Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-12-30

| Normal 9uoulu II be helo,,
stocks ,s' ;, consumption, o. is with no O'ioS O,s
would prevail. DpOn' nigh prices
Prices for contracts ,o,
bv u Al All iSc in January and 'tIs' we,s START
ny april, and as yards e wsro were i6c
to tp'Ssoraole So' then, a furtber aS,g iSGonng
W. " zVc was made by Tnno auFanee
norris e'er, sI extremely unfayorabi, 'uiy'
prices 'to'a ~ Continental Europe ioroo5 q
con'S or - Oh the extreme heat in cous eue re-
IAN Sallle in' prices rose stsodr,. AZ germany
Iie Ie tne n,S climax about August 26tS 1Ja'n. L.
Gsrmorn mnen a cessation Of the heat beat a. a.
nortn erLiany caused slightly battes tes' IN
go,o1, rs, ana caused the buyers 80 - re-
prices psaents, aaaal during which wait %dls tbe
entoI puto1S sagged to about S2c Sort,l %, tne
two -tti- Europe finally registered ,, abo,it
n'oI., o%TLtnirds of crop, and as . Soon aOout
pioAihg pr IN Oregon was well CON, sun sun as
S2 @ 6oo esumates saI were dropped Teu iTon
tbs n.y. oo. Uaies to 10000 bales and wban iU~'
oEi, oIe actual count is made Il viii ~I pus wneh
% auly oe found that we barvestadp pioo- ,os-
i .nan that amount. Most groworn eu less iess
saiIILeu rssdiI9 with the prices, and SoiS .oiS
rod,, roSuily, Soon, however. stocks wora Doru
n,SIl rguucea to few thousand baIos we're as
w. "tCn 1o ume prices rapidly went boo,, a.
10 4Oc, and more slowly on rn "a. VacK
h,a.,. IL is well known that a great ~ mau,. roc.
bnt brewerS ,'i,3 are delaying the inevjtabio %
JuI VIII be forced into the morto. 'aOie' y,
January, at which time without EIv So,,h1 ~
gou 1ouriy y all the remaining lots of Ore
For the Oregon, hop grower = h.a
Oeen a great year. The hest vordd II mas nas
mht n9IIed their owners $500 per acre ar :
,',niI, %n,le even the poor neglected ones
Yielding but a few hundred mounds d. 20
Iae acre, have showed a snug nrof;t ~
at these prices, and the OREGON P,Oli. ounl.
as a whole, based at forty cents Vo wo =
morth over six million dollars which
Is over million and a half dole aC, ara
more than the value of any nreyio,, iar > ?
,,o mop crop. AS a rule, however. tbe
value OF the crop does not yary this
,ngch' as the price is nearly always in in
inuirect proportion to the WELD with
the total value at from two and one
i, laii millions to three and one-haIf
,nllllon dollars, except during the yerv
low priced years. 'N ,
10 properly cultivate 0regon's hon
crop requires the services of two
thousand men, who are aided bv Of
least one thousand women and child.
rem durin" the training season At
picking time, however, for any average
oregon crop, fifty thousand nlckers
are required, who earn eight hundred
thousand dollars, and ten thousand
DAY laborers who earn half that
amount and adding the value of tbe
wood necessary to dry the hops. we
nave total of one and one-quarter
million dollars paid out direct for the
harvesting labor of the crop, and al
lowing that one-fourth of this goes to
those. to whom it is not absolutely
necessary we still have paid out the
most popular million dollars in the
world.
The factory, the railroad or the mine
may have a pay roll of even greater
amount, but it is the regular wage of
the home and does not serve the pur-
pose that the hop picking money does.
earned and brought home by the
wives and children of the working
man, and is In addition to all the
regular incomes. The million from
the factory goes to those who would
have million from some other
source, we're 1t not for the factory.
The million from the hop fields goes
to those who would otherwise have
nothing 1t means a new suit, new
hat, gloves and shoes for the wife,
who would otherwise have to draw on
the regular income for her clothes,
and not only winter clothes complete
for the youngsters, but school books,
and often enables them to secure some
cherished luxury which they would
otherwise be unable to have. No other
million, probably, is so quickly and
so wisely spent, nor for such variety
Of purposes. Every tradesman gets
his share, as we'll as the professions,
the dentist his for work that would
otherwise be neglected, the doctor his
for a bill long past due, the preacher
his for the marriage fee, while the
washerwoman not only gets her win
ter's groceries and children's clothes
from the million, but has been known
to also use a portion of it to free
herself from her recreant husband, IN
which way the lawyer gets his share.
Regardless of market conditions,
this popular million is handed out
each wear. 1t was paid in 1908 when
the crop itself was hardly worth that
amount, it was paid this year, and It
win he paid next year, and the next
and each year fifteen thousand fam
lies are thereby able to obtain neces-
saries. extras and perhaps Injuries
that would otherwise be beyond 'heil
reach. - por,ev
At the international Hop and Barley
axnosition, Just closed at Chicago Or
egon took first prize on quality over
California. Washington and New YORK. YORK
which are the only other three states
in the union producing hops oregon
for many years has held the Dannes s
as the largest producer and tnousli !,
with our crop 30 per cent short OF la,,. az.
ernectations in 1911, California TOOK
a Temporary lead in quantity, WIN a.-
srage conditions, oregon Will o,o NOR or.
tbs1 regain her position in lylz m Ior
tba tbaI snneriority Of our quality destlnes u =
ns IN continue to be the greatest nOP
section in the world. ,n,,,rd
''SI Some Of our prairie and MI lahu "a =
!. I0,re not suitable for hops and the yaras ,ll,
cot ont IN such places, under tls "oef " 90
enthusiasm or of such years as tnls, .u,o,5 ON n
Soredoomed to failure, but tne .e'g, ho,r %l-
su, Uyowers, who carefully select .,,.n' .ngl y
Tiver bottom soil, build their gs' ,,-it ,-'t \
nont , pIants, and work their yarus o,ter " tsir