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

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31 unriinn Glity 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 division on the main line of the Southern Pacific railroad, and has thelve daily passenger trains, besides many freight trains. The company has built the largest storage oil tank in the valley at this piont. They have here two large stock yards, a pumping station with steel supply tanks and stand pipe. Besides this, the Oregon Electric Railway is building through the town. An up-to-date depot will be built, and cars will be run- ning by the end of the year. This will not only bp a great conve- uience to the town, but is sure to make it develop rapidly in the fu- ture, as the surrounding country includes one of the most fertile sections of the Willamette Valley. Grain of all kinds and fruits of all varieties are profitably raised, and Junction City is the largest shipping point of live stock in the valley except Portland. we have two grain elevators, one flour mill, an excelsior fac- tory, two lumber yards, three cream stations-thus insuring the top price for our dairy products; two first class hotels, besides numerous boarding houses; one steam fruit dryer; a solid banking institution and several general merchandise stores; two hardware stores, etc., among our business establishments. And all other trades and pro- fessions are equally well represented. Our Commercial Club and Womanls Auxiliary each has a mem- bership of citizens who are doing and have already done much, not only for the improvement of our town, but for the surrounding country as well. And it has been principally through their influence that the many civic improvements have been made within the last three years. Cement sidewalks and curbings have been built along the main business and residence streets of the city, and further street improve- ments are under way. Bonds have been sold and the contract let for twelve blocks of hard surface pavement, which will be completed by the middle of the summer. Many m'odern residences have been built during the last year, and several are now under construction, with good prospects for a 8

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Enarh nf Ehuratinn J. H. Miller Soren Jensen, Chairman Jesse Soverns

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