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VOL. XI
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, APRIL 28 1910
NO 50
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Land
Bargains
IMPROVED:
35 Acres ''0 acres of which are planted to Yellow Newtowns and
SpitzenliergH, one-third of which are m full hearing; balance is partly
cleared; large eight-room house, I tone apple house, 5-rooni tenant lions',
good harn, etc , also new pumping plant, which cost $700. Located 4i
miles from Hood River on county mad. This place wilt sell for $40,000
within a year, and is a big Fnap at 8li0,000. Term,
30 Arret 4k miles from Hood River, highly improved, clay loam
toil, good drainage and on mam county road; acres set to commercial
oreh nil as follows: 4 acres in (t year old Newtowns and Spitzenbergs, 10
acres in 4 year old Newtowns and Spitzenbergs, ! acre in 2 year old New
towns and Spitzenlnirgs. 24 acre in one year old Newtowns and Spitzen
bergs; j of an acre in peaches and a complete family orchard ; 1 ( acres in
wood lot containing well for 4tock; the bilance of the place in fine clover
meadow ; house, barn, apple house in A-l condition; a complete Bet of
farm implement! is included in the price, which is $80,000, $8,000 cash,
balance on or before 7 years at 7 per cent. The above could be sub-divided
for two or three fine homes.
20 Acres About 7 miles out on the East; line, 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 pree of 8,000. $2, 0(H)
cash. This propert will sell before fall at $10,000.
lO Acres all set to commercial orchard, 10 and 12 years old, ft miles
from Hood Hiver; heavy loam 8'iil, trees all in good condition, present
owner will gnurantoe $3,000 net to the purchaser f ir the crop this year.
The place is priced ah oulely right at 812,000. Easy terms.
5 Acres of good orchard land and all in cultivation, 3 acres in two
year old Newtowns and Spitzenbergs, a family orchard containing peaches,
pears, plums and strawberries, three room box house, on main county
road four miles from Hood River, located in a very choice section of the
valley, has a beautiful view of both mountains and will make a fine home.
Prjced absolutely right at 18,090, if 1 ,000. .
Fullest information on the best proper
ties in the Hood River district
furnished on request
UNIMPROVED
O Acres partly improved ; 7 miles from to an on the Eost Side,
containing 30 acres of good orchard land, red shot soil, excellent drainage,
beautiful view of the mountains and valley, tine large spring, 4 acres
cleared, complete family orchard of 75 trees 10 years old. Priced right at
8125 per acre; $2,2-50 will handle it.
Acres K miles south of Hood River, on the East Side of winch
3li acres is good orchard land ami could bo easily cultivated; light clearing.
Bargain at 80,000.
22 Acres 4 miles from Hood R'ver, near the famous Tucker orch
ards, volcanic ash soil, 8 acres nearly ready for the plow; adjoins the river
pjid with a small amount of improvement would make one of the most
beautiful homes 111 the valley. Price 82,200. Esy terms.
IO Acres Near Summit, good red shot soil, covered with largo lir
timber, under ditch and just good slop - for drainoge I'r ce $154)0. 'IVrms.
IO Acres nearly level, with excellent drainage; best red shot soil;
contracted to be cleared and plowed; beautiful ' jew of the valley and
both mountains and on main county road. 8400 per acre. Easy terms.
Note our
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DEVLIN & FIREBAUGH
The Leading Dealers
Swetland Bldg. Hotel Oregon Bldg.
Portland, Ore.
Plume HI
Bentley, the Builder
Phone
White Salmonn Trout
Lake Valley Lands J
Take the Ferry across the Columbia from Hood
River to White Salmon and look at these
real bargains in apple lands:
.Vll if.11 Aitps: best of aonle land ; SI miles from Trout Lake; fine view
pi Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood ; ountatos about 3,000,000 feet of test
ualitv of yellow pine. This is an excellent tract r subdivision, at
on l 825 per acre. This will double n a very abort time.
51710 Acres; partly improved; lvu"e, woodshed, etc'; 2J acres ready
for trees; balance slashed and burned: deep red shot nil anil every
acre good orchard land sur.i uuded by 10 acre tracts In a well
known fruit colony, 8 miles from W hite Salmon on County road,
. with a tine view of Mt. Adams. Pries only 81,500 for the tract.
Half cash.
52940 Acres; all good apple land : best 01 sdl ;-ll (Mead ; 54 acres ready
for tree- ; 17 acres slashed and burned; gnod well witti plenty of
. water; 11 miles from White Sal nofl "ear rH.f -wtr known "eary and
Goldman tract. Price for 10 days only, 82.500. 'Easy terms
5811-85 Acres; 75 of which is easily cultivated; il same M the be-t
H o I l!i er app le land The Wli-t Sum mi R.ter runs .the nitre
' length of fctw suit, isjtts lmttrtac plenty i'er for power m, irri
gation, ifdetired. tldetreei j 'ins the rh bratel lcOrmken.ranch,
onlv 2 mi es fnim Hnsum. on a l "I r..al Off ivd It a s...it
time at 81 10 per acre; lull en"'',
White Salmon Realty Co.
DAY BROTHERS
White Salmon - - Washington
announcement on
Hood River, Ore.
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Success from your orchard
depends largely upon
getting good land to
start with. That is
the kind we sell.
The Crapper estate
trict will be ready for sale
acres of choice apple land
20 acre tracts and sold on
Beautiful sites surrounded by large oak and
t fir trees have been reserved for building purposes.
Nothing but selected Spitzenberg and Newtown
I trees were used in planting
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
f Davidson Building
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Take Notice!
Some reasons why you should investigate
the White Salmon Valley before buying
elsewhere: We have the advantage of
the south slope which means fruit 10 days
earlier than most any other country. We
have a soil that aoes not require irriga
tion and the best of all we have good fruit
farms for less money.
LOOK HEKE:
FOURTEEN ACRES in White Salmon for 810,000. A good nine
room house. Land all in 4 year old Spits and Newtown. Can be
had for a small payment down and the balance on time
TEN ACRES Three year old Spitz and Newtowns, three miles from
town, in A-l condition. Can lie had (by right party I for SI (too.
One-half cash, balance on easy terms.
NINETEEN ACRE TRACT two and one-half miles from town, 0
acres in strawberries and apple trees. Good 4 room hones with
pienty of water. Can be had for 85,000. $1,500 cash, balance easy
terms.
TWENTY ACRE TRACT U miles from town, unimproved but
choice fruit land, Can be had (If bought in the next few days) for
8150 per acre. Part (Mb; balance easy terms.
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We also have other
3jt good bargain. For full information -vrite
or call
CONSOLIDATED REALTY CO.
WHITE SALMON, WASH.
Real Estate
Bulletin
$7,500 SO acres, on East Side, 6 miles
out Best soil and fine slope, 6
acres in 4 year old Spitzenbergs and j
Newtowns, balance slashed. Close i
to church, school and store.
$18,008 lit acres, all in apples mostly
from 5 to 12 years ; sjtfne 1 year old.
4 acres Iverries; good buildings of all
kinds; close in on West Side and a
very desirable place. This is a bar
gain. $7,500 10 acres one mile out on West
Side ; 8 acrea In Spitz or Newts, a
few Other varieties for pollenizers,
U acres Ix-rries; barn and tools; no
house, fine soil and slope.
f.mV Pi-fur arric Afn
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Phone 338L Office Oregon Hote
in the Oak Grove dis- J
this week. This 85 i
will be cut into 15 and
reasonable terms.
the new orchard.
does not stay on the
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plefe line of case to select
from.
F. li. Coolidy;e
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Moved to Toggery
"THE MESSAGE
CAME TOO LATE"
BIDS REJECTED -BONDS APPROVED
Council Returns Bids for Municipal Sys
tem Just Before the Bond
Brokers Approve.
The fact that the telegram from
John Nuveen & Co., Chica" bankers,
stating that the municipal bond issue
for the construction of the new city
water system had been approved by
their attorney, came to City Recorder
H. B. Lanftflle a few noun after the
time set for the Opening of the bids on
the conatruetioo of the plant by the
city council will delay tlie letting of
the contract a few weeks, but will
probably result in the saving of several
thousand dollars to the city on the
building of the plant.
Advertising was commenced, asking
for bids,some time ago and it was then
expected that the eastern hankers, who
had contracted for the bonds, would
have closed up for them by the date set
for opening the bids which was last
Monday. The Chicago men, however,
delayed sending a definite answer on
the result of their attorney's examina
tion until Monday, and the telegram
was not delivered here until Tuesday
morning. Eleven bids were presented
to the city council Monday evening, but
as the city fathers were not absolutely
sure that the bonds would be accepted,
and that the funds would be forthcom
ing in time to pay for the work, they
rejected all the bids. It will now be
necessary to readvertise for bids on
the work, but it is Understood that the
second advertising will be over a short
er period and as the various contracting
firms have already prepared their bids
it is expected that little real delay will
be occasioned by this seeming setback.
To offset the disadvantage of the delay
the city will have the advantage of
having the money surely forthcoming
to finance the water system and the
bids will probably he considerably low
er as a result. The contractors gen
erally allow in their bidding for the
probability of the city being able to
pay for the work at the agreed time,
or whether their capital will be tied up
for an indefinite period because of
bonds because of ootids being slowly
sold.
There were about IS representatives
of the various contractors, and pipe
companies present at the council meet
ing and a number of them expressed
themselves as in favor of having their
bids turned back rather than to land a
job and have no money in sight to pay
for it. The fact that the proceeds from
the bond sale will probably be in the
bank by the time the bids can be
brought in again will probably attract
additional bidders and cause them to
shave down their prices considerably
since there will be no allowance for
slow pay by the city for the work.
Contractor W. 0, Aldred asked the
council for an extension of time for the
completion of the Twelfth street im
provement and he was granted a 60
day extension provided that the portion
of the work south of May street be
completed within lfi days.
City Recorder Langille was ordered
to. advertise the notice of assessments
in Division 8. City Engineer P. M.
Morse was ordered to plat the end of
Railroad street with a view to improv
ing it. The council ordered Marshal
Lewis to take steps to force the Far
mer's Irrigation Co. to comply with
the recent resolution of the council to
run the former's water It) conduits
within the city.
SALES OF ONE FIRM
PASS QUARTER MILLION
With a large number of real estate
sales which were closed up this week
by Devlin & Firebaugh, their business
for the present year passes the quarter
of a million dollar point. This firm,
which has become very active in hand
ling orchard lands in the Hood River
valley occupied their new offices in
the Hotel Oregon building this week
and, while their 1'ortland offices will
be maintained as before, the Hood
River office will be the firm's head
quarters. J. H. Devlin has come up
from Portland for the summer and
Miss Mlary E. Fowler has been added
to the force here as a stenorgapher
and bookkeeper. The firm now has
seven men on the sales force and two
young ladies in its office.
Among the sales reported this week
by the firm is the transfer of the 75
acre place of T. A. Schall along Hood
River to A. T. Fuller for $28,000. Mr.
Fuller's place of 23 acres in Willow
Flat was taken by Mr. Schall at
$11,000, but he expects to dispose of
it for property in Portland where he
will move and retire from farming.
Mr. Fuller will move onto his new
place near town. Last week the 20
place of E. C. Mahaney, near Odell,
was sold to J. R. Maguire, of Port
land, city salesman for I. Oevurtz &
Sons. Mr. Maguire paid $10,000 for
the place and he expects to improve it
and put out apple trees over'the entire
tract. He will also build a bungalow.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest (loss, who came
here a few weeks ago from Woolston,
England, purchased through Devlin
i Pircbaugn the Harrv La Vein place
of 28 acres on l'helps Creek for $6,500.
The (losses came almost directly to
Hood River from England, their
journey here occupying only a "fort
night." They are much pleased with
this country and are already installed
on their ranch. E. 0. Naper, recently
of Chicago, has bought 13 acrea of
improved orchard land from the J. M.
Taylor place on Neal Creek and he is
now hard at work on his place. Mr.
Naper expects to erect a house on is
new place and make it. his home.
August Niehans, an orchardist of
the eaat side, closed a deal last week
for 30 acres of the C. A. Tucker place
south of Odell which he expects to cut
up into small tracts and improve. Mr.
Niehans recently made a trip through
the southern Oregon fruit district with
a view to investing but decided to
re turn here where the better opportun
ities were offered for development
work. He paid $5000 for the land which
is now timbered and he will immed
iately begin improvement of the place.
The same firm reports the sale of 5
aci28 for the Hood River Orchard Land
Co., to Mrs. Sophronia E. Nesbit for
$1,750. This adjoin a place already
owned by Mrs. Nesbit on the west side
and she expects to erect a huose on it
and make it her home.
Devlin & Firebaugh sold 20 acres of
land at Lyle the first of the week to
Aria Bennett for $100 an acre.
Three Easterners Buy Land.
Three sales of orchard lands to
Eastern parties are reported this week
by Guy Y. Edwards & Co. On each one
of the places new famiiles will tuke
immediate possession and locate here.
John Foreman, of Cleveland, Ohio,
purchased the George P. Christie tract
of unimproved land in the Summit
district. There is 24 acres in this place
and Mr. Foreman, who arrived from
the east ten days ago, will begin the
work of clearing up the place immed
iately. Wilils P. Maine, of Idniana
polis, bought the M. J. Foley five acre
orchard just south of town. Mr.
Maine's son-in-law, Eugene Rexford,
and wife, who have been here for
several months will occupy the place.
It is the intention of the new owner
to remodel the house and have a num
ber of additional improvements made
at once. A. P. Sprague, of Minnea
)lis, bought nine acres of orchard
south of town owned by Ray lmbler.
The place is located a naif mile south
of town on. the main road. Mr. Sprague
left Tuesday for Minneapolis and will
return in June with his family and
make his home in the valley. He is a
relative of L. E. Ireland, who last
fall purchased the William Kerr place
on the east side.
NEW YORK MAN BUYS
BIG MOSIER RANCH
One of the biggest buyB of the year
in the Mosier section was made Satur
day, through firm of McGregor & Both
fur, by Mark A. Mayer, of the FleiBch
ner, Mayer Co., in Portland, who
makes his home at the Hoffman House
in New York, when he purchased the
Sellinger ranch of 229 acres from C.
A. McCargar, of Mosier, for a con
sideration of $60,000. Mr. McCargar
only bought the palce a month ago
and was able to sell it at a considerable
adva ce.
The Sellinger ranch is beautifully
situated a mile from Mosier on the
bank of the Columbia with a fine view
of the river and Mts. Hood and Adams.
It is the intention of Mr. Mayer to
improve the place and make it one of
the most attractive places along the
Columbia River. About one half of the
place is cleared up and ready to plant
to apples and it is the intention of the
new owner to get as many trees in
this spring as possible. He will im
mediately begin clearing up the rest of
the place and will put it all into
apples as rapidly as possible. There
is already about 15 acres of bearing
orchard on the Sellinger place, ten
acres being in prunes and five in
applea. Along with other improve
ments, Mr. Mayer expects to erect a
handsome summer home on the place
and he will make it his home during
at least a part of the year. Mr. Mc
Cargar will manage the olace until a
permanent manager is selected.
SNOW IN EAST GIVES
OREGON OPPORTUNITY
The blizzards and usuaal cold weather
which has been sweeping over the
middle states during the past ten days
will give the Oregon fruit a great
boost this year. As Hood River and
Oregon have the best prospects for
fruit .they have ever enjoyed, there
will be big prices to accompany the
bumper crop, which will mean big
prosperity. The apple crops of Utah,
Colorado and Missouri nave been
seriously cut down and while these
apples nave never offered any real
competition to the fancy apples of
Hood River it will help the fancy
market to have a lot of cheap and low
grade apples removed from the run
ning. In discussing the effect of the Middle
Western blizzard on the fruit market
prospects in this state, H. M. William
son, secretary of the State Board of
Horticulture, said yesterday:
"The Eastern demand for nearly all
Oregon fruits will be increased this
year. While the damage may not be
as great as the early reports indicate,
there is no doubt that the loss has
been very severe. While the dis
patches do not state clearly the dam
age in Missouri and Northwestern
Arkansas, districts that come into
direct competition with Oregon, the
temperature reports would indicate tnat
the damage to the apple crop haB pro
bably bean large. We understand also
that apples in Colorado have been
bady hurt. Colorado is one of the
strongest competitors of Oregon,
putting up a high grade box apple.
Oregon apples no not go into those
sections, hut compete with Middle
Western fruit In other markets.
The frost damage will have more effect
on the general apple market than on any
other branch of the fruit trade. Ore
gon this season will have the largest
apple crop of recent years, and there
will, without doubt, be an increased
market for the supply. Aside from
its effect on the demand and prices,
the disaster in the Middle West should
stimulate the growing of apples in
Oregon, as we never have any such
trouble in this state. At the same
time, it will tend to discourage the
apple-growers of the East and it may
send them to this slate to pursue their
calling.
"There is another feature of great
importance in this connection. It is
the opportunity that is afforded Oregon
fruit growers this year to gain a foot
hold in the great markets of the Middle
West. Heretofore we have shipped
but little fruit into that section, aside
from Hood River strawberries. Our
apples and pears have gone from
Southern Oregon to Europe and our
Hood River apples to New York. The
markets of Chicago, St. Paul, Min
neapolis and other Middle Western
cities have been supplied by their own
territory and in some degree by Wash
ington. The latter state, with its
railroads, was enabled to build up a
trade with St. Paul and other Northern
Pacific points, but Oregon enjoys equal
shipping advantages and should estab
lish a firm hold on that trade this year.
Production of all kinds of fruit is
increasing in Oregon and the fruit
men will make a great mistake if they
do not grasp this opportunity to widen
their markets, as there is sure to be a
great demand for Summer fruits over
a wide extent of territory.
C. E. King, of Portland, spent Sun
day here.
HUGGINS BEATS
CALIFORNIANS
OREGON BOY SUPR1SES SOUTH
In Field of Twenty-one Local Lad Wins
Missing Record by a Fifth of a
Second.
Chester Huggins the sturdy, distance
runner, and the captain of the Hood
River high school track team added
another feather to his cap Saturday
when he won the mile race at the Stan
ford Interscholastic Track meet at
Stanford University against 20 other
entries and came within one fifth of
a second of equalling the interscholas
tic record.
The meet was a brilliant contest en
tered by 40 preparatory schools of
California and Hood River was the
only school represented from outside
the state although other schools had
planned to send their athletes. It was
a dav of shattering records, eight of
the Stanford Interscholastic records
and four of the Pacific Coast Academic
records being broken. Although Hug-
gins went as the single entry from
outside Califonria and was the sole
representative of his shcool. Hood
River tied with Los Angeles and
Healdsburg for eighth place with 5
points. The meet was won by Chico
high school, which sent six athletes to
gather in 17 points.
The mile race in which Huggins was
entered was the first event in the day
and the local lad won in 4:30 and 1-5.
The morning following the meet the
San Francisco Chronicle contained a
good picture of Huggins winning the
race and in the view it is seen that the
second man, Shields, of San Jose was
not far behinJ. The day was very
warm, the thermometer registering in
the neighborhood of 100 and marking
the hottest April day on record in the
San Francisco Bay region. The hard
trip to Stanford and the extreme heat
probably kept Huggins from lowering
his own racord made in Portland a
week previous. The Chronicle thus
describes the mile run :
"The only aspirant for honors from
outside the State made gnod and suc
ceeded in winning the mile run, which
was captured by an Oregon boy last
year also. Huggins, entered from the
Hood River High Schoool of Oregon,
won the event in 4:39 and 1-5, but
one fifth of a second slower than the
record held by Lee of Harvard School.
Huggins showed the way to the tape
for the entire distance, although haid
pressed by Shields near the finish."
The Daily Palo Alto, the Stanfoid
student paper gives the following ac
count of the race :
"Hood River, as represented by their
sole entry, Huggins, was credited with
establishing a new record in the mile
run, and furnished one of the many
surprises of the day. The sturdy
fighter established a lead in the back
stretch and steadily maintained his ad
vantage. This new record is within
one fifth of a second of the time made
by K. F. Lee formerly of Harvard
Academy of 4:39:1."
The San F'rancicso Call said the
following of Huggins:
"The first race that was run, the
mile, had a surprise in store. No one
had ever heart! of Huggins from Hood
River, Oregon, who was the only n an
entered by his school, and when he
forged into the lead in the first quar
ter, no one expected that he could hold
the pace. The second and third laps
found his position unchanged, however,
in spite of the efforts of Shields, of
San Jose to pass him on the buck
stretch. On the last lap Shit Ids
made one supreme effort to pass him,
but the bov from Hood River let out
just enough speed to keep ahead and
finished one yard in advance oi
Shields. Schweitzer of Santa Far
bara, who fiished third, never hsd a
chance. The time was 4 :39 one fifth,
within a fifth of a second of the inter
scholastic record."
The San Francisco Examiner said :
"Oregon sent down another tood
miler and the opening event on the
programme again weni acroaa me
State line. Last year Burns, of Port
land, took this event, and yesterday
the winner turned up in Huggins, who
hails from Hood River. Huggins
took the place at the end of the first
Ian and he would not allow any of the
others to take the lead away from him
at any stage of the balance of the
route. Shields, of Sna Jose, ran him
a hard race all around the last lap, and
when the two were within twenty
yards of the finish they were breast to
breast. The Oregonian had some
thing left, for he let out a link and
beat Shields to the tape by a couple
of yards."
Huggins arrived on the Stanford
campus Thursday afternoon and enjoy
ed a couple of days' visit at the big
university before the meet came oft.
He spent considerable time getting
acquainted with the track which is the
best on the coast and had the advan
tage of advising with "Dad" Moulton,
the veteran Stanford tranier, and a
number of the crack University ath
letes. Lee, the holder of the inter
scholastic record, who is now a student
at Stanford gave Huggins a good rub
down before and after his race, and
aided him in every way possible.
Huggins was fortunate in drawing
number 4 of the 21 entries in the mile
and with a crouching start he shot
ahead of the crowd at the crack of the
gun and held his lead throughout race.
The local athlete was the first of
the prep school men to arrive at
Stanford, and he is high in the praises
of the entertainment he received at
the hands of the college men. He
spent the first day as the guest of J.
.'Iiniujl, DLUUClll. UWUJ fi' '" in,
( quarters in Encina hall, the big
?n's dormitory, and spent the re
mainder of his time at the Sigma Chi
fraternity house. Huggins said that
many of the Stanford men were mucn
interested in Hood River and that i ome
of the students he met contemplated
visiting the valley during the cor ing
summer. He ttxjk along some Hood
River literature and apples and was
continually plied with questions t bout
the great apple section.
HugginB arrived home Tuesday t veil
ing and he was met at the train I y an
enthusiastic crowd of high school
students, who gave him a reception
befitting a hero. Tuesday niglt a
reception was given at the BOHlB of
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Young, and largo
crowd of young people met to C'-; gratu
late the runner and hear his accou'. of
his southern trip.