HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, "OCTOBER (3, 1904.
FRUIT IN THE
OREGON COUNTRY
Tlie following well-written article on
the fruit industry in Oregon appeared on
the editorial page, of a recent edition of
the Chicago Kecord-Herald, from the
pen of S. Glen Aiidrus, who visited
Hood River last July with R. M. Hall
of the O. K. & N:
''One of the chief charms of the Pacific
Jiorthwest lies in its compleie varied
ness, a variedneea which extends to its
climate, its soil, its product, its scenery,
its topography, and the opportunities
wuicu it presents.
Almost anything contained in nature's
variety store house can be found in the
Oregon country. This fact is becoming
generally known and accounts for the
growing attraction which the North'
west has for-the homeseeker. Nearly
all conditions are found, aud every de
sire of the fanner or the pleasure seek
er can be satisfied in gome portion of the
domain which lewis and Clark blazed
for civilization. According to desire,
one may live in a high or low altitude,
where the rains and dews of heaven
water his lands abundantly or where
little or no water touches the parched
land unless it be by irrigation; where
the happy medium between boat and
cold is alwuvs maintained, or
where the rays of a most brilliant sun
beat fiercely; where the valley of almost
tropical verdure stretches away for
miles, presenting to the eye nature's
color pictures framed hy the rugged
mountains or bills places in which to
dream a life away, forgetting dread real
ities of a bustling world; on the rolling
plains, on the hill tops, or in the cra
dles of the mountain sides; in the dead
level of the sands of the arid lands or
surrounded by scenery so grand and
indescribable that it casta a spell which
is never shaken. ,
Should one desire to become a land
owner, there are the great cattle ranges
or the grain fields of the inland empire.
On the contrary, should he desire to
liecome modestly independent, there is
the ten-acre tract upon which an entire
family can be maintained upon the
products of fruit or vegetables.
Despite the partial annihilation of
distances by the modern express train,
the Pacific Northwest is so far removed
from the middle West and the East that
its magnitude and its possibilities are
little appreciated. Oregon, for example,
is vaguely known as a large state, but
few realize that it contains9G,Oao square
miles or 61,405,000 acres of land. Not
withstanding the fact that large portions
of this are mountainous or arid, there
are sulficient resources to accommodate
as large a number of people as dwell in
any like area in the Last. This means
that Oregon, with nearly 2,000 square
miles of territory in excess of that of
New York and Pennsylvania combined,
may in time contain and support as
great a population as these states, or
over 14,000,000 people. Now, with
scarcely more than half a million people,
this state is producing more than f 35
000,000 worth of grains, fruit, fish, dairy
and poultry products, live stock and
minerals. hat it will add to the an
nual productive wealth of the country,
when it arrives at a settled condition is
food for the imagination. The Cascade
mountains divide the state of Oregon
into portions which are known locally
as Eastern and Western Oregon. Be
tween the Cascades and the Coast Range
lie several valleys which have become
famous. There are the Rogue River
valley, celebrated as "The Italy of Ore
gon," the Grande Ronde valley, with
its wealth of wheat and Willamette val
ley, with their varied industries, the
Hood River valley, with its unrivaled
fruit, almost equally attractive. To the
Eastern man the valleys of Oregon and
the Pacific Northwest tiave the strong
est attraction, for they are paradises on
earth to the man who has been accus
tomed to toil early and late through six
months of uncertain weather in order
to maintain himself and family through
six month of rigorous winter.
Extending south from the Columbia
river a distance of more than 150 miles,
averaging thirty miles from mountain
range to mountain range, lies the far
famed Willamette valley with its 5,000
squan- miles of fertile country which
produces bountifully almost every crop
known to a temperate zone. Through
this valley runs the Willamette, which
is fed by many picturesque and full
flowing streams and which pours its
great volume of water into the broad
Columbia close to the city of Portland.
In this valley are raised great quanti
ties of fine fruit. First given over to
grazing, later to wheat raising, the
Willamette valley is now one of the
most healthful, beautiful and diversified
farming districts in the United States.
In 1850 the state of Oregon raised but
eight pounds of hops. In 1900 its hop
crop, most of which came from this
valley, amounted to 21,548,277 pounds,
more than any other state in the union
produced.
Another valley, not so large, but of
exquisite beauty and great fertility, is
the Hood River valley. Oregon has
gained a wide reputation as a fruit
raising state, for which the valley of the
Hood River is largely responsible.
Despite the variety anil excellence of
of Oregon fruit, however, there is a
difference of opinion as to whether fruit
will ever become a leading commercial
staple or one of the chief factors in the
commercial life of the state. It is fair
to say, however, that it has been recently
discovered that the Oregon fruit can be
grown with a toughness of skin and a
strength of fiber which will enable its
transportation to distant markets. Dur
ing the season just passed, for example,
seven carloads of Hood River strawber
ries were shipped under refrigeration
to Chicago, arriving here in excellent
condition. They came at the height of
the Michigan berry season and brought
II a crate more than the product of the
Wolverine state. Hood River berries
were also expressed to New York and
Boston and the demand there created
for them has placed new ideas in the
heads of Hood River fruit growers
regarding market posibilit'es. Oregon
apples, and especially those of Hood
Rher valley, long ago found their way
into the markets ot Canada, London,
Liverpool, Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, St.
Petersburg, Honolulu, Japan, China,
Australia, New Zealand, Hi..eria, Manila,
and the mining camps of Alaska. In
London during the holidy season Yel
low New-towns from Oregon sell as high
as $1.05 a bushel, netting the grower
f 2 35.
The Columbia river is the northern
boundary of the Hood River valley. Its
eastern boundary is a spur or divide,
2,000 feet high, its western boundary
the timbered 'slopes of the Cascade,
u),iln Mount Hood stands sentinel at
the southern end successfully disputing
entry. The valley is generously covered
with oak and pine, while to the west
and south the mountains are covered
with Douglas fir. The hills to the east
.ru .-oil wooded with fir. oak and pine,
which almost disappear as pastern
ir,.,n is reached. Being thus pro-
tntf hv nature the valley of the Hood
la mm iiimi between the arid sections
of Eastern Oregon and the humidity of
H.o (or western portions of the state.
The eastern hill range protects the va -lev
from the cold blasts in winter, and
from the simoons which sweep south
west across the Rockies in summer
bearing destruction to plant life.
To the west the Cascade range keeps
away the plentiful rains of spring, which
abundantly water the Willamette valley.
For years the rainfall has averaged be
tween thirty and thirty-eight inches,
which is sufficient to grow apples with
out irrigation, and reduce to a mini
mum the artificial watering of other
fruits. The valley is about twenty
miles long, and averages five miles in
width, containing an area of tU,000
acres. Owing to bluffs and tracts unlit
for culture, there is about 50,000 acres
available for tillage. Bisecting the
valley into the eastern and western por
tions is the Hood River, which has its
source in the Eliot glacier of Mount
Hood, is fed by the eternal snows and
ice cf that peak as they melt anil tumble
through the Devil's Punch Howl and
into the Columbia river, near the town
of Hood River.
To meet the demands of irrigation
Hood River has been tapped in two
places, 4,000 acres have been placed
under irrigation, 20,000 more prepared
for irrigation, and 1' ,000 additional
acres have been cleared. Of the irri
gated lands, 800 are in strawberries,
700 in apples in bearing, and 1,300 in
apples not in bearing. In 1003 the
Oregon country produced $12,000,000
worth of fruit. In the same year the
ttood mver valley and the state of Ore
gon produced $2,501,000 worth of fruit
The Hood River valley shipped 90,000
crates oi strawDemes in 1004 season,
valued at $150,000, and apples which
sold for $125,000. Blackberries, cherries,
raspberries and other fruits brought
$20,000. Fruit is not the sole product
of this wonderful little valley, for the
mountains skirting it south and west
contain fully a billion feet of lumber,
which is within easy reach of the saw
mills. This year more than 24,000,000
feet of lumber will be cut from the
mountainsides. In addition there is
the Hood River, from which can be
developed 100,000 horse power to oper
ate the industries which are bound to
come to this small garden of Eden,
snugly ensconced, with Mount Hood as
its guardian on the south, and the
rounded dome of Mount Adams showine
as plainly to the north.
MET
RY2UNG
FOLK
THE OBSTINATE FLAME.
by
How to ExtlnsoUh "Blowi
Letting Him Blow.
Of course yon know what a "blower"
Is. The meaning that we have In mind
Is not to be found in the dictionary,
but you are doubtless familiar with
the term boaster, which Is the same
thing.
The next time you encounter htm tell
him that you don't believe he can blow
out a candle placed only a foot from
his experienced mouth without any oth
er obstacle than his own breath be
tween them.
If he accepts the challenge seat him
comfortably at the table, place the
lighted candle In front of him and, put-
THE FLAME DEFIES THE BLOWER.
ting to his Hps a large tin funnel, with
the center of its mouth opposite and
near the flame, tell him to blow through
that.
IK1 may blow until he becomes black
la the face without extinguishing the
candle. The harder he blows the
more It doesn't go out
After he baa given it up say, "It Is
easy enough when you know how," put
the funnel to your Hps and blow out
the candle. How? Simply by bringing
the rim Instead of the center near the
flame.
When you blow through a funnel
your breath spreads and follows the
conical surface, leaving a region of
dead calm in the center. Your friend
blew all around the flame without
touching it, but you extinguish It with
a puff.
There nre a good many queer things
about air currents that would never
have been thought of if they had not
been found out by experience. This Is
one of them. New York World.
Clever Sparrowa. -
One of the prettiest sights as re
gards senmen's pets was afforded by
six sparrows which were tamed and
trained by nn old bluejacket on board
a coal barge. He had trained them
to such a degree that they would
march In regular military order,
"turning" and "wheeling" as desired
by merely moving his band. On each
of their bends he had fastened a small
piece of scarlet cloth, cut so as to form
a cockscomb, which gave the birds a
very saucy appearance as they went
through their varied evolutions.
Animal Notes.
Naturalists tell us that sometimes a
single beaver will go off and live by
himself, leaving the colony to which
he belonged. Whether these "bache
lor beavers" have been put out of their
native towns or leave of their own
free wills we do not know.
A gentleman on one of our western
ranches found a nest of young rabbits
and took them In to his cat, supposing
she would make a meal of them, but
she surprised everybody concerned by
adopting them and bringing them up
along with her kittens.
Wkr They Want a Carl.
Do you wish to know why sister's
friends ask you for a curl 7 Why Un
cle Will tosses you up to the celling?
Why all the grownup people talk with
you and ask you questions? If you
really want to know, dears, lean right
close and you will bear that it Is be
cause they love you so and care so
much for your good opinion. It Is well
for you to know how much you are
loved. You will wish to be loving to
others always, will you not?
Disappointed.
Clarence had been looking forward
eagerly to his sixth birthday, and when
It came bis sister woke him up early
In the morning. Clarence lay 'snn a
moment and then said in a tone of
deep disappointment:
"Pshaw, I aren't a bit bigger."
Had to Have the Material.
Jack Mother, may I play making
believe I'm entertaining another little
boy? Mother Yes, dear; of course.
Jack All right Then will you please
give me some cake for him? Philadel
phia Ledger.
la ! Klvkt
Do you ever waken sometimes In the
night.
When ths room's all dark, except the
queer, dim light .
From the window, and you're turned
about In bed,
And you can't tell where the foot Is, nor
the head?
And you sit up, scared, and look round
everywhere.
But the door to mother's room Just Isn't
there.
Oh, It's very bad, I know, because, you
see,
It happens often Just that way to me.
But then If I lie down acrttn and wait.
Why, by and by just everything comes
straight.
The bed stands In Its old same place
again,
The window's where I thought It was
- and then.
Right over hare, this side. Is mother's
door,
And then I don't feel frightened any mora,
Youth's Companion.
If a man could only make as much
money out of the cow by letting the
calf suck her as be can by milking her
It would greatly tend to solve the dai
ry problem. ,
The state of Missouri will send to
the world's fair at St. Louis a four
Inch section of a monster cypress tree
growing in that state. It is twelve feet
in diameter.
The exports of cereals from Russia
mount to 200,000,000 bushels, and ev
ery bushel of it should be kept In that
country to feed the people, but they are
forced to sell and then starve.
CHESLEY & KOPPE
HAVB OPENED A
New Pool Room
In the Building next to the
Glacier Ofltce. '
A good place to spend the
evening.
MRS. MATTIE JENSON
. Trained Nurse
Hood River, Or.
Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich.
I'lume Mam.
Bargains in Real Estate.
4-room house, good lot within five
minutes' walk of post office, ftkX),
4-room house and corner lot 100x100:
city water, close in, for fWO. Terms,
lltiu down ana balance siu per month.
House and two lots 50xl;i0, each, for
sale or will exchange for country prop
erty, hub is n uarguin.
40 acres of good apple land if bought
now can be bad for $1H00. If you want
a snap here it is.
800-acre stock ranch for sale or ex
change, situated within 14 miles from
railroad stasion.
Hummer hotel, fine bouse, magnificent
view, 8-acre orchard, best varieties, good
meadow, in all 120 acres. This must be
sold and can be had at a bargain.
20 acrer fine apple land on Kant Hide
10 acres partly cleared, 2 acres cleared,
are tillable, 34 miles out.
Remember we will exchange as well
as sell pour property for you.
Hood River
Real Estate & Exchange Co.
Hood River, Ore.
OUR
Millinery Opening
Is still on, and will continue
throughout the season. WeJ
are receiving new invoices
each week, and you will do
well to call and inspect before
buying elsewhere.
MRS. ABBOTT,
Tel. Main 155. Himd River IMijhtH.
E. R. Bradley
PRINTING
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HIGH GRADE PAMPHLET
AND COMMERCIAL WORK
PROMPTLY PERFORMED
PMCCS ALWAYS RKiHT
We are here to do your work today
tomorrow and every other day, and
our money (what little we have)
is spent in Hood River. We want
your work and can do it neatly and
SATISFACTORILY
Tiers ire No H Urn
ON COLLARS
Or Other Work Laundered at the New
PARADISE
Steam Laundry
Our steam-heated polishers eliminate
many of the annoyances of the old-
fashioned Ironers. tou
Ought to Drop in Once and See
Them Work.
Work called for and delivered. Tele
phone your orders.
Paradise Steam Laundry
HOOD RIVER, OR.
Locate your home where the best improvements are going.
Sewers, Spring Water and Sidewalks, fine view and good drainage.
All these are found in
R
iverview Park Addition
Which will be included in the First Sewer District, and which is beyond question the1 most
desirable residence in Hood River. Buy now before the prices advance.
ood River
GEORGE T. PRATHER,
Co.
Selling Agent.
evelopment
A. A. JAYNE,
Secretary.
Carriage Painting
HUNT'S
Is the place to go when you want good work done in the
line of PANTING, KALSOMING, PAPERING.
The best is the cheapest. Am prepared t o do up-to-date
Sign sainting
Ladders
Step Ladders
Extension Ladders
Fruit Ladders
Laddors that are Safe to Climb
You don't need the whole family to hold our Ladders
while you hang on to the tree.
NORTON & SMITH
Dr. M. A. Jones
Dentist
is installing a furnace for the
making of a beautiful
All Pink Plnte
Crown & Bridge Work restores broken
Decayed Teeth to normal conditions. ...r.:i. 1. ,..
SPECIAL PRICES on this class of work 11 i''u..w- ... UUb...ui
for a short time.
color of a healthy gum.
' Far superior to the old-time rubber palates
for beauty, strength and durability.
It will be a pleasure to
show you these beautiful
Sets of Teeth. ' They are
guaranteed to give perfect
service, ('all and see them.
Office Rooms Over Jackson's Store,
Telephone Main 31. Oak Street Entrance.
WHOLESALE ItKTAIL
THE DALLES NURSERIES
R. H. WEBER; Prop.
THE DALLES. OREGON.
. GROWER AND DEALKR IN
FRUIT, SHADE TnECC GRAPE VINES
AND Krr AND
ORNAMENTAL 1 SMALL FRUITS
Evergreen, Roses and Shrubbery.
Remember, Our Trees are Grown Strictly Withaut Irrigation.
School Commences September 5th.
GEO. F. COE & SON
ACUOSS FROM I'OSTOFHCE
Books and School Supplies
Tablets, Composition Books, Pencils, Pens and Penholders
Carters Inks Black, Blue and Writing Fluid, Inks for
Fountain Fens, Stamping Inks, Water-proof Ink.
Photo Library Paste, Mucilage, School Sponges, Ink and Pencil Krusers, School
Blotters, etc. Crockery, Glassware, Confectionery and Fruits.
Stationery ami Notions.
Phone 351 Geo. F. Coe & Son
J. R. NICKELSEN
DEALER IN
Farm Machinery & Vehicles
Including Studebaker and Kushford Winona Wagons,
Carriages & Buggies, Faultless and Little Giant 0 rubbing
Machines, AermotorWind Mills, Buckeye Pumps, Americus
Cider Mills, Syracuse and Oliver ("hilled and SU-el Plows.
A complete line of Spray Pumps, Hnyt's Tree Supports, Hanford's Halsam of
Myrrn, r.xira Buggy Tops, Heats, liislilons, nasties, roles, Njalts, Nngletree
and Neck yokes Bolster Springs and Iron Age Garden Tools.
Lor. 4th and Columbia Sts., Hood River, Or.
White Salmon Livery and Stage Co.
WYERS & KRFPS, Proprietors.
White Salmon Stage In connection, with up-to-date Livery Barn. Stage
leave daily, Sundays excepted, at 7:30a. in., for Trout Lake, Gilmer, Fulda and
Glenwood. Meet all steamers. WHITE SALMON. WASH.
One Hundred Dollars
. p j ,
i i 5 fi " V Vi fi
in prizes will be given away by '; '
Henry Lffuck
SADDLE and HARNESS MAKR
THE DALLES, OREGON.
One ticket given with each dollar cash reeei ved until
the evening of October 8th, 1004, on which date fit 8 p. ru.
the following prizes will be given:
First Prize Fine Flower Stamped Saddle.
Second Prize Genuine Rubber IMMme'd1:; Track
Harness. " ....,'..-..
Third Prize-Silk Plush Buggy Jtobe, ,
Fourth Prize Ivory Handle Whalebone Trip.
A L. CARMICH AEL
Carries a Full Line of the CVlebrated '
Mt. Hood Brand Shirts
In Golf, Negligee and Worfc Shirts '
For Men'nnd Roys. . , V';
.1 IO.OD RIVER kutGUTS.
W. F. LARA WAY; '7.',
DR. of OPHTHALMOLOGY
Understands the eyes, their defect 'aiuKtfielr relation to
human ills. For headaches, pains above the;! eyes, dizzi
ness or nervousness resulting from eye strain, call and see
me at Dr. Jenkins' office. " 1 ' ' ' ' ' '
Graduate of McCormick's Opthalmio Collew: - Chicajro
College of Ophthalmology and Otology; post graduate of
McCorinick Neurological College.
Spectacles and, Eye Glasses Made to Order
Difficult Cases Solicited.' " ' '
Stages to Cloud Cap Inn.
TICKET OFFICE FOR THE REGULATOR LINE OF STEAMERS
Hauling, Draying, Baggage Transferred, First
Class Livery Turn-Outs Always Ready.
HOOD RIVER TRANSFER AND LIVERY CO.
Phone 131.
bone & Mcdonald
Carry a full line of Groceries, Flour and Feed,
Shovels, Spades, Axes, Saws, etc.
The Fishing Season
Is here, and so are we with a full line of first
class Tackle. Come and see us before buying.
Goods Delivered Free
To Any Part of Town.
bone & Mcdonald
C. TEMPLE,
THE JEWELER,
Han the Finest Display o
Wntches, Diamond and Gold Rings,
Cut Glnsswure, etc., in town.
All work neatly arid correctly done,
cHHcially fine Watch Repairing
and adjusting. Keaxoiniule prices.
Do Your Eyes Trouble You?
I wish tongue to t lie general public that lam pre
pared to tent your eve and tit tou with clawsea
that will overcome ull afllictioiis of HliuniatiHin, near-Burtedness and weak eyea
that the tieHt occuliHt can help. Try the kIii-sh I Hell. 1 have given this subject
very ciotte altiuy and can tell you oy examination juhi wnat
kind of KlHfiaea vour evea reouire. Kyea tented free and all.
L 1(1 t-m rIIU .1111 nKILiail VU lA, I, V J "v.. ... a . t in ilvihiii y "riM. , . w
ground glnMea. If your eyea trouble you mid cause headache Jp JZZ
or throliimiK paina with blurrlnv vihioii wnen reading or flo- t
ing fine work requiring clone and nteady observation, come. V?
in and let me examine your eyes hy lueana oi ne perlectea !mim
American Optical Tester and secure relief and comfort by the Use of properly
fitted glares.