The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-08-13
DIDN'T SEE ALL THE
MT. HOOD ORCHARDS

Editor Glacier, Hood River. Ore.
Dear Sir:-Your leading Article 10
the issue OF July 30 will undoubtedly
do much to interest people in the up
per Hood River valley, but some of
the statements therein should not 60
unchallenged. and in the sname of the
Mt. Hood Development League | wish
to correct some uf them.
The ''last view of orchards to be
seen from the road" is not at Willow
Flat nor at any other place this side
of sthe Mt. Hood postofiice. unless
the pers II deliberately closes his eyes
while passing along the road.
At the top of Booth hill and near
the road cas- be seen the eastern end
OF Is acres of new orchard owned by
Mr.. Hagen, IF Portland The old
and new orchar s of j, p. Hillstrom
adjoin this on the south Some Of the
30 acres OF the Elppa Orchard COM
pany can be seen through the trees
intervening. The holdIGg- OF b Jen-
sen in tbe zane neighborhood should
be mentioned, although not visible
from the road. j. M. Lenz has 10
acres Ut new trees and somefin bear
ing. Close Ey are 10 acres owned by
B. Strauhal, not visible
Next comes f. NJ. Ireland with 10
acres in plain sight and the old Au-
bert place, present owner un nown
to me, with another 10. Also eight
acres owned by Mr.. Lsughton is close
at hand. j. Il. Steele has at least five
acres Of new and bearing trees In full
view, and little farther on are Is
acres of trees. some of which are in
bearing, many prolific grape vines
and several acres of straw berries be-
longing to l.. Mex. The old Tieman
and Baldwin place have many old
trees, as we'll as large new orchard de
all in view of the road, ss are also
those of Patereau, Stanton, Dumas
and Ruhnke. E. G. Miller's 10 acres
OF fruit tiees and straw berries are
plainly to be seen, although not close
to the road The large amount of hay
being cut by Mr.. Duftield on the
Ruhnke place should be mentioned
| both fol quantity and quality. The
~ acres of young orchard and three
acres OF strawberries belonging tc j.
L. Langille are on the opposite side
aud in full view. and adjoining them
on the south are 10 acres OF bearing
and new trees and strawberries along
the road belonging to II. Rush. S.
A. Helmen has six acres already pre-
pared for planting to trees aud Ter
ries this tall, at the road side. Paul
Aubert has large orchard of new and
bearing trees extending to the road
across from the postoffice, as has also
j. Vauthiers.
The commercially successful orch
ards owned by Messrs. Cooper, Edick,
Sandman, Larwood, Dimmick and
others must certainly have been view.
cd by the Glacier representative end
others in the automobile, and are
surely large enough TO be worthy o;
mention, at least IN such an article as
that written last week.
In all cases the orchards are we'll
kept, additions and improvements are
constantly being made and the deter
mination to make the eastern eide Of
the upper valley the equal or superior
OF anv other section is everywhere
present. here is much more that
might be said, Mr.. Editor, Eut will
close with the suggestion that your
representative make this trip again.
Yours truly,
Mt. Hood Development League,
by ii. B. Langille.