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& you vocint tfie news, su6scri6e for tfic flcvDs. iJf you voant printing, fia)c us do it. 3fic Hews Cea& THE HOOD RIVER NEWS VOLUME 6, NUMBER 17 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1910 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR Water-Light Negotiations to Transfer Property Ex pected to Be Closed in Few Days--Local Capital Interested In the New Project Events In connection with estab lishing the city's new water system have traveled ut a fast pace during the last few hours and had the city council known ttt X o'clock Monday night what It did a few hours later eleven bids which were submitted for Its construction would not hare Ihh-ii returned to the bidder un opened. The (net that the money was not forthcoming when It was time to nien the hid of the numerous con trite torn who were here or who had representative here, wan emharass Inir to the council and unpleasant for the contractor. Some of the latter who said nothing when their bids were rejected unopmed at the coun cil meeting, afterward at the hotels said Home very unplcnsunt things about Hood Hlver and the method of IU city father. It wa alo the general opinion of the bidder that there wa not one bid In the bunch of eleven for the contruction of the entire system that would come with in $25,000 if the amount of the bond and some hinted that they knew of figures that exceeded It by $35,000. They claimed that labor I scarce and high, and material alo, and that the new system can not Is' put In complete for less than 125,aH) at the lowest figure. Others thought the council should hare opened the bid and given the lowest bidder the Itcneflt of an exten sion of ten days' grnee Is-fore reject ing It. When t came time tooen the bids the council room was crowded with (he largest audience t ha contained for many a day, most of whom were Udders thetUHelres or representatives of contracting flrms and others rep resentatives ""I'l'to' houses. The ceremony of dlpoiug of their sus penno wa short, but apparently not sweet. I'ouncllman Hroslua stated that It had lieen the underHtundlug of all the memlters of the council that If the money for the bond wa not available nt the time bid for con struction were opened all of them would be rejected a the council con sidered till the falret method to all. He then moved that all the bids be COLLEGE GIRL TOJRUIT FARM The senior clan of Wellesley college has leeu startled by the declaration of one of It memlters, a Chicago girl, f hat she Intend to go to Oregon when her studies are concluded In June and become both wealthy and famous by raising big red Oregon apples. The young woman who hopes to distinguish herself I Mls Marjorle A. Bnyder, daughter of Dr. (). C. Snyder, 1451 Dearborn avenue. She I a grad uate of the Lake View high school and I well known among the young er nienilsTS of north shore society. While most of the graduates of Wellesley and similar schools are fond of planning some ca rcer to fol low after their graduation, the choice of Miss Huydur I unusual. Many of the young womsn dream of educational work In "teaching the young Idea to shoot," and possibly those with suffragette tendencies hope to bring about a new form of politics which will contain no ele ment of graft, but one of their num ber might guide young fruit tree shoots, or herself Ufome a "grafter by splicing a Hen Iavl twig to a Northern Spy limb has never occurr ed to them. ' My daughter has a ten acre apple orchard In Oregon," said lr. Snyder last night, "and I knew she was nuxlous to go out there and cultivate It herself, but I did not know she had decided the matter. "None of the careers which usually appeal to young women of her age seems to Interest her, and If enthusi asm helps any she ought to Ih a sue cessful fruit farmer." Miss Snyder's land Is In the heart of the tjregon apple district, where vjntense horticulture" Is practiced, tnealin lielng to raise a superior quality of fruit rather than a larger amount. Ten acres I considered a fair sUec orchard (or one farmer. Plant Sale Under Way rejected. Mayor McDonald made a short statement In regard to the money not Ix-lng here and believed that rejection would be the best course to pursue. Councilman Hall seconded the motlou to reject, whl'.-h was unanimously carried by the councllmen present, consisting of Hall, Broslus, Arnold and Slocom. Muggins and Wright were not pres ent. A silence then ensued, broken only by the noise of the dropping Jaws of the bidders, who, as soon a they re gained their foet, pocketed their bids and silently stole away. Late In the night a telegram was received from the Nuveen company stating that the bonds had been approved by the company's attorney and It Is believed that the money will now le forth coming. The fact of the delay In getting this knowledge before the council In time to notify bidders Is thought to be unfortunate as It will mean some delay that could have been avoided la making preparations to start the work. It Is thought that It will prejudice some of the bid ders against making future bid. Firm lu Portland, Spokane and Los Angeles were represented. Other action taken by the council was to extend the time of Contractor Aldred on the 12th street Improve ment, ordering a sewer In district No. H and Instructing the city mar shal to order the farmers' Irrigating company to place Its Irrigating sys tem In the city limits underground. MISS MARGARET WALLACE . MARRIED III LONDON The many friends of Mr. and Mrs, It. H. Wolluce aud their daughter, Miss Margaret Wallace, were de lightfully surprised last week to receive announcement card of her marriage abroad April Itlth. While the detail of the marriage of this charming young Hood Hirer lady are lacking a notice of the wedding which appeared In the Oregonlan Sunday will lie ofluterest. It I a follows: "In Loudon Saturday a week ago took place the wedding of a former St. Helen's Hall girl, Ml Margaret Wallace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Wallace of Hood Hlver, Ore., to Harold Kocnemann, of Cologne, (ieriuany. The ceremony wns per formed at Christ's Church, Waburn Square, at 2:30 p. m. on April lUt h, and a wedding breakfast followed at the Hotel Russell to which 20 guests were bidden,' who for the most par, were relatives of Mr. Kocnemann, who came from qermany for the event. For the past six months Mrs. Koenewnnn has been traveling abroad with her parents and her aunt, Mrs. Laura Dardcu. She is also a niece of Mrs. O. A. Lyman, Mrs. W. ('. Holinnn and Miss Jessie Holmai) Mr- and Mrs. Koeticmann will spend their honeymoon touring the I'nlted States. n June they will come to Portland and divide their time for the coming six month here and at Hood Hlver. Later they will return to Cologne." $50,000 LAND SALE RECORD AT MOSIER The largest land sale ever recorded In the Moslcr district took place Sat urday when Medregor Hothfur sold for C. A. McCarger the 229 acre place he recently bought from Ueorge Slelllnger for $50,000. The purchaser was Mark A. Meyer the well known capitalist of New York and memlcr of the firm of Flelschner & Meyer. Mr. Meyer has given orders to spare no expense In making the place which Is one of the greatest In scenic beauty along the Columbia river as line a country home as can be found on the coast. From Its grounds can be seen the Columbia river, Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood. An Immense gang of men will be put to work Im mediately planting orchard nnd Im proving and beautifying the grounds. The ladles of the Haptlst church will hold a bake sale at Nichol'sdrug store on the heights next Saturday, April ilOlh. PORTLAND EMPIRE CITYON PACIFIC Two giant Mogul locoinotlr-. chugging, Jerking and struggling up the mountain defile finally land twelve loaded freight cars atp the summit of the pass. As the tired engines rest after their mighty labor, the music of tumbling cataracts Is heard amid the Impress Ire grandeur of towering peaks. With a rumble and a roar an ava lanche thunders down the mountain side, and the engine crews tremble; ever mindful of the fate of entire trains which have been burled by the devastating slides. Only a few score miles away the scene I different. One little engine, cheerily puffing its even, rhythmic song, trundles IK) loaded freight cars through another pass o( the same mountain rang level grade all the way through- Beside the IWcar train rolls the broad Columbia Hirer flowing plac idly through the heart of the lofty Cascade mountain system. The din of Wall street for half a century drowned the music of the cataract, the roar of the avalanche and the dashing of the Columbia. But America's kings of finance see the bulance sheets, which show cost of operation and cost of maintaining railroad rights of way. The econo my of letting long trains roll down a water grade compared with dragging and pushing short trains over enow capied mountain barriers finally be came apparent. Wall street Is often slow. Some of the biggest facts In trans continental transportation long remained un- precelved. But once seen, studied, understood and appreciated, they were acted upon. And finally Wall street awoke to what the Columbia River meant as the oue water grade outlet for Interior America all the way from Canada to Mexico. Awake, Wall street begun to act. This was five years ago. The Hill Interests built down the Columbia River, from Spokane to Portland. The Harritnan Interests replaced the pioneer ramshackle streak of rust along the other hunk of the Columbia with a modern roadlwd equal to that built by the Hill millions. Five years have confirmed the tardy Judgement of Wall street ns was Inevitable. The Columbia Hlver gorge through the Cascade-Sierra mountain burrter was found to be the one economical high way for the nation's commerce to the Facltic. Cost of operation and maintaining the roadbeds are seen to be from 4i to 70 per cent less than by any other route. As James J. Hill said: "The easi est way over the Cascade mountains Is down the Columbia Hirer." And It was Just the other day, this month, that one freight train of MO cars, probably the longest that was ever hauled Into any city, was brought down the Columbia Hlver on Mr. Hill's North Bank railroad, drawn by only one engine. So much for east and west tratlic from Interior America. Then there Is the vast commerce north and south of the Facltic Slope. Over 3.000,000 people live now In the Pad lie States. population Is In creasing every year pouring In from the Fast like a tidal wave, but so vast are the resource and so varied the opportunities that the cry for more people will be sounded for gen erations. This population has Just one natural laud route for north ond south travel the continuous ralley iM'ginnlng In the Oulf of California and running 2.000 miles straight north without Interruption through Puget Sound. Already this valley Is veined with railroads the only through north anil south railroad west of the Rocky Mountains. The Interior canyon-seamed plateau be tween the Rocky and Cascade-Sierra ranges has no continuous valley sys tem north nnd south. The const has no other continuous north nnd south valley. Nature cut one great groove and only one. And where does the one line of north-nnd south travel cross the one east-and-west route the Columbia River outlet. It crosses at Portland. Oregon. And It so happens that besides Itclng at this one junction point, Portland Is the head of ocean navi gation and Is by Itself the one coin menial, social nnd financial center of nn agricultural and timber terri tory ns large as the Oerinan F.mplre. All these factories for city-building concentrate at this one point Port laud, Oregon. And Wall street finally found It out. Having found It out. It is pour ing Its eager million Into Portland PROTECT FORESTS WITHJELEPHONES Most prominent among the meas ures which I'ncle Sam has taken to protect his national forests In the west from heavy loss by fire Is the extended use of the telephone. This handy little Instrument has proren Us worth during the past year. Ac cording to figures which hare Just been published by the Department of Agriculture, the loss from fire has been greatly reduced, although the number ot conflagrations has teen actually larger than In the year pre ceding. Through the aid of the telephone assistance Is brought to the spot as soon as u bluze I discovered. In this way It I possible to prevent the spread o( a fire and to confine It to a small area. In one Instance last year a firv-tlghtlng force wa collect ed in a lew nours wnere at least a day would have been wasted If aid uau tieen sought by means of a courier. The number of fires In the national forests lu 1909 was 410 larger than In 190S, but almost 0 per cent were ex tinguished before as much as fire acres had len damaged. The fires covered less than one and one-half acres, and the damage done to the burned-over area averaged but $1.25 an acre. According to the government's figures, during 1909 there were 3,1.18 fires lu the national domain, burn ing over about 300,000 acres. lu 1908 there had been 400,000 acres laid waste. Last year some 170,000,000 board feet of tlmter were consumed, as against 2:10,000,000 the previous year. The loss ul value of t.lmter de stroyed wns less than $:S00,000. The loss the year before was about f 450, 000. These figures seem to Indicate that although the damage to forests Is still very great, the fires are not so much of a scourge as formerly. With a view to still greater Increasing the fire-fighting facilities, the work of extending the protective system Into all parts ot the national woodlands Is being pursued this year. The tele phone will play un Important part In the measures that are to be taken to reduce still further the loss In western forests. Iu some sections the forest rangers are supplied with portable telephones which they carry strapped to their backs and with which they can se cure connection at any couvenlent point. The government owns and operates n number of telephone Hues, and makes connection with lookout stations, where watchmen with field glasses are kept to search for signs of fire. The Instruments and line material for these systems have been furnished by the Western Flectrlc Company, the largest manufacturer of telephones In the world. Many of the states have Jurisdic tion over great tracts of wooded land and maintain fire-Oghtlng sys tems of their own. it Is Interesting to note that lu New York, where lookout stations are fully equipped with telephones and telescopes for detecting and reporting fires, the loss during loot) amounted to only $25,101, whereas the year before the damage had totalled f tll4.ono. Forest fire are still one of the greatest problems the government has to face. Since W0 more than two thousand have lost their lives through conflagrations lu the na tional forests. Five hundred and fifty million acres of standing timber are centered In six Pacific and north western states material for a glorious bonfire. To prevent fires seems to be out of the question, but; It is possible to check the spread of the flames, and In Its work of the past year the government has given a demonstration of what up-to-date methods will do. and the Oregon Country for develop ment. Cold, conservative, the ruler of F.mplre, Portland has prospered un. aided by outside capital. It had grown opulent, powerful and Indif ferent. Its wealthy pioneer city builders held the purse-strlmrs for the entire Pacific Northwest, disdain ing to notice what F.astern capital was doing for other cities to reach which it had to cross mountain tops. And Portland continued to prosper. It prosperity, through panic a well as through good tines, gradually Im came a by-word, Fast a well as Far West, but F.astern capital continued to seek an outlet elsewhere, until within the last few years. Now 1t is pourlnu Into Portland, unsolicited, and engaging In the development of Oregon and the up building of what Inevitably will lie the metropolis of the entire Pacific Coast. rjcwo of Bond Sale Arrived Too Late After Council Had Rejected All Bids to Construct System Dispatch Arrives An nouncing Acceptance of Bonds by Buyers An article la Saturday's Oregonlan says thut "nfter hanging fire for sev eral months a deal has been made whereby the Hood River Light & Power Company takes over the properties of the Hood River Electric Light, Water & Power Company for $115,000. AccordlDg to John D. Wll- cox, oue of the Incorporators of the new concern, the final transfer will be made next week. "An electric line, built as a feeder to the O. R. & N. Is said to be one of the first Intentions of the concern. At present Hood River has a good electric light and power service, but the town Is said to be growing so fast the present plunt U being out distanced. "The Incorporators of the Hood Rirer Light A Power Company are prominent Portland men. John D. Wilcox Is a local real estate dealer, Mrt Minor I associated with the law firm of Teal & Minor and Robert Smith Is one of the owners of the COLUMBIA BEACH SHOWS ACTIVITY The Oregon Baptist Summer As sembly Association will establish their headquarters at Columblo Beach this season. The organiza tion, through the Ross-English In vestment Co., has disposed of nearly all of the 100 lots that it will be nec essary for them to sell under their option. The visitor at Columbia Beach this season will find much to engage hi attention. Plenty of activity 1 go ing on at the present time and many changes are belug made. New roads are belug made and old ones Im proved, making the employment of a large gang of men necessary. An architect has been commissioned to draw plans for a new bath house at Columbia Beach. This will be the only natatorlum on the coast north of San Francisco. The pool will Is? 50x100. Work on the auditorium will be started May 1st and will be rushed to completion. It will Is? lu shape for the Chautauqua that will be held July 14th to 24th MASS MEETING OF WOMAfTS LEAGUE There will Is? a meeting of the American Woman's league at the Methodist church Friday evening April 29th lu the Interest of the League and all persons who are will ing to boost Hood River and Its In terests are Invited. Prominent pro fessional and buslues men will speak on matters of great Importance nt the Invitation of the league. There are some things to decide More the delegates go to the national conven tion at St. Louis which are of Inter est to every one who want to make Hood River abreast of other cities. SURVEY OF IMPORTANT STREAMS IN OREGON The 1". S. Geological Survey has recently Issued a report upon Surface Water Supply In the Northern Pacific States which contains considerable Information Iteurlug upon water power, Irrigation and mitigation of streams In Oregon. Among the streams covered by the report are the Hood, Willamette. McKen.le, Santlam, Clackamas, Yamhill, Bull Run, Sandy, DesChuttes and tribu taries, Columbia, Rogue, 1'mpqua, Slleti, Snake, Owyhee, Malheur, Pjw- der, Grande Ronde, I'mutlUa and John Pay. Since Oregon Is deeply luterested In the utilization of Its streams for all commercial and Industrial 'purposes. I1MI in IIII.IIC-K II. 'I. trill.! I. 'I i present reading but as a source of reference. The honor of picking the first rose this year we Isileve must be awarded to Mrs. H. F. Davidson, who was fortunate enough to gather one In her yard April 21st. This Is but three days later than the first rose bloom Is reported In Portland. Stanley-Smith Lumber Company, which operate a few miles back of Hood River." While officers of the power and light company here admit that nego tiations are underway for the pur chase of the plant which are expected to be closed up In a few days, they state that as yet no transfer of prop erty has been made.although shortly expected. Robert Smith's Interest 1 under stood to be In connection with those of the big lumber plant located at various points la the valley, which consumes considerable electric power and will consume more as soon as the box factory which the Stanley Smith plant has Just purchased Is In stalled at Its planer at Ruthton. HUGGINS WINS ADDED LAURELS Chester Hugglns, Hood River's peerless young athlete added further laurels to his borne town and the state Saturday at the fifth meet of the Stanford Interscholastlc Athletic Association held at their track at Palo Alto. Hugglns even unaccom panied by a trainer won the mile run In the fast time of 4:39 1-5, or within one-fifth of the world's record. Fur thermore this stout hearted ami stout limbed lad was the only run ner entered In this class outside the state of California. Despite the heat and climate he carried Hood River's colors to the front and placed him self lu the foremost class of the prom ising young track runners of the world. A reception was arranged for Hug glns last night at the Mt. Hood Hotel where he was greeted on his arrival by his class mates and hun dreds of townsmen who gave him a royal welcome. PORTER TELLS OF BIGJARNINGS J. C. Porter, who assisted In the planting of the famous Sears & Por ter orchard, says that from 297 Ben Davis trees set In lOfl his gross profits have exceeded $14,000, and from 347 Yellow Newtown apples hi gross profits have exceeded $24,000. Thl Is the record for Hood River coverlug this period of time. Sears & Porter were the first apple grower who demonstrated the value ot growing commercial stocks and they have marketed their apples each year In New Y'ork. HOOD RIYER GIRL WINS COLLEGE HONORS lu a very luteresting contest for queeti-o'-the-May, at Willamette uni versity. Miss l'earl Bradley of Hood Hlver was Friday declared elected by a majority of about 1200 votes over her closest rival. Miss Ediua Clarke. Clarke Belknap was elected king for the same occasion over hi opponent Hoy Shields, both luing seniors In the law department. As this is Miss Bradley's first year ttt college her popularity Is felt to be unusual, a senior student of the uni versity having In-en usually elected to this most coveted honor. Lively Runaway No small amount of amusement was caused on the streets Thursday when the little Shetland pony, le lotigiug to Donald Brlggs, made a break for llls-rty. In some way the cart was overturned at Third and State streets and the driver thrown out. The pony objected to this state of affairs and started ut a lively pace down State street to Second, where he went over to Oak ami up to Fourth street. Here he made an other turn ami was stopped near the Stanley-Smith IuiuIkt yard. No ma terial damage was done, ami no one Injured, but It was amusing to set the little fellow making such big efforts to create excitement. The I'. B. ladles will hold a Ken sington Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Uitoy Armstrong.