Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-07-08


the sea and trout from the mountains
Our orchards are famous for their ap
pies, pears, prunes and English wal
nuts. The finest varieties of plum
reach from two to five times the siz,
they do with you, although / must ad
NIT that for high flavor and fine qual
ity preserves, give me the wild plums
of Iowa. All small fruits, from the
strawberry to the blackberry, grow in
such profusion that selling becomes a
problem. But canneries are being
rapidly established, and our good
things in this line are going to the ends
"a .he wOrla. T'e f:rw al. ,he .,.s,a
crops that flourish in Iowa on large
scale, excepting corn. But corn is be-
coming rapidly acclimated, just as It
whs in northern Iowa and Minnesota.
Twenty acre fields are not uncommon
Of early waite and yellow dent. Com
is the great ensilage crop, being fed
out of the soils IL months in the year,
owing to the absence of freezing TEN.
perature this is an ideal dairying
and farming such as you have, this re-
gion 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 dol
lars worth Of hops. The hop grower
produces for 9 cents a pound a finished
product, which he sells in advance at
% to 25 cents pound. The Burbank
potato is staple, thousands Of car.
loads going from Texas to British Co
lumbia and throughout the intermoun-
tain region. Prunes are grown on
large scale, one firm at Salem hand
ling 120 carloads season. Our apple
shipments are increasing each year, few
of the choicest carloads stopping this
side Of New York, many going to Eng
land. Wool and mohair are staple pro-
duets. Mining and the lumber indus
try are in their infancy. Our country
is at present engaged in building a
wagon. road into group Of mines
whose output Of copper, lead and sill
yer will be simply incalculable. 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 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 well handled
they pay about 200 per cent profit.
Now, am going to quit boasting
about Oregon and give you few sam
Piles of actual products that 1 am per-
sonally familiar with. A fveaere field
Df strawberries, one and one-half miles
east of Salem, this year, 1904, produced
800 crates that sold at $l.25 crate,
netting the grower s5 cents. One hun
ired crates went unpicked because he
could not hire pickers
A dairy farm of 1876 acres, of less
han 90 acres cleared, milking 3s COWS,
has brought the owner $4,000 in cash
ior a number of years His cows paid
over 5000 a month for cream. He sold
33s hogs in 1902.
must tell you Loganberry story.
Seven acres for the first years crop
turned off 1923 crates that sold for
BIOS (. o. b. Another man, from one
and one.third acres, sold 80 crates, and
tho past summer had been very dry,
cutting down the yield about one-third.
I could give you facts about alfalfa
and common red clover, showing profits
Of over $50 an acre, but would not
start all your people out this way in
A bunch. must tell you a grape
story. We grow all the standard var
sties, like Concord and Niagara, and in
addition the finest French wine grapes,
which produce from 600 to 500 gallons
Of wine per acre, that sells from 40 to
50 cents per gallon, but l will not tax
your patience with my further illus
tration Of the wonderful fertility of
our soil or the products of our eli
note Rnt We have a substantial cOun.