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THE DALLES TIMES-MOUNTAINEER.
J. T. PETERS & CO.'S STORE.
J. T. PETERS & CO.
Mr. Peters came to The Dalles from Baltimore, Mary
land, in 1878, Having been born at the latter city, just prior
to the civil war, and there held an important clerkship with
a large wholesale business house for five years, where
efficiency and careful habits were rigidly required.
On arrival at The Dalles he found a position in a lum
ber yard, and although having no previous knowledge of
the lumber business, readily adapted himself to new con
ditions, and was soon given entire charge of the business,
which was an agency for the sale of lumber from a large
saw mill.
Within something over a year he bought out his employ
er's office and agency, and began handling the lumber on
commission, this was the start of what is now recognized
as a business of considerable importance, the largest of its
kind within the several counties adjacent to The Dalles.
Mr. Peters is spoken of as having considerable ability as
a financier, his success has been the result of careful and
painstaking attention to business and strict adherence to
'business principles and methods, and he is highly respected
In the community has been from time to time identified
with a number of enterprises which employed labor, in
cluding saw mills and transportation interests, and is at
present the direct employer 01 about 20 men, besides being
an influential director of the I). I. & A. X. Co., a transior
tation corporation which at present runs three large river
steamers between The Dalles and Portland. This com
pany's property is quite valuable, and a large share of the
stock is owned by him.
lie is also director and part owner of The Dalles & Rock
land Steam Ferry Company, owns and operates several
scows or wood schooners plying between The Dalles and
the Cascades on the Columbia liver, a planing mill and box
factory at The Dalles, lumber yard and wood yards which
Keep three wagons constantly employed, also deals in all
kinds of building materials and hardware in common use
in this locality, as well as agricultural implements and
farm wagons; all of these, to which he gives personal at
tention to every detail, together with real estate and dwell
ings, which he has from time to time acquired, gives him
considerable mental exercise.
Mr. Peters is individual owner of his business, although
oierated under the firm name of Jos. T. Peters & Co.
Having begun without capital or friends, an absolute
stranger in a strange locality, he is an example of what a
young man of ability, energy and careful habits can ac
complish in the Pacific northwest.
J. T. TETERS & CO.'S PLANING MILL.
CLARKE & FALK.
One of the prettiest establishments in the city is that of
the Postoffice Pharmacy, some idea of which can be ob
tained' from the cut that accompanies this article. It was
established October 20th by Messrs. Clarke & Falk, and it
is their aim to carry a first class line of drugs and drug
gists sundries. F. J. Clarke, the senior partner, is a drug
gist of long standing, having entered a drug store at the
age of 15, and with but short intervals has been connected
with one ever since. His experience has been a practical
one, and was gained in the employ of Hall & Dickman, of
Fort Scott, Kansas, F. J. Bayless, of Watson, Mo., Dr. W.
II. Harris, of Glasco, Kansas, and the past eight years with
the Snipes, Kinersly Drug Co. of this city. He is a regis
tered pharmacist in three states, Missouri, Kansas and Ore
gon, and gives the prescription department his accurate
attention.
H. A. Falk, the junior member of the firm, although a
new comer here, has been a resident of the state since 1877,
and of the Inland Empire since 1882. He has large proper
ty interests in Grant county, and has hosts of friends
wherever he has lived previouslj.
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IDs SSA1II
Among those adding honor and lustre to the legal fra
ternity of this state, none stand higher in the estimation
of both the bench and the bar than does Hon. A. S. Ben
nett. Born in Dubupue, Iowa, on the 10th of June, 1854.
he came to Oregon when he was but eleven years of age.
His education was that of the common school, but he is
possessed of an indomitable will, and an amount of ener
gy that has given him a general knowledge possessed by
but few college graduates. He read law in Hon. J. B.
Condon's office, and was admitted to the bar in 1880. Since
then he has rapidly forged to the front in his profession,
having been connected with most of the important litigation
of this section, and wherever he goes he attracts favorable
attention. As James Whiicomb Riley says of Dr. Sifers, he
is "the best there is." Politically he is an ardent Democrat,
and has been time and again given their suffrages, for
some of the highest offices in the state.
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HON. A. S. BENNETT.
The subject of our sketch, T. A. Hudson, has been more
active perhaps than any one else, in placing the resources of
the Inland Empire before not onlj- western investors, but
those of the far East as well. His shrewd judgment and
conservative business methods have won for him an envi
able reputation, and today he is general agent for the East
ern Oregon Land Co., who control six hundred thousand
acres of agricultural, grazing and timber lands in Wasco.
Sherman, Crook, Grant, Gilliam and Malheur counties, be
ing the grant of The Dalles Military Road Company. Their
agricultural lands consist of rich rolling prairie, covered
with a deep black loam which will produce excellent crops
of wheat, barley, oats, corn, vegetables and all kinds of
fruit that can be raised anywhere in the same latitude.
The grazing lands are of a more rolling nature, but of the
same character of soil. They are covered with a luxuriant
growth of "bunch grass," on which stock of all kinds feed
and fatten the whole year round.
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THOMAS A. HUDSON.
The timber lands are nearly all situated in close proxim
ity to the Blue Mountains, and are covered with a dense
growth of pine, fir and tamarack.
Mr. nuason was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1853. Com
ing to New York with his parents in 18G2, he received his
education in that cit'. In 1875 he came to Oregon, and
passed three years in Oregon City, he then moved here, and
for four years had charge of the dry goods department of
E. Wingate & Co. He then established himself in the real
estate and insurance business, and subsequently formed a
partnership with C. N. Thornburg, his father-in-law. That
he has the confidence of his fellow citizens is evidenced by
the fact that he has leen city recorder for two terms,
school clerk for the same length of time, and also a mem
ber of the common council.