The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-26
AFTER AN OPEN RIVER
Dalles People Thoroug1ly Aroused on
The Sulief.
LESSON OF THE WHALEBACKs.
A Picture Which Tells More Than
Long Newspaper Argument.
LESSON OF THE wHALEBACKs.
A Picture Which Tells More Than a
Long Newspaper Argument.
MR.. LINUS HUBBARD's QUIET WORK
A Plea For a Reduction in Freight
Rates to Furnish Our Fruit
Growers a Market.
From the Portland Telegram, 18th.


From the Portland Telegram, 18th.
every body in The Dalles feels that
the Telegram is their friend and that it
will help them in any legitimate way
possible This remark was made by
6. w. Ingalls,, the pushing immigration
agent of the state, to reporter last
night. At the same time he unfolded a
package and said: .Here is a picture
that want you to observe carefully, and
see if it isn't strong argument in favor
of an open river and the quick compile
ton of the Cascade locks" The reporter
took the picture and observed it closely.
It consists of two neat photographs on
a piece of cardboard 10xS inches. The
upper one is a photograph of the whale
back Colgate Hoyt passing through the
Sault Ste Marie locks, and the lower one
repre- sents the G. w. Wetmore and a
whaleback barge alongside of each other
in the same canal.
Some Pithy Lines.
Underneath the latter are the pithy
lines:
If our senators and congressman
Heed the signs OF the hour,
viii pass the Cascade locks in '94.
Below the lines are the following:
PROPHECY OF THE wHALEBAcKs.
Quick as the cascade locks are done,
We will carry the inland products
OF Oregon, Idaho and Washington
To every seaport under the sun.
Over the entire picture is the leading,
''For an open river from the Inland
Empire to the sea-" while down in the
right-hand corner is the name of the
originator of the idea, Linus Hubbard,
of The Dalles.
Convincing Argument.
Viewed as a whole it is a most con-
yincing argument in favor of the COM
pletion of the canal, and will have a
greater influence than hundred pages
of facts and figures in manuscript OF
print. Mr.. Hubbard has sent copies to
every Congressman, to many Eastern
journals, and to all papers of Eastern
Oregon. 1t simply and plainly shows
that big vessels can navigate the
Columbia to the Inland Empire if a
canal is finished like that at Sault Ste
Marie.
In the Fruit Land.
Mr.. ingalls, has just been on an ex-
tended trip through the splendid fruit
country along the Columbia river between
Hood river and a point about twenty.
mile east of The Dalles, securing apples
to send to the exhibit in the ''Oregon on
Wheels" which is now in the far east
He is very enthusiastic over this section
and says the finest apples in the land can
be raised there on both sides of the river
Among the varieties are the red-cheek
pippin, Newtown pippin, Roxbury russet
Baldwin, lady finger and Gravenstein
The orchards are bothered with the woody
aphis and other vermin; but by proper
watching these can be killed off.
Little Discouraged.
At The Dalles Mr.. ingalls, addressed the
Eastern Oregon Horticultural society
and told them of the wonderful possibil
tiles of their fruit country. After he was
through he was informed that rates were
so adverse to them that they could moi
get their fruit into market, and, hence
were discouraged and did not give great
attention to their orchards. Bearing this
in mind when he came down on the
Dalles City steamboat, he asked the cap
tain if he could not make special rate
to enable the fruit raisers to get their ap.
pies into Portland.
A Reduction to Come.
At present they have to pay express
rates of 75 cents on 500 pound lots, or 81
for less quantities; for freight rates, 4i
cents on 500-pound lots and 80 cents or
carloads or like bulk. Mr.. Ingalls, urged
that the steamboat company make 20:
cent rate on bulk quantities and about
20 cents on less amounts. The captain
said he would put the matter before the
officials at The Dalles, while Mr.. ingalls,
himself will urge the reduction, and the
low rate will doubtless be secured. II
would be for the interests of the Union
Pacific to do the same, and they will
very likely follow the lead when the sit.
nation is carefully laid before them.