nOOD KIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1912
Light and Power at Cheapest of
Possible Flat Rates.
Take advantage of the opportunity now.
A word to the wise is sufficient.
Many new patrons have come
to us during the past week
and a number of old
have returned.
Hood River Gas & Electric Co.
'Acme
Phone 55
Those NICE DISHES on Display at
WOOD'S GROCERY are given away
FREE with Cash Purchases,
lie sure to got your tickets when buying
goods there.
These dishes are Warranted to he first
class ware. Call in and examine them.
We sell all kinds of Groceries at prices THAT ARE RIGHT
when quality of goods is taken into consideration.
"The Best Things to Eat."
WOOD'S GROCERY
J. M. WOOD, Proprietor.
Land For Sale
. 1 have about 1,000 acres of No. 1 Apple Land,
ijt- most of it under ditch at prices ranging from ijffiO
ptr acre up. Iiv tracts from
J. R, STEELE
Hood River - - - Oregon
1$
PLUMBING
STEAM and HOT WATER HEATING
WINDMILLS, PUMPS, TANKS
C. F. SUMNER
Opposite Postofflce
PHONE. 20 HOOD RIVER
Save Yourself Money and get
the Best of Service.
of Service at Lowest
Third
Foul and Fair Play
You cannot expect to lime piod
fliui lienlthy poultry unU'HH you (ceil
tliem on the rilit kind of (ceil to pro
iliice lieiiltli anil flit tlint mnkcH tcu
diTiieHH. Wo keep llnit kind of feed
for tlie. fiirin-yiird, and nur pntioim
Hiiy tliey never lioilulit better, (liven
Kiitixfitctioii wherever tried, (let vour
feed here anil you w ill nlwnyH Iiuve
Hiitinfiictory and lieallliy poultry.
HANDY CORNER FEtD STORE
Full I. hie Fancy ft Staple Groceries
HUBBARD TAYLOR
I'lionc 'JS'J X On tin) lleinlitH
ten acres up.
Rate."
and Cascade Avenue
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Those who contemplate plant
ing an orchard either this spring
or next fall now is an opportun
ity to get some first-class one year
old Yellow Newtown and Ortley
at greatly reduced prices, owing
to the fact that a customer is un
able to get his land in shape to
plant this spring and has in
structed us to sell the trees that
he had ordered. These consist
of 8000 Yellow Newtown 3-4 and
4-f, 2000 Ortley 3-4 and 4-6 and
any reasonable cash price will be
considered.
These trees were all grown by
the True-to-Name Nursery and
are all guaranteed by them.
Address,
True-to-Name Nursery
Hood River, Ore.
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CANAL WILL OPEN
ENORMOUS AREA
BY JOK K. TlloMlnUN", IN ORKGO.MAS
While it is generally known in the
Northwest that the United States Gov
ernment is engaged in the task of con
structing a canal anil locks to make
possible navigation around the obstruc
tion familiarly known as the dalles of
the Columbia, not even the people of
Wasco Co., through which the artificial
waterway will be cut, and of the ad
jacent county of Hood Kiver, seem to
know the magnitude of the project.
K,e Dalles-Celilo Canal, as it is of
ficially known to the War department.
is so little discussed in this section
that citizens who have been residents
of the communities for more than a
year have scarcely heaid it mentioned
However, for three years the great
task, which, when completed, will open
up to navigation the vast expanse of
fertile country drained by the Colum
bia and its tributaries, has been stead
ily progressing. Indeed, the upper
portion of the canal has been com
pleted and the clear waters of the
mighty stream have already been
turned into its concrete-walled channel.
The laborer with drill and sledge has
been slowly cutting a way lor water
traffic through the basaltic cliffs that
line both sides of the Columbia, which
flows at this point with tremendous
rapidity and whirling treacherous ed
dies. The canal, on the Oregon side of the
river, ,paralells the lines of the U-W .
K. & N. Company's lines almost its
entire length and the smoke from en
gines driving steam drills and operat
ing steam shovels may be seen by the
passengers of the North liank line.
just across the river on the Washing
ton side.
The completed work on the Cclilo
end of the canal was done ty contract
under the supervision of the War De
partment. However, a little more
than a year ago, after it was decided
that the work could be carritd on more
cheaply. and advantageously by labor
hired directly by the Government,
Federal engineers took charge. They
have pushed the construction of the
canal. The exact length is ten and
four-tenths miles, and when completed
it will have cost between four and one
half and five million dollars. The ex
penditures, when the present year's
appropriations have been consumed,
will amount to about $:i.500,(HX). With
additional appropriations of $ii(lU,IKKI a
jear, the engineers in charge of the
work estimate that the waterway will
be completed within three years.
The tost of building the canal is
made heavy because of the extraor
dinary dillieuliv in cutting a way
through the hard basalt dill's. The
severest work has been met with at
the lower end of the channel about
four miles from the city of The Dalles,
where, for the purpose of constructing
the tandem lucks a cut more than 70
feet deep through the solid rock was
mude necessary. Carload after carload
of blasting powder has been exploded
to drive the way through the river's
bank, and the lower excavation and
most dillicult work of the entire under
taking is now almost complete. The
debris of loose stone is hoisted in huge
steam shovels and drawn in little
trams by shrieking miniature, but
powerful, engines to the huge rock
crusher located but a short distance
from the point where the boats will
enter the river from the lower end of
the canal.
At the crusher two large burrs grind
the stone to small bits. The larger
stones, often several feet in diameter,
are fed into the hopper of a powerful,
whirring mill, which rends them to
pieces. The smaller shattered frag
ments, by automatic contrivance, are
fed into a second mill which grinds
them into a sand almost as line as
flour. Hoth the sand and the crushed
stone are used in the manufacture of
the concrete used in building the walls
of the canal.
It is an interesting fact to note that
the cement used in the work is made
in lielgium, since the Government has
found that it can be purchased much
cheaper there than from American
manufacturers. The material is
shipped in boatload lots from the
Kuropean country around the Horn to
Portland and transported thea by car
to the scene of operations. W hen the
work is progressing normally about 4K0
cubic yards of concrete are used daily.
The canal will have four sets of
locks. The tandem locks, at the lower
end near the city of The Dalles, will
have a lift of 7(1 feet. The five-mile
lock will be sntlicient to get boats
through to the Cclilo end of the canal
in low water. However, it will be
necessary to make use of the ten-mile
lock in high water. The Celilo lock
will only lie used in extreme water.
At the tandem locks, where the great
lift will he nitiilc, the deep channel will
be fed by means of tunnels cut from
the river. In these subterranean pas
sages cut through the solid rock two
men met death last spring in practi
cally the only serious accident since
the beginning of the undertaking.
The exact cause of the premature
explosion which snuffed out the lives
of the two laborers has never been
found. During the entire time of the
work only one other fatality has oc
curred and hut few serious injuries
have resulted. Owing to the health
fullness of the climate and the excel
lent sanitary condition in which the
camps are kept, no serious sickness
has ever prevailed among the crews of
laborers. A huspit il is maintained by
the Government and a trained nurse is
ever on hand to care for the ordinary
cases of illness that may prevail among
the men and to be ready for any
emergency caused from accidents.
I'ntil about six months ago, during
the past year, crews totaling OtKi men
were at work on the project. How
ever, on account of the depletion of
the funds at present provided for by
Concessional appropriations, the list
of men has been cut in half. The ma
jority of the laborers are Greeks and
Macedonians. They are industrious
and are more desirabple for the task
because of the fact that they stick to
the work for a long period, while for
the most part the ordinary laborer is
unreliable in this respect.
The majority of the Macedonians
band themselves in clubs for the pur
pore of providing themselves with food
and thus live more cheaply than is pos
sible at the Government mess-houses.
It is said that by this means they limit
their living expenses to a sum not
exceeding $." a month to the man.
During their short presence in the
community, the Greek laborers are said
almost to have caused the extinction
of jackrabbits in the regions adjacent
to the canal. In hands of from a dozen
to Til), with a few firearms among them,
they may be seen on summer after
noons, after the 4 o'clock whistle has
blown, scattered out across the hills
and valleys of the pasture lands or the
wheat fields hunting the bunnies,
which they consider a delicacy as food.
In several places the canal will pass
over low places, where instead of ex
cavating it will be necessary to build
up the walls of the channel, after
clearing the bottom of scattering ba
salt boulders by a process known as
"bulldozing." The proportion of giant
powder considered necessary for the
operation is placed on a flat surface of
the stone and covered with loose sand
and earth. The impact of the explo
sion extends downward and rends the
rock so that it is an easy matter to
remove the shattered fragments. A
portion of the canal will be dug
through common soft earth and for the
hasty accomplishment of this work a
huee dredne. weighing 260,000 pounds.
has been put into commission. This
enormous tool, with a 12-foot guage is
the largest of its kind ever used in
western construction work.
The building of a canal to overcome
the obstruction in the Columbia was
much discussed in the late Wis. In the
opinion of engineers of the United
States Government commissioned to
make a preliminary survey of the
river's falls and rapids, under the re
quirements of the river and harbor act
of August 11, lr88, it is interesting to
note that the canal was considered im
practical because of the enormous ex
pense. It was suggested by the board of
engineers that a boat portage railway,
a double-track affair, with hydraulic
lifts constructed at each end to replace
them on the long cars, especially con
structed for the purpose, be built.
Unitl the survey it was thought that it
might be possible to clear the channel
ot the river in the dangerous and im
passable places and make possible
navigation.
Nevertheless, when it was found that
the fall in the river between Celilo and
the city of The Dalles was 8.4 feet in
low water and 62.5 feet in high water
and that the stream ran in eddying
currents through a channel of varying
widths from 125 to 3.r0 feet, with high
veitical basaltic walls on either side,
this was considered impossible.
The portage railroad, contsrueted to
carry boats of CO feet in length, was
seriously considered for a long time
and engineers were sent to Scotland,
England, France, Germany and Bel
gium to study the plans of such ar
rangements in use in those countries.
As is well known to citizens of the
State of Oregon, in order to open to
navigation the great interior grain
country, the State Portage Railroad
was completed by state appropriation
in 1905. However, terminating at Big
Eddy, where the precipitous bluffs
made it almost impossible to transfer
freight, the road was never any exten
sive factor in solving the transporta
tion problem. At the urgent request
of the Board of Portage Commission
ers, an act of the legislature of 1909
provided for an extension to The
Dalles, which was finished in March
of last year. The total expenditures
on the portage railroad have amounted
to $324,275.9(1. while the returns of the
system have reached the sum of $24,
275.90. Big Eddy, the former terminus of
the portage road, is at present the
main center of the operation of canal
work. Camp I, where the most of the
men at present employed on the canal
are bunked and messed, is located at
this point, as are the offices of the
engineer's staff. The work is under
the general - supervision of General
Morrow, who maintains offices in Port
land, while the fieln work is supervised
by Lieutenant II. 11. Huberts. J. L.
Browniee superintends the enigneering
work.
Many of the first-class workmen have
families and live in small houses at
Big Eddy, where a school has been
established. Supplies were formerly
secured Irom the Government store
here. However, rinding that it was
better that the stores be run by private
parties, the stocks were auctioned off
and several small general stores are
now operated by private individuals.
One of the most interesting sights to
the visitor to Big Eddy is the Y. M. C.
A. building, equipped with reading,
billiard and pool room. The state or
ganization of the association pays the
expense of a secretary. The building
was donated by the Government, which
also furnishes lighting and heating.
The completion of The Dalles-Cellio
canal will be ihe climax of the Colum-1
bia river improvement? I
According to the estimates of en-j
gineers the area drained by the Colum- j
bia river is 245,000 square miles, an
area larger than all the New England
and Middle States, with Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia thrown in,
all of these states combined having an
area of but 244,260 miles. The area
drained by the Columbia and its tribu
taries is twice as large as the British
Isles, more than twice as large as
Italy, half as large as Spain and many
thousand square miles greater than
either France, Germany or Austria
Hungary and greater than all the
islands of the seas combined. Port
land is the natural outlet for the great
Inland Empire of 25,000,000 acres of
arable land.
When a medicine must be given to
young children it should be pleasant to
take. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is
made, from loaf snar, and the roots
used in its preparation give it a flavor
similar to maple syrup, making it pleas
ant to take. It lias no superior for
colds, croup and w hooping cough. For
sale by all dealers.
Maples and Richter Buy at Trout Lake
Maples and Richter, two of the
valley's enterprising young ranchers,
have purchased through Royal L. Mel
endy an XO-acre hay and dairy tract
from C. W. Moores near Trout Lake.
Mr. Richter is a son of B. R. Richtei.
In
cases of rheumatism relief from
pain makes sleep and rest possible,
This may be obtained by applying
Chamberlain's Liniment. Kir sale by
all dealers.
Bookkeeping, Etc., Student or Business
Man.
Flmrt, practical instructions by pub
lie accountant. Few lessons. Mail.
Successfully taught H years. Qualifica
tions guaranteed in one month for posi
tions. Assistance. Highest reference
from people holding positions. Request
particulars. The Home Bookkeeping
Instruction Co., 502 511 Swetland build
ing, Portland, tire
M. E. Church Services
Sunday school at 10 a. m. Preach
ing services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
Themes: morning, "Tried Gold;"
evening, "Home." Junior League at 3
p.m. r.pworth League at 6 :30 p.m.
Prayer meeting on Thursday evening
at 7:30 o'clock. All are cordiallj in
vited to attend these services. Strang
ers made welcome. W. B. Young,
pastor.
Notice to Creditors.
Notice In hereby given that theutideralgned
has been appotntetl MdmimstrHtor ol theett
tHtoof i'has. K. l.AKe, Urcea.MHl, by the County
I'ourt of Hit Kiver louuty. All penults
hnvinie ctHtinx stcttinM Die estate must pre
sent same, duly ventied at the onVe of A. J.
iH-rhy, Kirt National Hank tinildlhii. Hood
Kiver, Ore., within six montha rom the date
of the first publication of this uotice.
Pated and nri published the 21st day oi
March, mi.
1 HANS I.AUK, Administrator.
Under Parents' Control
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First National BanK
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
HAVING purchased the entire interest of E.
Brayford in the Rockford Store about three
months ago, we are now in position to serve you with
all the highest class groceries at reasonable prices.
We invite your patronage and will serve you to the
best of our ability.
Give Us a Trial
MERCER & CO.
H. H. HADI.OCK
Phone fe-M
Office
45 -
Hadlock & Steinhoff
REAL ESTATE AND FIRE INSURANCE
Improved and Unimproved
ORCHARD LANDS
List your Ranches with us for Spring Sales
DO IT NOW!
2nd & Cascade Ave.,
Opp. Oregon Hotel. HOOD RIVER, OREGON
For Sale by Owner
200 acres, GO acres cleared, 11 acres planted, balance
unimproved. Price cheap and easy terms.
J. P. Thomsen
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Printing for a Long Time. You
Will Find it in the
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LETTERHEADS, NOTEHEADS
CARDS, INVITATIONS, ETC.
At thm
GLACIER OFFICE
F. 1! SNYDF.li
Hood River Plumbing Co.
SANITARY PLUMBING
AND HEATING & s& &
Tinning and Sheet Metal WorK. Gasoline En
gines. Pumps. Rams. Repairing Promptly
Attended. Estimates Furnished.
Office in Davidson Building
Phone 68-X Third and Cascade
HOOD RIVER
J. M. SC1IMKI.T7.KR
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SURETY BONDS
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Office in New Heilbronner Building'
Phone 23 HOOD RIVER, ORE.
The Purity Dairy Co.
Yours for prompt service and
Good Milk
THOS. D. CALKINS
When so desired, ac
counts may be opened
in the children's name,
yet subject only to the
control of the parent
or guardian.
Savings Department
Phone
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C.FO. M. STEIN HOFK
Phone M-M
Phone 200 Odell
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ABSTRACT CO.
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is Our Motto