Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-09-23
Neo Coyerinq Central Willamette Valley By Special Reb1
Hop Picking In
Polk Yards to
End This Week

Asseernndence, Ore. sept. 23.-1'he
Z AOp harvest In Independence is fas,
Anawing to a contamination and
pAckers are beginning to leave for
their respective homes. Hoppick.
snE at the Horst yard concluded
18th big dance Tuesday nigh..
X ck1ng at the Wigrich yard was
y Eceanpleted yesterday morning and
- r sa1d that q Burton's yard it
\ yHs finished Tuesday. c.. A. Nc
A.Aushiin will hold his crew of pick
- moSt OF next week and the eco.
:sAsew1s yard will likely finish by the
END Of the prenest week. Mr.. Nc
Aaughlfn's harvest was considerably
s0esayed by reason of the vines fall
4ng caused by heavy storms.
Growers claim that thish as been
labDsst the most unpleasant har-
lEest that has been known in In
dependence for a number of years.
Rain has hindered the work a
great deal. Had the weather been.
more favorable, it is said, the har-
vest would have been completed ini
the vicinity Of Independence this
sweek- Picking started here on
3klse 5th of September, and there
.haye been few days of really fa-
vorable weather for the harvest.
In some of the yards, pickers be-
came tired of the wet conditions
and left before the harvest was
finished. Seventy cents per pound
Ias paid this year for picking, and
this is said to have been the high
sest price ever paid for the work
sin this part of the state. Hops
sare said to be about an average
crop. and dGk'ing the last few
weeks. pickers have earned good
syages The industry has been
the means of providing employ
nnent for large number of peo-
sple. and the wage earned will be
~ great benefit in the months to |
come. 4 TIL .
Al. Hirschberg. president of the
Independence bank, was in Sa- \
lesn on business yesterday.
G. Burton Durdall opened his
new store in the Hotel Beaver
building yesterday morning. He
reports = very good trade for the
znitIal day.
AdsB Mabel Clara Ground, who
fRas been teaching music in Port
znnd for a year or more, visited in
klae city the fore part of the week.
Ssae leaves this morning for New
York City, where she will resume
her studies in music.
MIR. and Mrs Cyril Richardson
feft yesterday for Corvallis, where
fhey Will attend the Oregon Agri-
Enifural college during the winter.
Adrs Richardson is French
bride. the couple having been
married while Mr. Richardson was
Dwerseas in the service. The bride
- we'll educated in her own lam
Euage, and now she proposes to
us |
JOseph Hubbard has sold his
InUp ranch south of the city and
Rxpccts to move to Portland in the
ncar future. He received $4,000
Enr the property.
> G. Mcintosh will move his
STOCK OF groceries and fixtures
back from the Mclaughlin hop
rard the latter part of this week.
N. Il. Jones, who recently pur-
chased a farm north of the city,
lntends to plant several acres to
and gradually grow ,
into the berry industry. He has
srOwn hops in this part of the
zfate for many years. Mr.. Jones
belicves that berries will become /,
NE great crop in the Willamette
railey.
A car said to belong in Cor !
rasiis collided with a buggy on the II
saved road between here and Sa-
xan Tuesday night, and the buggy
sns total wreck. No one was
injured. !
- J. Williams, who sold his Z
Arm north of town for a good 4
,Race few weeks ago, has de- :
'3ded to move to Monmouth and |
'efire from farm life. He has ,
surchased the Charles Newman /
Iome In that city, and will move
lis family there as soon as the
now in progress l
re completed. 4
f. K. Tripp is authority for the \
'atement that Independence should n
are at least one hundred more f
Duses erected at once to accomo- a
ate the families who are here n
aekfng homes for the winter. He n