Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-15

/ Creek The city now spreads out
square mile and is extending its sub
urbs by le1ps and bounds in every
direction. The Waldo Hills are jus;
south of the city. two miles north is
the Aliqua. Two miles west runs
the classic Pudding river and the
three valleys are beautiful. Well i'm
proved farming lands sorround Sill.
verton on all sides. The Waldo
Hills, Howell Prairie, and the Abtqua
Valley are the richest soils in the
world, with a great deal of beaver
dam land. But the foothills are the
future gold mines. These rougher
and cheaper lands are going into
apples-the foothill lands producing
the finest winter apples, in color,
shipping and keeping qualities.
The Silverton Lumber Co.. has
transformed Silverton from a sleepy
country trading place into busy,
humming, industrial shipping point.
Out of 902 carloads of freight going
out of here COT carloads were ,um-
Der for 1909-more than two-thirds.
Steady payrolls makes a world of
difference in the trade of the town
which formerly depended entirely on
the farms. About $12,5OO u
month was added to the payrolls for
lumber manufacture alone. Several
hundred families are supported from
the payrolls of the Silverton Lumber
Co. The town has built out towards
the mill and on two sides of it..
The company is building two miles
of road to extend its logging oper-
ations in the woods.
The Silverton Lumber Company
was organized in 1906 and the mill
was started in 1909. 1t has been
running steadily since then with a
cut of about 20,000,0O0 feet a year
The plant includes IA miles of rail-
road track, with twenty cars, two
engines, five donkey engines and
planners and dry kilns. The pay
rolls include the office and mill
force of about ninety men with one
hundred men working in the timber
and on the railroad. The officers Of
the company are r. A. Cowden, pres
ident; J. D. Casey, vice-president,
and w. A. Reynolds secretary and
treasurer.
Started Building Boom.
AS a result of the establishing Of
a saw mill here there has been
great advance in the price of prop
erty and nearly one hundred new
houses have been erected the past
year Thirty new houses are in
process OF construction at present.
A new brick block is to be erected
by E. S. Porter of Kenny G. Porter;
a building is to go up on the Hunter
corner; and Sam Ames, Book Broth
ers, and j. d. Drake may build this
coming year. A creamery and ice
plant are under construction at pres
ent. The ice plant will have an s.
ton machine, capable of turning
out about 5000 pounds of ice per
day. The capacity of the new
creamery will be about 10000
pounds per month to begin with.
Public improvements.
Under this heading Silverton can
claim to have pretty good pros
pect. The county will erect a new
steel bridge over Silver Creek in
place OF the old wooden moss COZ
cred structure. The material in the
old bridge will be used to build
bridge across Silver Creek between
Aliens addition and Geiser's ad IL
ton. This will be done by a sub
The most progressive peO-
pie of Silverton want to bond the
town for a sewer system aud there
Is some talk about paving the prin-
cipal business street from Fischer's
Mill to the Southern Pacific depot.
The city of Silverton owns a rock
crusher and steam road roller and
there is to be a good roads congress
held here within two weeks to pro-
mote public sentiment for better
roads
A Big Shipping Record.
According TO statistics furnished
by e. L. Smith who has been agent !
Of the Southern Pacific Company at
this point for twenty-five years
here were 9O2 carloads OF freight |
sent out during the year 1909. a
total OF 65 cars of merchandise were
received and besides nearly a car
load per day of broken shipments
averaging about 1900 pounds each
or total OF 415 cars arriving at
5ilyerton. Among the freight sent
put were 81 carloads OF hops. SO car
Oadg OF flour and 10 carloads of |