The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-06-21
new 0. R. & N.
BOOK Is OUT
EVEN BETTER THAN LAST YEAR
An SS-page Publication Devoted to he
Resources of fOregOn, Washing
ton and Idaho.

a valuable work, and as an advertisinj
medium for showing up the resource
OF the Pacific Northwest it has ~
equal in this section of the country
1t contains valuable information OF tht
various sections of the three states o
Oregon, Washington and Idaho, gath
cred with care from correct statistics
and the excellent compiling of thu
work reflects great credit on the au
thor, Rinaldo NJ. Hall, who is il
charge Of the work under the direction
OF the lpassenge department of The
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Com
pany and the Southern Pacific lines il
Oregon.
The. l906sbook contains new engrav
ings, new subject matter, and work oI
high grade throughout. In the back
OF the book is map of the section OF
country treated Of in the book.
AS guide to the homeseeker, its
information may be relied upon. az
correct, no attempt being made to
exaggerate, the theory of the passen-
ger department being that the truth
Is good enough. The facilities of the
rail- Dads for distributing information
makes IL Of exceptional value as an
advertising medium. Eastern people
intending to sseek homes in the west
naturally look to the railroads for in
formation. These books being in the
hands of eastern representatives in
every prominent city Of the east, they
get into the hands of those whom it is
intended to reach. The variety of re-.
sources of the west are great, and are
all treated of in the book. While
fruit raising will appeal to one man,
another will prefer he wheat country,
or lumber, or mining. He can get
some information from the book as to
the localities where he desires to To-
cate, which may be followed up by
application to the commercial clubs
and boards of trade of any particular
place that strikes his fancy.
Hood River comes in for a liberal
share Of attention in the new book,
extracts of which are given below:
Apple trees in Oregon begin bearing
at four and five years of age. A tree
ten years old often bears ten bushels
of marketable fruit, this same fruit is
freqently sold in carload lots at 81. so
and 500 a bushel. Among the varie
ties raised are Yellow Newton, Spltz.
enberg, Jonathan, Northern Spy,
Swaar, Greening, Winesap. Wolf Riv.
er, Ben Davis, BelIehower, and Flora
or Winter Banana. The industry is
carried on most intelligently in all
parts of the state. The orchards are
guarded zeaIously. The growers
stand al,u ost as a unit on the question
of spraying, declaring 1t is the only
means of protection, if first t-cass ap
pies are to be grown.
The highest prices ever p lid for ap.
Piles from any orchard in the United
States was received in 1902 for Hood
River SpitZenbergs and Newtons, the
former ranging from $3.50 to So. 90,
and the latter from 80. 25 to $2. so per
bushel box. The profit on a box of
Spitzenbergs at this price is about
81 90, and on Newton $500 fiat. Ap.
pie orchards netted their owners in
some instances as high as $500 an acre.
The,quailtysof the fruit was the finest,
never Having been equaled in the his
tory OF apple raising. Out of the en-
tire shipment Of 60, 900 boxes there
was not over per cent Of these ap-
pies that we're not fully up to the high
standard demanded by shippers OF
Hood River fruit. The Spitzenbergs
and NewtOns we're of especially fine
quality, an none of them we're below
four tier, and many of them three and
a half and three tieI. -Four cars of
Hood River Baldwins and red Kings
we're shipped to Alaska markets in the
fall of 1905, for which the growers re-
ceived 81. % per box. The apple out
put of the valley for the year of 1905
amounted to 800, 600.
For Hood River yellow Newtons,
Bruno Franz received S62l. "a flom
three flfths Of an acre Ludwig Struck,
81, 897. Al, three and one half acres
q. Z. Castner, 81, 1853, three acres; A.
|. Mason, S6i5, two and one half
acres h. ID. Calkins. 1861, one ahd
one half acres. From a single yellow
Newton tree at Mosier, Oregon, six
miles east of Hood River, A. F. Bute.
ham, In one year sold S3l. 80 worth of
fruit.
The Hood River strawberry output,
1905, brought the producers about
sl75, 600. There is scarcely town be-
tween the Pacific ocean and the Mis-
souri, river, north OF Arkansas and
Colorado, that is not consumer Of
Hood River strawberries, while ship
ments go to Chicago, New York and
other eastern points, RS well as to the
far north. The great care taken in
picking, packing and shipping these
berries, together with their wonderful
qualities, has made the fruit
famous. From five to twenty acres
is the size of the ranches or farms.
An average acre of strawberries yield
10 crates each year, and The land can
be kept in berries four consecutive
years, which, at an average income of
81. So per crate, gives the grower an
income of $277. so an acre. The cost
of picking aud packing is 65 cents a
crate, or S97. 80 an acre, leaving $3.50
for the land and cost of ultivation.
is not necessary, as the
ground does not freeze hard enough
to do the plants injury.
A flew instances of Hood River
sbTdWUoIFy yl"lub. ~. MCCIuIe, 40,
three acres; j. W. Martin, 1912, one
acre; q. W. Woodwork, 81, 100. 80,
four acres; q. A. McCurdy, 81, 400 10,
three acres; J. W. Morton, $3.50, one.
half acre; 3. Fl. Sheppard, $500
eight acres; r. Il. Lyons, 81, l05 38,
three acres. A. p. Bateham, Mosier,
six miles east of Hood River, shipped
], ,02l crates of Strawberries from four
and one half acres, netting him g. 25
per crate, receiving as high as Sc. 90 a
crate for his early berries. Consider
able attention is devoted to strawbel.
ry culture at Ashland, Salem end
other points In the Willamette valley,
the industry proving paying one.
The Dalles, Moiser, Milton, Free
water cad the GrRnde Ronde valley,