The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-04-16

was o'sSo,lld care to buy yuapry %@ Olson's c
them "r,;es m Captain n@'i r Huff, has
gaze O1 low farmed Oy o. hat are look
place, .ds nov IN strawberries ha Snas crop o with
~ veil we'll and promise a We |
out aMtlSenndorf, who Is ,sSs Ons Cr has 81
w. A. Mel Moaaafnl berry growe,rsa' as fine
most castrawberries that ." He also
looking as "a any hSyrchard of thrifty S.rs nppld ppld,
ness,a Vouaas cherry trees, tive yea'n yea IRON. ON
hat il anu anu tn heat. He has tls iptraw. p
ise Of q bjS u c crop of apples anu Mr Wen.
berries the CON sing season. ~ NJ, ~ an or.
Sorf is we'll veil nosted IN the care o. ;n,,s az IN in
chard. He is also az aaying imple
ventor, and many labor-s. ridenee 0
ments about the place give e, ma
his genius. He has grubbihr. Fe
chine of his own invention and ma.
by which, with three men anda horse,
he is able to grub half an acre of second
growth fir and oak stumps in one day.
He has good place for peaches and is
planting largely of this fruit.
w. Kellendonk, neighbor of Wen
DORIS, has a fine place of which he
may well be proud. Locating here 10
years ago, with the aid of his son, w H.,
he has made garden spot of what was
then wilderness of big fir trees, oak
grubs and hazel brush. He has quite
an orchard of apple and other fruit
trees, good buildings, meadow land
and six acres in strawberries. He SAYS
he can safely count on getting 800
crates from his six acres. He has gath
cred and shipped 1856 crates from one
acre of land, besides selling to neigh.
bors and using berries for his family
from the same patch. Mr.. Kellendonk
has no water to irrigate his berry
patches and would not use II for that
purpose if he had. He is convinced,
and his crops have proved it, that there
is big money in berries without irriga-
tion. He has good springs, from which
he irrigates his vegetable garden.
The Glacier man failed to get sad
die horse and had to foot it as far as he
went,and for that reason didn Z get very
far up the valley. There are other
places he desired to visit, and will
make the attempt another time.
The Underwood brothers, from whom
the place takes its name, are to be
iOuut hillOS WOOus
Joe Meek, came to this country when
Mount Hood was hole in the ground.
He vas one of the pioneers of the mid
die Columbia, is an Indian war veteran
who made a record for himself as an
Indian fighter and is we'll posted on
the history of White Salmon and Hood
River, where be has lived for fifty
years. He belongs to that class OF
keen, wiry frontiersmen, cool headed
in an emergency, now fast passing
away. At present he is engaged in
running ferry between Underwood
and Hood River. The Glacier man Is
poor sailor and breads a small boat
when the weather is rough, but while
the blizzards ragged on the mountain
tops, as they did most of the day Fri
day, and the strong west wind made
big waves in the river, the old ferry
man sat in the stern of the boat, spun
yarns and watched his sail while he
steered the frail craft, and the writer
felt as safe as If he had been on the
staunchest steamboat on the river. Ed
Underwood owns a fine farm little
way from the landing, where he grows
strawberries and luscious watermelons.
Ifyou want to know anything about
the Underwood settlement, sec the I'M
derwood brothers.
Mrs. Grace Dark is postmistress at
Underwood and serves about $50 pa
irons with mail that comes to her office.
K. Lyons and family are newcomers
at Underwood and are located on the
Goddard place. They came from near
Milwaukee, Or.
School began at Underwood last Mon
day. Professor Cromwell, who closed
successful term of school at Frankton
last week, will teach. When the berry
harvest comes on, school will taRe a
recess till after it is over. Everybody
works at Underwood in strawberry
time, aud girls as well as boys are now
at work hoeing in the berry patches.