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sp.irkling w.itcr; its lures for the hunter 

 and fisherman, and its mountain, lake and 

 seaside resorts, all seldom more distant tha'i 

 a short motor drive. 



TO THE small farmer of the east, to 

 the renter on high priced land and to 

 the man of small means who wishes a home 

 of his own on the land, it is both a pleasure 

 and a duty to point out the Northwest's 

 pre-eminent claim to consideration. 



No place in the domain of this United 

 States is there a more promising or attrac- 

 tive opportunity for the man of small 

 means to win a home on the land than in 

 our northwestern states. This is a broad 

 statement, but he who challenges it takes 

 a rather hopeless end of the debate. 



In the first place, here in the Northwest 

 it does not require 160 acres, or 80 acres, 

 or even 40 acres to insure a good living 

 and something more. The visitor to any 

 intensively developed section can readily 

 verify this fact. He will have no trouble 

 at all in finding families happily located 

 on 20-acre tracts, on 1 0-acre — yes, right 

 down to two-acre and one-acre tracts. 

 He will have not the least trouble 

 in finding families that are more pros- 

 perous and contented on 1 acre tracts than 

 the majority of renters on a quarter section 

 of 160 acres on the middle western plains. 



Partially developed lands of the older 

 valleys; logged-off tracts in the regions of 

 abundant rainfall, and small farms in the 

 irrigated sections await the homeseeker of 

 very moderate means. What opportunity 

 has the renter of Iowa or Illinois, farming 

 land Driced at $300 to $500 an acre, to 

 become a land owner? Mighty little, if 

 you are perfectly frank in your answer. 



Bring that eastern renter with his $2500 

 or more of savings to the Northwest and 

 there isn't a thing in the world to prevent 

 him from becoming a ranch owner at once. 

 Of course, he is not expected to purchase 

 a highly developed tract. It is decidedly 

 better that he obtain such land as he can 

 readily manage and develop it intensively 

 himself. 



Picture the unfortunate renter on the 

 $400 land tod.iy, trying to cover a cash 

 rental of $40 to $60 an acre — -with corn 

 selling at 25 cents a bushel and oats at 

 20 cents — and have something left for 

 himself. To pay a $50 rental requires 

 200 bushels of corn. A fine chance for 

 profit after paying the landlord! A 

 wonderful future ahead, indeed! 



Picture that same renter as paying down 

 $2500 or $3000 on 20 acres of'good land 

 in a valley of the Northwest. Suppose he is 

 an earnest and faithful worker and spends 

 15 years in paying any balance and de- 

 veloping a $15,000 ranch of his 'land. 

 Better ffuit readers know he can do this. 

 They know, too, that it would be his own 

 fault if he and his family did not enjov 

 a lot of comforts of life while accomplish- 

 ing this development. .Any number of 



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them have been achieving just such a thing 

 themselves. 



THIS picture is conservatively drawn, 

 Mr. Homeseeker. Nothing would give 

 the writer more pleasure than to have you 

 check up on it. Your findings would 

 absolutely remove any doubts that may now 

 trouble your mind. 



Since there is this contrast in opportuni- 

 ties for the man of moderate means 

 between the East and the Northwest, why 

 is it, many will ask, that more settlers do 

 not flock to our lands? The answer is 

 simply that they do not know of the 

 opportunity that this region offers them. 

 Quite aside from the reflex benefits in 

 meeting the greatest need of the North- 

 west, people of the fruit industry can do 

 no kindlier service for their brothers of 

 the Middle West and East than invite their 

 earnest attention to advantages and oppor- 

 tunities of this region. 



Mr. Homeseeker of the East, the writer 

 urges upon you the supreme test in picking 

 a new location: learn how effectively the 

 region has held its immigrants. 



As a newspaperman in a middle western 

 state, dissatisfied with conditions there, the 

 writer made this test for himself about a 



January, 1922 



decade ago. From what states were the 

 smallest numbers of our restless emigrant 

 returning, dissatisfied, he asked. The 

 answer he easily obtained from his pa-per's 

 mailing list and his own wide acquaintance- 

 ship over the county. 



It would be almost malicious libel to 

 name those states from which large 

 numbers of "former citizens" were hurry- 

 ing back in disgust. The test showed, 

 absolutely, that fewest came back from 

 states of the Pacific Northwest. In truth, 

 it was hard to find anv who had returned 

 from these states because dissatisfied. Th s 

 simple little test immediately solved the 

 writer's moving problem — solved it rightly, 

 thank you. 



It must be added that conditions here 

 have greatly improved since then. Every 

 prospective homeseeker is urged to make 

 this same test for himself. He is urged to 

 come in person, if he wishes and can, to 

 study the Northwest's need for more set- 

 tlers and the future it holds for them. 

 Boom days have long since departed, and 

 he may readily learn just what satisfaction 

 and reward the Northwest offers him in 

 return for his money, his efforts and his 

 time. 



Harvesting Profits From Walnuts 



Here is a view in Charles iTunk-- lurmtili 



SOME of the best walnut groves of the 

 state of Oregon — the Northwest, it 

 might be said — are located at Dundee, and 

 those growers who have the older and 

 larger trees are enthusiastic over walnut 

 growing. Results obtained with their own 

 trees have convinced them that walnut^ 

 are a crop deserving more consideration. 



Dean of the Dundee growers is Charier 

 Trunk, who has plantings totaling 70 acres, 

 38 acres of which are of bearing age, and 



, tlitilt\ \\.iiiuit L^iMvr. at Itiiiiii^t. I IrcK'"-" 



never loses an opportunity to urge the 

 planting of more walnuts. He began with 

 the planting of a 1 0-acre tract in 1906 

 and'has been in the game ever since. Wal- 

 nuts have paid him well; so well that he 

 kept increasing plantings, and a year ago 

 purchased 1 2 acres of trees. 



Here is what Mr. Trunk thinks about 



the wisdom of planting walnuts, providing. 



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