The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-05-05
TWO new TOWNS
ON THE MAP
POSTOFFICES In PARKDALE AND FIR
DiScOntinuance Of Hood Riyer--Mt. Hood
Star Route May Result in
Another Office.

The postoffice department of the u.
S. Government has established two new
postoffices in Hood River county, one
the Mt. Hood railroad, and the other at
Fir, nine miles south of Hood River in
the Neal Creek country. The postmas-
ters have been commissioned and the
supplies received for the new Offices
and it will be only short time until
there will be two brand new full-fiedged
towns on the postoffice map of Hood
River county.
County Commissioner r. j. Mcisaac
has been commissioned by the depart
ment to handle Uncle Sans postal
business at the new office in the
upper valley and the supplies for the
postofiice were sent out Tuesday so
that Postmaster McIsaac will open up
the Office in few days. Mr.. McIsaac
has built large store Parkdale and
is putting in complete stock Of gen.
eral merchandise and he will have the
post Office in the store. The Mt. Hood
railroad has not yet instituted regular
train service on the extension to Park
dale, and there is no provision made
for the transportation of the mail to
the new office. At the beginning in
such cases the service is voluntary
and is handled by the postmaster until
the business will justify the letting of
a contract for carrying the mail by
the government. The Mt. Hood post
Office less than three miles away is
now the nearest office to Parkdale and
he, e. ks.
transported between those two points
by Postmaster McIsaac for. the pres
ent. The people in the upper valley
country who will be served by the new
Office are now patrons of the Mt. Hood
office.
The other new postal station in the
country is to be at Fir and the post
master will be Ernest A. Cole. The
supplies for the new Office are now at
the Hood River postoffice. Mr.. Cole
expects to open store up in the
the Neal Creek country and most OF
the patrons of his Office are now
getting mail over the route number
one, out of this city. For the present
the service to Fir will be voluntary
as at Parkdale.
1t Is probable that another postoffice
may be established in the country later
on to serve the people living In the
Dukes Valley and Willow Flat sec
tions. The service in Dukes Valley,
which formerly was on route number
two out of Hood River, has been
discontinued, and after the first of
July, the star route number 10, run
ming from here to Mt. Hood, will be
discontinued so that the Willow Flat
| section will be left without mail
service.
The contract for carrying the mail
between Hood River and Mt. Hood,
expires June 30 and recently the post
Office department advertised for bids
for the continuance of the service, but
no satisfactory bids were received, so
the government is now advertising for
bids on contract to carry the mail be-
tween Mt. Hood and Dee and IL a
contract is let, the former Office will
be served from the sawmill village
after the middle Of the year. There
has also been considerable talk In the
upper valley country of petitioning for
a rural route to serve the residents OF
that section. The three rural routes
out of Hood River began running on
their summer schedule Tuesday, and
they do not leave the local office
until IL O'Clock 80 that the morning
paper and other mail coming in on the
local from the west, ID sent out on the
| routes the day it arrives here.
Postmaster Yates says that there
will be another vacancy on the rural
routes out of here in few days as one
Of the carriers has given warning that
he expects to resign this week.