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CAMAS PRAIRIE
Money in Hay
8 umM) uismiLT
CAMAS PRAIRIE
We Sell Hay and Dairy Lands
Rich Bottom Land for Half the Price of Timber Clearing
N
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CO.
SEND IT EAST
THE NEW MT. HOOD
Hood River's Grand
Mountain
FOR SALE ONLY BY
SLOCOM'S BOOK & ART STORE
Are you in the Market for a Snap?
Look These Over.
1M arres in Upper Valley, near Mt. Hood Store. Cost to dear not (,.
exceed f 75 per acre, all (jood Apple Und. Two-thirds under ditch. No
waste. I'rice, fx) per acre. Terms, 13000 cash, balance to suit.
40 acres, 1" acres in 7 year old Ppitz and Newtown. Balance partially
cleared. ery fine red shot soil, none steep or rocky. 25 inches Free
ater. Trice for short time onlv, fllK) per acre. Terms, half each ; bal
ance 5 years.
fl acres close to town, on West Side, all in high clans 2 and .1 year ol(1
commercial orchard. Fair house, good barn, etc. Price. 2o0.' Term
on part.
10 acres in Belmont District, !l acres in 4 year old Spit and Xewtowns
1 1, aero timber rexerved for building sit. On main road. Pricp, i.W
lerms flOiK) cash, ltalance to suit
High cbss Central Oregon stock ranch, value about $1500, to exchange
for llod Ku-er alley property. This is not Junk and is not plastered
w ith u heavy mortgage.
GUY Y. EDWARDS & CO.
Insurance of All Kinds Written in Standard Companies Only
UPPER VALLEY NOTICE
List Your Places for Special Attention With
WARD IRELAND CORNELL
Upper Valley Ral Estate-.Insurance
Improved and Unimproved Orchard Land
Phon Odell 77
Hood River Connection
Guy Y. Edwards & Co.
U. C. M. RANCH
Parkdale
Upper Hood River Valley
Electricity is (he Popular Subject
Our New Lamp Prices Are:
15 Watt G. E. Mazda $ 50
20 ;; - :: .50
ft " 50
100 ;; ;; - :z:::::::i::::::::z iiiS
150 " 1.65
20 " " " 2.30
EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL
Engineering, House Wiring, Repairing, Contracting,
t ixtures, Lamps, Motors, I leating and Cooking Apparatus
ELECTRIC WIRING & SUPPLY CO.
A. L. DAY, President and Manager
Estimates Furnished on Request
First National Bank Bids. PHONE 3
Fifty Years
Probable Life
of
BRICK PAVEMENT
IN HOOD RIVER
Western Clay Co.
Beck Building Portland, Ore.
Lights at Reasonable Prices
The Hydro-Electric Co., does not want
the consumers of electrical energy for light
ing or power purposes to pay for the plant
monthly, yearly or bi-annually, they only
want a fair, reasonable price on a live and
let live basis; and are not asking its custom
ers to buy our competitor's plant, nor any
one to pay them a price with which to buy
our plant; all we have to sell is electrical
energy.
Hydro Electric Co.
Phone 134
A Home Company
Third and Oak
For Sale by Owner
200 acres, GO acres eleured, 11 acres planted, balance
unimproved. Price cheap and easy terms.
J. P. Thomsen
K. F. I). No. 1 box 01)
Phone 200 Odell
T
I, lav anil iln- c.,M,wr I -.,,
. inovv down f r-;in over Mount
: while e ard our Kue
I pptr Valley siiawhi rries."
i lhose ttl u ,., j,,v t,, (i (,,Ml.ij:i i
; game will have -port to their heatls1
j c..r to'.t i,t tie Farkdale ci lehn,ti,,n, i
EAST FORK CO. SEEKS NEW .TOD ' XU'SZXXr "'" '"' " ' ,
H.CAMAS DITCH
JUST A FEW OF OUR PRICES THIS WEEK
Oranges par dozen..' . i .""TV apt- 40c
Leffingwell Lemons. per dozen .. .. ' ' goc
Rex Sliced Beef, regular 20r
Rex Sliced Beef, regular 35c glass for 25c
Preferred Stock Sifted Tp1H no- Ppna 9 nana Of-
Preferred Stock Tender Melri n cr Poqq tic v Don ir
'referred Stock Little Jewel Peas, per can 20c
1 referred Stock Refutree Inna
Preferred Stock Shrimp, 2 cans' for ZZZZZZTZlfic
Come to Us for Bargains in Groceries
L. H. HUGGINS
Defects in Contracts Prevent Enforcement
of Collections for Necessary Funds
i Bond l- sue Falling Due.
! It is probable that the big East Fork
Irriglaing Co., the ditch of which fur
: nishes water for the ranchers of tin
entire East Side, may take action
i whereby its property becomes that of
a bonded district, the East Side dis
, trict by election being f armed into a
; bonded irrigation district similar to
that supplied by the Hood River Irri-
Ration district on the West Side. The
! contracts with water users under the
existing papers of incorporation are
Idillicult of enforcement und the com
pany lias been unable to secure snllici
ent funds for maintenance ami the re
tirement of its bond issue of $-10,0011,
which comes due this fall.
A meeting of the sto khol,li-i .,r 11...
bit; ditch comnanv ua h..i
dav and different nu ll i Oil 4 UL't-ro Lllir.
Bested for the future operation of the
ditch, the bonded district form of
ownershin and niu i'Htion von m.o.i, ,,,,...(
and was received favorably. Since
that time it has been ini'rsiwut..il liv
n number of the prupretv owners of
the East Side, who declare that the
bonded district form of control seems
in every wav feasible. A rnmmiit...
composed of O. K. Hone, 11. F. David
son, J. E. Ferguson, J. II. Day and
R. II. Wailfh. htis liin imili:!...! I..
further investigate the nnmosed Immi.
ed district form ol iirniition inmn,.i..
merit and report back to a meeting "of
the stockho ders to be hehi ut n b.t..r
date.
K. VV. Kellv. secretary of llu. lt,,o,l
River Irrigation district supplying
water to the ranches of llu. W..ut
not tnakiiiK use of the Farmers' Im
itating; Company dileh, states that Un
bonded district svstem is mei-ti mr with
the best results. '"Ihe Hood River
district," be says, "is composed of
6,000 acres : 4.H00 is tillable, liv the
lew of a tax of lii mills on toil' i-.,Id.
atiou of $225 per acre we have been
able to pay the interest on our bonds
and pay a part of the maintenance.
The remainder of the maintenance is
cared for by a tax of so much ner inch
against the users of the water. If
properly managed 1 think the district
system the most ellicient and cheupist
way of owning and operating a ditch.
1 do not see why this would not be a
way for the East Side ranchers to in
crease the elliciency of their ditch him!
decrease their troubles."
A bonded irrigation district is
formed just as a school district. It
ittkea the vote nf tunthiniu ,if n,u l,,.i
owners to form the district. However.
a rirnonty may vote the eu! of
bond ISSIIe. "I Pimuiil..r !.. h,.,..l..,l
district the most eijuitable und ellicient
lorin oi irrigation systems," says lien.
H. Castner. one of the (irst din-eiuro of
the Hood Rivir I rriir;ii im. ..;,.t
which was formed in the year l'.nr.
It distributes the ins. I m" n::.ii,i..
and oneration of the dili h milk I I'lninlu
over all the land concerned."
Ihe 1' list hoik ilih li u.us built l')
years ago by C. K. Hone, who is no
one of the largtst land holders on' the
East Side and who thinks the boni'eii
system the most feasible ti ml practical
for future manaecnient of th- Hiidi
The big irrigation system was sold to
the ranchers on Mav 7 live years mm
VOIIXK MAX DROWNS !
IX COLUMBIA RIVER i
NEARLY BONE
3
IAIMED
red K. Lang, a young man who
caiiie to this comn, unity to pick straw
b. rrit-s. while tlo.itirg on the Columbia
bt Saturtiay, juii.ped from the raft
to swim astu.r, and was drowmd. He
was accon.pai.i, , by u companion, by
the name of r'rat.k Stcnr.er. Letters
touml in the cl, .ll.ii g showed tnat the
voting ni.ip. w hose age was about
had ncentlv had a residence at
Couch strn t, I'ortlaiid.
LARGE FERTILE AREA REt
iits of Men from Adjoining Districts
Lead to Investments Canals Istd
by Canoeists for Pleasure.
L'Ot
REGULAR CLUB MEET
IXti JIOXDAY NIGHT
The regular Jure meeting of the
Commercial club wi:l be hchi M.m.b.v
ovtnrg. All of the citizens of u'v
valley are urg.il to be jircseiit beciinsc
of the fact that on this evening the
(imposed (ilai a for a Fourth of July
celebration will come up for ihcsussion.
The club, among other results at
tained the past inohh, have seiun d an
agreement fiotg the auto livery men of
the valley to haul passengers around
the "I ton" evtn Sin dav fur 1 1 .. f.....
of. Jl.oo fur the round' trip. .Fred C.
Dunnicliir, secretary of the White
Si'lmon ( otnuirrcial club and editor of
tue f.nlerpnse of that city, has writ
ten the local stcrelary, Ray E. Scott,
slating that many visitois to that vl'
ley express u .i-siro t-t tour the
Hood liiviT vallev. after o.n
glimpse of it from 'the heights across
the river. ( uiiinioilore (). C. Dean has
ae.iei'il to give these visitois the bene
fit of a ball' rate Ian- ami llu- l..i.l
fists will do the rest.
LIBRARY TO OPEN
LI i
According to the plans of Ihe library
oiird the ivui.ty library willbeineiu.il
herein Aueust. Thmueli thn . ir.,riu
f the Womau's club, a trad i.f Inn. I
formerly I'il'th street between Slut,'
and (Ink. was sutirnl fi
holding. The site is now sown to
grass and makes a handsome citv narh
Ihe piiiiertv owners, after u vaciiioin
of the grotit-il by the city dedicated it
to the club fur libii.rv pui iioser.
1 lie libiary
H. lluggins, '.:
Miss Maiy Md
I. aughliu and ,1. !
couunitteis have
buying books,
CITY MAY CELEBRATE
FOURTH OF JULY
At a meeting of the Commercial club
members at the regular luncheon held
Saturday at the club rooms, the sug
gestion was made that the city have
this year a big Fourth of July celebra
tion, and Chmles N. Clarke, president
of the club, was requested to annoint a
committee of the club membeif '.o
make arrangements for the occasion.
All the neiehborine cit ies w i II narlic.
ipate in the celebration, as proposed,
because of the fact that all of the
feiry boats and river steamers tire
landing at the temporary whaif but u
few stens from the () -W I! Ai N i,a.
senger station excursion boat:; will le
run from all liver points and the citi
zens of Stevenson, White Salmon, Un
derwood, Cooks landing und Mosier
will be invited to be mesent and en un
tile occasion.
Although no definite details have
been worked out for the nronosed
event, a number of the local merchants
are working out plans of entertain
ment for the day.
One of the most entliusia; tic of the
local merchants is Frank A Cia
declares that it is going to be a good
old fashioned Fourth of.July celebra
tion with numerous Twentieth Century
features to make it lively. Mr. Cram
says we ought to have an aeroplane
flight and a balloon ascension. These
matters will be determined at a miet
ing of the Commercial club members
which is called for Monday ineht. T he
plans at the present time are merely
tentative.
l 'I. Coiiiiiosi d of I.
Vdliani Stew ait.
Prof. J. (). M,..
ileus, has met ui.d
liei n appointed for
and senirimr i
... ' - -- -"r.
Miss I omnia Man id has bun in
structeil to sc. d to i i m desirnhle ap
plications foe a liist-cl.,ss bbr-rian of
oxpirioi.ee hi be here by toe mobile of
.-MleUst. The Hood River eimnfu Ii.
brary will open September 1, and' the
nnrary main ep,cts I In- library com
mittee nf the Won ami ,.;., IV (1(,jr
right hard support, as well as every
mebtiiei of this club. T he boaid, as
sooii as books are pun ha.'td, will er tor
iu hi tii gotialioi s with ihe Carnegie
Commission or a building, wliich we
wire advised not In do until w wen:
estal.li.-h. d in 1 oolns, as M r. Cai in gie
does not build a home for books it; nl
the peopiu have iiuule mine ell'ot t on
their part towaid a library. Tin
amount snei I. lining the year In ibh
ago
the
coininilee amounts
on hand at the pies
to $1 0i) ;
cut time, i
loo
..'!(!.
DEAN FERRY LANDS
NOItril OF STATION
Having nc i i ill a cnmimiuif atioi.
from W. S. Chapman, of ihe Hood
River Terminal Co., and Ine letter cou
laining the expres.iion of terms nut
prohibitive as they have fotuirly been,
O. C. Dean Tuesday closed an agree
ment with the company for the privi
lege of landing north of the O.-W. Ii.
V N. station. The leirv bonis nf th.,
Dt lin & Sin t.'lar Co. nlv im? bet ween
here and White Salmon have formerly
been forced ta h'tnl on the east side of
the Hood liver thus i i ccssitating u
ilisagieeable journey to and from the
city fur the passengers.
At the present time the two river
boat companies, the Open River Trans
portation Co. and The Dalles l'ortland
& Astoria Navigation Co. land their
bonis bete as do the ferry boats of the
Underwood line opeiali'd by Otis I).
I reiber.
BASE BALL
Heists Wins Decoration Day h'aine
PARKDALE WILL
CELEBRATE FOURTH
The citizens of the I'oner V'alb v nr..
already making plans for a big cele
bration of July Fourth at l'arkdale.
"The Upper Valley I'rogri s.sive Asso
ciation," has the plans in charge,"
says J. r. Thompson, who was in the
citv last week, anil "Ihe nietnbi.ru
declare that there will be
doing that dav. "
itiereisno more local place for a
celebration than under the big firs, a
beautiful grove of which towns a
short distance from the station. It is.
planned that a special train be run
from Hood River and it is thought that
a large number of local people will
take advantage of the run up the Mt.
Hood line to spend the day in the beau
tiful Upper valley with the progies
sive neighbors.
"Some of our anglers are planning
on getting busy, they say, and catch
ing a nice hunch of "trout. We'll have
a good old fashioned fish fry. There'll
be speaking. Not long winded ora
tions, but the good, short, pithy re
marks with a twang of Irish humor
expressed in a Yankee way. A band
"Hart pitched superb ball Thiisrdav
afternoon," and Joe Carson, the
Heights manager had a smile on that
wouldn't come oil, when he said it.
T he heights team won the Decoration
day event bv u seme of fi lo 0 sliottn...
I out the Lower City aggregation and
ladilirg to their strength for the lead
in the Mid-Columbia league. The sen
sational play of the day was the three
bagger km. eked by Tale, when two
i men were on bases.
The i.ower City men did sotr.e 'gond
' pb.ving. but were unable to make hoc
ol their i Hurts co in I
were the Heights butt
Citv- dill and Kent.
. Halt ard Ha
'TV. The l ower
T he I.ower fit v,
iTilrted and tl.i f
filled out with
something ; i,.at Sunday all-
up against !he
that city. The s
The Height
olive leaf to it-i
noon, defealiiii'
its ranks somewhat
I "am haling ti) be
n e u 1 1 -' , met with de-r-i-M.
i,w! - ii they went
V mi . S;.io,iin h am at
"ere vv as 11 to ".
team add. il another
ciown Sunday after
the An her and Wig-
of l'ortla:;d. The
evenly matched,
a draw until the
when Hall, the
nicked a single In g-
gms V conn team,
tiatr.s wire al-ni
and the game was
eleventh inning,
Heights catcher Ii
ger, whs advancid to seenrd on a sacri
fice and stole third, coming in home,
when a long l!v was si rt n to the held
ami after it was c e,;;;iit by one of the
vVeona men, who never allowed the
Imll to touch the ground.
The Heights bins are playing excep
tionally good ball. They have prac
ticed together ai d have perfected their
team work.
With exceptionally good mountain
mads leading into the district from
White Salmon and Culdendale, the Ca
mas I'rair.e district of the i orth. ast
part of Klickitat comity, has for a
number of years been the goal of fish
ermen, who have journeyed to the
Klickitat river, running l its north
most edge, to angle for the large (r-iiri-bow
trout found there in abundance.
I he men who have made these, excur
sions during vacation periods, have
been impressed with agricultural op
portunities of the Camas reigon and
the visits have led to a number of in
vestments. While a good many Americans,
scanhmg for the best opportunities on
the frontier, settled there in early days
Ihe earlier settlers are predominated
by a colony of Dutch who found the
region to be their hearts desire almost
half a century ago. Indeed, one of the
visitors who accompanied liumette
Duncan to the Camas district last Sat
urday remarked, after beholding the
canals, the completion nf which will
form a drainage system tn mm- r.ir
the waters of Conboy I.ake, that it
ought to In-called, "Little Holland."
I lie reside ts wouldn't mind; for they
even greet you now with a guttural,
"(liitten Morgen. "
Until this year the Camas region,
h.Ooii acres in extent, has never yielded
a true return to the owners. With the
exception, heretofore, of a few months
of the summer, the lake, formed by
the spreading, over the great flat sur
face, of wat
down from Mount Adams, has coveted
the entire area, and the farmers have
been able to harvest onlv cnum of thu
wild hay that has grown luxuriantly
when the water receded. However,
last year the nconle realrmir thu lw.no.
fits to be derived by drainage, a bond
district was established by an election
of the property owners, and by the end
(d the su-nuncr the lira
have been cniniileteil
Two big dtedees tire nnu ui u.r.rb-
finishing the last division nf tin. !,;
ditch, the entuu length of which will
be about lo miles. Tho work that has
already been done mi 'he project has
caused the water to recede excioit fur
a slight area in the center of the large
level tiHct, and the farmers are seed
ing the fertile soil with hav and irruin
seed. The big ti act of land formerly
the lake bottom has been built up for
years by the decaying vegetation and
silt brought down by the streams. For
ages thm soil has been forming. Ha
feilility is eipial to that of tna noted
beaver dam land nf Hie Northwest.
Ilecause of the Iiick of transportation
liicilities, the dairying industry is and
will continue the chief one of the ilis.
inci. iinui anout three years
l oeese luciones were operated in
district. However, lb., fun... no f.,i..,.i
Unit il was moie profitable tn ship
their cream directly to I'ortlard and tho
factories have been abandoned. The
surplus hay of the community finds a
ready sale in the neighboring fruit dis
trict of White Salmon.
The building of the drainage district
has aroused a renewid interest among
the ranchers, whose conversation now
takes the trend of discussing improve
ments. Tho property owners are plan
ning on calling un ekction in the near
tut lire to vote a bonded irrigation dis
trict, for the purpose of placing under
a ditcn the fifteen or twenty thousand
acres of upland surrounding the lake
bottom. The waters of Cougar and
Hell Roaring creeks have already been
bled on. According to estimates made
the entire system, main ditches and
laterals, mav be bulli tn c,,e, i- il,,, ..
tire system at an assessment of ST, per
acre. T his makes one of the cheapest
irrigation projictu in the United
States.
One of the slogans of the ranchers is
that of better transportation facilities.
"We are going ahead with our plans
for improvement, and some of the rail
road lines, live of which have already
made surveys, will :va that it is to
their interest to pierce the valley,"
tliey will ti ll you. T hey are repairing
the old roads and building new and
better ones.
It is interesting to see the canoes
plying on the mow i-hhuIh shmi. r in
swap of the community have riiwii
up canoes with sails ' and take their
sweethearts sailing on Sunday after
noons. A number of the iveiiltl l,.r
ranchers, many of whom alieadv nuin
iintonioliiles, decline that they will put
motor boats on the canal and" thus be
able to visit the neig h.Loring homes
over the little water wav.
Ihe Camas valley is a beautiful spot.
Mount Adams towers above it and at
veiling looks down uno.i the commun
ity. Its In ak crowned with u ,,f
golden sunset. The open settlement.
about H miles long ami three miles
wide at its greatest width, is entirely
surround! d by a forest of huge lirs anil
pines. Fnterprisit.g citizens have op
erated small sawn. ills in the commun
ities and turpi il out er oogh lumber for
local needs. A box factory has recently
been started in the distr ict.
Tho-c who made the trip Saturday
with Mr. Duncan were Walter Dicker
son, K. L. Mcl.ain. I'rof. K. K. Coad,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rout and I'rof.
and Mrs. W. H.L awrei ce. I'rof. and
Mrs. Lawrence accompanied Mr. Root
in his automobile ard the rest of the
party Went with Mr. Duncan. Ail w-..ro
highly pleased with the land and im-
pitssed with the opportunities offered.
Woman's Club Holds Election
The Woma-is' club ch.seil ii puh.n.
dar year last Wednesday nfletneon
villi installation of ollicers, who were,
with one exception, all re-elected for
the ensuing year and a reception given
them by the study club.
After the reading of the year's re
ports, refreshments were served, and
the new ollicers responded to toasts as
fallows: Miss McLaren, pres., "Our
club the next twelve months"; Mrs.
W. F. Laraway, (irst vice pres., "The
sisterhood of club woi k" ; Mrs. F.lla
J. L. Wilbur, second vice pre-., "Fx
ecuiive ability of club women"; Mrs.
II. F. Davidson, sec, 'The records
of our duh, why of interest ;" Mrs. V.
I), llinriehs. treas.,"A club woman, a
business woman;" Mrs. J.F.Lucas,
acting as toast mistress. Press Com.