VOL. XSII
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAM ARY L(.i. I'.Hl
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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
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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
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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
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FOR SALE BY
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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.
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