VOL. XSII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAM ARY L(.i. I'.Hl 0 85 A Few Choice Buys Improved 2 acres on main county roadjin Snmmit district; all witn volcanic ash soil with perfect drainage. 17 acres set to Newtons and Spitzenburghs with Ortleys and Arkansas Black as pollenizers, set 26 feet apart, as follows: 6 "acres 5 years old, 4 acres 2 years old and 7 acres 1 year old; 3 acres ready to set. 2 1-2 acres of strawberries between the tress. Good four room house, large barn; near school, stores, church and rrilroad; nine inches of water ; complete set of implements and a good horse. Price $14000; one third cash; balance on or before five years at 7 per cent. lO-acre block of solid orchard, one-half New tons with 13 Ortleys as pollenizers, 1-2 Spitzenburgs with 13 Baldwins as pollenizers 5 years old and set 28 feet apart. Is located 2 1-2 miles from Hood River on tne main county road; 8 inches of water. Trees have never been irrigated, and are in the very best of coudition. It is the best buy on the West Side at the price of $12000; $5000 cash; mortgage for $7000 running till Dec. 13th, 1914, at 7 per cent interest can be assumed. 15 acres volcanic ash, all set to commercial or chard as follows: 5 acres 7 years old; 3 acres 6; 1 1-2 acres 4: 4 1-2 acres 3 years old. Picked 1120 boxes of apples this year. 3 acres of strawberries 1 and 2 years old set between young trees. Good barn, old house but a beautiful building spot among oak trees. Good buy at the price of $4000; $5000 cash; balance on or before 5 years at 7 per cent. 5 acres, 4 miles southwest of town, on main trav elled road; good clay loam soil; all under cultivation; planted to commercial orchard 2. 3 and 4 years old, save 1-2 acre in meadow; good drainage. This is a snap at $3000; $2000 cash; balance on or before 5 years at 6 per cent. Unimproved! 103 acres nine miles south of Hood River, on the edge of the Willow Flat district; heavy red shot soil; south and easi slope with excellent drainage; nearly all under the ditch; 20 acres under cultivation, be tween 4 and 5 acres of which are in Newtons, 6 years old; 3 acres in 6 year old Spitzenburgs; 300 Newtons and Spitzenburgs, one year old; 30 trees family or chard. Balance of place fir and oak timber, of which 8 acres are practically cleared. Small 4-room box house, and barn on the place. Odell Creek and 4 good springs on the property. Place could be cut up into a number of fine farms. All implements go with the place at the low price of $16000; $4000 cash; bal ance on or before 7 years at 7 per cent. 20 acres, seven miles south of Hood River on main county road; volcanic ash soil; good slope for drainage; 3 acres cleared; under the East Fork ditch; 1-4 mile from railroad station. Price $4000; one third cash; balance in 3 or 5 year at 7 per cant. 63acres, shot soil, about nine miles south of Hood PiVor nn tVio oAcre nf thp Willow Flat district, mostlv B,V 1 k U11V W V A i II w .1 -w 7 7 all rolling, about 50 acres good orchard land; few 4-4-: v. m-.A rnmn ob- no r oil nlno vnd fri MZalLClUl III iUlU DUIllC vjarv, tan cm utuivu about $50 to $75 per acre. Price $7000; $1700 cash; balance on or before 7 years at 7 per cent interest. Devlin & Firebaugh THE LEADING DEALERS Hood River, Ore., Hotel Oregon Bldg. Portland, Ore., Swctland Bldg THIS J. C. Johnsen, The Shoe Man Hood River, Oregon raaOBBHHBBB .h.,m..hm-m..hm n inn t i l-i-i- The Heilbronner Building: will be ready for occupancy after Jan uary i, i9ii. The second floor offices are now open for inspection. AH outside rooms Steam Heat Modern. J. H. HEILBRONNER, Owner TTT" The Hood River District Land Company A. T. ALLEN (INCORPORATED) J. ADRAIN EPPING A. B. SHELLEY We Are Equipped to Handle Your Property LIST WITH US Is the time you need Shoes and Rub bers that have lots of wear and water resisting qualities. : :::::: Star Brand Shoes and Ball Band Rubbers have it There are lots of good shoes, but STAR BRAND are BETTER. Manufactured by Roberts, Johnson & Ran Shoe Co. FOR SALE BY t'l 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 I I II I I I I 1 1 1 I 1 1 H-l" A Heart to Heart Talk Will Be Given By ELBERT HUBBARD Monday Evening, Eebruary 20, New Heilbronner Hall SUBJECT: MARCH OF THE CENTURIES" i Tickets $1.00 umale at ML Hood Hotel 4 ni i i 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 ti t ' ' " ' " " ' " " " " " " " " ' " " " ' Loans We have three clients who want to bor row $ 1 ,500 each at 8 per cent on good real estate security. See us for particulars The Hood River District Land Co. Phone 1 75 Hood River, Ore. BY ORDINANCE DKRBY EMPLOYED CITY ATTORNEY Six Per Cent Water Bonds to Put in New Water System Will be Offered On the Market. List your land with me for 1911, as 1 make the sales, which the following will show: January Mr. Slain to Mr. J. V McCreadv if 1.1,000.00 January Mr. Neal to J. Copeland ". 21,000.00 February 6 Mr. Smith to Capt. McCan. 17,000.00 February 11 Mr. Heilbronner to Cant. McCan :S0,000.00 February 15-Mr. Church to W. R. McCready 11,000.00 March 1 Mr. Merriara to Mr. Copehuul li-r,000 00 March 10 Mr. Anient to Mr. Sylvester '..',000.00 March 0 Mr. Lobb to Dr. Unman -1,000.00 March ft Mr. Briggg to Wheeler Boys 4,000.00 April 14 Mr. Bentley to Smith & llolbrook 11,000.00 April 28 Mr. Slutts to Mr. Hargreaves 5,200.00 July 20 Mr. Briggs to Dr. Younkin 11,000.00 August 15 W. L. Carnea to Mr. Tenny 1:1,000.00 August 15-0. A. Baker to II. II. Hadlock 5,500.00 September 10 C It. Bone to Dr. Buell 10,000.00 October 1Wm. Iteavi to Mr. Nye 25,000.00 October 15 C. Dethman to H. F. Gleason 24,000.00 November 2 Dr. Hull to Mr. Moore 12.000.00 November 2 Mr. Lehming to W. S. Farrs 10,000.00 November 15 It. A. Collins to S. M. Parker 4,000.00 Nicholto Bryde 4,000.00 Nichol to Hadley 4,000.00 Nichol to Nichol ti.OOO.OO Sale. Amounting to $262,700 Mad. in 1010 W. S. NICHOL F.H.Coolidge Watchmaker and Jeweler Buy your butter, cream and milk from the Purity Dairy Co., phone 68L. Milk depot, Davidson building. Real Estate" Bulletin $2,500 Ten acres, uncleared but slashed, in Oak Grove district, 6 1-2 miles out. Terms 81,000 down. $9,500 Sixteen acres, one-year-old trees, four acres yet to clear, and about four acres berries between trees. Close to railway station and nine miles from town. Six Inches water, shot soil and perfect drainage. $7,500 Ten acres, one mile from city limits. Trees two, three and four years old, and some full bearing, balance of two acres in pasture with running water. One acre of berries between trees. Five inches water. One-half down. GuyY. Edwards&Co. The city council met Monday night with a full membership present. The most interesting procedure of the meeting was the introduction of ordi nance No. 271, providing that Judge A. J. Derby be employed by the city to act as city attorney for the year HU1. This action on the part of the council resulted from t In refusal of Mayor llartwig, at the meeting of January 1 to sign the contract with Judge Derby. The mayor appointed E. C. Smith city attorney, and asked for a confirmation by the council, who, however, favored Judge Derby for the position and carried a motion to the effect that an agreement be signed employing him. Mayor llartwig's refusal to sign Wis based on the ground that he considered such proced ure illegal. Ordinance No. 270 passed the first reading. It provides that all streets in the fire limits be graded and that cement curbing be constructed; Wherever the grade is over six per cent storm sewers will be provided. Of course catch basins will have to be constructed at the coiners in order to take in the storm waters. A resolu tion was adopted whereby the city sur veyor is instructed to communicate with different reliable engineering periodicals, ami have them insert in their news columns the fact that Hood River intends to begin extensive im provements on its streets. Council man Hall suggested that a preliminary step of this kind was very necessary, in order that the city authorities may come in touch with the ditlerent con cerns engaged in such work, and thus become better acquainted W'ith just what the city needs. A resolution was adopted to the effect that the city surveyor be in structed to survey the right of way of a street to pass from a point on Shor man Avenue to the east line of Dr. Turner's property, through Winan's Addition to the bin If and thence by most convenient route and on a level grade, to the River, lhis street is considered necessary in order to meet the proposed Canyon Koad at the city limits. A petition was submitted by Moore & Campbell asking that they lie per mitted to place a corrugated iron roof over their sheds. The petition was referred to the fire and water commit ee with power to act. A communication was received irom Dr. Eliot asking that the stakes and monuments of the park, which he and Mrs. Eliot will donate to the city, be set 150 feet from the hluft on th Smith side of the nark. Dr. Kliot desires that the council make these changes that he may complete his deed of gift. The council decided to act in accordance with his communication. A petition, signed by the majority of the business men of the Heights, was submitted to the council asking that Kobt. M. Stone be appointed as night watchman for that district of the city. Mr. Stone is now .serving temporarily as night watchman for the Heights. The petition was presented to the council by A. C. Staten, who made a comprehensive statement of why the citizens of the Heights were so desirous of having a night watch man. He stated that the news had been circulated that the council would refuse to consider the appointment of a watchman for the Heights and that the petition had been hurriedly gotten together Monday morning in order that the needs of the hill portion of the town might no shown. It seems to be the opinion of many, he continued, that the hill is a place of congregation for hoodlums. If such be the truth, he asserts, the council must bear the blame. The Heights has no public lights and naturally alfords a shelter for lawlessness. Besides asking for the appointment of a night wachman, Mr. Staten urges the city to take steps to place public lights on Twelfth Street as soon as possible. Especially are lights needed at the corner of Mr. Staten's store and at the corner near Holman's store. Since the Heights claim one half of the population of the citv thev feel justified in making these demands. The petition was referred to the police committee. City Recorder I.angille made the fol lowing report of the city s finances for the fourth quarter of 11(10, which was referred to the finance committee For the L'eneral fund a deficit of $0, 170.011 is shown on January 1, 1911. Warrants issued during the last quar tor amounted to $2,071.42 and receipts to the amount of $1.WCU5. The road fond, for the same date, shows a deficit of f 2,51'.). H 1 , warrants issued to the amount of 14 and receipts of ST.27.4U. The Twelfth Street fund has been paid. A balance of $175,110 re mMins in the State Street fund. The Twelfth Street bond interest fund has heen disbursed. The sewer district No 4. fund shows a deficit of $140.07 That of district No. 8 showed a deficit of $5.85. 'I lie following communication was received from L. N. Blowers: Hon. E. H. llartwig, City. Dear Mr. llartwig-C. A. Bell, I S Davidson and mvsi lf have had cir culated a petition for the paving of Oak Street with crushed reck, Irut from nn examination of the street on the hill, which is now covered with mud, I think perhaps wood blocks treated with carholineum might ne better, if price is not prohibitive. As there is plenty of timber here it seems to me that the cost should not be ex orbitant. 1 enclose clippings from Oregonian for your consideration. Yours resp'v, L. N. Blowers. The clippings referred to contain en dorsements of wood paving by citizens of I'ortland. George Good, who lives on Kearney Street in that citv "has the llowing to say of wood blocks: "In my travels through Europe, I found that wood blocks are being laid on numerous principal thoroughfares. They are giving excellent service verywhere, just as thev have m Port land. Having followed the history of wood blocks very closely, 1 am pre pared to say that they are excellent for residence districts especially, and that they will also stand wear and tear." Councilman J. M. Wright made a motion that ordinance No. 250, which passed its first reading last August and which provides tor the advertising of the gS'.Hi.OOO water bonds, be read again before the meeting. The ordi nance provides that the bonds shall be advertised for 00 days and shall bear in interest of t! per cent. The matter was referred to the fire and water onimttee, who are instructed to inves tigate the condition of the bond mar ket and report their findings at the next meeting. MEET TO Fi M JTAM IIORTICULTURALISTS AT PROSSER Phone 228L Office Oregon Hotel Attend the Dance at Pine Grove Grange Hall, Friday Even ing, January 27 Music by Newman's Four Piece Orchestra. Supper Served in the Building. GOOD SHEDS FOR HORSES Notice of Teachers' Examination E. II. Shepard and Chris Creisen returned last Saturday from Pressor, where they had been attending the annual meeting of the Washington Horticultural Society which has been in session at I rosser during the past week. Mr. Greisen in discussing the meeting says that it was one of the most enthusiastic ones he has ever at tended. The main question up for dis cussion was that ot co-operation. Yakima valley, it is understood, is considering the organization of a larger association. However the concensus of opinion seems to be toward closer local organizations. These, it is thought, will be more valuable and safer than large associations. 1 he meeting brought about a better understanding between the growers of different sections. 1 lie producers have come to realize that they must cut out mipetition among themselves. 1 he problem that they must solve is inat of proper distribution. An over supply of different varieties of apples at cer tain centers'has taught its lesson by sad experience. H. C. Atwell, of Forest drove, president of the Oregon State Society, gave a splendid talk on co-operative selling. His purpose there, said Mr. Creisen, was mainly toward arousing an interest in the rreeting to be held in Portland, J uary 24. Mr. tireisen wai more tin pressed with the meeting from an in terstate standpoint than from that tf a state meeting. E. 11. Shepard addressed the meeting on marketing problems, making spec ial reference to the season of 1910 Mr. Shepard has the following inter est inn report to make of the meeting: I Ins association is 7 years old and has rapidly increased in membership; it now has over 800 members. Almost 400 members were in attendance. "One who has never attended a meeting of the Washington fiuit grow ers cannot, realise tne amount oi en thusiasm or interest they have in their meetings. 'I hese meetings are excep tionally well planned. In addition to the regular routine of liusiness, many very valuable papers of different problems connected with orcharding. scientific, theoretic and practical, are read. After each paper is read oi i address is delivered, there is an open discussion. una general uis cussion is one of the most attractive features of these meetings and perhaps there is no other lcature connected with this association that produces more good than these informal discuss ions, the practical questions anted ana the common sense replies. "A very interesting number of papers on various subjects were read, but the subject commanding the most intense interest was that on co-operation. Four addresses were made upon this subject, one by Mr. lialch, confin ed to the distribution of individual as sociations, a paper read by Mr. Bob bins, of Yakima, relating to district organizations, and one by Mr. Atwell president of the Horticultural Society of Oregon, which was a description of the co-operative plan, with central sell ing head, for the three states of Wash ington, Idaho and Oregon. This was followed by my address on murketing problems. "A discussion followed on the four subjects as indicated above, which was instucrtive and educational. The discussion was not as complete or thorough as many of the visitors would like to have had it. It was the opinion of practically all the fruit growers in Washington, who were in attendance at this meeting, that the fruit industry needs more and better organization in the future than ever it has had in the past. A Committee of three was ap pointed to interview and select rcpre (tentative delegates from the important districts which were represented at this meeting, who would be able to attend a meeting called by Mr. Atwell for the purpose of co-operation on the part of the three states. This meeting is to be held in Portland on January 21th. The Committee selected some 25 or DO prominent friut growers, who will attend this meeting to further consider and discuss larger co-operatin idea. Proosser entertained the State Meet ing in a very generous and hospitable manner, providing rigs and aulos for the visitors to examine the different orchards, and also entertained the members at. a banquet at which some 400 or 500 were seated. The two s eeches at the banquet that stood out prominently were those by Judge Reed, conusel for the Northern Pacific, and A. D.Charlton, assistant passenger agent for the Northern Pacific. Judge Reed gave the fruit growers a very interesting talk in connection with the fruit industry and Mr. Charlton won the whole audience by his star speech, which was a combination of good sense and humor. Perhaps nothing is more significant to the fruit industry than the fact that the Northern Pacific Co. provided a car filled with prominent officials connected with the railway who had the car side tracked and remained to the meeting three entire days, being present at the morning, afternoon and evening ees-sions. MANY DISTRICTS ARE REPRESENTED Scheme is to Devise Some Method of Co Operative Selling for Northwest ern Eru.it Growers. C. H. Sproat. who attended th flrui day's session of the meeting, now in progress at Portland, to devise some method of co-operative selling for northwestern fruit growers, returned yesterday. Mr. Sproat said that nothing definite would be done at this meeting. That the main idea was to get some of the larger associations interested in a thing of this kind. Hood River's representatives took an active interest in the discussion. However, it was not in any official way. The Oregonian makes the fol lowing report of the first day's session of the meeting : Representing an aggregate capital of $50,000,000, invested in apple or- hards and an output of lO.tXKt cars yearly, having a value of from $0,000.- 000 to $8,000,000, more than 100 apple growers from Oregon, Washington and Idaho gathered in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium yesterday for the purpose of forming a National selling agency of sufficient breadth and width to con trol and dispose of the apples produced in the three states mentioned. "A committee of 15 was appointed at the close of the day's work to pre pare a working plan, for the consider ation of the convention tomorrow morning. "Beading apple culturi.sts from the three states took part in the proceed ings. Ex-Covernor Miles C. Moore, of Washington; Judge Fremont Wood, of Boise, Idaho; Miles Cannon, of Weiser. Idaho: E. C. Benson, of Prosser. Wash., ex-president of the Washington State Horticultural Society; C. E. Whisler, of Medford, representing the Kogue Kiver t ruit and l'roduce Asso ciation; H. C. Atwell, of Forest Grove, Or., president of the Oregon Stale Horticultural Society; J. N. Stone, of Milton, Or. ; H. C. Richards, of North Yakima, Wash. ; A. P. Bateham. of Mosier, Or., and C. 11. S'proat, of Hood River, Or., were among the more active spirits of the enterprise. Ihe only opposition to the plan pro posed came 1 rom the pessimistic tone that prevailed through the talk of E. 11. Shepard, editor of Better Fruit, published at Hood River. Although the discussion lasted thn ughout the day and the speakers were numerous, Mr. Shepard could not see the light as advanced by the more hopeful in the plan of creating a central distributive agency for the output. He maintained that there was no way for an organ ization at least he had heard cf no plan which would equalize 'lie values between the apples produced in the various districts. Ho was certain that there was no chance for over-production. That he regarded as a bug-a-boo created by the railroads and the press. All Government statistus. said the speaker, "that I have been able to get hold of, all the information that I have gathered and all ot the n.ter'ciws with old time nursery n en go to show that over-production is impossible, in ipples at least. There is no such thing as over-production in this country in any food product. There may be faults oi distribution in the side; end but to talk of over-production for a continuous number of years that had never occurred and cannot occur i.i any known food product. Regardless ot Mr. Shepard s wewa the applegrowers continued in their deliberations and appointed the follow ing committee to draft a plan: H. W. Otis, of Wenatchee, Wash.; C. H. Sproat, of Hood River; II. C. Lamb, of Mi'ton, Or. ; John Forbis, of Port land; C. F. Whisler, of Medford, Or.; A. P. Bateham, of Mosier, Or, Miles Cannon, of Weiser, Idaho; C. L. Smith, of Eewiston, Idaho; Will F. Kit-., of Walla Walla, Wash. ; W. M. Nelson, of North Yakima, Wash. ; George C. Eaton, of Granger, Wash. ; C. 11. Clark, of Wenatchee, and G. H. Sprague, of Cashmere, Wash. " The convention was called to order by President Atwell, of the Oregon State Horticultural Society. Frank W. Power, of .Portland, was made secre tary. A committee on credentials was selected and they made a report in the afternoon. The call of the convention specified that the object of the meeting was to form a co-operative selling agency and to provide some means for apple box legislation. Suggestions were tendered as to the best plan of procedure and discussion disclosed the fact that the appointment of a com mittee should be made to work out a plan. "C. E. Whisler took the lead in the debate and contended that the diffi culties of the undertaking were, first, the method of establishing grades and, second, what should be done with regard to the division of the receipts of the selling agency. Should there bo a "jack-pot" created, as the speak er called it, in which all should be 1 .1 - B ,1. . given an equal snare oi me proceeus, or should values be placed upon the apples of each district and division of the receipts be placed on this basis? In this debate George Aggers, of White Salmon; A. F. Hellinwell, of White Salmon; J. G. Tate, of Hood River; C. B. Clark, of Wenatchee; J. N. Stone, of Milton; W. K. Newell, of Gaston; C. L. Dick, of Salem, and others took part. Fales-Wagnir. Palmer L. Fales and Miss Florence A. Wagner, friends of attorney E. C. Smith, were married here Tuesday evening. Rev. E. A. Harris was the ofiiciatmg minister. The bride arrived here Tuesday afteroon from Belding, Michigan, the former home of the groom. The marriage was the result of a romance begun when the parties were classmates in high school. Mr. Fales, who is a prominent attorney of Portland with an office in the Board of Trade building, is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Ho is a member of the class of '07 and a classmate of E. C. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Fales left yesterday .for their home in Portland. Blue Lodge Saturday Evening. There will be a special meeting of Hood River Lodge No. 105, A, i. & A. M., Saturday evening. Work in the M. M. degree, followed by refresh monts. Visiting members welcome. 1 i