Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1903)
0 O HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSD4Y, NOVEMBER 26, 1903. 25 per cent Off RED CROSS Included in this sale are some articles in Dry Goods, Shoes, Hats, Winter Under wear for Men and Women, Clothing for Men and Boys. Watch for thi.s lied cross. It means MONEY FOIt YOU. AT R. B. BRAGG & GO'S. SALE NOTES ON HORTICULTURE. Original contributions to this department are solicited by the Glacier from the Hood River fruit srowerH. Article and dlncuiwlons may touch on any plume of the fruit Industry. All matter furnished will be properly credited. BE THE SECKETABY At the first meeting of the new board of directors of the Hood .River Fruit Growers' union, last Saturday, there seems to have been an unwillingness on the part of the members to take the positions of president and secretary. Mr. Coon was finally persuaded to take the presidency and Mr. Benson was elected vice president. Each of the o her three members were nominated for secretary, butetch declined, and as it was petting late, they arranged for m 5S. ,' " -j. V :i - i HON. T. R. COON, President Board of Directors Hood River , Fruit Growers' Union. Mr. Gessling to perform the duties of secretary for another week. The treaa urership was not reached and Mr. Cess ling will perform those duties until they make some arrangements about that. Mr. Gessling says he had fully intend' ed to stay out of the management en tirely this year, but the day of the an' nual meeting some of the prominent strawberry growers asked him to serve as director again and he consented, but owing to the harsh criticisms passed on him last year by. some of the growers because of his inability to control the weather and build refrigerator cars, he does not care to again take the manage' ment. He has the utmost confidence in the business ability of the nsw board of directors, and will labor us hard as ever for the success of the union. He began shipping with the union in 1MM, and has shipped strawberries through the organization every year but one since, and will continue to do his busines with it, as he believes that In these days of combination of capital it is necessary for the farmer to combine. Mr. Gessling has recently made a real estate deal by which he again becomes a grower. Notable Meeting of Fruit Men. Tortlund Oregonlan. The meeting of the Northwest Fruit (.Irowers association, to be new in. mis city January 11, 12, 13 and 14, 1904, bids fair to be the largest, most interesting ml important ever held by that body. Following is list of those w ho have been sent invitations by Secretary Lam berson.of the state board of agriculture, to deliver addresses on tlrat occasion: l)r N G Blalock, president Northwest Fruit Growers' association ;J R Anderson deputy minister of agriculture, British Columbia; Professor J M Aldrich.entoni ologist, University of Idaho; Professor N O Itorth, horticulturist, Washington Agricultural college; Hon E L mith, president state board of horticulture; Professor C V Woodworth, entomolo gist, University of California; Rev F Vlden, Seattle, Wash ; Professor L F Henderson, botanist University of Idaho; A Van Holderbeok, Washington state horticultural commissioner; Professor I,. B. Judson, horticulturist, University of Idaho ; K A Bryan, president Wash ton Agricultural college; Colonel Henry K Dosrli, Hillsdale. Oregon; Professor J A Balmer, Cle Elum.Wash; Or Jams Withvcombe, director Oregon Agricul tural college; C A Tonneson, editori North west Horticulturist, Taconia, Wash ; Professor E R Lake, horticulturist, Ore gon Agricultural college; R P Ober, gen eral agent Refrigerator Car line.St Paul, Minn; Professor A B Cordley, entomol gist, Oregon Agricultural college; J B liaird, general freight agent Northern Pacific railway, Ht Paul, Minn; W K Newell.commissioner Oregon state board of horticulture. As they are all men of education and experience and thoronghly informed scientifically and practically in every thing relating to fruit and f.uit culture a very high order of addresses may be expected. Mayor Williams and other prominent citizens will probably make addresess on this occasion, and a mus ical and literary entertainment will be given one evening during the session at some hall not yet selected. As the National Livestock association is to be in session in Portland January 11 to 15, it is desirable that as fine a showing as possible of Oregon fruits and other products should be provided for their inspection, and all the officers and delegates to the meeting ol the 1-ruit Orowers' association will be re- quested to put forth especial efforts to secure the best possible exhibitBof fruit, etc., obtainable in their respective sec tions. Following is a list of the officers of the Northwest f ruit urowers association Dr N G lilalock, president, Walla Walla, Wash; J W Olwell, Central foint, vice- president for Oregon ; B Burgunder, Colfax, vice-president for Washington ; J H Forney, Mobcow, vice-president for Idaho; Professor S I'ortier, Hozeman, vice-president for Montana; Professor J R Anderson, Victoria, vice-president for British Columbia; W 8 Oftner, treas urer, Walla Walla, Wash; George H Lambcrson, secretary, Portland, Or. Irrigation In Humid Italy. The following article from the October issue of the Department of Agriculture's Experiment Station Record, will prove of interest just now to irrigators in "hu mid" Hood River: Elwood Mead, chief of the irrigation investigations of this office, returned in September from Europe,where he spent the summer in stuilving irrigation. Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France were visited, but the greater part of his time was spent in Italy investigating the laws and practice of that country. Some of his observations are of special interest as showing the conditions under which irrigation has been developed and is managed in that humid country, and the manner in which some of its prob lems are disposed of. The reason for paying special atten tion to the valley of the I'o was the sim ilarity of its conditions to those of many sections in the Eastern part of the Unit ed States. The rainfall of this part of Italy is about. 40 inches a year, which is kI'Ovb I lint of Omaha, Kansas City or Cincinnati. Farmers do not irrigate be-. The most profitable crop is marcite. The marcite fields are water meadows, which are kept green the year through by running the water over the land for a short time every day. In winter the water for this kind of irrigation comes principally from springs and is warm enough to keep the grass growing in the coldest weather. The grass is cut when it reaches a height of about 15 inches. It is chiefly used for feeding dairy cattle, and in the vicinity of large cities like Milan, where there is a local demand for milk and butter, the annual value of this crop is surprising, the product from some of the fields last year having sold for $300 an acre. Land and water rights in the beet marcite districts surpass in price the fruit lands of Southern California, some of the farms near Milan being held at over 3,000 an acre, and rights in the canal selling for over $1,200 an acre. These are maximum prices and are far E. X. BENSON, Vic President Board ot Directors Hood Elver Fruit Growers' Union. cause they have to, but because it pays. In the greater part of the country tli staple crops are the same as those of the northern part of the United States.corn, wheat and clover being the leading prod nets. The fields in which these are grown are also frequently planted .with mulberry trees, which furnish tooa lor silkworms. Irrigation increases the yield of mulberry leaves about one-third. It enables a crop of corn to be grown after the wheat crop has been harvested, and doubles the yield of alfalfa and clo ver. Rice and marcite, two important crops. could not be grown without the aid of irrigation, aud these cannot be grown everywhere in the irrigated districts. G. J. GESSLING, Member Board of Directors Hood River - Fruit Growers' Union, higher than the prices of lands and w a ter rights where only wheat and corn can be grown. The minimum prices for lands with rights in the ditches in the districts recently brought under lrnga tion range from'f 160 to (ISO an acre Unirrigated land in the same neighbor' hood sells for about (100 an acre. The appearance of the crops on the unirn gated lands in July and August was very like those of Kentucky, Indiana or Mis souri, l lie grass along the roadside was green, and there were no sharply de fined lines between the irrigated and un irrigated lands, as is true in the arid part of the United States. The same crops grow above ditches as below them, but there was a luxuriance and perfec tion in the irrigated farms not seen where they depended on rain. The oldest canal inspected in Lorn bar- dy was constructed in 1150. This was built by the Monks and was small and crooked, as were nearly all the canals built during the next 500 years. The land could be farmed without irrigation, and the building of canals meant in creased expenditure, more people to cul tivate the land, more houses for them to live in, and more barns in which to store the products. The large outlay in other directions, besides the cost of ditches, retarded this change.but in receut vears progress has been rapid because of the need of finding employment and sup port for the dense population, there be ing about 380 people to the square mile in the province of Milan. There are several important ancient canals which are used for navigation, but many of the large irrigation canals have been built within the past 50 years. Among those visited, the last to be completed cost about $1,200,000 and has been fin ished about nve years. One of the instructive features of Italy's irrigation system is the way in which farmers have united in co-operative societies to build and operate canals or to distribute water from laterals. The largest of these societies is the irrigation association at Vercellesi. It has 14.0(H) members and controls the irrigation of 123.S0O acres. It supervises the opera tion of over 7,000 miles of canals and ditches, with 40 watermasterB, and has about 150 miles of telephone lines. It buys water at wholesale and pays on an average $170,000 a year for the quantity purchased. The Biain society is divided into 40 subordinate societies, each of which elects a member to a general as sembly which directs the policy of the association. This society transacts a business of about $bu,uuu a year. One of the effects of these co-operative societies is the absence of friction and controversy between neighbors and neighborhoods so often manifest in the United States. In the society above referred to there has never been an ap peal from the decision of the manager C, 'fell E. II. SHEPARD, Member Board of Directors Hood Hiver Fruit Growers' Union. nor a single instance of a member fail, ing to pay his water rentals. In travel ing through a region in which 28.000 cu bic feet of water per second was beiiiL' distributed every day there was not a single complaint of injustice or extortion, or fear expressed by any farmer that he would not receive his share of water when his turn came. Much of the land islarnied bv tenants. and as the area each cultivates is small, the general practice is to rotate the use of water along laterals. These rotations are worked out with a system not ap proached anywhere in the United States outside of Utah and a few ditches in Southern California. In one instance the turn of a farmer was only one hour each week. It began at 7 o'clock Mon day morning and ended at 8 o'efock. That was his singlb "rain" in seven days which could be relied upon. The farmer paid about $11 a year for the wa tering of each acre. In looking over the accounts of one association, the largeet annual payment.by any farmer for water was found to be about f 1,200, and the smallest four cents. The government exercises absolute control over the public streams and reg ulates the amounts each canal may di vert. Parties wishing to build new ca nals m 1st obtain the government's con sent. No perpetual rights to water are now granted. Appropriations are treat ed as franchises and their life is30 vears. On the other hand, the government is liberal in its treatment of meritorious projects, frequently extending aid by paying the interest on bonds issued to secure funds to build canals, the usual plan being to pay three per cent for the nret 1U years, two per cent for the sec ond 10 years, and one per cent for the third 10 years, so that the interest pay ments by the government end with the expiiation of the water right. When the right expires "it may be renewed just as franchises are renewed in this country. In many sections of Italy canal com panies have experienced the same losses aud farmers suffered the same injury from seepage as are met with in this country. In some instances canals have had to be cemented for their entire length. Drainage has also had to fol low canal-building, as the seepage water fills the farmers' fields and the cellars of house s in towns. In recent years the granting of rights to build canals is fre quently conditioned on the canal com pany constructing along with its irri gation works a complete system of drain3 to carry off the surplus water. In some districts drainage works have been built under an agreement whereby the canal company pays HO per cent of the cost of drains and receives the water they V E. A. FRANZ, Member Board of Directors Hood River Fruit Growers' Union. To the People of Hood River: Our stock of FANCY and STAPLE GRO CERIES, Gents' FURNISHING GOODS, etc., etc., is now very COAlPLETE. These goods are ALL NEW, and have been CAREFULLY selected in order that we might give each cus tomer BEST POSSIBLE VALUE for the price charged. Hoping to MERIT a share of your PAT RONAGE, we are, Yours truly, PHONE 51. No. Z fx collect, the farmers pay 20 per cent, and the municipality the remaining 20 per cent. Mr. Mead believes that irrigation is certain to be a large factor in inorea- stump pullers; We cany a complete stock of V. hmllli Grubbing X'ae'iiiies, wire- cable, rope shortners, blocks, root hooks, etc., for which we are general agents for Oregon and Washington, Write for catalogue. ONLY exclusive Hardware Store in THE DALLES, OR. Rheumatism Positively Cured. The California Medical Company will re fund to the customer all money that lie pays the drtitfuist in ruse ho Is not cured of JUieu matiKiu by the use of Oil of Eden Sweet Spirits of Eden. Olironlccnses Invariably cured, and CTRKD PKKMANENTLY. For Sale by G. K. WII.I.IAMH, Agent for Hood Hiver. ing the production of farms in the hu mid parts of the United States, espe cially in those sections of the country where streams have fall enough to per mit water to be distributed by gravity, and in the Southern states, where the long hot Beasons will make the ability to supply water when needed of great value to farmers. Irrigation is not fur the arid West alone. The conditions which make it pay in Europe exist here in equal measure, and with increasing population and higher land values canal building will become as important along both slopes of the Allcgheuies as it now is along the southern and western ilopu6 of the Alps. Wood for Sale. I have six or seven cords of oak wood, now under cover, to sell on the ground. The wood is oppo site William Kennedy's place, Kast Side. O. A. NOI3I.K. One !-acre and one 10-acre clearing land contract to let. Inquire of John I,eland Henderson. Trees TRUE TO NAME. I have for wile thin season, 10.00U Yellow Newtown Pippins; "i,(00 MpiizonUirirs; li,0ui ArlrnrtMHH Itliu-L- i i rut tni nn i lutlo r,w.tu (.iwl from scion that were carefully sehTted from Home of the best tearing trees in Hood Hiver vullov I rln not lit-Hilittn ti vimru iiIku mv trees true to nnine. Send for prices to MUW Alhhti l lOthtilKS, N. B. Hakvkv. I'mp. Milwnukoe. Or. F. E. STRANG, local n-ivnt. OVEE Five Carloads of Furniture Sold Since the Beginning of this Year. ALMOST ONE CAR LOAD PER MONTH. This may seem like a fairy tale or a fish story, but it is nevertheless true. We are not inclined to boast through the columns of the paper, but to keep abreast with the times we are justified in stating- facts. Come to thinR about it, there is not so very much furniture in a car load $1200 or $1500 worth and sold on a close margin it is not a big thing, nor would we try to deceive any one. Every week word comes to us that our prices are below Portland prices. Glad to show you our full stock at any time. Dealer in Doors and Windows. All Kinds Build ing Material. UNDERTAKER AND EMBALMER. S. E. BARTMESS. Oregon Nursery Co. For fl rat-elms, whole-rooted mid bndrici Trent, nend your ordor to the old rcliBlile Oregon Nursery Co., at Hiilem, Oonon. We have y't for rtle a U-w more thousand flim-clam Newtown Plppina, Kpitzenburg, and a full line of all other varieties of tip ple, and f eneral nursery utork. Now is the time to place your order, before .11 the best trees are sold. C. T. RAWSON. F. H. 6TAXTOX WE DO Job Printing neatly nd promptly. Our office is fully equipped with latest styles of type and up-to-date material. We carry a full line of printers station ery, and can fill your order for a visiting card or a full-paire color poster. Have your stationery printed br E. R. BRADLEY. HOOD RIVER NURSERY. Stock Grown on Full Roots. We desire to let our friends and patrons know . that for the fall planting we will have and can sup ply in any number Cherry, ear,Apricot,Peach& Plum Trees GRAPES, CURRANTS, BERRY PLANTS, Shade and Ornamental Trees. Also, all the standard varieties of npple trees. Can supply the trade with plenty of Newtown, Spitzen lerg and Jonathan apple trees. RAWSON & STANTON, Hood River, Or. When You Come to Town i i Do not fail to call and see us and give us a chance to nil your order. We quote Flour in not less than barrel lots at warehouse: Dalles Patent, per bbl....f 4.o0 White Hiver, per bbl..f 4.25 Dalles Straight, f 3.53. Feed at warehouse in not less than half-ton lots: Hulled barley, per ton. $24.50 Shorts, per ton $22.50 Oats, per ton 25.00 Bran and Shorts 22.00 ' Dran, per ton, $21.50. Yours tmlv, bone & Mcdonald Stages to Cloud Cap Inn. Ticket office for the Regulator Line of Steamers Telephone and have a hack carry you to and from the boat landing If you want a tirst-cla' turnout mil on the HOOD RIVER TANSFER AND LIVERY CO America's BEST Republican Paper The Weekly Inter Ocean, 52 twelvt'-page pajiers $1 a year. The Inter Ocean and Glacier one year for f 1.00.