Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-07-17
uOusly with conservative. sane,
business like movement.
Developing Fruit Industry,

uousIy with conservative. sane,
business like movement.
Developing Fruit Industry.
Orchard land in the vicinity of Sa-
lem can be bought for very reason
able prices. about half what II car
be purchased for in the intensified
farming districts. Better grades of
prunes can be grown on 5000 and
$500 land in the vicinity of Salem
than can be grown on land in the
Santa Clara valley that costs from
$500 to $500 an acre.
The Salem Fruit Union, organized
this spring among horticulturists and
! financed partially by Salem business
men, is placing strawberries. logan
berries, cherries. raspberries, currants
and all of the earlier small fruits In
markets never before reached and
the union is securing for its members
prices that exceed any before OBJ
tained.
It is In the 10-acre tract. highly
Icultivated that the Salem prophet
relies. Here better fruit can be
grown because more care can be CIV
en-. both to the soil and to the prod
uct. Recently two of the largest
/ farms I'm this vicinity were sold TO
easterners to be cut into small tracts.
They were the George Aver place OF
800 acres. bought for $4,000 by j.
p. Nadermann of Elso. Mont. and the
| Ike Needham prune ranch of 420
acres, which sold for similar
amount TO a Mr.. Plaseche of Grand
Island, Neb.
These are samples of transac.
tIons In land that are building ur
the country about Salem. New houses
are being built I'm the country almost
as rapidly as I'm the city.
Salem people are proud of the coun
try. The fruit districts are toured by
automobilists and other sightseers ~
often rs any other section Of the state
isltors In Salem are without eXcep
ton SHOWN the splendid prune. ap
lple and cherry orchards of the soutl
Of the city II any kind OF an oppor
tunity TO do so presents Itself.
Salem was christened the "Cherr!
City" at meeting OF the Stat
Board of Horticulture here two year
ago. Il WIS the Cherry City long be
fore that only there had been M
such designation. he cherry fair jus
closed Is an annual event. Such
show Is put on as cannot be dupli
Gated In another state In the union
7 The most excellent cherries are grow
more successfully around Saleu
than anywhere else. Cherries groN
TO wonderful size and retain mos
excellent flavor
? Scw Railroad connections
J Within two months Salem vii
% have a new railroad. The Salem
J Fall Guy & Western will connect Sa
. lem with the west side and give he
, direct communication with Corvallis
} Independence and Newport, and
3 new route 10 Portland For a tim
y t.ere will be no bridge across IN
r river 20 Salem. but that is to be ovel
% come by a quick water service 20 IN
. terminus of the railroad on the wes
r bank of the river The adventof IN
K 900 GALLEY TWO
s railroad is expected TO be felt In IN
b quickening OF the business pulse.
Salem is not dependant on fru
- alone. oregon produces annually froi
e 10000 20 1900 bales of hops. on
n siXt.. of this total output is handle
l. at Salem and grown in the yards aC
o jacent TO this city. The gathering {
o this crop annually gives labor
r thousands OF men, women and chil'
= rem and distributes hundreds {
Il thousands of dollars among the pee
e pie each fali.
S Besides all these things Salem hl
r a quick electric motor service wit
4 Portland, tie metropolis, The electr
line is handling a large passeng'
II business.
l. 4 copper mining district Is beiu
y opened up as rapidly as possible G
a the Santiam river I'm this cOuntr
& which IA Il pans out at all successful
II ly will make the population OF n
l. enure Willamette valley rich.