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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1923)
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY S, 1923 vantage to be able to do your banking business by mail instead of in person. When you are planning year vacation it is a great convenience to secure through us a supply of Trav elers’ Cheeks. • Brownie Cameras from $2.00 up. And to have a responsible agent like this Institu tion pay or collect bills and attend to other business PROPAGANDA of one kind and another haw has lead the average citizen to the belief that lumber has not descended from wartime peak prices. The fallacy of this impression is conclusively demonstrated by a survey recently taken by the .National Retail Lumber Dealers’ Asso ciation, which proved that in eighteen leading cities The Camp will conform to National Boy Scout Council Standards in all matters such as Program, Supervision sad Sanitation. The total charge for each boy has been fixed at twelve dollars but the actual cost will be quite TODAY’S PRICES ON BUILDING LUM BER AVERAGE 33.4% LOWER THAN THOSE OF 1920. In order to meet the additional cost we are asking those who are interested in this work to mail us a small reftnt- tance. Two to five dollars from each of you who will want to help should provide ample funds and the checks may be Bent to Boy Scout Committee, care Truman Butter. Oregon editors will have an oppor tunity while bere for their 18th an nual convention, of a journey over the Vallèy Trunk of the Mount nuud Loop Highway. Except for a Bhort fill at the east approach to a concrete steel bridge over the East Fork of Hood river, between ^Mt. Hood poatofflce and Purkdale, the 23-mile grade of the \ alley trunk, which intersects the Co- himbla River Highway immediately east of this city and passes thence the full length of the »hist Side and Upper Valley orchard belts to the bounda of the Oregon National Forest, the grad ing Is complete. C. C, Seeley, resident engineer of the State Highway Depart ment. says that the crew of the John son Construction Co., which had the contract for the unit from Booth Hill to the forest bounds, is rushing the fill in order that the fnll length of the new road may be open for the editor ial party, an estimated 200, who at daybreak Saturday morning, July 14, wlU leave thia city to participate in the Third Annual Mount Hood Climb of the Hood River Post, American Legion. The newspaper folk of the state, who this year will be honor guests of the legionnaires on their unique out ing, will leave their automobiles with a military guard of Company C, 186th Regiment, Oregon National Guard, at a parking camp, about 1% miles above the Homestead, new resort hostelry on the northeast bane of Mount Hood. From (he end bf the road they will hike 2% miles up a trail iiasslng along the ridge that divides Sand Canyon and the canyon of the Tilly Jane creek, both tributaries of the East Fork of Hood river. Sand canyon yawns like a chasm below the hike rd Who climb to the mile high base camp of the legionnaires, and at intervals one Is able to glimpse ribbonlike falls, where torrents fresh from glacial snouts dash hundreds of feet over sheer precipices. It is a strenuous hike from the end of the auto road to the campground and yet one that is never tiresome because of the inspir ing views of the mountain’s glacial crags and the great landscapes of for est and mountainous area. When the All at the East Fork bridge is col mpieted, the grading work, begun tn the e rall_of 1821, will „ ____ be ended and the entire 23 miles will be rmdy for rock surfacing. Contracts have been let for all the surfacing, and al- ready niHeS of the section nearest Hood River have been completed. A j»0e aad tyo-teathf of rod; surfacing EMRY LUMBER & FUEL CO ” Everything to Build Anything ” , The Quality of our farm cannot be improved upon and they are retail ing in Hood River stores for less than the wholesale prloe 1 n other cities. Try a mess. THE 20TH CENTURY TRUCK FARM DETHMAN & LENZ, Props. Cylinder Re-borings General Machine Work and Welding W. B. Tewksbury We carry a frill line of Jahn’s Pistons,* Quality Piston Rings and Mann Precission Wrist Pins. PHONE 3173 J. H. KOBERG, Prop. Successor to TUCKER’S GARAGE WILL CONDUCT A FREE INSPECTION SERVICE ON ALL MAKES OF CARS. Let me solvo your troubles, such as Starters, Genera tors, Ignition, and Carburetors. Money back guarantee on all trouble shooting. I will specialize on contract work and will call and deliver cars from any part of town. Phone 2373 FASHION GARAGE PLANS FOR EDITORS ARE COMING ALONG INTERSTATE MOTOR COMPANY LAUNCHED