The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-08-25
CAMPAIGN Fen
FAIR BUILDING
CORPORATION FILES ITS ARTICLES
Stock Amounting to More than $4,000
Has Been Subscribed for Permanent
Fruit Fair Exhibit Building.

has been taken in the project of erect
ing permanent building to be used
for the Hood River Apple Fair and
committees in charge of the canvass
Of the town and valley for stock SUBJ
scriptions to finance the building re-
port that $40, 500 has been subscribed.
The committees are still at work and
they hope to secure $l5, 600 of the $20,-
600 capitalization of the corporation.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed and the stockholders will be
called together for an incorporation
meeting the middle of next week to
decide very important matters in con-
nection with the next move which will
be made by the organization. Since
there has been such an extensive sub
scription of the stock an effort will be
made to get plans made and if it is
possible get the permanent building
under cover in time this fall to have 1t
ready for the Apple Fair, which prom
ises to be the largest exhibition which
Hood River has ever held.
1t will require quick and concerted
action on the part of the members of
the new corporation to decide the loca-
ton, kind of building, get the plans in
shape and the building under roof
before the rains start. A board of
trustees will be elected at the meeting
to be held next week and it is possible
that the site for the new building will
be selected at that time. A majority
vote of the stock will govern the loca-
tion and general plans for the building.
There have been number of sites
and building plans talked of in connec-
tion with the fruit fair building and
just what kind of building and where
TO put it will be up to the stockholders
to decide. The plan which has been
talked of recently is one which has
been outlined by the committee In
charge of the affairs of the fruit fair
association, the members of which re-
Gently bought two lots ON Front and
State street with view to using the
site for building. The two lots are
each 100 by so feet and they form an
l. shaped area with 80 feet on Front
street and $50 on Oak street. The
corner lot contains residence at
present occupied by Murray Kay and
it is the idea put forward by the sup
porters of this location that brick
building, two stories, SO by 100 feet
fronting on State next to the garage
which was burned few months ago
should be erected to be used by the
fair. TIL association could take over
the whole property and get some
revenue from the residence. In year
or SO when the fair would outgrow
the space afforded by the proposed
building il is said that an addition
could be built on the corner lot giving
additional space for exhibition pur.
poses.
1t has been urged by a number of
citizens that the fair should erect a
building more on the plan of cheap
auditorium which could be used for all
sorts of large gatherings and exhibit
tions and which would accommodate an
immense crowd. The plan suggested
is not to erect such substantial build
ing in the center of the city, but to go
beyond the fire limits and put up
large frame structure which would ac-
commodate the fair for several years
while it is growing each year with the
great development of the valley. The
building could be erected at much
less cost than brick structure and
owing to its large area would accom-
modate much larger exhibitions on a
single level. Supporters of this scheme
would like to see half block or at
least quarter block used for it. The
ground outside the fire limits would
not be so expensive and the whole
thing could be financed with less
money than it will take for substan-
tial brick building.
There have been several other loca-
tions suggested besides the one owned
by the fair committee. Among the
sites which are looked upon as desir-
able and which it is said could be
secured are part of the E. l.. Smith
block bounded by Oak, State, Fifth
and Sixth streets and the half block
owned by Schaffner Il Adams on Cas-
cade, Fifth and Columbia streets.
These two locations are both out of
the fire limits of the city and would be
suitable for the erection of building
of the larger type while part of the
block bounded by Fourth, Oak, Fifth
and Cascade streets has been sug-
gested for building of more expen-
sive brick construction.