The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-12-14
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OREGON APPLES

Oregon. the grand commonwealth of
the Northwest, which Chicagoans pic
ture IN their minds as a land of choice
fruits. beautiful flowers, artistic bung-
allows, salmon and erawfish. was the
entertainer at the Land Show last
Thursday, ana representatives of the
state made good in all respects.
Eastern people who have never visit
ed Oregon, but who gained their inn
pressions from railroad folders, maga-
zine articles, the stories told by return
ing travellers and by contact with act
ual residents of Oregon, think the
people there use nothing but gold coin
of large denominations as circuat-
ing medium and that they subsist
chiefly upon fruit and fish.
The eyes of these people were opened
to the.real possibilities of Oregon by
the display. The lectures on the re-
sources of the state were illustrated
by moving pictures and proved enter
tanning and instructive.
Governor West had named J. II.
0'Neill, of Portland, as his official
representative, says a special dispatch
to the Glacier. Tom Richardson was
others were Grover B. Simpson, super
intendent of Wells-Farso & Co., in
Chicago, and native son of Oregon;
J. f. Verree, Harry A. Wheeler, pres
ident of the Chicago Association of
Commerce; George de Haven, Hallett
w. Smith, of San Francisco; F. Fl.
Graham and Professor A. E. Chamber
lain. All the talks were illustrated
with stereopticon pictures.
A silk Oregon badge was pinned on
every visitor to the Coliseum when he
entered the show.
''lf Chicagoans were told about the
size of Oregon they would hardly be-
lieve it, F." said MIR. Richardson. eve
have a state into which you could put
half dozen Eastern states, and it has
some of the finest land in the world.
The people of Oregon have the coop
erative habit. There is a spirit de-
veloped in every community that brings
the people closer together. so that all
work for the common good.
Samples of fruit and flowers grown
in Oregon were handed out in liberal
quantities to the visitors. Some wags
in the immense crowd desired to learn
more of some of the politics peculiar
to Oregon and why people living in
such perfect environments selected
such queer men to represent them in
Washington and elsewhere, but the
land promoters skillfully avoided all
these embarrassing questions. They
also put the soft pedal on all talk
about crawfsh being the chief diet Of
Portland folk, many visitors still re-
membering an article to that effect
printed two or three years ago.
Former residents of Oregon, now eX-
patriated for business reasons, made a
pathetic picture as they fingered
around the exhibit and told all visitors
that no land could compare with Ore
gon in any respect.
Oregon apples scored a big hit
when visitors to the big land show at
the Coliseum were each presented
with one of the big luscious prize win
ners by the officials of the Southern
Pacific, The apples had been sent to
the show by Oregon growers who were
anxIous that their fruit should be put
into the mouth of any Cbicagoans as it
was possible to reach in one day. The
| program of speeches and music which
has been prepared was given in one of
the Union Southern Pacific halls. j.
Il. O'Neill, acting as Governor West s
personal representative and Tom Rich
ardson of Portland made the principal
speeches and pounded home into the
minds of their audience the fact that
Oregon is the best and fastest grow
ing state in point of population and
wealth per capita of any in the Union.