Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-29

~ Genus pOuuu hhAoh0u PAoubS
which he sells in advance at % to p
cents a pound. The Burbank potato
is staple, thousands of carloads go
ing from Texas TO British Columbia
and throughout the intermountain re
gion. Prunes are grown on large
scale, one firm at Salem handling 200
carloads season. Our apple ship
ments are increasing each year, few Of
the choicest carloads stopping this side
of New York, and mostly going to
England. Wool and mohair are staple
products. Mining and the lumber in.
dustry are in their infancy. Our com-
Ity is at present engaged in building
a wagon road into a group of mines
whose output of copper, lead and sill.
yer will be simply inealculable. The
forest wealth of Western Oregon has
barely had a little brush trimmed off
its edges. Another big money crop is
prunes. Hundreds of carloads of finest
French and Italian dried prunes are
shipped annually. Other big money
crops are strawberries, small fruits,
cherries, and last, but not leas, wool
and mohair 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
we'll handled they pay about 200 per
cent. profit.
Now ] am going to quit boasting |
about Oregon and give you few ex
amples of actual products that 1 am
personally familiar with. A fve-acre
field of Strawberries, one and onehalf |
miles east of Salem, this year, 1904,
produced 800 crates that sold at $1.25
A crate netting the grower SO cents.
One hundred crates went unpicked be-
cause he could not hire pickers.
A dairy farm of 1876 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 month for cream. He sold
}3s hogs in 1902.
must tell you a loganberry story.
Seven acres for the first year s crop
.urned off 1928 crates that sold for
'l.05 f. o. b. Another man from one
md one-third acres sold 90 crates, and
he past summer had been very dry,
utting down the yield about one-third.
could give you facts about alfalfa
nd common red clover, showing profit
f over $50 an acre, but l would not
tart all your people out this way in
bunch. / must tell you a grape story.
We grow all the standard varieties, ;
Ike Concord and Nigara here, and in
ddition the finest French wine grapes,
'hich produce from 600 to 800 gallons a
( wine per acre that sells from 40
0 80 cents per gallon, but / will not v
AK your patience with my further il.
IstrotiOn of the wonderful fertility a
r the products of our climate. But we a
ave substantial climate and we do
OF live on our climate and tourists.
ur climate is about the same as that
West England. The evergreen and
ldigeOus forests mingle on our hills
nd in our valleys the laurel, mistletoe
nd rodhendendrons, as they do in
irginia. The English and black wal
ut thrive equally. We have fine pub.
C schools and good hunting and fish.
lg. We have good roads and good
We have railroads and
lines and rapidly extending
gstems of trolley cars. The steam.
oats run summer and winter on our
vers, and our sawmilis load vessels
nat go to South Africa and South
merica. We are on the verge of the
rient and our country will undergo a
extension. / could tell of
ther industries, but have enumerated
nough to disclose to any reasonable
ian that our country has remarka.
lie variety of industries and untold pos
Utilities for future development. The
Dung man who is not permanently To-
ated in business, the man who is rent.
X a farm, the man with a few hun
red, or many thousands of ready
loney who cannot come into new
ountry like this and catch ON TO some.
hing that will make him contented
nd prosperous wouldn't accomplish
lueh anywhere. i have never vet tried
coax any of my old friends out of
heir comfortable surroundings, and
N not trying to do so now. But as
e are going to have a great exposi.
on at Portland next year in honor of
he centennial of the discovery Of this
Duntry by Lewis and Clark, who
LACED the way for civilization under
he direction of President Jefferson,
feel warranted in recommending them