The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-08-27

X. Il. Duff, contractor for the ). Z.
s. Rsilrosd company building stock
yards. Was here Wednesday rushing
the shipment of lumber. Mr.. Duff
says his crew will shortly start in the
direction OF Grand DslIes, putting up
the yards all along the line. At pies
ent they are building at Lyle.
Last Friday the BinRsn Commercial
Club met. President s. W. Neidigh
heing absent and VIeePresident Suks-
dori in the chair, I. II. Dorsy, secre-
tary. The minutes OF previous meet
ing were read and approved. After
the reports of committees we're made,
new business was taken up and y.
Morris, Ed. Suksdorf and L. ii. Dos-
sey we're appointed th dtsw up the
order Of business OF the club. A COM
mittee of f. Reynolds. Geo. S. Ray
mond and l. Il Norsey was appoint
ed to look into the wharf question
John Ihsms, I, III. Dorsey and j. A.
Henderson were appointed OIL com
mittee to wait on the isrm ers' club of
Pine Flat regarding the canyon road.
No. l tuesday carried telegraph
workers OF the s p. 4 s. X K. for
Vancouver, at which place they will
start telegraph cable across the CO.
lumbia to Portland. Quite numb Der
Of musicians we're In the band OF
workers and they played number of
Doesn't Believe FInme Was Dynamited
Hood River, Ore, August q. 1908.
Editor Glacier:
Dear Sir:-I would like to say few
words about the Farmer Irrigation
company's dynamite story anu that
"malicous persons used the dyua-
mite ~
My honse is not very far from the
ditch and my only road Iasses slnng
it. During the last eight years | be-
lieve | have been over part of this
system more than any one else /
have noticed with much interest all
changes that have been made. Dun
ing this time many accidents have oo
Cured. When Mr.. Davenport was
manager the people always blamed
him when anything went wrong, but
lately there has been an attempt to
blame some malicious eison" when
some accident happened. | spent the
night of June l3, when the flume was
supposed to have been blown out. in
my house, which is situated less than
400 feet from the section line. The
place where the f1ume was destroyed
Is only a few feet further. Do you
think a shot of dynamite large enough
to carry away $50 feet of fiume and
the rocky shelf on which 1t rested,
as stated In one report, could have
occurred without my hearing it? |
heard no report that night, alth )ugh
some shots put in the next evening
shook the house, sending rocks
thr rough the trees close by. Some of
the first men to visit the wreck said
there might have been shot of dyna
mite placed under the hume, but
there was no evidence to prove 1t. A
few elivers of boards and some mud
splashed on the leaves is all of their
evidence. Slivers can he made and
mud splnshed without dynamite. A
few years ago break occurred In the
flume few rods distant, In fact, both
together form one large slide now.
At that time the foreman walked up
the fiume and 1t seemed to be all
right, but one of his men who arrived
few minutes later found that the
fume had gotten out in some way,
washing away the banks, undermining
the fiume aud doing about as much
damage as the last break.
The last Ereak occurred In a piece
OF the old fume, the Oldest fiume in
the system, which had settled some
and was very nearly full OF water.
The two wrecks were probably caused
in the same way. The land is steep
and the ground Is easily washed. If
the flume should leak here the way |
have seen 1t leak when | worked for
the company | believe it would do
more damage in less time than many
malicious persons. There is no
doubt hat what the malicious per
son" is purely imaginary. Still many
of my neighbors object to thessattempt
to place said malicious person" in
their midst. Please look after the
creature of your own Imagination, for
we have real ditch troubles of our
own. Respectfully,
9. Hadley.
The old Pennsylvania Dutch Dunkard
recommends "Hickory Bark Cougl,
II l. H. 4