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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1911)
5? VOL. XJS III HOOD MVElt, OREGON", TlH.liSDAY, JI XE 2!), 1911 SO. 7 Not Until Fortunes Had Been Made 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 Mosier 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 Given 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., (tare (Capital $500,000) Devlin & Firebaugh Sales Agents. Hotel Oregon Bldg., 906-909 Yeon Bldg., Hood River, Oregon Portland, Oregon For Sale by Owner 200 acres,GO acres cleared, 11 acres planted, balance unimproved. Price cheap and easy terms. J. P. Thomsen 11. P. D. No. 1 box G9 Phone 29G Odell Land For Sale 1 have about 1,000 acres of No. 1 Apple Land, most of it under ditch at prices ranging from $60 2 per acre up. In tracts from ten acres up. J. R. STEELE Hood River ... Oregon ii i m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 iii 1 1 in nun if ! Special Bargains in land i 17 Acres Uncleared; 1 mile from railroad station, 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-room cottage, small barn and good well; most attrac tive location. $7,000; easy terms. 1 76 Acre Tract For subdividing. A money maker. See us about it. J." H. Heilbronner & Company The Reliable Dealers Hood River, Ore. J M i l l 1-H frli'M1 lii'M 1 1 I I I I I I 1-1 1 1 1 1 H 1 1 I l-H H- M il-l I t-l-H- 160 ACRE In good dairy country, to exchange for Hood River ranch. No incumbrance and none wanted. $6,000. Hood River District Land Co. Hood River, Oregon GEO. W. DIMMICK Phon. 344-K Office Phone 45-L H. H. HADLOCK 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 Natnral advantages for fruit growing unexcelled. Land nricea Imva Hnnhlml within tli last two yearsbut.are not over half thaljasked for similar jland in other sections. Buy now before the speculators add their profits. COMMERCIAL CLUB OF MOSIER MOSIER, OREGON. Six Miles East of Hood River, Oregon jS7 Central Vale is Growing A few weeks ago the surveyor divided the lands of the Central Orchard Co., in the Heart of the Hood River Valley, into 23 lots. To date seven of these lots have been sold. A crew has been put on the land to clear two lots for one - of the buyers. The other buyers will finish the clearing on their tracts, beginning next month. The clear ing is easy in the light brush which has been slashed and sprouted several years. Thirty acres already in orchard, partly in bearing. This property is reasonably priced and the terms are made to suit purchaser. Call or write." Ask C R. BONE, Pres, or J. E. MONTGOMERY Central Orchard Co. Phone 16 I'M Oak & 3rd Sts PROTEST AGAINST TOLL CHARGE JOINT COMMITTEE WILL COMER Citizens from Upper Valley, Odell and City Discuss Maiter-Local Merchants to Attend Bonneville Picnic. The action of the Home Telephone Co. in inaugurating a toll chargejof 10 rents for all messages between the Upper and Lower Hood Kiver Valleys has been met with a strong- protest from the Upper Valley Progressive Association, the Odell Development League aim the Merchants Associa tion, of this city. At a special meet ing called by the rormer organization last week, J. K. Putnam.W. S. Gribble and G. M. Uptegrove were appointed as a committee to meet with similar committees from the Odell and Hood Kiver associations and devise some means of conferring with the manage ment of the Telephone Company in an endeavor to get it to rescind its action. The matter came before the Hood River Merchants' Association at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday night at which, in addition to the above committee of Upper Valley citi zens, the Odell committee, composed of L. D. Boyed, E. T. Folts and Guy t. Smith, and a number of other Udell citizens were present. Addressing the meeting, Mr. dribble stated that the people of the Upper valley would nave to bear the brunt ot the telephone company's special rate charge. "Especially will it worl a great hardship on the merchants of the upper district," he continued. "In mv own place of business, if the rate is enforced, it will add from $10 to $15 per month to my expenses. In the course of his talk Mr. Gribble gave some of the early history of the county's telephone systems. A tele phone to the Mt. Hood region becom ing a necessity, the people of the dis trict made an attempt to get the Bell Telephone Co. to install a system. However, although promises were made, the company delayed actiun, and finally taking the matter in their own hands, they installed an independent line to this city. Later the Home Telephone Co. formed for the purpose of maintaining a telephone service for the people of the,Valley. In order to avoid a competing line the Mt. Hood people sold to the new company. Members of the Odell Development League, who addressed the meeting, expressed a fear that if the company now found it necessary to charge an additional fee for the Upper Valley service that it would not be long until the phone users of that neighborhood would be similarly assessed. President Enoch Brayford, of the Merchants' Association, stated that the matter should be carried before the State Railroad Commission, which by the Ma- larKey bin nas tne power or a general utilities commission throughout the state. The members of all the organizations seem to evidence the sentiment that the'telephone company should receive a reasonable profit from its service, but there is a reeling that the mer chants of the City of Hood Kiver and the subscribers of the Upper Valley, on whom the additional fees will fall, are unjustly discriminated against. On the motion of D. McDonald, a commit tee from the Merchants Association, composed of D. McDonald, Frank Dav enport and J. W. Perigo, was appointed to comer jointly with the telephone company's management and make an endeavor to get it, if the books of the company showed that, to make a reasonable profit, it is necessary to re ceive an additional revenue, to distrib ute the assessment against all the users of the system. The members of nil me organizations ieei mat wnen the matter is put up to the telephone company in such light that it will change its present action. The toll rate of 10 cents was originally to have been inagurated on June 15. The com pany, however, later deferred the levy of the assessment till July 1. At the Tuesday night meeting'of the merchants, President Brayiord an nounced that the Merchants' Associa tion of Portland would hold a picnic at Bonneville Wednesday, July 19. He told the members ot the organization they should attend the festivities In body. Several of the local merchants spoke briefly and in favor of attend ing the picnic. D. McDonald, J. W. Perigo and J. M. Wood were appointed on a committee to canvass among the merchants and try and secure a special car to take them and their families to Bonneville for the day. The secretary of the organization. J. M. Wood, read financial report, which showed that the treasury now had on hand $136. Because of the fact that his duties were small during the sum mer months Mr. Wood agreed that his salary of $25 per month should be decreased to liu. After drawing for the five dollars, by the plan recently adopted by the association in order to secure a full attendance of its members, the merch ants entertained their visitors with an informal luncheon at Parker's Cafe. CAPTAIN AVERY VISITS OLD HOME Returning to Hartford with a bank account of six figures. Captain Henry Avery has made a slight improvement on Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." Captain , Avery says, "Go West, young ,man, and grow up with the price of apples." And Captain Avery ought to know. For the six figured bank account is due to his ac tivity in the apple industry in the Hood Kiver Valley during the past nine years. Captain Avery is still too well known locally to require much of an introduc tion. He went to Oregon for health and opportunities on June 3, 1902. He got both. He and Mrs. Avery have returned to Hartford to renew old acquaintances, with headquarters at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Chapman, No. 58 Ru.is street. Captain Avery has a niece, Mrs. Arthur Hob son, living on Standish street and a nephew, Charles Avery, living on Bushnell street. Mr. and Mrs. Avery have relatives in various places in the state, and they will make many visits during the summer. "But even if I do like the city," said Captain Avery Sunday, "I shall not stay nere. I m out or the apple-raising business now, but I'm going back to Hood River. I can readily understand now why the West draws so much from the East, for it's a great country. There are enough New Enelanders in almost every city of any size on the coast to start a club, and when you realize that you seldom hear of a man who has spent any time West return ing to the East, perhaps you may imagine a reason. There is one." Captain Avery's brother, Thomas E. Avery, left Hartford in 1903 and made albee-line for the same country. He onws Eggerraont Orchard No. 2, con sisting or twenty acres, and according to Captain Avery has a "pretty rich proposition." Still it s good to see Hartford again," said the captain, "and renew old frendship. In fact, so glad was I to return, if only for a short time, that the only thing I regretted to leave was my Scotch collie dog, "Don." But for getting about Don for a while, the captain is at present hunting up mem bers of the old Machine Gun Battery of the C. N. G., in which he got This title, and talking over old times with them. "Strange to say, though," said Captain Avery yesterday, "the things they are most interested in is apples' The (Hartford) Connecticut Courant. NEW HOME FOR TIP TOP COMPANY "Our business demands that we come into the city," states Captain C. P. McCan, who with Mrs. Mctan returned ast week from Pleasanton. Calif., to spend the summer here. "Our present building is not near large enough and our facilities are not near commodious enough to enable us to do justice to our customers." Captain McCan plans building a large concerete structure on the property owned by him at the foot of Third and Fourth street. The building will be two stories in height on Third street and one story hign on Fourth and will be divided into a number of storerooms. The big garage, which will be the new home of the lip Top Motor Car Co., will occupy the whole of the second floor and will be entered on Fourth street. The plans for the garage structure have beenyrawn up by Albert Sutton. Construction work, it is asserted, will begin as soon as the owner can com plete the details of letting the con tract. The building will probably be ready for occupancy by fall. STRAWBERRY CRATE MATRIMONIAL MEDIUM M. B. Appleton, the local fruit dealer, in unpacking a crate of straw berries the other day from Hood Kiver, Oregon, found the following self explanatory missive from some love sick swain : Mr. George M. Warden," " t i 5 r nooa Kiver, vregon, R. F. D. No. 2, Box No. 24. "1 am 20 years old, black hair. I graduated from college in Maine. All of the Hood River girls are try ing to make a mash but 1 would prefur a girl about 5 foot, black hair, very pretty, white teeth, and elegant shape, write soon." Evidently Georige has got the matri monial bug bad. We fear, Georgie, however, is rather stretching it when he says he is a college grad. as his spelling would indicate. It is a far call from a Maine College to Oregon strawberry fields. This is a good chance for York ton girls who can fill the necessary qualifications and inci dentally put one over on the Hood River girls who are endeavoring to capture the fair Georgie. The York ton, Saskatchewan, Times. CITIZENS OF LYLE PLAN BIG FOURTH Nothing will be left undone, says the Lyle Washingtonian, to make the coming Fourth of July celebration at Lyle the most enthusiastic that has ever been held there. The event has been widely advertised and the people of Lyle are hard at work preparing the program and for the entertainment of their guests. A display of fireworks will be one of the features of the day. An oration by a well known speaker is planned. The fan may watch an interesting game of baseball. And still others, says the Washingtonian, can lead off in the dizzy whirl with "joy unconfined" at the largest pavil ion on the Columbia while the more sedate can shy out of hearing and wor ship according to the dictates of a less expanded conscience. Enormous Ant's Nest. While exploring the Mosier View tract of the Hood River Orchard Land Co. Sunday a party of people from Hood River discovered an enormous ant's nest. A stick was thrust into the big nest, which must have been three feet in diameter, and in a mo ment the infuriated insects swarmed in a mass an inch thick on the broken twigs of which it was constructed. The ants which, were nearly a half inch in length and were of a dull red color, are known as Carpenter ants. L. D. Firebaugh, of this city, one of the sales agents of the land company, who accompanied the party, stated that it was the first nest of the kind that had been seen in the community. He declared that he would end the days of the insects' home by saturat ing it with kerosene and applying a torch to it. Eloping Chickens. A dispatch from Pendleton to the Portland Journal stats that James Connors, of that city, has two adven turous young chickens which arrived in Ppndlptmi nn evening lnnt uronlr after having successfully riden the roas oeneain me express car all the way from Spokane. They were found there shortly after their arrival, black and grimy like any other hoboes. The expressman remembers hearing a noise shortly after leaving SpoKane, but thought nothing of it until they were dragged forth in Pendleton by Agent T. F. O'Brien and turned over to Connors. Both were scarcely past the pin-feather stage, one being a plump young puliet and the other a rangy young chanticleer, which gives their adventure something of the aspect of an elopement CHEAP POWER - ISJROMISED P.P.&L CO. ANNOUNCES RATE CUT The Hydro Electric Company Promises Power to Consumers of Commun ity at a Minimum Cost. From the recent announcement of the Pacific Power & Light Co., in wnicn its management states that it will make a sweeping reduction in the present rates charged in this city for electric power and the declarations of the management of the Hydro Electric Co., the people of the community will soon enjoy the priviege of enjoying decidedly cheap electric light and power. The reduction in rates, which ii is siaiea oy me management ol the Pacific Power Co., is made possible because of the consolidation of several plants thus decreasing operating ex penses, has, the company also asserts, met with the approval of the State Railroad Commission, which under a recently enacted bill is given the power of a general utilities commis sion. The same cut in rates is an nounced in all cities in wnich it has plants. Whenitne power company institutes its new rate of charges, it has planned to put into effect a new system of payment, due the loss that is reported from failure by transients to meet these obligations. AH except consum res with an established credit will be required to make a deposit before the current is turned on. A statement made by the company to the effect tnat it will require its consumers to sign a contract for light or power is evidently erroneous, ince public utili ties corporations because of their pos itions must necessarily furnish their service on demand to all who pay lor it. After July 15, the local plant of the Pacific Power & Light Co., will be closed down for purposes of repair and reconstruction. During the period oi inoperation, power for local consumers will be supplied over tho high tension line between this city and The Dalles from the White Kiver plant. Despite the fact that tho Pucilic company has announced sweeping re ductions, which, however, have not been made public, in detail, the man agement of the Hydro Electric com pany is confident that it will be able to furnish the people of this commun ity with electric energy at a lower rate than can be made -y the large corporation. "This view is held," states N. C. Evans, one of the princi pal stockholders and a chief promoter ot the new company, "because of the fact that our cost of generating power will amount to almost nothing. "It is not the purpose of the new comptny to endeavor to make rates lower than other cities, which do not have tho same opportunities for cheap power, enjoy, but we do feel that this com- ' munity is entitled to the benefit of the local conditions that permit cheap development," continued Mr. Evans. "We, of course, expect to get a rea sonable return from our capital, but we can do this and at the same time enable the community to derive an enormous saving in the cost of light and power." The Hydro Electric Co., is planning to begin immediate work on the in stallation of modern electric equip ment and the construction of dams at its two ideal sites. WATER BONDS LEFT TO PEOPLE Calling a special meeting last Thurs day night the city council passed an ordinance providing for a special elec tion be held July 8, in order that the question of voting a bond issue for tho sum of $42,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to purchase the water plant now owned by the Pacific Power & Light Co., may be submitted to the freeholders of the city. By an agreement between the city and the owners of the plant the valuation of the plant is to be left, to a condemna tion jury. The place for tho hearing of the trial will either be this city or The Dalles. Tho parties to tho action have agreed to take thecase by appeal no farther than the Oregon Supreme court. The people of the city will un doubtedly vote for the issue and us soon la such is done the trial will be Immediately brought and rushed to decision which should be reached in 30 days. The judges and clerks named for the special election are J. II. Gill, (). 11. Baker, John A. Wilson, V. S. David son and Harry T. DeWitt. centraTvalewins wisconsin r. r. man E. B. Moss, ot Hudson, Wisconsin, has bought 22 acres of partly cleared orchard land from the Central Orchard Co. and expects to begin work early next fhonth on further improvements on the property. Mr. Moss, accom panied by his wife, visitedjthe valley about three weeks ago and at that time concluded to bring their family to this country and develop the land which they bought lust week. Several acres has been grubbed and they plan to have a considerable part of the land under the plow by next spring. Two sons and two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Moss expect to come to Hood Kiver next month and the parents will follow a lew months later. Large car works of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway are located at Hudson and Mr. Moss is one of the foremen in the finishing department. Mt. Hood Dance Decided Success. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Larson and Charles A. Mosely are to be congratu lated on the success of the informal dancing party given kby .them at the Mt. Hood Hotel Saturday evening. The dance was one of the most;largely attended of any social event here' this year. The halls and corridors of the popular hostelry, artistically decorated in mock orange and evergreens, were crowded with merry makers. Tho ex cellent music for the occasion was made by the Hood River Mandolin and Guitar Club. A delicious fruit punch was served during the evening. -