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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1895)
fcsd Jiver (Slacier. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, IS95. It is expected the locks at tho Cas cades will be completed before another hix months. Hood River should reap tho U'Otfit of this great work along with other points on the middle Columbia. When steamboats ean come from the lower liver and carry our fruit and otner prouuce to roruana witnoui breaking cargo, the cost of transporta tion will be greatly reduced. But there will remain one drawback to our shipping by boat, and that is the Ic ponvenu'iit iandinsr. It is too far from town. Tho cost of getting our freight to and from the present boat landing is about n treat as t he cost of shipping It to Portlut.l after it is delivered at the landing. We understand that a good landing could be made opposite the town by piling and dredging, and : i hat the cost of the work has been es timated at $3,000. If the work can be accomplished for thls amouut, some thing should be done at once towards commencing it. Until we get a land ing for steamboat during low water, the completion of the locks will not be f much benefit to shippers from Hood River. They wilU continue to ship by rail because it will be cheaper and jnore convenient than making the long haul to the present landing. ' ' . Italian prunes are so wmui una year In some parts of the Willamette valley that the growers think they are not worth . drying. The Pacific Farmer says they are too' small to sell in the market either in the green or dried State, ftnd advises fruit growers to dry them and feed to the hogs. They make excellent hog feed when ripe, ftnd if gathered and kept in a dry place, Will keep for weeks. , Hood River prunps, although not so large as usual, V . 1 1 1 A 1 . t . for drying or transporting East in the green state. ' We believe growers are In too much of a hurry to market this fruit. . It should be allowed to mature fully before being picked for shipment or drying. .The Italian prune, ' like other kinds of fruit, will swell out con siderably during the last few days be- ripe It -will stand shipment In venti lated cars to any part of the United Mates. ' " "' The fight In the republican party in Pennsylvania against Senator Quay . was amicably settled in the convention Wednesday, and. Quay was elected chairman of the state committee. The opposition, which came within a few votes of being strong enough to defeat . the great political boss, at the last mo ment surrendered J'ln the Interest of harmony.'' Quay has great power over political conventions and poli ticians, but the people of that state, the honest' voters, are liable to repudiate him and his tactics at the polls, as they did each time Gov. Pattison was elect ed. The action of the convention will cause tho Keystone slate to join Ken tucky in the doubtful column. . Some fruit growers at White Salmon are allowing their fine Bartlett pears nnd Hungarian prifhes to rot on the ground rather than trust them to the tender mercies of commission men. For the past two or three years these men uave ueen snipping uiu kuiu oi fruit and getting returns that didn't pay for the boxes, and they are grow ing tired. But this year the Bartlett pear crop is a failure in California and 11 nult.ln1 fiiilt1lA tn t.ha WillatYinffa vral- ley, and the splendid crop of this de licious fruit in Hood River valley and ut White Salmon ought to find a mar ket ut remunerative prices If Jt ever Will. . The Oregon fruit union shipped a car of Bartlett pears, plums and prunes from the Dalles to Minneapolis, where it was sold August 24th. . The Bartlett pears sold from $1 to $1.40 per box; Bradshaw plums, 45 to 90 cents; Co lumbia plums, C5 cents; Hungarian prunes, 75 cents; : Italian prunes, 90 cents, v Replies to "Free Trader." Hood Rive, Aug. 29th. Editor GLACIER: I am uot a "kicker," but do not consider it just to allow such arti cles as that signed "Free Trader" in your last issue to go abroad without a t....,- i i . . .. pruit-Bu ouuu tueas are very injurious not alone to the little village of Hood River but to the whole valley. Com mon sense alone should tell "Free Trader", that a country near a good town is worth a great deal more than it Is without a town, or worse, a dead one. Now, I wish to say that I am a rancher and perhaps have as much at stake as "Free Trader," and J for one propose to stand by home trade and try to build up a town that we can feel proud of, and at the same time be a home market for our produce. Then, if we wish to sell a part of our land, we can point to the thriving village as an argument in favor of the product iveness of our country, - As to our merchants buying our pro duce, we don't want them to handle our fruit. Our eggs and butter they do buy and pay us 20 to 50 per cent above the Portland markejt the year round. Why, I have known my neighbors to go into the villago and peddle produce ut every house and then take the "leavings" to the stores and kick if the merchants would not pay them a third more than they had been selling for. I, have also known ranchers to go to our merchants and borrow money to pay for goods bought in Portland, "Free Trader" also says if a poor raau gets in debt to our merchants be is ground into the earth. Now, in all candor let me ask him how many have made anything selling goods in Hood River and how many have lost their little all, and surely not by grinding poor people into the earth. There are merchants in Hood River who have told me they would sell accounts against some of our rauchers for 25 cents on the dollar; not a few accounts, but they run into tens of thousands of dollars. Row, these merchants did not get rich; they have gone out of business. Some of them are hunting a job today. ; It seems to me that our only way is to patronize our home merchants and help build up a town, thereby increas ing the value of our own property, pro vided of course that we can buy as cheaply at home as elsewhere, and I know we can by buying a bill and pay ing for it, which we have to do in Port land. , .-, ,- Rancheb, Hood River, Aug. 29th. Editor Glacier: An old proverb savs: "A fair exchange is no robbery. " mien a man pays more fur an article than it is worth, to just that extent is he cheat ed out of his money. . v. Whether "Free Trader" : in last week's paper meant to include nursery men iii his remarks about Hood River merchants I do not know, but certain it is that a large portion of the money spent for fruit trees by : the farmers is senf'to other towns where they neither buy our produce or care for our locality any further than to get our money." But' this charge 'cannot justly be made against our nurserymen. ' Both are young, enterprising men, taking an active part in our corning fair, and we believe having the future good of our locality and orchards at heart. And the home grown trees are sold at as low or lower prices than the same grades than can be bought elsewhere. "F'ree Trader"' says: "It is not only a privilege, but a duty to themselves for those farmers who have money to trade where they can do so with the most profit." But why under the sun they don't do it with reference to buying their fruit trees, we will leave it to the farmers themselves to answer. , Z. Belmont Sotes. Belmont, Aug. 27th. The fruit growers and farmers of this vicinity are manifesting considerable interest in the coming fair to be held at Hood River. A number havjp expressed their determination of making an ex hibit, and are making their selections so that this place may be creditably represented in the line of apples, pears, prunes, plums, peaches, and In fact every kind of fruit grown In the val ley. Belmont will be able to present as fine an exhibit as any section of the Hood River basin. Notwithstanding the unusual dryness of the season, the corn crop of this locality promises to be very good. The acreage is quite large and many of the fields would do credit to Iowa or Illinois In the quality and yield per acre. One of the best fields is that of G. A. Lindsay who has taken special care in the cultiva tion of his corn, and so large are some of the ears in his field, he expects to get away with all the first prizes of the Hood River fair as well as , at the Portlaud exhibition. For. the benefit of people at a distance we will slate that our corn is grown without aid of irrigation, the natural moisture of the ground being sufficient. - ' A small white butterfly has made its appearance here in considerable num bers and at present is confining itself to the pine trees and is feeding upon or laying eggs on the needles of these trees. . It is probably the same butterfly that has been mentioned by the papers as destroying the foliage of the pine trees in the vicinity of Spo kane, where it is said it has produced a larvaj that has eaten the needles off the limbs. As yet it has shown no in clination to go near the fields or a ten dency to destroy the crops. ' G. G. Gessling has his new residence completed and moved in on Saturday last. He is at work now finishing up a commodious barn and other out buildings. Though a novice at the business, jMr. Gessling being an old railroader, be is proving to be an ex pert farmer, and will soon have one of the most comfortable-homes in this locality. .' - v C. J. Hayes, who recently bought a five-acre piece out of the Stranahan tract, has the frame 'for his new resi dence ui and will soon have the build ing enclosed. ; ' Miss May Laughlin of Portland.who has been spending the last two weeks with her cousin, Mrs. Jr F. Armor, re turned Monday by the steamer Regu lator, to her home In the city. This was Miss Laughlin's first visit . here and she was greatly pleased with the beauty of this country. , , : Father Hill, who has had tho Pratt placo rented for the past year, has given it up and vacated the house last Monday, and during the present week has been visiting his numerou friends in the valley preparatory to leaving for Klickitat county, .where he will engage in wheat raising, having found potato raising unprofitable in Hood River. Our juvenile lodge of good , templars is now in a very prosperous condition and numbers nearly fifty member?, and under the superintendency of Mitt. M. B. Potter, is doing much good among the young people of this place. The lodge meets every Monday even ing at the M. E. church," and the at tendance is very good. The officers for this quarter, whose term began with this month, are: Joseph Frazier, chief templar; Howard Isenberg, vice temp lar; George Rich, chaplin; Josie Hans- berry, past chief templar; Elton Hay-den,-financial secretary; Wm. Isen berg, treasurer; Edith Potter, secretary ; I Maggie Frazier, assistant secretary; Louis Isenberg, marshal; Walter Isen berg, deputy marshal; Lucy Pritchard, guard; Marshall Isenberg, sentinel. " .'.,.-' : -: ' -v. EEME,,; ' How We Lost Our Coon-skin Cap. August 23, 1895. Editor Glacier: Having been very much annoyed by the depredations of some coons that were preying on my peaches and prunes, I determined that I must do something to get rid of them, or suffer serious loss to my fruit crop as well as to my peace of mind, as my temper was becoming slightly acid and my language somewhat forcible at the ex pense of its former elegance. In fact,'! my morals were threatening to execute i a reirogude movement. , Something j had to be done. A happy thought j struck me I would poison them, that I would; that I reasoned would kill them off by wholesale; and as there seemed to be a whole herd of them, their skins would in a measure recom pense me for my losses. -Mrs. Mac fell readily into my scheme, as she said she wanted some skins to make rugs of, and thought, she could use a good many of the skins to advan tage in that way. Soon, however, my sympathies got the best of me when 1 1 saw I just about had ; them in my -j power, and I began asking rayself if I j had a right to slaughter the coou popu-1 lation by wholesale,- thus taking away j so many lives that I had 'no power to j restore. But Mrs. Mac.' again brought! me to time by asking if I thought the coons had any power or inclination to restore the fruit they were eating up. Thus assured, I sallied forth on my dreadful mission of destruction and put out a goodly number of baits, each containing a liberal supply of poison. The next morning, when I went out ; to skin my coons, I found coon tracks I all over the orchard. I took the trail j of one big old fellow to see where be had died. We had just been irrigating and it was easy tracking. . . I found where he had eaten up several baits. After eating the poisoned fruit his ap petite seemed to get bettor, for I trailed him down one row of trees and up an other, and round and round. Here he had climbed a tree, muddying up the trunk and showering down the fruit; eating a few of the choicest specimens and going on to another, where he had played toboggan slide over the heavily laden branches until he had broken some of them off. After awhile he seemed to have finished his frolic, and I trailed him down the road for about half a mile. Perhaps he had other ap pointments to fill. So in disgust I re turned to the ; house, almost mad enough to eat the rest of the baits my self, as ' it would surely have been harmless. But then I thought that there might be some difference be tween the digestive powers of my stomach and that of a coon. Mrs, McGinnls stood in . the doorway to welcome me, expectlug to see me re turn with a number of fine coon tails adorning the front of my coat, while their gray pelts would gracefully dangle from my belt. But when she learned the true state of affairs she was madder than I have ever seen her since the time, by mistake, I gave the census taker my age for hers and took hers for mine. . You see, she had set her heart on having them coon-skin rugs. I next set a series of large beaver traps in my orchard and temptingly arranged the ripe fruit about them, thinking I might yet be able to present the editor of the Hood River Glacieb with a coon-skin cap for next winter. But, alas! man's reason was no match for animal instinct. They are still holding their nightly festivals in my orchard, and I have no skins. Yours vehemently,1 Corbet McGinn is. A Fish Story in Two Chapters. . CHAPTER I. . -, ' Hood River, Oregon, Aug. 7, 1894. My Dear Gorham: Yours was duly to hand, and I would gladly have com plied with your request in giving you the particulars about the; hairy fish, but as I can not honorably do so, I am compelled to ask you to excuse me. The fact Is I promised Father r-r" of -, who caught it, with my assist ance, that I would never ' again men tion a word about it, for at the same time so much excitement 7 was being created, greatly to bis injury in useful ness and good name, that his superior, the archbishop of this diocese, informed him that the whole authority of the Church would be exercised against him unless such a scandal, as he called it, was not immediately stopped. Tho. Father and 'I' talk over the singular affair very often,, regret the conditions Hiirronrulinur It. nrft iirh that (ail-nr golden," and both of us arc comforted '! in believing with myriad-minded whaki f speare, Uliore sire - more - tilings in,; heaven and earth and water than is in your philosophy." But I can not break my word to my beloved brother fisherman, Father . Perish the thought! I am surprised, however, before eavlng the above subject, that you are in ignorance, for the- news papers were full of it at the time and everybody talked of it.-. Every theory possible to imagine was promulgated, and I even get from the late Colonel Jewett that he believed It had crossed with a mink. But I am forgetting myself and must stop. During the past two visits out home to the folks I have had an experience so entirely new, strange and unreasonable that I am persuaded we are on the brink of one of the groat discoveries of the age. In ancient times Pythagorus, and in our times the natives of British India, believed and do believe in transmigra tion i.e., the passing of the soul into another body. . They believe, as you well know, that even fish are inhabited with some departed soul. ; So in India, the Hindoos won't either kill or eat fish; for just consider a moment, he might in that act kill and eat Ills own grandmother or motlier-iu-law. Hor ror! We can not blamo these people, therefore, for being solid vegetarians. You can imagine the delight after three months of the sandy plains, heat and sage brush of Idaho, t get again into the shady brooks and mountains of Hood River, and with Pope, feci thusly: ... " With transport view the airy rule my own, And swell., on an imaginary throne." After enjoying the above and the bosom of my family, six of them (you remember Brigham, when he died on the bosom' of his family, according to Artemus Ward, he had to go out of doors to do it), Ed and I went down to the Forks for an afternoon fishing. I had already caught two fish, li and 3 pounds each, when happening to step suddenly on a rock in view of a large fish in the pool, in the dash to get away he seems to have knocked his head against a sharp rock or snatr, for instantly it became perfectly crazy. To describe it is quite impossible, lie twisted and turned above, below, and put the pool in a regular turmoil, ve looking on with the greatest astonish ment. At lat, in one of his mad springs he cleared a point of rocks and landed in a shallow pool, when Ed and I at once jumped him. He was a line bull chinook, and I judge weighed 12 to 15 pounds, possibly .-more.- I was just on the point of dispatching him. rejoicing in such luck, when l noticed his brains sticking out of a dent in the head. An idea, or rather twenty, flashed through me in a moment and I instantly had him in the pool again, for I had determined to trepan the skull. ' Now, I don't believe in the theories of Gall, that the mental faculties are shown on the surface of the head as taught in craniology, but. from late reading we must have to admit that there are special functions of the brain connected with the faculties of the mind and nerve force. Now, what a magnificent opportunity I saw to ex periment on the brain of the fish, which Ed had the greatest difficulty holding, for it continued to show the greatest terror or pain, ana struggled ana shook; aud quivered like a mad beast. First, I cut an oval piece about three fourths of an inch out of the largest fish I had cau.siht, and then as neatly and carefully as I could, cut out the Injured part of the skull, just a, shade smaller, so when I lifted the skin' I could slip it into position. As luck would have it, I had a needle and white linen thread in my pocket-book, and at the moment. I remember how thankful I was to Will Montgomery at Mountain Home for giving it me to sew on a button, and while Ed held tight 1 managed to place it snug and finally get enough stitches in so all held fast. We had hardiyany difficulty at all after the brain was pressed into place, as it quieted down very soon apparently relieved of the pain. It was somewhat awkward,' having to be done under water, for I had to see that no air bub bles were left in the brain. We stood back when till was finished and found he made not the slightest effort to es cape, and after a time began to show every sign of regaining strength. He would move round tho pool occasion ally, but generally seemed to be taking a square look at ns, and whichever side we happened to be on, would be facing us. 1 found he was not afraid of us and would al ow his back to be tickled or scratched like a dog, and moreover seemed rather to enjoy it, for I am positive he tried to wag Ids tail. We were amused to see him eat a grass hopper Ed held up for him, and when he had gathered some more' we gave him about a couple of dozen. He reg ularly guiped them at a swallow and waited lor more. When my back was turded, Ed held up an artificial fly, a No. 4 brown hackle, w.iich he grabbed. I was quite angry at the lime, but am more than thankful now, as it has re sulted.v It , hooked in the upper jaw; I got it out finally, without any-great difficulty, but he sulked quite a long while afterwards. 1 He resumed his good nature in about half an hour; bvt 1 wish you could have seen how partic ularly he examined every fly after wards, I think we must, have tried every fly in my bo;k, yet he would not have it; but didn't he just love a fat grasshopper or slug. It was laughable to see'him examining an artificial fly the long steady stare out of black and. yellow eye, first on one side and then the other, and then back off and on no account come near it again.- Towards evening we had to conclude what was to be done with him. Ed wanted him knocked on the head, but I determined he should have his liberty,' so I gently lifted him into the river and off he went like a shot. I felt rather cheap, the laugh was on Ed's side, but imag ine my delight while tying up our tackle to see a big swirl at my feet, and here he was In a few inches of water. Scratching him a little, we had to leave, and so far as I saw he watched us out of sight.' If this was alL it Would be wonderful, only as a case of gratitude in one of the lower creation, and which being not uncommon would not have been worth such minute de tails; but the . sequel is wherein the story and strangeness comes in, the mere therapeutical part is nothing. But it is growing late and.I must post pone the particulars till another occa sion. I think if you only knew what followed you would rest badly and your Wildest dreams would be far short of the reality. I will soon continue, and in the meantime exercise the virtue of pa tience, and with my kindest rcsrards to yourself and Mrs. Gorham, 1 remain. yours huthfuli.Vj ;; i;u Roblrts. . ":" "iv (Oiinehnled nost tvec'.s.) 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