The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-08-06
Nood River Glacier
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1908.
Where Hood Rivers Apples Grow.

Where Hood Rivers Apples Grow.
A Glacier representative spent day
last week in the Pine Grove neighbor
hood the great apple-producing section
of Hood River valley. Here is where
railroad will be necessary in year or
two to move the apple crop. AT the
rate apple trees are being set out In
Pine Grove district the whole country
will soon be one vast apple orchard.
Here is where the Yellow Newtown,
Spitzenburg, Jonathan, Black Iwig
and all the best varieties OF apples Hour
ish to perfection. And here is where
the orchards are systematically looked
after and the best results obtained. The
Glacier man would like to spend a week
in the Pine Grove neighborhood and
visit every orchard.
It was our pleasure to visit the flne
fruit farm of V. Winchell, one Of the
pioneers of Hood River valley. Part of
Mr.. Winchell's 210 acres was entered
as u homestead by his father win
chell's butte, prominent hill just west
of Pine Grove school house, takes its
name from Mr.. Winchell's father. V.
Winchell has 800 apple trees, 400 in
bearing. He has a good selection of
winter varieties, of which Yellow New
town and Spitzenburgs predominate
His trees are bearing full crop TINS
season. From foureight-year-old Spltz-
enburg trees, last year, he gathered 60
boxes of apples. Mr.. Winchell has II
acres of unimproved land for sale at
800 per acre. 1t is the best of apple
land, He has offered to clear this land,
set IL to apple trees aud then sell it for
$3.50 an acre. When the trees come
into bearing, at five years of age, II
they have been properly cared for IN
the meantime, the land Will be well
worth $500 an acre. From his place
splendid view Is obtained of the valley
and the snow mountains of Hood and
Adams. There is no prettler building
spot in the valley than where his house
stands in the shade of tall oaks and
frs. His meadows of clover and alfalfa
lend additional charm to the scenery
as viewed from his residence at this
time of the year. Like George Rordan,
Mr.. Winchell has discovered there is
money in goats. He has 26 Angoras of
good pedigree and five kids. George
Rordan. Charles Davis, H. G. Crockett
and V. Winchell seem to be the only
farmers in the valley who have invest
ed in goats, aud all are satisfied with
their investments. Mr.. Crockett had
the misfortune to lose all his kids but
one. some nine or ten, by some pred
atory animal supposed to be the wild
cat.
The fruit farm of l.. f. Clark, on the
Levi Monroe homestead, was visited.
Mr.. Clark is just having the finishing
touches put on a handsome dwelling
house built for him by Frederick x Ar
mold. The house is one of the best III
every detail, with all modern conve-
niences, and will cost $1,000 above the
basement. The basement work was
done by Mr.. Clark. The building will
be heated by furnace. The plumbing
alone cost $500 Water Is pumped ny
wind mill to Il reservoir on the hill,
and from the reservoir will be piped to
ALI parts of the new house. Mr.. CLARK
has l25 acres of orchard, meadow and
garden land. He has 20 acres in or
chnrd. 10 acres of which are bearing,
This is an off year for his orchard, but
he will have 1000 boxes of winter APP
ples. He is now building cOmmod-
IONS annie house. Mr.. Clark bought
this place two years ago for S3,4OO.
Last wear he cleared over s., 100 from
sales of fruit and other produce, but
the farm will do better this year. The
place today would be cheap at $4,000.
MIR. Clark came here from Wasco,
sherman county, where he was a sue
cessful lumber dealer He has an in
teresting family, and all think there Is
NO plare so good as Hood River.
The place Of Captain +. NJ jackson
was next visited and several hours
pleasantly spent in the company ot the
old veteran and pioneer. Captain
Jackson came TO Hood River IN 1871
and loeated ON the land where he still
makes his home. His place adJoln'
that of Hon. Malcolm A. Moody on
the west. The captain and his sons
have over 500 acres in one body. Hl'
own land much of IL is worth S2OO al
acre. He also has good apple land, ano
his orchards of summer and winter ap
nles net him handsome income every
YEAR. Captain jackson came IRON
tennessee. Before the civil war he wa
great admirer of Andrew johnson
seventeenth president of the United
States. As both lived IN the same par
of the state they often met. The cap
tain is full Of anecdote of Johnson an'
"reminiscences of the days before ant
during the secessi0n movement u