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Newspaper Page TextMitt. VOL. S HOOD KIVER. OREGON, APRIL 21 1910 NO 49! 2 A List CHOICE BUYS For the Prospective Purchaser of ORCHARD LANDS IMPROVED: 75 Acres la the heart of the valley; It! acres in commercial orchard of New towns and Spitzenbergs, of which half are in full bearing; balance from 1 to 5 years old; 14 acres more in cultiv tion; balance light clearing; large, well-built house, very modern; good buy; stock, farm implements and everything included. Price 825,000. 35 Acres 20 acres of which are planted to Yellow Newtowng and Spitzen bergs, one third of which arc in full bearing; balance u partly cleared; large eight-room house, stone apple house, ft-room tenant house, good barn, etc , also new pumping plain, which cost $700. Located 4 mile from Hood River on county road. This place will sell for $40,000 within a year, and is a big snap at 880,000. Terms. 20 Acres About 7 miles out on the East ; tine, loose, red shot soil ; perfect drainage, on main county road, quarter mile to railroad station, near school, church and store. This entire tract is to be cleared and set to strictly commercial orchard this spring at the prce of 88.000. $2,000 cash; balance in 5 years at 7 per cent. 12 y Acres in the Oak Grove district; (5 acres in 4 year old New towns and .Spitzenbergs, fine condition; ;i acres in straw berries-: returned over $050 last year also two acres in one-year-old strawlierrier1. This in sures an immediate income. Good family orchard ; small house; spring water can be piped to house; 6 acres unimproved, partly cleared. Splendid buy at 87, 500. $4,000 cash. 5 Acres 4 miles from Hood River; good clay loam soil; planted to commercial orchard 2, 3 and 4 years old save half acre of meadow; good drainage. Snap at 83,000. Half cash, balance on or before four years at 8 per cent. UNIMPROVED lOO Acres partly improved; slightly rolling, heavy red shot soil; on the edge of the famous Willow Plat district, short distance from school and railri ad station; 20 acres under cultivation, nearly all set o New towns and Spitzenbergs, 5 acres bearing; H acres light oak And fir timber ; small house and bam, several good springs on place; could be easily sub divided into several fine tracts for homes. 84,000 handles this. 40 Acres 8 miles south ol Hood Sfl acres is good orchard land and could Bargain at m vm. 20 Acres in the heart of the iful view of Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams and Valley, land nearly level, red shot clay soil, 8 acre ready for the plow, balance scattering oak and pine with I ttle Irtish. 9 inches of water stock go with place, county road on two side", school and railroad station. rrlce saso p r acre; $1,000 cash will handle it. This is one of the best opportunists lor Investment in the valley. IO Acres Near Summit, good red shot mil, covered with large fir timber, under ditch and jmt good slope for drainage I'pee 81500. Terms. IO Acres nearly level, with excellent drainage; Iwst red shot Soil; contracted to he cleared and plowed ; beautiful view of the valley anil both mountains anil on main county road. 8400 per acre. Easy terms. The fullest information on the best properties in the Hood River Valley furnished on request by DEVLIN & FIREBAUGH The Leading Dealers Swetland Bldg. Portland, Ore. Bentley, the Builder Phone The Best Bargain IN THE Hood River-Mosier District 160 acres of which 20 acres are in apple trees ranging from three to nine year old all standard varieties, 20 acres partly cleared, 80 fenced, 130 acres of this is first class apple land. This whole tract can be bought this month for $ 1 S,000. Reasonable terms. Investigate This It's a Bargain J. H. Heilbronner, Owner HOOD RIVER, ORE. For the Best Buys in Orchard & Fruit Lands SEE McGregor & Bothfur MOS1ER, ORE. of River, on the East Side of which be easily cultivated; lightclearing. vallei; high and sightly with a beaut overlooking the entire Hood River within one-half mile of store, H. R. B. & T. Bldg. Hood River, Ore. 331K DftllCC Pine Grove Grange Hall Friday Night April 29 j These Dances are Famous 1 For Fun You Are All Invited. Success from your orchard depends largely upon getting good land to start with. That is the kind we sell. The Crapper estate in the Oak Grove dis trict will be ready for sale this week. This 85 :: acres of choice apple land will be cut into 15 and 20 acre tracts and sold on reasonable terms. Beautiful sites surrounded by large oak and v fir trees have been reserved for building purposes. Nothing but selected Spitzenberg and Newtown trees were used in planting the new orchard. Such land as this market long. See us today tomorrow may be too late. We have a number of bearing orchard propositions that are bargains J. H. Heilbronner & Co. The Reliable Dealers Davidson Building Hood River, Oregon l-H-l l-I-I-l-I-I -i-l-l -l-I-I 'l I-M H I t ! Take Notice! Some reasons why you should investigate J the White Salmon Valley before buying J elsewhere: We have the advantage of j J the south slope which means fruit 10 days J jjh earlier than most any other country. We J jjt have a soil that aoes not requie irriga- tion and the best of all we have good fruit farms for less monav. fc LOOK FOURTEEN ACRES in White Salmon for $10,000. A good nine room house. Land all in 4 year old Spits and Newtown. Can be had tor a small payment down and the balance on time TEN ACRES Three year old Spitz and Newtowrn, three mile' from town, in A-l condition. Can be had (by right party) for S4,000. One-half cash, balance on easy terms. NINETEEN ACRE TRACT two and one-half miles from town, 6 acres in strawberries and apple trees. Good 4 room house with pienty of water. Can be had for 1 5,000. 11,500 caih, balance essv terms. jak TWENTY ACRE TRACT lj miles from town, unimproved but T choice fruit land, Can be hail (if bought in the next few days) for 7T 8150 per acre Part cash ; balance We also have other J gwu uaigaiu. i ui iuu - or call CONSOLIDATED WHITE SALMON, WASH. Real Estate Bulletin Snap IO Acres, one mile from city limits; fight acres in trees one, three and four yenrs old and some bear ing; 2 acres of pasture, 1 acres of berries between trtH's; 5 inches of water. U:irn tnnl vto Rif.rn good sou and iope. price $7,500. Terms $4,000 down. GuyY. Edwards 4 Co. Phone 8L Office Oregon Hotel .H"M-I"I"l"l-H:-H"H-l-:-i"t-H"H--l-!- does not stay on the 1 M"H"M"H"M"t - l - M"1-M"I"M IM-H- HEKE: easy terms. tracts for sale at a t I, imyji juictbiUII VI J W Sr. REALTY CO. When You're Late the excuHo that your watch wuh wroii doetin't go. There's no reason why your watch should not be right to the second. Don't make the excuse. Get a watch that times von right and be on time. We carry in stock Elgin. Waltham, Hamilton, Illi nois VVatclu's and tt com plete lin' of cases to sHwt from. F. H. Coolidjfe Watchmaker & Jeweler Moved to Toggery H. R. H. S. BOY TO ; STANFORD MEET I huggins SETS NEW MILE RKCORD Local Lad Defeated All Comers in Port land Saturday and Will Compete in Big California Coutest. Chester Huggins left Tuesday after noon for Stanford University, Calif ornia, where he will run Saturday in uie one nine race m CM Dig inierscnoiastic I ruck and Kield Meet, which is and annual affair at the Calif ornia university. After the wonderful performance of the local athlete in Cortland Saturday the plan was iprung here of Bending him to the gathering of preparatory school athletes at Stan ford next Saturday. It was learned that the meet was to he held Saturday through a local Stanford man, who had Huggins entered in the mile by tele graph Monday night. The high school students and the business men liberally contributed to pay the expense of the runner to California and in less than 24 hours he was on his way. The interscholastic meet at Stanford is the biggest affair of the sort on the coast and each spring several hundred lads representing preparatory schools of California, Nevada, Oregon, Wash ington and Arizona gather on the Stanford campus to enter the contest. This is the first time, that Hood River High School has ever sent a man to this meet and no schools outside of Portland in Oregon have been re presented before. It is a great show ing for as small a school and town M Hood River to send a young athlete 6(H) miles to compete aganist the best youths from rive states. It is believed here that Huggins has a good chance to win the one mile race at the Stanford meet and it is possible that if the events are arranged in convenient order, he may enter the halt' and quarter distances. In the race at Portland Saturday he beat Hums, who last year under the Hill Military Acad emy colors won the interscholastic at Stanford. He ran indoors in 1 which is better time than he had ever made before and better than Burns did in California last year. On the excel lent Stanford track outdoors Huggins should make still better time. His time Saturday was one second faster than was made in the Stanford mtri class meet this spring by the 'varsity runners. Huggins will arrive at Stan ford this afternoon and have two days to rest before the race. Chester Huggins. local high school student, was the bright particular star of the indoor track meet at the Colum bia University in Portland Saturday. Huggins not only won the mile race from the older and better trained and more experienced runners of the University of Oregon and the Oregon Agricultural but he set a new recon for the mile on an indoor track in the northwest, run it in 4 minutes and 18 seconds. Although Huggins was the only entry sent trorn the Hood River irh school by his victory In the mile. the local school tied for second place among the preparatory schools and tied for fifth place among all the en tries. The University of Oregon won the meet and 0. A. (5. came second. Lincoln high school of Portland led the prep school division. Hood River also had a Dart in the victory for the U. of ().. as Sid Hen derson took first, place in the shot put oy neaving the lb pound weight ;Mi feet, 111 inches. Ilusirives two gold medals for first places to Hood River boys. In opening its account of the meet the Sunday Journal said: "Young Huiririns, an 18-vear-old athlete, of the Hood River High School, ran the fastest mile ever re corded on an indoor track in the north west when he won the open champion ship medal for that distance at the seventh annual indoor track and field meet of the Columbia University Athlete association yesterday after noon. The new record established by the Hood River boy was 4 minutes and 39 seconds. "This time is much faster than the average made in outdoor intercol legiate track meets and is all the more remarkable in that it was made by a young man yet in his teens." 1 he Journal thus described the race "As was stated before. Huiririns won the mile event, but only after he had been forced to extend himself to the ast notch by McClure of Oregon, who allowed his competitor to obtain too great a lead before making his move. When the Oregon man started to sprint the last lap, he was HO yards behind. The spectators thought the Hood River boy would be overtaken when McClure had reduced this gap to a few feet, but the youngster let out a notch anil was just able to Htall off his opponent ': challenge, and to break the tape an inch or two In advance of Hayward's sterling distance man, who would have taken the race in another stride." HOOD RIVER AS IT IMPRESSED INDIANIAN Alfred F. Potts, a leadimr lawver and wealthy capitalist, of Indianapolis, recently spent several days in the Hood River valley visiting Hoosier friends ami he was charmed with the country and its life. Following are the impressions of Mr. Potts as they were published In an illustrated article recently in the Indianapolis Star: Out in the Hood River Valley, in Oregon, they are unconsciously trying out a most interesting sociological and economic problem. Perhaps it is more like a great play. The scene is laid in a beautiful valley sixty miles east of Portland, I with mountains on every side, save I where the majestic Columbia breaks through on its way to the sea. To . the south is the snowcapped peak of Mt. Hood, to the north Mt. Adams. The sides of the mountains on the edges of the valley are Htill covered with the virgin forest. In to this forest pioneers of new kind have found their way college bred boys whose muscles are aching to achieve something in the development of their country and their own careers; men who have broken away from the fetters of city life, fled from the plans provided for them in banks, offices and stores, given up the idle social , existence, exchanged the privileges of the club for the privilege of wrestilng with nature. And they are doing it successfuly, too, The call to the soil is not now as it was once, to a ranch big enough to make a qpunty, where the nearest neighbor was over beyond the horizon. but rather to a community of ten-acre i arms, wim neignuors wilful) a atone s throw of each other. As you drive down the road with the man who is entertaining you, you spy two men on horseback, who realize your ideal of cowboys or Western brigands with their high boots, cor daroi suits, flannel shirt and wide brimmed soft hat. As they gallop by your host hails them and you are intro duced to men from Yale, Harvard, Princeton. Cornell or some other of the great colleges of the country. What are they doing, t leannir the land and raising apples, testing the value of trained minds applied to the problem of making the earth yield its best fruit In this little valley, about twenty miles long by seven wide, everybody raises apples on small tracts of land seldom over ten acre. The most suc cessful fruit farm is one of only three and one-half acres. They are all mem ber of the Fruit (Growers Association, which undertakes to sort and classify the fruit and of market it. So care fully is this done the boast of Hood River is that "you can eat a Hood River apple in the dark in any part of the world" and they go . every where, to London, Paris, Hamburg, Hong Kong and Tokio and command the highest prices. Hut the interesting thing of it all is that of the 250 mem bers of this association, many are col lege boys, who have become practical fruit growers. There is a University Club in Hood River with a membership of 185 and more college men are ar arriving on every train. And they are in dead earnest, too. Of course, the social side of it gives one the feeling that it will endure. There is no isolation as in the ordinary life on the farm or big Western ranch. "There are men of your own kind all about you," as one stalwart college fellow put it. Every month or oftener a formal dance is given at a hall in the village, and then all the evening clothes appear, but ordinarily calls are made in overalls or corduroys or other "togs" almost as disreputable as the athletic things in which the under- graduates dazzle the visiting girls dur ing their schooldays. The boys out there have learned the secret that women admire the man who is too busy to think much of his clothes, if he only wears them brigandish and looks rugged and picturesque. And how they do need girls In Hood River! "Our kind of girls," they would tell Voll. Think of Ifln enlliro mon oil busy making homes, with only about sixteen girls in sight! Hut don't go unless you are prepared to talk apples, eat applet, live apples. A gathering at Hood River delights a stranger for the novelty and serious ness of the conversation. In place of bridge, or the latest paly, or choicest gossip, people are in groups and you can hear snatches of talk about fertili zer, cultivation, pruning, coddling motn, scale, iungus, air drainage, or lenliaion. And, stranger still, you find yourself observant of the tree, the soil and a scores of thing you never dreamed (of, and intensly interested in magazines on fruit culture and farm ing with which everyody's table is laden. Therein lies the secret of their pre sent success and the promise of their future. These people at Hood River are studens and are mixing branis with their ferilizers. They are in where the old settler leaves off. There is pos sibly a little jealousy on the part of the old against the new settlers with their hook and scientific methods. At a re cent, meeting of the University Club a waggish member reported that old set tlers referred to them as the "Rah Rah Fruit Growers," and asked whehter any action should be taken in the matter. Whereuixw a resolution was adapted extending to the old settlers the assurance of their most distin guished consideration and concluding with the declaraion that "the old settlers could go to h 1." The Rah ! Rahj boys know that it is not a bed of roses and seem to enjoy the rough work and the rugged life. They are genuine pioneers with trained minds, which they are apply into the problems. They work by day and study by niubt. The reality of their interest 1 saw dem onstrated. One evening during an impromptu musicale, when the young people were gay with the inspiration of the music of guitars and mandolins in the hands of some collegemen, I noticed one of the listening guests stray over to a ta ble and take up a book, casual lyy read the title and then lose himself in it. If it had been a last will bequeathing him a fortune he would not have been more utterly absorbed or indifferent to the things about him. Not even the songs of his own icollege drew his attention. Ilis friends, even the girls, seemed to understand the "seizure" and made no attempt to interupt him. When it was all over, he explained : "Pardon my disapearance. You see, I'm felling some pretty hig trees on my place and Ming the logs to a mill man. I've had U) look wise and accept, his state ments of the number of feet in a log, not nownig the rues of the game. But 1 ve just taken a brief post-graduate course with that little log book, so that when my mill man puts up his next figures I'll be there with my own lead lenril and a few short rules. this man was rred Wasson, son of H. r. Wasson, of Indianapoils. .Some 01 the young men who have gone to Mood luver have purchased tearing orchards and are reaping good irotits from their crops, but the major ity seem to prefer to buy the raw land vered with the forest. I spent anight with such a settler. He had been, since his return from Yale, an officer in a trust company controlled by his fa ther. He' had married a beautiful and accornpished woman who had spent : OHM seasons in Europe with her music. I found them in a charming bunga low, perched on the side of a mountain overlooking the beautiful valley, with the matchless snow-capped Mt. Hood in the disance. Rahtcr, 1 found her and their little boy. In the large living room stood her grand piano and about the walls his unusal library. In the adjoining room the chnia, doilies snd other dainty appointments of a Rah ! Rah! pioneers dining room. And where was the master of the house, the late trust officer? Why, he was down on the place blowing up stumps with dy namite "and just having the best time," as she explained. At dark he came in, and with such an appetite! Had had such a pretty fight wtn a con tumacious old stump, but he'd scat- (CoDllQued on Page Two.) RIGHTS OF WAY " AREJECIRED EASEMENTS GIVEN FOR PIPE LINE Merchants Petition Council for Ordus.":'.;' Leading to a Safe and Sane Fnnrth of July. The city has now procured rights of way for practically the entire length of pipe line, from the City Spring to the city limits, for the new muncipal water system. According to the re port which was made to the eouncil Monday night by C. L. Rogers, who has been engaged in securing the con tracts for the pipe line right of way from the person through whose pro perty it will pass, all except two or three of the property owners have given the contract allowing the city an easement to run the pipe line over or through their land. The few with whom contracts have have not yet been closed are persons living out of the city but is not anticipated that there will be any difficulty in securing their easements. In most cases the property owners were paid $1 for the right to cross their land as the pipe line would cause a merely nominal damage to the pro perty. The engineers laid out the pipe line with the idea in mind of causing as little damage to the pro- icrty as possible, but in some cases of older orchards there seems to have been slight damage, and the city will pay several hundred dollars for the right to cross these properties. The whole cost to the city for the ease ments from the property holders for the right of way will be in the neigh borhood of $5,000. A communication was presented to the council from the Merchants' Association asking that legislation against the sale of fireworks, which will be in the nature of leading to a safer and saner Fourth of July. The communication was referred to the judiciary committee of the council and that committee will bring in an ordinance carrying out the idea of the business men. An ordinance was introduced provid ing for the grading and putting of gutters on State street from Sixth to Front. The ordinance which called for a 40 foot roadway, leaving 20 feet on each side of the street for sidewalka was referred to the street committee. The city engineer was asked to make a survey and plat for the improvement of State street between Sixth and Ninth. In these three blocks State street haa a 28 foot macadam roadway on the south half of the street and also has cement walks and curb on this side. The. sewer ordinance providing for division 8 passed final reading by the council. Bids were opened Mon day night for the construction of a sewer in division one, of district four and were referred to the special sewer commitee. The bids received were from R. D. Gould and D. J. Treiber. (An ordinance providing for weekly meetings of the council passed is final reading as it does not go into effect immediately the council adjourned to meet again next Monday night. Councilman Brosius reported the purchase by the city of a street sprink ler. A petition for a shooting gallery was referred to the fire and water committee. i Philathea Tabernacle Dedication. The Philathea Tabernacle will be dedicated Sunday morning and used by the members of the Philathea Society for their Bible class meeting at ten o'clock. The new building is a 12 by 16 foot tent which has been erected by the members of the of the young ladies society in the yard of the Congrega tional church and in which the meet ings will be held every Sunday morn ing. The tent has a substantial floor and will be nicely furnished with a piano and all conveniences necessary for the bible class. The Philathea society is national in its scope and there are local societies in many cities of the United States. White Salmon Wins. White Salmon won the ball game played on the local ground Sunday by a score of 6 to 4. The game was con tested throughout and at the end of the ninth inning the score was 4 to 4. In the extra session the visitors pulled out a couple of runs and by winning held their position at the head of the league with a clean slate There were a num ber of errors made by the local boys which were repsonsible for the loss of the of game. The Dalles and Hood River have won and lost a game and Goldendale, where Hood River plays next Sunday, has been beaten by each of the other teams. Little Girls Die. Florence B. Lage, the little daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Lage, of Pine Grove, died last week in a Portland hospital following an opera tion for appendicitis and uie funeral was held Friday with burial at ine Grove cemetery. The pall bearers were Jessie Stock well, Gertrude Han sen, Anna Krussow and Clara Thorn sen and the flower bearers were Esther Krussow and Bsrnice Hansen. Galdys Irene Harmon, the seven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Harmon, living north of Tucker Bridge, died Thursday of tonsilitis and croup. The little girl had not been ill long. The funeral was held Friday. Clare Crockett Dies. Clare C. Crockett, a former resident of Hood River, died last week in Arizona, of consumption, and the body was brought here for burial on Satur day. Mr. Crockett was formerly a rancher on the east Bide and has been in the south for his heslth for some time. His wife was Miss Nettie Kemp before her marriage The wife una mother, Mrs,. Crocket, of Idaho, ac companied the body here for burial. The funeral here Saturday was in charg of the K. of P. lodge, of which Mr Crockett had been a member. Committee Ignorant of Ruling. Prof. E. E. Coad, of the high school says that he has corresponded with several members of the executive com mittee of the state debating league with regard to the ruling of the Hood River team and that they were igi or ant of the ultimatum which has been issued by E. E. DeCou, secretary of the committee as being its own judg ment. There is still doubt as to v hat will be the final outcome of the aflair.