Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-09-11
EDITORIALS.


chief engineer of the Southern Pacific system.
He veteran railroad engineers and has held his
present position for many years.
While no longer young man. he is of remarkable
ergy and executive ability.
John Stevens of the Hill SYSTEM who has done great
deal of the building in recent Oregon exploited
the newspapers the greatest railroad builder coming
this state and he probably has right to that title.
The construction Of. Hartman line to Coos Bay will be
of the hardest pieces construction ever undertaken
in Oregon and it is freely predicted in railroad circles that
Chief Hood will make good.
He threw remarkable energy into the Drain-Coo Bay line
until it was called off.
the event of some great washout in Southern California
Chief Hood went personally foot about fifty miles of
the wrecked lines and not many of the younger fellows could
keep up with him.
He of the rugged Western type and the people of
Oregon will be found ready to cooperate with him in the
great Undertaking of building line the mountains of the
coast and three of the Pacific and down the coast
through forest wilderness rough any the face of the
world today
One Salem firm served its the past week with $500
pounds of creamery butter The demand good butter and
cream is unlimited Cream for family use, about onehalf
milk, is twenty cents pint
The price of butter about twice high meat except ba
con- which has prohibtve prices will all become Israel
ties in abstaning from pork.
Oregon sadly handicapped for labor conduct dairies
With soil and climate and forage products Just about per-
feet for successful dang have no people to milk cows
plant fodder crops or feed them to the animals.
Our principal industry breeding dairy cattle for other
states
great deal of dayg the agricultural college, and
on dairy exhibits at the state fair
But there nothing done to get people to Oregon who
will produce dairy products
This will be perfect fall for farming The early rains have
put the soil in fine condition early seeding The first grain
was Salem by Addison Page on the big Chemawa
farm on Thursday, September 7.
1t is worth noticing that field of corn can be seen near Che
mawa the Salem road that superior to almost anv
grown in Iowa this year.
We do not think of Oregon state but this CROP
grown by Willard Mahes, is worth anyones attention
George X Vending president of the Weed laundering COM
pany that has very large awm box factories at Weed
California and who the builder of the railroad that was
completed to Klamath Falls by the Southern Pacific company
is the who made the railroad from Eugene to Coos Bay
through the Siusaw region possibility
His corporation has bought 3O00OO0OO feet of standing
r in that country and turned about six million dollars
to the Golfers of owners of Oregon timber lands
His company ready and prepared to build railroad into
that region, and haul out their timber
They started the and getting the rights of way and
then arranged with the Southern Pacific take them over
This was DONE and the construction of the road was prose-
cuted with vigor
Nothing pleased Mr. Vending better than to have the South
ern Pacific take over as he has always been very to their
interests
But his company determined to have the TRANSPORTATION
facilities if they had to build them.
Mr. Vending is of German French desccnt-in fact he is
an Asaan and prdes himself speaking both French and
German languages almost well English and his English
Is the strong, cearcut vernacular of the Golden West
Mr. Vending has town named after him in Oregon-a
lumber towand his hand viii be felt than ever in
the development of this state
lie is rapidly becoming running mate for Weyerhauser and
other great kings of finance in the lumber world
one thing Mr. Vending has achieved great credit for and
at Is beating sense into the forestry SYSTEM that there is such
ahng as natural law in the protection of the forest wealth of
the West-that fire is the natural protector o. the forests if
used inteiieently.
That idea spreading and the father o That idea is Geo.
Vending
Inc disposition to reduce industrial education and manual
training and domestic science in the public schools to mini
mum and keep up the old classical and university education the
ores is a serious mistake for any community
Inc decision OF the school board at Salem limit drawing
the first two years of the high school, when drawing has been
optional with students in all four years to be regretted
The high school tendencies the age for sports and athletics
on the university plans needs the ounerbaance of industrial
education, and drawing iesa att The