not hire
pickers. tsa Ia.s
dairy farm of 165 acres. of less
than 80 acres cleared, milking 3S
cows, has brought the owner $4,000
in cash for a number of years His
COWS paid over 5000 a month for
cream. He sold 33S hogs in 1902.
l must tell you a Loganberry story.
Seven acres for the first years crop
turned off 1923 crates. that sold for
$1.O5 f. o. b. Another man, from
one and one-third acres, sold 96
crates, and the past summer had been
very dry. cutting down the yield
about one-third. could give you
facts about alfalfa and common red
clover, showing profit of over $50 an
acre, but l would not start all your
people out this way in a bunch.
l must tell you a grape story. We
grow all the standard varieties, like
Concord and Niagara, and in addition
the finest French wine grapes, which
produce from 500 to 500 gallons OF
wine per acre, that sells from 40 to
80 cents per gallon, but I will not tax
your patience with my further illus
tration of the wonderful fertility of
our soil or the products of our cli-
mate.
But we have a substantial country
and we do not live on climate and
tourists Our climate is about the
same as that OF West England. The
evergreen and indigenous forests min
gle on our hills. and in our valleys
the laurel, mistletoe and rhododen-
drons, as they do in Virginia. The
English and black walnut thrive
equally, We have fine public schools
and good hunting and fishing. We
have good roads and good roadsters.
We have railroads and steamboat lines
and rapidly extending systems of troll
ley cars. The steamboats, run sum-
mer and winter on our rivers, and our
sawmills load vessels that go to
South Africa and South America.