The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-12
COMPLIMENTS FOR
HOOD RIVER

From several letters received recent
ly flom strangers and Others whc
know of Hood River, we CLEAN the
following:
VIM. McMurray writes:
Mr.. E. l.. Smith, Hood River, Ore.
Dear Sir:-Since the visit of MI.
Ivy L. Lee, of the publicity firm OF
Parker Il Lee, New York, at which
time we saw Hood River and its at
fractions under your splendid guild
anGe, Mr.. Lee is now getting out
quite lot of data in regard to iiouu
River and Oregon.
When the new phamplet appeared
took the liberty of sending him one
and am in receipt of letter from
bin dated New York, November 9th,
from which quote:
"My Dear Mr.. McMurray:--
WAS very much pleased this morn
ing to get the pamphlet In regard to
hood River. | have been talking
Hood River to all my friends ever
since | came back from the west and
have been buying Hood River apples
vt great rate and giving them away
Just to let people see what you pro-
4
my western trip the more Oregon ris-
es in my mind as one of the greatest
states that ever happened. l should
very much like to go out there and
buy farm.
DIR. j. 9. Davies writes W. Il. Lara
way from Boise, Idaho:
Accept my thanks for the very
beautiful illustrated circular of your
town and country. II is "a very com
mendable production and highly COM
plimentary to your progressive citi-
2enship. You certainly have them all
skinned" In red apples and straw
berries, and while you raise fruit
there will always be demand for 1t. ="
Mr.. Lnraway also received the fol-
loving from G. 4. Burlington, from
the same place:
81 received your Hood River on
paper. While it Is fine as could be
made, 1t does not do the valley justice
from my Viewpoint, but the day and
the associations may have helped me
to see its beauty"
Q. d. MaGowan sends Chas. Hay
ward from Ashland, a circular setting
forth the fact of his having opened up
paint shop and wall paper store, In
which the following appears: "Chss.
d. MacGown, late of Hood River,
where the bloom of color is placed on
natures fruit"
W. l.. Dykes, of Ottumwa, Iowa,
writes DR.. L. Cooper as follows:
Il understand your best grade of
apples we're sold this year to New
York parties for So 80 per box. l do
not for the life OF me see how they
can pay such prices and then pay
freight clear across the continent and
job them out at profit, The poor
ouss who eats them must surely ap-
preciate good thing afetr buying
them at the retail prices he would
have to pay. One of our wholesale
fruit dealers In Ottumwa contracted
for ten calroads of apples from the
Weuatohee district in Washington.
He has received six cars of them hut
succeeded in getting his order for the
remaining four cars cancelled on ao-
count of getting caught in rather close
quarters by the striGgenoy In the
money market. He has been jobbing
these apples out at 81. 80 per box.
understand the retailer. by selling the
larger ones at five cents each and the
smaller ones at three for ten cents,
makes about thirty to fifty cents per
box. The fruit Is very nice, the best
i ever saw. but the price a tritle stiff
for railroad hands like me. | did sort
Of shut my eyes and kick over the
traces, as 1t we're, today and invested
half dollar for six Jonathans and six
Spitzenbergs to help out with the
Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. | no
tioe some OF this fruit does not appear
to keep very we'll and has to be gotten
Td of as rapidly as possible. think
erybody has gone crazy this season
u}er apples One retail grocer nailed
me Oh the street the other day and
wanted to sell me barrel of apples.
] told him could not use that many
ut once as | had no suitable place to
b ep them. He said they we're such
4 90 ones he knew | would want them
r d insisted upon my going in and
| liking at them. They we're Michigan
! lit of good uniform size but | am
{ rtain that at least four out OF every
! 6 were wormy. He wanted 81. 70 per
h.rrel for them. | honestly believe it |
would have been cheaper to have paid |
= 30 to S3 per box for Washington or
ueion fruit Apples have been ex-
@ ceedingly high here during the past
year, SO high, as to place them among
tho luxuries of life and almost beyond
tI3 pocket books of the most of u.s.
t. spite of the high prices the fruit
n ! hnan 0f n very infari0r nuality |