Mitt.
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.
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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
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! 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
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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
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tracts for sale at a t
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REALTY CO.
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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.