The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-11-12

ing for an American apple. The
captain carries his own Hood Rivers
in cold storage" whispered the
knight of napkins and defender of
tips, and that travellers hunger was
whetted for more and when he had
reached his home among the iron
mines of Lake Superior he related the
incident while lecturing on his travels
and adventures and the local papers
published it and helped boom Hood
River.
Recently an influential man return
ing from the east said to me: "Do
you know that right along with the
quality of their fruit the Hood River
square deal in packing apples of same
size and quality throughout the box is
astonishing the folks back thereY"
aud he added sit pays big, too, for
when one wishes to send present of
fruit and be sure no mortitying ! dis.
appointment will result uponsopening
the package they are almost forced to
buy Hood Rivers or else take the risk
Of sending disappointing present
and when 81 told them, he said, that
was the science OF business, education
and up.to-date Americanism and the
way to prosperity, the good, the true
and the beautiful; thought that a
good place to go to settle, make a
home and raise family. Only the
past season a lady bought some large,
fine appearing Strawberries, grown
near Stevenson. and presented them
to another to be made ashamed and
veXed upon finding the berries small
below the fine top layer. They got
the name of the grower and packer
and il he allows his boys TO so dishon-
estly pack their berries the coming
summer, we will, for the good of the
community, feel compelled to make
public the growers name, for the fruit
growers OF Skamania must emulate
the square deal pack of the Hood
River Fruit Growers Union, to reach
an equally high favor abroad aud
while berry and fruit industry is in
Its infancy, so much the more i'm
portant that square deal packing
begin at home.
When we visited Hood River, a dry
town, actively engaged upon constIuc.
tion OF fine brick blocks, their dis
play of fine apples surprising any
thing | had ever thought of we deter
mined to see the homes and orchards
Of the valley whence came their world
wide reputation. What we saw was
pruning, culture, picking and packing
and as Yankee Doodle swore "he
could not see the town or all the
houses" we could hardly see the
trees, tor, weeping willow like, their
branches agleam with red apples,
reached the ground and driving
among miles and miles of we'll kept
trees, we occasionally passed through
clumps Of oaks and pines under con.
tract to be felled and the ground
cleared for orchard. We see fine res
idences and some beautiful flowers,
but SO far as | could learn Hood
River lacks adequate park preserves
and their great apple show, while
we'll located, was held upon private
property, liable at any time to te
built upon.
Skamania oounty's first fair was
notable in several respects and aside
from fine displays of grains, grasses,
fruits and vegetables, its display Of
needlework equalled Hood Rivers
and in displays of flowers, canned
fruits and jellies and paintings, Ska
mania's home making women folk sur
passed Hood Rivers.
Hood River is American improved
and progressive and deserves her gos-
pei measure of prosperity but 1t seems
to me should have more flowers In a
park OF ample size, preserve the grand
old oaks and pines and own an expo
sition site close in.