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FALLS CITY, OREGON photograph gallery. There are several boarding houses, three churches and a good school system of 12 grades, a City Park that would be much appreciated by many a place of several times the size of Falls City. LUMBER INDUSTRY At the present time lumbering is of necessity the principal industry, the rich foothills and slopes of the Coast Range of mountains tributary to Falls City being covered with vast forests of fir, spruce, hemlock and cedar. The logging and cutting of this timber into lumber and preparing it for market gives employment to a large number of men both in the city as well as in the woods. The Falls City Lumber Company alone ships annually more than 20,000,000 feet of lumber from Falls City. The climate is a subject that is much abused by most people in talking of the West, yet the fact cannot and must not be over-looked that it is the climate that either constitutes or causes almost all the difference between the East and the West. Many parts of the East can show about the same mean annual temperature as are found in the most favored sections of the West, but-and here is what makes the great difference-the mean temperature shown by the eastern points is simply the average of the extremes (of summer and winter) while the same mean temperature in the West is infinitely more desirable because it is the result of absence of extremes, and it is because of this absence of extremes in climatic conditions that makes this portion of the West so especially adapted to the growing of fruits, berries, grapes and vegetables, in fact anything in the agricultural or horticultural line does well here. FRUIT GROWING as a specialty is bound to become the leading industry of the country around and tributary to Falls City, the rich soils of the hillsides affording just the conditions required for the production of the finest class of fruits. The perfect drainage as well as (next page) INDUSTRY COMMERCE HOME, AT FALLS CITY

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