The Hood River news. (Hood River, Or.) 1909-current, February 14, 1912, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE HOOD RIVER NEWS Highest Grade Job Tr in ting Ad-dertisers Get 'Result J HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1912 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YE.R VOLUME 8, NUMBER 7 uowil Says Need of Immediate Co-operation Is Urgent President Sugrue of Cashmere Union Writes Open Letter to Fruit Growers of Northwest to Prove That Central Selling Machine of Some Kind Is Only Solution of Harketing Problem. That a central wiling machine of Home kind for the fruit districts of the Northwest In the only practical Holullon of the marketing problem which frultmen are now facing. In the opinion of John F. Sugrue, president of the Cashmere Fruit Kxchnnge, from whom the following open letter hait lieen received: The marketing ijueHtlon of the fruit of the Northwest linn reached a crisis. The value of the apple Indus try an at present existing 1h Indls putalile. Its future success or failure lain the hands of thorn engaged In the raising of fruit. There Ih no oppoMltloii to the state inent that ban been bo often made "that the raising ami marketing of the North weBtern apple are two ep. arate and distinct branches of one business." The knowledge of (1) how best to mine and prepare the fruit for Bhlpinent and (2) how to He cure the best prices for the Bald fruit, docs not generally exist lu the bruins of theame man or body of men. W e are now more particularly concerned with the second proportion, namely, how bent to market the product. On thU question there are two leading Issues: FlrHt: That each section should lie a law unto Itself and that It Is more advisable to tight our fellow grower from another district than to combine with him. Second: That the Ix-nt and most economical method Is one big protec tive and Helling agency whereby In stead of competing with our neigh bor we can confer with him, whereby Instead of meeting him In the same markets we will, as far as possible, avoid one another. And whereby In event of our having to meet In the same markets we will Ik enabled to place our respective products In that market In proportion to the amount needed at any particular time by that particular market. The first contention Is, In my opin ion, mainly based on the liellcf of each section In the'gn-at superiority of Its product over that of Its neigh bor, and that opinion, bear In mind, Is common to all sections. Does this superiority really exist to the degree supposed, and even If It does, Is It a good and sulllclent argument for us to commit ourselves to a war of in terests or not? In the first place I do not Udleve the superiority does exist to the extent claimed. F.ach section has apples of peculiar merit and if these particular varieties were Good Roads To Address by Expert Up-to-Date nethods of Highway Construction Are Described by O. A. C. Professor at Largely Attend ed Meeting L.L.Smith at Convention That Nominated Lincoln. (lood roads boosters from all over the county who attended the meet ing of the Commercial Club Monday evening and listened to the address by Professor F.rnest F. Ayres of the Oregon Agricultural College learned an abundance of new facts about modern road construction, which promise to bear fruit In the good roads campaign for which Hood Itlver county. In company with others throughout the state, Is pre paring. One of the most Interesting points brought out by Professor Ayres was that good earth roads are now being advocated In many Instances lu pref erence to macadam. lie declared that It would surprise many people to find how satlsfatory an earth road can lie made when proiorly constructed. Me stated that It would not b desirable to macadam more than ten per cent of the roads In Oregon or Hood Itlver county. He further explained that the cost of properly maintaining and repairing a iiiacnd.ini road Is high and that It is necessary to constantly repair them If they are to Is kept In good condition. While macadam Is advis able on heavily traveled thorough fan's, he said It would be useless ex travagance to macadam the roads that are not subjected to much heavy tratllo. the only apples In question the post tlon taken by the advocates of "Iso latlou" might lie tenable. We have, however, to consider the Industry as a whole. Also the consuming public do not confine themselves to the high-priced apple, and It Is the con suming public as :i body and not any particular section of that public that we have to reckon with. Local pride Is a most worthy and proper spirit to encourage, but it should not lie allowed to blind us to certain hard and fast business theo ries which are not of an experimental nature, but which have lsen tried and tested and fouud to be advan tageous for years. The science of selling, liecause it Is a science, has certain axioms which cannot Is gain said, and acceptance of these admit ted facts Is absolutely necessary to the successful disposal of our crops today, and much more so In the near future. I'p to 1910, apples of good quality sold themselves. From now on, owing to the fact that the box apple Ih no longer a novelty and to the rapidly Increasing volume of fruit produced, It Is up to us to sell them To do this we must eliminate all un necessary competition and expense and consider the question not from our own particular viewpoint, but from a broader and more compre hensive standpoint. If we do not do this, and promptly, ourlndustry will find that history repeats Itself with a fatal regularity and that the period of depression, and, to many, of act ual ruin, that lias been the feature In so many industries of a like nature to ours will Inevitably come to pass. Personalities must not tie an Issue In this attempt to solve our troubles. Suggestions of merit must be consid ered for the good or harm that Is In them. Local prejudice should lie laid aside. This Is a matter of business pure and simple, and should lie de cided on business principles only. It seems strange to me that In this age of co-operation such strenuous objections should be raised to thor ough and comprehensive co-operation as has has been suggested by the Rogue Itlver plan. Thorough In vestigation of this plan has up to the present brought to light nothing that was not benetlclal to the grow er. Lark of investigation has liecn the means of circulating many wild and Idle surmises which had no foun dation lu fact and which, when ex- (Continued on Im 10) FIcn Listen Recounts Stirring Scenes Professor Ayres went Into a de tailed description of road construc tion and emphasized above all the necessity of having proper suhdralu age. He advocated tiling the ditches, proper construction of culverts and also descrltied the proper construc tion of roadbeds. Two different kinds of road the sand and the clay should lie treated entirely different, said the speaker. The sand road needs water and the clay road must have all water kept carefully off from it, out from under and nway from It. To do this it must be properly crowned, drained through the tiled ditches and the water carried away through cul verts. The sand road, on the coa trary, should be slightly depressed in order to retain water. The Ideal road Is made of a mixture of sand and clay, thus Insuring a good sur face In all kinds of weather, he said The professor advocated state aid for roads, showing how a good high way tienellts more than! the farmers whom property abuts upon it, and said cost should be distributed among all. Professor Ayres took a trip over some of the county roads and gave Instructions as to how the different kinds of road should tie cared for. Opportunity was given those pres (Continual on I'm 2) COUNCIL IS SPLIT ON CITYATTORNEY Whether or not Judge Derby U eligible for the olllce of city attorney ou account of his connection with a local corporation as Its attorney, was brought to an issue at the meet ing of the city council Monday ulgbt. When the vote was taken three coun cllmen voted lu favor of retaining Judge Derby's services and two voted against it. The question was raised when a letter was read from Judge Derby stating the remuneration which he would expect If retained another year. Councilman Itobertson moved that his services lie accepted under the conditions specified. Thereupon Councilman Staten took the floor and declared that he was not In favor of Judge Derby lielng retained. He said that the fact that Judge Derby was In the employ of a cer tain public service corporation as well as the city placed him necessar ily In a position lu which it would be practically Impossible to do the right thing by both of his clients. Councilman Mayes seconded Rob- ertson's motion. Itobertson then took the floor. He said that in his Judgment Judge Derby's proposi tion was ns fair us could be expected for competent services; that he did not know of any Inst auce of Judge Derby's duties as attorney for this corporation conflicting with his duties as city attorney. Ho also stated that no lawyer could be ex pected to receive only $"." from the city and not engage in private liti gation. Councilman Staten again took the floor and asked whether Judge Derby had not drawn an ordinance for a certain corporation, which was sub mitted to the council and passed. He repeated that he did not see how an attorney could serve two masters without favoring oue or the other. The vote was then taken on the question of whether Judge Derby lie retained. It resulted ns follows: Ayes, Hugglns, Mayes and Roliert son; noes, Staten and Stranahan. Councilman llroslus was absent. APPLE FAIR ASSOCIATION WILL DISCUSS BUILDING An adjourned meeting of the Apple Fair Association has been called for Saturday, February 24, at the Com mercial Club. The purpose of this meeting Is to formulate a plan to carry out the original Intention of the company, which was to erect a building on the corner adjoining the Davidson block to be used for a fair building as well as for business pur poses. Unclaimed Letters I nclalmed letters at the Hood Itlver postollice are as follows: E. L. I'acon, It. K. llradley, Miss Lucy Brown, It. Ilucher. Mrs. J. Cox, Mrs. H. H. Cochran, L. A. Dahl, Miss Wllma Oonncll, Win. Fmmons, Ar thur Falconbuary. E. V. Cramps, K. H. Green, ('has. Hllmer, W. II. liar mon, Frank L. Keating, Mrs. Oliver Lafferty, John A. Lawrence, L H. London, Miss Hazel Manners, Mr. & Mrs. Mansfield, Frederick Mark. Mrs. F. McKereher, W. A. McXabb, John nie McPalmer, ("has. I. Moody, Dale, Rlalto& Myers, J as. Randall. Mrs. itosa Italney, C. F. Seeley, A. T. Son neman, C. K. Spencer, Ike Young. There are parcels for Mrs. Sallle Hammond, I. A. Nancan, Mrs. P. L. Davis. News Snapshots Of (he Week sol for the McN'iiinain brother, wns Indicted for nllei;.-.! complicity In the iittempted bribery of Robert ;'. It. ay. n Juror, Juror. Reports from London state that ex-King Manuel and I iota Miunel "f Uratauzii. pretender to the fallen throne of lion anil Unit Miguel loaned the exiled kln H.IHM.noo to help hlui regain his throne LOCAL TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE Iteul estate transfers of the past week have been as follows: Charles A. Prlesslng and wife to .1. II. Durham and Suvllla V. Durham, four lots In Hood Itlver park near Odell, $-KH). Grace P Farrls and husband to J. It. Nunnamaker, 17 acres south of town and ten ucres at liarrett. X. C. Fvans, trustee, to W.J. Ma ker aud H. T. DeWItt, lots six and lHJand parts of lots five and HO, block 24. Oregon LumberCompnny to school district No. 14, one acre near Dee. W. H. Goodenough ami wife to W. H. Hoover, 40 acres In Barrett district. C. it. Totter and wife to Guy Sai ling, lot 20, Idlewllde, tlOOO. Ieroy Armstrong to M. Sue Arm strong, undivided oue-half lots three and four and half of lot five, Para dise Acreage, f 10,000. N. C. Kvans, trustee, to Kdlth A. Gladen, lots four and 21, block "7, Hood lilver. Five Fairs for Children Being Arranged Here Statewide Country Life Movement Takes in Hood River County and Arrangements Are Being Made to Stimulate Interest in Agricultural Pursuits Winners Will Compete at State Fair. Hood Itlver children will have a chance to compete In raining farm products, flowers and poultry, If plans which were launched here the last of the week by N. C. Maris, field assistant la the extension depart ment of the Oregon Agricultural Col legs, are given local support. The plan Is to hold five fairs In different parts of the county this fall, all en tries to b tidily ' "I 'ln. The winners V'.'. 1 glvn ; ' - md nlso the prlvll rj rii - li. 1r prod uct) In co) i" t't ., i v::': ' iber chil dren o( Oii;ri a. :..t" fair to be held at '..V:ii. Mr. Mai - iW ' -, d ,i! C. D, Thompson, cjjii'.J tjuiiiuteudent of schools, and with Secretary Kauff man of the Commercial Club, both of whom promised to co-operate In the movement which Is statewide and conducted under the direction of the state bankers, commercial bodies, state educational authorities, Port land livestock Interests and Oregon Agricultural College. For the county contests here a list of prizes will be solicited from the merchants and business men. A splendid list of prizes Is being col lated by the state to be awurded at the state fair. The young Hood Itlver farmers will first exhibit tlulr prod ucts at local fairs, then nt the state fair, If they have been fortunate enough to be winners, and again ut the county fair. The local fairs would thus have to be held the last of Au gust, ns the state fair comes the first part of September and the county fair a little later. A largely -attended and enthusias tic meeting was held at M osier on Friday under tin- direction of Mr. Marls and keen Interest in the coun try life movement Is lielng shown everywhere throughout the state. EVENTS OF WORLD WIDE INTEREST PICTURED FOR BUSY READERS Kdwin llnwley, ime of the best known rnllnvid men. in the Fulled States, ilie.l siulilcnl) life ns nil errsiid ! nt a Hilary nf ? n week i;ener:il Sir Kel.eit linden Powell, hero scout movement, nrrlved in this country to re lew the work done here. As :i result of ri.. i. i.. i ........... t.,m....i. I lil.ir iiml lii lieutenant A it liro I '. lot. a 11 n it I. w ere PASTOR TALKS ON NATIONAL ISSUES Last Sunday at the Unitarian church Itev. II. A. McDonald spoke of the church and the social question. He spoke of many national condi tions such us unemployment, un bealthful working conditions, the curse of monopolies, unequal suffrage and the evils of the open saloon. As relief from these he mentioned em ployment of the unemployed by the government In reforesting and re claiming and In building public roads, canals, etc., government in spection unci control of industrial coudltlous, federal control or owner ship of monopolies, woman's suff rage and the closed saloon. To re fuse to assume responsibility for these conditions or to oppose these remedies Is like sweeping back the the tide. They are the fulfilling of the laws of the universe. The church has passed the time when Its chief coucern Is Individual salvation, he said, and If It Is to live a useful life It must work for the enthronement of social Justice and righteousness. Much Is expected from this new de parture In the state's educatlonul svstem and the allied Influences be hind the movement are such ns to Insure Its success. Bulletins on the various agricul tural subjects will be Issued to the children under the auspices of the O. A. C. to serve as text books In the various farming classes lu the schools throughout the state. The contests will Include work In gardening, gen eral agriculture, domestic science, poultry raising nud manual work. W. B. DICKERSON ELECTED PRESIDENT OF LEAGUE Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallls. W. B. Dlckerson of Hood Itlver was elected president of the Oregon Agricultural Kxpertment league nt the annual meeting; Di rector It. D. Hetzel, O. A. C. exten sion, secretary; Pres. A. J. Johnson of the Benton County National Bank, treasurer. The four vice-presidents are K. B. Knddant, Sllctz; It. H. Parsons, Med ford; H. W. Hamlin, White Salmon, and It. W. Allen, Hermlston. Kight directors were named, as follows: M. Vanlluyster, Hermlston; F. C. Itelmer, Talent; Dr. J. F. Morel, Portland; A. L. Chamberlain. New berg; F. S. Bailey, Ontario; Dr. .las. Wlthycombe, O. A. C; D. T Aubrey, Cottage Grove, and Claude Nosier, Bridge. Treasurer Johnson reported flM.N") In the bnnk; Secretary S. F. Grltlls, Medford, reported gains In member ship and Influence and efficiency through the plan of making the Ore gon Countryman monthly magazine, the official organ of the league, free with each membership. c-t vai 70 Per Cent of 1911 Crop Was Extra Fancy Remarkable Showing Is Announced After Reports of Two Companies Are Studied and Averaged "Fancies" Were Twenty-five Per Cent of Crop and "C" Grade Only Five Per Cent. That 70 per cent of the local apple crop In lull was extra fancy Is shown by figures for the fruit sold up to February 1 by the Hood Itlver Apple Growers' I'nlon and the Davidson Fruit Company. This remarkable showing of high grude apples has excited much local pride. The fancy apples are given out as having aver aged 25 per cent of the entire crop and the "C" grade only five per cent. The largenumber of extra fancies is explained by the fact that the crop last year was colored highly. The figures given above as well as those which follow are the averages of the averages of the two companies. The prices obtained for the season on four-tier apples are given as follows: Yellow Newtown Pippin, extra fancy, $1 W. Arkansas Black, extra fancy, $2.12; fancy, f 1.7."; "C" grade, f 1.3.1. Black Twigs, one grade, $1 42. Red Cheek Pippin, $1.62. Winter Banana, extra fancy, 2 40. Baldwin, one grade, $1.00. Spltzenburg, extra fancy, f 2 14. Wagner, one grade, $1.00. Ortley, extra fancy, $2.0.. Strawberries, 00,000 crates or 100 cars, at $2.23 per crate, average. Pears, 2o cars. Bartlett, 1.23 per box. D'AnJou, 1.92 per box. The average of the Yellow New towns will be materially Increased when the full returns are received In the late spring. The greater part of the Newtown crop Is as yet unsold. The principal markets of the Hood Itlver apple are shown to be London, Liverpool, Hamburg, New York City Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Itockford and other cities contiguous to the above. An increasing de- West IV! ay Worf Convicts On Road to Portland $10,000 Is Donated to Defray Expenses and Proposi tion is Made to Governor, Who Takes It Under Consideration Construction of Road Around Shell Rock Is Proposed. Governor West has under consid eration a proposition w hereby a cer tain public-spirited citizen will con tribute 10,000 and the state wli! furnish convict labor with which tu build a road past Shell Rock, which at present stands as a barrier be tween Hood River and Multnomah j counties. Speaking In Portland the; last of the week, the governor said : , "I was notified today thatacer-j tain citizen Is willing t put up $10.-; 000 to help finance the building by I convict labor of a road over Shell ( Rock, which stands between Mult nomah county and Hood River conn-; ty. I have this under considera tion." When asked about the project. County Judge Cullvertson showed a i5 v' .Tvl T&ia" In New eiV lie he-Mil his l.u; ,ies of M:ifekiin: and the founder of the No t lie l iliinc of a oiii.in ilui nu the M i K. atre - ted t't.ircn c I'.ni 'U.ihif ....n and Georue l.o. kw I. a i r -i e tie Portugal. hae eib- ted a i c on, I u in and during the past two years has been showing Itself In the middle west and southern states. Several carloads of Hood Itlver apples have lieen disposed of In Tennessee and Arkansas within the past few months. Texas also consumes a great quantity of the fruit and Is de manding more. These figures were secured by Sec retary Kauffman of the Commercial Club rind appear In the "Hood Itlver Commercial Club Bulletin," an at tractive two-page folder published In the Interests of Hood Itlver and Hood Itlver valley and county. A feature of the phamphlet Is a let ter recently received from Governor West who states that he tielleves Hood River district received more advertising on the Governors' Spe cial than any other section of the west. "Hood Itlver Is a name," he writes, "that appears to be familiar to most everyone throughout the east especially those Interested in frutt growing." 55 HENS LAY 1027 EGGS IN MONTH OF JANUARY E. F. Batten has a flock of .V hens which have done a lot of Indignant cackling since they read In the News last week that Rev. J. B. Parsons' hens have been boasting of the rec ord which they made last month. Mr. Parsons' bens laid 523 eggs to January, or an average of about IV eggs each. They were "Just com mon" hens. Mr. Batten's 53 Rhode Island Ited pullets produced 1027 eggs In January, an average of about Wi eggs each, or about 00 per cent yield, ills birds are pure bred and from a good-laying strain that has pro duced prize winners. letter recently received from K. Henry Wemme, the champion good road booster of Multnomah county. Mr. Wemme Is particularly Interested lu the road along the Columbia from Portland east and announced that a friend of his had promised $10.oot. to help defray the expenses of con structing the most expensive piece of road lietweeu the two counties. Mr. Wemme expressed himself as con fident that Governor West would put a gang of convicts ou the work and was also hopeful that his friend with the money would give In excess of $10.0i.O once the work was under way. This being Good Roads Wet k throughout the state, the governor Is carrying on an active speaking campaign. He says: "I consider that the good roads movement Is the proper system for solving the labor problem. We want to get people back to the farm but we cannot uutil we have good roads. These thoroughfares open up many opportunities for the state and will solve many au Important labor problem. "As to the system of Issuing bond In the amount of $2n,0n",ooo. 1 have been criticised. I am willing to con sider any supplemental measures v hlch will solve this r oad problem and If they areas good as tti.' in.' is tires I have arranged I will 'i i . kl.. get behind them and piwh There l-i objection to my h i Ing ch'rg" o' t ie funds. 1 concur In the opinion of others that the governor Is tuc pn. tier official for this. I know that I am honest and I know there will I l no graft as h ng as I li ive ch.-irge . I the money. I d not desire tie roii. Is for the benefit of any lar class, but for all l.i-s. s. 1 one Is to benefit. pari leu l.i.ri W o Oil Harness, e Vc j,sf r.eel.e.l a e have just r- liar. oiling tank I'.rlng your Inn,, - In and li t us give It a to,,, I ,,;l!ig be fore the Spring work star's, i i Copy for Jertis.-iiieiits U f he In the oltke by Mond.iy MM) .