Junction City High School - Junco Ed Yearbook (Junction City, OR)

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Junttinn Qlity Junction City is located in Lane County, fourteen miles north of the county seat, Eugene, and one hundred and ten miles south of Portland. It is the end of a freight dlvision on the main line of the Southern Pacific, and has daily twelve passenger trains, besides many freight trains. The company has built the largest storage oil tank in the valley at this point, and there are two large stock yards, pumping station, turn- table and many other railroad facilities, and lately there has been erected a large, steel water tank and stand pipe. Besides this there are good prospects for an electric railroad being built from Portland to Eugene and passing through junction City. The road has already been built as far as Salem and will be completed and in operation by the first of January, 1912. This will add greatly to our already efficient transportation facilities. The surrounding country is a very rich section. Grain of all varieties and fruit of all kinds are profitably raised. All kinds of stock, sheep and goats are marketed here, junction City being the largest shipper of live stock of any town in the valley outside of Portland. We have three large grain elevators, one flour mill, an excel- .sior factory, two lumber yards, three creameries, thus insuring the top price for our dairy products, two first-aclass hotels, be- sides numerous boarding houses, one feed store, one steam fruit dryer, a solid banking institution, and several general inercliam dise stores, two hardware stores, while the other trades and pro- fessions are well represented. Our educational and religious institutions are of the best, as there are two public schools and a full course high school. Our churches are four in number, namely, Methodist Episcopal, South Methodist, Christian and Dane Evangelical. We have a large number of fraternal orders and numerous beneficiary soc1eties. Our fire department is the best of any city of our size in the valley, having a steam fire engine, hooks and ladders and all other modern appliances. Our commercial club and womanis auxiliary each have a large membership of enterprising citizens, Who are doing and have already done much toward the physical and Civic improve- ment of our town and community, the Womanls club securing a park site from the railroad company Which is being artisti- cally arranged and will further enhance the beauty of our city. They are also holding a TiPunkin Showh each year. The first one Was held in September of last year and proved to be a great H.-.Ngs a - A e

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IUII O I Enarh inf Ehumt T se Sovems , 5 Je Soren Johnson J. H. Miller, Chairman

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.Grain 0i uSEd. AH ' Junction nvn in the . an excej. Is insuring hotels, be. ;tcam fruit merchan- s and pm- the best, :h School. lipisc0pal, 'c ham iicficiary ze in the g and ll half 3 ing and pull? N Bimini grilr'll' T fill g lli'il grail success in every way, bringing forth many prize winning dis- plays. Their exhibition of fruit at the Lane County fair won the silver cup offered by the Northern Pacific railway while numerous other prizes were captured by the several exhibits of t1.1s community. The second Annual Exhibition will be held 1n September of this year. In the improvement line the past year proved to be an epoch making one. Most of the cityls streets were graded and graveled while several miles of cement curbing were put down. Nearly all the residences now have cement walks and in many other lines much activity has been exhibited. The work on the walks has commenced again this spring, there being several built already. A large number of residences have been erected while at present, a cement house is being constructed. Two sites have been cleared for the erection of business houses, the work on which will be started in the near future. Our town is rapidly growing in pOpulation and territory, the number of people, including the city and the suburbs, now being about 1,200. It is predicted that this number will be doubled within a few years, as we have plenty of. room for growth and a large number are arriving from the East almost daily. ' There are no saloons in Junction City, nor in all of Lane County. Local option prevails in a large number of the counties of Oregon and saloons are a thing of the past. They were voted out of this city in 1905 and out of the county in 1907. People settling in this place thereby escape the evil which is more prev- alent in the larger cities. Heads of families can come here and settle and rear their children without fear, as the moral condi- tions are of the best. Though Junction City is not as large as some other towns of the vallev, it is now classed as one of the progressive little towns that has, a bright future, and those looking for a good place to invest money, or an ideal spot to build a home, are invited to become one of us.