SECTION FOUR
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DRAMATIC
REAL ESTATE
AND AUTOS
UNDERWOOD IS GROWING RAPIDLY
' A SMI D COLUMBIA FRUIT SECTION
Fire Years Ago There Were Not More Than Half Dozen Families in Community, While Today Homes of Almost
100 Are Dotted Over Underwood Plats and on Nobility Hill, Each in Its Own Orchard.
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VOL. XXXII. PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 29, 1913. ' NO. 26. "
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THEIR PRICES
ARE RIGHT!
Common sense will compel you to buy your home
furnishings at Gadsbys. No other furniture or
ganization in Portland can begin to offer you the
same good quality at our low prices and so great -a
variety for selection.
Then, too, our generous terms of Credit rwill mean
something to you. Don't take chances. Decide in
favor of Gadsbys'. Gadsby pays no rent.
Gadsbys' Gas Ranges Most Economical to Run
$32.50
$16.50
SALE GIBSON REFRIGERATORS
Enameled in Pure White Special Sale at Gadsbys
BUYS THIS "2O.0O MODEL
Tie Faiuma New Method
Ventilating . Balling Oven.
The burnt gas cannot In any
way get into a New Method ven
tilated oven. It passes around,
the outside, distributing the heat
evenly on all sides.
New Method burners use seven
parts air to one part gas. The
New Method range soon pays for
itself. .
Gan connections FREE.
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For This $45 Model
Built of blued sheet steel; oven
16xlSxlH4 inches. with door,
heavily nickel trimmed; blued
sheet steel canopy over main top
equipped with plate shelf; easy
to keep clean; broiler oven 13VzX
lSill inches, fitted with steel
broiler pan. wire broiler racks;
electric welded and retinned.
Main top equipped with four
regular burners and one slm
nierer. Buy' this range and save
money.
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;, Gadsbys'
Steel Range
$29.50
This range embodies every feature
necessary to make it first-class,
and is built to meet the demands
of a first-class range at a medium
price. Mounted in heavy blue steel,
protected by asbestos boards, held
in place by extra sheets. The oven
is reinforced by heavv iron braces
and has a heavy duplex grate. The
nickel trimming on the range is a
work of art and adds to the beauty
of the stove. A range that will
give you service for years. High
renters have to get 45 for ranges
as good as this. Gads- OOQ Cf
bys' no rent price, only Oi.OO
Bach range sold with a Guarantee.
$10.00 Refrigerators,
pounds
$12.00 Refrigerator,
pounds
$13.50 Refrigerator,
' pounds ,
$15.00 Refrigerator,
pounds
$17.00 Refrigerator,
pounds
$18.00 Refrigerator,
pounds
$25.00 Refrigerator,
pounds
$30.00 Refrigerator,
pounds
ado.uu Hetngerator, c
capacitv 30
$8.85
capacity 45
...310.50
capacity 50
...$11.45
capacity 60
. .$12.85
capacitv 70
.... $14.50
capacitv 75
. . $15.75
capacity 90
...$21.25
capacitv . 100
... $25.50
apacity 100 pounds
.$29.85
Just Received, a Carload of
Medium-Priced Office Desks
You . will find in this new lot
desks of all types flat tops,'
roll tops and a large assortment
in the popular sanitary line.
Come in tomorrow and. look..
these j new arrivals over. This
one priced at
only ..........
$25.00
Special
Sale of
Room-Size
RUGS
600
Patterns to
Choose From
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Rugs from 12x15 inches to 6x9 feet on display. Anglo-Persians, In
dians, Arabians, Royal Worcesters, Bagdads and Tepracs all are
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cere at uotiuzn prices, ooine special oargains:
Ta dies'- Desks
From $7.50 Up
The one we illustrate here is a
picture of one of the styles we
show. This style comes in oak
or mahogany, with' French legs,
as shown. A dainty and desir
able desk for anv woman
priced $7.50 to $12.50.
Wo Are Making Low Prices on
Many Other Styles in Ladies
Desks Wide Variety Styles
and Prices.
One style is of crotch mahog
any, very large and elaborate
design, 36 inches -wide. A desk
worth $60 for $Q7 Crt
only PO .OU
A Special Sale of Buffets .
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Terms. . W
Body Brussels, 9x12, special, re
duced to $25.00
Kinman Axminsters, 51x12, re
duced to $24.00
Saxony Axminsters, 9x12. re
duced to $17.50
Oriental Wilton Velvets. 9x12.
Bokhara Wiltons, 9x12 $33.00
Firth Brussels, 9x12. . .$16.00
Sanford Brussels, 9x12 $15. OO
Tyran Pro-Brussels, 9x12. re
duced to $12.00
Ingrain Art Squares, all wool
ruling..... $9.60
Union Ingrains, 9x12 $7.00
reduced to $29.50
CARPET BARGAINS SPECIAL THIS WEEK
Body Brussels $1.25 I Velvet,'.$1.10; Roxbury
Arminster $1.25 Tapestry Brussels
,.$1.00
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GREAT SALE
STEEL BEDS
Buy Your Bed Now We
Are Selling
REMARKABLY
- STROSG VALUES
A carload of Hand
some Buffets has
Just come in. Tou
never saw more
desirable pieces.
They're strictly
modern and have
the elegance vou
want for your dtn
ingroom. Finishes
Include fumed and
golden oak. De
signs are all that
you could ask.
Come in tomorrow
and choose your
Buffet while this
assortment is at
your command. Just
note these lo w
prices:
$30.00 Buffet, fumed
or golden
$25.00 Buffet, fumed
or golden
$32.00 Buffet, fumed
Or . golden. . . . .
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$24.50
$19.00
$26.00
$36.50 Buffet, fumed (nn nH
or golden tDJiOJ
$62.00 Buffet, fumed C f O t
or golden 04,UU
4i. ou iiuiret. rumed
or , golden .........
$32.00
Gadsbys' Special Three
Piece Parlor Suite for . .
$ 3.50 Iron Beds
$ -4.50 Jron Beds S
$ 5.00 Iron Beds S
$ 7.00 Iron Reds
$20.00 Brass Beds S14!50
$25.00 Brass Beds S18.00
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VALUES THAT CAN'T BE DUPLICATED
No Hatter What You Want in Furniture
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This beautiful Parlor Suite is su-'
perb, both in quality and appear
ance. It consists of three massive
pieces, upholstered in beautiful
brown and green velours or . brown
Spanish leatherette. The frame is
piano-finished malioganized birch.
The most attractive suite ever of
fered for. so low a price. High
renters ask $40.00, and it is worth
byJp::ll -i $25.00
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WHILlit is one of the smallest of
the Mid-Columbia fruit sections.
Underwood, Wash., In the south,
eastern corner of Skamania County,
Just across the Columbia from Hood
River, has been making rapid strides
during the last half decade. Five years
ago not more than a half dozen fami
lies had made their homes in'the com
munity. . Today the , homes of almost
100 families are dotted. : over- Under
wood. Flats and on Nobility Hill, each
newly-made . residence the center or
at the edge of. an orchard .of apple
trees, peach trees, .'plums, pears and
currants. The men who have - bought
tracts in this district- are for the most
part retired business men. erstwhile
merchants from the Middle ' "81 and
Portland, retired ministers and . a for
mer shoe manufacturer of Boston, and
an ex-head, chef of the Potter. Hotel,
one of California's famous ,: hostelries,
located, at Santa Barbara. - -
Apples Coming Into Bearing.
The Underwood district is as yet too
young to have made any great reputa
tion for its apples, although; a number
of carloads, are now being shipped out
each year by the -White Salmon Valley
Apple-Growers' Association, comprised
of the growers, of this section border
ing the Columbia Gorge, and those of
the Husum district, 'about three miles
up tbe White Salmon River. Two old
pioneers of the district ' have . planted
large apple tracts- and the product of
their orchards may be taken as an ex
ample of what tho community may be
expected- to produce when the many
tracts of 10, 20, and. 30 acres come into
bearing.
While the future of the district is
based on the apple orchards, the men
tilling the soil there are diversifying
with small fruits. Their places are
already self-supporting; for not one of
them does not grow some variety of
small fruit, strawberries, currants,
quinces, peaches and loganberries. With
this product they are maintaining their
families and laying away savings.
There are no large places such as
one may find la' the larger and. more
developed, fruit districts, for labor la
scarce and while the resident of Un
derwood may look daily down across
the broad Columbia at the expanse of
Hood River orchards, the places there
aw in a way isolated. The Underwood
fruitgrower must do his own work, and
accordingly he has cleared his land
gradually by his own efforts and has
set out small tracts. But there are
many of these small orchards adjoin
ing eacli other and the aggregate acre
age is reaching in to the hundreds of
acres.
The .stranger visiting the district is
impressed by' the beauty of the homes,
small bungalows and cottages, all of
them with a setting of vines and sur
rounding patches of small fruits. With
its south exposure the Underwood dis
trict is especially adapted to ' the
growth of these small, fruits and veg
etables, and many growers of them find
it. remunerative to grow this truck for
the early market.
. . Strawberries Are Early.
Underwood strawberries are always
a' little earlier- than those across the
river. at Hood River, and the growers,
of course, realize the top of the market.
Melons thrive in the' warm sunshine of
the protected fields, and one grower
has set a large orchard of young trees
to eggplant, his tender transplants
set in symmetrical rows, and each pro
tected from winds that might wither it
by large cylindrical sheets of tin.
One of the unique sights of the Un
derwood district is the "squab factory,"
the pigeon farm, of H. A. Hussey, who
formerly manufactured shoes and boots
in New England. On account of fail
ing health Mr. Hussey. had the call back
to the Boil, and .chose his home there
in the scenic environment. His sheds
house several thousand pigeons. The
squabs, which are gathered from their
nests twice a week, sell readily in
Portland, Seattle and Spokane. "If I
had on . orchard," says -Mr. Hussey, "I
would be gratified at my returns, but
I am bringing Into bearing one of the
best -orchards In the district, for when
I find i tree that is not thriving as
those around It I feed It with the pigeon
fertilizer." As a result he Is develop
ing trees of extraordinary'- vigor and
strength, stocky and sturdy and with
luxuriant foliacre.
A neighbor of Mr. Hussey, C. S. Clark,
was from the time of its completion
until four years ago the chief cook at
the Hotel Potter. Mr. Clark bought
with his savings a ten-acre tract, which
he immediately began clearing and set
ting to strawberries. This fruit has
maintained him since It was planted,
and among the berries are thriving
young apple trees. V hen one sees him
working in his berry patch with his
scythe, topping the plants, one would
never suspect that he had once been :i t
the head of the cuisine of one of Cali
fornia's largest and most fashionable
hotels.
The largest orchards of the Under
wood district are owned bj- A.J. Haynes
and W. A. Wendorff. These growers
have paid especial attention to peach
culture, and their large orchards are
Planted with peach and apple trees, the
former having been used as fillers.
The peach trees have been bearing now
for several years, and these two or
chards alone send out each season car
load lots of luscious Crawfords, the
variety that gives best returns in the
district. The apples are coming into
bearing now and soon the peach trees
will be cut out.
Cblrkenff Thriving Industry.
The chicken Industry has made its
appeal to these Skamania County fruit
growers, and one may now behold well,
kept poultry yards among the small
fruit orchards, the young chicks grow
ing healthily among the berry bushes
and keeping ' them at the same time
free from insects that might prove in
jurious. The Underwood district is non-irrigated.
The growers there pride them;
selves on their non-irrigated product,
which they declare has an excellent
flavor because of their ability to grow
it without the use of irrigating water.
However, the entire district never suf
fers from lack of moisture. There is a
slope from the Mount Adams foothills
that has an abundant subirrlgation.
The growers all get their water for
domestic purposes by digging shallow
wells and from the many springs of the
district, and most of the homes are
equipped with waterworks and sewage
systems. Underground streams may bs
found almost anywhere by digging into
the earth's surface for three or four
feet.
All Denominations Unite.
The Underwood people are not wor
rie4 by religious cares. In the district
one will finds members of all denom
inations from Dunkards to Presbyte
rians. They have solved their problems
of worship by forming a Union Chapel
Association. No church has as yet been
constructed but Sunday meetings are
held at the handsome little school
house, where the local orchardist-min-isters
or visiting preachers alternately
conduct services. They have found co
operation beneficial in their religious
worship, as in the selling of their prod
ucts. As many gooseberries are perhaps
marketed in the Underwood district on
a large commercial basis as in any
other Northwestern community. The
growers all have larg tracts of goose
berries and the fruit Is shipped out in
large quantities every year to all tho
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