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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1921)
0 VOL. X XXIII HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1921 No. 31 !i -! THE LAST LAP OF THE OLD YEAR sets one naturally to reviewing the past. As a result of this mental stock taking one fjnds himself In the frame of mind to make new and determined resolutions for the com ing year. Why not consider the opening of a Check ing Account with this institution, among your other progressive New Year plans? The First National Bank HOOD RIVER, OREGON Use ALL of Our Service EACH MEMBER OF THIS STORE WISHES EOR THE EOLK OF HOOD RIVER A Urn? gogmi Nnu $far KRESSE DRUG COMPANY The fi&xedUL Store Come in ami hear the latest January Victor Recor.ls. Happy New Year J. G. VOGT Nationally Known Merchandise. lb & I he Jhirst Day or jp January It was Charles Lamb who said: "No one ever regarded the first day of Jan uary with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left." Horace Mann must have been past middle life when he said: "IiOst, yesterday, somewhere between sun rise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are jrone forever." We believe that what the New Year holds for each of us is largely a matter of individual effort, but insofar as our wishes control, the people of this community are going to have the very best sort of a ijappu; atti flroujm'mta BURN RING COAL Trappy rntft Pruaprnwi jgeto Hear ( ion ) Emry Lumber & Fuel Co. Succeeding Hood River Fuel Co. Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade Happy New Year CZIOIZ3 As we view in retrospect our friendly rela tions with our customers and friends the past year, we are filled with gratification. It is ourjiope that we may fill a place of service for all of you during the year nineteen twenty-two. Do not hesitate to call on us. May the New Year be one of happiness and good health, and blessed with fruitful endeavor, for all of you. CZIOCZ) KELLY BROS. CO., Inc. Our Prices are Right. The best advertisers on earth cannot build up a grow ing business unless they "deliver the Roods." I have advertised moderately and have built up a good business and it's still growing. My business now and for the past month is much larger than during the summer months when the auto re pair business is at its height. Satisfactory Service, in other words "producing the goods." has done this for me. Let me suggest you have any little thing you know is wrong about your car attended to during bad weather, so that you may enjoy your car when good weather comes. Fairbanks-Morse Engines - Hayes Spray Machines Domestic Electric Systems - Water Systems Machine Shop work by skilled mechanics. Automobile Repair Work. Shay's SERVICE Shop AT THF. FASHION STABLES Shop I Ml Res 1"1 SLUTZ BROS. First and State Sts. Tel. 3173 APPLES WORTH ABOUT $3,000,000 ORCHARDS SHOW PROFIT FOR 1921 Prices, However, Have Not Been lip to Expectations of Growers Dis ease Loss is Less The approximate net returns to Hood River valley growers on the 1921 apple crop will reach $8,000,000. While profits for the season will be far less than anticipated by orchardists, who for the past summer, as I hey contem plated the extreme shortage of fruit in the big commercial orchard centers of the east and middle west, were prone to place an average price of $2 per box on their apples. Shippers now, how ever, do not anticipate more than an average of $1.50 per box when pools are closed next spring and (inal returns are made. Compared with 1920, when the aver age price returned by the Apple Grow era Association, the dominating factor in the local iHiple deal, handling about 75 per cent of the tonnage, was $1.; B5 per box, the 1021 returns will be cheering. Ihe difference in profits to growers will tie far greater than th difference between $1.35 and $1.50, for it is estimated that the cost of produc ing a box of apples the past year hap been from So to 45 cents less than year ago. With the low prices of 1920 some growers, where thev employed efficient methods and raised crops that ran largely to good sizes and extra fancy quality, made money. All grow era will show profits on their activities the coming year. thus, while the price will show an aggregate return of about $1,000,000 less than growers anticipated three or four months ago, ervhardists of the valley, when they contemplate th status of other agricultural imprests in other parts of the country, do not feel downhearted. While corn, wheat and cotton growers and raisers of live stock are passing through a period of depression, the grower ot apples the coming year will teel a material pros perity and the progress of the valley will be noted in new homes, the paying off of mortgaged indebtedness and th construction of new fruit warehouses by individuals and storage space by shipping concerns. The cost of placing a box of apples into the hands of shippers, after all work of cultivation is over and the harvest is ready to begin, will reach 35 to 40 cents. Segregated, harvest costs are aB follows: Picking, five cents per box: packing, live cents per box ; warehouse expense, live cents per box. To this must be added the cost of the box, about 18 cents this year, and paper wrappers and the heavy paper liners that are placed be tween each layer of the higher grades of fruit. It is estimated more than 2,500 transient harvest hands were in the valley from 1'ortland and out of town points the past season and that luring the 30 days they participated in the harvest they were paid $225,000. Many of the expert sorters and packers remained for twice that period, and the additional sum paid for them for labor would probably swell the total to $300,000. The Hood Kiver valley apple crop, generally speaking, was one of the beat ever harvested. Most growers have cooperated very closely the pa It several years with the Hood Kiver Ex periment Station. and the county fruit inspector in fighting disease pests anil liminating such diseases as teat) anil anthracnose and such pests as codling moth. Except in a few districts the apples this year were remarkably free from worms, and no scab has pre vailed, although several years ago loss for apples marred by this fungus dis ease reached a heavy ngure. in some sectioni, where growers were Indiffer ent, growers this year sustained heavy OM from wormy apples. Their losses ill teach them the value of investing in spray material and practicing scien tific applications as urged by the ex- erts of the experiment station. In discussing the economy of the work of the Experiment Station Le roy ChildB recently stated : In the loss on apple scan here was very severe. It resulted in fruit going into eider grades of being packed in lower commercial gra'.es. I'he average loss would run to 2o cc i ts er box. ionsiaer wnai mat woura mean on an average crop of 2,000,000 boxes, egtimated at $2 per box, a Ipsa of $500,000 to the valley. Ihe lust year 1 wag here 1 observed orchards and found that worms' were ruining 12 to 14 jier rent of the apples. Ihe other day 1 asked (xjunty rruit Inspector, Armstrong, what he thought the worm damage would be this year. He told me two per cent. I will double his stimate and say four per cent, Ml a saving ot elgni Iter cent on a ,inru,tnm box crop will mean BU,UW. OI course, orchards in some uistricis, where growers have not properly sprayed, will run much higher. The great strides made in apple cul ture and means of harvesting the fruit have resulted in a great degree from application of gasoline-driven machin ery and tne introduction or me motor truck. I ractorg are now utilized by nearly all growers the tall. Ihev draw bar Three thousand tons of the cull ap ples will be utilized by the Hood River Apple Vinegar Co. The Hood Kiver ("arming Co. will pack 500 tons of Newtown and Spitzenburg culls, th ers will be utilized as follows: lobby, McNeil & Libhy, at their plant at The Dalles, 2,700 tons; The Dalles g Co.. at their processing plant a: The Dalles, 2,000 tons ; Portland and Wil lamette valley canneries, 500 tons. The rest will be boxed and snipped to Portland and central and eastern Ore gon markets for the cooking or ho UK hold trade. Cull apples moved in heavy tonnage by motor truck between here and Portland. The Colombia river gteamer J. N. Teal carried cull apples as chief down river tonnage. The quick movement of apples from fields to packing houses and thence tO receiving plants on rail lines has de veloped rumerous community packing houses in the valley. These commun ity plants as well as individually owned packing houses are almost in all instances equiped with power grading and sizing machines. The manufac ture of graders and sizers has devel oped an interesting orcharding side line, its possibilities were so great that Frank VV. and Asa K. Cutler, for merly owners of a large East Side place, who originally developed a grad ing machine to handle their own crop, have sold their orchard and are now operating in Portland a manufacturing plant ot no mean proportions to supply all northwestern orchard sections with graders. The Ideal f ruit & Nursery Co, has equipped a factory on their West Side ranch, from which annually they turnout many graders, liniolhy Newell, an Upper Valley grower of inventive turn, is developing a sizvr Hood ICivi r pio, icered m the smug an paratus as she did originally in tin cultivation of orchards on a coinn.tr cial basis. The fame of the Hood Kiver apple and the valley s orchards have spread not only to the chief marts of Ihe world but to apple districts In the four comers of the globe. Annually fruit growers of South America, Africa and Australia, as well as many growers from commercial districts of the east ern United States visit here, seeking the latest methods of cultivation and packing. Their visits and the stories they tell unfold interesting stories of the vast quantities of fruit grown in other parts of the world. In South Africa orchards as vast as those of the northwest are being developed. Vari eties grown are much like those of the northwest. In lasmania and Aus tralia, orchardists are already growing and exporting shipload after ,-hipload f fruit tor the European market. Hood Kiver is best known abroad for her Newtown apples. Kecently the fitor of the London Graphic, famed English weekly publication, wrote to C C. Crew seeking photographs of orcharding in all phases and data for an article. Ihe Newtown, it was stated, lias become a general favorite in England. Growers in setting new orchards are planting Newtownss chiefly. It is be- oiiung better known in America. Ihe Nf-wtown is ui excellent keeping n-U and yet is of fine quality. It can be kept m storage until late in the season when the markets of the country are cleared of the glut of earlier varieties and cheaper soft product. The fact that a large proportion of their ton nage is iSewtowns will enable Hood Kiver growers to realize an advantage. I he apple market, in the face of the eastern I amine, was glutted through out late October and November with the Northwestern red varieties, which were sold at a Sacrifice, The New towns went Into storage to be held anil fed to the market gradually, when the late winter and spring time demand resulted in a market reaction. The Newtown will enable the direct w ater tran:-portal h.;i of Northwestern pples from Portland and Seattle to urope to be carried out with greater success. Ihe water transportation oi ipples his year has reached 200,000 boxes. Most of these were Newtowns f the smaller sizes, shipped to the English markets. The magnitude of the apple business and the procedure of sale of the fruit resulting in returns coming back to growers sinwiy requires a system or financing all its own. The demand-" of their clientele, perhaps, has had as much as anything else to turn the loral banking institutions into two of the roust alert and efficient bunking insti tutions in a small town In the state of Oiegon. Growers usually receive an ndvai.ee of SS cents per box on their rops at the beginning of the harvest. Ibis requires $700,000 and a pledging f the credit of individual and cooper ative shipping concerns. It has been said that an industry rises or tails n whether or not it can Hspose. at a profit, of its byproducts. Growers consider the culls as a by product. The 12,010 tons of apples be- ow ( -grade will sell this year for an average of $lo per ton. Growers re ceive cash for this product, and the oil- are a considerable aid in caring for the family exp roes of growers. Hood River orchards, in the past six years have developed an saaiiiobiil Sideline that returns a limited stesdy Income throughout the year dairying. Q rowers have established a cooperative creamery which is now known as one of the best of its kind in the north west. Not only does it aid lo al grow ers but orchardists of Mosier and Washngton fruit belts have been stirn dialed to raising cows, because of the good prices they receive from their HENRI THIELE TBI GORGS HOTEL GAY RGNDEZfDVS Big Hostelry Was Like Fairyland Vthen Santa ( laus Kredricv ilegan !)rs tributing fhris'.uas (iifis in the plowing of I us. iL.T r.i . tneir son in uie ran. i nej .ir Mr- l.r rh.. ,.i, I long since eclipsed brr tie rows and other implements of cultiva tion. Spraying machines are driven by powerful gasoline motois. Tr e old fashioned soraving machine was not more than an improvisation in compar ison with the up-to-date rigs u'.i.uod in orchard tracts today. Pumps must be such that an enormous pressure can be obtained. Formerly trees were merely drenched. Now the orchard scientists say that the spray mo-t i 1)1)1 f l' II 1 1) LA TV broken into fine particles, thus form- X Mill flljll I O ing a mist to cover trunk, oranen, loii sge and fruit. Despite the bumper yield of this sea son, when an estimated t2,000 tons of commercial grade and cull apples were taken from the trees of the Himd Kiver valley, most of these apples, picking of which did not commence in Ids. The berry acreage here todav ranges from HQ to 400 acres. The receipts on strawberries, whi h sold for an aver age of $2.mi per box, reached atsut SSO.Oc. Cherries returned growers $7,500, and the total iear receipts reached $55,000. EXCEEDING ESTIMATES Little tots just big enough to re member, will probably recall, after they have reached the eveningtime of life, the Christmas party at the Co lumbla Gorge hotel Friday night, when Henri Thiele was host to an estimated 500 children ranging in ages from three to 12 years. Mr. Thiele has prepared banquets for notables of international fame, but never did he serve a more appreciative lot of guests than those youngsters of the Apple City, each of whom received a cup of hot chocolate a dish of ice cream and abundant cakes after old Santa Claus, impersonated with a zest of truly St. Nicholas style by jovial J. H. Fredricy, a child-loving old bachelor. The Columbia Gorge Hotel, in its brief life of only six months has al ready been the meeting place of some enthusiastic assemblages, and in the future ether appreciative guests will gather there for toa-t- and feasts, but a climax in Chiistnias mirth and the faith of childhood was reached Friday night. Mr. Thiele had devoted several days toward preparing his hostelry for the event, and no Christmas tree ever shone with a more brilliant array of colored lights and shimmering tinsel than the fir erected in the center of the big dining room, its top 8g dnst the ceiling. The children were given full run of the big hostelry's main lloor. Little beys and girli ebbed and (lowed in corridors, sitting rooms and the dining room itself, liig eyes, blue and brown, were wide with wonder, and in the exuberance of their faith many little girls embraced old Santa t'laus when they passed him in line for the dining room. Outride t.ie rugged Columbia gorge lay inspiringly still in a blanket of deep snow. In deed, the Columbia Kiver Highway was paved wth a winter whiteness, and drivers of automobiles, guarding their precious loads, guided their cars with care so that not a single skidding ac cident occurred. All in all. the event was like a page from the book of good fairies, and the dreams of hunderda of little beys and girls Friday night were buiided around the goodness of Santa Cluus and the joy of Christmastime. The community Christmas tree idea originated several weeks ago with John llaker, who suggested that good fellows of the city should formulate some plan for giving the poor of the (own some real Yuletide cheer. Mr. Thiele had already announced that his Christmas true would be available to the general public. And thus it was suggested that the event be made a general community ailair with the Co lumbia Gorge hotel for the rendezvous. The enthusiasm of parents ws more pronounced than had bean anticipated. It was not expected at (irst that more than 200 would brave the wintry weather and motor the two miles out of the city for the fesiive ualhi ring. All shildtea whose families did not own automobiles weie carried to ai d from the hotel by volunteer motorists, some of whose cars made double trips. E. K. Goodrich donated the services of his huge school bus and twice did this great vehicle ply the snow-encrusted road, packed with babies i;ke a Norwe gian -ardine can. The children were instructed to as semble at the county library building at 4.110 sharp. Hut by two o'clock be cloeked girls and little boys in ear mulTs and big overcoats were on the tops of the building shouting for transportation. Many children were accompanied by their parents and at least loll adults wars .is enthusiastical ly jovtul as were any of the younger children. So packed was the hotel that many children were lost from their parties, and the linal sorting out of youngsters was rendered somewhat complicated. Owners of automobiles conveyed not only their own children, but as many of their neighbors', who had no machines of their own as they tould conveniently pack aboard. Al Read pursued this course. His car, on the homeward journey, was filled rap idly at the door of the hotel, and he did not discover until he had reached home that his own small son was not aboard. Hut Keed, junior, was not worried. He was discovered, when the alarmed ather had hastened to the telephone, still a care-free and happy guest at the big hostelry. One of the most active members of the committee in charge of arranging for the visit of the children was Mrs. Glendora Hlakley. Other members of the committee were District Attorney Baker, C A. Hell. A. M. Cannon, C. II. Vaughan. K. It. Pergo, Hugh G. Ball and Joe D. Thomison. When the feast was closing E. C. Smith mounted a table and announced that Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Kolstai. ac:ing for their two small daughters, extend ed an invitation to all cHldren of the valley to be guests, without admission, at the Kialto theatre at a special inovy program Christmas day. The member of the committee and Mr. Thiele, as well as the children themselves wish to express thanks to motori'ts for the ,hearty part they sue-the car o reads to and share t. r.o n. II. tit-r. V K. nhi valley this any considerable degree until Septem- total of 2.1-- ber 20, were removed to warehouses, from here, ai cider and vinegar plants or into stot- about 75o cars age by November 15. Indeed before twent -six car the middle of November, the operation week. Estin of motor trucks had made possible the vest placed I shipment to eastern points more than cars. This w 50 per cent of the entire crop. The in early Novel valley's tonnage of extra fancy, fancy The Associi and C-grade apples, figuring 5o pounds 624 boxes ol to a bos, will run 5" OfSi tons. The The rgsnitat cull apples will reach 12,000 tons. 343,573 beasas. ars I it ha J is e Dia H Met lam. in. Dr. Pirn Dr. M. Ains fht. C P. I Sh e tes. C. Hood B. H. . Dr. Ine. L- iie .fore thp har I t at 2 M to 2,700 rsn unshipped M L. O. . lb Dr. Geo Mis Dr. E. D. C G li. o t . An. r. v J. R. J . Edm Sonn C. R- Bone. f. . n. C J. Mr. c
