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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1926)
- * HOOD RIVER g^ggJgyRSDAY, JANUARY 26» 1926 EARLY TRANSPORTA TON OF NORTH VEST The Arch Preserver Shoe Smoke Right with Wright’s Smoke Cure your own meat — quickly and easily applied Simply paint the meat and the job is done. Gives A Most Delicious Flavor H. L DUMBLE Warranted Pure, Wholesome and Harmless. Get the Genuine — WRIGHT’S from Physician and Surgeon Galla promptly answered in town or country —1 hi y or Night Phones: Residence, 1342; Office, 1241. Office !» the Broslu» Building A. S. KEIR Dr». Abraham & Sifton Physicians * Surgeons Butler Bank Building Phones : Office 4151 Dr. Abraham 4132. Dr. Sifton 3618. Dr. W. Donald Nickeben Shoes of Quality Surgeon, Cancer, i’luallc Surgery and Radium Therapy Phono Main 747S »19 Stevens Bldg. Portland, Oregon. DR. PHEBA J. COLLMAN J. C. JOHNSEN Watches, Silverware Precious Stones C. H. JENKINS, D. M. D. CHARACTER REPAIR WORK A. X DERBY W. F. LARAWAY road system and by 1873 he had com pleted a line from Portland to Rose burg and one from Portland to St. Joseph, a few miles abort of McMinn ville. Holladay had started a num ber of things, the Oregon Steamship company, two railroads, a Portland newspaper, a real estate company, the street railway system of Portland, a I wharf company and a cab and trans- I fer company. And these were slipping out of hie grasp. Henry Villard, as toe agent of European interests, which I had financed toe chief of Holladay’s I enterprises, succeeded him in the man agement of the steamship and railroad enterprises In 187«. The others had already passed out of Holladay's hands lor were soon to do so. Villard, in I 1878-79, planned the Oregon Railway land Navigation company but was not able to Include the former Holladay I railroads In It; they were absorbed in the Southern Pacific System in 1888. The Northern Pacific after many I surveys and much exploitation, built I Its first mileage in the Pacific north west In 1872-73, the line from Kalama to Tacoma. Financial difficultiea, how ever, stopped construction which was not resumed until 1880. Then Villard acquired control Of toe Northern Pa cific and was toe. means of completing it between Wallula and St. Paul in 1883. Dr. D. 8. Baker, of Walla Walla, built a narrow gunge railroad from toe river side at Wallula to Walla Walla in 1873-75. He sold it In 1870- for August 27, 188ft ,IIe Mid: "We started from Dalles City 80 to the Oregon Steam Navigntion- Wednesday morning, August 10th. Oregon Railway and Navigation and The good well-beaten road la along it ia a part of toe Union Pacific System the river four mil»« to the lower now. Several other lines I mention in termination of the Dalles chute; It this short sketch. First, the Willam then leave«, the river and follows a ette valley line from Portland south ravine about seven mile«. At this place was extended under Villard’s direction there is a narrow valley of arable to Ashland where it met ttw Southern land and buildings and enclosure« that Pacific. Next, toe Northern Pacific waa appear comfortable. Leaving thia val completed across toe Cascades to Ta ley In ascent of a mile brought us to coma and Seattle in 1887. In 1893 the the summit of the mountain from Great Northern crossed Washington to which we had an extensive view of a Seattle, in 1906 the Spokane, Portland very uneven country without tree or A Seattle was built along the north shrub in slglit, but covered with grass bank, and In 1910 the Chicago, Milwau now dry and brown. On the left the kee A St. Paul was completed across river la seen flowing along the base of Washington. I have omitted mention of toe tele a mountain range on the opposite aide. Half a mile .of. level road brought us graph lines, and the express companies. to the long and in two places very The Important stage lines have not steep dement to the junction of the been referred to. But little has been Deschutes river with the Columbia. Mid of toe transportation facilities of Thia junction la in a mountain gorge, Puget Sound, and I have not referred having an acre or two of level ground to toe building of toe Mullan road unlit for cultivation. Here there are from Walla Walla to Montana or the a few small buildings and a store. At steamboats that ran in the sixties from 11 a. m. on board the steamer ‘Colonel St. Louis and Omaha to Fort Benton Wright' left for Priest Rapids”—and on toe upper Missouri. Many branch theu he describee at length the banks line« have been built, whleh time for of the river, Mylng nothing about the bids my mentioning. 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The electric railway has developed as an auxiliary to the steam line, and the "Milwaukee” haa made use of electric power for the propulsion of its own trains. The automobile is, however, the greatest revolutionary agent of the time, and its problems are not fully worked out The airplane too, we think, bi bringing problems of its own. IIow shall these transportation jnedia be coordinated! I shall not attempt to say, but while the canoe, the batteaux, the Mlllng ship, the steamboat and the horse drawn stage of yesteryear have departed never to return, the railroad la here, and here to stay. Improved it will be; no other industry is so con stantly Improving and adding to Its facilities, and when we ar« a little further on the way, it will be found that the railroad, the common carrier automobile and the airplane have Joined hands in a single purpose to supply transportation service to the abiding satisfaction of thrir patrons. 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