The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, December 22, 1910, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text- ' , r , ' , , i , ,, VOL. XXII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, DECEMBER 22, 1910 N i JO DoyouneejcoRu RaU Band Rubbers The only Rubbers warranted to wear. J. C. Johnscn, Hood River, Oregon pep o DEVLN Leading' Hotel Oregon Bldg. No. 1 APPLE TREES I have for sale a limited number of Newtown, Spitzenburg, Ortley, Arkantas Black and Jona thans. These trees were dug with spades and have all the roots it is possible to (Jig- Anyone wishing first class trees will do well to write or call at The Odell Nursery KouUNo.2 Phone Ortell 118 ' J. W. W1IXON. PROP. Hood Ulver, Ore. One Mile West and Half Mile South Udell corner California is the place to visit. Orange groves in full bloom, tropical flowers, famous hotels, historic01d Missions, attractive watering places, delightful climate, making that favored section the Nation's most popnlar re treat. You can sae it at its best via the Shasta Route and the "Road of a Thousand Wonders" Southern Pacific Company Up-to-date trains, first-class in every respect, unex celled dininer-car service, ciuick time and direct con- IC3 ' Jl nections to all points south. Special Round $55 Portland to Los Angeles and return With corresponding low fares from all other sections of the NorthVest. Libeiol stop-overs in each direc tion and long limit. Interesting and attractive liter ature on the various resorts and attractions of Cali fornia can be had on application to any S. P. or 0. II. & N. Agent, or from WM. McMURRAY NOT MADE BY A TRUST The Shoe Man You W rchard We have for sale and can show you orchard lands in all stages of development from the raw slate to the full bearing orchards, including some of the finest bearing orchards in the Hood River Valley. If you- want to see the best properties on the market at the most reasonable prices, let us show you and you will be convinced. Trip Fare of Genl. Passenger Atft. PORTLAND, ORE. t.n. M"I"M"M liiiMWfrWiWWWi H hi l l 1 1-M-M-H-H ! i I l :j The World's Prize Winning Apples are grown on land that we are selling. For a limited time we are offering some of the be& East Side properties at prices much below the market. You can save several thousand dollars by buying land this Fall. See us when you want the best. J. H. Heilbronner & Co. The Reliable Dealers Davidson Building Hood River.Oregon ant T o WW poperty Dealers Hood River, Oreg'on Nichol & Hadlock High Class Orchard Lands and City Realty Basement Brosius Bldg Phone 98 Bentley, the Builder Phone Christmas is but a few days away you can avoid the unpleas ant confusion which always prevals the last two or three days by making your selections NOW. Our assortments are still complete and if you make your selections here you will have no trouble in making your Christmas money "go around" and at the same time not sacrifice Quality. We would like very much to tell you a lot more about the good things we are offering but positively we are too busy. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF F. H. Coolidge JEWELER STORE OPEN EVENINGS STORE OPEN EVENINGS -WHI ouv 331K APPLE MONEY JC0M1NG IN $201,000 DISBURSED BY UMION Hood River Apples this Year Sold in 2 States by the Apple Growers lYiion. The Hotxt River Apple Growers Ijinon has paid $201,000 :.) the apple growers of the valley since the first of September. 1 his amount, is mostly lor the early sales, and includes the pro ceeds of 124 cars which were sold out side the city of New York. Realizing early in the season that it would be necessary to tind outlet outside Mew i ork for part of this year a apple crop. Manager Sproat carried on an extensive correspondence and succeed ed in placing a good many orders. There were but few cities in the United States where Hood River ap pies were unknown. The work of Mr. Shepard along this line in a small way owing to the small supply, in former years, also helped where efforts had been made to place Mood River apples, and especially those few places where Hood Kiver apples had been formerly sold. This year Manager Sproat placed carloads in twenty-four states and in fifty cities outside of New i ork. The heavy crop of apples this year in the Pacific Northwest, not only at Hood River but elsewhere, followed by the indiscriminate dumping of the whole crop on the New York market in a haphazard manner, without organ ization, outside of Hood River, as to market conditions, has resulted in i glutted market which has been disas trous to the trade up to this time. As soon as the condition was apparent, the bulk of the Hood River crop unsold which was shipped to New York were put in cold storage and will be held there until the market is in better shape. The are now in storage in New York 80,000 boxes of Newtowns be longing to the Union, which will be exported only so fast as the market is in condition to receive them. Of the other varieties, they are being grad ually worked off, and returns are eonv ing in to the Union at the rate of $3, 000 to $5,000 a day. this is rapildy re lieving the growers who anticipated eariler returns and have been disap pointed. Yet so far as we are able to learn, the Hood River Apple Growers Union have made quicker and larger returns for this year g crop than any ilher district, agency or individual concern, and are holding apples now in storage to avoid sacrificing on price, until the surplus stock is worked of! and the market is ready for the good apples at their market value. They have shipped 454 cars so far, or :!2t,HH0 boxes, and have bO.000 in storage in Hood River. Besides tnis there arc a good many apples in the growers hands in the valley. I he shipments by the Union this year will amount to fully 400,000 boxes, and the estimated crop for the valley is 550,000 boxes. Hefore the end of the season the Union will have placed 200 carB of apples outside of New York City, most of them in entirely new markets, and will have opened up a future demand for a rapidly increasing crop of Hood Kiver apples. All the new buyers have been well pleased this year, sev eral of them having wired for in creased orders as soon as they re ceived the first car and saw the high grade fruit. It will make it easier next year, and points out the work which must bo systematically done by the Union in the near future to market the crop. It has been said that it is one business to raise the apples, and another business to sell them. This latter business cannot be handled suc cessfully by individuals, but by an as sociation such as the Union is perfect ing. SKINNER TELLS OF EASTERN TRIP Secretary Skinner returned Thursday from the east, where ho spent six weeks with exhibits of Hood River apples at Spokane, Minneapolis, Phila delphia, New York and Chicago, Mr Skinner is very enthusiastic in regards to the benefits ot his trip and leels that the good which will result will amply repay the ellorts and expenses of the exhibitions. The exhibit in Minneapois was in the big Donaldson department store and attracted big crowds. Mr. Skinner found that Hood River was well known in Minneapolis by muny as- being 'across from White Salmon, as the country across the river is being ex ploited by Minneapolis men, wno nave formed syndicates and disposed of a great deal of land, and there are also individual holdings in While haimon of orchard land by Minneapolis people. Nevertheless, there was a good deal or interest taken in Hood River. Mr. Skinner regards Minneapolis as one of our best markets for our apples. Don aldson this year purchased 27 carloads of Northwest apples, part of them from Hood River, and Minneapolis people will havo a chance this year to become acquainted with the excellent quality of the Hood River fruit. He purchased Spitzenburgs and Newtowns from Hood River, Delicious and Wine saps from Wenatchee and Ganos and Koine ISoauties lrom xaKirna. The exhibition at Philadelphia was put on by a change ot date at the same time of the show, and Mr. Skinner was unable to be there, as the Chicago exhibition was more import ant. He found the markets in bad shape in the east, especially New York, on account of the dumping of apples from all parts of the country especially the Northwest, in such quantities as to glut the market. In fact, about the entire heavy crop of the Pacific Northwest was dumped onto the market at once. Owing to this fact, the bulk of Hood Kiver apples has been put in cold storage, both by the union oi unsoiu uppies, and by the commission houses who have purchased. When the surplus is worked off after the holidays, it is ex pected there will be a better market. Mr. Skinner made many observations in Chicago which will aid in making future exhibits of this kind. He found that the big carload exhibit was a failure so far as attracting the atten tion of the public was concerned, the first day the carload of Newtowns was ... .i i .1 : . 1... on exhibit, me crowu woum ph u uy with only a glance, but stop at the small exhibit with a variety of color. To get the crowd to look at the carload he conceived the idea of decorating, so purchased a mammoth silk ribbon, which he draped above the apples. He then would hear the expression, "See that beautiful ribbon." While looking at the ribbon, the spectator would then be attracted to the apples. "The big Commercial Club booklet is a failure," said Mr. Skinner, "in a blaee like that. The visitor uimfu a small folder which he can get in his pocket. I had the small railroad folder w.t'l the bll? book, and mnnv wnnlii r.i fllhe the hiir hamlsnmn hnnlr ami tuL the smaller one because they could get the latter in the pocket. The circular letter was also a failure. After a glance at it thev would throw it duwn on the floor. After each day we would gainer up on tne floor thousands of th circulars, unattractive literature and large, bulky pamphlets. "I talked Hood River twelve hours a day while in Chicago. 1 found the keenest interest in this country, and those especially interested would make appointments with me before or after the hours of the show. I would be llluced in a bunch of severnl men ami cross-questioned to see if my stories wouiu suck together. At one place 1 was between the cross-fire of three lawyers for two hours, but I satisfied them 1 was telling the truth. One thing I learned which is tending to drive the prospective settler to other locuimes. ni wnicn rn other tia triets are wnrkimr Imrrl It in thn im pression that there is no land to be had in Hood River under $2,000 an acre. Land agents from other sections are telling that there is no use to go to Hood River, as the bind is nil lii.mrM and will be sold onlv at a hiirh irin I corrected these false ininre.ssions so lar as I could, l believe we will see a good many people out here as th result of this show. There are thous- mds of tioonle in (hwMiim urlm uunt to come out to this country and who are convinced that it is wise to get a iece of land. The finunriul Rihmtinn is not the best in the east just now, and many feel that it is time to get away from the congested business sec tions on account of the uclitical situa tion and social unrest which mav at ny time precipitate trouble. WILL OFFER SITE TO THE COUNTY A special meeting of School District No. 3 has been called for this after noon for the purpose of submitting to the voters of the district of selling to the bounty the State street grounds now being used by the county for court house purposes. I be school district leased thu grounds to the county for .(0 a month until January 1,1011. The ease is about to expire, and the county court will have to make defin ite arrangements at once for quar ters, and it is desired to buy a site. !t is the, general opinion that the pu.c. now being used is the most available for the price at which it can be se cured, and is convenient to the business district, a loint .which should be ser iously considered. It is said that the district will offer the property for $10,000, which is a reasonable sum. 1ie temporary buildings now on the grounds have a good vault, and the buildings run be used until the county is ready to put up substantial bulld ogs. Ihe money reeeivtd by Urn school distri' t for the sale of the nropertv an be put 1 1 to a sinking found to re tire the bonded indebtedness and thereby reduce the taxation. It would seem to be the best arrangement to transfer this property to the county. ihisisa matter ol vital inmortuncf to the district, and the meeting should be attended by every voter. 'I be meeting will be held at tlie Paik street building this afternoon at ;i o'clock. Capt. Henry Crandall Dies at S;-.n Diego. word was received here Monday that Capt. Henry Crandall died Friday, December 1(, at his residence near San Diego, (Jul. , and was buried Sunday with Masonic honors. Capt. Henry Crandall came here a ittle over four years ago from St. Paul, Minn., with his family, and pur chased a ranch near town. He im proved the place and worked hard in iixing up a nice home, but was stricken with paralysis a little over a year ago, and last winter concluded to go to a warmer climate. He purchased a emon orchard near San Diego and resided there until be passed away last week. The deceased had many friends here who will be grieved to hear of his eath, and who deeply sympathize with the family in their bereavement. Ho was a member of Hood River Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Hood River Chapter, K. A. M., Hood River Chap ter, O. E. S.. Hood River Comman- dery, K. T., and a member of the Scottish Kite lodge in Pennsylvania. Thursday Music Club. The Thursday Music Club met at the home of Mrs. V. C. lirock for their open meeting on the evening of Decem ber lb. this meeting proved to be the most enjoyable and enthusiastic in the history of the club. A splendid pro gram was rendered as follows : Piano duet, Czandas. Eva and Lillian lirock. Vocal solo, "Daddy," Miss Cooper. Piano solo, "Grieg's Butterfly," Miss Howes. Vocal solo, "1 Love You Truly," Miss Vannett. Piano solo, "Cradle Song," Miss Hliigden. Vocal solo, Lullaby, Miss Hryant. Piano trio, Mrs. Dumble, Miss Hliig den, Miss Eva Hrock. Each number was heartily encored. Interest is growing in the club and they hope liter the tirst or the year to take up a i w line of work for the benefit of all. New Corporation Being Organized. The Watt Development Co. is being organized, taking on all the power owned by N. C. Evans. This gives the new company more power than is owned by any other company on Hood River. They contemplate making an nstallation soon. E. H. Shepard has received a dozen Spitzenburg apples raised on the New York experimental farm, supposedly choice specimens. It is at least reas onable to presume that they are a fair average. 1 hey would be rated as culls n Hood Kiver. Ihey are not good color, are uneven, under size, scabby, warty and one of them wormy. And yet some of the Eastern people wonder why Hood River apples bring top prices. LIGHT PLANT JS SOLD DAVIDSON AND EVNAS OUT OF IT A Condition of the Sale is that All Suits Are Withdrawn, Including Suit Against City. Lust werk the Hood River Light & Power Co. passed into the hands of a foreign corporation, known as the Ore gon & Washington Corporation, which has been buying up power and electric light plants in the two states for some time. The corporation is the same which owns The Dalles and Vancouver plants, the latter being but recently acquired. The deal was made through A. Welch, of Portland, who has been negotiating with the stockholders for the purchase of their stock for several months, but which was held up be cause of internal dissentions among the stockholders, finally narrowed down to H. E. Davidson and N. C. Evans. It is claimed that the sale of the Davidson interest to the new cor poration formed a few months ago, called the Hood River Light & Power Co., formed of a syndicate of Portland men, was conditional on the straight ening out of the differences between the stockholders, but the last sale is said to have cleared away all obstacles and carries with it the original cor poration, all subsidiary companies which have been acting as a wheel within a wheel to attain certain ob jects. A condition of the sale which most interests the public is the settling of all suits which have given rise to the bitterest of political fights, and which has entered into all the municipal elec tions for several years. It should now leave the way clear to the settling of the water question to the satisfac tion of all concerned, and remove all obstacles to the putting in of a water system which will be adequate for the needs of the city, which will be freo from contamination. It is to be hoped that the new corporation will see fit to sell its water plart to the city for what it is worth to the citv. surren der its water franchise, and aid in the building up of the city. The added revenue from the light and power bus iness from a greater city will more than make up for any temporary loss ustained by a surrender ot its water business. It is understood that Mr. Welch will niak; a proposition looking to the dis posal (d the water business to the city as soon as he can lake an inventory of what he has got to sell. There will bo no question of giving a clear title, and any proposition which is made can be submited to the voters by the council with the assurance that if the price is satisfactory the property ran bo de livered and a title given which is free from incumbrance. The price paid for the stock, accord ing to Mr. l),vars, was $70,000,of which Mr. Evans received ill, 000. The new corporation assumes'the bonded indebt edness, said to amount to about $7li, 000. Christmas at St. Marks. ('hristmaa services will be held Sun day at St. Marks Episcopal Church its follows: Holy communion at 7 :tf() A. M., llolv communion and sermon 11 :00 A. M. Evening servico will be omitted. St. Marks Parish Christinas party will be held Wednesday evening Dece mber, 2H, at Monroe Opera House at !() P. M. Members and others Inter ested in the church and their friends are cordially invited to attend. 'VARSITY HOP GIVES BRILLIANT OPENING The third annual Hop of the Univer sity Cluo Friday evening in the new Heilbronner hall was u wonderful and complete success in every particular and one of the most brilliant social affairs ever given in Hood River. More than one hundred handsomely gowned ladies attended by the 'Var sity boys and their guests from town, valley asd various purts of the North west danced many rounds among the pretty Christmas season decorations which made a charming effect in the opening of the new hall. Streamers of red and evergreen dotted with colored electric lights came together in the middle of the ceiling where a smiling moon gazed continuously at the dane big card. The walls were covered with immense poinsettas and from the ceil ing were suspended large balls of festooned green. The orchestra at one end of the hall was hid by ,a row of Christmas trees and in a corner the punch bowls were set amid a winter carpet of green and white with an overhanging canopy of winter wood land. Over all the green or the dec oration was sprinkled snow which gave a finishing touch to the winter scenes. 1 he dancing floor of the new hull was excellent and all of the appoint ments are most modern, making a very much-needed addition to the equipment of Hood River for social gatherings. Ihe guests were received by the patronesses, Mrs. E. H. Shepard, Mrs. K. Watt, and Mrs. 1". . Davidson, and the committee in charge of the Hop consisting of Dave Currier, Ted Poolcy, Phil Carroll anil Fred McCrea, was ever active to make uie an air a success in all wavs. Ihe dancing began about ten o'clock and Stiles' full orchestra, of Portland, rendered a program of late melodies composed es pecially for the worshippers of Terpsi chore. The danco order consisted of 24 numbers with four extras and nu merous extras during the time that supper was being served, l lie iwo course supper at midnight was fol- owed by more dancing and it was lust five o'clock when the strains of num ber 24 faded away and the enthusiastic dancers who staid to the finish stopped dancing with regret. There were a number ot out ot town guests, among them being Mrs. A. Kerr, Miss Jean Kerr, Miss Dosh, Miss Hustner, Tommy Kerr, J. Hig- gins, the Miss's r.ins, uuuiey u. Clarke, Miss Lucile Smith, Miss Adele Goff, Mrs. Seneca Fouts, Miss Gen evieve Hutterfield, of Portland ; Mrs. George Vanderveer, of Seattle; Rob Nelson, of Kose Lodge; Miss r ranees Fuller, of Oregon City ; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Slade, Frank F'ox and Miss Mill, ofllusum;Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Spencer, of White Salmon; A. P. Hateham, Misa Maude Bateham, of Mosier.