Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-11
BUSINESS OUTLOOK MUCH BETTER

Oregon's crop will not compare with that of Iowa in
value but then Oregon has not the population OF her
sister state and the latter owing to natural conditions
and the fact that she beat Clifford Pnchot to it has not the
greater part of her territory included In forest reseva
tions AS it Oregon will produce this year crops valued
at above S4OO0O0OO Counting her fish, mining and um-
ber production her total products will run well toward the
hundred million mark.
Here in the Willamette valley the year promises well.
It started in badly with rains spelling good part OF the
cherries but outside of that the damage was light and
the outlook is first class The hay but little damaged
and the crop large Prunes are looking hne and the
promise of big crop of first class fruit was never better
The hop outlook also good and with anything like faf
prices it will bring thousands of dollars here The grain
crop unusually good and the potatoes were never better
While there considerable loss of cherries due to
rains this loss more than counter-baanced by the
big Weld of Loganberies and the increased price due to
"Phez" and "Loju" Salem is the hop center as well as
the prune of the valley and when these crops last
year proved light Salem given the hardest blow IN
her history We all felt it in all lines of business but we
pulled through without making much noise about it and
now the city well the valley is getting on Its feet
again and beginning to Slick up The loganberty
promises to become great money producer and ALREADY
steps are being taken greatly increase the acreage The
uice plants report shipping many carloads all OF them
to points west of the Mississippi which territory Will
consume all the factories with their present equipment
can produce. Beer made Milwaukee famous and the
loganberry promises to do the same thing on larger
scale for Salem and the Willamette valley.
Another crop that gives promise of becoming standard
in the valley is flax Through much trbuaton and many
serious mistakes we are gradually getting the industry in
shape and it is hoped that by another year it will be be-
yond the experimental stage and will be one of our recog
nzed industries local company has been formed Tor
the purpose of taking hold of the matter in bslnesske
way and as it has wide awake hustng businessmen at
its head much can be expected from it.
review of 1916 and look into the probabilities OF
1916 indeed encouraging Salem and the valley nave
had hard row but it looks though they had it about
hoed to the end and better things in sight AT the
same time study of what the lOganberry has dune EN-
phasises the correctness of the Capital Journals sug
gestion made recently that every farmer in the valley
should devote portion of his time to experimenting with
different products in the hope of ndng those that are
best suited to soils and climate and that will bring returns
justifyng the prices at which land is held. The logan
berry itself near being failure Just because the
proper use for it not discovered until last year. and
then not in time to utilize the crop reuneratve prices
The result was that many patches dug up 1t was
Experimenting that caused the value of the ogans to be
discovered and further experimenting will undoubtedly
bring equally profitable results from other sources Any
way it is well worth trying