The Hood River glacier., October 13, 1927, Image 1

HOOD RIVER OREGON
FOOD- CLOTHING - SHELTER
When your DOCTOR bamto
with M RAMNO LK8H marin
GRAVEL RT NAY BK
It all depends on how the ihcome is
handled. Careful householders budget their
expenditures, allow first for saving for future
needs and accumulation of a surplus out of
which good taste may be gratified and the
luxuries of life obtained.
Let thia bank be your depository where
the surplus for future essentials and luxuries
may pile up, safe from loss or theft and from
temptation to spend unnecessarily.
BANK
Do Your Part the Coming Year toward
Preventing Fire Lost in Hood River
Last week ws said that if Columbus had, M 1492,
begun saving ten cents a day and the habit bad been
continued by a trustee oC successor down to dato, the
accumulation at 3% would now amount to the tremen­
dous sum of over THREE HUNDRED MILLION
DOLLARS.
•
We knoW, of course, that no one wants to save
money for some one else to spend four hundred years
hence, but the figures are intereating.
Our Specials This Week
$5,911.00
8,800.00
11,485.00
15,732.00
21,395.00
In the first hundred years, that tiny but steady
dime-a-dny at 3% grew to $21,895.
of a New Hartford
HOOD RIVER DRUG CO
Agents For
OWL DRUG STORE PRODUCTS
ATTENTION ! APPLE GROWERS !
Now Buying
Winter Nellis and Anjou Pears
and Early Variety Apples
To Portland?
are prepared to have your fruit washed and packed, and
will buy all varieties on a cash basis. We again advise
selling at market prices.
DUCKWALL BROS*
FRANZ BUILDING
Phone 3&31
Second Floor
Hood River Merchants
SAVE YOURSELVES MONEY by having your
Freight shipped by
Mental Mathematicians
It gives you an express service at less than the
ordinary freight charge. Store Door Delivery.
D ock
east of O regon approach to
HOOD RIVER-WHITE SALMON BRIDGE
Telephone 6151
Figure it out for yourself I
Columbia Pavilion, Bingen, Wash.
Saturday, Evening, Oct. 22 nd
Hallowe’en Decorations and Favors
Musici), Bud’s Aces
MEYER
SMIT1
The fate of tbe tram from the Tilly
Jane canyon to Cooper Spur and thence '
to the summit of Mount Hood will be
settled at a hearing before Hon. W. M. j
Jardine, secretary of agriculture, in .
Washington, D. C.. today.
The air mail Saturday and Sunday '
carried last minute appeals of local
folk to Mr. Jardine for the granting of
the petition for construction of the '
tram. Isreal sentiment is unanimous
in favor of construction of the tram by '
the Cnarada Development company.
A delegation from the Chamber of
Commerce was at the O.-W. II. A N.
alatiou Saturday to greet L. I* Tyler,
head of the development com|>any, who
wa» en route to Washington, D. C., to i
attend the tram hearing today . The
appeal whh taken from a decision of
(kdonel W. B. Greeley, chief forester,
who denied the application.
Possibility of 70,000 persons reach­
ing the summit of Mount Hood annual­
ly via an aerial tramway was pointed
out by W. D. B. Dodaon, manager of
the Portland ("hainlrer of Commerce, in
a letter to Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine. The letter in part follows:
“Tiiere are many high peaks in the
Cascade range of both Oregon and
Washington. Their Bpper reaches are
above the timber line, devoid of com­
mercial mineral and not flt for tinman
habitation. Benettcial use of Hies«
higher peaka through automobile road
i-uuatructlou is not feasible, because of
the heavy snow and ice ami precipitous
surfaci*. Under present coudltlous they
may be learned by a very few climbers,
traveling on foot. Mount Hood, the
most popular for climbing, sees only
11500 to 2000 reach its summit during
the short m ' shoii when it is possible to
climb over the snow fields and glaciers,
and there are frequeitt casualties
atnong this small number who make
the ascent or attempt the same.
"Should you permit construction of
the tram system proposed, tlie flrat
unit would have a maximum caiiaeity
of 70,000 people taken to the summit,
and 100.000 taken to the «rest of Coop­
ers Spur, the latter 8000 feet elevation.
If the buainesa Juatlflea, the aerial line
could I* douided. thus Increasing 100
l>er cent the capacity to the top. These
figures are baaed uisin a three-month
open seaaou for travel. By developing
winter sports, also by keeping the high­
way from Mount Hood Loop road open
to Cloud Cap Inn. by advertising the
safety of the ament during all of the
year, and generally adopting the same
system known to Switzerland for dec-
adea, the travel to th«' higher reache« of
Monnt Hood during a 12-month period
could be vastly increaaed over that
ponaible during the usual three-month
o|»*n season.
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■"This enterprise on Mount Hood
would lie a phmeet Af ita type in Amer­
ica. Capital hesitate« to pioneer. Dif­
ficulty has been experienced in obtain­
ing funds that would be needed. For
this reason, we lielleve yon shouidgive
thia Initial project especial support and
encouragement. Instead of having a
hosiness group wait long for the fran­
chise needed, wc would expect hurried
action, and terms of the strongest sup­
port for the Infant industry.”
One of tlte letters forwarded from
here by air mail was from The Glacier.
It billows •
"This lA written briefly to support
the petition for a tramway to the top
of Mount Hood, the argument for and
against which you will hear Thursday.
“While we wish to voice an ardent
support In behalf of the proposed tram,
please know that we can appreciate
the viewpoint of the opposition, and
for one we do not wish to lamliert
Colonel- Greeley, as some of our con­
temporary editors of Oregon have dene.
Ilninors that have l*en current here
Colonel Greeley tout voiced the «tairage
hia sincere cou viet ions wben he de­ the post severs1 days to the effect
clined to sanction a iieriuit for the tliat federal inx|>e<-t<>ra ha<l held up
railway and cable line to the summit car» of l<M-al apple» becsuse of exces­
sive spray reaidne or defect» resulting
of Mount Hood.
“When the «able line was flrat pro­ from washing proc«*»» are unfounded.
Official» of the Apple Growers Asso­
posed in Hood River, If the matter had
■been put to a popular vote we daresay ciation. other »hlpiter» and the ataff
that a great majority of hsal folk engaged here In federal inapection de­
wonld have said, 'No,' and with a great­ clare that they arc at loss to under-
er empliasis than Colonel Greeley. We stnnd how the reports gained disseni-
rcoill our first editorial comment was inatton. W. J. Km-ken, county fruit
In opposition to the tram. But a process Inapaa-tor. who <*>o|a*rate» in the work
of cold, hard, logical reasoning has of federal inapection, says that to date
caused ns to view the matter In an practically 10O pey cent of the Hood
River apple shipments thia year have
altogether different light.
“At first it seemed to us that the carried »hipping i lol nt federal Inspec­
building of that tram would 1« a dese­ tion. Ilf »ay» that not a »ingle car
cration. Fifteen years ago with a of apple» ha» been turned down,at des­
I*rty of three friends the writer spent tination.
Maximum shipments of aiflries here
a week camped in the Lost lake vicin­
ity. We saw no other person while tier day for this sen son have reached
there. The pleasure of that trip, its 20 car».
solitnde, ita Inspirations there .in the
silent foreats. will last as long as
life. It Is now no pleasure to mingle
with hundreds of picnickers on Lost
lake’s shores. But we shogld not •»■
selfish if we prefer the quieter, un­
molested sylvan nooks for meditations.
We can still find more remote spots,
C. Doth man, pioneer orchardlst and
where motor roads have not jtenetrated banker, who has Just returned from
amfenever will.
,
Den ninon, la., with ills wife and daugh­
‘Tn the past 10 years our exiiendi- ter. Mrs. Fred XV. Itonnerberg, and
tnrvs in roads, flic Columbia Biver brother, John Det 1 nian, from a visit
highway, the Mount Hood Loop and the at hi» old home mid with his brother.
Cooper« Spur lateral, have reached in­ Clauss Dethinan, and family, saya that
to the milliona of dollars. One of the the middle western temperature was
primary motives for road construction, too hot for comfort I lie entire time the
wfly hack In 1912. when the Columbia party was at Dennlsoa.
River highway was seriously thought
“It was so hot," aid Mr. Dethman,
of, except by a few who weiy called “that
we found it nncomfortablc to
vialotiariee. was to carry our local folk move around. Just Fitting in the shade
and our visiting tourists closer and was the moat pleasant diversion."
closer to Mount Hood. Finally the
Mr. Dethman said that but little
completion of the Coopers Spur lateral visiting around over the country was
has made it possible for the motorist engaged In because of the poor roads
to journey to the .very snow line. The in Iowa. The farmers of that state are
United States Forestry Service has persistent In voting down bond issues
provided a magnificent camping ground for tetter roads. Even some of the
very near the timberline An inn was townspeople volte hu opposition to
erected there long ago at (Hou«! Cap road ItoiidsyBtid as a result, Mr. Deth­
for the accommodation of recreation- man say», the state has no system of
lats. Plans call for Its extension. We
have spent these millions to get people automobile highways.
to the very edge of the snow and to
the suonta of the placlers, and now
why should we not go Just a step fur­
ther and make it. possible for the many
to got to the top of Mount Hood? The
percentage of those who can gain the
nearly two-mile high elevation by their
own physical exertions is comparative­
ly small. I Ji st spring the esteeme«l
Saturday Krening Post carried an
editorial comment •ng Colonel Greeley
for his action in denying the permit
| Understand, we are willing, ourselves.
WOMAN’S CLUB RED
LETTER DAY NEAR
JEWETT ON MONDAY