The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-02-01
ANSWERS HIS CRITICS.
w. Ross Winans Tells Where Winans
City Is.

Our Dear MIR. Mount Hood: It is
with pleasure we take our pen In hand
to let you know that our heart is In
the right place, and here's hoping
that you are enjoying the same great
blessing. Mount Hood Is all right.
We've had our eye on 1t long time,
but it hasn't got move on it yet
just doing business at the same old
stand. We believe In honest hot air
enthusiasm for the development of
natural resources-and plenty of 1t.
1t developes and ripens ell things that
are green. Try course Of it In your
business. Cold air, cold feet and
knockers are all in line. II the crowd
gets mixed and goes to Dee they'll no
doubt charge 1t up to the Mount
Hood correspondent for butting In.
Mount Hood special correspondence
In last weeks Glacier: "We cannont
agree with neighbor Winans" Cor any
other neighbor, for that matter-Win.
ans). ~ would like to know when
he considers a child Is attending
sChool." when it is attending, Of
course-Winans). Now let us put you
in the straight and narrow way again.
Mr.. Thomas children are not attend
ing your school, neither did the petit
tion include Mr.. Thomas In the new
district. posted a map with the no.
tice plainly showing the boundaries Of
the new district, so that no one could
be mistaken. Two of Mr.. Thomas
children have graduated In your
school and naturally will have no fur
ther use for it, while all three are be-
ing sent to another school outside
your district The new district has
many more scholars than the law re
quires for the formation of a new dis
trict. You request description Of
Winans City. Winans City is In the
center of Hood River valley at the
forks and falls of Hood river, where
SO much Eastern and local capital is
being invested to develop the vast
natural resources that surround the
city. 1t has immense water power to
be developed into electrical power to
operate all kinds of factories In need
of cheap power, and will naturally
have big pay roll. 1t is in the mid
die of the apple belt and has l50
square miles of the best milling tim
ber tributary to it. 1t is famous
mountain pleasure resort located on
the happy hunting ground of the van
| ished Red men, whose spectres weep
o'er wrongs endured, and though de-
parted, their faithful nightly vigils
keep DER wanderers of tht ir race quite
broken hearted. Surrounded as It is
by dashing streams and water falls,
dense forests and beautiful lakes and
most gorgeous mountain scenery with
a delightful climate summer and win
ter, the city is supplied with pure ice
cold soft mountin water under high
pressure. Now you can't afford to
knock Winans City-it's too near
your own door-and IL you do you
can't jar it. Nothing you can do
will retard its growth. We are on
our way. Your part of the valley
will keep pace with it, too, and will
help to boost it. We do not care to
stay in any country that is not gen.
orally prosperous.
Now, in conclusion, we do not
wish to thresh the old straw over
again, nor to chew the rag further in
the matter Of the defeated school
district. We failed to get fair deal,
owing to misrepresentation, from start
to finish, but let it go, mere wave
let on the sands of time. We have
bigger battles to fight, not with our
neighbors, but for them. Let's cut
it out.
The Hon. Martin Dodge, who was
with us last June as director of good
roads, writes from Cleveland, Ohio:
"On New Years. day | was at Judge
Babcock's house for dinner and they
had Hood River apples which cost l5
cents apiece" "
lMr. Weidricks lots are being rapidly