Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1909 — George E. Marshall Succeeding With Big Oregon Fruit Farm. [ARTICLE]

George E. Marshall Succeeding With Big Oregon Fruit Farm.

George E. Marshall, former editor for so many years of the Republican, writes from Medford, Oreg., that he has shipped a car of pears to Chicago, and very kindly has remembered the writer by including a box that is to be expressed here after the car reaches Chicago. Mr. Marshall modestly does not inform us how well he is getting along, but from other reliable sources we learn that his investment in the large fruit farm there has proven better than he had ever thought it would. He originally bought 76 acres, paying $33,000 for it. Last year the crop was damaged by late spring frosts, something that was practically unheard of in that country, but sufficient to considerably discourage a less stout hearted man. To Mr. Marshall, however, it came as only a temporary discouragement, for he had satisfied himself before making the investment that the* fruit crops were almost certain. Last fall he subdivided two acres of his land, all of which lay next to the rapidly growing city of Medford, and sold the lots for $7,000. This spring he sold 12 acres in bulk for S9OO an acre, thus securing for the 14 acres he has sold $17,800. He also reserved the pear crop ori'the 12 acres sold and he has a fine crop for which he was offered $750 an acre for the fruit unpicked. It will be very gratifying news to the many friends of Mr. Marshall and his family to learn of their success.