The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-03-05
NO BETTER FRUIT
COUNTRY ANYWHERE
EXPERT SAYS WALLOWA COUN-
TY ExcELs IN COIL AND Gil.
MATIc ADVANTAGES.


from the County Fruit Inspector
contains some good ideas of general
interest:
l wish to preface this article by
stating that there can be no new
facts advanced in the matter of
whether 1T pays to grow fruit.
Everybody that is posted at all
| and is willing to take the time to
| look up the statistics knows that
fruit growing has been and will be
one of the best oney-getting and
money-earning industries for the
husbandman for years to come. The
writer has been identified for the
last 20 years with all kinds of fruit
growing and has been in all the fruit
| districts Of the Northwest, barring
none, and Wallowa county can and
will produce just as good fruit as
can be grown in any other fruit dis
trict, and from general observation
l consider the industry very promis
ing indeed. Now If our own citi-
zens will take on a little more ac-
tivity and let the general public
know Of the great wealth of choice
allVial soil that is so we'll adapted
to the growing of the apple and
pear, these two great staple CONNER
cial varieties, would be a step along
the line of progress.
| 1t seems almost needless to repeat
that these two staple fruits have
made several districts wealthy.
Our county is what is known as
a diversified fruit growing country.
Some parts grow varieties that
other parts can not, as the climatic
conditions govern, but as a whole
there is no kind of fruit grown in
the Northwest that can not be grown
in Wallowa county. l have the
temerDty to claim that it is the best
county in the state for all kinds
Of husbandry and the annual distri-
button of moisture is of the best.
Little has been done in a CONNER
cial way in this section in regard to
fruit, as all of the older orchards
have so many varieties 1T is a diff
ficult matter to collect a carload
shipment of any one variety.
The keeping qualities for CONNER
cial purposes Of fruit grown in
this district is of the best, the
hardy condition of the trees make
without question the fruit better,
and apples have been known to
keep in an ordinary cellar from the
fall to the first day of June. These
facts being taken into consideration,
there is no question but that Wal
Iowa county can be known as a fruit
district that can grow first class
commercial varieties.
What we need and will get is
more people and of the right sort,
the kind that can produce. 1t will
not be the fellow that says it won't
pay, "It can not be done" and who
sits around, chews tobacco, and spits
on the stove, finds fault with his
neighbor, and Is "agin" the govern
ment and law and order. Nor will
1t be the looker-on who watches his
neighbor do things and is always
talking about his inopportunities and
that he never did have a chance.
But it is the fellow that is awake
and knows that he can do 1t, and
tries to find out how to do it, and
there are no greater opportunities
anywhere than right here in Wal
.owa county to get start in the
fruit industry and he who takes care
OF these advantages will grow and
prosper, and thereby become use
full citizen because he produces
something.
The fruit industry gives a man
with small means a better oppor
tunity to get start than any other
kind of farming, for 1t takes less
lSoPAboi Ihc WhO 10 Wa
ing to work can in short time
be Independent.
Whenever persons are entering
upon the production of any new in
dustry 1t is not all sunshine; there
will be a few storms, but If you
stick you are sure to win.
There Is a tendency to specialize
in all kinds of Industries, and why
not in farming, and l am Of the
opinion that the future success o.
the husbandman will be in specializ
ing the fruit product.
The Hon. H. NJ. Williamson, sec
retary OF the state board of horti
culture, In his talk before the Ore
gon Agricultural college voiced thes'
same statements. He alsa stated