The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-06-23
UPPER VALLEY
ENTERTAINS
FREIGHT AGENTS AT PARkDALE
Visitors Enjoy Great Hospitality Shown
in Day Spent in Hood River
Valley.

The people of Parkdale and upper
valley established great reputation
for themselves Saturday, with then
maiden effort in entertaining GROVE
of visitors, when they made such al
excellent show of hospitality to the
members of the Pacific Coast Loca
Freight Agents Association, who spen'
the day visiting the Hood River valley
The party arrived here Saturday
morning on the Baker City local from
Portland where they had been holding
their convention all week. The tive
special ears occupied by the crowd
which numbered nearly 100, including
a large number of ladies' accompany
ing the agents who represented all the
principal freight points on the Pacific
| Coast, were switched onto the Mt
Hood railroad and the q. h. Il N
coach and Southern Pacific private car
California, formed special train
which was taken to ParkdaIe. The
party was greeted here by the mem,
bers Of a reception committee from
the Commercial Club who boarded the
train for the trip up the valley anc
Immediately won the hearts Of the Wis.
| itors with two boxes of fine Yellow
! NewtoWns.
Before the train had gone far the
committee realized that local agent,
j. H. Fredericy, who had been in at
| tendance at the Portland meeting, had
the freight men well primed for the
orchard sights and as soon as they saw
the big apple house on the A. |. Mason
place they began to figure on the ton
mage which would come out of Hood
River in a few years judging from the
great warehouse needed to handle the
contents of 50 small an acreage.
Pretty soon they gave up and hoped
that they would not be in the railroad
! bus SIS 70 help bear the burden OF
moving the crop when Hood River had
reached the possibilities of production.
The apple eating crowd had good trip
through to Parkdale and enjoyed the
singing of the quartette led by our
own Fred in their famous ditty, Has
Anybody Here Seen Hardy. " Mr..
Hardy is the popular president of the
association.
AS the train went on above Dee and
the upper valley country spread out
with all its possibilities for develop.
ment, which are being we'll illustrated
by the work being done at the Bone.
| borO tract, the crowd became more en-.
| thusiastic than ever over the great
future in store for Hood River. G.. f.
Powers, of the firm of London 4
Powers, who have large interests il
the upper valley, with Mrs. Powers
had come with the party from Port
land and he was ever ready to explain
the great things in store for the upper
valley.
When the train reached Parkdale the
upper valley people were there IN ful
force and Immediately invited the
party to Mclsaac's s hall where boun.
tful feast had been prepared by the
ladies'. This luncheon was practically
the opening of the new hall and the
people of the community did them
selves proud as hosts. While the Wis.
itors enjoyed every bit of the feast the
one thing which made the deepest inn
preston with them was the final course
Of big, luscious, upper valley straw
berries and cream. AS the freight
men had about finished loading a rec
ord tonnage of berries to be hauleC
out by the o. K. & NJ, Southern Pa
cifc, Northern Pacific, Great North
ren, North Bank and Santa Fe, j. b
Glover arose and as master of cere
monies thanked the people of the up
per valley, the Mt. Hood Railroad anC
the Commercial Club for the cOurte
sizes which had been extended to the
railroad party. Rev. W. l.. Van NuyS
responded for Parkdale, Superintend
ent Charles T. Early for the local roaC
and Truman Butler and G. II. Sproat
for the Commercial Club in repeating
the welcome to the visitors. W. j
Hardy, president of the association
made final speech after which the
party spent half an hour rambling
about the townsite of Parkdale.
When they boarded the train for the
return trip each visitor was presented
with a box of the fine big straWber
ries and the party pulled out for Dee
where a stop was made to look ovel
the saw mill Of the Oregon Lumber
compny. The visitors were shown
through the big mill driven by electric
power and were thus gwen a slight ldei
of the enormous power projects which
it is possible to install along HooC
River.
A stop was also made at Van Horr
on the return trip and the visitors
climbed the Butte and spent severa
minutes viewing the valley from th'
broad yerandas of the residence O
Willis Van Horn. From this point the!
were able to get good view of thu
whole lower valley. The special train
reached Hood River about o'clocl
giving the railroad men half an hou
to look about the city before the loca
picked up their cars to return then
to Portland. Sevcra! cases Of cherries
were put aboard the car here for tn
visitors to MUNICH on their retrun tril
to the metropolis.