Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-05-25
ALL THESE
Fh MADE IN
OREGON

an Oregon-made coffin, take you TO an
Oregon cemetery in an Oregon hearse,
and the sun and rain for ages to come
will beat down upon grave dug with
an Oregon spade, and over your head
an Oregon tombstone win gather moss
The magnitude of some of the home
industries it but little realized, even
by those who have done the most to
make the present exposition success.
They are greeted with new surprises
as each new shipment of Oregou-made
product arrives.
Butter, Cheese, Etc.
Again, do you know that there is
enough butter made in the state of
Oregon each year to spread slice of
bread three inches wide and reaching
around the world' A little computa.
tion will convince one of the fact.
Do you know that the annual cheese
product of the state would furnish
every man, woman and child in Port.
land with delectable Welsh rarebit
every day in the yearl
Do you know that the 60O,O00,oo0
feet of lumber produced in this state,
the past year, would lay plank SIDE
walk two feet wide and two inches
thick more than around the world at
the equator, distance of over $4,000
milesl
Do you know that there is enough
soap made in Oregon to form pyra'
mid of suds larger than Mount Hood3
Interesting Figures.
Do you know that there are more
people employed in the manufacturing
inductries in Oregon today than there
were people in the state few decades
agoi
Do you know that if the products Of
the factories of this state were equita'
bly, distributed that every man, woman
and child in the United States would
get dollars WORTH
Do you know that the wages paid to
employees in these industries alone for
the past year would build 90 sky
scrapers the size of the Wells.Fargo
building now under construction just
think of i'll That much money is paid
out every year to labor alone. If one
adds 10 this the value of the Oregon
raw material used he would have 20
build 90 more Wells-Fargo buildings
every year to use up all the money.
But why multiply instances like
thesei Those given are sufficient to
impress any Hght.minded person of
the Importance Of the made-in.Oregon
But. Mr.. Citizen, just do this:
Take little trip around town today
and learn the first lesson Of your much
neglected education in the school Of
home industry. You will marvel at the
wonderful variety of the Beaver states
resources and its manifold industries,
some of them only in their infancy, but
big with possibillties-yet, and Mr..
you are largely 10 blame il
the majority Of them are only in their
infancy. You haven't known about
these things. You haven't asked your
grocer. your butcher, your elothier,
your hardware dealer for homemade
goods. You have gone along all these
years in the blissful ignorance Of the
of your own state and calmly
paid higher prices for poorer quality
Of goods from other states than home
products would have cost you.
sacOn). Wool Producer.
Think for "a moment that Oregon is
the second wooiprodueing state in
the Union; that the wool can 20 right
from the back Of the sheep 10 your
own, without leaving the state, and
that it is manufactured in the most
modern equipped woOlen mills in the
United States,
Think for a moment that there is
no limit 10 the power. heat
and light that may be developed BY
harnessing the rivers and streams Of
the state. They are only waiting now
for the harness. Grasp, II you can,
the magnitude Of the salmon industry
Of the state. when last years output
would make a eubieat pile larger than
The Portland postOfiee.