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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1911)
I" VOL. XXIII IIOOI) ItlVEI!, ORKIIOX. Tllt'lISIUY, .MWB 2L, Hill UO 1 Not Until Fortunes Had Been Made n 1 I By outsiders investing in Portland property did the old "WISEHAMMERS" realize that they had been flirting with opportunity? Hood River Valley had the same experience. Ask any old timer. Today the same thing is happening at Hosier View Orchards We can deliver to you a five-year-old strictly com mercial orchard first-class in every respect at a net cost to you of less than you could possibly produce the same orchard if the raw land was Qiven You Absolutely Free. If you doubt the above statement, get wise, Investigate Our Orchards and Our Proposition as others have done and you will be convinced. Hood River Orchard Land Co., (Capital $500,000) Devlin & Fircbaugh Sales Agents. Hotel Oregon Bldg., 906-909 Yeon Bldg., Hood River, Oregon Portland, Oregon! For Sale by Owner 200 acres, 00 acres cleared, 11 acres planted, balance unimproved. Price cheap and easy terms. J. P. Thomsen It. F. I). No. 1 box 01) Phone 290 Odell Land For Sale -5P i ii.uu.iuiuui x,jwf ucres oi io. j audio lana. jt most of it under ditch at prices ranging from $60 per acre up In tracts from ten acres up. J. R. STEELE Hood River ... Oreeron HKW 1 H-H-Hlli'H ... 1 1 n nn 1 I I I H-M Mil H-'I-M M-l Special Bargains in Land 17 Acres Uncleared; 1 mile from railroad station, t school and stores; all first class apple land; just enough slope for perfect drainage. For one month this can be-bought for $125 an acre. It's a snap. ' 10 Acres In Oak Grove district; 9 acres in Spitzen burgs and Newtowns, mostly 2 years old; 3 acres strawberries between trees; 1 acre clover; 4-iwm cottage, small barn and good well; most attrac tive location. $7,000; easy terms. 176 Acre Tract For subdividing. A money maker. See us about it. J. H. Heilbronner & Company The Reliable Dealers Hood River, Ore. t-M mi i i'-r-t"i"i"i'i''i"i"t"H"i"i"i"i"i"H-i"i"i"i"i"iiii"i,iH"i"i"i"i 1 1 "i"i 1 1 h-:-;4 Bargains in Three Flats Three Bargain in Willow Flat A. Flat Forty acres; unimproved; all under irriga tion; on good county road; 30 acres first-class orchard land ; balance good timber. Four Thousand Dollars, One-Half Cash. B. Flat Forty acres a little higher up on the scale, above irrigation; all good orchard land. Ten acres partially cleared; adjoining $250 land. Four Thousand and Five Hundred Dollars One-Third Cash. . C. Flat Ten acres all improved; three acres of HOME, three year-year-old trees; balance eijj-yoar, SWEET except small patch of hay and berries for HOMES home use; small house and barn, both new. One of the best pieces in Willow Flat. Six Tnousand Dollars, Half .Cash. GEO. W. DIMMICK Phone 344-K Office Phone 45-L II. H. HADl OCk Phone 326-M Dimmick & Hadlock REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Improved and Unimproved ORCHARD LANDS Office First Door West Mt. Hood Hotel, Ground Floor HOOD RIVER, OREGON Don't Leave the Hood River District Without Investigating Mosier Valley Natural advantages for fruit growing unexcelled. Laud nrices have doubled within the last two yearsbut are not over half thal'asked for similar, land in other sections. Buy now before the speculators add their profits. COMMERCIAL CLUB OF MOSIER MOSIER, OREGON. Six Miles East of Hood River, Oregon 20 PER ACRE DO Is enough to secure partly cleared first-class apple land m CENTRAL VALE. Bal ance on easy terms. Permanent water rights with all lands of the CENTRAL OR CHARD CO., in the Heart of Hood River. The five-year-old trees in the Central orchard last fall averaged 1 boxes. Nearly one-third of our acreage has been sold dur ing'the past six weeks. It is All Good and All Going. You Had Better See It. Ask C. R. BONE, Pres, or J. E. MONTGOMERY Central Orchard Co. Phone 1G1-M Oak & 3rd Sts MUNICIPAL SYSTEM NOW ASSURED CITY AND OWNERS AGREE ON PLN Old Tlaiit Will Be Condemned By Eminent Domain Proceedings -Citizens Greet Action with Approval. As evidenced bv the business con ducted liy the city council atjthe regu lar Mommy night meeting, the ques tion of the acquisition by the city of the water system recently purchased from the Hood Kiver Tower & Light Co. by the Tacitie Tower & Light. Co. reached its last stage when the city fathers decided to accept one of the alternative propositions offered by the owners of the property and proceed to acquire it under the power of -eminent domain. Below is submitted the communica tion from Vice-President Grenier, of the Pacific Tower & Light Co. : To the Honorable Mayor and the Common Council cf the City of Horn! Kiver, Hood Kiver, Oregon. Dear Sirs: Continuing my state ments in our interview of the Kith inst. Tacitie Tower & Light Co. re spectfully ofTer to sell and convey its entire water works property and sys tem in your city to the City'of'Hood Kiver at the present reasonable value thereof ; such reasonable value to be determined by either of the following methods : 1. I!y an appraisal to be made by a board of three disinterested arbitra tors, one to be appointed by you, one by the Pacific Tower & Light Co., and the third to be agreed upon by the two arbitrators so appointed; such ar bitrators to be engineers or otherwise familiar with or competent to pass on values of property of this kind. 2. Hy proceedings under the power of eminent domain brought in the name of the City of Hood Kiver in accordance with the provisions of the statutes of the State of Oregon and the City charter with reference to the appropriation of property for public purposes. The valuation to be made by either of the above methods shall include" the value of all reservoirs, mains, pipes, supplies, real estate used in connection therewith, water rights, and all other rights or easements of value to the property now owned or used in connec tion with the Company's water works system; the Company's olfer including the entire water works system with all rights and privileges appurtenant thereto. In my interview of the 10th inst., I st.ited that the Company would be willing to sell the above mentioned property for $45,000, even though the appraised valuation found by either ot the above methods would exceed such sum. After a conference with other executive officers of the Com pany, it has been decided to reduce this sum to $12,500, which according to aa examination and report recently tnade by Mr. D. C. Henny, a consult ing engineer, represents the actual physical value of water 'rights, fran chises and the value of the business as a going concern. Mr. llenny's report dated March 3, 1911, showed that in reaching the above valuation he deducted somewhat over $7,000 oiF the replacement value of the property for depreciation, and made no allowances whatever, as above stated, for value of water rights, franchises, etc. A separate valuation of the water rights which are offered to the City as part of this system was estimated by Mr. Ilonny on a conservative basis at $15,000. The Tacific Power & Light Co. offers this property to the City of Hood Kiver, as above indicated, at a price considerably below its actual physical value and its present value to the Company, because it desires to assist the iople of Hood Kiver in carrying out their frequently desire to own and operate their own water works system. TheJCompany further recognizes the immediate necessity of the City ob taining a largci and more abundant water supply than is at present avail able, and it believes that by offering its own property to the City at the reasonable value thereof, the City will be materially assisted in .obtaining the relict desired. If the City prefers to purchase this property at the valuation appraised as above suggested instead of at the Company's cash offer of $12,500, the Company will do everything possible on its part toward getting such valua tion determined as promptly as pos sible. Respectfully yours. Tacitie Tower & Light Co. Hy A. S. Oreiner, Vice-President. The following is the report of the Fire and Water committee of the council : Hood River, Oregon, June 19, 1911. To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Hood River, Oregon. Gentlemen : We, your Committee on Fire and Water, have during the past week, been in conference with the present owners of the Water System, with a view of procuring from them some expression of their attitude on the water question as affecting the City's water supply. At the request of your committee, the Tacific Power & Light Company, the present owners of the water plant, have addressed the attached communication to the Council for consideration and in connection with this emmunication your com mittee beg to make the following re port. : (1) Taking up the propositions of fered in this communication in their order, we report that we do not favor the first proposition outlined, for the reason that this method, while gener ally held forth as equitable in affairs, we do not feel would be free from censure, should the award of arbitra tors exceed what has generally been accepted to the value of the plant; and be that as it may, the last analysis of this method means that one man prac tically fixes the award, which we do not feel to be proper in this case. (2) We report in favor of the sec ond proposition outlined in the Water Company 's offer ; that is, for the City to proceed to condemn the plant, with all its fixtures and appurtenances, and have the value assessed by a jury of twelve men, after hearing all the evi dence in the case. This would give us an award free from suspicion and criti cism and one which the citizens of Hood River might well get behind and supHirt as a practical method of settling a vexed but urgent question. The Company gives every assurance of its willingness to expedite such a pro ceeding rather than hinder it, and with further assurance on this point, as well as that the case can ;be tried in Wasco County in the State Circuit Court, we feel that the matter can be disposed of without any unnecessary delay. Your Committee has taken the liberty' cf discussing this proposition with business men and tax payers in all walks of life, and find that in every instance, it meets with approbation: further, the Company has agreed to fix a maximu price of $42,500, beyond which the City shall in no instance be required to go, no matter what the award of the.jury may be. We believe this to be a good business proposition for the City, and in this connection we urge that the Council submit the proposition to the people at the earliest possible moment, as the council should have an expression from them before proceeding to final deter mination in a matter which will have to be approved ultimately by the tax payers before it can be brought to fruition. Your committee is pleased to be able to make a report along these lines, as in their judgmeut it offers the most practical solution yet offered of this question, the delay in the settlement of which is materially hindering the progress or the city. Respectfully submitted, Chas. T. Early, 11. L. Howe, J. E. Robertson. The council referred the report back to the committee and ordered it to proceed along the lines it provided. Councilman Early, who is chairman of the Fire and Water committee, was hearily applauded when.'.after calling on any one of the citizens or council men to express any objections that might be had against a condemnation proceeding, he said that the long dreamed of municipal water system would soon become a reality. No pro test was raised against the provisions of the report of the committee. The chairman of the Special Sew -r committee reported that its members had investigated the territory through which the proposed sewer for section 7 of district 7 along Columbia street would pays and recommend its con struction. The City Recorder was in structed to notify the property holders of the contents of the report. Recorder Langille reported to the council that two payments had been made to Mrs. Hansberry for the prop erty on the Heights, where the city nas piannea to construct a reservoir, and that a deed was in the hands of T. D. Tweedy, who would turn it over to the city as soon as the whole of the purchase price was paid. Mr. Langille stated that Mrs. Hansberry desired that interest be paid regularly on the outstanding principal, but that she was willing to wait for payment of l ; v- principa) itself until the city was in Detter financial circumstances. P. H. Coolidge, represcntine D. C Clapp, the owner of the business build ing located at the corner of Oak and Third streets, Jaddressed the council asking that Mr. Clapp be allowed to build a board sidewalk on a level with the street in order to avoid the incon venience caused by the excavation re cently made necessary when the con crete walk was consructed in front of the building. It is Mr. Clapp's inten tion to maintain the board walk until the streets arc graded. He will then lower his building to the street level. The request was granted by the council. VALLEY DELIGHTS T110S. W. LAWSON BUILD FOR All TIME IS HIS ADVICE God lias Loaded Hood River with the Best of His Plenty, Says the Noted Bustonian. T.Y TlIOM X W. l.AWSOS. DUMBLE AND BISHOP ELECTED JO BOARD The meeting of the voters of school district No. 3, which was nerhans the moBt largely attended meeting in the hn tory of the district, was called to order Monday afternoon at the Park street school building by President Geo. R. Castner, who thanked the patrons of the schools for their hearty co-operation during the term of the school board. Mr. Castner stated that the the school district was in good financial shape. Leaving aside the bonded debt, he said the district owed no money. If the members of the board had mado any mistakes during their term they were unintentional he declared. Inclosing Mr. Castner said he thought there were two questions, namely, whether the district should establish a manual training department and whether --the term should be ex tended to ten months, that should re ceive the consideration of the meeting. Both matters were discussed but no conclusion was reached as to either. Dr. H. L. Humble was nominated to take the position of Mr. Castner, the retiring member of the board this year, and unanimously elected. A. W. Onthank clerk of the term just ending, and F. A. Bishop were nomi nated for clerk. A ballot resulted in the election of Mr. Bishop, who re ceived 42 votes. 28 were cast for Mr. Onthank. THOMPSON AMONG 0. A. C. GRADUATES The Oregon Agricultural College gave diplomas to 132 this week, 3 of which were degrees of Master of Science and 128 Bachelors of Science, with 1 graduate in music. The bach elors degrees were given graduates of the departments of engineering, 53; agriculture, 22; commerce, 21 ; domes tic science and art, 14; pharmacy, 8; forestry, 5. Honors were awarded to 13 Btudents, 2 each in the departments of agricul ture, civil engineering, mechancial engineering, and :ommerce, and 1 each in pharmacy, mining, electrical engi neering, forestry and domestic science. Maj. MacAlexander awarded com missions for next year to 49 cadet officers of the regiment, including the colonel, lieutenant colonel, 3 majors, 15 captains, 15 lieutenants and 14 second lieutenants. Among the students graduating was C. C. Thompson of this county, son of C. D. Thompson, county superintend ent of education, who received the degree of Bachelor of Science in the department of Agriculture. Mr. Thompson will establish a nursery here. Insure your automobile against acci dent. See Hood Kiver Abstract Co. Rubber Stamps at the Giacier office What do 1 think of Hood River? That's the same question they asked me the other day about Portland, and my answer is the same the most ideal siK)t 1 have ever seen. When 1 gave the Oregonian my impression of Tort land 1 had been but a week in your marvelous state. Since then 1 have spent ten days- active days, in Hood Kiver Valley. Alter a busy business man, and one who Btudents two-legged men, three-eyed women and things, and critters and tlowers, has hobby horsed the world for brain grub for almost half a century, he habits him self to the quick sponging of the past. present, and future of each locality he lights on. Ten days in a new spot ' means to him a finished course in the study he has laid out for himself. There are two defects in the study most men busy men make of the away-froiri-home community. They are biased when they start out they start out wrong. Their bias skewgees their vision at the beginning of their inves tigation and their wrong start consists of hooking elbows with the biased men of the community they are studying. Both are natural as well as common defects. 1 happen to be without either in my look-over of Hood River Valley. A man - a busy man, invades a new community either for the purpose of proving the soundness of his precon ceived good idea of it, or for the pur pose of busting that idea. In other words the reason for a man a busy man, being in a new community for investigation is self interest, and he naturally lands right otf the reel in the arms of those motived by self interest in the arms either of the booster or the knocker. The ,legroed student of things world-wide in time habits him self to doing a new community in his own way, the way experience has taught him is the only way to get at the every-day-in-the-year local condi tion. When 1 landed in Hood River ycur good towns people your Commercial Club, your bankers, your merchants and your ranchers pounced on me with a heaped basket oi mat open-handed; open-hearted coiuu-sy which is fait making them famous outside Oregon, and beyond the VV ct and even Amer ica ; a bHtiquet, a smoke-talk, an end less chain of automobile excursions, etc., etc., but 1, like the selfish brute 1 am, sneaked them all and just poked out by myself. 1 Know huw it is with myself when I a.u iwii.e and not a stranger. 1 just like to show off all our home beauties. 1 never take him through the back door and by the way of the kitchen to the best room no, 1 guess not, it might be wash day, or corned beet'-and-eabbago day, and who wants to show otf cabbage-aromaed wash suds, and yet how essential it is to the btranger on getting-tho-real-conditions-of-the-country bent to actu ally know whether the native's lad is soft soap or Taris eau de violete; whether tho fashion is cabbage in Erin-fumed braw or lilac-hued cold slaw. Human nature's tho same the worldover( and Hood River is no ex ceptionvisitors are welcomed to Hood River with the Welcomer's best bib and tucker, so 1 just poked by myself for ten days in an effort to find out in my own way if all these marvels of nature and people and conditions social and dollarwise were real, and well, Hood River like her big city brother, Tortland, is in a class all by herself; if I had seen what 1 had Been during the last ten days, and 1 were undcrforty with my future in my hat, never mind whether 1 were poor, or well to do, 1 would vote myself a chuckle-headed chump unless 1 planted that future in the wonderful soil, ex quisite climate, most God like scenery, and superb social conditions which 1 have found at Hood River during my ten days' poke-about. Indeed it made me sail to think of what 1 had lost by spending my life back there in the East-and 1 just love the East at that, and Boston well, I worship her every crooked street, quuint lane, and moss covered tradition and habit. Take my word for it I mean toy Word as an expert in such matters - in the coming decade a red-bloodej man will be able to garner more of that sort - by - all combination Health, Wealth, and Happiness, in this Oregon paradise, than m any other spot on earth that I know of, and in saying this I have in mind the tremendousness of the Bay. In my travels 1 have been asked time and aguin to lend my voice or pen to the booming of this, that or the other locality, but I have always answered, "My conscience would twang at putting any place on earth ahead of grand old Boston," but at last 1 am compelled to doff my bonnet to your wondrous advantages. No, there' is not an atom of bias or selfishness behind this boost, for all my home and business and investment interests are in other parts of the world, and I have not -as yet a dollar investment in Oregon. My statement is merely my simple tribute to truth my simple tribute to the remarkable conditions 1 have actually seen and felt, and personally known. In my ten days I have critically looked over your people, cautiously pinched their earn estness, prodded their ambition, anal yzed their enthusiasm, and plumbed their faith; I have tramped the or chards of the West Side and the East Side, pawed over the soil of the Lower Valley and the Upper, i have climbed your mountains, and fished your rivers, nave butted-in at the children's pic nics, and the Indian's pow-wow, and but what's the use, I can only repeat it is superb, grand, glorious your future as I see it, and see it plainly. Do I intend to invest That'B hardly a fair question, for tbey tell me that the produce of the crossing of a bee hive with a cyclone is not deuce high to your real estate man once he hits the trail, and I have a supsicion that some of these centipedian dollar - chasers have spotted me in my flutterings round one or two particularly juicy looking orchards. Now that I have anwsered all your questions and as I may lug away a few (Continued on Second Page.)