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V liber CD HOOD 1UVEU, OREGON, THURSDAY, .NOVEMBER ;H, lull VOL. XXIII t - SO. 27 JEWELRY QUESTION IS QUICKLY AND EASILY SOLVED AT COOLIDGE'S Our Lines of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, Signet Rings, Lockets, Cut Glass and Siverware, insures our patrons the exact choice they desire. Dependable in quality, absolutely right up to the minute in design and workmanship. OUR REPAIR WORK GUARANTEED. F. H. COOLIDGE Quality Jeweler OAK AND THIRD STS. HOOD RIVER. ORE. GUY Y. EDWARDS & CO. Office Hotel Oregon Building Phone 228-K SPECIAL $5000 Thirty-two acres in the extreme north por tion of Willow Flat. This land will be slashed, is on the main road, less than half mile to railroad and short distance from Odell. . Rfd Shot soil, fine building spot, good roads. A bargain for someone. This one of the few good uncleared tracts left in the Lower Vrlley. Terms Easy. INSURANCE INSURANCE For Sale by Owner 200 acres, 00 acron cleared, 11 acres planted, balance unimproved. Price cheap and easy terms. J. P. Thomsen It. F. I). No. 1 box GO Phone 200 Odell Land For Sale 1 have about 1,000 acres of No. 1 Apple Land, most of it under ditch at prices ranging from $00 per acre up. Tu tracts from ten acres up. J. R. STEELE Hood River - - - Oregon ,i,.hh.,hi. li-H.i iimiiii l-M-n-m-n 1 1 n-M-i n imiiniiit GEO. W. DIMMICK Reai Estate and Insurance pll. j Office, 168-M Phones: 1 Residence, 344-K t ' i Hood River, Oregon I O. A. G, Short Courses Begin Jan. 3, Continue Four Weeks YOU ARE INVITED (2tw till 12-31) Every citizen of Oregon is cordially invited to at tend the short courses of the Oregon Agricultural College, beginning Jan. 3. Kleven distinctive courses will be offered in Agriculture, Mechanic Arts, Domestic Science and Art, Commerce, For estry and Music. Every course is designed to HELP the student in his daily work. Make this a pleasant and profitable winter outing. No tu ition. Reasonable accommodations. For beautiful illustrated bulletin, address - II. M. TKNNANT. Kegistrar, Corvallis, Ore. Frmerr Business Course by Correspondence. LOOK INTO THIS Five and one-half acres, one mile from town on Tucker road; one acre full bearing commercial varieties; four acres in five and six-year-old (next spring) Newtown and Spitzen burgs, Bing cherries, Anjou pears, blackberries, raspberries, peaches and prunes; one acre in strawberries; one-half acre in alfalfa; excellent view; new outbuildings and remodeled six-room cottage with running water; south slope. Early fruit brings high prices. Interesting figure for all cash. Terms if necessary. Owner lives in the east and must sell. Phone Eugene G. Rexford, 190-K, if interested. H. II. HADLOCK Phone 32k-M Office Phone 45-L W. M. McCONNKlX Hadlock & McConncll 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. Land prices have doubled within the last two years but are not over half that 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 BARGAINS IN LAND I have a splendid tract of 81 acres of raw land in the Underwood sec tion of Skamania County, Washington, iust across the river from the Hood Hiver Valley, that 1 will sell entire or in 20 acre tracts. One of the twenties has ten acres set to orchard and three acres in strawberries and other small fruits. Terms on all. As first payment on one of the undeveloped twenties will take wagon and team. I also have 100 acr -B of line raw hay land 9 ir iles from Weiser, Idaho, Will )e under ditch in 191:2; 1(X) acres fenced ; 2i miles from railroad sta tion. " ' Write or call on G. L. KIRK PATRICK, Hood River, Ore., or Underwood, Wash. Try It At Our Risk We want you to try Rexall "93" Shampoo Paste, as advertised in the Saturday Evening Post If it does not satisfy you, come back' to us-and get your money, it belongs to you and we want you to have it. You didn't promise or sign anything. . Your mere word is good enough FOR SALE them for Having no present use for the following articles we offe sale very cheap, for cash or short time note: One Tubular Axle Milbum Wagon, wide track, with double box and seat, half truck wheels with 2-in. tire. In good condition and practically new, fHO.00. One set double Crank P.u'ster, springs l,r()0 pounds weight, $5.00. One 1 1-8 in. Velie two-seated canopy top side spring Wagon with storm curtains and pole, $S0 00. One set of Chain Harness with breech ing, new, 20.00. One heavy tingle express wagon Harness, but little used, 15.00. One set Sttidelmker medium Bobsleds, f:l0 00. One No. 2 Faultless Stump Puller with 100 ft cable, extra '20-ft. choker, steel grub hooks, 100 00. Fuller has cleared but 20 acres. One 2-liornep'iwer Inter national Harvester Co ,'air cooled (iasolino Engine, good as new, $75.00. One new Saddle and Bridle, $18 00. One 210-egg l'eep-O-Day Incubator, 12.00. Five 10 -chick St. Helens outdoor Brooders, 10.00 each. One lOO cbick St. Helens indoor ISrooder, fil.lK). One 100-chick Petnl a In door Brooder, ft 00. Kellogg & Marquis R. D. No. 3 Phon 3253-M "93" - Shampoo - Paste removes and prevents dandruff, increases head comfort, promotes hair health and beauty. It is especially pleasing to ladies because it tends to make the hair soft, silky and fluffy and it is easy to use. Price, 25 cents a jar. The 1?exaC Store Mi "93" Slip Fun is sold h Is tiff 111! it You cannot buy it at any other store in the city. Remember; we guarantee Rexall "93" Shampoo Paste to give entire satisfaction. This same guarantee applies to all the many other Rexall preparations. You risk no money by trying it , Saturday, Deeembr 9th will be Doll Day at Our store, ASK THE MAN. Carl A. Plath,DRUGG'il The Rexall Store. BROSIUS BLOCK Mr. Fruit Grower! If vou are contemplating increasing the size of your orchard you should be careful in the selection of your trees, for without the proper type of trees to start with, you cannot hope for the success you deserve. The True-to-Name Nurserr has furnished the liirger jor tion of the trees for the most profitable orchards of Hood Hiver, the or chards that have in later years produced the prize winners were from trees grown by the True-to-Name Nursery, including the prize winning car of Yellow Uewtowns at the National Apple Show at Spokane. The trees that we have ti offer are not "pedigreed" nor "thoroughbred," but are of the type that have produced results that apeak for themselves. Our years sf practical experience in the nursery business is a safeguard againtt mistakes and should be a sullicicnt reccomnirndatii.n t merit your confidence. It will pay yon to examine our stock or write us before placing your order. Address all communications to True-to-Name Nursery STORAGE PROBLEM FACES THEVALLEY SPROAT GIVES APPLE STATISTICS Next Year's Crop Will Go Beyond a Mill ion - Local Storage Capacity Should Be Increased 500,000 Boxes. Realizing that the storage problem is at present one of the greatest con fronting the Hood River Valley apple growers, a representative of the Glacier interviewed C. H. Snroat, manager of the Apple Growers' Union relative to the need of increased stor age facilities. At the request of the Glacier Mr. Sproat has submitted the following communication to the Valley orchardists- "Every indication points to a crop of apples in Hood River Valley of at least one million boxes for the season of 11)12, and it would not surprise us if the crop should reach a million and a quarter boxes. It will be remembered that in 1910 growers were obliged to stop drawing their apples for two reasons; first that the Union had no surplus warehouse room, and second, the shortage of cars prevented the con tinual loading out of apples, with the result that whenever notice was sent out that we had a little warehouse space vacant and could take in apples, that immediately growers would draw and block the streets of the City and in many instances they were not able to have their loads delivered until mid night. With twice the crop in sight for the season of 1912 that there was n 1910, with the present very limited warehouse capacity, and probable hortmie of curs which will naturally exi. t because of the very large crop of apples which the railroads will be re- luested to handle In all sections or the Northwest during next season, the growers of Hood River Valley will be face to face with a very grave ana serious problem. The basis of the prosperity ot the entire Hood River Valley is based on the money returns of its apple crop. The scenery and climate are line and unsurpassed, but people cannot live on scenery and climate alone. "'resuming that next season there will be a crop of 1,200,000 boxes of apples; also presuming that there will be very little snipping clone prior to October 1st, then in order to move the crop of apples in 60 days, not counting .Sundays, extending over a period irom October 1st to December 10th, it will require the moving of 20,000 boxes of apples or 30 cars daily, which is a physical impossibility wun me present shipping facilities, even presuming that 30 cars daily would be received from the Railroad Company for lo' d ing purposes, which is a violent pre sumption judging from last year's ex perience. it must ue PHONE 2002-K HOOD RIVER. ORE fall full upon the aplpes in the Under sucb conditions apples not keep and the result ia that when the apples are packed out and shipped after having been held very long under such conditions, they arrive in an overripe condition at destinatitn, with the natural result that the con signee rinds them overripe, rejects the car and calls for a discount, and the shipper Imust grant the discount or divert the car to some other market for sale on consignment, with the probability that he will not realise as much as thouugh he granted the Mis count Required by the original con signee. We have had such experiences, to contend with in the last two seasons. "'Another very important factor may appear upon the scene, namely, freez ing weather early in November. What has happened in the past may happen again. It has been zero weather in Hood River early in November in years gone by. If such cold weather condi tions should occur with the apples un protected, as a large bulk of them will be, the loss will simply be enormous, and not only will it be a great direct loss in money returns to the Valley, but what will be the effect on the rep utation of our Valley to have it known to the outside world that a large part of our apples were frozen while still in the hands of the growers. This may not happen, and yet it may. "Therefore, it is plain that Hood River Valley should nave proper cold storage facilities for storing at least from HOO.OlXCto 500,000 boxes of apples, and the great question of the hour is, how can the money be raised for the providing of such faclities? It is a subject which the Union members should take up for consideration and some conclusion should be arrived at as to what means can be adopted to nnance tne proposition. "To summarize, the necessity for in creased cold storage warehouse room in Hood River Valley is the most impor tant question which concerns the grow ers of this locality. The 'great secret of success in the future apple business of this Val'ey is to be prepared for emergencies of all kinds and either there must be a large increase made in our prtsent storage facilities by the Union, or by private parties, or by the growers themselves at their homes, or there is a possibility that even with a very large crop of apples in 1912, the money returns will not be at all satis factory. PACIFIC CO. BEGINS FREEZE OUT METHODS remembered there will possibly be a crop in the box apple sections west of the Rocky Mountains of 20.000 cars of apples or about 12, 00,000 boxes, which it moved in 60 days from October 1st will mean that 20,000 boxep or 300 cars of apples must be loaded out daily trom the several growing sections seeking a market, so that a scarcity of refrigerator cars is very probable. 'Aside from the Newtown nppins, the bulk of our crop is of such a tiHture that it shauld be moved out of the Valley into trade channels, or else placed in cold storage immediatey after picking to avoid deterioration in the keeping in quality or the apples. To force the sale of so large a quantity of apples in so short a time means that the trade must have a price low enough to move quickly. It is a self evident truth that better prices will be ob tained if the marketing period can be prolonged throughout the Winter irto the Spring morths, ratner man 10 force the sale and delivery of the anules in a short period of 60 days from October 1st. Therefore the only other thing to be done is to store the amiles and if there Is not storage at home, Storage must be had in the East and the burden or Eastern storage charges must be borne by the growers and this Is no light burden. It will average 15 cents a box. Eastern stor age is expensive. J he Union paid approximately $15,1X10 as storage charges on apples which were forced out of Hood River in 1910 because of our lack of borne storage, the burden of which was charged back against the pool prices of the apples. Without increase of home storage facilities our demands for Eastern storage will be greatly increased, and with the in creased demand there will also be a proportionate increase of storage charges. Therefore, the item of East ern storage bids fair to a great burden upon our growers. "While Storage in Transit rates are available for the future; a handicap of five cents per box is taxed against every box of apples which is billed for 'storage in transit, in otner worus, for the PRIVILEGE alone of 'storing in transit' a charge of five cents per box is made before the apples are even nut into storage and one and one-half cents per box added for switching charges, making a total tax on every box of apples shipped 'storage in transit' of six and one-half cents per box. and the regular rate of hve cents per month or fraction thereof must still be paid to the storage warehouse companies. In addition to this charge for "storage in transit" privilege, the storage warehouse companies require shippers to specifically engage the re quired space early in the season, and if said space is contracted for by the shipper, payment of same N required by the warehouse companies for a definite period whether the space ia used or not. otherwise the snipper must take his chances of getting said space at time of shipment. Not only thia, but the freight must be paid by the shipper, or if arrangements are satisfactorily made between the ship per and the storage companies for the storage companies to advance the freight at"the storage points, the ship per wlil be required to pay interest on the money advanced for said freight. "There are many other serious fea tures which will confront the growers of this valley the coming season, pre suming that our crop is as learg aa we exoect.. Very few of the growers ' have any storage capacity at their 'homes. Many of them ; pkee their anoles immediately after shipping In ! open sheds which are simply built to I keep the rain from falling on their ; BDDies. The warm sunshine of the 'I) fall is even permitted in many instan. The Pacific Power & Light Co. at Monday night's' meeting of the city council confirmed the surmises that the Hood River Gas & Electric Co., recent ly incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000, was a subsidiary concern ot the larger company for the purpose o' combating the Hydro tiled ric Co, which several months ago began the construction of iW plant at Tucker's bridge and which made offers of elec tric energy to the local consumers at reasonable rates. I ho communication of Monday evening contained an an nouncement that by February 1 the local holdings of the Pacific Power & Light Co., would be transferrd to the Hood River Gas & Electiic Co., and that it would then be possible to fur nish the city lights at a greatly re duced price. Indeed the schedule of fered bv them exceeded the cut made by the Hydro Electric Co., and reduced about a third the present rates charged by the Pacific Company. It is clear to the citizenship or the city and county, indeed, the Pacific Co., which was represented here Mon day evening, by Vice President Grenier and attorneys, seeks to draw no cur tains around its action, that such an action has been taken to freeze out the Hydro Electric Co. Such are the ubusI octopus-like tactics of the corporation seeking monopolistic control and to stifle competition. The installation of the Hydro Electric Company s plant here and an offer to furnish light and power at a reasonable figure was a severe stab at the , profitable basis on which the Pacific Company has been operating. However, the I'acinc uompany nas fired its opening volley too late. The council has made efforts in the past to get some definite statement from its management on street lighting. Hut at, that time there was no competing company and the old heavy charges that have prevented the streets- or the town from being properly lighted were kept in force. After the Hydro Elec tric Co. has made an otter, which the council accepted, practically cutting in half the old rates, the Pacific Com pany makes an announcement that a newly formed company, which will buy them out, will give cheaper rates than the Hydro Company offers. Ihe city council, however, has considered favor ably the offer of the Hydro Electric Co., and the contract with them will be signed. Indeed, the citizens of the city are unanimously supporting the new com pany, liy the recent action of an in crease in rates the Pacific Co. so an gered many of its patrons that they declare that they will not take light from them free of charge if it can be procured from other sources. School Tax Levy is Six Mills. At a special meeting Tuesday after noon of the voters of the city school district it was decided to make a i mill tax levy to cover the expenses ot operating the city schools next year the estimated cost of which was placed at $27,425, in the following items; teachers. $18,500; fuel and supplies $1,500; janitors, $1,800; repairs, $2,000: incidentals. $500: interest, tz.rfbb insurance, $400., clerk, $200; light and Dower. $400. It is figured that the balance of the school funds on March I of next year will be $3,500, a fund of $700 will be derived from tuition, $6,000 from coun ty fund and $1,500 from state fund, the total of which will be $11,700. leaving $15,725 to be raised by tax levy. A number of the voters desired a seven mill levy. However, the six mill vote prevailed, those supporting it declaring that it would be better to borrow the money, if more were needed, than to have "funds lying idle for the nine months. 'Ihe total valuation xf property in the district is $2,699,348. The Golden Girl, which is playing this week in Portland at the Bungalow theatre, was here Friday and Saturday evening at the Monroe. The company, which is composed of talented players, delighted large audiences here each night. GROWERS DISCUSS LOWERGRADES PROBLEM BEFORE FELLOWSHIP MEN Prof. Lawrence Tells Fellowship Work -Valley Will Have New Wither Sta tions and Typographical Survey. The problem of nrofitablv handling lower grade apples was the impcrtat.t topic beiore the members of the Hood Kiver Fellowship Association, which was addressed by Prof. C. I. Lewis, of the Oregon Agricultural College Sat urday afterroon at the rooms of the Commercial Club. Ihe horticulturist spoke in part as follows: "As fruit growers, ytu are naturally anxious lor high prices. The higher the price per box, of course, the greater your profits, yet if the fruit industry is to truly prosper, we must have increased consumption. The consumption of the fruit is just as im portant an item us the selling of the fruit. There w absolutely no doubt at the present time that the consumption of certain fruit, like apples for exam ple, is entirely too low and probably the increase in the consumption of citrus fruit is greater than that of many of our deciduous fruits. one of the problems for you to solve is to be able to sell your fruit at a sufficient profit to pay you well for your investment and at the sa e time put that fruit in the market at such a price that it can be consumed. It is relatively easy to get high prices tor high class fruit. It is harder to get satisfactory prices for the lower grades of fruit. The competition for the lower (Trades of lruit is much keener than that of the fancy grades. "The prices for fancy apples in boxes is much greater than that ever received in such packages as liar re Is. On the other hand a perusal of ninny of our market reports shows that the lower grades when boxed, often do not average a bit higher than the same grade of fruit in barrels and yet the cost in putting up in boxes is probably considerably higher. It certainly pays to spend money on first class fruit. There is a possibility, however, that we may be making mistakes when we expend much capital on the lower grades. It costs just as much to ship them and in many cases costs just as much to handle them in our orchards and packing houses. Should we sug gest a lower freight' rate for the lower grade of fruits to our railroads: at first thought this would seem to be a remedy out of our difficulty. The rail roads, however, probably would not gladly welcome the opening of su:h a question and perhaps it would be unwise on our part since it might make it necessary to charge an even higher rate at present for the better grades in order that the railroads could handle the lower grades at a profit. The question would immediately arise also to the limitation of the grades for the different rates and the determination of such grades. Undoubtedly better distribution will go a long way to help solve the questions concerning the profits realized from our lower grades. To get the best distribution we not only need good nooperation among the fruit districts of the t'aciiie coast, nui a closer and more friendly copartner ship between all fruit producing dis tricts of the United States. Are we nutting too much depend ence on what the Panama Canal can do for us? It undoubtedly will be a great factor in distribution, especially for urobean markets. We may be disap pointed, however, in the results of the opening of this canal on our American apple trade. Many or the growers will have local freight rates on me Railroad to pay not only at the point of production but at the point of final distribution. It also will depend on the rates the steamships can offer and the possibility of securing steamers that are equipped for handling the fruit trade through tropical waters. We must not sit down and wait for the Panama Canal to be opened. One question that confronts us, can we eradicate some of lower grades and especially the cull. Undoubtedly thia can be dune in many occasions but there is grave doubt as to whether this can really be done in many of our orchards especially with increased pro duction. At times a scarcity of help may play an important part in the per centage of culls. The size and man agement of the orchard and climatic conditions must all be considered. The chBnces are that the percentage of culls will increase rather than di- minish as our crop increases in bulk. We should establish at an early date plants for handling by-products. Prob ably if we wait for private capital to establish plants it is very doubtful if n most cases we could handle the culls at a profit. Fruit Growers Associa tions should immediately take up the matter for the installation of vinegar factories, canning plants and evaporat ing establishments. "We should be shipping out train loads and shiploads of high grade vine gar, jells, jams, canned appleB and evaporated fruits. Many comunities will make the serious blunder of mak ing these plants too expensive. Elabo rate machinery will be installed, machinery that is not necessary which ties up capital and the result will ue that many of the plants will prove failures. In some of our sections prune dryers and hop dryers can be easily made to handle the dried fruits. One large orchard on the Pacific coast made a handsomdo profit on their cull apples last year by drying them in a hop drver. The expense of changing; the dryer and the addition of certain implements whs very small. Uy using pre per precaution in establishing by product factories and by hiring men who understanuu u,e ousintss we " be able to manufacture our culls into products that we can dispose of at u handsome profit. We must strain every nerve to reduce the cost of production. This meal's better packing bouses, moie carefully planned orchards, better book-keeping, which means the careful recording of actual costs and closer study of t'.c proper division of labor. It is 8 fact that few of us today know ihe real cost of production, especially when this refers to single items of cost, such a? the cost of pruning, spraying, thin ning, cultivation, packing, etc.. If possible we must reduce the cost of ti e package and packing of the lower grades. This will, perhaps, mean some ennerimenting on our part. One cf " 'Continued ou Page Two; T"!