The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-06-01
to build houses to let.

| 10 Dulld houses to let.
II. l.. LOwden, the pastor of the
Baptist church at White Salmon, has
cleared 25 acres of his 40 acre tract
He has four acres set in strawberries
and small patch of gooseberries
The rest of the cleared land is ir
orchard. Mr.. Lowden has installed ir
his home high pressure water
system. He finds, too, that the region
is not only adapted to fruit. He has
made success of raising chickens.
When the family settled in the Under
wood district Mrs. Lowden was in
very poor health but now from the
pure air of an out door life she has
completely recovered
Louis Thun has a tract of five acres.
part of which is set to trees. The
tract adjons that owned by Morrow &
| Packard.
The development of the 80 acre tract
| owned by II. K. Love and Gerald Be-
bee, of Portland, is being superintend-
! ed by Mr., Love, who with mis- mother
lives on the place. Of the 80 acres set
in trees, eight are in bearing pear
orchard. Mr. Love is installing a
-
The twenty acre ranch of C. M.
Fowler, soliciting freight agent for
the North Bank line, is being cared for
by &. ?. Munslinger. Eight acres of
the tract is set in trees and MIR. Mum
singer is clearing the balance.
Ono of the finest young bearing
orchards of the interior district is that
Of Tom Andersen. Mr.. Andersen has
set eight acres of his 10 acre tract to
Spltzenburgs, Newtowns and Jona-
thans. Mr., Andersen's ranch adjoins
the large tract of 1000 acres owned by
the Hood Land Co., which has already
sold several small tracts to individuals
D. +. Porter, of the large contracting
firm of Porter Bros, of Portland, who
IS largely interested in the tract, and
+. Gavin, secretary of the company
state that it is their intention to
begin the development of the land and
subdivide 1t.
The six acres Cf bearing orchard on
the l2O acre tract of |. r. Ziegler
demonstrate what man may do who
believes in what he undertakes and
sticks with it. Mr.. Ziegler had barely
reached his majority sever years ago
when he homesteaded his tract. By
plugging away at the forests surround
ing nm he now has an orchard that
gives hm a gratifying return. He
states that II is his intention to clear
a part of the remainder of his tract.
Mr.. Ileglcr, as the result of a nearly
romance returned to his eastern home
IN Pennsylvania last fall and returned
with a bride who will lend him her
encouragement and efforts in the i'm
proVemcnts Of their home.
&. l., kirkpatrick, who is we'll
known in Hood River, having spent
the past winter here, owns a tract of
81 acres on the west side of Under
wood Mountain. Mr.. kirkpatrick has
10 acres set to trees and three acres lin
strawberries. Other ranchers in this
section are +. E. Laylock, Geo. Hewitt
and William Sheehy and associates.
Mr.. Laylock is developing 55 acre
ranch. MIR. Hewitt, former mer-
chant of Portland, who has become a
enthusiastic devotee of the country
life, will develop his holdings of 100
acres. Mr.. Hewitt is a strong bootser
for the coutry. He says that the sec
uon is going to be one of the foremost
fruit sections, as soon as it gets the
development that it deserves and be-
comes as we'll known as it should to
the outside world.
W. A. Wendortf, W. F. Cash and A.
{. Goddard. all of whom own land on
the south side of Underwood Mountain,
are using their efforts toward pro-
noting the interests of the section.
Mr.. Cash is manager of the local fruit
growers union.
With the growth of the fruit section