The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-11-02


are the Wishart places. Mrs. WishaIt
aud her daughter live en- the old home
stead, which is being cared for by
one of the sons since the death of Mr..
Wishart. Mr.. and Mrs. Wishart are
among the early pioneers in the
Mount Hood country.
James Wishart has homestead ad-
joining his mothers place, and is
gradually clearing the land and set
ting out fruit. He now has a small
herd of Angora goats to help him
clear up the brush land, and they are
doing good work. They find most of
their living except during the time of
snow in the winter, and the wool
more than pays for the feed. Mr..
Wishart dug $50 sacks of potatoes
from half an acre of ground, some of
the potato tops measuring four feet
in length. He will clear three acres
| this winter.
Mrs. Annie Ries is turning her at
tentiOn to the dairy business and is
now milking seven COWS. She IL well
satisfied with the returns and is re.
ceiving a steady income from the sale
of cream. An addition to the barn
is being made to accommodate the
stock and hay.
Ii. II. Meyers is clearing several
acres on his homestead, now having
about ten acres in cultivation, which
is set out partly to apples, black ber-
ries and Strawberries. In addition to
that be is caring for the Rodenheiser
ranch. There are about thirty head
of stock on the place, and he is milk
ing seven COWS, sending the cream to
Portland. He raised some very fine
popcorn this year, the ears being
large and we'll matured. And yet they
say that this is not corn country.
Ed Spencer is making improvements
on his homestead west of the Ries
place, and slowly making fine home.
He expects to have good showing in
apple trees In another year. Mr.. Spen-
Ger killed bear near his place last
week.
Robt. Leasure is one of the enthus-
iastic dairy farmers of the upper
country. He has a fine place for a
dairy ranch, and is clearing up sew
eral more acres, which will be put in
clover and enable him to increase his
herd of COWS. He was fortunate in
securing his entire hay clop before
the early rains came, and with his
new separator, is we'll established in
the business.
Oscar Fredenberg, the Mount Hood
mail carrier, will set out a couple
more acres to Spitzenbergs and straw
berries in the spring, and will then
| have ten acres i'll orchard, including
his fathers place, which he helps look
after.
Jesse Davidson, on the main road
south of Gribble's store, is well hid
den from view from the road, but a
visit to his place at the foot of Bald
Butte. is well worth the walk through
the heavy timber. He is clearing
several acres this winter, and has a
fine young orchard starte4. Although
his land is above the Bone ditch, he
has some free water on his place, and
the fertile soil is producing great re-
suits. A new barn was added late last
fall, and the place is showing the re-
suits of thorough work everywhere.
He intends setting out pear and
peach orchard as soon as the land Is
ready for it, and has an ideal place.
Mr.. Davidson is trsi-class carpen-
ter and has just completed barn for
I. II. Larwood that is model OF its
kind. There is not piece of large
square timber in the structure. The
supporting timbers are of sawed plank
bolted together, thereby increasing
the strength of the whole structure,
and making better appearance also.
In the large hay loft the arrangement
of supports is such as to leave an un-
obstructed room for storing away the
hay, while an extension from the root
shelters the hay fork from the ele-
ments. The barn is 24x44 feet, with
2O-toot posts, and will accommodate
six horses and eight cattle, with a
driveway sixteen feet in the center.
The loft will hold thirty tons of hay.
John Vauthiers is busy clearing up
the land between his house and the
road, and next spring will have
twelve acres in orchard. He will also
set out nearly an acre of strawberries.
His house will be moved nearer the
road and new barn built. Mr.. Vau-
thiels is contemplating setting out
some French walnuts. He will get
some of the best varieties that are a
success where he was raised in
France, where the trees have attained
growth of three feet in diameter
and are $50 years old.
A. Ler, ux is making improvements
on his place, adding to his acreage in
apples, and clearing more land.
VIM. Laughton has built new
house, clearing several acres, and Will
set out apples in the spring.
Kelley T. Wishart are running their
saw mill to its fullest capacity, and
have orders ahead that insures them
plenty of work all winter. They are
! furnishing lumber for buildings as far
down the valley as Pine Grove, and to
increase the capacity of their plant,
will raise their tiume six ct, which
will give them 70 horse power and en-
able them to add additional machine
ry. They are also furnishing 10000
feet of lumber for private bridge
over the West Fork being built by Mr..
Jones of Portland.
W. S. Gribble is much interested in
| the walnut proposition, and lntends
setting out some trees next year. He
has now some trees that came from
the parent stock of black walnuts
brought to Oregon by his grandfather,
and they are now in bearing. John
Gribble and family crossed the plains
in 1916 from Missouri, taking about
six months for the trip. They came
by the old Barlow road, from Green
woods cutoff, crossing the Cascades
south of Mount Hood and wintering
on the Clackamas river. In the
spring of l847 they located on what is
still known as Gribble prairie, buy
ing claim for an Indian pony and a
single barrel rifle. Eight valuable
farms now occupy this land. Mr..
and Mrs. Grihble afterward each took
np donation claim nine miles from
Oregon City, giving them a section OF
land. On this land we're planted wal
nuts brought from Missouri, and some
of these trees are now two feet in di.
ameter and seventy-five feet high,
Welding great quantities of nuts.
From these trees W. S. Gribble's faith
er planted nuts on his homestead ad-
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