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iI OSIER, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 2 4 , 1916.
VOLu VIII
Auto and Spray Time Demand Goggles
We carry a large assortment in both amber and smoked
lenses. Tortoise Shell still holds the popular fancy and we
are showing a number o f styles in these mountings.
We invite your inspection while our stock is complete.
W. F. Laraway, Jeweler and Optician
E X P E R T SW ISS W A T C H RE PAIRIN G
HOOD RIVER
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OREGON
A Letter from One of Your
Yakima Neighbors
About TUM-A-LUM SILOS from the biggest thoroughbred
stock man in this country.
Valley View Dairy Farm, H C. Davi«, Prop., breeder ol Hoi-
itein-Freeian Cattle. Herd Tuberculin Tested. Lincoln Sheep.
Granger, Wash., Mar. 13th, 1916.
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co.
Granger, Wash.
Dear Sir:
Referring to yours of the 8th inst., inquiring as to what kind of
satisfaction your Tum-A-Lum Silo lias given, I am glad to say that
I am unable to fault it either from the standpoint of turning out a
well kept ensilage or as to the matter of keeping it in repair.
I am just finishing emptying the silo for the second time, and
both years it has been the last to be emptied and I find the feed to
be as near perfect as I could expect it to be. Just a little spoiled
around some of the doers where we ourselves were not particular
enough in chinking all cracks or may 1« in some instances the door
was not just true. Not enough to mention in any case.
As to the care in adjusting hoops and keeping tight daring our
dry hot summer months, I am more than glad to say that I have
not spent one minute on it nor given it a moments thought except
to go and lo»k at it sometimes when the wind is blowing real hard
and silos both empty, to compare the actions of the two under such
weather conditions. With my stave silo weaving and crackingfand
sometimes falling down) and pulling at the guy wires and breaking
the cement from aronnd the bottom, in fact the only thing that
keeps it from falling down many times is 4 unsightly guy wires that
are ran out in the 4 directions from it, and this after the hoops are
tight that it began to buckle and then I put three steel bands on in
side, bottom, center and top, ai d a bolt thorugh each 10 or 12 in.
From the Tum-A-Lum we have never seen a quiver and we have
watched close.
Satisfaction? Sure it gives satisfactistion, and
while it may not be the best silo ever built I have no hesitancy in
saying that I believe it a better silo than any stave silo ever put up
or that ever will be pnt up to stand in Yakima climate.
There should be two silos as good as the Tum-A-Lum on every
ranch of 10 acres or more in the valley.
You cannot impress tne necessity for the use of silos too
strongly, I am,
Truly yours,
H. C. DAVIS.
M ak in g A n O ffe r
of a box of our high grade chocolates,
bon bong, etc., involves no risk of refus
al. The box is so dainty, the candy it
contains so tempting that no girl under
90 would think of declining such
an offer. And once the candy is tasted
yon couldn't take back your offer under
any circumstances. Try it.
S. E . F r a n c is c o
P r o p rie to r "T H E
O A K S *'
True-to-Name Nursery
Complete Line of Peach, Cherry, Pear, Apple
Prune and Apricot Trees. All stock guaranteed
true-to-name. Twenty years in business.
Gal ligan Bros., Proprietors
Du fur, Oregon
Hood River, Oregon
EXCHANGE ASKS FOR
Rented
Prepare for the renting
season during “ Wire Your
Home” month, March 15th
to April 15th.
Eelectrically e q u i p p e d
houses are seldom vacant
Insure jou r p r o p e r t y
against undesirable tenants
or no tenants at all by hav
ing it wired for Electric Ser
vice.
The investment will
not be great and the income
will be increased.
We have unusual induce
ments to offer if you arrange
for the work now.
Pacific Poier & Lit Co.
13811191
(From the Hood River Glacier)
A request hts been received by the
I Commercial club from J. Curtí* Robin
son, traffic manager of the Northwest
ern Fruit Exchange, of Seatttle, to uae
the influence of ita members in secur
ing through ratea for deciduous fruita
from the Northwest to points south of
the Ohio river and east of the Missis
sip p i.
Mr. Robinson states in his letter that
unless the northwestern growers take
some organised and decided stand on
the rate matter, securing a parity be
tween rates to points sooth of the Ohio
river with those of cities north of the
existir g division line, California will
do practically all of the deciduous fruit
business in the southeastern psrt of the
United States.
Revlis & Fucinagli Wia
In a esse brought by purchasers of
orchard land against Devlin A Pire-
baugh, a decision in favor of the plain
tiff was recently rendered in Portland
by Judge C. if. Gsntenbein.
The
orchard lands involved are located in
the Orlley district east of Mnaier.
They were bought in 1912.
Plain and fancy sewing done at your
home by the day. Coats, summer suns,
children’s clothe* and g e n e ra l sewing.
For terms address Irma Phillips, Gen
eral Delivery.
mil)
story.
"Y our fighting,” he said, makes me
think of an Irishman and s negro down
home. They were everlastingly fight
ing. Their frequent scraps soon grew
into s neighborhood disgrace, and one
day after they had met and mixed on
the roadside, a number of the repre
sentative citisens took them to a rear
barnyard and drawing a ring told them
to fight it out, and let the fight be an
end of their troubles. 'When one of you
has enough,' ins true tea the ringleader
of thi contest preparations, ‘ just yell
sufficiency, and we will consider that
you have had enough and the other fel
low will be pulled off.’
"The two men fought till each was
black eyed and bluody. After both were
pretty well worn out the Irishman fin
ally cried, ‘sufficiency. ’ 'Thank God.
white man,’ cried the darkey, ‘ I been
tryin’ fer the laat half hour to think
that word.’ ”
Mr. Moomaw stated that the centra)
Spokane office would be operated by
the growers and agenciea themselves,
that the government would act only in
an advisory capacity.
He stated that the new plan had been
worked out in auch manner that better
things could be evolved, and that in the
future it was hoped that the plans
would permit of growers enjoying all
privileges of the Clayton amendment
of the Sherman anti-trust law.
GROWERS HEAR
AGENCY PLAN
UNIFORM CONTRACT IS BIG STICK
C. W. Moomaw on Friday Points Out
Chief Features of Government's
Suggestion for Marketing*
At a mass meeting called by the
Mosier Fruit Growers Association, lo
cal apple growers listened to pointed
and cognisant facts of an address
delivered at Lamb's hall last Fri
day afternoon by Clarence W Moomaw,
representative of the Office of Markets
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, who in outlining the pro
posed plans of a central growers’ agen
cy declared that by signing a uniform
contract the grower will hold a "b ig
stick" over the operations of sales
agencies. The uniform contract pro
vides, said Mr. Moomaw. for the with
drawal o f tonnage, unless the agree
ments embodied in it are carried out.
“ Throughout the east.” said Mr.
Moomaw, "th e fruit districts of the
northweBt have been pointed out as
models in the line of cultivation of
orchards snd marketing. But we have
discovered that you have used your or
ganizations o f certain districts to fight
the organizations of other districts, and
through your fighting have been dissi
pating your energies and resources.
You yourselves have realized that there
has been enough fighting, and unless
there is a let up. you are going under.”
Mr. Moomaw explained that the cen
tral organization of growers and salea
agencies, to be conducted at Spokane,
would be known ai the Growers' Agen
cy, incorporated. To avoid existing
legal provisions, he stated, the organ
ization is a combination of actual grow
ers and selling interests, the board of
trustees being composed of five grow
ers and five sales interest representa
tives. these 10 choosing an eleventh.
According to the proposed plan any res
ident northwest agency that assemblea
and sells a minimum of 100 carloads of
fruit may become a member of the
central organization on payment of an
annual fee of $100. If a grower, pro
vided he raises a minimum of a carload
of fruit, thinks that he needs greater
representation than that granted by
signing the uniform contract, he may
secure a passive membership by pay
ment of an annual fee of $6. Any
¡rower, whoa* tonnage reaches a car-
oad, may become an active member by
payment ot $100. Communities may
select a representative from their midat
and join in the payment of the annual
fee for an active membership.
Mr. Moomaw declared that the apples
o f the northwest had changed fiom a
former novelty basis when extreme
high prices were realized, to that of a
commodity bazis, and that adjustments
must be made to meet commodity prices
now being realized.
In his judgment, as expressed in his
address, the greatest benefits to be de
rived from the combined efforts of
growers, through the proposed central
agency, * i.l be realized by the gather
ing of market reports and the estab
lishing each season of a uniform value
o f the product before the selling season
begins. The uniform contract calls for
cooperative machinery in securing reli
able crop reports on all fruits, and
agencies are required to hold frequent
conferences prior to the opening of
selling seasons, although they are pro
hibited by the Sherman anti-trust law
from setting a price.
During past seasons, according to
Mr. Moomaw, returns on apples have
been reduced 10 per cent because of
improper methods of handling the prod
uct in the orchards. The uniform con
tract calla for the establishment of
community packing houses, which will
enable growers to get their crops into
cold storage plant in a minimum time
and yet utilize home and family labor.
Except for two digressions in his
talk. Mr. Moomaw's address was of a
general nature, applying to any north
western fruit district. In one of the
instances he told local growers that
they ahould be wained of their prone-
nest to believe that in the production
of Newtown* and Spitzenburgs they
were engaged in a specialized industry.
" I t is tru e," said Mr. Moomaw.
“ that other districts raise but few of
these varieties, but the fruit that they
do produce competes to such an extent
with yours that you will be sided by
any general movement toward coopera
tion ."
in the other instance Mr. Moomaw
praised the local growers for their fore
sight in providing adequate storage
facilities for a large portion of their
annual production.
"W e have been so bold,” he said,"as
to point out to other districts the inde
pendence you fruit men here have be
cause of your storage facilities."
Mr. Moomaw charscterizsd the an
nual scramble o f sales agencies for ton
nage as a very hurtful influence.
"Agencies should be engaged at this
time in plans of marketing, ana the
minimum uniform contract provides
that the tima for signing tonnage eon-
tracts must be limited. We propose to
limit this period on apples to July 1.’
The representative of markets pointed
out that the uniform contract calls for
the cooperation of sales agencies in
chartering ships for the exportation of
fruits to foreign countries.
''W e bad in m ind," he said, "when
we inserted this clause, "the opening
of a fruit trade route tc Europe through
the Panama eanal, and unless you fruit
growers take some action on this mat
ter, we do not believe such a route will
ever be opened."
Mr. Moomaw also eited complaints
against freight rates.
" I t is tru e," he isid, "that while
prices on northwesters boxed apples
have slowly declined for the past sev
eral years, the freight rates have re
mained the same, but you will never be
able to secure a good result in getting
readjustments as individuals ss you
will by organization."
It was cipected that Dr Hector Mc
Pherson. of the Oregon Agricultural
College, who will cooperate with the
government in outlining to growers the
plans of the new agency.would be her*,
but it was impossible for him to come.
Mr Moomaw in his discussion of the
need of northwestern growers to cease
their homicidal competition told ■ good
f
No: 3
to the party order!n r them, at leral rata«, and
paid for before affidavits are furnished.
H I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I H - I I- IH -> I I I I I I I I M il- H- I l I I I 1 I I II I I i
APPROPRIATIONS FOR
ROAD WORK REFUSED
Nichol & Company
It was a deaf ear that County Com
missioners Clausen and Butler turned
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to the pleadings of the Mosier taxpay
ers when asked for funds to carry on
much needed road work in this vicin
ity. These two county officials were
here last week; Judge Gunning was
not present, having been called to
Portland on urgent bualness. A num
ber o f local taxpayer* spent the day
with them in going over the roada.
When it was learned from these two
commissioners that the county court
would allow no survey made for the
, highway on this side o f Seven Mile
hill, surveying only that part o f the
hill from the summit in to The Dalles, h +.|. i< i h i h 1 1 1 1 1 1 ;
1 1 1 i l i l 4- h - h - h ♦ i i i i i i i n h i r h - h -»
preparatory to placing it in condition,
the greatest blow o f all was struck.
; Since the proposed route along the
river has seemingly been abandoned,
the Seven Mile hill route will form the
only direct road between Mosier and
! The Dalles and is an important link in
the Columbia River highway. For the
past three or four years the county
W h y go to Portland for dental w ork? D o you stop tocon sider
court has been asked to repair thia
the service you receive from the hands o f the dentist w h o Is hired
widely-traveled county road, but all to
| no avail. This highway is especially
by the week to operate for you? Have y ou r w ork done at home
1 in need of repairs between the places
by the dentist w h o does the w ork from start to finish.
The March number of Pacific Motor of E. W. Davidhizar and A. B. Burton,
Boat, just otf the press, contains the and if fixed up at ad this year it will
U k G old C row ns • • I t
Porcelain Fillings - - $1.10
fourth installment ot the atory now
Bridge W ork, per tooth
84
Sliver Fillings - - $ 1 .8 1 .AO
running in that magazine about a trip be necessary for the local taxpayers
G old Fillings - - 82 to S i
Plates -
89 to 812
down the Columbia river on a small along the road to do the work by vol
motor boat. These articles have at unteer labor. Last year one orchard-
Porcelain C row ns - - 86.40
Extracting -
40c
tracted wide attention because of the ist, in hauling a load of cherries in to
unsual performance of this-small boat
in making the run from Priest Rapids the warehouse of the Mosier Fruit
to Astoria, powered only with an out : Growers Association over this road,
board motor. Incidentally it was the learned uprn his arrival that the juice
first motor boat to make the trip was oozing from the boxes and consid
through the new waterway after the
O ffice Hours 9 to 12, 1 to S.
Phone 2401
erable fruit crushed.
Celilo canal was opened.
R oom s 11-19 Heilbronner Bldg.
H ood River, O regon
The sum of $300 was promised by the ,
The articles have been elaborately
illustrated, as one of the two men in county court last year, before the 1916
the boat was Waller Miller, o f Seattle, budget was made up, for improvemrr.;;
one o f the fineBt scenic photographers
in the northwest. The other man was on the Fisher road and the Cramer
A. V. Comings, one of the publishers grade. Tha majority o f the people in
of Pacific Motor Boat, who is writing this vicinity make their livelihood by
the articles.
hauling their own wood and also lum
In the last two installments Comings
speaks enthusistically about the scen ber from the Root sawmill. Here is a
Taxes not paid by the fifth o f April will be delinquent.
ery along the river and says that stretch of 12 miles of road, and the
Make your payments at this bank and help keep Mosier
neither the Hudson nor the St. Law farmers living a few miles from the
rence are to be compared with it. Re city must haul five miles on either
money at home. This is the only way any county funds are
ferring to one part of the cruise, he
road, then unload or else double up
left here.
says:
“ To me this part of the river, from with their teams. They offered to do
the magnificent Wallula gateway to nate their services, and asked only
Bonneville, below the Cascade Locks, $300 to complete the entire roadway.
is in many WHyg the most interesting
M osier
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portion or the great waterway. 1 have While here last week the county com
taken the much advertised trip up the missioners stated that they did not
Hudson river from New York to AI- remember promising thia money last
oany many times, and while it la a year, and consequently would be unable
beautiful trip, why, the acenic features
could be acattered alung the Columbia to grant it.
For the continuation o f the Mayer-
from the Wallula gateway to below
Hood River and one would hardly notice dsle road $.r>00 was asked from the
them, they would be so overshadowed court to complete the road to the tracts
by the natural beiuties and attractions
S team er "D a lle s C ity " a n d "S t r a n g e r "
along the route. Thia holda true of of R. D. Chstfield and C. C. Isom
le a v e s Portland 7 r . in., arrive« The Dnlles H:80 p. m. Dally except Sunday. Ar
the much-touted ‘ Palisades of the Hud which was also turned down. It is
rive« at Monter abou t 6 p. in. Leave« The I>Hlle« 7 a. m ., arrive« Portland
p. in,
son’ too, for those beautiful palisades now necessary for the children o f C. C.
D ally excep t S unday. A rrive« at Monter about h if* a m.
could be used as a side show for many Isom in order to get to and from school
W ednenday o f each week U «et RNlde rm “ Hlock Yard D a y " and then the
real pieces of scenery on the Columbia.
8te«iner "D alle« C ity " w ill take live «took for d eliv ery lo Portland U nion Stock Yard
And once get the trip down the rapids to travel two miles through private
Thl« «ervtce w ill perm it the Individual to «hip an few an im al« a« deni red and get the
of the Columbia as well known as that property. The road now has become
benefit o f low fralgbt rate«. For fuither Inform ation telephone num ber ;J2l.
other famous trip, down the St. Law muddy and impassable and permission
rence, and many a new steamer will has been granted by Geo. Chamberlain
have to be built to accommodate the
J. O. B E L D I N , A g e n t
phon* 3*i
tourists who will yearly flock to this for them to come through the Middle-
coast and make the journey. As I re swart place. It is possible to travel
member the St. Lawrence trip, there is the private road with s light rig only
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nothing in the whole river that com at the present time. In getting to and
pares in beauty of both river and sui-
rounding scenery with the 150 miles of from school the chilrden have their
Columbia from the Wallula gateway choice of passing through six gates on
down. And 1 know that the famous the private road or crawling through
Lachine rapids’ aren’t half aB thrilling six wire fences on the trail through
| will open April first Salmon trout are now running. Come
as the roaring Umatilla*, for I've run
the orchard.
both of them.”
in and get your license and enjoy a day’ s sport.
The only work allowed by the two
commissioners was to finish a little
work left undone since last fall on the
Carroll road, a survey o f the road up
Dry creek, and putting in a new small
bridge on little Mosier creek near the
Thl" week is the time to spray for Feugh place.
Peach Leaf Curl using winter strength,
The people of the Mosier district are
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lime sulphur.
bitllerly assailing the county commis
Get the gopher and the digger now sioners for their stand in this matter.
before the summer Increase. The Mac- It is felt that Mosier snd vicinity are
cabee gopher trap has been found very not getting s square deal as thousands
effective.
o f dollars are being spent in other
The formula for the grafting wax parts o f the county on roads. Not
now being used for cherry grafting is withstanding the fact that the Moeier
five pounds resin, one pound beeswax, taxpayers have repeatedly asked for
one pound linseed oil, onn pound char small appropriations to repair their
coal. This is a brush wax.
road* snd have offered their service!
Plant to inoculate legume cropa when for the major part in volunteer work,
planting for the first time this yaar in the county court seems loath to do
new ground. Inoculating material for anything that will aid the bad road
fifleen acre* c.in be secured from Ore situation in thia district.
gon Agricultural College for sixty
cents.
Prominent Boxer Mayerdale Guest
Plan s good home garden for the
Enjoying
the invigorating elimata of
ransh, and get it in early this spring.
Some men can save more on their gar Moeier snd taking a few days of rest
den than they clear on their wheat. from strenuous labors. Ralph Gumsn
Plant field pees just as early as 'the is a guest at Msyerdaie. Mr. Gruman
ground can be well-worked. Plant in is s prominent boxer in the lightweight
division and although he hss bad a
double rows thirty-five inches apart.
Grass seed snd grain seed are tested short career hss won seven battles and
P e o p l e s n a v ig a t io n C o m p a n y
free at the Oregon Agricultural Col is rapidly coming to the top rank in his
lege. Send s half-pound sample to the division. H* was born in San Fran- j
CHARLES NELSON, M a n a g e r .
cisco but attended high school in Port - ]
seed-testing labratory at the college.
snd, during which time he won every
leaves The Dalles 7:00 A. M., Sunday«, Tuesdays and
battle he fought as an amateur. He
Osly 22 Days Left to Begoter
Thursdays. Arrives at Mosier at 8:15. A. M.
The time it rapidly drawing near turned professional in the fall of 1913
when it will be too late to register in and lost hia first contest in San Fran-
I-eaves Portland on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays
order to vote at the May primaries. eicso against a much heavier man.
from Oak Street Dock.
Passengers and freight.
Tha registration hooks will bs closed Sinee that tima under Billy Roche of
Mosier Dock in charge of J. W. Huskey, who will meet all
on April 18, which leaves only 22 days New York, he had not lost a battle
boats and attend to transfer. Phone No. 85.
in which to registar. As it is nee** until two week« ago when he was com -!
sary to register only once it behooves pelted to give up to Callahan in Salt
the eilitena to sign their ramea at Lake In the seventh round on account
once to avoid the rush of the lest faw of a aora jaw from a wisdom tooth that
days. A change of residence or failure had been pulled a short lima before
to vote within two years sre the only He had had the beet o f the contest all
causes from which in order to vote e the way through.
citizen must register again Women
Mr. Gruman is sehedeuled to meet
sre rot compelled to state their ages,
simply swearing that they sre over 21 soon Johnny Dur.de* end then will sign
Welsh,
the present
up nth 'reddy
tv »e
l*
years of age.
wo
champion In the light < seight
The total registration to date as fa world's
ro r ted by Registrar P. L. Arthur in division.
the Mosier precinct arc ss follows:
Republicans,<38; Democrats. 32, Pro- .
.
P . .
gresivts, 2; Independents, 2; Prohibi ance with I»airy and rood Laws, call at
tionists, 7; Socialists, 4.
thia office.
General
Merchandise
OREGON
! M O S IER
Personal Service Dentistry
STORY TELLS OF
LONG CANOE TRIP
Dr. W m . M. Post
M O S IE R
VALLEY
BANK
Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Company
The Trout Season
TIMELY IDEAS FROM
COUNTY AGENT
i The Mosier Book Store
S TE A M E R TA H O M A
The Bulletin Office
wants your
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