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HOOD KIVER; OEEGON, THUUSDAY.'JUNE 8, .1922
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Why This Bank Offers You
this Positive Protection. BECAUSE
We believe that the positive safety of the $1000.00 bond for
every depositor, without charge, Is much better policy "than
taking chances" that no losses may occur , ou uninsured
checks.
We believe it Is good public policy to do everything possible
to give depositors greater POSITIVE safety and protection
for their money.
We believe in insuring you against check-raising menaces.
For your safety's sake we have discontinued using unsafe
checks which we had in slock to avoid needlessly exposing
our customers to risks of any kind whatever.
Every commercial account depositor of this bank receives a
vest-pocket $1600.00 Insurance policy protecting him against
loss thru fraudulent alteration of checks. Ask for yours.
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Bank Publicity
One of the interestinjar developments of pre'-.
sent day Bank Publicity is a sort of Clearing .
House for Advertisements, known as the -Bankers'
Advertising Digest. " '
We are members of the .organization and !
our Ad man has just finished reading five hundred and seventy
seven Ads that have appeared in cities and towns all over the
United States during the past few weeks.
In tabulating them we find they are divided as follows : .
Thrift and Savings 1.174 '
General and Commercial Banking... 89
Bond and Trust Departments. . ... 64
On the Making of Wills 50
Safe Deposit Boxes 42 '
. Human Interest Stories 27 m. ,, . -
On Information and Advice .i.:;rf.24 ?vv . 4
About Window Displays 12 . .
Special Ads for New Business 1 .17 ; . 1
Miscellaneous 69
We will use this space occasionally to tell you some of the in
teresting things we discovered in this quest for information.
Shut The Door
in His Face
Mr. 'House Fly' will soon be sneaking in at the
doors and windows.
Shut the door on him screen the Windows
against him.
Come to this office for Screen Doors and Windows.
Emry Lumber & Fuel Co.
"Everything to build Anything'
Phone 2181 Fourth and Cascade
Exclusive Representative of National Builder Bureaa
BUTLER BANKING COMPANY
Member Federal Reserve System
New Fenders, New Lamps, practically new tires,
Spotlight, Motometer, Snubbers. Mechanically
Al. Will demonstrate with any car in the Valley,
new or second hand.
Will take a second hand Ford in on it. Oh yes, it's
one of those famous Buick 6's.
"Satisfactory Service Always"
Shay's SERVICE Shop
AT THE
FASHION STABLES
Shop 1211 Re.- 2772
OUTING CLOTHES
For Both Men and Women
Whip Cords,
Gabardines
and Khaki.
Distinctively
tailored and
patterned to fit.
It's "Summers" quality and .that
means a satisfactory garment
J. G. VGGT
We announce to . the trade the in
stallation of a -Universal Bearing
Machine. We will be able to re
babbit connecting : rod bearings for
any make of car, truck or gas en
gine. Better service and . better bearings
at all times. Contract prices an all
bearings.
Fairbanks Engines and Hayes Sprayers
HOOD RIVER MACHINE WKS.
Unger & Lenz
Tel. 3173
VALLEY TRUNK
ROAD PROGRESS
BONDS WERE i VOTED A YEAR AGO
Twenty-Three Miles of Grade Will All Be
. ; Completed This Fall Rock Sar-
facing to Follow
' On June 7 a year ago, the people of
Hood River valley were absorbed in a
bond election contest, ' citizens of the
community having been appealed to by
the State Highway Commission to
enter on a 50 50 basis the construction
of the valley trunk line of the Mount
Hood Loop Highway, an approximate
23 miles of road that would become an
orchardista'1 market loute for growers
of the entire West Side, Odell, Middle
Valley and Upper Hood River sections
and an important link of the great
loop road around the base or Mount
Hood.
The bonds were voted by three to
one and by Jane 7 this year the new
grade will be found under way from
end to end. Indeed, as a result of the
$350,000 bond issue, the Hood River
valley proper "has never witnessed such
an activity of road construction as is
at present in progress. The trunk line
grade 1 being built in three units, the
total of the three contracts reaching
$243,059.50.
Late last fall Joplin & Eldon, Port
land contractors, were awarded for
$54,546.60 the contract for cutting the
new grade from the Rhoades ranch, in
the Odeli section, around the west side
of Booth hill into the Upper Valley,
.fraction over five roues, it was an
ticipated that the work would be
largely, finished during the ' winter.
Heavy snows and continued low tem
peratures, however, kept the winter
cramp inactive. Another delay was
met with . in the discovery or nuge
boulder formations, where ordinary
earth excavation was expected. The
contractors are , equipped with a small
steam shovel, which will not handle
the large boulders without blasting.
Work on the Booth hill section will be
drawn out through the summer. .
Simultaneously last winter the High
way Commission awarded contracts on
the other two units. &. A. wepsier,
for $114,392, was given the award on
building the 6.8-mile grade, which in
tersects the Columbia River Highway
just south of Hood River, to the Odeli
district. The Johnson Construction Co.
is building the 12 miles from the Mid
dle Valley to the bounds of the Oregon
National forest, the figures or tite
latter contract are $54,646.50. Al
though nearly 12 miles in length, it
utilises more of existing county road
than any other section, and the work
is largely an alteration of grades and
common excavation. 1
Both . Mr. Webster, with whom is
associated . J. W. Rumsey, an expert
enced ateamahovel and heavy rock
excavation man, and the Johnson Com
pany r making rapid progress on
their stretches. It is anticipated that
all contractors will have completed
their units by early fall, and tentative
plans rail for the beginning of surfac-
ly the grading is done.
J Sentiment of Hood River valley folk
last year was fairly well crystalized
in support or the proposed trunn high
way, but a difference of opinion as to
location of the route aroused violent
opposition to the road bonds. An ele
ment or citizens declared mat me sur
vey should have extended higher on
the bench of the Hood river canyon,
in order that more of the old East Side
road could be utilized, while other dis
approved for the reason that the new
road would not pass directly through
Odeli and Farkdale, chiet up-valley
shipping points.
The former contention was met with
by engineering experts on the ground
that the survey as made would elimi
nateall possible grades and curvatures
The route suggested, that over the
hiffh ringe projected above the llood
river gorge, would necessitate a heavy
grade to get in and out of the valley
proper. It was also cited that tne
trunk road would pass within a half or
three-quarters of a mile of the valley
shipping points and could be easily
connected by short laterals, that, the
trunk road, if it should pass directly
by shipping warehouses would be sub
jected to congestion during the rush of
apple hauling season.
While the objections resulted? in the
chief opposition to the bond issue, they
have 'largely disappeared within a
short year time, and when the road
is completed it is not anticipated that
a single citizen or the valley will ex
press anything but pride in the valley
trunk line road. An approximate 25
per cent of th community's voters ex
pressed disapproval in 1917 of the
county's $75,000 bond if sue for partic
ipation in opening the Columbia Kiver
Highway. Today not a single oppon
ent of the great scenic thoroughfare,
which bas proven a utilitarian boon to
the city and valley, but admits of his
mistake, and so it will probably be
wit regard to the new complement of
th Highway op the Columbia gorge.
The new valley trunk, aa local folk
are prone to call the 23-mile unit of
the Mount Hood Loop road up through
the orchard district, is going to add
new beauties to Oregon highways.
From the standpoint or scenic appeal.
no short link of any of the great sys
tems built m the last eight years will
be more sensational than the first three
aules of the unit . lying just south of
the city of Hood Kiver. ror over a
bslf mile the new grade, already cut,
wind - around the precipitous Hood
river canyon. Native fir trees, with a
covering of wild shrubs around their
base, lie below the grade of a portion
of this, and the routing stream flashes
among vistas of the vivid green
branches. The road will swerve by a
graceful curve, out of sight of town
and an expanse of the broad Columbia,
around a hummock of the orchard of
A. A. Scbenck. pioneer railroad builder
who wa wiUi the old Cv R. & N. crews
here in early days and who was at
tracted to the community by its scenic
appeal and that of its possibilities as
a great horticultural section. South
from this curve msy be seen a long
itrrtch of the silvery cascades of the
swift stream, lying far below in the
bottom cf the canyon. Soon the motor
t gets the tint glimp of Mount
Hood, the snow fields of which will be
th real goal of thousands cf motor
tourists as soon as th hiehwsy is com
rleted. This section of the Mount
Hood Loop Highway a ill be the first;
road ef easy grade, built especially for 4
motor traffic, to oten a way from the
valley lands into the wooded base of
the state s great enow capped moun
tain, r or this reason alone, it will be
come one of the most popular roads of
the state.
After a three-mile distance the new
grade will cross the canyon of Whiskey
creek. Near the concrete crossing is
the site of an early day distillery.
Here in the dim days of the past pio
neers were wont to secure the contents
of brown jugs. The section's first
prune orchards were used for a dihtil
lation of a potent beveraee. From
Whiskey creek on into the Middle Val
ley by graceful curves and appealing
straight of way amid prolific trees, the
valley trunk will penetrate commun
ities of rare pastoral appeal, a com
munity where fruit farming is prac
ticed as a science. The visiting mo
torist will be given an opportunity to
study orchards that have been visited
by horticulturists from the four cor
ners of the globe. Fruit acres will
continue on to the remote sections of
the Upper Valley, where the road will
pass suddenly from the magnificent
orchards into the virgin wilds of the
Oregon National Forest and soon bring
the motorist, high on the east base of
the snow peak, to flaming acres of
flowers that grow Jn luxuriant acre
expanses up to the very edge of Bnow
fields.
The new road will be completed
without any serious blockades. The
worst detour of the entire route was
that necessitated just south of the
city, where a portion of the old East
Side grade was destroyed by the new
road. The county court improved the
old original wagon road over the hill,
and trailic has utilized it conveniently.
Crews of Mr. Webster and Mr. Rum
sey have begun the construction of a
900-foot tie-in highway. Long before
apple hauling time the new grade will
be completed and ready for trucks and
wagons. Some detours, none of any
serious consequence, have been neces
sitated in the Odell section, and at
present in the Middle Valley it is nec
essary to make a detour at the Barr
place to avoid the rebuilding of the
old road.
The grade near the city is on a solid
rock formation. Several heavy fills
wree made here, but the loose rock of
which they are built are packed solidly
and there will be no settling, it is
said. Formerly travel to the Upper
Hood River Valley, during winter
months and the rainy seaion has been
rendered more or less hazardous to
motorists because of the steep grades
over Booth hilh The new road will
eliminate this bugaboo, and Upper
Valley sections will be brought in cloee
contact with the city. Topography
and bad roads have formerly divided
the valley into two sections. 1 he new
road, it is anticipated, will eliminate
the old sectional feelings. !
The bond issue was proposed during
the period when construction costs
were considerably higher than at pres
ent. The actual cost of the road will
be far less than was anticipated, and
Hood River county will have left from
the bonds authorized at least $100,OJO,
although rights of way, secured by the
county, have cost $33,363.64. Road en
thusiasts have itched for he power of
expending this m. Sy on Other roads.
Under the law, however, the funds so
raised can be expended only on the
road for which they were voted, and
the county will merely sell enough
bunds for this work.
In addition to the valley trunk road,
the county is expending an approx
imate $40,000 on general road improve
ment and maintenance. Bids have
been asked for on a $30,000 market
road job. An approximate mile of
concrete paving will be laid on the
West Side main trunk road just south
of the city.
A crew of 20 men has begun work on
the Lost Lake highway without the
bounds of the Oregon National Forest,
where the county and United States
Forestry Service will each rpend $4,000
in rebuildiug old grades. As Boon as
work will permit, Stanley C. Walters,
chief forest ranger of the district, will
begin the construction of a new half
mile of road on the shore of Lost Lake
and in rock surfacing the four miles of
new grade within the forest bounds.
The sum of $11,750 has been appropri
ated for the work. In the bounds of
the Nat'onal Forest six miles of the
Loop Highway have already been com
pleted. J. E. CI ark son, contractor, is
assembling a crew for construction of
an additional 19 miles, which by the
end of summer will connect the llood
River valley with the old Barlow road.
An approximate $30,000 has been ap
propriated for construction of a lateral
road, to connect the Loop Highway
and Cooper's Spur.
The road construction now tinder
way here has been stimulated by con
struction of the Columbia River High
way. It has been necessitated, in or
der that the great scenic trunk could
be supplemented. The new valley
trunk will result in the construction of
better valiey laterals. It is the begin
ning of better roads in the Hood River
valley.
LEGION STATE DELE
GATES NOMINATED
The American Legion Post Monday
night nominated the following mem
bers for delegates to the annual state
encampment to be held at The Dalles
in late July: Edw. W. Van Horn,
Robert G. McNary, Dr. J. W. Sifton,
Banks Mortimer, Walter Ford, Dr.
H. D. W. Bineo, Dr. V. R Abraham,
Miss Elizabeth Campbell, Glenn Hunt,
Fred H. Bell and Harry W. FarrelL
Three will be elected and three alter
nates named at the July monthly
meeting.
The Legionnaires at their meeting
Monday night were addressed by Rob
ert Frey, overseas veteran, suffering
from gassin?, who has just returned
from Hospital No. 77 in Portland. .Mr.
rrey had the greatest praise for the
treatment accorded the men by the
Red Cross. He also declared that the
meals of the hospital, which is now in
chsrge of the Veterans' Bureau and
used exclusively for e-service men,
are excellent
Kelson Gets Chairmanship
Friends of Nels Nelson, prominent
member of the staff of the Oregon
Lumber Co. at Dee, are congratulating
him on his receipt from County Clerk
Shoemaker of bis certificate of election
as Democratic chairman for the Dee
precinct. Although one of the county's
youthful politicians, Mr. Nelson, it is
ststed by thoe who are well aoiunint-
trd with him. bids fair to shine in high
circle cf Oregon's great May ard No
vember sport
ENTERTAINMENT
PLANS MADE
FRUIT MEN MEET HERE TUESDAY
Lunch Club Members Are Hosts Com
mittee Appointed to Arrange for
' Apple Shipper Visitors
Z The 300 or 400 apple buyers of east
ern and middle western cities, who are
expected to come to Oregon and Wash
ington mid-Columbia fruit districts fol
lowing the annual convention of the
International Apple Shippers Associa
tion at Seattle July 26, 27 and 28, will
be given a hospitable greeting, if plans
resulting from a collaboration here
Tuesday of growers and shippers from
Mood Kiver and Wasco counties and
from Skamania and Klickitat counties,
Washington, come to maturity.
' A special trainload of fruit buyers
will make calls at Wenatchee, Yakima
and Spokane, where growers, shippers
and civic organizations are preparing
elaborate entertainment. Mid-Colum
bia fruit men, who will be aided in
their entertainment by civic organiza
tions, declare that they will not allow
the big Washington sections to eclipse
them in greetings to the interests that
distribute the products of the local
valleys.
Tuesday's meeting was called by P.
F. Clark, who is a member of Uie gen
eral Northwestern committee on ar
rangements. The following district
chairmen were appointed to arrange
ror the coming or the apple buyers:
Ira Hyde. White Salmon; C. W. Gibbs,
Underwood, Judge F. S. Gunning, The
Dalles and R. D. Chatheld, Mosier.
A schedule of the itinerary of the dele
gates to the International Apple Ship
pers Association at present calls for
their entertainment in Portland Sun
day, July 30. The next day the Port
land fruit interests wilt bring them by
automobile to Multnomah Falls, where
Hood River folk will take charge of
them. They will be brought here for
a luncheon at the Columbia Gorge
Hotel. Thence, following a ride
through local orchards they will be
taken to Mosier. There, after the buy
ers have visited the orchards and have
seen the"community packing plant of
the Mosier Fruitgrowers' Association,
they will be taken in tow by a motor
delegation of The Dalles fruitgrow
ers. The Wasco county capital will
entertain them over night and return
them on the following day to Under
wood and White Salmon. Growers of
the Washington districts will entertain
the buyers at buffet luncheons at ware
houses. In addition to those named
on committers, mid-Columbia fruit men
here for the meeting of Tuesday in
cluded: J. E. Slade, cf Husum; Paul
McKercher, Fred S. Baker, A. K.
Mills, G. Reed, C. T. Dewey and J. Wx
Dickey, of White Salmon, and L.
Curtiss and W. S. Nelson, of The
Dalles. t
5 The visitors were luncheon guests of
the Tuesday Lunch Club, the following
giving short talks: Mr. ' Slade, Mr.
McKercher, Judpe Gunning and Mr.
Nelson. The laUer is manager of the
new horticultural bureau established
by The Dalles Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Clark addressed the visitors and
the local business and professional
men, declaring the convention would
offer boxed apple fruit districts an ex
cellent opportunitytof showing the dis
tributing elements of the industry
their plants.
"Any manufacturing enterprise,"
he declared, "would consider an oppor
tunity of displaying Us factory to the
concerns handling its product of ines
timable value. We have the opportun
ity to show the apple buying interests
our plant We must utilize every in
fluence to let them khow that they are
welcome. k
""The information has somehow
gained currency that the buyers in Se
attle for the convention would hurry
home immediately .he sessions were
over. A canvass among tha prospec
tive delegates, however, shows that
the. opposite is true. Most of the buy
ers will make a vacation of the trip.
They will expect to spend a week or
more seeing as muchjof the Northwest
as possible before they go bark."
President Murphy, of the Lunch
Club, expressed an appreciation of
himself and his fellow members at
having the neighboring fruit men pres
ent. He assured them of the organiz
ation's fullest support in entertaining
the fruit buyers.
Among the visitors here will be sev
eral prominent English fruit buyers,
who have been attracted to the session
in order that they may see the home of
the Northwestern box apple.
Joe D. Thomison was chairman of
the Tuesday meeting.
LEGION CLIMB NOT
TO BE POSTPONED
The warm weather of the past week
has melted the snows packed in can
yons in the high forest around the base
of Mount Hood very rapidly. Th
American L gion Post which several
weeks ago had anticipated that it
would be necessary to postpone its an
nual climb of Mount Hood from July
16, the date originally set now an
nounces that the snow will probably
be sufficiently melted by mid-July to
permit of carrying out plans without
any changes.
The snows that have been holding
back work of road crews on the Mount
Hood lioop Highwsy imd in the Lost
Lake district are almnyt gone, and j the
highway work is now in progress on
both sides of the mountain.
SLIDE NOW REMOVED
FROM PAVEMENT
J. R. NickeUen announced Tuefdsy
night that bi crews had just complet
ed removirg the laf t of the sliae of
rorks which fell from an overhanging
cliff on Ruthton hill Tuesday n.gfit of
lat week. Tortions of the detns still
remain on the siie cf the rosJ, bat the
paving is entirely clear. The ahda
was estimated at 2.XW tons.
"I w as pleasantly surprised to fird
that the ravirg w unir-jured." ss-
Mr. NickHsen. "The rc-ks were p -ceded
ty a sl.de cf earth that maC t
cushion for tb mats of rocks."
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