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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1925)
HÒOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER il, 192} JR NEW YEAR arises above the horizon and sees our determination to fur nish better shoes at lower priees than we have done in the past. The success which attended our ef- forts is a splendid spur to even better service. We thank all our friends J. C. JOHNSEN The New Year Is At Hand! IQjXgl to at hand. K ÿÿl It to our hope that our patrons of the Hood River Valley and all the Mid-Columbia may find a basis for renewed progress on the happenings of W. F. LARA WAY g gmtr (Bifristmaa be a Jognns one battìi mag tljr Nrm Çear Btr gnu amptg blrsarb with A. S. KEIR Total__________ „______________ 11.00 The annual receipts are distributed throughout the year about as follows by months, the figures showing the per centage of tile total for each month: January, February and December.. 4% March and November--------------------- 7% April _______ 2__________________ 8% October_________________________9% May_______________ ___________ 10% June and September--------------------- 11% August-------------------------------------- 12% July :_______ ,__________ ________ 18% During the months of November, De cember, January, February and March, the bridge did not pay actual expenses, but the remaining months showed enough galp to offset the losses of the winter months and leave a small mar gin in addition for distribution to the preferred stockholders. Looking at it in another way, the return on the total capital invested, after deducting oper ating expenses and depreciation, was 5.5%. If the bridge were never to do any better than this, it would be a good commercial proposition, but experience with all other bridges shows a steady gain year by year, and in a few years the return should be 8 or 10%. The effect of the bridge upon Hood River has beeu very pronounced and much more important than whether the bridge would pay or not. It has opened up a vast trade territory in Klickitat and Skamania counties whose possibilities have hardly been touched. It is the plan of the bridge company to eliminate the timber approaches by substituting steel spans and concrete piers as soon aa possible. Thia will re sult in an increase in the investment, four additional si*ans being required on the Oregon side alone, and three with a high viadutt crossing the rail road overhead on the Washington side, and cannot be financed or carried out until the earnings have been consider ably increased. In three or four years it should be possible. Met year was a moderate high water, yet If the river had raised one foot more, the road between the bridge and town would have been under water. At the time the bridge was be ing financed, the county promised the company tn haw a first class road built to the bridge by the time the bridge was finished. There having been some disagreement as to where and how this should be done, the promise has never been fulfilled. This matter should be attended to before the next high water by all means. The Iscard of the company author ised an initial dividend on its preferred stock July 1st and a second one Janu ary 1, 1926. We not only hope to keep up paying regdlarly every six months but to gradually get caught up with the back dividends. fUAMRFR LnAinDDií Al? vr HIM Lulu- FOR EVERY ONE OF THE MID-COLUMBIA BENEFICENT PROVIDENCE DURING New Year! HOLMAN & SAMUEL SANITARY MARKET & GROCERY Save money by patronising HOOD RIVER. ORE. discouraging all solicitation which was not for the good of the community. The bridge road committee, under the leadership of E. O. Blanehar, haa worked unceasingly for the early com pletion of the road to the interstate bridge. This committee is composed of representatives from all the county granges and the Chamber of Cornr rnerce. It has appeared before the county court a number of times, but so far has been unable to obtain any decision from that body in regard to the bridge road. The court did, how ever, order a survey of the present route, which was made by Engineer Hurlburt, who made an estimate of cost in the neighborhood of 830,000. The work of the publicity committee, composed of C. N. Ravlln, H. G. Ball and J. D. Tbomison, has been excellent. Their first work was the publication of a pamphlet, "The Lure of the Hood River Valley,” which has enjoyed a wide circulation, mainly through the tourist bureau of the chamber. This comiultee also erected signs through out the city and on the highways ap proaching the city, urging the tourists to “See Mount Hood at Hood River,” which have brought the desired results. The tourist information booth was opened early in May, in charge of Miss Cecile Mowers, and enjoyed a wide patronage throughout the tourist sea son. During the time the booth was open, from May until the middle of October, over 16,000 pieces of litera ture were distributed; Information given to 12,329 parties, over 9,000 of which were Induced to make the trip into the valley, and well over 700 out- of-state motor cars registered. The lo cal Information booth is being copied by a number of other cities in the state, and is recognised as one of the most efficient in the state, from the stand point of easy accessibility and service. The chamber cooperated with the K. of P. band and the Hood River fire department in staging a Joint cel ebration for the Fourth of July and the formal op e ning of th e - H oo d River- White Haltuon bridge. The chamber took charge of the advertising and publicity for the affair, at which there were about 19,000 present. The traffic bureau of the chamber, with IL W. Kelly as its president, has worked throughout the year on its own problems, mainly those per taining to the apple Industry. This bureau has been behind the movement for the Pacific Northwest Regional Ad visory board from its inception, a lit tle over a year ago, and is extremely gratified that the project has been carried through and also that a Hood River man, A.JT-JS. Steele, is the first general chairman of the ~ Northwest Ixtard. The traffic bureau ■ has also been attire In alleviating the car shortage during the recent shipping season. National apple week was con- ducted by the traffic bureau, locally, and contributions were made to carry on the celebration in Portland and other localities. The latest activity of the chamber has been the organisation of a retail merchants’ bureau, with the committee composed of W. A. Hackett, I. D. Parkins, E. H. Shank, R. L. Bartol and R. C. Samuel. This committee has started a trade extension cam paign, using the Neosho plan of com munity sales days, the first of which was held December 9 and the results were very gratifying. It is the plan of the retail merchants’ bureau 'to hold one of these sales days at least every month that the people of the mid-Columbia may become educated to the fact that Hood River is the logical shopping center for this district. It is also the plan of thia bureau, should the business and professional men so desire, to organise a credit rating bureau, but this activity is aa yet undeveloped. Considered as a whole, the chamber has been kept very busy during the the paht year and has accomplished considerable, but the ground of com munity betterment is as yet unculti vated. There is opiwrtunity for a great deal more work along the lines mentioned in the foregoing paragraphs and along other lines as well. It will be the earnest wish and desire of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce to go ahead with this com munity work along the lines which promise the most and beet results during 1926. . It Is hoped that the splendid sup port, both personally and financially, given the chamber by the business and professional men of this community will be continued through the next year, for it is only by the united co operation of the business community that this work can go ahead. Tour ideas in regard to the kind and extent of this work are earnestly solicited, that the Chamber of Commerce may more accurately repseaent a cross sec tion of business opinion. With Best Wishes HOOD RIVER MARKET A. F. DAVENPORT, Prop. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL LUMBER DEE, OREGON A Real Grocery Service A FULL LINE OF DRUG SUNDRIES FRESH FRUIT IN SEASON OEO. MELLON Twelfth Street CONCRETE PRODUCTS CO. Sash, Doors and Millwork