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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1902)
odI$Yer Slacier. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1902. The Apple Growers' Xeetlngr The apple growers' meeting lajt Sat urday, called by the Davidson Fro it Co., was the largest gathering of represent ative fruit men ever held in Hood River. It was an instructive meeting, apd it is hoped more meetings of the same kind will follow. Every one In attendance felt that he bad learned something. The exchange of ideas by practical men who had given years to the study of fruit culture, and the questions by the new beginners, bringing answers and discussions of interest to all, will be of lasting benefit. " Hon. E. L. Smith, chairman of the meeting, readily an swered many of the questions. G. J. Gessling acted as secretary. The Gla cier is indebted to H. W. Huxley, who took notes in short hand, for the follow ing report of the meeting: . Setting out an orchard, by A. I. Ma son. I think some one has stolen a march on me, for I do not know any thino on this lubiect at present. Of course, we all have our own views about setting out an orcnard, ana my exper ience as an apple grower has not been verv extensive although quite expensive To my mind there is only one way to set out an orcnard, ana tnai is w nans canea the hexagonal system. This system afford, mean of cultivating: the trees six different wavs. or in six different di rections, giving at the same time 15 per cent more trees to ine acre man on wie old sauare method. Season t Plant, by P.'Mohr. From my experience I believe fall planting .is the best, and yearling trees tht beet to plant. I think the best distance Is J feet each way from limb to limb; plant ed some young trees 30 feet apart. H. C. Batebara stated that growers up towards Mt. Hood prefer two-year-old trees, planting in the spring. In the lower part of the valley there are more calls for yearlings and more trees plant ed in the fall. Almost all small fruits are planted in the spring. Spraying, by Wm. Kennedy. Spray ing, without doubt, is very essential in growing fruit in this valley. In regard to winter spray, salt.sulphur and lime is the proper ingredients, and the proper time is any time after the middle of Feb ruary before the buds are too large in the spring. Formula is same as E. L. Smith's. Salt, sulphur and lime is the proper thing for scale, but anybody who doesn't care to admit that tbey have scale will find this a very good spray to clean the trees up, and a good preventive for scale. The Bordeaux mix ture shculd be applied for fungus, es pecially before the buds bnrst in the surins. It will stop fungus from form- ina. but doesn't take off that already formed. Some use this mixture and follow with salt, sulphur and lime spray I tried paris green for codlin moth, but it didn't work. Tried arsenic and got pretty clean iruit. imt is very easily applied: soraved. seven to nine times during the season. Made the first application about the time the bios- soms were two-thirds gone, and another application before the blossom end of the apple closed up. One tree had seven boxes of apples on it, and about two weeks before they ripen ed there was hardly a sound apple on the tree: the worms seemed to mature and come out of the apple about the t'me the apple ripened. The apples did not show up any worms until about two weexs ueiore ripening, n aeemeu as though the worms were in the apple during the whole season and naturally came out when the apple ripened. It is best to be a little careful about puttini on the whole strength, which is one full quart of arsenic to every 50 gallons of water and two Quarts of unslaked lime. Ttia nnmn forma ftvurvthinff through. so I do not strain the mixture. The . earlier pumps were very hard to clean, but the Pomona pump is easily cleaned and does its work in a splendid manner. After the first application I tried to get through my orchard every two weeks up w pivuiug uiue. Aiuug auuui finn ing tiuie I noticed that the redder the apple and the brighter the apple the more the codlin moth would sting them. They didn't seem to get into the apple but sting it and hurt it in that way. 1 will be glad to write out the formulas for all the sprays I use, or vou can get them through the horticultural report. A. P. Bateham remarked that the nor ticultural report fails to mention how to cook the lime, sulphur and salt spray, and asked what kind of machine to use. Mr. Kennedy I started with an open kettle, and EmileSchanno's instructions are that when you start to boil the lime never add cold water to it. i nnd tne use of steam much the best way to cook any of the sprays. Add no water at all until you get through. After you get it thoroughly dissolved with the steam you can bring it down by diluting with warm water. The neighbors seem to think mix it up all right If you have no Bteam use an ordinary galvanized iron kettle. Q. J. Gessling. Should we use hot spray T Kennedy. Use it warm. The idea to get it through the pump; it is the spray that condenses. I tried putting it in cold but unsuccessfully. B. R. Tucker Concerning spraying business, I used, I presume the same as most of you do, arsenite of soda, also blue vitriol, the entire season and found them so effective that I did not find to exceed two boxes of wormy apples when we gathered our crop, about 140 boxes. We commenced spraying the 17th of May. I think the most of us commence spraying too late. I found millers on the trees, so I commenced spraying then, and for the first spray I used double the proportion that the formula gives, both of the arsenite of soda and blue vitriol. We sprayed every 15 to 20 days, five sprayings, our last spraying being somewhere about Aug 20th. Each spraying that we gave from the first was about $hi times the formu la ; the last spraying we made it triple strength. Perhaps you may think this is too strong, but we tested that to our satisfaction :what we put on would not affect the foliage. The spray should be put on with care, and where the apples are, thoroughly saturating them. After the apples commenced to get any siie in my orchard I discovered that the1 were badly covered with fungus. looked like it was going to ruin them We used blue vitriol to kill the fungus, using it of double strength at the start and increased it to treble the formula on the last spraying. After the second spraying Uie fungus stopped growing and remained there, and the apples grew but the fungus did not grow any more, and at the maturity of the apple w could see that it was there, but that was about all. The fungus showed only slightly on the apple at maturity. (It is perhaps all right to double the strength of the formula in protracted cool, moist or wet weather, but to put on ( double strength in the bright warm sunshine would most certainly destroy the foliage and triple strength even endanger the life of the tree. Ed.) Varieties for Profit, by H.F.Davidson The new conditions which surround the apple grower are so entirely different from those which existed a few years ago that we are prompted to care fully consider the outlook for the future as indicated by present conditions. It is no longer a question of competition be tween neighboring growers, but it Is rase of the East vs. the West, Cali fornia vs. Oregon and Washington Southern Oregon vs. Eastern Oregon and Hood River against the world. Wit he large territory available in Hood River valley for future planting, and with attendant condition more favor able than the most sanguine of as even imagined a few years ago, it would be thehightof folly it we did not stop to earnestly study the causes of the trace- ... . . i .i. i ses or failures oi ourselves ana ueignuoru, and learn the lessons which we should from each. One important feature is that we need to approach uniformity in quality so far as possible. White one grower ma; feel justly proud to know that ne nas produced a crop of apples superior to that which his neighbor has grown, it is manifestly to his interest to assist his neighbor to do equally as well. As an illustration of this, I am pleased to cite you to the experience of the strawberry growers. From 1893 to 1897 it was prac tically impossible to give Hood River strawberries a value until after they ar rived in an Eastern city, and then each erat hi examined separately and had different values placed upon them.while tnHav wb fir the value here, and it is the exception to find enough variation In the. nacka of reputable growers to warrant a variation in the selling price This is the result of uniformity and con centrated effort. Hood River apples are experiencing a desirable change of status, so that it is not necessary to consign our high grade nnlea. for thev have an f. SV o. value when under reliable packers' brands. NevRrthelRss. it is sad but true, that large quantities of onr apples are for various reasons unable to attain t t.hia atandinir. The cause to which I most earnestly call your attention is the variety. Humid orchards show a woeful lack of knowledge of tjie relative value of va rieties, and some of the more recent plantings have the appearance of being AvnarinriAntal. If a tfrowfT enilllgeS II) the business merely for the love of occu pation, or to see if he can develop and intrrvhira new varieties from which 111 ture generations may reap the reward, then well and good ; but if he plants an orchard intending the investment to produce a profitable income, then why not produce the varieties that have an established reputation varieties which for long years have held a pre-eminent position, and for which the consuming world Is clamoring with money in their hands. New kinds can be introduced m a small way, but when it comes to selling to the public In large quantities iney ai ways buy those with which they are familiar, and take your others on consignment. When you are told that there is noth ing in a name, you are getting the opin ion of some one who has never dealt with named packages or brandB. Famil iar names sometimes condemn as well as commend, while unfamiliar name's are meaningless. - In apple growing, then, let us select varieties that are universally known as the best, for these can be grown to the highest possible degree of excellence in Hood River valley. In the best mar kets, the Newtown Pippin and Spitzen- berg stand practically in aciass oy uiem selves for their superiority as winter apples. Next comes Jonathan, Wagen er, and a few others that are deserving of attention, but the man who will plant or maintain an orcnara oi sucn varieties as Ben Davis, Russets, Stark.Greenings, Shackleford, Lawler, Arkansaw Black, Red Russian, Baldwin, Pearmains.Alex ander, Gano and various other varieties known locally as" Rogers' pippin" if yel low, or "Rogers' Oregon Beauty" if red, must class himself with the average erower of Missouri or New York, and in seasons of normal crops will have to be contented with prices on a basis of 75c to $1.25 per barrel, as freight rates to common points these days put produc ing sections in all parts of the country on about the same basis, except the near local markets, whose consumption and price is comparatively small. In early life i learned to enjoy tne Rambo. Tuloehocken. Sheepnose, Bell- flower, etc., and later have taken a par ticular fancv to the Seek-no-further, Swaar, and a few others along with the (iravenstetn, Bpitzenberg and wewtown Pippin, but my personal taste or preier- ence doesn't count, for by extensive correspondence and personal conversa tions with the principal Duyers wr tnis country and the foreign markets, I am forced to the conclusion that if we are to make money in the apple business we must grow and otter tor sale tne varie ties and quality of apples these buyers have found that their trade demands, If we do otherwise we cannot continue to make sales at prices that will be re munerative. When I make these statements 1 am not giving you my private opinion based uoon personal likes or dislikes alone, but the solid opinion of those to whom we must sell our products, and it matters not what we may think and hope and believe, the larcre buvers have the opin ions which are backed up by the coin of the realm, and if we wish to exchange our crops for their coin, we must respect their opinions. Our section is regarded as the favored spot of the United States, where Spitzen- Dergs ana newiown nppins reacii inoir highest state of perfection. Many other sections nave undertaken to optain tins recognition, but now that we have suc ceeded, the opportunity is opened for those who can grow these varieties suc cessfully to realize something more than the apple grower in sections with lesser reputation. 1 mean by this that a rep utation for good goods with good goods to back it up is worth money. but imagine what the condition would be even this season if there were 15 to 20 cars of Ben Davis to market. We would be tumbling over each other striving to market thein at $1.00 per box, as is be ing done in other sections of the North west, while orders for Newtowns and Spitzenbergs cannot be filled at $2.00 Now, think for a moment what a differ ent condition it would be to have 25 or 50, or 100 cars of the latter, as against the Bens and other varieties. If Gravensteins were grown here in sufficient quantities and of such quality as we bad last year, they could be made as famous as Hood Kiver strawberries Ft for they have the quality. In conclusion: If you have not plant ed, plant rioht, according to soil, loca tion and elevation. If you have planted and your varieties are not right,grubout the poor trees and replace with good ones, top grafting the others with va rieties that will always sell for big money. Polomzation. This subject was brought up at the end of this discussion and it was brought out that tnespiuen- benr aoole needs a polonizer. while the Yellow Newtown is a complete flowering aoole In itself and needa no help. In an orchard of 300 Spitzenbergs 50 Baldwins would be enough lor proper polomzation the Baldwin being among those recom mended for this use. Adaptation of Varieties to Soils, by W. A. Slingerland. I do not feel like talking on this subiect today. There are people here who are better talkers and I will leave it to the others, seems to me that if a person wanted lesson on that point and would ride out through the valley with his eyes open he would get all the information that he wanted. Experience is a good teacher and observation is a good teach er, w hen we come to notice the eon and the orchards planted thereon there are elegant lessons, I think, to be learn ed from them. J. H. Shoemaker I have a small block of Newtowns and a small block Spitzenbergs, and a few Ben Davis. also have a few Yakimas. or Baldwins. 1 find the Spitzenberg a very tender tree in our heavy clay toil. When I fir?t came here 12 vears ago I knew nothing at all of fruit raising. I commence planting all right.but slashed too much did too much pruning. 1 found that under my treatment the New towns were also tender, miring the imei iwi years ago I lost 200 out of 250 New towns, and the remaining 50 were about halt dead, epitzenbergs are very ten der in my vicinity. It is pretty hard to raise a good apple tree on this coaxt. Wa have some hardy varieties; the Ben Davis is a hardy variety, also the Bald win, and others I might mention. Spitcenberga do better on the other side of the river than on this side. The SpiUenberg is a verv nice apple after yon get it in the apple box, no better, and the Newtown also, but I find the trouble is to get them in the box. I pro vided for polomzation ot tne npiizen bergs when planting my orchard by putting out two rows of Spitzenbergs and then tworowsof Ben Davis through out. The body of the Spitzenberg tree seems to be most affected ny adverse conditions. The southwest side of the treo- E. L. Smith The Spitzenberg tree lacks constitution and vigor and should be top grafted on some strong growing stock. Asked how about Ben Davis, re plied that it is a good polonizer. J. H. Shoemaker The Ben Davis at tends strictly to business, and with. 100 trees of this variety I can make more money in ten years than any one with any three other varieties. F. Chandler The reason no more Ben Davis sell in the East is that they raise better ones there. The Ben Davis in atri-tlv a Daffo atntle. none like it to work off on an unsophistocated , public. II. F. Davidson Apples from Hood River have superior aualitv, which will hiBiire the liest varieties a good market in times of over abundance of fruit, in venrs of lieavv fruit crops. Tlie situa tion is similar to that of the strawberry in thirepect In shipping strawber ries we never make as low prices as the shippers from other sections, but the nniilit.v ansures a much higher price. It io the same with our Spitzenbergs and Newtowns, which are prominently be fore the public as the ''est in the world, Mr. Mason Why does the biggeBt apple grower in the valley have more to say favorable to tne wen uavis iiiuu any hndv else. while he set out 500 Spitzen bergs this spring. Why did he -do it? Why should a man talk Ben Davis and set out SpitzenbergB? Mr. Williams You can always count on the markets taking care of a few va rieties, such as the Yellow Newtown, Spitzenberg, Jonathan, Wegener, in many markets the New Winesnp. The Banana apple, a new variety, caueu ine Winter Baiiana.Ia finding favor in many 'Mr.'sniith The Winter Banana has been tried here without success. It is a high priced apple when in perfection, but 1 do not think flood Kiver is ine place for raising it. - There is a new disease making its appearance in the alley. 1 presume we shall acquire all of them eventually. Toadstools grow around the roots at the surface of the ground, and long tendril like roots per meate the hark; causing the bark to rot and the tree to die. The disease is com municated from one tree to another by means of the roots. The only remedy is to dig out the tree as quickly as possible, or cut away all roots around the tree. The only sate way is to completely ae strov the tree at once. Mr. Chandler 1 had twoor three trees ike that a few vears ago. The trees died and I have seen nothing like it since. Windbreaks, bv H. C. Bateham. I lave had but little experience wnn windbreaks, have not had them set long enough, in fact. In one or two cases, however, thev have been set longenongn to demonstrate the advisability of using windbreaks, h. N. Benson says he can see the good effect of poplar w indbreaks all across his held, one tree in about every four feet. I he trees do not sap the ground but verv little, wr. wuuer recommends the silver maple or blacK locust. Anv ranidlv growing tree will do vory well for a windbreak. Almost all kinds of fruit are benefited by a wind break. The Carolina poplar might be a lttle faster grower than the Lombard y poplar. I'etite prunes nave uone very well for me for that purpose. A great difference in the size and quality of the fruit is noticeable. It is impossible to grow Royal Anne cherries in the valley without a good windbreak, as tne iruit is spoiled for market or canning by the marks of the whipping of the branches. H. T. Williams suggested the Monterey cypress as a good true for a windbreak. K. Ij. smith said the juniper wouiu ao well for one. G. J. Gessling had exper imented with the Monterey cypress and it did not do well. Pruning, bv P. Mohr. I believe it is best to prune the tree while it is young. After the first or second year you can break off every little limb yon think is not wanted. As far as the tree is con cerned, I notice that Mr. Mason and Mr. Sears raise the tree low, which is a big advantage in a good many ways. First, the sun does not strike the body ot tne tree, and it is shady so the sun does not have so much ettect in starting the sap too early in the spring. I think it is es pecially good for the Spitzenberg tree to cut it hack at least three times when young. But would not recommend cut ting it back after the tree conies into bearing. The trees lose their vitality by being cut back after they are two or three vears old. Frank Stanton M.V. Rand ruined his orchard of Spitzenbergs by letting them go with practically no trimming until they were about four years old and then cut them back and pruned them so se verely as to nearly kill them all. Mr. t ay 1 think it well to cut the Spitz, back some, and not allow them to run too much to top. Cut enough off to enable them to support the fruit. Top Grafting, by B. n. isproat. e had Mr. Kolos top graft for us last year 180 Shackleforda, also 150 Spitzenbergs and 30 Jonathans. The process was a perfect success, and the grafts all grew. They grew on an average of about three feet long in August. We snipped oil about, one foot, which lrfft them about the right length, two feet. He left on each tree from two to thre branches of the old tree remaining, and said they should be cut off in the spring. We will have him attend to it at the proper time. N. C. Evans I have had very little experience in top grafting, but I have thought it the right way to get a good Yellow Newtown or Spitzenberg orchard, to grow some variety that is hardy, lias a hardy trunk, such as the Red Astra- kan, and then top gratt it when it has been planted three or four years, and under these conditions I would prefer a budded top. If you plant a tree and grow it for two or three years you will have plenty of growth bv that time, and enough top will have formed so that you can hud Ix-fore the sap hardens up, and then let the limbs grow down to the grafting and that will assist the bud in growing. The following year cut down to the bud. I think the bud makes the best permanent union. It will take two or three years to get a top changed on an old tree, for you have to cut back one year. About Spitzenbergs and New towns,! think they are preeminently the apples to raise in this country, and I think the Yellow Newtowns will have the advantage over the Spitxenlierg utter the first ten or twelve years; after that time the Spitzenberg tree w ill gain the ascendency. The Y'ellow New town tree grows smaller apples as it advances in age, whereas, the Spitzenberg improves with age.aiia the fancy fruit is grown on the older trees. 1 he older the better. W. A. Slingerland My idea of top limiting as 1 have seen it done in a mini her of orchards was done apparently bv those who did not understand the re ouiremcnts of a tree. If 1 had an old tree that was good and strong, I would cut back part of the tree ami allow some sprouts to start and bud in those sprouts. Iuativ case do not rut off any limbs over one to one and one-half inches in diam eter. Mr. Fav I never had very much e perienre in budding, hut in crafting would not cut off very large liinlw.wouli not cut off limbs that grafts could not grow over in a verv short time. Cut ting off large trunks is a bad plan. E. L. Smith Mr. Kolos top grafted 250 trees for me and thev grew verv well. The green aphis bothered them some the green aphis is verv fond of the ten der green leaves at the ends of these sprouts, lhey are a pertect success w here the aphis was dest roved. The grafts have grown finely and I am well satisfied with the process. I grafted Newtown pippins into other varieties that I did not want. Shall top work Ben Davis this spring. H. E. Iavidson If man wants Spitxenberg and happens to get some variety he doe not want, it is not much trouble to change them. The New town and Spitzenberg tree have been hard to grow. I would like to impress the fact that a Spitzenberg tree can be grown on the trunk of some other variety that has a stronger constitution. Mr. Smith I would advise settting out some very hardy trees and then the second year budding on grafts of the kind you want. 1 cannot find that the top grafting changes the flavor of the fruit, but some have thought it changes the season of maturity to a certain ex tent when grafting into varieties which mature at different seasons from that of the scion. The selection of scions should lie a matter of great care and attention. They should be selected only from the very best trees, even from the best side of the best troeB. Mr. Evans I have worked on this line right along with my orchard, and think the fact should be strongly mi pressed on every grower a mum mat on ly the best trees should be selected to cut grafts from. Thinning Fruit.by Joseph Porter. Af ter we started in thinning last year, I asked whether we were going to leave any apples on the trees. I' found after wards we had left too many on the trees. I do not think you can thin the fruit to what we would naturally think was too much. The trees thinned most had splendid apples. We did not leave many trees to demonstrate what they would have done if the fruit had been left on, but we have an idea the fruit would have been very small. Mr. Smith In an orchard of 50 acres of Newtown pippins at Medford the trees had been thinned twice and no two apples left nearer than four inches of each other. The apples were the best I ever saw. Two weeks afterwards 7,000 boxes were sold for $7,000in theorchard I don't think that trees should be propped, but tho fruit should be thinned out instead. The fruit will be much finer and the trees stronger in vi tality. By all means thin your fruit. You cannot spray your apples properly unless vim thin I he fruit out. In my own orchard, where the apples set out by themselves there were not to exceed 10 per cent of wormy apples, while those close together were 30 per cent wormy Mr. Gessling I thinned niv Yellow Newtowns very successfully, but I thinned part of the Hen Davis and the rest fell off. The trees I did not thin had a very heavy crop of very small ap plea, ami very wormy. Tho Yellow Newtowns I thinned were about ten per cent wormy. I sprayed six times. The thinning one year has no effect upon trees the following year. Gophers, by I). N. Byerlee. What wish to say is in reference to an experi ment I made last summer with a reme dy I found in the Toledo Blade, poison ing gophers. 1 tried trapping them but did not succeed. I use carrots in poisoning them. I have been told this plan has been tried in the valley with poor success, due I believe to the keen scent of the gopher. I studied to meet this by digging in the dirt, with my knife until it was clean and bright, tilled saucer with fresh dirt until it removed the smell of the hands and dishwater then I took a carrot and holding it by the root end pealed the opposite end and cut it into half inch cubes, emptied the dirt out of the saucer, dropping the cubes into the saucer as I cut them from the carrot, filling the saucer about half full, and being particularly careful not to touch the parts used with my hands, The poison, used was white arsenic. which 1 applied by taking an old spice box and cleansing, filled with the arsenic and sprinkled on the cubes, stirring with the knife until they were complete ly covered as you would roll fish or chicken in Hour to fry. I then took stick about a foot long and an inch in diameter and sharpened to a long, slim tapering point to enable me to punch hole trom the surface down into the go pher s runway without pushing any dirt into it. I then went to the freshest, gopher hills and dug down until 1 found the direction of the runway, then taking niv sharpened stick I pushed it. down " M After to Peiss U 1 $ $ will Tale (to oftete" ols true and there is no better way to commence than to buy of Tu Rr TTlEa FAIR A good all-round Lead Pencil . . 1c each Pancake Turners 5c each Wire Egg Beaters . .- 2c each Flowered Mush Bowls 3c each Good large Scrub Brushes . . . . .10c each Carpet Tax lc per box Dinner Bells 4c each Hand or Vegetable Brushes. . . . 4c each. We have a splendid assortment of Gentlemen's and Boys' Suspenders. Boys' Suspenders from 5c up and Gentlemen's from 15c up. from the surface Into the runway, from a foot to 18 niches from the entrance, mnkiiif the hole large enough to admits cube, and put two or three cubes into each place, raking them out of the sau cer with the knife. I then placed leaves over both holes I had made to keep the dirt from falling into them and covered them up tightly to exclude the ngni, otherwise the gopher would have pushed the tubes along with the dirt to fill the holes. Thev are keen scented, shrewd little animals and the cubes must be in serted into their runways and still leave the latter as the gopher left it in order to succeed in the operation. The best time to place the poison is late in tne aiter noon when tney are working, or any time of dav after a smart shower. For two years before I used this remedy I had been losing two or three fine Y'akima apple trees by the gophers. I made one application as described above and have not seen a single indication ot a gopher in my orchard since. H. C. Bateham I have had good' suc cess by using raisins instead of carrots putting in a small bit of strychnine. Mr. Zeigler I would like to know t remedy for the apple tree borer. J. H. Shoemaker I hunt for the bor er with a sharp knife and when I find him I stab him. Job. A. Wilson I use soft soap on the borer. Have used it verv successfully. making it very strong. This is the first and only instance where I have succeed ed in accmplishing anything by the use of soft soap. Adjourned. Horse for Sale. A gentle family horse: will sell on time or trade for anything 1 can make use ot. m A. O. HEKSIIEY. Taken Up. At the Hhenaril place, an old gray horse with mall alieep bell on. Owner requested to come at once, pay for this not Ice and for n ed. and take tlie hoise. JNO. w. JONisa, Town Lots for Sale. Apply to J. K. WATT, Hec'y Kood River Townsite Co. Money to Loan On Improved farms and good stock ranches at low rates and on long tune, it wanted, niaie particulars and lowest amount wauled by writing or calling upon CHARLES K. HENRY, all -m Hlark Bt, Portland, Or. Stallion for Sale. Youns draft stallion Hanson, well bred and well broke; works single or double. Inquire of f7 Wlilte Salmon. Wash Boar for Sale. A line Poland-China and Berkshire toar for sale by C. L. OOPPLE. I am Working for a Record And I am succeeding. In other words, I am trying to sell more goods in 11)02 than last year. I did it in January. February is ahead, and I'm going to try to do it in March. Therefore, will start the mouth with our new lines all in and on the shelves, consisting of Dress Goods, White Goods, Challies, Dimitys, Percales, Mercerized Woven Madras, Silk Tissue, Swiss Novelties, Chanibray Madras, Ginghams, Calicos, Men's, Boys' and Youth's Clothing, Hats, Caps, Gloves, Ties, Hose and Shoes, w hich I have in the latest styles. Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Glassware, Flour, Feed and Planet Jr Goods. In fact, it is the most complete lines that I have ever car ried, and at prices that have been boiled down to suit our customers. Yours for trade, J. E. RAND. GEO. F. COE & SON Wish to call your attention to the fact that they are still on deck with pure, fresh Confections, the newest and best Stationery, fancy and staple Crockery. A line of good value Purses. Special. We now have the Gold Bose Pencil Tablet. , All school children know what that is. When yon see it in our ad it's so. Agents for Union Laundry Co. Phone KM. Hood River Gommercial Co., -DEALERS IN GROCERIES, FLOUR & FEED, VEGETABLES Fresh and Cured Meats. In comparing prices do not forget that for SPOT CASH we give 5 per cent rebate checks. These are given to save book-keeping, and of course cannot be allowed on any transaction that goes on the books. LIST OF LANDS For Sale AND FOR RENT AT THE EMPORIUM. Attractive Properties at Attractive Prices. We have to offer this week, among other things, the finest CITY TRACT in Hood River, containing over'60 acres more than 360 lots within a few blocks of the business section. Choice future business locations and handsome, sightly residence places. Gross price, $22, 000, or f2.50 the lot. Fine "buy" for speculative purposes. Improved orchard tract, 12 acres, 450 trees, 2 acres in strawber ries; earliest in the valley ; two miles from town and has its own water supply. A quick money-maker. Price $2,400. Unimproved piece 10 acres choice apple land; miles out; timber on tract worth more than $100; water convenient. Great bargain for a quick buyer. Price $300. 20 acres, 12 improved, 8 light timber and pasturage; 4 acres straw berries, about 60 apple and prune trees ; 2 acres somewhat stony, but good cherry land, lias five-room house, good well and cellar. Net income last year, $700. Two miles from town, and a bargain at $1550. 20 acres, choice Prune land, unimproved; light timber; good water at about 30 feet; situated near the famous "Prune Hill," in Clark county, Wash, mile from Fisher's Landing, on the Columbia river. Price is a "Bnap" at $050. 120 acres, 35 improved, fine apple land, 15 acres in apples and pears; house with six rooms, and large, new barn and apple house ; place having its own water supply, situated in rural mail delivery district, 5,4 miles from Hood River. Price to an immediate buyer, $12,000. Correspondence invited. Call on or address "The new Real Estate firm," DRIGGS, CULBERTSON & CO., AGUINALDO'S Fate is still in doubt The place where. Good Things are Cheap and Cheap Things are Good. Douglas Shoes, . Miller Shoes, Lewis Shoes. Three of the greatest lines on earth ; built on honor. The maker's name on every pair is evidence that they are O. K. Try them. We also carry a full line of staple Hardware and Groceries. Give us a call, if vou want first-class goods at low prices. "Cheap John" stuff here. A. S. BLOWERS & SON. No For YOU to Remember When you need anything in the line of DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES, PAINTS, OIL AND GLASS, You should call on CHAS. N. CLARKE, PROPRIETOR OF The Glacier Pharmacy HOMESTEAD CONSOLIDATED TICK FOR PUBLICATION. NO- NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION'. tjMicl OffiVe at Thf IN1Ik, Orejron, Jan. V, fjind little hi The !nllp. Oreeun, January Wri.ittii U tit.rt.lti- i!v.n thut Ihut.l. lowiiiK-namnl witl-r ltaveni.it notice .if In- j Mai Nnlir l heretiy ivrn thai the follow trillion lo niHKc nnni proof on nieir repefl ie eiaints In-iore tne heaLvliT ami Uect-iver 1 The Ixtllrs, Urts'"". o Saturday, March Ij, l!a, v (K KLMKK f Rik.iT, of M-wter. On-iron. tn lioutcMteari application So. .V.V.. for the o;:t!ieat T. fui-tiou town. hi li t ratrth, mime 11 i-xt, W. M, uiARi.bs j. I'im.i.ii-s, Inif-naiiied ncttlcr haft tiled notice of his intet tion to niHke Iiiihi proof in win port ' of bis claim, and that said proof will b I nnide before t!eome T. Prat her. U. H.Oinimt. ! .loner, at H""l Kiver, Oregon, on Friday : March 7, vlK MH'llKL I. OKTKKOAARD. of Tlentn, Oreeon. H. E. No. OT7I, for the i north S MHithea S and lot 1. ecilun So, of Moicr. Oregon, on tiometAri aimllcullon : UiwuxIiidS north, ranire . et, W. M. t.pn! lie name oe i,,nowoi$ 't- W. M ' hi enniiDtioti remdence up to and cultlTa- So. nj". for the Mttllheilfd l northeast 1 tion . tow!khlii '2 north, ranire ll' ejti.1 U it rwu-- Il..,io Hti.l l ra L- T.i L j lion of. mmh! lend, vll: of tlie IhIm-h, tin-eon, and Kimer Hoot. l.co ; Jante t liltty, S. W. Knot, ttre Ireland. Ocorve Harriuin and j Powell, allof lento. Or l' J rhtllimul U.ibut nnv.in t cj H.iod Kjver. Oregon. Jilm; JAY 1". Ll'l'AS ReglAer. j J41u; JAV P. LUCAS, Ref later. Corran and iHirid (un,aad S.r.Blythe , but we Picture Moldings, Varnishes, Everything to beautify a home at the know that SPRING RENONATIONS are in progress now, repairing and brightening up the ravages that winter has made on houses, barns and fences. A new coat of Faint makes yorir house look like new; but "All is not Paint that glistens." The stock of Paints, Oils, White Lead, Colors, etc., and the fine line of Mixed Paints to be found at our store, are warranted to stand all kinds of weather. Paper Your House. And before doing so call or send for samples of our complete line of Wall Paper. We will sell you Art Goods, Brushes, Glass and Decorative Novelties. 1. Lots in Waucoma Park addition from $90, to 1160. , , . 2. Eligible residence lots in Spangler's subdivision, near cannon house; only $80; terms easy. 3. A rare bargain. The north 40 acres of the Henderson farm at $1000 cash, for ten days only. 4. Twenty-five acres of the Silliman place, East Side ; 18 acres in cultivation ; young orchard ; $75 an acre. . 5. Unimproved1 and improved fruit land to rent on five years lease. 6. For 30 days, the Henrv Coe house and two lots, knowff as the McCrory property ; price $500 cash. 7. Barrett-Si pma addition ; $75 per lot : $10 down and $5 per month ; no interest. 0. Fine homestead of 160 acres on Rock creek near Davenport's. Price $1,000 $300 down, balance at 6 per cent. 10. Lots in Hull's addition; each lot level, 80 z 140 ; center of ball ground ; $150 each. 12. For 30 days, 4 lots lying east of the McCrory property; price $175 cash for the two. 13. The Heavener 10 acres. Price, $1,500. 14. Two eligible residences near cen ter of town. Must be Bold in 30 days. 15. Six acres and cottage, East Side, now n as the Chas. B. Prathar place, ill be sold cheap for cash in 30 days. 19. The Glover farm, well improved. i miles from Goldendale ; 240 acres 140 acres in cultivation; 03 acres in winter wheat; 7 acres in hog pasture. with a creek running through it; all un der fence, with cross fences; large new barn and fine house. Price $12.50 an acre; will take Hood River property in part payment. 21. N. 8. E. M, S. M N. E. M sec. , T. 3 N., R. 11 E White Salmon; fine timber land ; $10 per acre. 22. The Emerson homestead, only one mile east of town; fine range; $1,500. 28. 529 acres, with much fir timber, including both falls on Hood river. Re fer to butler & (Jo. 31. At Trout Lake, 80 a. ; 3 in timothy. cuts 8 tons a year ; 50 a. in heavy saw timber, white nine, hr and cedar; west fork White Salmon river runs through the place; price $1,250. 32. Emma G. Robinson's 100 acres on hills east of White Salmon, known as the Dryer place; fine timber; unim proved; $785. 160 acres of land about 8 miles from Hood River on Mosier creek, new house, three acres in fruit, perfect title, $700, for sale at the Emporium. House for Rent Coe's new cottage on the school house hill. Price $7.60 per month ; well water on the premises. Money to loan. At the Emporium is kept a first-class surveyor s transit, and the proprietor being a practical surveyor, is well pre pared to do the work of laying out acre age property in lots and blocks, and do ing all kinds of surveying. N. B. Terms are easy on all the above lands, with interest at 6 per cent. Per sons desiring locations on homesteads and timber claims Bhould apply at the Emporium. Wall Paper Emporium, JACKSON & FIREBAUGH, IPainters anad Decorators Phone Main 35. Second street Books Magazines Stationery Job Printing at AOKNCTl THE OREGONIAN EVENING TELEGRAM BRADLEY'S BOOK STORE." our iineof STATIONERY and WRITING HATERIALS Comprises the Latest Stylet and Qualities. We aW have an extensive collection of Mr. L. Bradley's Magnificent Hood River and Columbia River Scenes, than which no more heautiful or acceptable gift could be made. Your patronage respectfully solicited, EI. R. BRADLEY. F. P. FRIDAYr FRIDAY REAL & E F. B. BARNES, Notary Public BARNES, ' STATE, Insurance, Abstracting, Writing Deeds, Leases Mortgages, etc. sell, list it with es. Office in the brick If you have property to " store on Oak etret. JTlmber I .nnd, Act June S, 187H.1 NOTICE OIi PUBLICATION. United Slate Ijnd Office. Vancouver. Wuh.. flee. 21. 1MU. Notlr 1. hereby lven that In compllHnre Willi the provlxlotm of the act of eonKrewi of June 4, 1K7K, entitled "An act forth.Haieof timber Inud In the .tnte of California, Oregon, Nevada, and Waahinitlon ' territory, ' a. extended to all tne public land late, by act of AiiKUHt i, lr2, WALOO B. BACH, of Portland, county of Multnomah, atate of Oregon, ha. till, day ft led In th I. office li Ih worn tAleineut No. H4 for the purchase of the Lot?. wutheat Vi aoutuweHt hi aecllon U. and lot 1, northeaHt northweat x and northweal of northeaat of aecllon 7. in townchln No. I north, range No. 11 emit, W. M., and 111 offer proof to .how that the land aoiiKht I. more valuable for IU timber or .lone limn for acrtriiltiinil DurtKmr and to etahliiih hi claim to mid land before the rUviter and Keeelver or thl omceat Vancouver. Waah.. on Tneaday, the Uth day of March, 1M2. lie name. a. witneHwm: tiooen r . 1tx or Portland. Or.: Robert M. lNtnforth of Mill City. Or.; Albert W. Lobdell and Joseph V. Keed of fort land. Or. MARY B. D'OimVKRRK. of Portland, county of Multnomah, atate of Oregon, haa Ihla day tiled In Una urnc ber worn Oatement, Mi. ZUo, ror the purelmae .f the aonth norlheaat and anutb north el'4of aecllon No. K In townohip No. S nor ill, rantre No. II eat,WlllametM meridian, and will offer proof to .how that the land onvlil I. more valuable for II timber or tone than lor agricultural purpoaea, and to ewtablinh hi. claim to aaid land before titf ftrigl.ter and Receiver of thla oltlce at Van couver, Wash- on Tueaday, the Uth day of March, WPi. He name, aa witnemea: Robert f. Cox of Portland, Or; Robert, lianforth of Mill City, Or.; Waldo R Uach and Albert W. Lobdell of Portland, Or. ROBERT R. DANFORTH, of Mill City, comity of Marion, date of Ore ton, haathla day filed In Ihla office hi. .worn .Utement No. turn, for the piirchaae of the fx. a, northeat H aouthweat . aoiitheant Un.trthwest and aouthweat northeaj4 NT aecllon Not a. In townoliip N range No. II o. nor! Willamette meridian and will offer proof to .how that the land ought t more valuable for It. timber or une than tor agricultural purponefi, and to etalv lih hi. claim to aaid land before the Rcgiater and kereiveror thi office at Vancouver.Wau.. on Tuewlay, the Uth dav of March, IMr. Henameaaa wltneaara; Robert K. Cm, Al bert W. Lobdell, Joaeph V. Reed and Waldo & Bach, ail o Port laud, Or. Any and all pernio, claiming adreraely the above-deaenbed land, are requested to Ale their claim. In thl. office on or before aaid Uth day of March, lai drfJS W1. R. DI N BAR, Rf later.