f V 00B) Jl VOL.XSIV HOOD ItlVKlt, OREGON. TIH'HSDAV, onroljKu7i, 1912 ZTTz a- E UPPER VALLEY NOTICE List Your Places for Special Attention With WARD IRELAND CORNELL Upper Valley Real Etatc Insurance Improved and Unlmprotid Orchard Land Phon Odall 7? Hood River Connection Guy Y. Edwards & Co. U. C. M. RANCH Parkdale Upper Hood River Valley Trout Lake Hay Lands We have for sale one of the very best ranches in the Trout Lake Valley, described as follows: ACRES All in cultivation and under irrigation; county road on two sides; good two-storr, nine-room house; large, sub stantial i Lay and stock barn; stone cellar; dairy house; fine gar Ucn with different kinds of fruit; excellent view; good neighbors. Adjoining land produces over 1(X) bushels of oats to the acre, and tills is just as good. Adjoining 40 acres, which is partly cleared, can le bought if desired. Price low. We also have other tracts of improved and raw hay lands for sale at low prices, in both the Trout Lake and Camas Prairie districts, write or call on us for further information. We are the exclusive selling agents for townsite lots in the fast grow ing town of Husum. Write for plat and prices. HOMER G. DAY CO. TELEPHONE WHITE SALMON B-5024 White Salmon, - - . Washington . GUY Y. EDWARDS & CO. . w "XJ HOOD RIVEK, UKLWi Phone 228-K EXCHANGES 7.500Small ranch, near town, on West Side, to trad- in on a larger place with some bearing. Will put in some cash and assume 923.000High class property in Chicago to trade for orchard prop, erty of eijual or larger value. j 94.500 Nice modern residence in Hood River to trade for orchard. Will assume. , 910,000 Wheat ranch to exchange for small place near II-.d Itiv.-r. $ll,300Fine farm of 180 acres, in Sherman County; 10 acrei an, new modern home in town of Wasco; 2 7-room houses at Or son City. Will trade all or part for nice place within 3 milee, prefir West Sid,.. 8ome good raw land in upper valley anil SO acres in Mosier district. trade in as part of first payment n improved place on East Side, pre fer Pine Urove or Willow Hit, Will pay some cash aud ssimie. This is a good one We Want for a Client 12,000 to 4,000 In bonds of the Apple Growers' Union. Money to Loan on Improved Ranch Property Two Genuine Snaps in City Property ' jfKt$CZm& & i'Sw-,"-''" REGISTEREO Every effort that can be made to make a store a thoroughly sat isfactory place to deal is be ing made here. We want your shoe thoughts to be pleasant and to be of WALK-OVER SHOES J. G. VOGT 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. Phone 134 Hydro Electric Go: A Home Company Third and Oak Just Arrived New Pack of Green and Ripe Olives Home Made Sauer Kraut Mince Meat Apple Butter Preserves Jellies Pure Maple Syrup "Good Things to Eat" Canned Goods Heinz Pickles Perigo & Son The Star Grocery Real Estate Moved Well Last Year Give us a trial and we will make it do the samel thing this year. Figures tell. The total amount of the sales of property handled by us last year reached $2G7.950, more than a quarter of a million. Sale prices ranged all the way from $30,000 to $600. WHEN YOU WANT TO "IT 7" c rSJJUI DO BUSINESS CALL ON W .i. JN lCllOl 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. SACRIFICE SALE For account of non-resident owner the fine resi dence property, southwest corner Cascade avenue and Seventh street, 7-room house; garage. This Property must be sold before November 1. Will be sold for a thousand dollars less than ac tual value. See G. Y. EDWARDS & CO. FOR $30 PER MONTH The 8-Room Flat second story of Jack son "Building, corner of Third and Oak streets will be for rent November 1. APPLY TO A. F. ADAMS PHONE 123 SOUTH OFFERS APPLE MARKET DEMAND FOR BOX FRl IT INCREASES Dialers in Section Where No Apples Are Gri n Are Finding the Western Fruit More Popular Each Year. ff Whether it be in Chicago, Memphr, New Orleans or Los Angeles, if the Iihvi Icr frum the land of apples makes known the place of his residence, he is sure of arousing the interest of apple de.ikrs, or so far as that is co-ieirned altm.st every individual of the general pullic. Hood Kiver valley fruit is In own to all borders of the country, and favorably known. Because of my recent two years' residence here and my interest in the distribution of the product of the community, I madu it a point while traveling through the south to deter mine in as great degree as possible the attiude of the wholesale dealer, the re tail man and the consumer toward the western boxed apple. Three years ago the quantity of western fruit consumed below the Ohio river was very, wry small. However, there has been a steady increase until at the present time the demand is becoming worthy the attention of northwestern fruit regions. South of Tennessee no apples at all are grown. In the state of Ten nessee the production of old home orchards has rapidly decreased in the past five years, until it has become very, very small. 'I he old time planters and farmers used to raise large crops of excellent f'uit. Winesaps, Limber Twigs, Kome Beauties and Paragons, the latter of which are said to be identical with the Arkansas Blacks of the west, were the favorites. While the orchards did not receive any especial care, the briars were kept Lcut from among the trees and they produced well. The old-timers all had antilo cellars, in which the best keeping varieties of thier fruit might have been found as late as March. When the crop was large those who had more than thev needed for their home consumption, gave freely to their neighbors. No one sold apples, except the windfalls, which were hauled away in bulk to the distilleries. where they were purchased for as- toundingly small prices by the manu facturers of "Apple Jack." ll.e state of Tennessee. north Georgia and the Carolinas have some excellent fruit land on the plateaus of the Cum berland range. That is. the soils to be found there are well adapted to the growth of apples. However, the cli matic conditions make uny commercial undertakings of apple culture rather hazarious. Because 'kof the fact that during the past twenty years two out of every three years, and perhaps worse, late frosts have caused the ap ple crop to be an absolute failure, the farmer not only failed to plant a home orchard, but the idea of planting a commercialf irchard in this .region has never seriouslyentered his mind. This may be stated as the general rule. A few comercial apple orchards are being planted in this district, but they are far between and mostly of earlier vari eties, such as the harly Harvest. The consumers have been used to the barrel apples, Greenings and Kussetts from Michigan and other northern points, but the trade seems to be fa voring more and more the western ap pie. The big dealers in the central distributing cities are learning that the grocer in the small town is finding a ready sale at a good price for the box product. The western apple is favored because of the ease with which it may be handled, and the honesty of the pack. In Fayettcville, Tennessee, a town or 4, mm inhabitants with a large surrounding agricultural area determined from interviews with dif ferent grocers of the city that during the past season all the way from a half dozen to two dozen boxes of western apples had been sold there each week In another city of a population of no more than a thousand, the leading grocers were finding a demand for fancy box fruit. Our best city customers and the well to do farmers buy this fruit," they say. "The demand for it is in creasing. If we haven t got the better class of apples they will nearly always buy oranges." Each one of the larger southern cities last year used large quantities of western boxed fruit. Wenatchee Winesaps, Yellow New towns from Colorado, Winter Pear mains from Utah, Arkansas Blacks from Yakima and Hood Kiver Spitz enburgs. And the larger buyers de clare that they are going to use more and more as the years pass. The dealers have not yet learned the best methods of handling western fruit. Their storage facilities are not the best. However, they are remedy ing these defects and are placing them selves in much better condition to handle and store fruit. Memphis, one of the larger distributing centres in the south, has recently completed a storage house that compares favorably with those of the northern and middle western distributing centers. Southern fruit consumers are not only using western box apples, but all south are going to offer excellent op portunities to the northwetsern fruit grower to work out plans of distribu tion for the disposal of his increasing product. While in manfr- places it is still in a stage of incubation and not yet hatched, a new spirit is stealing over the old south. Indeed, the days of the old fcouth are passing. The land of negroes and cotton, possums and the mule is in a state of transition. Every where one feels the touch of a coming progress and prosperity in the atmos phere. One who has never lived in the region might not be able to detect in the remoter regions just at present, but for one was rear.d there and who has been absent for a long peroiod, the progress-that already has been made is at once noted. The construction of t'.e l'anama can al stems to have caused the awkening. Not a railroad crossing the contimnt longitudinally but that is now at work increasing the ellicicncy and capacity of its service. The most of the roads are double tracking their systems. The railroads have seemed apathetic and have failed in the past to give the south due publciity. However, they are now taking it up and are begin ning broad campaigns. The Illinois Central lines are issuing bulletins, the general tone of which is: "Go south, young man." A western man would be surprised at the large tracts of cheap and undevel oped land that awaits improvement. However, the young men of the sec tion of the country are coining to real ize that a new order of things must come about and they are beginning to throw off the yoko of old customs, which prevail longer theie than in any other part of the country. Even today there is felt that old time indifference and hatred of manual labor that pre vailed among the white population be fore the war, but the younger men are gradually growing away from it. For merly young men thought the only kind of an education worthy of an ambition was that of the classical languages. More and more of them are now atend mg the agricultural college, learning how to scientifically cultivate the large tracts, which until a few years ago were thought worthless. The federal and state governments lave aided in correcting this erroneous idea and lands that ten years ago could not be sold for the taxes are now, after applications of lime and phosphoric acid, brought to a high state of pro ductivity. Although in the past decade there has been a heavy immigration from the south to the middle west and Texas, but few have come to the northwest. They have known but little about the northwest, the citizens of which have centered to too great an extent their publicity campaigns on tho east and the northern portion of the middle west. Why they should leave the south for these places, many of those who have migrated have never been able to find out and numbers are returning. For with the exception of the Pacific coast countries, the region south of the Ohio offers as good climate.barring mat. oi tne malm m infected districts, as any portion or ttie country. . And among the people of the more thickly settled portions of the east and north who are going to seek new homes, where better opportunities offer themselves, the south is going to be me strong competitor of the west ; de spue ine great factor of genial climes And this because of the many districts wnere there are large tracts of undo veloped cheap land. J. D. T, SHOW AJTRACTS LOCALGROWERS WHO WILL JOl'RNEY TO SPOKANE Orchardists and Market Men Will Join Conference and Deliver Addresses Problems to Be Discussed. MONTANA CONVICT SENDS FANCY BRIDLE Having sceured his name from some unknown source, Joe Laferty, who uses the prison stationery and states that he is confined as a prisoner at the Montana state prison, has written to to N. C Evans, president of the Hydro-Electric Co., asking that he dispose of a fancily woven horsehair bridle. Ihe writer stales that he is confined for a term of three years for a crime that is nut heinous and that he desires to use the money for the pur pose of securing books. I want to lead an honest life, when I am free again, he says, and I want to get the books that I may study here in prison. Ihe bridle, which is a handsome piece of weaving and plaiting, is madu of 35,000 strands of horsehair, of various colors. Mr. Evans has leceived it by express and it now hangs in his office. "TEDDY" WANING IN THE MIDDLE WEST WOOD FOR SALE P1VE $5.00 PER CORD FIR $4.75 PER CORD DELIVERED 1000 Cords, Pine and Fir, at head of Neal Creek road. Yarded out. Inquire on 1013 State Street .RALPH ROOT kinds of fruit, pears, peaches, fresh prunes, grapes and cantaloupes. I saw Yakima peaches on salr, and s l ing, in the grocery stores ol the smallest villages. The markets in the larger cities were offering Toksy grapes from California and Oregon fresh prunes. Cantaloupes from La Junta, Colo , were bringing as much as z. cents a piece. However, the western canta loupes will probably never enter the southern market again. The melons, of as good quality, can be grown at home. And farmers will begin the planting of them, if not to compete in other markets, at least to supply home demands. Strange to say, the Arkansas apple has never seemed to figure to any great extent in southern markets. Nor has the Virginia fruit ever been sold there at all. The red apples of Vir ginia go to northern markets and the Albemarle Pippins to England. 1 met a young orchardist from Charlottes ville, with whom I traveled from New Orleans to Huuston, Texas. It is a custom of growers in his community, he told me, to sell their fruit while on the trees or to consign it to commission men to'sell for them. Just before be ginning his journey west he had har vesvetd bis Pippin crop and had shipped the entire crop, consisting of four car loads, to a Liverpool commission man. The cities and small towns of the For a time it seemed that a big Roosevelt boom had been started in the middle west. However, now, it is said by Capt. A. S. Blowers and Louis A. Reed, the latter of whom has just re turned from Minneapolis and the for mer from Kansas points, that Taft is growing strongly. "There is clearly a wane in the support of fioosevelt," says Mr. Reed. "The business inter ests are pushing the campaign fir President Taft's re-election. They are heralding the irosperity the rountiy has enjoyed under his administration and those who left with the Roosevelt Hurry are considering and a perceptible change is noticeable. 'Ihe Roofevelt !eaders are not working harmoniously and are losing ground daily." Prof. H. C. Sampson, vice president of the National Apple show of Spo kane and a well known northwestern horticulturist, has been here this week to create an interest in the growers' meeting, which is to be held at Spo kane during the apple show. "We ex pect this meeting to be one of the biggest features of the National Apple show," says Prof. Sampson. "We are securing speakers of note from all over the northwest, men who hnvn practical knowledge of the things they will talk about and who will be able to tell the other fellow. There is no tnni that is of vital importance to the apple grower but that will be touched upon at the gathering. We expect to make progress in marketing. All the prob lems ot the distribution of fruit will be brought out and headway made in the solving of them." Hood Kiver will be represented at the meeting by growers, marketers and business men. Truman liutler will be piesent to deliver an address on the problems of financing the marketing of fruit. M. M. Hill will read a paper on storage, A. I. Mason, pruning and E. H. Shepherd, editor of Hettor Fruit. and Wiliner Siee. manairer of th Union, will 'deliver addresses on the marketing of apples. the northwestern rai wav execntivn officers will attend the meetinir and a closer working relationship wlil be brought about between the growers and the transportation men. We already have 34 carloads of fruit signed up for exhibit. We are reallv going to have too many apples, and I am curtailing some of these ex hibit., while on this trip," says Prof. Sampson. In addition to the above named Hood River speakers, H. F. Davidson and Prof. W. H. Lawrence have also been invited to deliver addresses, the former on storage and the latter on th coop erative control of orchard pests. 'I he railroad officials who will deliver addresses are Pres. Howard Elliott, of the Northern Pacific: Pres. Carl Grav. of the Great Northern; and R. B. Mil ler ana u. K. Strahorn, of the O.-W. R. & N. Co. The show -will be held Nov. 11-17. The educational or the service side will consist of daily conferences from 10-12. a. m., and from 2-4 p. m. Three daya will be devoted to cultivation, pruning, spraying, harvesting, financing, etc. Wednesday will be devoted to by-products ; Thursday to storago and trans portation ; Friday to marketing. The oesi men oi me tNorltiwest will be used for one-Unit of the conference Jime, and the other half will be open to gen era' d session. Stenographic reports of the entile conferences will be taken, printed, aid distribued, if possible, free of charge. Other educational features will be a free school to teach packing: boys' and girls' judging contest, preceded by in struction on how to judge; . the testing of power spraying machines by experts to gather complete information in re gard to design, construction, perform ance, and efficiency of modern spraying machinery; exhibit of spraying ma chines: the exhibit of the State Col lege of Washington, illustrating bv colored transparencies orchard scenes throughout the northwest, and supple mented by lectures and many other valuable feutures; personal confer ences with experts, giving opportunity to individual growers to get help on their own personal problems through consultation with one or more of the northwest apple experts vho will be present and available for conference work during the week ; cooking demon strations conducted by the girls of the Lewis & Clark high school (Spokane). under the direction of their teachers; and the exhibition of apple industry appliances that the growers may see the most modern deve opments or de vices designed to aid them in their work, I Undoubtedly, too, the apple show will be of much value in extending the knowledge concerning the apple indus try as to the acreage, the quality, the quantity of yield, the varieties for which each valley is noted. All this is of great value to our own home people mat tney may aiscuss the apple indus try more intelligently with the people with whom they come in contact. The personal value to an exhibitor of gathering together and handling an exhibit, and meeting with thousands of ' people who stop wilh him for a word or two, of meeting other exhibitors. comparing notes with them is very great- particularly if the exhibitor be young man. OBERT T. LEWIS CLUB MEMBERS WILL RECEIVE RETURNS A telegraph instrument will be in stalled in the rooms of the Commercial club on Wednesday evening following the election and returns will bo re ceived directly from different central points by the club members, who will convene there that night. Returns from the east should be sufficiently complete by that time to base some idea as to the outcome of the election and the meeting will no doubt be at tended by a large expectant crowd of citizens. Secretary Scott says that there will be a lull at intervals in the receipt of dispatches and urges that it is a good time to have a number of short, snappy speeches by members of the club. Sidney Skinner, of St. Louis, who has been here since the first of the year studying the methods of apple raising left Saturday for his home. Robert Lewis, who for the past three years has been city marshal here, submitted his resignation at the Monday night meeting of the council. His resignation was referred to the police committee of the board of alder men to be acted on at the next meet ing of the body. It was learned last week that Mr. Lewis contemplated giving up his position, and the mem bers of the council attempted to pre vail upon him to continue in the ser vice of the city. However, Mr. Lewis has already accepted a position with the O.-W. R. & N. Co. as private de tective, and will leave shortly after election to take up his work with them. No Illegal Voting "We "have studied the registration books and know the names of all the legal voters in the county, who have registered," , says Ur. W. S. Nichol. chairman of the publicity committee of the Home Protective Association. Members of the association shall as sist in watching on next election day to see that the election is legal, and all trying to vote illegally will be chal lenged. The O-.W. R. & N. Co. has installed a call bell at the passenger station to warn patrons of the departure of. trains. 1 s J. r