The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-03-17
WHITE SALMON NOTES.

white SALMON Mules.
A word to the newcomer to this land
Of promise about our valley of sunshine,
fruit and flowers ] hope will be admis-
sable in your and our home paper.
Now, friend and stranger, when you
have been wined and dined and whirled
through the lower and upper valleys of
Hood River and shown orchards and
apples and berry patches and clover
fields, and last but not least, the irriga-
ton ditch, and yet long for something
you hardly know what, but yet you
want to see something more, just in
quire of the editor Of the Glacier how
10 get over the river to that place with
the fishy name, where the sun seems
to shine all the time on that rock yon-
der. When you land on the beach,
Just ask the ferryman where s. G.
Zeigler, d. d. Mcclure, j. P. Egan,
G.. ID. Moore or Judge Byr-
kett live, and before climbing the
bluff, just call upon these gentlemen
and see where the So and $6 crate
strawberries are grown. just get any
of these gentlemen In the confidential
mood by telling him you are from Mis-
souri,, Ohio, New York or most any
place back East, and if it is anywhere
near meal time, he will fill you up on
canned goods, good cream and straw
Terry, tomato and Jersey dairy ranches.
You will no doubt consider from his
tluency and carelessness in handling
returns per half acres net, with no
work attached, that his equal in pre-
varicating the truth is hard to find.
To test him, Just make bluff ut him
10y offering him 5000 to 81 600 an acre
for his 5 or 10 acres, and then be quick
to catch the look of contempt and the
stretch of neck as he sizes you up from
toe to Derby.
Pass along the line and see them all,
aud.as you leave the judge to wend
your way from Bingen to White Sal
mon on the hill, you will probably be
50 deep in the meshes of figures "per
box, per crate, per acre." that you
won't notice the beautiful drive YOU.
ale ascending until you confront, all at
once} what you mistake in your first
husty inspection as Rockefellow' s home
on the Hudson. No; it is the home of
one of our oldest settlers, that Of A. H.
Jewett Don't pass it by. Go in. Just
ask them for anything they have, and
II is yours. Roam over the lawns and
cnmpas. See all the beautiful shrubs
and trees, and for the first time see
berries that are grown without irriga-.
tion. Ask him all about White Salmon
and the country about us away back to
Trout Lake and Cainas Prairie. He
will give you lots Of information. If
he doesn't, his good wife, Mrs. Jennie
Jewett, will. Never fear but what you
will be entertained
AS you pass up Jewett avenue, note
The fine vineyard OF your left. See our
little church and parsonage. And in
this little church, if you will come over
on Sundays you can hear something
diop. 1t will sink into you so deep it
will ring in your ears so loudly for
days that you will wonder where so
small town with so small a church
got so much man. No, he did not
come from the East just now; he is one
nf the Pacific coast make, which the
rains and dews have kept clean.
Next comes G. f. Waldo's place. He
is setting IL out to cherries. He is
newcomer among US, but get him
wound up on cherries, and if you de-
sire to return to Hood River or your
old home again, you had better make
some excuse to pass by, for he knows
what he is talking about in the cherry
line from experience in California, and
in comparison strawberry ranch will
seem to .,Ju Il poor investment.
Now you are in our business section
Look II over Talk with the gentle.
men. See Mr.. Wolfard. Get his ton
mage and wonder again. Pass up the
avenue. Call upon the Mains, the
Thomases. Call upon S. w. Condor
and see his acres of 2,year-old vines,
He is lawyer by profession. but don't
think anything of that; he won't work
you for fee at the moment. He will
just tell you what he has done since he
came here and how the law business
isn't in it in comparison to his berry
patch. He will show you couple of
registered Jerseys, mother and daugh-
ter, and IT he has time to lay out the
cream and berry vision in which he
lives in season, you will feel like spend
ing your last dollar there and then for
a l0-acre patch near by.
And now, my friend, take trip to
the timber, to the land of stock and
clover. Go up to Mr. Woods. Go any
where around among us. See our ap-
pies, our trees, our vegetables, our pos
sibilities, our capabilities; with your
help, compare them with everywhere,
anywhere. And don't forget to get
prices on lands in this Sunshine Val
ley. Why, just as sure as you do this,
you will at once see there are places in
Oregon where they charge you more
for climate alone. Come and see us
before you go home; we know If you do
You will come back to stay, sure.
Letters of inquiry in regard to the
White Salmon country addressed 10
either of the names mentioned in this
article will receive PROMPT attention.