The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-04-09
Permanent Exhibition TO Advertise
Valley Fruit

In order that the many hundreds OF
strangers who annually visit Hood
River may have an opportunity of
seeing as we'll as hearing about the
fine fruit products Iaised in the val
tey, the Hood River Commercial Club,
through the publicity committee of
that organization aud with the help Of
many generous residents, has been
enabled to erect pei manent exhibi-
tion booth near the railroad station
foi that purpose. Ii was the intention
to have 1t opened today, but owing to
the fact that several minor details In
connection with 1t could not be at.
tended to In time, the display will
not be in place until Saturday. The
management of the building and the
exhibition will be In charge of Joseph
A. Wilson. In addition to the dis
play of fruit, literature descI ibing the
city and valley will be supplied by
the club for distribution to those
seeking information and the services
of Miss Zula Fowler have been seeur
ed by the club for this purpose. At
night the building will be brilliantly
lighted by electricity to attract the
y
trains and the exhibition is expected
to accomplish good results In adver-
tising Hood Rivers iruit products In
a practical way. The building was
designed aud built under the direc-
tion of p. NJ. Hall Lewis and when
fully completed will be- unique
monument to the enterprise of the
Commerc ial Club and Hood River
residents.
To erect this building and ut 1t up
has cost sonnet hing over 5000. In I'd.
dition to this the handsome illustrat.
cd booklet gotten out by the club un-
der the direction OF the committee
and other advei tising matter has call
cd for an expenditure in the neigh
borhood of 1000. During the past
five months over 6, 900 pieces of adver.
tising literature have been sent out
by the committee and 5000 personal
letters written In answer to requests
for information about Hood River.
These inquiries have come from ter
eign countries as we'll as every state
and territory In the United States
and wider circulation of the advant.
ages, resources and products of the
valley made than ever before under
taken.
Results have justified the expeudi.
ture of the funds placed in the hands
OF the committee In attracting more
capital to invest In fruit lands, In a
greater development OF orchard and
business industries, In placing Hood
Rivers fine truit products before
thousands of new people aud indirect
ly in benetiting the entire community.
Believing that this work should be
continued the club is anxious that
everyone so far rs possible should
take an active interest 10 it, as there
are many things yet to be done to de-
velop and maintain the progress and
pI osper ous condition OF the valley aud
city. From the support it has receiv-
ed the committee Is led to believe
that 1t will continue to have the help
of all enterprising, public-spirited
residents. 1t will soon call for the
payment In full of the subscriptions
to the fund which was raised to erect
the exhibition booth aud tor advertis-
Ing purposes, and hopes that it will
be responded to readily by all who
have subscribed and others in order
that it may meet Its obligations aud
also continue the publicity work that
has borne such good results.