Part 11

WHO SHOULD INVEST

Professional men and women, business men and women, those living in cities and towns and confined to offices, stores and factories, will find an investment in forty or fifty acres of walnut land at the present time wholly within their possibilities. Special terms can be arranged and their groves planted and cared for at small cost. While they are working their groves will be growing toward maturity, and in less than a decade they may be free from the demands of daily routine: the grove will furnish an income, increasing each season until the twentieth year, and will prove the most pleasant kind of old age annuity, and the richest inheritance a man could leave his children.

The practical farmer, or the inexperienced man who desires to escape the tyranny of city work by way of the soil will find that a walnut grove offers an immediate home, a living from small fruits and vegetables while his trees are maturing, and at the end of eight or ten years, the beginning of an income that will every year thereafter increase, while the labor exacted will gradually lessen until it amounts to practically nothing. Like rearing children, a walnut grower's troubles are over with the trees' infant days.

The capitalist can find no better place for his money than safely invested in Oregon walnut lands; the rise is certain and near.

Some years ago "Outlook," a most conservative publication, spoke of the English walnut as "a tree of vast commercial importance in the far west."

Luther Burbank states: "The consumption of walnuts is increasing among all civilized nations faster than any other food."

CONCLUSION

B. M. Lelong, Secretary of the California State Board of Horticulture, wrote in 1896:

"California growers have had a long and varied experience with many failures, and when they finally began to place their walnuts on the market they were obliged to accept the humiliating price of from 3 to 6 cents a pound less than that paid for imported walnuts."

In Oregon the reverse is true. Our walnuts command a price above that paid for walnuts raised anywhere else. The size, cracking-out quantity, delicate flavor and delicious creamy taste, are the qualities that give the Oregon walnut its surpassing excellence. If we have this pre-eminence at the beginning of the industry, what may we expect when intelligent cultivation has produced the best grade of walnuts of which our soil and climate are capable?

To Oregon, then, with its vast areas adapted to this industry, must the world look for its great annual walnut harvest in the years to come. The far-seeing man will secure an interest in Oregon walnut lands now, before speculation and a general awakening to their real value have boosted the price to that of walnut lands elsewhere.

OREGON WALNUT AREA BY COUNTIES

Note: The price of land varies according to location; the cheaper land is not all cleared.

Groves now Bearing trees. Available land. Price County. planted. per acre.

Washington Many young A number bear Thousands of ones. full crops. acres. $25 to $200. Multnomah Several young Many scattered. Several groves. thousand. $50 to $200. Yamhill 3,000 acres. 5,000 trees. 40,000 acres; every quarter section has suitable land. $50 to $250. Clackamas 100 acres. Many scattered; Several one grove. thousand. $20 to $500. Polk Several hundred 100 trees. Many thousand. $25 to $100. acres. Marion A few A number in Hundreds bearing. of acres. $20 to $500. Benton No record. No record. Many acres $20 to $100. Linn Several young Several Many hundred groves. scattered. acres. $20 to $500. Lane 300 acres. A few scattered; 10,000. $60 to $125. bear heavily. Douglas None. Many; loaded Thousands $25 to $100. with nuts of acres. Josephine No record. A number; Hundreds scattered. of acres. No record? Jackson 30 or 40 acres. Hundreds Several scattered thousand. $25 to $225. through valley loaded with nuts. Baker A few groves. Many producing Thousands of (Eastern Ore.) trees. acres. $25 to $150?

GOLD MEDAL WALNUT EXHIBIT (See cut on following page)

Last year the Walnut club of McMinnville made an exhibit of home grown walnuts at the A.-Y.-P. Exposition and was awarded a gold medal. They have a very attractive and artistic way of putting up an exhibit, classifying and arranging the different varieties in glass cases in such a manner as to attract universal attention and call forth the heartiest exclamations of admiration. The accompanying cut shows one of their exhibits in position. It is nine feet high and nearly five feet wide and is faced alike on both sides.

This club was organized for the purpose of studying the walnut industry in all its details. They employ scientists and experts to tell how and to demonstrate the various methods of walnut culture. There are scores of 5 and 10-acre tracts planted to walnuts in the vicinity, as well as experimental trees on the lots in town and along the streets. They call McMinnville "The Walnut City."

as prepared by the Walnut Club of McMinnville for the display of

OREGON GROWN WALNUTS

in several of the principal Eastern Offices of the

OREGON RAILROAD & NAVIGATION CO. and SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. (Lines in Oregon)_]

RAILROAD REPRESENTATIVES

Who will take pleasure in giving all desired information as to rates, routes, train schedules, hotel accommodations, etc., and make advance arrangements for trips.

EAST.

New York: J. B. DeFriest, Gen. Eastern Agt., U. P. R. R., 287 Broadway

New York: L. H. Nutting, Gen. Pass. Agt., S. P. S. S. Co., 366 Broadway

Boston, Mass. Willard Massey, N. E. Frt. & Pass. Agt., 176 Wash. St.