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VOL. XXV
HOOD IUVEK, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 17. 1913
No 7
TO EXCHANGE;
We have three highly improved ranches located in the lest parts of
the Lower Valley, valued at 132,000, $ 1,50() and $18,000, to exchange for
Eastern farm lands prefer the Dakotae or Nekraska. These are strictly
high class properties. No doubt some of you who read this have friends
in these states who would like to come to Hood Kiver but cannot dispose
of their property there. Here's a chance to get them out here, under
favorable conditions.
A fine SO acre farm in Camas Prairie District, 70 acres have been in
cultivation, fair 6-room house, level land, no rock, good well. Price $S0
er acre. Will exchange for property of nearly equal value on West Side.
10 acres in Oak Grove District, 8 acres young trees and extra tine ber
ries; modem bungalow, good barn, team, Jersey cow, all tools; large
modern poultry plant, incubators, brooders, etc., about 200 fine White
leghorn chickens; spring water piped to house and barn. This is an ideal
place for fruit and poultry. Value $5,000, mortgage 13,450 at 8 per cent
not due for long time. Owner must leave valley. Will trade equity for
anything of value. What have joi: to offer?
THE BEST INSURANCE costs no more than the ordinary. We
represent millionaire companies only. If you are not protected, better
phone us about it right now.
ROBERTS & SIMMS
Hotel Oregon Bldg. Phone 3111
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and a full line of Caps, Rubbers and everything needed
for canning.
E. E. HAESSER
Cash Grocery
F.B.SNYDER B.B.POWELL
Hood River Plumbing Co.
SANITARY PLUMBING
AND HEATING j& j& &
Tinning and Sheet Metal WorR. Gasoline En
gines, Pumps. Rams. Repairing Promptly
Attended. Estimates Furnished.
Office in Davidson Building
Phone 1544 Third and Cascade
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Picture
The FRAME is often half the PICTURE.
Why spoil the picture with a poor frame?
Bring it to us and it will be framed right
A lot of new Mouldings in all sizes and
shades. OVAL and ROUND FRAMES.
Slocom's- Book & Art Store
"The Place That Docs the Framing"
I THE SQUARE DEAL I
STORE
Has a Full Stock of
Wagons and Spring Wagons
Agent for
Bean Power and Hand Spray
Pumps
Hose, Rods and Nozzles
Bluestone and Lime
Oliver Plows and Extras
d. Mcdonald
THIRD AND CASCADE STS. HOOD RIVER, OREGON
STheScenic
See it at its best from the
Dalles, Portland & Astoria
Effective May 20, the following will be the Schedule of the Boats:
Steamer Bailey Gatzert will leave Portland daily except Sunday and
Monday for up river points at 7:00 A. M.
Returning will leave Hood Kiver at P. M . on the same days.
The Dalles City will leave Portland on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday,
and will leave Hood Kiver on Monday, Wednesday ami Friday.
Her arrival at Hood River being about 4:30 P.M., and departure
about 8:30 A. M., same depending on the amount of freight we are
carrying. Portland Dock at Foot of Alder Street
Land For Sale
1 have about 1,000 acres of No. 1 Apple Land,
most of it under ditch at prices ranging from $ GO
per acre up. In tracts from ten acres up.
J. R. STEELE
HoodRiver4 - - - Oregon
Ice Cream
We Deliver
Frames
Columbia
river steamers of The
Navigation Company.
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HOSIER DISTRICT
SIIOWSGROWTII
URGE ORCHARDS BEGIN TO BEAR
Residents of Community of Handsome
Humes are Enthusiastic Boosters for
Columbia River Boulevard
The stranger dropping oft the train
at the station tf Mosier, typical
country village set there on the bank
of the Columbia with its oak trees giv
ing color to the crag bound landscape
would never suspect, if he had not al
ready had some hint of the beauty of
the orchard landscape he was going to
behold, that he would see another Mid
Columbia wonderland, where acre after
acre of symetrically planted young
orchards greet the eye on every hand,
but one has to cross the river Styx to
get to the Elyaian fields, or the Alps to
get to Italy, and so the station has to
be braved in order to see the Mosier
hills, dotted with homes as handsome
as any that can be found in the state
of Oregon.
The Mosier district is devoted alto
gether to tree fruits. It is true that
some of the growers have small tracts
set to strawberries and small quantities
of small vine fruits are grown, but
apples, cherries and prunes are tbe
chief products of Hood River'a nearest
neighbor on the east. Mosier'a prunes,
though in a more limited way, are as
well known in the markets of the
United States as are Hood River's ap
ples, and in the fall of the year one ran
purchase the big luscious plums in Chi
cago, New York or any of the principal
markets of the country, where they are
shipped to be distributed to the smaller
places.
Fortunate is the visiting stranger
who is a friend of Jack McGregor,
"Happy Jack" or "Mac, the King of
Scotland," as they call him there. Mr.
McGregor knows everybody in Mosier
district. And then, a matter of mere
importance to the visiting man who
wants to see the community in a short
time, "Mac" has just purchased an
automobile. He is the pioneer car
owner of the little Mid-Columbia fruit
town. They tell the story there that
he bought the machine with his cherry
crop returnB. He shipped three boxes
from his orchard, and the next day the
car was ordered.
Mr. McGregor, as are all of the peo
ple of the Mosier district, city and
country fulk alike, twelve hundred of
them, are clHmoring for the Portland
Ihe Dalles hghway. They don't say
Portland-Hood River highway, as do
their neighbors further down the river ;
for they want to see it extended on
through up the river. "1 would just
like to mix with your county court
down there for a moment," Bays Mr.
McGregor, "and I'll wager they would
be willing to keep those convicts re
cently ottered by Governor WeBt and
have them continue their work on what
will be the greatest highway, when it
is completed, in the United States."
And then he grew more serious but
continued his criticism of the local
tioaid of commissioners for having dis
continued the work on the highway.
"We people here are not taking as
much interest as we 'should. None of
us are. We ought to remain awake at
nights to think of means to hasten that
road. Why, if 1 had a million dollars,
I would build that highway, and make
one of the greatest monuments for my
self that man ever set up for himself."
The Mosier district shipped 40 car
loads of apples last year. At the present
time approximately 5,000 acres there
are set to apples, one thousand already
in bearing. The output of the district
will increase very last now; for the
younger orchards will be fast coming
into bearing. While the lack of water
prevents the growth of the small fruits
cutlivated here as well as the raising
of cover crops, the Mosier growers are
proud of their non-irrigated product,
which they say is superior in certain
quality respects. Fifteen thousand
crates of Mosier prunes were marketed
last year by the Mosier Fruit Growers'
Association. R. 1). Chatfield, present
manager of the association, says he
will market 10 carloads of cherries this
year. The fruit is finer this season
than ever and for the first time carload
shipments are being made. 1 he fruit
is being shipped through the North
western Fruit Exchange. "We have
already had a small vinegar plant, a
private concern, established here,"
said Mr. Chatfield last week, and there
is talk now of a cannery for the cull
and low grade product. The cherry
crop was very prolific this year, Frank
Ginger having.shipped 12 tona from 120
trees.
In the last five years, according to
the estimates of the prominent grow
ers, $500,000 have been expended in the
Mosier district in improvements, build
ings and land clearing. Nearly $100,000
have been spent in the past year and a
half. Handsome homes have been built
there by the following people, most of
whom were former Portland business
men C. A. McCargar, Ed L. Howe,
H. M. Scearce, G. P. and C. A. Mor
den, J. P. Carroll, G. L. Carroll, Dr.
C. A. McCrum, Mark A. Mayer, C. L.
McKenna, W. H. Weber, Amos Root,
Lee Evans, F. E. Shogren, E. B. Ven
ae!, Miss A. and M. Shogren, Ed F.
Reeves, C. J. Littlepage, R. H. Cum
mins, Morton & Algesheimer, C. C.
lsom, R. D. Chatfield and Dr. David
Robinson.
Even though the residents of this
favored fruit district were able to look
at nothing else but their own tree cov
ered hills, they might well be satisfied.
But from different of points in the
alley they are able to see some of the
northwest's most scenic spots.
Glimpses are had of Mount Hood, while
the Columbia gorge is the daily specta
cle of the homes in portions of the val
ley. On Morden ridge, where Morden
brothers are developing a tract of 200
acres, sixty of which have been cleared
and planted, one of the most delightful
views in the whole normwest may be
had. Here one may look down across
the Mosier hills and on beyond the Col
umbia, a mere water ribbon at this
distance, to the grain fields of Klicki
tat county, and every moment the
shadows of the distant landscape,
where the folds of the hills at one mo
ment may be dark gray and then a
shifting cloudlet moving away, touched
brown or vivid green in tbe sunlight.
Metsrs. Morden have a handsome bung
alow and the home is supplied with
every convenience enjoyed by city
dwellers.
Another handsome country residence
ii that of C. A. McCargar. His bung
alow is one of the handsomest in the
state of Oregon. He has 50 acres of
commercial trees in bearing, one of the
largest bearing orchards in the Mosier
district. Dr. David Kobinson, who has
a home in Mosier, where he is prac
ticing physician, is also a fruit grower
and is developing a handsome property.
On the bench above the Columbia
gorge, just a mile and a half east of
Mosier town is perhaps the finest
country home in the state of Oregon.
Mark A. Mayer, the owner, an old
bachelor, who declares he is going to
retire and become a country gentle
man, is spending a snug fortune in de
veloping a handsome estate. To stand
at the west end of his orcnard nearly
three-quarters of a mile away and look
up the roadway leading between an
avenue of apple trees to the handsome
mansion, with its colonial pillars, glis
tening white in the sunshine, one rould
think himself in the far south. If the
eyes could be closed and again open on
a road way leading down between rows
of tall cotton plants, the metamor
phosis would be complete. Mr. Mayer,
who has spent most of his life and
made a fortune in the mercantile busi
ness, although a native Oregonian was
for many years a resident of New
York. He is now connected with Port
land business concerns but spends the
greater portion of his time in Mayer-
dale, as he has christened the village
surrounding his colonial mansion, the
cottages which house his chickens, bis
farm employes and his fancy horses.
Mr. Mayer is an enthusiastic chicken
fancier and has incubated 12(H) little
chicks this spring. He has a large
hennery and supplies the Multnomah
hotel with the eggs. His chicken
houses are kept in the best of condi
tion. They are constructed in the most
convenient fashion that carpenters can
contrive.
While Mr. Mayer's home, surrounded
by vineclad pergolas, green lawns and
old fashioned and new gardens, is a
marvel of beauty from the outside, the
eyes of his visitors also feast on pic
ture of elegance and convenience on
the interior. It is complete from base
ment to ceiling. Almlin a with his
lamp, if he had been a country gentle
man could not have wished for more.
One may consider the town of Mosier
insignificant as compared with the hills
back of it yet the village itself is
growing and bids fair to become more
thriving than the ordinary station of
250 souls. The Pat-tic Bridge Co. is at
the present time installing a giant rock
crushing plant at the west end of the
town, the new enterprise will employ
50 men. The output is to be used by
the O-.W. R. & N. Co. in ballasting
ts double tracks now under construc
tion and being planned.
The town has four stores. E. M.
Straus, a newcomer whose former
home was in Wisconsin, has just opened
a large department store. Mr. Straus
ia also an orchardist and is building a
handsome home in the town. Mosier
has its library where well tilled shelves
are made use of by the residents of
town and surrounding country.
It is proposed by Mosier people to
continue the construction of a highway,
two miles of which have already been
completed, up the Columbia and thus
form a link in the boulevard from
Iortland. it is declared that for 11
miles of the way the old right of way
of the O. R. &N . Co. can be made use
of and th.it the road can be built at a
slight expense.
1 he visitor to the town of Mosier or
to the country surrounding it cannot
but he impressed that the citizens of
this district are a wonderful little unit
in the making of a moie beautiful,
prosperous and progressive Oregon.
COUNCIL AGITATES NEW
WIRING ORDINANCE
At the instigation of Councilman
Bell, the city council lit its Monday
night meeting, after a discussion, in
structed the judiciary committee to
bring in an ordinal. ce that will provide
for the common use of poles in the city
limits by electric power companies and
telephone companies. Two power com
panies, the Hydro-Electric and the
Hood Kiver Gas & Electric Co., are
doing business in the city as are two
telephone companies, the Oregon
Washington Co. and the Pacific 'tele
phone & Telegraph Co.
The council last year passed an ordi
nance requiring the companies to read
just their lines in conformance with
the state law.
The improvement of the cross streets
between Fifth and the end of the im
proved portions of Cascade and Oak
streets was discussed. 1 he property
owners in the districts involved ex
pressed the opinion that it would be
better to di?fer the improvement of
these thoroughfares, since they had al
ready been put to beavy expense. It
is thought, however, that no small
trouble will be experienced this winter
in keening Cascade avenue free from
the silt that will wash down from the
unimproved streets.
Sam W. Stark took his place on the
council Monday night.
MRS. BEMJImT MIX
PLAY AT CHAUTAUQUA
Mrs. J. F. Beaumont, wife of Dr. J
F. Beaumont, who owns a ranch in the
Summit district, will come here during
the chautauqua, and will play several
selections on the night of the classical
music program. Mrs. Beaumont is one
of the best known pianists in.Portand.
She is also prominent in social and
club circles, being regent for Oregon
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
The orchestra, which is under man
agement of Arthur Clarke, is also mak
ing extensive preparations ior tne oc
casion. Wm. Chandler, whose artistic
playing of the violin is known through
out the state, will conduct the orches
tra. He has been busy now for the
nast two weeks arranging the music
for the chautauqua and in selecting
music for the different nights.
Water Permits For County
During the quarter ending June ISO,
two permits for the approbation of
water have been granted by the state
engineer to Hood River county real
dents. Chas. Gray, of Wyeth. has been
granted the privilege of making use of
a tenth of a second loot oi tne waters oi
Grays creek for domestic purposes. F,
E. Newby has secured tne appropria
tion of three and a half second leet for
the use of operating a sawmill. The
water appropriated by Mr. Newy is
from Perm creek west of the city.
ALL READY FOR
TIIEBIG EVENT
CHAUTAUQUA NOW MAIN OBJECT
Performers Rehearse-Tents Rise Like
Mushrooms -New Name Significant
of Valley Will Be Chosen
All the family is now discussing the
Chautauqua. The baby and grand
mother, all are talking of the pleasant
days that are to be spent in the woods
in the Woodworth park next week.
Every convenience will be made for
the older people of the community, and
a special play ground has been ar
ranged for the children. The shade of
old Abe Buchanan, the first white man
to drink in the pure atmosphere of the
region of the Lava springs, it is prob
able, has heard of the fete and no doubt
will watch the merry makers from the
pinnacle of the l.atva Beds. Local
people will begin to arrive at the place
of the sylvan soiree next Sunday and
many families will be encamped by
Monday.
A competition will be inaugurated at
the opening of the Chautauqua tu se
lect a new name for Hood River's big
annual event. It is becoming more and
more apparent that the word "Chau
tauqua will not answer. There are
"chautauquas" everywhere, the news
papers are full of them; but nowhere
on the entire coast is there to be found
an event of the nature and scope of the
Hood River encampment. A cash prize
will be given fur the best auggested
name, the selection to be made on the
last night. Address all names to the
Chautauqua headquarters on the
grounds, marked "Name Contest."
A special meeting was held Friday
morning at the Commercial club for
the purpose of considering the encamp
ment from a broader and more compre
hensive standpoint. The affair has al
ready practically outgrown ita original
purpose, that of amusing only Hood
River people, and it is plainly apparent
that it is making a strong appeal to
outsiders; something that was never
thought of when George I. Sargent
evolved the original idea. Those pres
ent were W. L. Clark, E. O. Blanchar,
P. S. Davidson, Charles Hall, H. K.
Davidson, Truman Butler, J. H. Heil
bronner, R. W. Pratt, R. E. Scott and
C. N. Ravlin. A special committee,
consisting of Truman Butler, C. N.
Ravlin and J. 11. Heilbronner, was ap
pointed to visit Portland this week and
extend a personal invitation to the
leading railway officials, leading bank
ers, and liht and power people to at
tend the last two days of the encamp
ment and see for themselves just what
the future possibilities are.
It will be welcome news to their
hosts of admirers to learn that those
famous Dutch comedians, Clarke and
Gilbert, have consented to produce a
brand new Dutch act on the vaudeville
program the last night. Gilbert, up to
within a few days ago, did not figure
on being here during the Chautauqua
week, but he has finally arranged his
plans so he will be enabled to partic-
iate.
The Tuesday night symphony concert
under the capable leadership of Will-
am Chandler gives promise of being
of surprising excellence. Chandler ia
developing into a leader of whom Hood
Kiver may justly feel proud, lhe fol-
owing is the prorgain he has arranged :
March, selected.
Selection, "Time, Place and The
Girl," Howard.
Waltz, "Pequant," Frans Lehar.
Sextette from Lucia Di Lammer-
moor, Donaetii.
Barcarole, Ialesof Hoffman, Of
fenbach.
Overture, "Salute to Erin," La-
motte.
Wedding March from Midsummer
Nights Dream, Mendelssohn.
Selection, Bright Eyes, Karl
Ho8chna.
Waltz, "Spring Maid, Heinrich
I'einhardt.
Selection, "Red Widow," Chas. de-
beat.
March, selected.
The grounds are humming with in-
lustry this week. Tenta are going up
like mushrooms and in every depart
ment there is a hustle that speaks well
for an early completion. J he tents
that are being arranged in groups are
so closely intermingled that it is im
possible to form any cliques as was at
first feared. It will be one great big
family party from beginning to end.
A committee of "mixers" will be
formed when the encampment begins
whose duty will be to keep thing stir
ring all the time.
On rridav, the 2!th, everything and
everybody all over the valley will move
toward the encampment. I he Hood
River stores will all close all day and
it will be the duty of all to lend their
presence to the Chautauqua.
A special train service will be insti
tuted on the Mount Hood Railway on
Friday and Saturday. The morning
train will leave Hood River at9:.i0
o'clock, returning from Parkdale at 1
o'cock. Tbe afternoon train leaves
Hood River at 4:30 o'clock, arriving at
the grounds in time for dinner. On the
return trip it will leave Parkdale about
10:H0o clock, or alter the show. A
special Chautauqua round trip rate has
been made of $1.20.
C. K. Osgood, who has been actively
rehearsing with his six "Apple Blos
soms has changed his nrst selection to
the popular "The Trail of the Lone
some Pine, " which is just now going
the rounds of the big vaudeville cir
cuits. Captain Mcdan has just sent
word that he will be unable to attend
the Chautauqua and is therefore
obliged to cancel his act.
Those who have Been Dorothy Ep
ping's new original Egyptian dance in
rehearsal unhesitatingly say it will te
one of the sensations of the Saturday
night program. For an amateur Miss
Epping possesses a talent in this line
that is astounding. The most enthusi
astic of her friends say she is a second
Isodora Duncan.
The Chautauqua ball, which takes
place on Wednesday night, is attracting
a great deal of attention. From pres
ent indications the beautiful open air
ball room will be taxed to its capacity.
A. W. Peters will be master of cere
monies, assisted by Crawford Lemmon,
Claude Thompson and others of the
floor committee. An excellent floor has
been laid, nearly as large as Heilbron
ner hall. Dancing will also be indulged
in here every night after the shows.
Rev. Billie Sunday, who is here
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