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HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1922
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HOOD RIVER, OREGON
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Ye Old Swimmin' Hole !
Several attempts have been made by public spirited
associations and citizens to establish a swimming pool. All
of them have lacked the everchanging, flowing water so
absolutely necessary for a public resort of this kind.
Incidents that happen and may happen and the urging
on of friends that come to our place year after year have
given us no alternative. We must either make improve
ments and run it on a business basis or close our beach to
the public.
So we have decided to find out just how far Hood
River people will go to support a place of this kind and
have gone ahead making improvements.
That part of the beach set apart for children and those
who cannot swim, has been enclosed by a net, supported
from a log boom, anchored down, giving absolute safety.
Dressing rooms and other buildings have been constructed
and we are adding to them as the demand warrants.
We wish to make it known that we would like to make
this a Family Resort in fact, it is almost exclusively so
now and, keeping in line with this idea, we air ranking a
small charge per family. At present we will call it as it
has been known for years :
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Thoroughfare Will Not Only Open Scenic
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,f Deferred Publicity
Our Ad writer was honored with the pleas
ant duty of accompanying Mayor Baker on the
American Legion Expedition to Mt. Hood, and
and any well informed person will tell you that
that's reason enough for not writing an adver
tisement this week. Providentially the Mayor
is a little overweight and spends almost as much time at his desk
as does our Ad writer, but we don't mind saying that if his honor
had desired to go a hundred yards farther, he would have needed
another escort, and if he had elected to go to the top, tin's bank
would have needed another Ad writer.
But we had a wonderful time and we want to go.f.iaia ijext
year, and this might be a good place to say that in this enterprise
the men of the American Legion are working out one of the great
est problems that confronts the people of the State of Oregon to
day the development of Mt. Hood as Oregon's greatest scenic
asset.
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I am equipped for and am do!n car wash
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I have with me Mr. Fred Jackson, one of
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this section of the country. If you have
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On occasion one meets that class of
motorist who ia longing for new roads
and new scenery to conquer with his
favorite automobile. The genus is
rare here in Oregon, where even the
most leisurely of citizens, it might ap
pear, would never be able to behold all
glories of natural beauty made avail
able b j. ever busy crews of highway
builders. Yet they exist, and persist
in boring friends with what they have
seen and what they wish to see.
Perhaps it is an extravagance of
white space to coddle such all wise
motorists with even a suggestion of
new sensations in roads. And let this
introductory digression be ended with
a recommendation to them that they
steer as soon as they wish to the new
link of the Mount.Hood Loop Highway
in the Oregon National I'orest on the
east and northeast base of Mount Hood
if they would breakthe shell of their
callousness. Here, practically isolated,
for the connecting link has not yet
been built, are located nine miles of
wonder highway, and before the snows
of autumnj,have fallen contractors will
have almost completed another 14
miles, connecting Hood River county,
at the national forest bounds, with the
old Barlow trail, that highway made
sacred by the sacrifices of pioneers.
Except for the reports of engineers
and contractors, or the stories brought
out by venturesome seekers for road
data, but little has been heard of the
Mount Hood Loop H'ghway, that ia,
about its actual construction and just
what manner of road it is. It is true
lhat proponents of the great loop
route, in their pleas for action by tax
payers, have painted graphic pictures
of what it will make available to the
motoring public. A trip up the East
Fork of Hood river will give proof
that the completed road will surpass
the dreams of the ultra-enthusiast.
The mountain section of the Mount
Hood Loop Highway, when the con
necting links are finally completed and
opened to traffic, are goingjtoprove a
pleasant and gratifying surprise to the
automobile owners of Oregon and their
visitors, annually swelling to greater
numbers.
It is now possible to reach the Mount
Hood Loop Highway within the Oregon
National Forest, but the old county
roads south of Parkdale are long and
narrow. Ihey -are -cut through vol
canic ash, that fertile soil of the east
ern part of the Upper Valley, where
ancient burns have killed olf the forest
trees and where highland willows grow
as dense as a tropical jungle. An oc
casional copse of fir forest stands with
its lofty conifers along the wayside, or
maybe the old road penteratea the
groves, giving the traveler surcease
for a few momenta from the brilliant
summer sun and the deep, fine duRt,
which settles like confectioner's flour
over your moist face and hands. For
the most part, however, the wayside
is a mass of bushes, which grow close
beside the road. They slap and
scratch the fenders and body of the
car. Do not travel the old county
roads, if you love the unmarred sur
face of your machine.
And yet right today a journey into
the Last Fork wilds is worth a few
such sacrifices, if you are a lover of
nature and virgin mountain beauty
With a suddenness that thrills you, you
burst out of a fir forest on an intersec
tion of the new road with the old nar
row defile of the county, the thorough
fare of the region a homesteader.
There before you lies the choice of
continuing on the highway of the days
of slow, horsedrawn mountain hacks
or the modern boulevard of the era of
gasoline. Any standard automobile
would of its own volition swerve olT
down that new highway.
You II travel a few miles and then
you'll say to yourself: "Well. I'll
take off my hat to the forestry Ser
vice ; this is some road." It is 20 feet
wide, like the grade of a double track
railway line. Its curves are graceful
and not too sudden. Where the forma
tion is of gravel, with some admixture
of clay, the road, used since its con
struction only by wagons and trucks of
the bunders and an occasional bold
motorist's automobile, is parked down
like a hard surfaced boulevard.
Perhaps two miles, or mavbe it ia
more, from the forest bounds you sud
denly swing over an eminence down
nto the Last fork canvon. Unless
the smoke from forest burns has set a
certain haze oil to the north you can
look down that rugged canyon, with its
awe-inspiring sheer precipices and
chisled rimrocks, and see Mount Ad
ams, Mount Kainier and Mount St.
Helens off to the north. The stream.
here and there cascading, lies at the
bottom like a silvery ribbon. Here
and there, if you have ever cast a fly
you locate intuitively pools that are
haunted by giant trout, and you im
mediately express disappointment if
you have left your rod and fly book
home. Gently, the grade at no place
exceeding five per cent, you descend to
the very water s edge of the Kact
Fork and cross to the east side. The
highway is already completed some
five miles along the stream, following
t up on a water grede. The most of
the way the highway is cut from an
overhanging gorgeside, but occasional
ly it leaves the singing stream to
short -cut through the virgin trees, and
in these groves bow appealing are the
tea for mid-summer camps. As you
motor along the East Fork here at jn
elevation from 3 OuO to 4.ltr feet.
you'll never forgive yourself , if you
sre a fisherman and have left your
tackle at home, for inviting pools ran
lie whipped from the running board of
your machine. IndeKl, this was just
the feat that J. H. Fredricy performed
Sunday before last. The Mount Hood
l-egion Climb lured Mr. Fredricy and
the writer to the Upper Valley coun
try. Instead fcf climbing to the sum
mit of Mount Hood we sr. ert the day
inspecting the new highway. Mr.
Fredricy easily negotiated the old con
necting roads in his Icdge touring car.
Thia love of trcut tubing is proverb
ial in the mid-Columbia, and he maf'e
a resolution, in ro uncertain terms and
in variations, that be was goirg bark
again after the first rains, when the
stream will be cleared and the fish will
rise greedily to professors and gray
hackles. With the East Fork slightly
milky from melting glaciers, Mr.
Fredricy, fishing at pools sighted from
his automobile, landed 16 trout, rang
ing from nine to 14 inches long.
The development of the scenic at
tractions of the east side of Mount
Hood will be complete by no means
with the mere opening of the Mount
Hood Loop Highway. The mere trav
veling through this section in an auto
mobile will not give the motorist anv
comprehensive idea of all the glories
there. Development will but be started
with the construction of the road
Numerous trails must be cut and lat
eral roads built The first lateral
highway scheduled is the six-mile link
from the new road just within the
bounds of the national forest to Coop
ers fapur and Cloud Cap Jnn. It will
eliminate the old toll road to the mile
high hostelry, which already has i
national reputation, and provide a free
throughfare to the Legion campsite,
the members of which, with the sup
port of local and Portland citizens,
have decided to make a permanent
feature of Oregon summertime life.
It will develop other mountain resorts.
Indeed, "The Homestead," a new re
sort built by J. 0. Hannum and on the
line of the new lateral, has already
been opened. In a word, the new
Loop High way "and the Coopers Spur
lateral are going to bring to Mount
Hood as much popularity as is today
enjoyed by Mount Kainier with its
wonderful Paradise Valley and Para
dise Inn. Not only will the new high
ways popularize summer mountain
climbs but will tend to attract citizens
from afar for the stimlating sports of
the winter months. Skiing on the
higher snowfields during mid.summer
ia contemplated, and this recreation
and snowshoeing in the winter days
will be made convenient for the rugged
sportsmen. Mr. Hannum contemplates
making his hostelry an all-year resort.
He has already begun the removal of
old treesfand logs in order to provide
his wintertime visitors with a natural
toboggan a mile long.
Up the East Fork and on in Elk,
Brook and Horsethief meadows city
dwellers will avail themselves of the
summer campsites to be platted and
leased for a nominal sum by the Fores
try Service. A tie-in road with Wasco
county will be constructed in from the
Wapanitia country. Eventually the
Mount Hood Loop Highway will mean
as much to The Dalles as to Hood Riv
er. And the new road will not be all
scenic and aesthetic by any meana. It
will have a utilitarian value. No one
fails to admit that the 23-mile link of
the new highway up through Hood
River Valley and locally called the
Valley Trunk, will be primarily a mar
ket route for the apple district. It
will revolutionize traffic between the
Upper and Lower Hood River Valleys,
eliminating old grades that were im
possible in the winter months and that
made two separate and distinct com
munities of ihe apple eection: Hut it
will do more than this. It will bring
about the development of acres of
homesteads of the remote Upper Val
ley.
The motorist through eastern and
central Oregon has been struck with
the lonely deserted homestead shack of
some settler far off in the bleak, un
watered desert land. The east side of
the more remote Upper Valley pre
sents these deserted homestead shacks
log huts with doors sagging and win
dows gone. Deep snows hare caved in
the roofs of barns. Here and there
some forest burnjhas left only a atone
chimney to mark the struggles or i
homesteader. These settlers, how
ever, still hold their places, and the
coming of the new road is bringing
them back with plans for land clear
ing. The deep volcanic ash soil of this
district has no superior for luxuriant
hay yield. The quality of potatoes
giown here is declared the equal of
those far-famed tubers produced in De
echutea county. The streams of the
district are unlimited and every home
stead tract has available irrigation at
a minimum of expense. Upper Valley
strawberries are second to none. A
few hardy homesteaders are today
prospering from their dairy herds. De
spite the hardship of hauling their but
ter fat long distances over baa roads,
they are sending an ever increasing
volume of cream to the Hood River
Cieamery. This cooperative institu
tion, with its eye on this development
is now planning a new home, with fa
cilities to take care of greater cream
deliveries. Who knows? The Hood
River country mav one day be as
famed for its dairying as for its ap
plea. At least the stage is being set
for a Hood River Valley development
in a new line the next few years. The
reclaiming of this vast area of willow
brush land, which may be cleared at a
moderate expense, is now attracting
the serious attention of many local
citizens.
The Mount Hood I-oop Highway, if
plans carry according to schedule, will
be oren amund the er.tire mountain
next year. 1 he roregtry Service con
tractors at the present time are mak
ing better progress than thoe engaged
THE DALLES
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LEGION CONVENTION BEGINS TODAY
Hundreds Will Motor to Wasco Capital
MacNider There Tomorrow Wil
bur Commander Candidate
No convention of a Btate organiza
tion in recent years has ever excited
more local interest than that of the
Oregon State Department of the Amer
ican Legion which convened today.
More than 100 ex-service men, many
of them candidates, were present at
the Wasco county seat last night to
participate in the big ceremonial of
the "40 and 8."
During the three days of the conven
tion hundreds of legionnaires and mem
berH of the Women's Auxiliary will
motor to The Dalles for sessions of the
convention. The crowds, however, of
tomorrow and Saturday are expected
to be the largest. Then scores of citi
zens will join the Legion and Auxili
ary members and go to The Dalles to
see Natinal Commander MacNider and
to watch the big parade, the latter
Saturday. The Knights of Pythias
band of this city will vie with The
Dalles Pythian band and the band of
the 59th Infantry Regiment in the pa
rade. Many local automobiles, carry
ing banners of the Hood River Auxil
iary chapter will figure in the parade.
Five thousand uniformed men are ex
pected to be in the parade.
Hood River folk, too, are displaying
a keen interest in the candidacy of
CJeo. R. Wilbur for state commander.
Mr. Wilbur is now a member of the
state executive committee. Mrs. Har
old Herehner. state treasurer of the
Auxiliary, will bo present for the con
vention The Legion men urge the public to
attend the sessions of the convention,
none of which are closed. The big
auditorium of The Dalles, it is expect
ed, will accommodate the big crowds
eomfortably.
APPLE SHIPPERS
JOURNEY TO SEATTLE
on the Z.i-mile valley trunk, wnicn is
being built on a rio-IiO basis by the
county and state. Ranchers and orch-
ardists are expressing impatience at
the delays of the three valley contrac
tors. Detours have been a source of
annoyance throughout the summer.
and fears are exprespcd that apple
hauling will be interfered with this
fall unless some haste ii soon evi
denced. Surfacing crews, however,
authorities give the assurance, will
follow immediately on the heels of
grading crews and the state and coun
ty are preparing to correct with the
forestry road with a completely rocked
and graveled grade.
It is anticipated that the miles in
the National Forest will he graded and
graveled almost the full length this
fall. A large rock crusher has already
been set up between Sand canyon and
the steel bridge arro the East Fork
and batteries of trucks w ill soon have
the rew grade nirfa-ed. A bridge
over White river is srheduled for com
pletion in the early summer of V.'JS,
and by this t;me next yer the Mount
j Hood Ixxp Highway, a magnificent
i supplement of the internationally
famed Columbia River Highway, will
be ready to thrill the most seasoned
motorist,
Barrett School Water Impure
Analysis of the water supply of the
Parrett r ho.il has reer-li that it is
contaminated. Plans r.f patrons call
for a! aniornert of the spring, from
whirh the water system is upp!ied.
ard ire tiorirg i a wen. a meeiirg
will t bH It,cj eve-irg, August 4,
when definite art.cn will be taken.
The mid-Columbia will be minus ap
ple shippers this week, all of the mar
ket men having left Monday for Seat
tle to attend the annual convention of
the International Apple Shippers As
sociation. Many of the Hood River
shippers have left for the Sound coun
try by automobile. The larger ship-
i ,ii-"rgar.:zstion!S. will establish head
quarters at Seattle's hotels. Several
mid-Columbia bankers will attend the
sessions.
The apple buyers from eastern and
middle western points, and several
from England, are expected to descend
on Portland next Sunday. Monday
morning they will be escorted to Mult
nomah Falls by Portland civic organiz
ations, and Hood River valley growers
will meet them there and bring them
here in automobiles. A dinner dance
at the Columbia Gorge Hotel Monday
night and motor rides and inspection
tours of i the valley shipping stations
and refrigerated warehouses Tuesday
morning are features of the entertain
ment here. The visiting buyers will
be tsken to Mosier, where they will
inspect the warehouse of the Mosier
Fruit Growers' Association, and there
Wasco county fruit men will meet
them and convey them by automobile
to The Dalles, where Tuesday night
The Dalles Chamber of Commerce will
entertain them. Wednesday the visit
ors will be returned to local Columbia
river ferry landings and taken to Ska
mania and Klickitat county, Washing
ton apple districts, where they will
be entertained at buffet lunches at big;
apple warehouses.
YOUTHS ARREST
ED FOR FORGERY
J. W. Wright and Jack Moore, boys
who gave their ages at 19, are held
in jail here for passing checks purport
ing to be irom it. fc.. Wilson, contrac
tor in charge of enlarging the O.-W.
R. & N. yards here. L. A. uennett.
manager of the J. C I enney store.
suspected the boys Saturday, when
they presented the checks, lie laid a
trap for them and had them watched
after they left the store. The office of
Sheriff Johrson was notified, and Dep
uty Sheriff KJick. who was joined by
Deputy Murray, arrested the boys near
the O.-W. R. & N. Station. Mr. Ben.
nett had previously determined by tel
ephone that the checks were spurious.
Ihe W right lad claimed that his rel
atives live in r ranee. He declares that
he served a year in the United States
Army in Honolulu. Young Moor, who
claimed that his parents live in Ire
land, claims that he served in the
Navy duiirg the great war. While
officers doubted the stories of the two
youths, they were unable to break
them down in their statements.
With the Penney Co. declining to
prosecute the boys were released
Monday.
W. 0. W. CAMPS HOLD
CEREMONIAL HERE
Atout 1-V) members of camps cf
Woodmen of th World at The Dalles,
Hood River and Portland and Steven-
ion and White Salmon, Wash., partici
pated Saturday night in or.e f the
arget ceremonials of the fraternal
orgai iratun ever held in the mid-Co-
urr.t'ia. fifty candidates, assembled
from the various carr.pa. were escorted
through the labyrinths into the mys-
enes of the woodmen. The degree
ork was conducted ty Ike I'ailes
carcp, cire w :ta a umiorrrca oefree
team.
The Woodmen, headed t? the local
Knights of Pjthias land, give a pa
rade tr.rtu.rh the tuin-s streets.
Uniformed ori'l tms t-rf!rrned some
rtricate feats with their aes. A
ar-vn-t w-a served the vLsitora. The
committee in charge tl tN ar: r cor-
iste-d'ef Irl I.'vg. J. H. Aliens 1
B. F. Burrftt. 1r mwtirg w as ; J
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