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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1903)
J O IT u. HAVE $60,000 Worth of Land for or We. .L fl P O Sale Cheap, Also, HORSES, CATTLE, WAGONS, MILLS AND WATER. The Valley Improvement company have contracted for about all the water they can furnish without enlarging the flume. In order to enlarge the flume the Davenport Bros, have decided to well land to the amount of f 60,000. This will be a bargain in lands, and will hold good for 30 days and then will be taken off the market. So you will "have to hurry" if you want some of it. This sale will include the Barrett Ranch, the best farm in Hood River valley. Four thousand fruit trees; free water for a part of it; contains 180 acres; worth 20,000, but will sell in a lump for f 16,000 cash. Or we will sell in 5, 10, 15 and 20 acre lots to suit the purchaser. This is a fine bargain at only ..$16,000 Also, the famous ranch known as the old E. L. Smith place, near the Frankton school house. This place contains 150 acres, with several fine cold springs on the place, and nearly enough water to irrigate the entire land. Only 2 miles from town, with the Frank-. ton school on the place, one of the best schools in the valley. This place will be sold in small lots and will all be gone inside of ten days, for '. $15,000 Next comes the old Van Johnson place, and this will be included in this bargain sale. Worth $4,000, but for the cash it will go for 3,000. This place con tains 40 acres, 25 in clover and timothy, 500 bearing apple trees, house and barnnice wood shed, cold spring at the door, good cellar, small hay barn, all the water needed for the place from a private ditch from Ditch creek. You can not afford to miss this at $3,000 Also, ten acres from the southeast corner of the old Sipma place, all cleared and seeded to clover and tim othy. Plenty of water for irrigating the entire place, free. Well worth the price $2,000 Another 160 acres on Bald mountain, for 2,000 Twelve hundred acres 4 miles from town, worth ten dollars per acre. We will sell for 8,000 3,300 acres up around Parker Town. This land will be sold off in 80 and 160 acre lots for about five dollars per acre, or the whole tract for about.. $15,000 M. M. Davenport has 13 acres for sale cheap. lie will also sell his house and lot, with 8 acres, cheap. We are not offering this land cheap because we are hard up, but to help out the Valley Improvement Co. The deeds to this land are in the name of the Davenport Bros., hence there will be no commission. All the lands selected by them for choice hay lands, as well as apples and straw berriec, all having free water more or less. These places are the oldest places taken in Hood River, and are also the best, as all of them have good cold springs on them. We also have eight or ten large teams that we will sell iiLthe next thirty days, including harness and wagons. Eighty head of cattle in good condition; two complete saw mills. , Do not think because we are offering to sell that we are going out of business, for none of this property is included in our lumber business. 'The Davenport Bros. Lumber Co. is incorporated for 5o,ooo, fully paid up. Their large mill is now cutting 4o,ooo feet per day, and included in this, besides their mill, is the water flume, timber, planing mill, lumber, etc. We are sure that this property will be sold inside of 3o days to men living right here in the val ley, as the men know the bargains there are in it, and we a re also sure they will not let the outside take up these snaps. Call on Frank Davendort, in the old bank building, and look over the plat of the above lands. ifood Iftver Slacier THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1903. Continued from Page 3. run it as a side issue. He will drive hi children from the farm to the cities, lie described a farm home without door-step or wood-shed, with small windows ami a plnch-faced housewife living amid dirt and squalor, children eating salt pork and sour bread and scrapping like Kilkenny cats. The speaker attributed it to lack of a "bal anced ration" as important to a child as to a growing colt or calf. The domestic life of the farm house was discussed, and the "ornery" hus band came in for a skinning that at times was laughable, and then again eloquent or pathetic. Poverty is no excuse for dirt and sel fishness, and Professor Smith did some hard hitting, landing some stunning blows on the shiftless farmer. The man who can "buy 'eiu easier than I can raise 'em" don't have them as a rule. His family go without. Money can't make a happy country home. A will to do it Is the thing needed. The poor eat farmer may have a happy ti reside; the richest can't buy it. Live from your home garden and well-btored cel lar rather than the store. Don't raise something to sell to buy something to eat. The worst kind of hunger is to have a stomach full of Indigestible food. A man so fed kicks the dog and swears at his horses, and God pity his tired and careworn wife fed on the came food. Your growing farm boy needs a "balanced ration" as much as your calf. Professor Elliott was scheduled to speak on "The Place of the Hog in Washington." The White- Salmon people half expected him to refer to the United States senate, hut he didn't. He meant the state of Washington and the kind of hog that the Scriptures call swine. He was requested to switch off onto a diirereut topic, as there are only three or four hogs in White Salmon, and they have developed no alumtlng symptoms and are all able to take nour ishment. But Professor Elliott is not one of the switching kind. He was loaded to the muzzle with hog, and bog had to come. He claimed that every well-regulated household should have one hot; or more, and that our bountiful supply of acorns showed this to be the natural home of the hog. His attention was culled to the fact that the acorn crop only came once in six years, and that during the five years of famine the hog even might get despondent, and picking acorns for hogs wasn't popular on this side or the river. Before lie got through he con vinced us all of the economic value of the pig on the farm, and some of our people are trying to recapture theswine thatescuped from the docK recently on landing. The pig is a scavenger and euts by-products, turning waste into money tor pork, uur meat is imported and our by-products go to waste i n vio lation of an economic law. .Hogs will live on waste supplemented by grain food and pay expenses of the farm, leaving crops clear net profit. Iu parts of Eastern Washington its value is un derstood and great profits are realized. The Palouse, Big Bend and Walla Walla country especially. The running ex pense of the great Blalock farm was thus met; $3,tl)0 worth of hogs being sold in one year. What we need is a bog from which we can get most bacon rather than hum. We can produce it better and cheaper than in the East. Speaker knew of a creamery paying nil expenses by feeding hogs. The bi produet and this left the butter sales a net profit. One acre of laud will sup port rive hogs, or 500 to 800 pounds of live pork. Divide your lund by hur dles so as to pusture portions at a time. This will keep part fresh and growing. Pasture rather than cut and feed. With waste fruit feed your hogs shorts or middlings. Bran is a poor food. Professor Lawrence completed the afternoon performance with a lecture on "Black Spot." Life Is too short to repeat here all (hat he said. He traced its origin and development. If you want to know it in detail, write to the agricultural college for the bulletin de voted to the subject, and after reading it you'll see spots at all hours of the day or night. The black spot apple canker Is the same as the apple rot, as has been proven by experiment. The Bordeaux mixture is the proper caper if you don't like the spot. Petroleum emulsion is being experimented with, but it lias killed trees and may kill yours. The VVealthy, Gravenstein, Blue Pearmaiu, None Such and Yellow Bellllower are varieties especially subject to this "spot." The Bordeaux mixture washes off much less readily than if combined with the petroleum emulsion, but the latter is uot yet recommended to grow ers. Spray about JNovemoer 1. Use the Bordeaux mixture thick and plenty of it. The spots are from a half inch to three feet in length. The bark will drop second year. It Is an internal parasite. You can prevent it but you cannot cure it. Ooat your trees thor oughly; leave them blue. If rain washes tt oft', repeat the application and persist iu it. The petroleum in the emulsion named is the crude oil as it comes from the California oil wells. The black spot is very prevalent In Western Oregon not so prevalonteaxt of the mountains. The period of its active growth is in winter. It is a good idea to spray with double strength of Bordeaux mixture Just after apples are gathered. It matures and throws off its spores in spring and early summer months; these spores lodge in live tis sues and lie dormant till cool, damp weather, then become active and de stroy the tissues. Cutting out is of no avail. SPARKS FKOM THB FARMERS INSTITUTE. Mr. Olsen of Husum made a faithful chairman. E. L. Smith's closing appeal was a rousing one. Let's wake up and make possibilities every-duv realities. This Ib a great fruit region. Mr. Clyde had some elegant peaches ana apples on exhibition. UMr. Wood had red clover, second year growth, from tin irrigated land, two feet and over in height, and altalta from same kind' of land four feet in height. AND IDLEWILDE ADDITION TO HOOD RIVER. Centrally Located. Fine View. Pure Spring Water. STREETS ARE NOW BEING GRADED, Sidewalks will be Put in when Grading is Completed Property is in the first sewerage system that will be put in by the town of Hood River. Several fine buildings will lie erected on the property during the Rummer. Special Inducements to Peo pie who wish to Build. For full particulars call upon PRATHER INVESTMENT CO., Or GEORGE D. CULBERTSON & CO. J. F. Batchelder and It. R. Erwin, Trustees. A. H. Jewett showed grapes of the Sweetwater and Muscatine varieties and Hungarian prunes. K. L. Smith exhibited a volume 186 years old, written in almost every classic tongue save the original Klick itat, with colored plates showing ail manner of fruits taken into the ark by Skipper Noah at the time of the high water in the Jerusalem country many years ago. Hood River was well represented by some of her best fruit men. The absence of music at evening ses sions was noticeable. There are warb lers and instrumental specialists and elocutionists here, but they neither warbled nor elocuted. Next time we ahull have a zobo solo, probably. Ex-Commissioner Smith of Minne sota is full of facts and ideas, and when he opens his mouth they don't simply flow out. He fires them at his audi ience with force. He doesn't lack steam. Professor Elliott Is witty, and no living- stenographer would have time to sharpen pencils and "take him down." Professor Lawrence runs to bugs. He isn't too buggy; just buggy enough. He is alive with his work, and being young, Is going to do a great work in the contest of the farmers with the beetles and slugs. One ton of dry clover bay has about the same feeding value as three tons of ensilage. E. L. Smith says fir land, or mixed fir and pine, is better than straight pine laud for apples. Fall apples become winter apples at nigh altitudes. Use white arsenic for codlin moth, Spray one week or ten days after blossom comes to get a dose inside the calyx, which is then cup shape. The eye of the apple is usually first attack ed. Fifteen days later spray again. Repeat every two weeks up to the early days of September, and by following this method E. L. Smith of Hood River saved W9 per cent of his apples. He says it will render apples immune even if the next row is infested. Commence at top and spray along down so as to use the drippings. In Hood River Yellow Newtowus sold recently for $1.80 per box and Spitzenburgs for $2 In the field. Who says co-operation and expert packing does not pay? Twenty thousand dol lars paid the growers proves it. For spray, take 1 lb white arsenic, 1 gallon water 8 B sal soda. Boil 20 minutes. There will be gome evapora tion. Add enough water to bring quantity back to one gallon. Add to 50 gallons of water 8 pounds of slaked lime. Put in pints-of the mixture above described, and in the language of James Whitcomb Riley. "Yes, squirt and sqnirt and squirt." Crapper Clippings. The rains for the past few days were welcomed by nearly every one except those who have feed laying out. A few belated crops of clover which were cut just before the rain are still lying on the ground. But those unfortunate enough to have their hay in that shape hope to see it clear up la time to save the crop. The apple growers are now harvesting their fall apples, which command agocd price on the market. The prune crop in this vicinity isirood. We understand B. F. Shoemaker has sold his prunes at a fair price, and oth ers who have prunes expect to sell soon. The pear crop is up to the average. hut not much call for them yet. II. Hawier started for Iowa laft week. having received word that his wifu was dangerously ill. Mrs. Sarah McRoberts returned from Sherman county last week, where she has been for some time. Her health being very poor while there, she comes back satisfied that Hood River is a good place to live. Uus Bacon, who is painting Charles Chandler's house, took a trip to Oregon City (his home) last week, to take in the carnival, and make a snort visit to hie friends and relatives. Uus lays they are having all kinds of rain down there. Tom VanAusdal is building an addi tion to his house. Isaac Vanblaricom is improving his place by putting up fences and burning up logs and brush, which improves the looks of the place very much. The Artisans gave out a dance at Blocher's hall for September 9. When the time came the Artisan failed to show up, except a couple from Pine U rove and a couple from Belmont. The musicians were there and waited until 11 o'cluck, and now they my the ones that gave out the dance and arnes the Real Estate lan Works a Simple Problem in Arithmetic for You this Week. Twenty cents a day saved is $73 per year. Five years will pay for one of those lots in Pleasant View. Ten dollars per month rent is $G00 in five years, enough to build and own a lot of your own. Young Man, Don't Pay Rent. 1 have now on the market block 8, Pleasant View. These lots are large, 50 by 1 3o. Easy of access and altogether the finest lots at present for sale in that part of Hood Itiver. Prices and terms reasonable. House and two lots $500 2 choice lots, 100x135 325 1 choice lot, 50x135 135 1 choice lot, 25x135 G5 80 acres unimproved land, fine for apples or berries; under ditch $1 100 10 acres close in, partly improved; fine apple or berry land 050 40 acres unimproved, under ditch; good 1000 20 acres partly cleared and set in orchard; rest easily cleared G50 00 acres, partly in fruit, good house and barn; terms easy; only 4500 10 acres near town, 3 acres in berries; new house 1500 5 acres near town, nearly all in fruit 1800 7 acres near town, good early berry land 1G00 20 acres partly cleared and in fruit; free water; easy terms , 1400 10 acres near town, 5 acres in strawberries; plenty of water 2000 8 acres partly cleared and in clover; remainder easily cleared G25 12 acres all improved and partly in fruit; house and barn 2400 35 acres near town, 16 acres in cultivation 2500 10 acres close in, all in berries; good house and barn 2500 14 acres, one-half cleared, 4 acres in apples and berries 2800 cUMIGS, The Real Estate Man. The Man who makes Sales of Real Estate Is the man to list your property with. hired them to play ought to dig up a couple of months' dues for them, to pay for the time and sleep they lost. We think to, too. Still, they have no kick coming, as they are an oyster supper ahead, anyway, as Mrs. Blocherwent to work and got up some hne oyster soup and good coffee, which every one knows she can make, and those who were there appreciated it verv much. We hope the next time the Artisans give out a dance they w ill turn out, as it is a disappoint ment to those who went to the trouble to prepare supper for them and to enter tain them in proper style. Our school is progressing nicely under the management of .Mr. Everett, who is well liked by both patrons an pupils. 1 lie Republic's Great Offer. Kpeclul arrangement has bwn made by the HU Ixmis Kepuhllc to furnish old or new sub acrlhera with the only olttclal anil authorised life of Tope Leo X 11 1. Thta la one Kreat vol ume, hound In elegant cardinal cloih. Kilt and Ink atamplne, with papal coat of arma, con taining nearly) pKi-a of text and lilualra tiona. The work prepared and written bv MoiiklifiiorU Ki-iily, l.f.,UI.,l.,Llt otli cinl biographer of the i'opr. The rt-Kular ranh price of this book la t2W. Anyone remitting will he entitled to IK monittiK subscription to the Twtce-Week Ke puhl.c and a copy of the book. Poalaite pre paid Thin onVr la oen toold and new aub wrlhera. The book la printed in Knullxh, French and German and is now ready for de livery. Address all orders Ui The Kepubllc, U U'Uii, Mo. What I Lire! In the la-t analysis nobody knows, but we do know that it is under strict law. Abuse that law even slightly, pain results. Irregular living means derange ment of the organs, resulting in consti pation, headarhe or liver trouble. Dr. king's New Life Pills quickly re-adjuatg this. It's gentle, yet thoroiigh.Only 25c at Chae. N. Clarke's drug store. The Slroni:et Mdi la Hood River. It is not generally known that the strongest man in Hood River may see times when he feels his strength is not what it ought to be. Then is when he ought to go to Williams' pharmacy and get the great nerve and body builders, Palmo tablets. These tablets are abso lutely guaranteed for all forms of weak ness, at 50c a bos. Remember they are for any form of weakness. There is no manhood builder equal to them. Following are the newly-elected offi cers of the Epworth League of the M. K. church : Howell Metcatf, president; Joe W. Mayes, first vice president. Altha Parsons, second vice presidnt; J. H. Feak, third vice president; Mrs. Mvrtle Mayes, fourth vice president; Belle llori ner, secretary ; H. O Everhart, treas urer; Mrs. Myrtle Mayes, organist. 19 School Begins Aug. 3 1 . W ARE YOU READY? WE ARE. Q And furthermore, we have the stock to fit yon out for school. Do vou need Text Uooks, Dictionaries, rr. " - . i a , Nates, brasers, i r Tablets, Pens, Pencils, b'ponges Ink or Crayons, we can fit you to a T. In fact, you cannot call for anything in this line that we cannot (J It's value is Q fl supply you v tw mil. nffl;oi T.,i.if v., onno nnpoiinlfd PI Phone 351 Yfiitru frir liiKiniws GEO. F. COE & SON. F F. L. DAVIDSON, Tinning, Plumbing, Steam Fitting. AGENT FOR SAMSON WINDMILLS, And the Hayes Double Cylinder Pumps, THE BEST ON EARTH. tr r