The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-09-10
CHARLESTON MANS
IDEA OF HOOD RIVER

From the Charleston Republic we
take the following communication,
which We think will prove interesting
reading to residents here:
| have been at Hood River. | have
found that they Can teach US some
thing-can teach us something that 1t
ls dollars in our pockets TO know. 1t
is the way they have done to raise
their land values to the point that
man that owned 10 acres five years ago
which was worth SIX or seven hundred
dollars has now piece OF property
worth nine or ten thousand.
| have cousin who is fruit grow.
er at Hood River and il was be who
gave me the inside of ID. 1t seems
that they make a rule in the valley
that when a stranger comes there they
tell him nothing but the good things
and leave him to lind out the others.
They make it rule to boost all the
time on the outside and to outside
people and il the moth and the scale
bother them more than ordinary they
may talk about it to each other, but
they don't tell strangers their trou-
bles. IL stranger asks Hood River
man how things are be is told that
things are all right that his profits
we're so and so last year, or it his
profits were not much last year he
tells what he expects to make next
year. The result of this system is
that strangers are fighting at Hood
River to buy land at In some cases as
much as ten times the prices of five
years ago. | have an idea that if
every man In Lewiston and Clarkst on
and Vineland would do as they do in
Hood River we could double the price
OF every acre we own.
There is just one thing more. On
the train l was talking to business
man from Portland who was up at the
time of the Portland excursion. He
told me he had been looking for
chance to buy some fruit land for his
son. He had thought of making
buy at ClaIkston, but he found that
they had too much frost there. He
said that pretty much every man he
met told him 1t was losing game.
The growers who told him these
things, perhaps, didn't think that
they we're simply advertising their
own property as being no good.
One thing you can bet on and that
is that there is at least one Vinelsnder
who from now forward will never
make a knock talk to stranger
When any man asks me about frosts
III tell him we have them but we
have so many more years without
frost that the frost loss doesn't great.
ly matter. And that's "a fact, too, for
even Hood River (though no one on
the outside knows it, has greater
frost loss than we have.
Now don't for a minute think that |
advocate anyone's lying about things.
| don't mean anything of the kind.
What l mean is that we have more
good things to say about our district
than Hood River men or those of any
other fruit section in the country can
say about theirs. AS a matter of fact
we have less frosts, less pests and less
everything that's bad than any other
place. What mean is that we should
get in and tell people the good points
and not howl about the bad things
If people coming to the district to
buy are told about all the bad things
and no one tells them anything about
the good things he certainly will buy
somew here else. We mustn't forget
that the moie rapidly the district is
settled up the quicker our property
will grow in value. Vinelander.