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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1922)
V i 1 0 , No. 12 IIOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922 VOL. XXXIV ' " ' " f " ' Hood River County Is one of the best Counties In Oregon in which to locate just as Hood River is the best town. And then, ' speaking of one of the best banks remem ber the First National of Hood River ranks very high. YOUR Business Appreciated The First National Bank HOOD RIVER, OREGON Eastman Kodaks and Films Our Stock is Always Complete Kodak Developing and Printing 24-Hour Service The quality of our developing the tone and finish of our prints the success we have in bringing out unfavorable exposures prove that Experts Do Our Kodak Work KRESSE DRUG CO. Come in and hear the new Vlctorola Records. Can Your Tomatoes Now! '.Even this little rain we have had is cracking the to matoes at a rate that you can not imagine unless you handle them. They look all right on top but cracks de velop at the stem and get bigger from day to day. A warm spell now would cause those cracked tomatoes to ferment and spoil. Of course you may think them all right but we con sider it poor policy to use fruit of , inferior quality. If you take into consideration the expense of canning and the waste and extra labor in handling, you will find it false economy to use an inferior product for canning. We pick only firm ripe Tomatoes for .canning and sell them at a price which barely covers the expense of handling. Bring your boxes and get them for 2 cents per lb. and don't forget the time to can Tomatoes is now! TWENTIETH CENTURY TRUCK FARM JOHN KOBERG, Owner 1 inn I II mim 'II mil ill iHlilHII II I rim ill I ill IT The Sowers are the Reapers l it Last"week we used a quotation from Dr. Samuel Smiles, a noted Scottish writer and while his book on thrift ls'stlll in mind we want to quote him again. "The great highroad of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast well-doing and they who are most persistent and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the mdst successful. Success treads on the heels of every right effort." Our Idea, of course, is that successful people are the best bank customers and thinking along these lines Is good for us all. r i m " That's Our Home How gratifying it would lie to have your children refer to the place in which they live with pride and say: "That's our Home." Give your children an honest-to-goodness home of their own. They deserve more than the uncer tainty and inconvenience of a rented house. Now is the time to build a home of your own. Come and see the many plans and pictures of homes ex hibited at this office they are here for you to use. Emry Lumber & Fuel Co. Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade Exclusive Representative of National Builder Bureau 12J BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Member Federal Reserve System IDEALLY SITUATED SUBURBAN TRACTS I have eight acres, beautifully wooded, just west of City Automobile Park, which I will sell as a whole or will sub-divide. Upper lots front on Sherman Avenue, those of lower level on Columbia River Highway. Here one may have a home combining the freedom of country life with city conveniences. This tract will be closed out right away. VALLEY'S BEST FRUIT LAND I have fruit land for any purpose on new Mt. Hood Loop Highway. No raw land of the Valley more conve niently located. On' west slopes of Booth Hill with per fect air drainage and proof against frost damage. Two hundred and fifty acres of perfect-lying land, sixty already under cultivation at Boneboro on Mt. Hood It. It. line, half way between Parkdale and Dee. Ten acres of 12-year-old orchard, with crop of 4000 to 5000 boxes this year. Concrete packing and storage house. Two miles south of city on West Side. Tel. 2094 G. R. BONE 606 OAK STREET NOW IS THE TIME To et your cars and trucks ready for that vacation trip and the apple season. Do it now and have them ready when you want them. . I am equipped for and am do!n& car wash ing and &reastn at reasonable prices. I have with me Mr. Fred Jackson, one of the best mechanics and trouble shooters In this section of the country. If you have anything quite troublesome bring it In. "Satisfactory Service All-ways" 2 4-HOUR SERVICE Shay's SERVICE Shop AT THE FASHION STABLES shop im Re. 277 J I I Hood River Machine VRs. General Automotive Repairing Welding of all Kinds and General Machine Work of all kinds HOOD RIVER MACHINE WKS. UNGER & LENZ, Props. Tel. 3173 LEGION PARTY EXPLORES HOOD MOUNTAIN PEAK ENTIRELY CIRCLED Legionnaires Also Co Over the Top and Pass under Portions of Reed Glacier Five members of the Hood River Post of the American Leigon the past week BDent five days in the most thor ough exploration ever participated in by any individuals or organization on the snow peak of Mount Hood. The legionnaires made their strenuous trip in order to gain a personal knowledge of the snowfields and glaciers, which they annually exploit in the Mount Hood Legion climb. The gieat war veteran?, headed by Mark Weygandt, official guide on Le gion climb parties, on their five-day jaunt went over the mountain, around it, and they declare mat tney passeu under a good portion of it in their un precedented feat of exploring Reed glacier. ;located on the southwest side of the peak. Tuesday, August , tne Legion men, including Kent Shoemaker. Hans Hoer lein, Fred Donnerberg, Harry W. Far rell and William Cochran, penetrated the upper portion of Reed glacier. They were told by the guides of the south side of the mountain that the un dertaking would be impossible. Indeed, without exception the explorers tnem selves say they decided several times that they reached an impasse, and it is likely that thev would have back tracked if they had not considered a forward march less difficult than the task of dipping into dark ice caverns and forming living bridges across deep glacial chasms already encountered. The men and their guide figure that they traveled al least six miles on the cracked surface of the huge ice cake in making one mile as the crow flies. The feat required 74 hours. Frequent ly thev were 30 feet down in huge cre vasses. They made their way through numerous ice tunnels, the borea 15 or 20 feet long. "Take a cake of artificial ice as it comes from the freezing can," says Mr. Shoemaker, "and then hit it sev eral times with a big sledgehammer. Imagine what you haVe left magnified a million times and you will have some idea of what Reed glacier is like. Its surface is criss-crossed with giant seams. The ever grinding force of the mountain has heaved portions of the field up into giant ice pinnacles. At other points we were walking along crevasses that seemed to have no bot tom. Rocks dropped into these depths clink clanked away, as thev grazed projecting sides for many seconds af ter they had left the light of day. It kind of gave a fellow a creepy feeling a ha waited for the rising sounds to end. Reed glacier is the place for the mountanieer woo wants to test nis en durance and experience a thrill for every moment of the trip across it." The legionnaires, however, declare that every hour of each full day of their exploration at the high elevation had its moment of inspiration and thrill. No novel experiences were met with Saturday afternoon. At crack of day Sunday the party was out on Eliot glacier. They spent several hours se curing photographs or crevasses ana ice cascades here and investigated a huge crack into which a pack mule slid July 14 when preparations were hfiinir made for the annual climb ol the legionnaires of this year. The mule had disappeared into the "in nards" of the ice field. The body of the animal, it was declared by Guide Weygandt, may remain frozen for sev eral hundied years before emerging at the snout down the mountain side. The tmrtv then proceeded over the ridge above Coopers Spur to Newton Clark planer. Sunday afternoon was pent in sliding djwn snowfields there and in exploration of the glacier of the White river. The party camped the first night at the timber line beside the trail leading from Government Camp up to the summit. Monday morning a further investiga tion was made of White river glacier nd after viewing the crevasse of Zig-zag glacier, the reereationists and Mr. Weveandt climbed the mountain from the south side. Al the party topped the summit the tun was just sinking into the Pacific, and the month's full moon, the harvest moon, was lifting itself from the hori ton of eastern Oregon pleateau coun try. "We were tired, of course," said Mr. Shoemaker, "after our strenuous efforts of that day and were ready to throw ourselves down any old place for a rest, but there, with the mountain almost calm, an unusual phenomenon for the great elevation, the snowy pin nacle just tipped by the last sun'a rays on the west side and the silvery light of the moon laying a halo around it on the east, we stood in a kind of awe It teemed that the world was turned into some giant auditorium, with the sun and moon two giant siHitlights, and we were in these spotlights. It seemed as though we were floating for a time out in the infinite. Such a moment makes a mere man feel awfully small and insignificant. "The sun dropped with a suddenness that seemd almost to have sound to it. and the western slope of the mountains and the vsst expanse ol forests were in deeD darkness. The moon, however. lighted with an unusual brilliancy for Luna, all the world to the east. The night atop Mount Hood was unusually warm, the forest lookouts there told us. The minimum temperature was onl 38 degrees. "We just sat on our high perches there that night content to look otl in to space and listen to an occasional crack as some glacier sidit or the in ternal forces of the frozen-over vol cano caused some other rending of Ihe rock and icy heap. There is still a fire somewhere down in the depths of Hood ; and vapors, dense and sulphury, arise constantly from around Crater Rock on the south side. We might have watched throughout the r.igbt but for our r.eed of sleep for the rext day. ' when the Ji!T.cu!t trip over Reed gla eif r mas scheduled. "It seemed that we had been sleep ing for only a few minutes when some ore tailed a.wsrnirg trat it was sun tue. ?.rie of us legion mfn ever hn to see a more beautiful'sigtt than that of last Tuesday morring when the sun broke suddenly and grandly from the eastern Oregor'j lains. One mom ert it was dark, and the next the light mountain. There was.no slow process of dawn there. The sunlight danced for a moment on the brilliant snow atoji the peak andjthen it fairly raced its way down the sides of the moun tain. We were in a rosy glow, while all below us was black, gloom of night's last stand turning to a purple as the sun ascended. An eagle swept up from the gloomy depths of Sand canyon, where on some pinnacle he probably left his mate to guard a nest, to meet the stnshine. The rays fairly glinted on his wings as he struck the sunlight." Tuesday, before proceeding to need glacier the party explored Crater rock. Mr. Weygandt climbed forizuu leet up to the summit of the jagged point. There he stood on a.surface two feet square while Mr. Donnerberg took his picture. Ihe legionnaires spent luesoay nigni at the edge of Paradise park on the southwestern side of the peak. Here they say the forest is dotted with beautiful meadows, where acre ex panses of colorful wild flowers are blossoming. Where the night eamp was made the tracks of wild animals, deer bear, wild cats and foxes, were as plentiful as those made by domestic animals in a barnyard. Mr. Farrell, historian on the mountain jaunt, who took notes on the various points of in terest, gathered 22 specimens.of unus ual wild flowers. "There were many other species." says Mr. Farrell "but I only picked such as were a novelty to us lowland dwellers. Some of the flowers are startling for their coloring. Others have a sweet perfume that nils the highland atmosphere. They attract humming birds and bees, and butter flies may be seen migrating to the highland nectar-bearing blooms. "To me the mountain trip was the most wonderful experience I have ever had. The old peak and its environs of highland forests with their flowering meadows certainly sold themselves to me. Our trio has made me a more ar dent booster for our annual climb, for I feel that every citizen of tho nation should be brought into closer contact with the inspiring attractions, soon to be made more available to the general public by the Mount Hood Loop High way. But the completion of the road will result in no more than a beginning of development of this scenic asset of our state. We need to begin at once to promote construction of trails around the entire base at the snowline, In or der that recreationists may see the glaciers and the fields of. appealing (lowers. We had numerous adventures on our trip, and at times we were in some danger. The closest call to. an acci dent, however, occurred the last day while we were on Loe glacier. Mr. Donnerberg wantej to take a picture of a crevasse. The wind had been blowing somewhat. He asked Mr. Shoemaker and me to hold to his coat tails, in order to steady him should the gale resume itself with vigor. It was fortunate that we did. A sudden gale hit us. We dropped to our knees as though by instinct. It was well that we did, otherwise we might have been pitched bodily into the 100-foot depths of the crevasse. If we hadn't been holding Donnerberg he mihgt not have noticed the sudden squall until too late. We had to brace ourselves with our alpenstocks to keep the wind from pushing us over the icy precipice." From Reed glacier the explorers passed over to the glacier of the Sandy river. Ihe view from the snowfields here into the enormous clefts made by the river were declared magnificent Ihey iourneyed up Sandy glacier and crossed above Barrett Spur onto Ladd glacier. The huge promontory on the west side of the peak, the climbers de clare, is formed by an almost solid rock, while Coopers Spur is made up of a formation of loose boulders and some earth formation. The surface of the Sandy, Ladd and Coe glaciers, the latter between Ladd and Eliot glaciers, is considerably moother than that of the others. The legionnaires found many vantage points for thrilling slides. Ski enthusiasts. they say, would have an opportunity of excellent sport throughout the sum mer. At several places natural tobog gans are available. Coleman s slide and Seymour slide offer the reereation ist steep inclines several hundred feet long, where sliding can be indulged in safely. All of the climbers returned with extreme priase for Guide Weygandt. They say he made possible safe trips over the glacial fields, where an ama teur might have precipitated a tragedy at any step. When the party was en gaged in negotiating some unknown and rough glacial field Mr. Hoerlein was always sent ahead, while the guide held him with a rope, to form a front anchor. Guide Weygandt remained be hind to form the rear anchor, and thus others of the party always had a steady lifeline to hold to. Guide Wey- nandt performed some remarkable feats in negotiating several difficult points in bringing up the rear without the aid of a rope. Each of the climbers carried about 40 pounds of baggage. The rationing was worked out before the trip by Mr. Farrell and Mr. Hoerlein. breakfasts consisted of bacon, rice, bread, butter. sugar, coffee and prunes. The rice and prunes were put to soak the night be fore. For lunch the men had bread, butter, cheese, corn beef, chocolate and raisins. For supper they ate ham, soup bread, butter, coffee and sugar. Wednesday morning, hef.ire any other memberjof the party noticed any peculiarity of the atmosphere. Guide Weygandt remarked that thev would have to hurrv their explorations as soon as possible and leave the moun tain before afternoon was'well under wav. He remarked that slftorm would break on the peak before the day was over. He said the very feel of the at mosohere toldlhim.of the coming or a storm. "Soon," said Mr. Farrell, "his pre diction was f proven. While we were on Lliot Glacier we noticed a peculiar r.henomenon on the too of the moun tain. It was as though some g;ant on the south side Cf the peak was tossing over millions of little feathers. This fog formation, caued by tre moist urm air striking the cold I'eak, was caught up by wind on the north side and tossed and twirled. The entire whirling mass was shaped li a huge howl inverted over the ton of the peak. "This farewell greetirg impressed all cf us. It seemed as tht-utrh the old mountain, after the days of calm that has been given us. was really thowirg us how dangerous she could ,be and how rr.ighty;ere the forces cf nature there, once they were loosed. Our trip had been a great success, f.r we had come to this great 'mother rf Oregon APPLE VALLEY GREETING WARM UNANIMOUS SUPPORT OFFERED FAIR 1323 Caravan lias First Meeting Here Saturday on 1100-Mile Swing Around the State The Apple Valley greeting of the 1925 Exposition Caravan, the 82 mem bers of which rolled in at 4.30 p. m. Saturday, exactly on time, initiated the 1100-mile jour.ney with a spontaneous enthusiasm, declared by the booster party as prophetic of a statewide im petus to plans for the great Oregon fair. The estimated 1,750 people who crowded a roped-off city block on Oak street between Sacond and Third, where the caravan cats were halted during their 30-minute Etay, raised their voices in one concerted VAye," when W. P. Merry, of the Portland Ad. Club, asked them if they favored the 1925 fair. It was significant that 75 per cent of the crowd were ranchers and orchardists in town for Saturday shop ping. The keynote speech was made by. Portland's mayor, Geo. L. Baker, who urged not only elimination of sectional differences between Oregon communi ties, but that Portland, Seattle, San. Francisco and Los Angeles forget jeal ousies and work in cooperation for the . upbuilding of the Pacific coast. . He cited the need of new population in Oregon to leaven the tax burden, and. declared that the fair roust be held in Portland, characterized as the key to the Oregon situation. Rut Portland, Mayor Baker said, cannot exist with out the state behind it. The speaker urged that Oregon citizens vote for the proposed constitutional admendment, , in order that the city might voto $3,-, 000,0000 in bonds for the fair. Public citizens and business men there, he , said, will subscribe an additional $1, 000,000. "You will not be asked for further, aid," he said, "but your public spirited , citizens, if they wish, may add their own subscriptions to ours voluntarily." Mayor liaker cited how attendance at former great international exposi- tions had journeyed by rail, but he predicted that the state's $73,000,000 good roads investment and the ever in creasing popularity of motoring would result in the visit of thousands, at tracted primarily by the exposition, to, every part of the state. The caravan was met at the Colum bia Gorge hotel by a committee com posed of Mayor Scobee, County Judge Hasbrouck, Truman Butler and Leroy . Child. As the caravan entered the ' gateway to the valley, after traveling through a driving lain the most of the , way up the Highway, the sun broke through a cloud bank. The meeting was opened by brief talks from Judge Hasbrouck, Mayor bcobee and Mr. Childs, who pledged the fair their aid. A feature of the gathering was the . ensemble tinging of "When You Come , Out to Oregon in 1925." with Walter Jenkins leading. A box of apples was ' distributed to the crowd. The caravan literally stopped a show in The Dalles Saturday night. It was the Sells-Floto circus, and Mayor Baker was the star in the act which - halted things. Citizens of The Dalles . had arranged as a feature of the cara van's entertainment there a trip en . masse to the circus. The caravan crowd sat in a specially reserved sec tion, after marching in double- file, gayly-colored parasols spread. After the grand entry and march around of the regular circus hosts there was a dignified pause and then , came along Billy Sunday, the biggest elephant in the circus, gayly capari soned, and in the huwdah sat Mayor Baker. The elephant was stopped in the center of the ring and the caravan- ers arose and cheered. Then Mayor Bnker launched into a live talk in supportjof the 1925 exposi tion project, bespeaking the moral and active support of the people of the state at large and telling why the ex position is to be for all the state as well as for Portland, The caravan personnel was: Kirk Thompson, Tommy Luke, James S. Sbeehy, A. II. Johnston, A. K. Shear er. Geo. L. Baker, David B. Seger, Geo. L. Rauch. W. P. Merry, D. L. Hopgan, E. N. Strong, Leslie Butler, Ij. K . Wynkoop, E. K. Gilmer, D. S. Williams. A. W. Stanchfield. G. B. Hegardt, Dr. C. G. Black, J. Ira Rout ledge, G. A. Poggi, A. R. Ritter, L. A. Jones, Al Cleveland, A. C McDon ald, W. D. Whitromb. Mrs. W. D. Whitcomb, John E. Gratke, Phil F. Buebke, Jerry Parker. Ralph Shep pard, Walter Jenkins. Ed Burness, J. llartung, Serfeant J. A. Myers, Cor poral 11. A. Slowik, Corporal I G. Andorfer, W. H. Barton, C. T. Burg, W. P. Strandborg, Shelby L. Wigigns, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Stoner, A. H. Madden, Russell Smith, C. H. Stewsrt, M. M. Ringler. Kenneth Ringler, Paul R. Kelty, G. F. Peek, William Peek, John Hedderly, Otto Hartwig, Jerome Stack. A. W. Cautborne, "Sandv." C S. Piper, George McGarr, 11. R. Wright and J. L. Henderson. PROSPECTS FOR PEARS ARE MUCH BETTER (Continued on Last Page) The Hood River Valley par crop, according to latest reports cf growers, will be of grester tonnage than antici pated following the failure of the sea son's record bloom to pollenize. Tha heavy blossom indicated a record ton nage of all varieties of pears, but cold weather throughout the period of blooming prevented working of injects, and the aettirg of the fruit was very poor. The season's weather conditiors have caused the fruit to grow rat idly, ard the pears will be of good size. The Bartlett yield, will be one of the beft ever harvested. The harvest of this variety, which canners are now buying at prices ranging from 140 to J-J per ton, will begin nent week. Growers are offtrrig d'Anjous for $3.50 per box, but no tales have been reported to date. Formerly d'Ar.joua have been harvested largely in Septem ber. Experiments by Leroy Ch Us and Gordon C Brown, cf the Hood River Experiment station, deveUped last winter that the rears will keep as well as apples if ilk-wed to rrtture oi the trees, ard the d'Anjou harvest of this sesson will not be started rr.Uvh before October. .of csj was retting on the top of tfce