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HOOD MVEK, OREGOX. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14. l'Jir,
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nings and there is a pile of satisfaction and comfort in
watching your bank account grow. We want to help
you save and be somebody, if you will give us the chance.
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4 Interest Paid on Savings
FIRST NATIONAL
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Capital
Bank Advertisement No. 62
We quote from the October monthly letter of
the National City Bank of Chicago:
"Intrinsic conditions are sound and there is a
good deal of honestly cheerful sentiment about
the future. President Wilson has received the
support of the whole country in his negotiations
with Germany. It is to be hoped that American
intervention in Mexico will not become neces
Bary. The bigger problems connected with the
European war and with the readjustment which
must follow the ending of the war are likely to
give us plenty to do, without starting upon a
Mexican campaign which would be very difficult
to manage. Although the reassembling of Con
gress is only a few weeks off, very little has been
heard of corporation legislation of the sort which
produced such unsettlement two years ago. The
country is paying very little attention to politics.
People are living cautiously and the average fam
ily is still cutting down expenses and doing its
best to make both ends meet."
BUTLER BANKING COMPANY
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THC HOU1I OF KUIPNHIIME
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this week are not $50.00 nor $40. 00 -nor even $30.00
They're the special showing we're making on our
arrivals from the famous line of
Kuppenheimer Clothes at
$18.00, $20.00, $25.00
You'll do well to come in and give them closer in
spection. There's safe sure satisfaction awaiting
you in the men's wear carried at this Live Store.
J.G.VOGT
Time and
effort are your
tools for
and a
Bank account
proves neither
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Orchard Supplies
Security ladders 40 cents a
foot to close out
We have found a much
better ladder examine it.
Monroe Picking Sack $1.50
Palmer Picking Pails 1.00
Barnett Picking Pails 1.25
See that the nails you buy
are full count. 5d 39700-5d-31000
6d23G00. You can lose
25 on wrong count.
Wlivbe satisfied with a trading stamp, costing some
" " J body 1 to 3 per cent exchangable for goods you
don't want, when we return you five cents cash for every
dollar you pay us? And every time our cash receipts increase
5' it enables us to reduce prices generally.
The gain is all yours. Cash payment saves expenses
which enables us to sell cheaper.
We are always five per cent lower.
Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co.
Furniture, Hardware, Oils, Paints
Orchard Supplies
Mafcf very Minute Count-
ft KRESSE DRUG CO.,
The Only Place to get Accurate Abstracts of
Land in Hood River County is at
the office of the
Hood River Abstract Company
insurance, Conveyancing', Surety Bonds
Ice Cream
Until further notice we will make
Ice'Cream only on special order.
Kindly give us notice two days
in advance.
Hood River Creamery Co.
Beechnut Products of Quality
Tomato Catsup that makes you want more, 20c and 30c
Peanut Butter with the true flavor 20c and 30c
Prepared Mustard that is really mustard 15c
Sliced Bacon, the streaked kind, 40c
Chipped Beef, that isn't half salt, 25c and 45c
Every Beechnut Product in a class by itself
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the price. Neatsfoot and
hard oils, alcohol and tur
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most complete line of paint
ing supplies. Hard and soft
greases, non-flowing oils.
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Waterman's
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FoumalnPen
Stors
Victor Victrolas and Records.
Come in and hear the latest Oc
tober Records.
IS NOW HERE
HATIERY MEN CATCHING BIG FISH
Institutions Just Across the Columbia
from Hood River Distribute Mil
lions of Fry Each Year
It is salmon time on the mid-Colum-
bia and the Koyal Chinooks are seeking
(he headwaters of the mountain streams
tributary to the ureal river, being
guided apparently by some instinctive
obsessiun in their search fur suitable
spawning waters.
Thousands of these great fish, how
ever, will never get beyond the mid-
Columbia; for crews ol men are now
engaged at the United States govern
ment hatcheries at Hood, Wash., and
at the mouth of the Little White Salm
on river, both institutions in the south
western part of Skamania county
catching hundreds of them daily,
These two hatcheries are but four
miles apart. Although hidden in oh
scure indentations in the Columbia's
gorge, where they attract but little at
tention trom the general public, they
are annually restocking the streams
with many millions of young fish. The
Hood hatchery last year produced 22.
000,000 young fish. 'I hat at the mouth
of the Little White Salmon river has
double the capacity.
It is salmon time-you would know
this fact were you to approach the
neighborhood of a hatchery by the
gathering in of the Indians. During
the spawning reason the Indian men
and women gather in by the scores
from miles around. Ions of the hsh,
when the eggs are taken by the gov
eminent men, would go to waste were
it not for tne presence oT the Indians,
who dry them fur winter food. Dried
salmon is a great delicacy with Indi
ana. They simply hang the strips of
hsh in the brilliant autumn sunshine,
using no smoke or salt, as the white
man prefers his salmon. An Indian
will not touch the kippered fish of his
white brother, if the real article as
cured by the ancient squaws is obtain
able. This latter product is often sold
by the river Indians to the tribesmen
of the more remote regions for 7.r
cents and S1 pound. It is said that it
will keep for years.
Yet a person of the leant timidity
cannot eat fish of any kind for months
after a visit to the hatchery in the
height of the spawning season. The
stench from drying hsh and olfal is
very offensive. Strips of the Indian
product, strung from lines, the branch
es of trees and frames erected for the
purpose cover many square yards of
adjoining ground. Old Bquaws may be
seen indifferently washing the waste
fish and cutting it into strips. Swarms
of flies hover over the scene and buzz
around the shady side of the drying
fish or create a worry for the lazy
bucks and their dogs as they watch the
women work. Some of the men, how
ever, it may be added, are industrious.
They secure employment as seiners at
the hatcheries.
As the fish enter the smaller streams
the seining crews of the hatchery are
awaiting them. As the fish are caught
they are placed in pens. Ihe Hood
hatchery is located on Olsen creek, a
small, clear mountain stream. At this
season of the year the dozens of pens
made in the lower portion of this
stream are chockful of the great Chi-
nooks. One can stand on the banks
above them and watch them working
like hogs at a stockyards. The men in
charge of the spawning work daily de
creasing the numbers in the pens.
When he is ready to remove the eggs
the spawner takes the female hah in
the gills and with a sharp knife slits
open the stomach. The eggs are placed
in a shallow basin. Ihey are then fer
tilized by ' milking a male fish over
them. The eggs are then placed in
cans, similar to and about the size oi
an oridnary creamery milk can, in
which they are transported to the
troughs of the hatchery, 'ihe eggs
hatch in a period of t0 days.
A hatchery building is very simple ;
merely a shed over the tiers of shallow
trough, through which the pure water
constantly runs. But there arc thou
sands of the troughs, and toward the
close of each season each trough has
its thousands of little hsh.
Little salmon are the worst of canni
bals. When they begin to feel the
pangs of hunger they hesitate 'not in
the least in biting each other s tails
off. When once wounded a little fish
ends as food for his brothers. And lit
tle salmon, like growing children, must
have plenty of food. To provide this a
portion of the fish from which the eggs
are obtained is cleaned and salted.
But the little fellows thrive better on
a diet of some fresh food and accord-
ngly a portion of the fry is used to
feed the more fortunate members of
the hatchery family who are destined
for distribution.
The Hood hatchery is in charge of
G. E. Larson. This government insti
tution has been in operation for the
paBt 16 years, and not 100 people of
Hood Kiver have ever visited it, al
though it is less than two miles from
the city. One of Mr. Larson's helpers
is John Vincent, who owns a neighbor
ing ranch. Mr. Vincent spends the
spring and summer months engaged on
his Bmall fruit tracts. Protected by
the high gorge on the Washington side
of the Columbia, and getting all the
benefits of the first warm spring sun
shine, the Vincent ranch produces the
earliest strawberries of the mid-Columbia
district. Mr. Vincent is often mar
keting his fruit three weeks befure
other growers have begun to pick their
fruit.
The routine work of the salmon
hatchery man obscures the romance of
the Koyal Chinook. His task of rear
ing millions of little fish to restock the
stream, to make livelihood for scores
of men and to furnish food for thou
sands of people, as he contemplates it
from the bloody scow where he is
spawning the female fish or cleaning
their dead bodies to make food for
their young, may seem a little more
trying than that, of most men. Ihe
accepted story of the salmon may
touch no sentiment of the salmon
hatchery man.
It, is said by those who have become
versed in the life tie tor y of this great
fish that the female salmon will return
from the ocean in the fourth year of
her life to spawn. It is declared that'
the great fish seek the very streams in '
which they were Hatched. At the close
of each day at this season of the year
hundreds of salmon come churning over
the bar of little Olsen creek. They
fairly choke the mouth' of the little
stream, and the men with seins go far
out in the shallow water to encircle
others of the school. More than 300
big fish.averaging more than 10 pounds
piece, have been taken at a single
haul here. These, perhaps, are the
very fish that were hatched here four
years ago. And four years hence the
hatchery men will gather in the then
grown fish of this season's spawn.
m Why not allow the poor fish to spawn
and return to the a.a, some tender
hearted observer at the hatchery has
been heard to say. But the female
salmon, it is declared, when her life
mission of reproducing herself a hun
dred fold is over, keeps struggling in
the mountain streams until death over
lakes her.
HIGHWAY BLAZED
WITH BLUE LINES
The Columbia river highway is now
blazed from Astoria to Hood Kiver.
Accompanied by a sign painter, who
had an automobile of his own, A. L.
Meigs, of the Automobile Trail blazing
Association, with Mrs. Meigs, arrived
here Sunday from Portland. They left
Monday morning en route to Spokane,
Icavng the way blazed with blue
marks. Where the road turns to take
the motorist to California black marks
will begin.
Mr. and Mrs. Meigs have traveled
across the continent from New York
this summer.
"We have ridden a distance of 15,000
miles by automobile this year," says
Mrs. Meigs. "Our system of blazing
ways by colors is well known in the
east. The route of the Columbia river
highway from Astoria on up the river
and thence to Spokane, where it will
intersect the through transcontinental
route from New York to Seattle, will
be marked with blue lines. The Seattle-New
York route has the red lines."
While here Mr. Meigs called on R. E.
Scott, secretary of the Commercial
club, securing local road maps, which
will be used in guides issued by the
Minneapolis association.
GOVERNMENT WILL
HELP APPLE MEN
Three representatives of the office of
markets of the United States depart
ment of agriculture arrived in Spokane
recently, prepared to begin a compre
hensive survey of the northwestern ap
ple industry. How to market next
year's bumper crop at a profit will be
the particular study of the commission.
J. C. Gilbert, C. W. Kitchen and J.
W. Fisher are the men in charge of the
survey.
Northwestern growers worked hard
to secure such a survey as the govern
ment is undertaking. The bureau will
require every railroad to furnish daily
reports of ull'cars. moving ; what those
cars contain and their destination. This
information will be tabulated from day
to day, and weekly and biweekly sum
maries issued to the shippers and sent
out through the mail, giving the
quantity of the crop moved to date and
a summary of where the crop has
gone.
At the end of the apple moving sea
son the entire movement to date will
be carefully tabulated and analyzed and
accurate reports issued immediately.
showing the distribution of the crop by
varieties into all of the markets. At
the same time there will still remain
in stoiage probably 300 to 400 cars of
apples, but this will be so minor a part
of the crop that the government sum-
ary will be practically complete.
PRUNING KNIFE AS
SCAB ERADICATOR
(From Fruit Growers Exchange Bui
letin)
As soon as the apples are off the
trees every orchard should be sprayed.
This is very important. You are now
caring for next year's crop. Let us
work together in a systematic way
which will bring results. Prevention is
better than cure.
We recommend a thorough Bordeaux
spray, using 6-6-50. We urge you to do
this at once before the fall rain sets in.
We have bluestone and lime on hand in
onr new warehouse. Get ycur supply.
We also want to urge every grower
to give his orchard a systematic prun-
ng before next spring, cutting out all
dead and diseased limbs. This is a
thing we have neglected in the past
three years, and we are positive that
adhering strictly to this rule is vital in
our fight to control fungus.
The spraying alone will not kill fun
gus. The only way to eradicate it is to
prune the diseased limb and burn it.
Be sure about burning these limbs be
fore the sap begins to flow and the dis
ease comes to life.
Follow this in the early spring with
a duplication of the above spray, and
we are certain that good results will
come, and we will be starting at the
foundation instead of, as we have been
doing, commencing in the spring on the
first story, forgetting that we have al
ready wintered the disease in our orch-
rda. in the spring when the sap flows
it has the start of us, and will keep
ahead of us and make our labor and
spray futile or neatly so.
Let us all be united in this effort.
whether we be Methodists, Baptists, or
Presbyterians. Let forget everything
except the determination to get rid of
the disease.
PINE GROVE GRANGE
WILL HAVE JINX
High jinx will prevail at Pine Grove
grange Saturday night, when the
grange minstrels will hold sway at
their hall. These East Side apple
growers have won marked recognition
for their ability aa black faced artists,
and they will draw no small crowd
from the city. In addition to the usual
minstrel puns and jokes, the grange
members have composed some local
color jokes that are said to be exceed
ingly clever.
A dance will follow the show, the
curtain of which will rise promptly at
8 o'clock, according to J. II. Mohr,
the Pine Grove impel t.iio.
Insure against fire; you may Ite next.
Reed & Henderson, Inc. ol4tf
UPPER VALLEY
MAKES PROGRESS
MANY NEW HOMES BEING BUILT
Residents Not Worried Over Apple Indus
try as they Work Out thetr Prob
lems for Themselves
The ranchers of the Upper Hood
Kiver valley during the rst five ye-nm
have plantd more apple trees, perhaps,
proportiunate to their tillable area than
any other section of Oregon. Yet,
from all appearances they have been
given to less worry the past year over
the ultimate success of sales agencies
to get good prices for apples than any
other fruit community. These rancher
orchardists think just as much of thrir
orchard tracts as ever, and they may be
found working them with the tame
conscientious care displayed when apple
prices and stories of them were remun
erative assets of real estate agents.
But they have ceased setting the fertile
red-shot and volcanic ash soil to apple
trees. This practice whs discontinued
as early as two years ago. Some men,
who had set their entire tillable acre
age tu apple trees even went so far as
to pull up portions of the trees. Clo
ver, grain ar.d alfalfa are grown in
their places.
Nevertheless the building of ranch
homes-not the little ship-lap, boxlike
structure that is often found on the
new clearing, but modern bungalows,
such as would grace with credit a
fashionable suburban district of a me
tropolis has been carried on actively
the past two years. A dozen country
homes, equipped with water works,
electric lights and uther up to date
comforts have been erected in the
shadow of the fertile valley's white
peaked guardian, Mount Hood. Much
land, too, has been cleared. A large
area of the Upper Valley offers few
difficulties to the homebuilder. Fires
of days before the white man had
dreamed of Oregon fruits burned over
these areas, and today they are cov
ered with a growth of mountain wil
lows. Spe?,k to an easterner or man of
the middie west of willows and he
would grow suspicious of the land on
which they grew, thinking the species
of trees denoted excess moisture. Here
in the Hood River valley this peculiar
willow tree is taken as the harbinger
of soil of great fertility. Willow land,
because of the ease with which it may
be cleared, is in demand.
In other places the stumps of gigan
tic firs have been torn by dynamite
from their deep setting, and the leaf
mould of scores of years has been pul
verized to nourish the routs uf grain
stalks, alfalfa or clover. And land
clearing by no means is over yet. Just
last week E. F. Sharp, of The Dalles,
who owns an Upper Valley tract, gave
a contract to resident Japanese ranch
ers of the district to prepare 0 acres
of brush and timber land. This will be
ready for cultivation next year.
The Upper Hood Kiver Valley may
be said to have two types of residents.
One went to the remote district a
quarter of a century ago and homstead
ed some of the fertile soil. For years
he worked small tracts of cleared land,
grew a little orchard for home use and
grazed his cattle on the meadow land.
While he and his family lived from an
abundance of products of the soil and
were contented, because of the remote
ness there was no great incentive to
extensive development. The soil's
adaptability to the apple became
known, and as orchards increased acre
by acre in the Lower Valley, the fever
spread, and the homesteader of the Up
per Valley was stimulated to action.
Then came the influx of new settlers,
men who bought portions of hometeads.
This new type of orchardist came
from the city. They came with the
idea of growing apples. But few of
them were ever interested to a great
degree in the general ranch. Whereas
the old homesteader had taken rather
reluctantly to the growing uf apples as
a business, the new rancher was skep
tical of mixing swine raising and milk
ing cows with the production of apples.
There has been a leavening. Ihe for
mer homesteader is as careful an orch
ardist, although he still keeps his live
stock, as the formercity man, and the
latter still watches' the trees he has
planted and at the same time has be
come an enthusiastic dairyman or live
stock raiser.
And in these practices, to those who
have made a close study of the apple
industry, lies the secret of success for
the orchardist. The sooner, unless he
owns orchard tracts on a gigantic scale,
he becomes a farmer, with the farmer's
tendency to be frugal, with the rural
spirit of producing as much as possible
of his food from the soil he tills, the
sooner will his general prosperity come
about.
The jump from the life of city cus
toms to the habits of a rural commun
ity is a long leap, and one on visiting
in the Upper Hood River Valley might
expect to find some discontent. Appar
ently, however, a more contented rural
population does not exist. It is true
that they have some of the luxuries in
the way of water and light that elimin
ate many rural drudgeries, especially
fur the housewives. These city men
and their wives and children have fal
len in love with their surroundings.
Over 75 per cent of the new comers to
the Upper Hood River Valley, when
they settled were fresh from eastern
colleges. While others of the larger
institutions are represented, Princeton
has the largest representation. Reun
ions of the New Jersey institution are
frequently held on the occasion uf some
visiting college mate, and the rah I
raha! of the alma mater resound at syl
van homes.
(To be continued)
STEINHAUSER WILL
GATHER EXHIBITS
Chas. Steinhauser. of the Upper Val-
lev. will give his time this wee! to
gathering up products of the Hood
Kiver valley to be exhibited at the
Panama-Pacific exposition. Exhibits in
the Oregon space are said to be very
scarce, and fears as to proper repre
sentation have prevailed.
Mr. Steinhauser has a large Locomo
bile and he will endeavor to thoroughly
cover the valley.
The new 100 and HO watt him, 8 at.
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