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VOL. XJS III
HOOD MVElt, OREGON", TlH.liSDAY, JI XE 2!), 1911
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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
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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. -