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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
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GUY Y. EDWARDS & CO.
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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
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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.
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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.
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