The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-08-15
9tood River Glacier
FRIDAY, AUGUST Is, 1902.
TO ADVERTISE HOOD RIVER.


TO ADVERTISE HOOD RIVER.
The Hood River Commercial club is
making extensive preparations for the
advertising of Hood River. For this
work the club will make an expendi-
tuTe of about $500, $3.50 of which will
be used in printing some $4,000 le-page
pamphlets, and 500 for a page ad in
special edition of the Pacific Farmer
which the Portland board of trade is
having printed for gratuitous distribu-
ton in the East. A soliciting conl-
mittee from the club has canvassed the
business men of the town, and reports
that between 5000 and 500 have been
subscribed, with the prospects,good for
increasing this amount another 500.
The club first decided to issue l0O,-
900 eigh: page pamphlets, but after
considering the matter and arranging
for a number of illustrations, II was
thought more advisable to increase the
size of the pamphlets even though the
number had to be cut down. AS l6
pages will admit Of greater amount
of descriptive matter, and will permit
much better display of the illustra-
tions, this size was finally adopted.
The full amount of money not being in
sight for printing $4,000 l6.page pam
phlets, it was decided best to issue q
contract for getting out $4,000 copies Of
this size, with the understanding that
the number could be increased at any
time as the necessary funds became
available.
E. r. Bradley, Hood Rivers job
printer, win do the printing, and has
agreed to turn out $4,000 pamphlets for
the reasonable price of 1925. The half
tones are being made in Portland, and
Mr.. Bradley expects to have some Of
the books ready for distribution by the
first of next week.
These pamphlets when printed will
be turned over to the o. r. & N. COM
pany at Portland, which company will
ship them free Of charge to the distrlb-
uting points in the East, where they
will be given out to Eastern people who
are inquirlng for descriptive literature
of the West. The Hartman system of
railroads will make rates, September /,
to intending settlers in the West.
These rates will be special induce.
ment to have the Eastern people come
West and see for themselves just what
this western country is like. The Har-
riman lines are making an effort to at.
tract immigration to Oregon in partic'
ular, and to this end there have been
established in a number Of the largel
Eastern cities information bureaus fol
the distribution of Oregon literature
G. M. Mckinney, general immigration
agent for the Hartman lines, with his
assistants, spent several weeks travel
ing over Oregon, acquainting himself
with the conditions in the state and
securing the cooperation Of the people
in distributing literature in the East
This is an excellent opportunity fol
Hood River to attract Eastern immi
grafton, and the Commercial clut
should be encouraged in the work il
has undertaken.
The page ad in the Pacific Farmer
which the Commercial club has agreed
to take for 500, will be supplied with
the same matter that Is to be contained
in the pamphlets. This special editier
of the Pacific Farmer is being issued
by the Portland board of trade, and
100000 copies of the same are to bt
issued September l. The issue will
contain general descriptive matter or
the Pacific Northwest, mentioning nc
one point in particular Frank Lee
the editor, has had an ad running in
25O Eastern agricultural papers for the
last three months, stating that this
special edition would tell all about the
Pacific Northwest, and requesting all
those desiring information about this
country to send stamp and get copy
of this paper. Mr. Lee has received
10000 or 10000 requests for the paper
already, and expects to receive nearly
100000 before his paper Is printed
This list of people to whom the Pacific
Farmer will be sent is valuable from
the fact that these people have signifieC
their intention of wanting to know
something about this country wher
they sent Mr.. Lee stamp for a copy o
his special edition. II is an advertising
scheme we'll worth the price, as it prae
tically doubles the number of peopl,
who win receive Hood River literature
Following are the names of those wh'
have contributed to the fund needed
by the Commercial club to defray tn,
expenses of advertising Hood River:
Gil Gilbert ..,~.....,...... .$25 o.
Davidson Fruit Co. 25 o.
John Leland Henderson ....... % o.
Butler & Co observation-disclosures. 25 o.
Frank A Cram ............,.. 25 o.
Hood River Electric Light Co. 25 OF
JE Rand. ......,,............ 25 o.
Davenport Bros Lumber Co. -. % 0(
Valley Improvement Co ........ % OF