Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-08

aires that now control the congress
of the United States, and some pres
ident will say, let us have six new
senators and the new state of Sis
kiyou will spring into being.
What About Products.
You can talk about new states
and county seats and real estate
hot air in the newspapers sounds
mighty good-but what have you to
sustain a population in the Butte
valley? People cannot live on en-
thusiasm, but must have crops from
the soil. I talked with men who are
growing all kinds of fruit. l ate
the finest preserved peaches, grown
in sheltered places in the foothills
and on the creeks, at Buck Richard
sons hotel. They were put up by
Mrs. Richardson, and l know those
people would not lie about these
peaches being grown in the Butte
valley. Men told me they grew
crops of prunes so heavy they had
| to prop up the trees to carry the
load of fruit. A hotel man told me
! of feeding forty-eight people off
left for the dogs But this is
] ,
! by the sacks of tubers brought to
salem by Pat Lavey and exhibited
in the show windows of the U. S.
National bank building. It's little
use to tell potato stories about a
country where they grow a peck to
the hill and one man took out $500
worth as the result of twelve days
work clearing sage brush and put
q no
ted; and another got 9S sacks from
one sack of seed. l need not tell
you that grains, grasses, vegetables
and clover can be produced in un-
limited quantities, if such a term is
permissible.
Rich Farming Lands.
With water from four to ten feet
from the surface, there are possibil-
tiles of raising all kinds of crops,
with ordinary cultivation, and choice
lands now held at ten to twenty-five
dollars per acre will go to one hun
dred dollars per acre as fast as the
incoming tides of population show
the great future there is in the Butte
valley, Lands in Jackson county,
Oregon, that sold for five to ten dol.
lars per acre a few years ago are
now selling at 500 to $1,000 per
acre, where alfalfa and Orcharding
has taken the place of the sage
brush.
What Prominent Men Say.
At the banquet, r. L. Oliver
so-called pioneer, if there can be
such person in so new a country,
said ''- state Of California had no
better or richer valley for agricul
tural purposes than this. Rev. Fer
guson, the minister of a flourishing
Methodist church, spoke Of the moral !
chartcter OF The people of Doris. say !
ing IL was as good as any new COM !
munlty he had ever worked in. He !
mas attended conferences at Salem |
ana is well known here. Mr.. and |
Mrs. Ferguson are doing Grand |
work for the ch'ldren of Doris. ana |
have a large Sunday school. DR.. At |
klnson, the Doris physician COM |
planned OF the place as being dis
sustlnsly healthy, and vet in the !
line of newcomers who arrive with /
out much clothing, he is busy.
The Doris Boosters.
TO show the spirit of the Doris /
business men, the Butte Valley bank |
is importing a new variety of Rus
sian wheat thar has been successful |
~ grown in Kansas. The samples |
.of the seed, compared with the first
crop grown i'm Butte valley. shows /
what this soil and climate will do
ior the highest grade of hard Rus 1
sian wheat The people believe that /
theN nave the soil and are proving |
70 the world thSt in certain lines OF /
potatoes and hard wheat they pro- !
duce the best i'm the world. The |
Dorris Booster a weekly newspaper. |
ed ted by p. l., Burris, a printer well |
known in Salem, has scores of facts |
about these crops and others that |
viii satisfy anyone as TO the produc- |
uYlty OF this valley and the future .
.ot Doris. Send to him for a COPY |
and catch the spirit that animates |
every citizen OF the ideal little west |
ern home city in the valley of album !
dance
Pure Air and Water.
TO look at the hale class of peo- |
PIE living in the valley and who have |
lived there number of years, one ,
Is never tempted to worry about the |
unhealthful climate of this section: /
nut a few people have suspiciously
inquired into the matter and found 1
mat rheumatism, tuberculosis, ca
tarrh, hay fever, and bronchitis. il
they are ever found In the valley
nave yet TO be imported. The
chances are that az this elevation.
1000 feet, with pure mountain VA
'es ne surrounding mountains c9y-