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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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