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VOL. XXXIII
HOOD RIVER, OBEGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1921
No. 22
THE TAX EVIL
Bankers, more particularly than almost any other
roup of business men, see the menace of the grow
ing tax evil. They realize that deposits and savings
which must be drawn to pay exhorbitantly high
taxes mean just that much less money for invest
ment in productive enterprises in the community.
A biinker has of necessity been trained to business
principles and ways of thrift, and he knows that In
creasing demands of taxation are dissipating the
savings and discouraging investment in productive
enterprises.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK has every interest in
conserving the real interests of its customers and
the community.
USE ALL OF OUR SERVICE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Let your next pair be
Walk Overs
and, if properly fitted, your shoe troubles are over.
Most Styles, $8.50
J. G. VOGT
Nationally Known Merchandise.
SPECIAL
KODAK ALBUMS
We have just received a new shipment of Kodak
Albums, regular $2.00 value, which we are
offering at this special price:
$1.49 each.
These are Just the thing to put your past va
cation snap-shots in, Or start a Kodak Story
of the children.
KRESSE DRUG qo.
The tl&XajULtiSare
Come in and hear the October Victor Records.
81 BUSINESS OUTLOOK jj
One of the leading Portland banks Just
issued a report on the general busi
y ness conditions In the State ot Oregon. y
The report on Hood River County is
one of the three best reports in the
state and it is gratifying to know that we
are well in the vanguard in working out
the many post-war problems.
RING
COAL
Clean :: Hot :: No
Slack :: Best Coal
obtainable in Utah.
Special rates direct
from car.
Emry Lumber & Fuel Co.
Successors to
BRIDAL VKIL LUMBERING CO.
Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade
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BUTLER BANKING COMPANY
Member Federal Reserve System
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When ordering FLOUR
insist on getting
BLENDED
PURITY FLOUR
Made at home and guaranteed.
HANDLED BY YOUR GROCER YM AN
HIGHLAND MILLING CO.
Mill Phone 1751
Store Phone 3881
Does a moment's happiness over cheap price
outweigh the lasting satisfaction of a good job?
YOU DON'T GET BOTH
I am turning out od jobs at a fair price
day after day.
Bring in your troubles and let me help you
in any way I can.
Satisfactory Service
is what you need : why not get it at
Shay's SERVICE Shop
AT THF.
FASHION STABLES
Shop 121 Res. 2772
WAVERLY
OILS
Our FREE CRANKCA5F 5FRVICE In combination
with WAVERLY OILS is very attractive to an ever
increasing number of car owners. Drive your car
in. let us drain the crankcase. flush It, If desired,
and fill with Waverly. The charge will be one for
the materials used.
MT. HOOD MOTOR CO.
COMPARISON OF
HIGHWAY COSTS
EARLY HIGHWAY COST NOMINAL
Only $5,000 Spent on Old State Road
Mosier Stretch of New Road
Costs $600,000
With completion of paving of the
Columbia River Highway betweer
Mosier and Hood River Wednesday
last week it is interesting to compare
the old hill road of dangerous and tor
tuuus grades with the new boulevard
graceful in curvature and of easy grad
lent. The old road was constructed a
the way from The Dalles to Mitchel
Point, a distance of nearly 30 miles
for $5. OCX). The cost of cutting the
6.5 miles of new grade, between hei
and Mosier and the paving of th
stretch in round figures reached $600,
000. Over 160,000 was required
building less than a quarter-mile
new grade at Mitchells Point, where
the open-window tunnel was bored
Since the old mountain road between
here and Mosier was'completed in 1874
but little improvement was made in it
The grade was never changed, and the
curves remained hazardous tor drivers
of large cars. At points the ehar
curves occurred on heavy grades, and
the elimination of the old road has
brought sighs of relief from ever
motorist who has ever negotiated it
The onlv material improvement that
was ever made In the nine miles
highway was the betterment of a short
distance lust west of Mosier.
The late John Marden.of The Dalles
was in charge of construction of the
original road, known as The Dalles
Sandv road. 1 he late h,. Smith was
engineer in locating a part of it
James Wallace. Civil war veteran and
local pioneer, whose son, Charles Wal
lace, now resides on an Oak Grov
orchard place, was associated with Mr
Marden in the construction work. Th
Oak Grove orchardist worked on the
route with his father. The most ex
pensive part of the old road was tha
portion built around Shell Kock moun
tain near Wyeth. Here the pioneer
road builders constructed, about 100
feet above the grade of the new High
way, a dry-masonry wall. J he wes
end of the thoroughfare was swept
awav by slides of the mountain made
up of a mass of loose stones. The east
end, however, remains a relic of pio
neer davs and a monument ito the en
terprise of men of those early.t imes.
The old roadbed is overgrown with
hazelnut bushes and dogwoods, with
their leaves in autumn a vivid purple
now pay nature's tribute to the mem
ory ot progressive pioneers, i oreu
pines and digger squirrels have Pur
rows under the old walls and chip
munks chatter there from safe recesses
as a stream of molnr cars speeds each
way over the famed boulevard below.
But the old grade, where slides have
left it intact, has stoodjhe t;st of di
ades. and could the rtrusn ne cleared
away and an automobile be raised to
the height of the old road, a driver
would have no difficulty in negotiating
the remaining smooth surface.
The old state highway was aban
doned on completion of the O. it. & N
line, the railway tracks having used
portions of the original wagon road's
right of way.
Ihe newly paved (.! miles 01 the l.o
lumbia River Highway between lu re
and Mosier make available new seen
ery for the motorist out for a spin over
the scenic route. With the surfacing
placed on through to the V asco county
fruit section, Mosier, instead of Hood
River, as has been the case the past
year, will be the goal oi many parties
out for the day from Portland. It
new stretch leaves Hood River and
climbs to hi approximate half-way
oint of the Columbia gorge east of
the city bv a series of graceful loops.
At present these loops, where gravel
pits are being worked on the interven
ng property and other portions being
farmed, are somewhat an eyesore. It
proposed that eventually the state
take them over and landscape them.
The Highway breaks out on the Co
lumbia about a mile cast of Hood
River at an elevation that provides
many charming views of the river and
the lowland farms of the Bingen sec
tion in Klickitat county, Washington.
A maximum elevation of more than
500 feet is reached at the summit just
east of the Hood River-Waseo county
line. A turnout has been provided at
the summit, and here the motorist
may drive to the side of the protecting
parapet walls and look for many miles,
both east and west. Twin tunnels
have tieen bored through a promontory
jutting out into the gorge about a mile
east of the county lines. It has been
suggested that these tunnels should be
named Gateway tunnels, for they real
ly mark the dividing line between
eastern and western Oregon. Travel
ing to the east the motorist, when be
leaves th bore and reaches an eleva
tion that gives a view up the river is
at once struck with the brown hill
sides, the barren expanses of the north
bank of the Columbia. He haa left
the tir-clad bills of the raid-Columbia,
and instead of green shrubbery hug
ging every fold of the gorge, brown or
gray areas greet his eye. A new phase
of Oregon's scenic attractions is
opened up.
CORPS AND POST
HOLD CELEBRATION
son, son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Johnson, of Oregon City, was shipped
to Chehalis, Wash., Saturday. Funeral
services were held Sunday. The young
man died Thursday night from injuries
sustained the previous Wednesday
when two sets of trucks of a logging
car of the Oregon Lumber Co., by
whom he was employed, passed o"er
his abdomen. The boy fell between
the trucks while riding at the end of
one. It is considered remarkable that
he was not killed instantly, but the
spine was apparently not injured, and
he remained conscious up to five min
utes before death came.
In addition to his parents, young Mr.
Johnson is survived by the following
brothers and sisters, George, Rudolph,
Luther, Marie, Fredolph and Herbert
Johnson. He was a native of Pike
county, Ky. The family has resided in
Oregon and Washington for the past
nine years.
S. E. Bartmesfl shipped the body to
the Washington town.
CALIFORNIA MAN
FLOATS DOWN RIVER
' Like the bateaux of days of the
French voyageur, when the region's
fur bearing animals attracted hardy
hunters and trappers, a rowboat, occu
pied by M. J. Lorraine, of Alhambra,
Calif., moved with the swift current
down the Columbia this week. Mr.
Lorraine, who is 68 Jyears old, has
traveled by his boat, of dory type, all
the way from Canal Flats, B. C. He
is taking the long trip, whichwill end
at Astoria, as an outing.
During the entire trip he hasnegoti
ated more than 100 rapids without a
single mishap. He has taken to dry
land during the 1,200 miles of descent
to the ocean for about I) miles, where
portages were unavoidable. Surprise
Rapids, the rapids of Kettel Falls and
Rickcys Rapids, where boatmen have
often met with disaster, were negoti
ated by him without trouble.
While Mr. Ixirrame haB stopped fre
quently to study the country and towns
along the river, he camps on the
beaches. His boat carries a complete
outfit.
CIRCUIT COURT TO
BE CALLED NOV. 14
WATER DECREE
FILED MONDAY
FIVE LITIGANTS ANNOUNCE APPEAL
Decree Covers 130 Pages Appeal Notices
to be Mailed to All Parties
to Rig Suit
Following filing of a decree Monday
by Circuit Judge Wilson notices of ap
peal to the supreme court were form
ally announced hy the Pacific Power &
Light Co., the Oregon Lumber Co.,
the Fast Fork Irrigation District, the
Mt. Hood Water Co. and the Glacier
Irrigating Co. The decree wj S ne of
the most lengthy ever filed in .9 local
case. It covered 130 pages. 1 o
The decision of the case, a I ; irma
tion of the findings of the Sta Vater
Board, is a decided victory r the
Last Fork Irrigation Co., the S hts of
'- regon
i case
g .y for
o one to
i as re
ts tt the
y irisdic-
H estiga-
Judge Wilson haa been instructed to
go to Portland to spend two months
holding cases. The regular November
term of circuit court will be presided
ver by Judge Parker, of Condon. The
grand jury will be convened Monday,
November 14.
Those called to serve on the jury
consist of :
A. J. Graff, Chas. F. Barnes. Her
man Dethman, C C Cutting, h. 11.
Gorden, G. W. Thomson, J. C. Porter,
Jos. R. rrazier, Vernon Crow, ( has.
Stranahan, F. S. Aiken, E. W. Cibbs,
E. F. DresBer, Frank Dethman, John
R. Crosby, Aug. Guignard, W. H.
Harney, W. T. Wvatt. J. F. Hendrick,
w. T. Forey, Geo. L. Howerman, Geo
Chamberlain. A. A. Overland, F. S
DeWitt, A. J. Grow, J. P. Naumes, J,
M. Culbertson, Albert Hodge, Mill
Downing, I'hilip Roberg, Robert Taz
well.
FURTHER LOOP CON
TRACTS EXPECTED
Countv officials express a confidence
that the State Highway Commission at
ts November sitting will take form"!
steps toward letting contracts for
grading the entire vullev trunk line of
the Mount Hood Loop Highway in this
ounty. Five miles are now being
onstructed over Booth Hill. Officials
have been urging such action on the
Highway department for the past sev-
ral weeks, and engineers of the office
have recommended that the contracts
be let. Members of the county board
of commissioners went to Portland
yesterday to further press the case be
fore the Mate Highway Commission.
The county rerentlyjsold at a prem-
um Jfl.'iti.tMKJ ot the $;iiiti,ouo Pond issue
voted I;. -I June for financing the coun
ty's half of the road construction. In
ase the othtr work, an approximate
5 miles, is awarded at onee.ga suffici
ent portiotfof the bonds to meet the
expense will be sold at once hv the
ounty. Because of the decrease in
cost of construction, however, it is ex
acted that the county will be able to
save in the neighborhood of $75,000 of
the bonds.
RAIN FINDS APPLE
CROP WELL PICKED
t. Defiance Gets Snow
i . - -- ...
a sure narniner oi winter, snow haft-
covered the oeak of Mount Defiance,
thehigh wooded point to the west of
the valley. Annually nowstorma pre
vail on the vallev level ithm fi
weeks after thev have covered the top
of Defiance. New snow, too, aper
on some of the higher foothills eur-
With a larg' delegation of the mem
bers of Canby Corps, W. R. C. and
most of the surviving members of Can
by Post, G. A. R.. present, the two
organizations held a joint social meet
ing Saturday afternoon, following bus-
ines!isensions. 1 he auxiliary organiz
at ion regaled the old comrades of VI
and '66 with refreshments.
MYs. Floyd L French sang a solo
and led in congregational singing oi
patriotic hymns. S. F. Blythe told of
his interesting experiences at the re
cent Indianapolis national encampment
of the Grand Army from which he re
centiy returned.
BOV SI ( ( I MBS TO
LOGGING ACCIDENT
It's here! buick Four. Hood River
Garage.
The body of 19-year old
j. hi
The steady rain that prevailed Mon
day found practically every orchard-
st in the vallev with apples picked.
and the inclement weather in nowise
retarded progress of the apple harvest,
further along for the season than dur-
ng any year since the valley's tonnage
as reached material proportions.
rews J continued packing work at
warehouses and practically all apples
will be boxed in the next two weeks.
Sufficient rain to soften highways how-
ver, may retail' apple hauling. The
countv court has announced that motor
truck loads will be further limited,
when roads are softened, and in rase
sucn precipitation as to result in
iamage to roads, thev will be closed
temporarily, the court states.
Finish the Season's Sprat ing
(By M. D. Armstrong)
Many orchards have not yet
reived their fall application of
deaux. In order to successfully com
plete the season's work it is of prime
importance that this spray be applied
soon. November has a record of being
a very rainy month here, which not
only makes it difficult to apply the
pray but makes the anthracnoee very
active in causing new cankers where
the spray has not been applied. Every
available hour good weather should
lie used in completing this work soon.
which were attacked by th
Lumber Co. eight years ago,
at that time resulting favo
the irrigation concern, havir
the supreme court. The case
manded with instructions
State Water Board assume
tion and conduct a thorough
tion for the baais of a complete adjudi
cation of all claims on the watershed.
The Pacific Power & Light Co. attacked
the rights of all irrigation concerns,
maintaining that through rights inci
dent to riparian ownership it was en
titled at. times to the entire flow of the
river. The decision denies the right of
riparian ownersip.
The appeals of other litigants in the
big case are based on claims to prior
ity rights to use of waters of the
stream.
The case, as it will set a precedent
in Oregon supreme court decisions on
riparian ownership, is being watched
by irrigation attorneys in all parts of
the state. A host of out of town at
torneys was here Monday for the ses
sion of circuit court. The parties to
the appeals have joined and will fur
nish but one abstract and transcript.
As this document will be voluminous,
a saving of mrre than $1,000 will be
thus effected. It is not expected that
the case will be at issue before the su
preme court before next summer. A
decision is not expected until about
January 1H2M.
The Oregon irrigation laws require
that notice of appeal bonds be sent to
all parties directly named in the litiga
tion. This will require that attorneys
for each of the five appealing contest
ants mail within the next few days
their formal appeal to Bome 2f0 orch
ardists of the valley. The law requires
that such action be taken in order
that all parties may be given an oppor
tunity to approve of the sureties. At
torneys, however, state that the no
tices of appeal in this case are a mere
formality and that growers when they
receive the docunmts may simply drop
them in the wastepaper basket without
further attention.
NO EMBARGO GIVES
HOPE TO SHIPPERS
The fact that no embargo has been
placed by rail lines on apple shipments
is taken bv shippers as a real indica
tion that the strike announced will
not materialize. Last week shippers,
fearing an immediate embargo began
appeals for additional refrigerator cars
and many box cars were loided out.
Reefers and as many box cars as can
be secured, are still loaded out, but
shippers declare that they believe no
strike will prevail, or that if it does it
will not be serioua enough to tie up
movement of trains loaded with
perishable products.
Up to Saturday night the total of
apple shipments from the valley had
reached 571 carloads, with the Apple
Growers Association leading with 318
cars. I hese shipments represent less
than 25.per cent of the valley's ton
nage. Apples are moving into storage
warehouses here at a rapid rate. The
Association up to Saturday received
801,190 boxes, an approximate 50 per
cent of the apples picked by its affili
ated growers. Other shipping concerns
report receipts in proportionate per
centage. During the coming week,
with picking over and packing crews
augmented to the limit, apples will be
rushed to shipping points in greater
volume than ever.
BOYS IN TOILS FOR
TAKING AUTOMOBILE
re-Bor-
Andrew Imrie, aged 20, of Good-
enough Hills, Wash., was bound over to
the grand jury Saturday by Justice of
the Peace Onthank on a charge of ap
propriating the automobile of Wm.
Rush, of Mount Hood. Joseph Car
roll, 17, who accompanied Imrie, was
remanded to jail to await action of the
juvenile court. Imrie stated that he
made use of the car in order to make
a trip to The Dalles to see a brother.
The machine, acording to his explana-
ion, was wrecked in the Twin Tunnels
of the Highway between here and Mo
sier when the lights went out. Both
boys were slightly injured in the
wreck. Sheriff Johnson .arrested the
boys.
Carroll claims that he was on the
eve of leaving for California to join a
sister in a motor trip back to Chicago,
where he expects to reenter high
school following the holidays. Indeed,
a telegram from California relatives,
advising him to hasten south, waa re
reived Saturday. Imrie's bail was
fixed at $500.
Young Carroll's brother was expect
ed to at rive here last night from Cali
fornia. It is anticipated that he wilt be
paroled to the brother.
Apple Cargo Leaves
The steamer Northumberland cleared
through Portland customs Monday
afternoon, declaring a cargo of 75,24
boxes of apples, 43 boxes of fresh
pears, and a quantity of canned goods.
The big freighter started down the
river at daybreak Tuesday morning.
Wet Heather is Carnival Dampener
Indications Monday pointed to a poor
week for the Amerii an Legion carni
val. A crew of men engaged on a
soggy and wet lot at the corner of
Tenth and Cascade streets in setting
up tents and entertainment features
for the week of fun. A heavy rain
lasted throughout almost the entire
day. The concessions and shows are
furnished by a traveling carnival out
fit. The Legion Post haa taken charge
of the event for a portion of the gate
receipts.