The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-07-26

we came. For, mind you, some OF us
/ had come from east OF the mountains,
/ the country which depends upon irri-
| cation for its blossomiug, aud rs irri-
gation had only just begun there, the
sight OF the abundance OF flowers
was iOy and restfulness unspeakable.
Our camping place seemed to us
! little place detached from Eden and
awaiting the centuries for our coming.
Others had DOUBTLESS passed there
| perhaps pickers of previous seasons
had pitched their tents at this place
| but to us it seemed as new and fresh
as The Garden itself. Above us tow
ored fir and pine trees, making music
as they swayed in the breeze, and
down the gentle slope grew the brake
fern, which, in spite of all the agri-
Culturist has to say against 1t, is IA
most beautiful aud graceful plant, and
mingled thickly through it we're the
spikes of the lupia, now i'll full flower.
lhe arrangements could not have
been more artistic, and the combined
udur Of fern aud flower was most
delicious. Through the clearing
could he seen the valley stretching
Iawnv for miles, the orchards with
thpl regular rows of trees; the green
meadow, patches of blue green frs
the white houses of the town Nesting
Iamong the trees, the smoky blue
mountains that rim the valley, and a
few streaks of snow at the base OF
Mount Adams, which lay like Turk
tsh beauty, yelled behind iilmy
clouds.
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the aid of willing fellow campers,
tents were pitched, goods unpacked,
beds spread, hunks of fragrant fir
0uughs and pine needles made, stoves
set up and odor of smoke and trying
bacon filled the air,
While on the subject of stoves,
it might he we'll to mention for the
benefit of any who may contemplate
going picking, the various ways OF
runtriving about a stove. The camp
stoves are popular aud practical.
uhey are very light, being made
anrrely OF thin sheet iron, but they
draw we'll and when once you get
Che hang OF them you can even bake
very nicely in them. They can be
had in either the two or four hole
variety. Or you can bring with you
merely fiat piece of iron, either
sheet or cast, dig hole in the ground
, and ay the iron across, leaving hole
! AT each end, the larger one TO poke
T. the wood IN and the smaller one for
Che smoke to issue. On this you can
' io your cooking very comfortably
Some bring only two of these bars of
, iron aud lay them across the hole, al.
- lowing the smoke Tree egress. Others
!, build their fire ON top OF the ground
4" and hang their kettles ON cross bar,
- ! setting frying pan on hot Goals or 40
Il ing roasting at the end of stick.
Another way is to buIrOw into little
Il hilIock, dig perpendicular hole at
the fur end of the hole, for chimney
= and cook on the heated earth. Some
bring or procure few brick anC
3 build neat stove and chimney. AnC
y again a stove may be built with a few
h ola tomato caus, which, like the bar
} gain libbuns SO often mentioned IL
. fashion hints, may he picked up any
y where. Some people even brough
small iron stoves, and, with elbows
carried the smoke outside the tent
q The story is told Of one woman VIII
q brought an old range and brough
10 down anathemas upon her head fron
:, the small army of men required t.
u handle it. This story is told by n
+ means debutante. 1t has already seel
u several seasons. But doubtless it vii
le be told to future generations of picker
T. ls they sit around camp fires.
e. By the middle of the afternoon W
rs we're ready to 90 up to the strawberr
ID
pirlgiup we're. 1t had been a shoT
VI day and picking was over. However
w AT neighLoring ranch field of beI
y ries that had really been abandone
t., and let run to weeds, hHd, on accouu
~ of the short crops and good prices
~ been resurrected, and pickeIs frol
II our ranch we're busy in the long gras
'e and weeds, getting large, fine berries
". IL was estimated that they would g'
~ 75 crates from this field this season
'u which was really like finding money.
So The personnel of our own particr
ie lar coterie of campers was most inte
h estipg. One party was composed ,
5u mother and sons from The Dale
It, who had net the married daughtt
oS and family, who came from Cowli
'W county. Washington. They we're ha
w ing a little family reunion while d
ing their picking Another famil
' Iather, mother, three children an
baby came all the way from Madra
in1t Ore. having iOurneyed 40 miles
1T wagon to ShanikO and thence by re
~ stopping en- route to Portland
- spepd a few weeks in the strawber
ne Holds Another family. mother, son
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