The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-04-07

at Hood River, has purchased II acres
here of w. IL. Craft and is now resi-
dent of Mosier.
George Haacke, recently from Everett,
Wash, has purchased seven acres from
Robert Friend and is building a neat
residence and clearing his land in a
spot that will make an ideal home. He
is great poultry fancier and will 60 ex-
tensively into the poultry business, keep
ing only pure bred stock. He has
White and Silver Laced Wyandottes.
G. d. Morgan is another newcomer,
who has purchased about the same num-
Der Of acres as Mr. Haacke, also of Rob
ert Friend. He is building house and
clearing his land for home. Mr.. Nor
gan is also chicken fancier and has
some fine Plymouth Rocks direct from
the celebrated Shoemaker poultry farm
in Illinois.
Robert Friend still has l4S acres left
which he is offering at $9S an acre. This
place adjoins the Lamb place recently
sold to Bateham, and is very desirable
country home. Five acres are in orchard
apples, pears, prunes, peaches, etc.,
40 acres of cleared land good spring and
creek that flows throughout the
year.
E. A. Gilbert, the genial 0. r. & N.
station agent at Mosier, has acted as
shipping agent for the fruit growers here
for the past three years. He says that
the green fruit shipments have more
than doubled every year in that time.
Mr.. Gilbert gives some interesting sta
tistics in regard to. the productiveness
of Mosier's fruit lands and the prices re-
ceived. For Frank Ginger, last season,
one shipment Of 80 l0-pound boxes of
Royal Anne cherries netted at Mosier
$33-ll cents a pound. About 1000
l0-pound crates of cherries were shipped
from Mosier last year and the prices
we're very satisfactory. There were also
shipped 5000 crates Of peach plums and
and prunes, and 10 carloads of dried
prunes. The late peach plums
brought the best price, The prune crop,
which never fails in Mosier district, is
taken care of by the fruit dryer owned
and operated by p. Henningsen. He
turns out good quality Of dried prunes
which find ready market.
The subject of better roads is
agitating the people of Mosier
same as at Hood River. SupervisorW.
E.Huskey is now engaged witha force of
men and teams making fill in the
road just above Barrie's store. The fill
will be heavily graveled and gravel con-
tinued on to near the bridge across Mo
sier creek, which will be a great inn
provement and well worth the expense,
OF which, the county will bear one-half.
d. II. Barrie has opened store in
the building formerly occupied by Lewis
4 Mosier in the same line. He reports
business good.
Alexander Stewart is the leading mer-
chant and has his store near the station.
1t is veritable department store, and
if he hasn't got what you want he can
order it for you.
Miss Dollie Mosier keeps hotel in the
Mosier mansion, where the traveller is
welcomed and well cared for. Her broth
er, Mr. Lewis, keeps barn for the ac-
commodation of the travellers team.
jeff Mosier, who recently sold his
ranch, is owner OF the town site and
will plat the same and sell lots and
blocks. Houses for rent will no doubt
be built, and then Mosier may be ex-
pected to take on city airs. There is no
Irettier spot in Oregon for village than
the town site of Mosier.
A. r. Hogan, the village blacksmith,
is desirable acquisition to the com.
munity. He is kept at work most of
the time. Mrs. Hogan is great success
with chickens and has a nice flock of
good layers.
There are number of old civil war
veterans in the neighborhood, and they
talk of organizing G. A. II. post.
The box factory now in course OF con-
struction by Cook & Burlingame will
soon be in operation, turning ont prune,
peach, cherry and apple boxes They
will not manufacture strawberry crates
for the present, as the strawberry busi-
ness is yet in its infancy and the de-
mand for crates will not he enongh TO
warrant special machinery for their con-
struction. w. II. Cook and E. Burin-
game, proprietors Of the box factory,
came here from the Tygh Ridge coun-
| try.
Mrs. Rachel Stewart sets a table for
the accommodation OF the overflow of
patronage from the hotel, and gives a
good meal for 25 cents. Mrs. Stewart is
native Oregonian. Her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Warren, crossed the plains in
1913. Mrs. Stewart was left a widow
with several small children and lived
on the Washington side OF the Colum.
bia. She kept band OF cattle, and
every summer went with her children
and cows to the hills where the grass
was good and camped out all summer
and made butter which found ready
sale at the stores along the Columbia.
For Is years she lived in this way and
raised her children. 1t is interesting tC
hear her tell OF pioneer days.