The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-01-06
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Ihey live apples, talk apples, study
apples, dream apples, but it all has it's
results. The clothes they and their
children wear ale apples, aud the
coin that goes into the contribution
box on Sunday is an apple likewise.
But every body else is more or less
touched with this infection of
"appleitis." Go into business
mans office in Portland and Seattle,
and you will find apples. red and
yellow, from Hood River or White
salmon, Yakima or some other even
newer apple town, displayed upon his
rolltop There are a few prize apples
always on the table in the city bank
when the directors meet, and II you
see an eager crowd gathered before
the window of a department store
lr a cigar store In main CITY street,
be sure 1t is a display OF apples they
are staring at.
In Portland there ale nearly two
hundred men, engaged In divers lines
of business who own five, ten,
twenty, or thirty acres, per haps
mole, of apple land in Hood River
Valley or some other OF the apple
districts that are fast coming into
fame. A few have bought merely for
speculation, and as field for such
1t clearly compares favoIably with
the stouk market, bat by far the most
have merely followed the example OF
the first lady of any land and yielded
to the subtle fascination of the Spitz-
nberg. Lawyers and merchants
kat mob
oody is tending; plumters, bar rbers,
freight agents, workingmen OF all
| degrees, have set out rows Of apple
trees on small holdings and are only
hanging onto their jobs until the
trees come into bearing. The biggest
apple grower have met worked for
years for transcontinental railroad
at Sl5 per month, and after four
years OF urohardlng has repeatedly
refused 500, 900 tor his apple lands,
which net him easily S25, QUO year.
When | went to the Annual Apple
Fair at Hood River, the special train
carried 400 or so of the best people
IN Portland, we'll groomed, we'll man.
cred, gracious, sane to oil outward
appearances, but all, II the truth
we're known, stark, staring apple
mad. The town of Hood River wa
packed with people for the Appl,
Fair. 1t was apples they had come
to see. AT the corner OF the mali
thrcughfares was a tent, clrou
teent that would have held comfort
ably a two-rIng show, and iusid
of it and about its doors, or some
l H.. hn 81 t.tit itxJ n
gathered everybody In Hood Rive
Who wasn't engaged 10 running
railroad, or sIme other indispeDsabI
institution. Inside there were ap
pies, apples of every hue, from tn
pale green of the Newtown, throug
all the shades OF yellow, and startin
with the pink blush OF the Winte
Banana, there we're other apples tina
made a regular procession OF ros,
coIors down to the indesoI ibably dee
crimson Of the Arkansas Black. Their
we're boXeg of apples 10 the smilin
tiers known as the Hood Rive
ack"; there we're pyramids an
bowls and baskets and plates OF apple
of every shape aud name known {
the glover, and some sports" got b
accidental cross pollinatlon, beauitfu
fragrant, delectable, but namelsss.
Over the boxes sEIeRd out along th
! sisles we're blue aud red and yello
ribbons, and 1t was told that tn
apple. wise judges had sat up I'll
morning trying TO find some diffei
emo between the dist aud see0n
boxes, that they had even "broke
the pack'', taken out every apple
tare measured them all for unitorn
lty, tested them apple against. appl'
!. before yielding the momentous Vel
! dict. When the strenuous vigil ende
and day came to Hood River, the
! had awarded three OF the oHpit
prizes to one man, and the singult
D thing about it was that all the appl'
: that brought him honors were grow
i one one small orchard OF about thr'
acres, Ibis furnishes the keyDot
the moral and the explanation
J. Oregon aud Washington fruit, and
bound to center attention upon Il
Il possibilities of email acreage and Il
e truth, which America Ii slow
! learn, that intensive cultivation
y the secret of agricultural profit, al
u of vast increase In National wealth.
A bad apple can no more get o
It OF Hood River than the camel CT
pass through the needles eye, t
II there ia no road over the mounta
D Nv which valley orchardman ooul
ID even ii he wished, take his bog
7 fruit to another station for shipmer
l. No man in the Hood River distFl
It even packs his own apples. VIII
d The picking is under way and sol
T. hundreds or thousands OF boxes ha
}! been gathered In the growers app
honse, the union sends out packe
! Every packer has a number, eve
" Dox-and there we're nearly a quar-
u of a million of them last fall-hsI
number. When the apples at last
le down to Hood River Station for sh
ment, or to te held IN the unioI
IL ld-stOrage houses, each box
. entered by the number 10 the uniol
W books to tho growers credit, togeti
Ut with the record Of is contents,
~ number OF the packer and the gra
~ of the fruit, which IL either "fano
" or "choice. " here the box Is bou
o' for, ordinarily, the grower has
w cotton, neither does he care NUT
H. he union finds the market, ct
lu ducts the sale, aud pay him tor
Ii apples at the platform, and its sta
Se on any box 10 guarantee OF perfeoti'
oo II IL the boast Of these orohardn
q that any apples they ship can
taken from the box and eaten IN
dark IL is the standard OF quail
aud the trustw thiness OF
guaranty tnat makes the price