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HOOD RIVEK, OREGON, THURSDAY, .! I N E 10, 191'.
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Energy's fire, and the flame-glow of Will;
By grasping the chance with a"Now,now or never!"
Urging on, on! while the laggard stands still.
"Success! It is facing life's trials, undaunted;
Fighting the present-forgetting the past;
By trusting to Fate, though for years she has taunted,
And bearing Time's scars;facing front to the last.
"Success! Would you win it, wear its bright token?
Smile and step out to the drummer's light lilt;
Fight on till the last inch of sword-blade is broken.
Then do not say die. Fight on with the hilt! "
Mary Markwell.
There is no doubt the value of thinking along
positive and constructive lines rather than to al
low our minds to be too much occupied by the dire
forebodings that find plenty of nourishment in the
news of the day. We try to put this spirit. into
our every day work and our customers tell us they
like it. If you haven't either a checking account
or a savings account with us, now would be the
time to open one or both. Let us show you just
how much we can do for a good customer.
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Get on the Safe Side
It is a good deal better to be safe than to be sorry.
That is why it is good to be on the safe side by sav
ing a little money. It often happens that a little sav
ings account at the bank has carried people over times
when they would have been mighty sorry without it.
No matter how small your earnings, pinch out a little
and put it in the bank. It will grow and you will take
pride in seeing it increase and thankful that you started
Hood River State Bank
FORD
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
The light, strong, durable, dependable Ford appeals to you
on the matchless strength of its record for service given to
more than 750,000 owners. The Ford is a utility in every hu
man activity, and it is wonderfully low in upkeep - averaging
two cents a mile to run and maintain.
Barring the unforeseen, each retail buyer of a new Ford car,
between August 1914 and August 1915, will receive from $40
$60 as a share of the Ford Motor Company's profits.
On display and sale by
Columbia Auto & Machine Co.
LONG TIME credit houses must get long prices.
Goods sold on twelve months time must pay two
or more profits.
List up $50.00 you have paid such houses and
compare with our prices.
We Offer You 60 Days Credit
Because that is best we could get.
We Offer You 5 per cent for Cash
Because that is what we get plus the insurance, ex
pense of bookkeeping, stamps, etc.
We Charge Interest if Over Time Is Taken
Because we cannot borrow money without paying
interest.
The net result after three years is that the increased
percentage of cash received creates a change in ratio of
turnover that enables us to reduce price level, while the
5 for cash is always that much less than you are
buying for.
Let us show you the facts and the goods.
Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co.
KAY SUGGESTS
CHEAP ROADS
ENGINEER POINTS OUT ECONOMY
Recommendations Based on Local Obser
vations -Vallf) -Gravel Roads in Ex
cellent Condition
IF IT ISN'T AN EASTMAN IT ISN'T A KODAK.
IF IT ISN'T A KODAK, IT ISN'T AUTOGRAPHIC
IF IT ISN'T AUTOGRAPHIC, IT ISN'T
UP-TO-DATi:.
Hence:
IF IT ISN'T AN EASTMAN, IT ISN'T
UP-TO-DATE
All 1915 Folding Kodaks are Autographic
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Victor Victrolas and Records
Satisfactory Titles
are demanded by the wise buyer. Our work is unquestioned
and guarantees protection.
Satisfactory Insurance
i deemed a necessity by the wine property owner. We represent
10 strong companies and have millions of insurance in the Valley
Satisfactory Bonds
may sometime be required of you, contract, court or security.
When in need of Biich service inquire of us.
Hood River Abstract Company
ICE CREAM
After two months delay we have finanally secured
our ice cream machinery. As soon as it is installed
we will commence the manufacture of ICE CREAM.
We hope that that will be this week.
We will announce our Grand Ice Cream Opening
next week. At that time we will want you to come
and sample it on us.
Any time you may want Ice Cream,' just bring the
can and wood tub of your freezer and we will sell you
any quantity you may wish and pack it for you. We
will not sell it by the dish. If you have not the can
and the tub we will supply it. You can also order
Ice Cream from your grocer.
We will also want a quantity of whole milk for the
manufacture of Ice Cream. If you can supply us get
in touch with Mr. Bluhm at the Creamery.
Hood River Creamery Co.
Tht 6est Coffee on Earth Sold onlr at
The Star Grocery, Perigo & Son
'GOOD THINGS TO EAT
Motorists of the valley, who have
traveled the county highways exten
sively this spring, declare that the
roads have never tie en in better condi
tion. The main trunk lines have been
put in the best uf shape, and the lat
erals in many cases are betterjstill. It
Cues without saving that if the Colum
bia highway were open now the ilood
Hiver valley would be the goal of many
tourists.
And the roads that seem tJbe in the
bent condition are those that have cost
least to construct. I he travel, or
sand-clay road will be chosen today by
the automobilist who is otf for a pleas
ure spin.
Basing his judgment on general ob
servations and mnre'especiaily theroad
work of the county, County Engineer
Kay is an exponent of inexpensive
road construction in rural districts,
where suitable materials may bt ffuund.
Mr. Kay, who until he came to Hood
River in 1904 to take charge of an ap
ple ranch, had spent his lite in railroad
work. He was first a member of the
civil engineering staff of the New York
Cenrtal lines. Later he was with the
New York, Ontario & Western R. K.
Co., following which he served as civil
engineer for the West Shore line. Mr.
Kay left the engineering Btatf of the
Chicago & Northwestern to come to
Hood Kiver. Since he has been in
Hood Km r he has devoted a large por
tion of his time to the construction of
highways.
Mr. Kay has been elected an'associ-
ate member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers. He recently passed
an examination which makes him elig
ible to appointment as highway engin
eer in the United States Oflice.of Pub
lic Heads.
Mr. Kay does not agree with the pol
icy of road builders who propose the
constrcution of high priced, so called,
permanent roads. Keferring to the
state of New York, where much has
been done recently in highway prog
ress, he says: "That New York in at
temptingjto correct her first mistake in
road policy is making a second mis
take, should be apparent not only to all
engineers specializing in read worn,
but as well to the layman who has
made but a superficial study of the
subject.
"because $800 per mile per year was
found to be an extravagance that no
state could survive for any length of
time, Governor Glen has been reported
to have stated:
" 'Even if New York were compelled
to pay $25,000 a mile for brick roads,
it would be economy to build such
roads.'
'New York state road work la now
going forward on this plan, the main
factor in us adoptisn being that the
vitrified brick road on a concrete base
is the most nearly permanent type of
road yet devised and with a low annual
maintenance cost per mile of $50. The
purpose is to build the most nearly per
manent road obtainable at no matter
what cost, provided maintenance may
be reduced to a minimum.
"Evidently it is overlooked that even
if no repairs whatever were needed on
the $25,000 per mile road, the mainte
nance cost is $1,500 per year for inter
est with a rate of six per cent.
"Another mistake in this kind of
plan is that the investment of a $100,
000,000 bond issue in these high cost
roads improves but five per cent of the
roads of the state, while no provision
is made for the other 95 per cent.
"In order to see into such a situation
clearly, it might be well to simplify it
by considering a smaller community.
Take, therefore, the county of Hood
Kiver, where the annual appropriation
for roada is approximately $50,000, and
where there are, say, 100 miles of main
roads.
"Applying the New York state plan,
progress would go lorward at the rate
of two miles of roads a year. At the
end of 20 years we would have 40 miles
of good roads, the cost of which would
have been a million dollar. Yet we
would have 60 miles of bad roads, just
as bad as when we began. The last
mile of these bad roads would not be
improved until 30 more years would
have elapsed. In other words, we
would have 100 miles ,cf roads for the
expenditure of $2,500,000. taking 50
vears to build them. The fact that the
countyjhas a bonding right under exist'
ing laws up to $150,000 has little bear
ing on thn matter.
"Assuming that no repairs whatever
be required the cost per mile per year
after completion would be $1,500, or
$150,000 for the 100 mile system, at a
six per cent interest rate.
"Governor Glen again says: 'The
total expenditure for 20 years on a
macadam road will amount to $:)S,000.
including $12,0000 for building, $18,000
for maintenance and $b,000 lor rebuild
ing at the end of 10 years. The tola
expendturo for vitrified brick after 20
years, if we allow a maximum of $25,
000 for building and $50 a year for
maintenance, is $20,000.'
"In other words, because the macad
am is too costly, the only remedy is a
more nearly permanent type of road
at almost any price, provided it will
last a long time at a small cost for
maintenance.
"The words of the governor are no
doubt correct and the $2,500 road is the
better and cheaper of the two. There
is a posibility, however, that either of
these plans may be as bad as the other.
"1 would suggest another policy for
comparison with that of the state of
New York. The proposed policy is that
of low cost, short lived!roads requiring
a high cost of maintenance, Buch aa the
gravel road, meaning natural gravel or
1 crushed stone, which may be cheaper
'for any given locality, depending on
cost of crushing and relative length of
haul.
"The best roadway in Hood River
county today is of gravel construction,
made of natural gravel hauled about
two miles. The cost of location, grad
ing, crowning, draining, etc., was
: nominal, about $200 per mile, this be
I ing an old established road on light
I grades. Gravel was applied at a depth
j of 10 inches for a width of eight feet
I for a cost of $300 per mile. The traffic
packed and spread this to a width of
about 10 feet, teperinj it to the earth
road bed, which is 20 feet wide.
"This road is preferred by'all classes
of traffic to a three year old macadHm
road of which it is a continuation. The
maintenance of this road consists in ad
ding three inches of new gravel each
year. This costs $100 per mile, and
keeps the road permanently in the
satr.e condition as when first built.
This is a hih maintenance cost, being
one fifth of original cost, equivalent to
complete rebuilding every five years.
An average good roads engineer and
economist considers this kind of un ex
penditure a wasteful and extravagant
one.
"Hut apply the plan to problems in
Hood Kiver county, only at double tho
cost, the road quoted not being a fair
average. Ycur $.r0,000 year will then
give you at $1000 per mile, 50 miles of
road the first year; maintenance of this
road the second year at $200 per mile
will be $10,000. Subtract this from
the yearly appropriation of $T0,0ihi, and
you have left the mm of $40,000 witn
which to construct 40 miles more of
good gravel road. The maintenance of
this SO miles for the third year will be
$18,000, leaving vou a balance of $.12,
0(K) for first construction. You may
then build the remaining 10 miles of
highway with a balance in the county
treasury of $22,000. The 100 miles of
completed road, after three years'
Wk. has cost a total sum of $128,000.
Future maintenance of the 100 mile of
road will cost $20,000 per year, inter
est on the investment at six per cent
will be $8,000. Thus the total cost per
mile thereafter will be $280 per year,
or $28,000 for the entire system as
against $150,000 per year on the other
plan.
"A large mileage of reasonably good
road at low cost is a way for immedi
ate relief. The most good to the
greatest number, in the quickest time
is what the proposed policy leads to.
However, the good loads enthusiast's
efforts do not end here. He is rather
in a position to go ahead legitimately
with high priced surfacings, adding a
little each year, as funds will permit.
The grave) road will serve at a good
base for such construction, its location
and grading having been carried for
ward with such final end in view.
"Objections to such plans, however,
present themselves. To touch on a few
of these. First, certain emergency re
pair work will be required each year on
all ordinary country roads. Providing
for this merely shows up the carrying
forward of your road policy, applying
equally to either plan. i
"Secondly, construction of bridges
and culverts haa not been provided for.
Their economics are the same aa for
the road, namely, reasonably good, low
cost construction first, to be gradually
replaced by high cost permanent con
struction. "Thirdly, many roads will cost sev
eral hundred dollars perl mile merely
for the location survey alone, and sev
eral thousand dollars per mile for grad
ing, exclusive of surface. Huch new
roads should be undertaken only with
specially provided funds. The forego
ing plans are exclusively for the im
provement of existing roads.
"Fourthly, road construction depends
on trallio and tonnage, and macadam,
asphalt, oil bound macadam, wood
block and the hosts of patented pave
ments all should have their place and
use. I his is perfectly true, and these
will be considered in the more nearly
permunent types, which properly fol
low the construction of gravel roads.
"Fiithly, there are cases where a
costly road is required at once to sus
tain an exceptionally heavy trathc.
Provision must be made for auch cases,
of course. However, a 1 gravel road
will handle a very heavy tonnage for
one season, and provision ia made for
resurfacing each year.
"Sixthly, it may be staled thBt grav
el roads are not good enough for auto
mobile traffic. 1 hat is hardly true. A
$25,000 a mile road, certainly, is better.
The gravel road ia somewhat dusty in
summer and somewhat muddy in win
ter, but not very objectionably so when
surfaced each season. Your motorist.
however, will prefer 50 miles of gravel
to two milea of brick and 48 milea of
average Oregon country highway.
Hnck roads, of cuurse, are more
desireable than gravel roada and are
no doubt worth the price, if a commun
ity can afford them, but the trouble
with most communities t present is
that a large mileage of reasonably
good roads is required at a fairly low
cost. If the state of Oregon should
adopt a policy of $25,000 a mile roada,
t would be a veiy long time before
good roads for the entire state would
he achieved, and the cost of a good
roads system would be so great as to
transcend the bounds of reason.
In Hood Kiver gravel roads have
proven very successful. September of
last year the old Belmont toad was
treated with a gravel surface. The
total cost per mile was $596. The cost
of maintenance since completion haa
oeen Jo. ine roan touay is in excellent
condition and a favorite drive with mo
torists. In the city of Hood Kiver in
1013 number of the residential streets
were surfaced with oil bound macadam
at a cost of $0,240 per mile, country
road widht. Mr. Kay has been observ
ing the surfacing of these two road
ways, and he states that for ordinary
traffic at the present time the traveller
can tell but very little difference.
However, savs Mr. Kay, I am
not saying this to knock oilbound mac
adam : for it has its place."
In fact, the oilbound macadam of the
city referred to was cone true ted under
Mr. Kay's supervision, he having been
employed aa engineer by the city for
this special work.
OREGON BEATS
TJEWORLD
II0RT1CL LTl RAL EXHIBIT FIRST
First Award Made to State's Display ia
Charge of C. N. Ravlin at Sao Frao
tisco Fair
Joy prevailed in Hood River yester
day morning when rewa was revived
that the Oregon horticultural exhibit
in charge of C. N. Kavlin at the Pana
ma-Pacific International exposition had
won over the entire world. Hood Riv
er people are especially pleased with
the award, for the preater portion of
the fruit in the big display was sent
down from Hood River. While the ex
hibit was representative of the entire
state, not only showing its small fruit,
hut its shruba and flowers, the Hood
Kiver apple was the great base on
which it was built.
For many, many years Hood River
has been taking blue ribbons at world
fairs. W. J. baker has a blue ribhon
received at the Chicago exposition.
Geo. I. Slocom took first awards at
buffalo and Charleston, when in charge
of Oregon displays.
Ihe Glacier received the following
dispatch from the Oregon Commission
yesterday :
"Oregon haa seeured a tremendous
triumph at the Panama-Pacific Interna
tional exposition by being awarded
medal for her horticultural exhibit.
The jury on awards was made up of
eminent horticulturists from tbe Neth
erlands, the east, Japan and California.
The competition was extremely keen,
and Oregon won over magnificent ex
hibits from all over the world, many
of the states and all uf the Pacific
coast states. Oregon'a exhibit cost the
state $2,500, Washington, $7,500, and
California a much larger sum.
"C. N. Ravlin, of Hood River, chief
of horticuture for Oregon, laya his suc
cess to the fact that he prepared an all
Oregon exhibit, even the frame work
of the Oregon logs, the floors of Oregon
timber, hedges of Oregon shrubs and
plants. The fruit end flower exhibit
was varied, fully representing the
state. This ia the first time California
haa been beaten horticulturally. It ia
a magnificent thing for the state and
will boost it, horticulturally, to thou
sands of people now thronging the
buildings."
DAVIDSON MAKES
RECORD BERRY SALE
LOST LAKE GOOD
ROADS DAY PROPOSED
When the members of the county
court were presented with a petition to
appropriate money for the opening of
the Lost Lake road last week, they an
nuonced that it would he impossible to
make a heavy donation for auch work
this year, and as an alternative it was
suggested that a week in July be set
aside as "Lost Lake good roads week."
"We understand thst many vacation
ists are in the district at this time of
the year," says Judge Stanton, "and if
they are willing to get in and do a lot
of work, we will furnish what powder
is necessary, and also a man to handle
it."
The proposed road working event will
be discussed at the Commercial club
next Monday evening.
Through W. H. White, representing
the North Dakota fruit merchants, H.
F. Davidson, who is handling the straw
berry sales of the Hood River Apple
Growers Association and the White
Salmon Fruit Growers Association
jointly this year, Saturday morning'
aoid 60 carloads of Clark Seedlings to
C. H. Robinson & Co., of Grand Forks,
I only reserved enough fruit to fill
existing orders," says Mr. Davidson,
"and we began to fill the big order
Monday. It will take practically the
entire remainder of the cropa of the
two districts to supply the 60 carloads
of fruit."
So far as ia known by local fruit
men, thia ia record sale of strawber
ries in the hiBtory of fruit marketing.
On former years some of the big oper
ators have taken aa many aa 40 car
loads. It ia a record deal, when it ia
considered that the fruit ia sold f. o.
b., Hood River, at a little more than
$1,400 per car. The total returns will
reach approximately $85,000. The news
of the big sale has been especially
gratifying to the growers of the Upper
valley, wnose iruii is just now begin
ning to ripen.
Ihe cool and rainy weather of May
was a blessing in disguise for local
growers. The fruit ripened slowly and
some of the shipments on account of
having been routed out while wet,
reached their destination in very
poor condition. On account of some of
the poor returns of the early ship
ments, due to the condition of the fruit
istelf, and the competition of diatricta
producing large quantities of earlier
fruit, the local growers have been de
pressed. However, the price, despite
the increase in deilveries, has been
constantly increased, now ranging
around $2 per crate.
"This price," ssys Mr. Davidson,
"means that we are now receiving as
much for the fruit as on former years,
when we were getting $3 per erste,
when the crates contsined 24 short
quart boxes. The fillers now contain
24 full pints. $2.50 used to bo consid
ered a top price for strawberries."
"In all my 23 years of experience in
handling strawberries," continued Mr.
Davidson, "1 have never seen the qua)
ilty of the local berries better, since
the rains of this spring have ceased.
They ere arriving on the markets in
excellent condition, and while the price
ia extraordinary, we figure that the
dealers will make a good profit. Since
the rains stopped the berries, almost
without exception, are being settled
for at invoice prices."
Up to and including the fruit aent
out Saturday evening, the local associ
ation has ahipped 64 carloads of fruit.
Thirty-five ears hsve been ahipped by
the White Salmon growers.
The local office is a scene of activity
until far into the night. For the past
10 days Mr. Davidson haa been receiv
ing from 75 to 100 telegrams daily
from all parts of the country. His
close touch with all markets has en
abled him to maintain a riaing market
with an.increaaing production.
Dating Stamps, Self Inking Stamp,
Pocket Stamps, Pea and Pencil Stamps,
Etc., made to order at the Glacier of
fice at Portland prices.
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CITY WILL GET BET
TER, CHEAPER LIGHTS
By a contract signed by the city
council with the Pacific Power & Light
Co., at the regular semi-monthly meet
ing Monday evening, the city will 'get
better and cheaper lights. Under the
eld contract the city waa paying so
much per light. Msny of the lampe
were of an obsolete and inefficient man
ufacture, according to city officials.
The lights were improperly distributed.
Under the new contract, while tbe
light will be distributed efficiently and
furnished by means of the Istest and
most economical apparatus, still sav
ing of about $100 per yesr will be
made.