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HOOD KIVER, OREGON. TliriLSDAY, MARCH 20. 19 Ui
VOL. X-SIV
No 42
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
10,000 ACRES
Located in Crook County, near Redmond,
Oregon. For wheat or alfalfa cannot be
surpassed. Value $10 to $60 per acre.
NO INCUMBERANCE
Will exchange for Hood River Orchards,
and divide to suit.
Whee you think of INSURANCE think of
ROBERTS & SIMMS
SUCCESSORS TO
G. Y. EDWARDS & CO.
Phone 3111 Hotel Oregon Bldg.
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For Sale
30 H. P., 5-Passenger
"MAXWELL"
Used but 4000 miles, and thoroughly overhauled.
Completely Equipped Top, Wind Shield,
Speedometer and Klaxon Horn.
Bargain if taken at once.
Call at COLUMBIA AUTO & MACHINE CO.
or E. L. McCLAIN
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.
A Home Company
Phone 1171
Third tnd Oak
LOW COLONIST FARES
Daily March 15th to April 15th
TO
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FROM
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.830 00
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, SULools 87.00 Dulutb 30.00
(Milwaukee 80.70 Kansas City 80.00
'Little Rock.... 42.50 Omaha ... 80.00
Memphis 48 50 St. Joseph 80.00
Ken Orleans .. . 4S.05 Lincoln 30 00
From other Eastern Points in Proportion
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low fares, Direct train service via Burlington Koute, Northern Pacific,
Great Northern, and Spokane, Portland & Seattle lines.
You can deposit funds with me and tickets will be furnished people in "
the East. - j Details will be furnished on request.
.SS? E. A. GILBERT, Agent
, Portland, Ore. White Salmon, Wash.
SEED POTATOES
" The American Wonder
HIGH GRADE
Can be had at
Ue Brag'g' Mercantile Co.
for
It Cents per Pound
Place Your Orders with Bert Graham
White River
Flour
Makes Bread Having the
Old Bready Flavor
AT. YOUR GROCERS
Westinghouse Heating and CooKing Apparatus
Electric Irons Frying Pans Disc Stoves Toaster Stoves
Always in Stock at Moderate Prices. Let Us Show Vou.
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ELECTRICAL. CONTRACTORS
AM PREPARED TO FURNISH
ROUGH AND DRESSED
L U MB E R
AND BO X E S
Delivered to any part of '
City or Valley
Mill Located Southwell of
Oak (irove School
E. S. HAY, Hood River, Oregon
GROWERS FAVOR
NEW PLAN
MASS MEETING ENDORSES ASS'N
I Rion Stockholders Vote, Authorizing the
Board of Directors to Proceed With
Plans as Outlined in Report
Despite the snow storm that pre
vailed over the valley the Heilbronner
hll was crowded with apple growers
lure yesterday morning, when the
mass meeting, presided over by Chan.
Hull, was called to order to discuss the
formation of amalgamating the ship
ping concerns of the valley. The first
("pinker of the morning wag Wilmer
Sug, manager of the Union, who told
the growers of the need of such a con
cern for the successful marketing of
the fruit. Albert Sutton, secretary of
the Hood River Apple Growers' Union,
read the report that the board of direc
tors of that concern had drawn up to
submit to the mass meeting. The re
port stated the need that was felt for
cooperation. According to its state
ments the amalgamation will be a co
alition of the Davidson Fruit Co. and
the Union. The latter will have six
representatives on the board of direct
ors and the former will have three
members of the board of nine direc
tors. It will be ditferent from the
Northwestern Fruit Exchange in that
it will be an organization of apple
growers and the profit that will be de
rived will be for the purpose of main
taining the organization, while the
Northwestern Exchange is for a profit
to the stockholders of the concern who
may not he growers. According to the
terms of the plan as outlined anv
pooled interest of fruit growers must
take advantage of the amalgamation
before May , jyl3, if they expect to
ship their fruit through it. Individual
growers may ship through it any time
they desire to enter it.
Mr. button then read the options
that had been drawn up by the Union
and the Davidson Kruit Co. That of
the Union, submitted to lie stockholders
of this concern, proposes) lease th
properties of the concern for a period
of ten years at fixed rates of rental.
Ihe annual rental that will be fixed on
the shipping concern's properties will
be on a percentage basis of the valua
tions. 1 welve and a half percent will
he paid on real estate, fifteen per cent
on machinery and eight per cent on
water power, the aggregate sum of
the valuations of the Union's dilferent
nropelies is placed at $110,000. The
leasing valuation of the Davidson Fruit
Co. has been placed at $7!,000, a rental
of 12J per cent to be paid on real es
tate and 15 percent on machinery. It
is proposed to buy the property of the
National Apple Co. at a valuution of
$65,000. The reoott ot the directors of
the Union recommends that the plant
be purchased Instead or leased. Ac
cording to the report the combining oi
the concerns must be runsumated by
April IS and a 75 per cent tonnage of
the valley s apple crop be guaranteed
before, else the leases will expire. It
is furthermore included in the options
that the leases of the two concerns,
that of the Hood River Apple Growers'
Urron and the Davidson Fruit Co.,may
be declared at an end by either tho
leasing concerns or tho leasing co-operative
concern, whenever the co-operative
concern shall handle less than C5
per cent of the valley's crop.
The Hood River Apple & Storage Co.
will neither lease nor sell to tho pro
posed selling association, which, ac
cording to the report of tho Union di
rectors, will be called the Hood River
Apple Growers' Association, or Kx
change. Alblert W. I'eters, one of the
members of this company, rtated that
its members had built their plant not
only for storage, but to eliminate the
necessity of constructing individual
packing plants on their places. "We
want to be able to continue to pack our
fruit there," said Mr. I'eters, "and we
fear that if we lease to the association
it will run other apples through the
plant and that we will not be able to
care for our own. We aro not ready
now to say that we can sign up and
Bhip our apples through the concern.
We want to wait and see further the
attitude of the growers and how the
thing is going to terminate."
A number of speeches were madu by
H. F. Davidson in explanation of the
proposed association. Mr. Davidson
stated that the growers would realize
in CO days, when their returns for the
past season's apples would begin to
come in, just how badly such a concern
as needed. He recalled his eastern trip
this winter and told the growers that a
condition existed there among the
markets that could not be anticipated
by anyone who had not been on trade
Btreets of the larger cities. He em
phasized the fact that the proposed
association needed lepresentati ve men
on the board of directors. They must
enter the concern with the avowed
purpose of carrying out the terms of
the cooperative movetmnt, he utatid.
Mr. Davidson thinks that the combina
tion move.nent will cut 'down heavy
overhead expenses. "I feel safe in
saying that $10,000 per year can be
saved by the amalgamation of the
warehouses," he said.
C. H. Sproat said: "We need not
argue the necessity of co-operation.
That is a conceeded fact. 'lheques-
i tions that we must consider are: Will
the warehouse properties be taken care
of and will the association he under the
hands of the growers." Mr. Sproat
I stated that the talk had prevailed in
the valley to the effect that the organ-
ization might come under the hands of
an individual or body of individuals.
; He declared that such a condition would
I be impossible and urged that all get
rid of jealousies.
Mr. Sieg took the floor in the after
noon, when the growers convened after
lunch, and further explained his atti
tude. He stated that the association
might well handle the fruit from all
of the contiguous districts, White
Salmon, Mosier and Unferwood. Rep
resentative growers from other dist
ricts were present at the meeting. Ac
cording to Mr. Sieg's statements,
figuring the average crop of the dist
rict to be handled at 800,000 boxes and
charging 10 cents per box for handling
the fruit, the sum of revenue derived
will be $H0,000 per year. The aggre
gate of the sums to be paid for rentals
and in paying for the National Apple
Company a plant will reach $37,0o0.
Thus a sum of $43,000 according to his
figures, will remain to carry on maket
ing, the paying of salaries of Fjj esmen
nd officers and other expenses.
He staled that the credit of the con- !
cern would le next to that of the !
county court. "We have called this i
meeting to get some decisive action ;
for the growers are on the verge of
another crop, and they must be making
preparations now for the crop of 1114
and J y 1 5. ' he declared. Mr. Sieg also
called the attention of the growers to
the fact that they must consider by
products. He stated that he felt sure
that the owners of the heal vinegar
factory would be ready toturnthtir
plant over to the management of such
a concern as that which it was proposed
to form.
E. II. Shepard. Prof. L. F. Hender
son and A. 1. Mason followed in suc
cession. Mr. Mason stated that he was
willing to enter into a cooperative as
sociation, but he criticised the Ian
proposed, because or the fact that the
Union and the Davidson Company
would not sell out entirely instead of
leasing. 11. C. Coleman also objected
to this plan.
.following addresses made byl.W.
Hooker and Roy D. Smith, tho motion.
made by 1'rof. C. I). Thompson, that
the mass meeting of growers should
endorse the proposed association plan
was carried without a dissenting vote.
Ihe stockholders or the Union then.
by a vote of the stock, which was al
most unanimous, authorized the board
of directors to proceed with the forma
tion of the association as outlined in
the report read at the morning session.
CLUB PROPOSES COW
BUYING ASSOCIATION
The crowd that attended the Com-
mi rcial club's cow meeting Saturday
afternoon was not as large as hud been
expected. The ranchers were busy on
their places, and not all of those who
had come to the city attended the
meeting, the apple marketing amalga
mation having created a greater inter
est. Secretary Scott outlined the plans
that the club g board of directors had
thought of by which they might assist
the ranchers to obtain cows.
"We cannot hope to start a creamery
here unless we put in about 300 more
milch cows," said Mr. Scott, "or at
leaHt that is what Prof. Kent, the Ag
ricultural College expert told us, when
he was here not long ago. We invited
l'rof. Kent here to tell us all about the
dairy business and to advise us as to
whether or not it would be profitable
for local apple growers to raiBe cowb.
We did not want him to come and make
a public talk. It may be well enough
to create an interest in cows, but not
too much until after we have learned
just how we are going to get long af
ter we get them. We could go ahead
and get a lot of cows here, and soon go
broke.
"If enough of the growers want
cows, the club will take steps toward
forming a Hoed River s cow buyers
association, an organization that can
assist the grower in selecting his cows
and that will help him financially. "
When l'rof. Kent was here with the
club directors he went into ill sides of
the question of dairying. He told them
that enough cows were brought here at
once to start a creamery it would mean
a calamity; for provisions have not
been made for enough feed for the ani
mals. "A cow will eat on an average
of 20 pounds of hiy per day," says
l'rof. Kent. While kale is an excellent
green feed for the winter months it is
somewhat of a drain on the land."
It was Bhown that the raising of hogs
could be successfully carried on with
dairying. However, the hogs will not
thrive unless they are kept in dry en
closures and free from exposure. "A
hog will fatten on a comparatively
small amount of food if will cared for,
while one that is exposed to nil of the
weather will cut his head off and re
main poor," say experts. As an ex
ample of the proilt in hogs, Secretary
Scott told ol a grower who recently
related his experience with two pigs.
They were so small when he bought
them that he carried them home in a
gunnysack. Kit soon, eating the
skim milk and other wnsfe material
from the kitchen and a little grain, the
pigs had grown to he big fat hogs.
One of ttiem whs butchered when he
weighed 225 pounds, while the other,
now weighing 3.r0 pounds will soon go
toward filling Ihe grower's lard cans
and his smoke house.
Several Upper Valley ranchers were
in to attend Saturday's meeting. 'I hey
staled that their only problem would be
to get the Itut1.t r fat to market. The
club hi s assured the growers of that
section that it will aid them in secur
ing bttter transportation facilities.
Asa H. Cutler asked concerning the
possibilities of growing corn here for
cows. He was afraid to try it for
fear the crop would not mature. O. R.
Rone stated that he had found the
small yellow dent corn, such as is
grown on the dry lands of Idaho, very
successful here. It matures and yields
very heavily.
It is propositi to secure cows that
are needed here from the Willamtte
valley. Son.e expert, probably l'rof.
Kent, will be secured to make tho se
lections. The meeting Saturday cre
ated no small amount of interest. In
deed, one grower was heard to say that
he thought the dairy bus ness on a
small scale was of far more importance
to this region than poultry raising.
I. G. Hills, a drairyman of Clark
county, Wash., who has been here vis
iting his daughter, Mrs. S. 15. Carnine,
of the Heights, gave the growers the
benefits of his experience. "We have
found the production of butter fat to
be very profitable in our community,"
said Mr. Mills.
CHARTER CHANGE RES
OLUTION IS ADOPTED
TheVity council at the Monday night
meeting adopted a resolution providing
fnr a phunifn in the citv charter where
by the city may acquire property to be
used lor a Horary sue anu 10 expenu
moneys to aid the county in the pur
chase and maintenance of such a place.
However, the resolution limits the
amount to be spent by the city bond
iucmi fur aoi-h nurooyf tn the slim of
$7,0oO. And the bond issue must not
bear a rate of interest to exceed b per
cent.
The charter amendment will have to
be brought about by a special election.
An ordinance will be drawn up and a
,li.to uiill lip set for this election. When
the charter is changed the citizens will
then vote the bond issue.
SCHOOL FAIRS
CREATE INTEREST
MERCHANTS SWELL PREMIUM LIST
Business Men Realize Beneft of Event and
Take an Interest in Co-operating
W ith Committee.
The committee recently appointed by
the Commercial club to assist l'rof. C.
I). Thompson, county school superin
tendent in creating an interest among
the merchants of the city in the school
fair to be held here this fall and to
secure subscriptions from them, have
been busy last week and the first of
this week and have found the business
men ready to contribute liberally for
the fair, the business men understand
the significance of the school fairs and
the benefits that will be derived for
them and all endorse them.
Last year, because of the lack of
time, the committee in charge of the
fair that was held here in September
was unable to see tho country mer
chants. They will be asked for con
tributions this year. However, they
w ill perhaps want to contribute prizes
to be given to the children of their re
spective comunities.
All of the schools of the county will
participate in the fair.
Those who have contributed to the
premium list are as follows:
Frank A. Cram, Fashion Livery &
Dray Co., Transfer and Livery Co.,
Mount Hood hotel, II. E. Duncan, Da
vidson Fruit Co., Hood River Gas &
Electric Co., Electric Wiring & Supply
Co., Taft Transfer Co., Stewart Hard
ware & Furniture Co., Stanley-Smith
Lumber Co., Apple Land & Orchard
Co., J. 1'. Lucas, M. Yasul, Gilbert
Implement Co., Bragg Mercantile Co.,
Keir & Cass, W. F. Laraway, Geo. I.
Slocom, John Raker, F. 11. Coolidge,
C. R. Hone, George R. Wilbur, E. E.
Kaesser, J. G. Vogt, Arthur Clarke, C.
K. Marshall, E. A. Franz, Perigo &
Son, J. R. Kinsey, L. N. lllowere, E.
11. Shepard, J. W. Pifer, Hood River
Abstract Co., The Cruikshank Co., Jas.
Waggener, jr., F. II. Morton, Ihe
Paria Fair, llailey & Colby, S. E. Bart
mess, Chas. N. Clarke, J. M. Wood,
W. S. Nichol. W. E. King, W. E. Han
son, F. P. Friday, A. C. Staten, A. L.
Carmichael, Butler Ranking Co., Hood
Kivcr Ranking & I rust Co., hirst Na
tional Rank, A. W. Monosmith, J, O.
McLaughlin.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
At tho meeting of the Volunteer Fire
Department Wednesday evening of last
week, when William Ganger, who for
Hve years has been chief of the depart
ment, handed In his resignation, Keen
regret was felt by all present. ' Mr.
Ganger, who is preparing to remove
with his family to Hull Run, where he
recently purchased a ranch from C. A.
Cass, has won the respect of all of his
associates. He has been a member of
the fire department for the past seven
years and has always worked toward
making it better. Mr. Ganger has won
a reputation among other members of
the department for the care with which
le looked after the apparatus. Assist
ant Chief W. I!. MeGuire becomes
chief of the department, while R. H.
Husbands will take Mr. MeGuire a
place.
At the close cf the meeting, a num
ber of the stronger members of the de
partment grasped Mr. Ganger and he
was borne to the Royce restaurant,
where an informal banquet was held.
A number of speeches were made.
"I am going to do mv best for the
department," said Mr. MeGuire, "and
1 feel very fortunate in having such
an assistant is Mr. Husband. Rut
none of us can ever take Mr. Ganger's
place."
The retiring chief was presented with
a diploma, showing that ho had been a
member of the department for the past
seven years. This exempts him from
further jury service in this state.
Others who are eligible to these di
plomas of exemption are: W. H. Me
Guire, R. H. Itushands, E. C. Wright,
A. D. Dabney and C. S. Jones.
STRANAHM & CLARK
BUILD WAREHOUSE
Stranahan & Slaven are now en
gaged in laying the foundation for a
new warehouse for Stranahan & Clark
on Railroad ave., just west of the
Hood River Apple Growers' Union
warehouse and odices. The new struc
ture will be built of brick and will rise
two stories in height. It will be 40
feet wide and 72 feet long. The foun
dation will be of concrete. The build
ing will add to the long line of brick
structures that now run the length of
Railroad avenue for more than 800
feet.
Stranahan & Clark will probably re
move their old warehouse, just across
the O.-W. R. & N. tracks at the foot
of Second stieet, to the property pur
chased by thorn from the Hood River
t louring Mill Co. They will maintain
offices in the handsome new brick
structure. The firm deals in the flour
of the Wasco Warehouse & Milling Co.,
of The Dalles, one of the largest and
best equipped milling concerns west of
Minneapolis. They also handle grains,
feed and spray materials, and require
a great deal of warehouse space.
The street that runs from the Union
depot down to the freight house sta
tion of the O.-W. R. & N. Co. is very
narrow, and it is impossible for a team
to turn in front of the new building.
The feed and material company is
eager to have the city higin its work
of constructing a street from Railroad
avenue to open up the factory district
of the city. The brick to be used in
the construction have been manufac
tured by A. T. Zeek, whose brick yards
are in the Relmont district.
W. II. Taft has returned from a trip
to the Panama canal zone and to cities
along the Mexican coast on the Pacific.
Children Sign Petitions
The pupils of the high school and
city schools are now signing a long
petition that will he sent with those
from other schools of the state to Pres
ident Wilson anil Congress, praying
that the Battleship Oregon be the first
to pass through the Panama canal.
Samuel M. Blowers, of Portland, has
been here this week visiting relative.
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