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HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1922
No. 43
VOL. XXXIII
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Horses! Horses!
icznonzDl
Carload lot of blocky animals,
especially selected for small ranch
and orchard work. Shipped from
Prineville.
Horses may be seen at Fashion
Stables. All are young and have
been broken. And some are well
matched in teams.
Come early, in order to get a
good selection.
J. T. HOUSTON
BUSINESS IS GOOD
Good weather has returned and with it
good business.
Now is the time to prepare for your sum
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all kinds of machine work. Starters, Generators,
Carburetors and Ignition troubles.
On all overhauling and cars rebuilt by us we will
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Fairbanks-Morse Engines and
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SCENIC ASSETS
ARE BOOSTED
L. R. WHEELER URGES COOPERATION
Portland Telegram Publisher Cites Exist
ing Odious Comparison of Con
veniences for Tourists
Enthusiasm of citizens from all parts
of the county at a meeting of the Hood
Kiver County Commercial club called
Monday night for a discussion of scen
ery as an asset, added new potency to
the age-old adage, "Where there's a
will there's a way," and the session
ended with ways and means of a devel
opment of the Mount Hood district's
scenic assets started on their way with
a stimulus that bids fair of real re
sults. Set off by a presentation of facts
from L. R. Wheeler, vice president of
the Portland Telegram, chief speaker
of the meeting, who cited the laggard
spirit of Oregonians, in the light of
comparison with aggressive activities
of folk of the sister states, Washing
too and California, locals speakers
touched on various projects, already In
more or less concrete shape for the ex
ploitation of the far-famed forested
area, topped by the sensational spire
of Mount Hood. Chief in interest here
at the present time, however, is the
problem of making Cloud Cap Inn and
Lost Lake accessible to the motoring
public.
Mr. Wheeler cited from personal ex
perience the conveniences that tourists
find provided for them in attractive
hotels or lodges at points in the Cana
dian Rockies, the Olympics and especi
ally at Paradise valley on Mount Rain
ier. He declared that Oregon folk
should be ashamed to allow the deroga
tory comparisons that tourists annually
are making to continue. Mr. Wheeler
cited how Oregon and Portland have
not in the last decade kept pace with
other Pacific coast states in attracting
industrial enterprises. Washington's
population in the past 10 years, he
cited, has increased 20 per cent ; Cali
fornia, 22 per cent ; while Oregon's in
crease has been but 8 per cent?
"What is wrong?" he asked. Is it
that the country is less fertile? Is it
that we have less of pure water, less
of natural resource, less of scenic
grandeur? Do we get fewer visitors
to Cloud Cap Inn because the gatewav
road is less attractive than that up to
Paradise iaal la it that the views the
visitor beholds from the end of his
journey less thrilling? It is up to us
the personal factor."
Mr. Wheeler declared that Oregon
scenery is incomparable, and that the
panoramic sights offered from Coopers
Spur, with the spectacular pinnacle of
Hood's cone uplifted and wide ex
panses of forested area and the plainB
pf esetern Oregon spreading our neinre
the eve. are unemialed. t'aradise inn,
dm ii.i.' the season of recreation, the
sneaker cited, is visited by tourists
running around 500 daily, while local
guest are numbered by the scores only
"The matter really and fundamen
tally," Mr. Wheeler declared, "is with
us. We must prevail on the Forestry
Service to build road to the snow line
We must provide, not elaborate, but
attractive hotels and lodges. You peo
ple of Hood Kiver and Portland and
the newspapers must cooperate In
bringing about this uevelopment. The
Portland papers, and I especially speak
for one, are anxious and willing to fos
ter the project. We want you to feel
that we belong to you."
It developed from the report of J.
H. Fredricy, chairman of a committee
that has been in touch with the Poe
try Department, that plans for a later
al from the Mount Hoed Loop High
way to Cloud Cap Inn and Cooperi
Spur are being worked out. Costs and
extent of construction necessary will
not be known until the forestry de
partment has made a preliminary sur
vey, seeking a grade over which a
permanent motor road can be con
structed. The accumulation of winn r
snows, it was stated, will permit such
survey about June.
The sensation of the meeting, be
cause of its graphic prophecy of tin
possibilities ot Lost Lake as a magnet
for motor tourists based on statistic!
of the past three years, was the short
report by C. A. Bell, who said :
'We have heard the speakers say
that we do not realize the value of oui
scenery and Lost l.BKe as an assei.
You do not, but let me give you some
figures on visitors to the lake. In 19 1J
00 penetrated the forest to tne lake ;
in l'.2u, before a road was cut through.
5.000 tramped over trails to the scenic
spot; in 1921, despite some hardships
of travel that still existed, the number
had grown to 20,000."
lhe meeting developed that tne for
estry service has this year ottered to
expend a maximum of $4,000 in a reio
cation and grading ot the road irom
Dee to Lost Lake, wholly without the
Oregon National forest, providing
Hood Kiver county match tne sum.
E. U. blanchar confidently expressed
the hope that a general appeal from
over the entire county would resun in
a transfer by the county court of a
portion of the year's road fund to the
work.
"1 sincerely believe," laid Mr.
lilanchar. "that we can take advan
tage of this opportunity offered by the
forestry service. A proper understand
ing on the part of the citizens will af
ford, let us aay the ;sum of $2,500
from the county funds, and we can
raise the remainder of $1,600 by pri
vate subscription."
And a feature of all the plans for
road development that will make ac
cessible the district's playground, des
tined ultimately to become a summer
time national rendezvous, call for per
manency and grades that will be a
pleasure to the motorist. The old tor
tuous climb to Cloud Cap Inn, now a
bugaboo to automobilists, will be re
placed by a longer road, but one of
easy gradient and with wide sweep of
graceful curves through the highlai d
forest. Eventually tt. old wagon road,
from Dee to the edge of the Oregon
National Forest will be discarded, and
instead of dipping into ravines and
dodging the stuntps of fir giants gone
to teed mill saws, the motorist will
speed on arrow-straight lengths or
traverse on easy grades canyonsiues of
the beautiful west fork. V itn a well
graced road from Mood River to the
edge of Ute lake, which Mr. Fredricy
chsracleriseo) as the ideal spot for a
resort hotel, wtjrre boating, ftshaag
and various out of door sports will be
available in tne fjary shadow of Hood s
peak, and. on holidays and Sundays,
will become the goal of most of Port
land's motorists.
Lack of preparation for entertain
ment of visitors and a failure to dis-
play the energy manifested by boost
I ers of eastern Washington apple dis
! tricts, according to P. F. Clark, appar
ently has resulted in the routing of
j most of the delegations from eastern
cities to the International Apple Ship
I ers' Association, scheduled for Seat
tle in July, over the worinern racmc
and Creat Northern lines. Mr. Clark's
report because it stimulated to oratorjc
action J. II. Fredricy, created, one of
the diversions of the evening. .Mr.
Fredricy, who recalled eloquent ap
peals by letter and by telegram last
year to the apple men's convention,
then in session in the east, declared
that the Commercial club had extended
all possible energies in securing the
Seattle exposition and in extending an
invitation to the eastern fruit buyers
to visit Hood Kiver.
Mr. Fredricy painted a glowing pic
ture of the land of scenery traversed
by the Union Pacific line, and dielared
that the railroad had not yet been built
through a lurid of more rnagntiicent
grandeur. He cited the pure water of
Oregon lakes and streams and com
pared it with the boiled product of
fered in the Washington districts for
quenching a thirst on a summer day.
Mr. Clark pointed out that the I re
gon State Chamber of Commerce was
cooperating very effectively WiU) Hood
Kiver in securing a routing or trains
this way. The State Chamber has
pledged that at least one train of the
fruit men will visit the Hood kiver
valley. J. G. Kilpack, membership
(secretary of the Chamber, was pres
ent, and favored club men with SolpS.
Don Metzgus alo rendered vocul solos.
They were accompanied by Clifton
Kmmel on the piano.
On motion of Kev. Koddv, who le
clared no recent address before the
commercial body had been filled with a
greater array of educational facts as
that of the Portland newspaper man.
Mr. Wheeler was given a unanimous
vote of thanks.
Hrief remarks were made by Mark
Cameron, W. A. I.angilje and Leslie
Butler.
At the instance of C. E. Graves,
who recommended the inclusion of Dia
mond Lake in Crater Lake National
Park, W. H. Poddy, chairman of the
scenic preservation comm'ttee of the
Commercial club, asked that the club
members refer the matter of the rec
ommendation to this committee for a
report to the directorate of the club.
The latter body was given power to
pass on the Diamond Lake project and
report its decision to the Oregon con
gressional delegation.
A Hood River delegation is planning
attending the banquet to be tendered
Ambassador Geddes, of Great Britain,
when the latter visits Portland in the
near future. The Commercial club has
accepted aninvitation to participate in
the reception to be tendered tho dis
tinguished Englishman.
MISS'rAIRrGWL LOST'
FOR THREE DAYS
Miss Hannah Fairfowl, whom a
searching party found almost lifeless
late Friday in snow-filled forests back
of Dee, where she had wandered lost
and without food for 72 hours, has re
covered at the Cottage hospital. Her
handa and feet were badly swollen
from frost bite and the exertion of
trudging through deep snow drifts and
pulling herself up canyonsides by un
derbrush. None of her injuries or ills
are now considered serious, although
friends were alarmed about her Friday
night.
Miss Fairfowl, aged about 50 vears,
and her brother. Thomas Fairfowl, an
invalid, reside on a homestead about
lour miles from Dee. The former vis
ited the postotlire Tuesday for the mail
and supplies. She returned, she says
over the mountain trail, t . which she
was unaccubtomid, la Older to get the
view from an eminence. A snowstorm
prevailed and she became lost.
"1 started on an adventure of It s
than an hour, and it lasted time
days," said Miss Fairfowl Saturday.
"Indeed, it lacked but little of l.en.g
the great adventure. My last night In
the forests I was possessed almost con
stantly by the peculiar hallucination
that 1 was in the old Lone Fir ceme
tery in Portland. 1 grew almost dis
tracted the first night, realizing that I
was lost, but I thought surely that
they would miss me and find me. I
remember my chief aim seemed to be
to prevent the letters and papers that
I was carrying from getting wet. The
next night I seemed to wander thou
sands of miles, seeking food. 1 think
1 called at the home of every friend I
ever knew and begged for just a crust.
That was a peculiar hallucination.
They seemed to ignore me entirely,
and 1 had about decided that the end
had come for me."
Miss Fairfowl says at times she had
the feeling that she had -passed on and
was a wandering spirit, but that the
return of the thought that spirits are
not bothered by hunger dispelled this
conclusion.
J. H. Van Wicklen, of the office
force of the Oregon Lumber Com
pany's Dee plant, who found Miss
Fairfow!, gays he thought her body
was liUlesa. She was prjstrate in the
snow. When ne caneo to companions
and the search party started to remove
her, they saw her eyes open.
Although he had grown alarmed by
the absence of his si-tt r, the brother,
who has suffered a paralytic stroke.
thought she might have stopped at the
home of a neighbor, M. K. Gather
wood.
Friday he determined to investigate
and began, for him in his infirm condi
tion, the tremendous task of walking
down the canyon to the Cat her wood
home. He was met eo route by a man
working for the lumter company to
whom he spread the alarm. The exer
tion and excitsmenl left the brother in
a stste of collapse, but Saturday he
was brought to Dee, at.d is reported to
have recovered.
J. W. West stated Saturday night
that Dee folk believe both Miss Fair
fowl and the invalid brother owe their
lives to a letter received Thursday
evening; from another brother, J. G.
Fairfowl engaged at Gateway on a
contract of The Dalles-California high
way. The latter had written to Alva
West, son of Use rail manager, enclos
ing a letter to his sister, and asking
that it be delivered as anon as possible.
A man was sent to the homestead
place with it Friday morning, when he
met the invalid bn ther. The latter, it
is believed, would have bem exhausted
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BRIDGE WORK
IN PROGRL
NEW BRIDGE OF THE GODS TO I
Structure, Which Will Cost $450,000,
Be of Classical Design. Con- "1
crete to Be Poured Soon
Sunday's Oregonian carried a cut of
the proposed bridge, to span the Co
lumbia at Cascade Locks, aa visioned
by the engineers.
Concrete for the pier? on the Oregon
side for the "Bridge of the Gods" will
be poured in the near future by the
Young-McDonald Company, contractor.
The span, which is unique, will cross
the Columbia river just below Cascade
Locks, linking the Columbia river and
North Hank highways and forming a
1011-mile scenic drive of marvelous
beauty. It will cost, complete, ap
proximately $450,000.
The bridge is being projected and
will be built under direction of the
IJrulge of the Gods company, with
headquarters in the Chamber of Com
merce building, Portland. The trustees
of the company are: Franklin T.
Griffith, A. L. Miller. George S. Allen,
W. P. Haw ley and Joseph R. Harvey.
Dorr E. Keasy is the financial agent.
At the last meeting of the trustees,
Mr. Griffith was elected president, but
because of numerous other responsibil
ities, later said that he could not reive
ir that capacity. Mr. Miller is vice
president and Mr. Allen, seeretary
l roasurer.
Engineering ha- progressed on Lbs
pier sites to the point where it hH
been determined there is a riist class
rock foundation for the abutments and
the contractors for the Oregon side
niers are peparing the ground for pour
ing of concrete, whirh will be operated
on the gravity system. It will he
mixed high on the hillside and run
down.
The bridge is of exceptionally beauti
ful architectural design. The features
were worked out by LA. Thomas, con
suiting architect, with Engineer Clark,
and its form and composition have
heen developed by them in a careful
study of purpose and expression, their
object being to have it serve as a fit
ting climax of the attractive improve
ments which have been so well per
formed on the highways by other en
gineers and builders.
The location of the bridge, according
to Mr. Clark, has been selected with
regard to thehistoric background and
the economic features of the day. The
disturbances of ages, he explains, cre
ated special conditions whit h have been
encountered in determining the point
for approaches, but also left a very de
sirable foundation for construction of
the span.
Materials upon which to place the
foundations or the bridge, and the dis
'tance between abutmens at the points
Cfiosen are a distinct advantage over
any other position for more than 100
miles along the river, Mr. Clark
stales. The North Hank, or Washing
ton highway will in the future handle
great streams of traffic from the In
land Empire, he thinks, as well as
from the uplands adjacent to toe Co
lumbia vallev, and at the point 01
crossing is but one-quaiter of a mile
distant from the Columbia Kiver High
way, which annually is becoming more
thickly congested with traffic. This,
he points nut, makes the selected loca
tion the most desirable in the north
west. The type of bridge selected, while
appearing to the layman as being
somewhat unusual or unique, is in
reality based upon scientific principles
and has many advantages over the ord
inary foini of simple truss or canti
lever span," said Mr. Claik. "Bridg
es like this have been giving satisfac
tory service for long periods in the
United Stales, and on the continent of
Europe.
"The Tower bridge iver the river
Thames at London and the T.ber
bridge in Kome RM of this type; also
the Point bridge in 1 itt.-rbugh and the
Grand-avenue bridge, in St. Loui-. Sev
eral designs have been prepaied for
some of the grcateet bridges in the
world, including tiie Manhattan over
the East river, New York.
"At the point of crossing the gorge
of the Columbia river is quae narrow
snd severe wind conditions ex.st at
various seasons of the year Special
provision has been made in th: design
for extraordinary and uncertain wind
pressure. The wide spreading legs of
the steel tower provide the opportun
ity for a wind trus in the plane of the
lb or system of sufficient depth to give
adequate stiffnes- against wiml action.
"The floor system does not re.-t upon
the towers, but through a sliding itoai
shoe; all wind stresses are delivered at
the legs of the tower and are then
transmitted direct to the masonry. The
concrete piers below the steel work are
carried down to the solid materials '
which form the river bed and which
were laid down bv the elements in
ages past and have long'since become
stable and thoroughly reliable as a
foundation for a structure of this mag
nitude. The erection of this bridge.
while appearing difficult, after suffici
ent study by experienced erectors, un
folds into a comparatively simple oper
ation when the proper equipment is
supplied.
GRANGE COOPERATIVE
STORE LAUNCHED
Members of various granges of the
county have launched ' a cooperative
store. The cooperative organization,
whirh will deal in general merchan
dise, except hardware, has taken a
two-year lease on the store room for
merly occupied by the Blewers Hard
ware Co. The new cooperative store,
it is stated, will be opened April I.
N. H. MacMillan is slated for man
agership of the new grange store.
before reachingrthe Catherwood home.
"He was tottering along, hardly able
to walk' down the rcugh trail," says
Mr. West. "He would prooably never
have been able to have reached the
neighborirg home. The timely arrival
of that letter probably resulted in sav
ing their lives. Miss Fsirfowl's wan
derings had been through a tangle of
underbrush through which it was diffi
cult for a man to walk. A crefj of
axeman had to cut a way out be;"ora
she could be removed."
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