The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-06-22
VALLEY DELIGHTS
THOMAS w. LAWSON
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morrow or day after. In other words,
keep up your present gait Of Homes
first, then Dollars; cuddle the man
who plants his treesssixty four TO the
acre, instead of he who sets them out
in seventy fours. At the very start
was struck with the difference Of Opin-
ion, one said sixty four, another sew
enty four, and ] sought the reason.
A splendid specimen Of our sturdy
eastern college boy who was guiding
the plow between the rows Of his
twenty acres, dipped my nose in the
knowledge font, "My friend Dick put
them in seventy four, sixty four.
We agree that his roots will interfere
in fifteen years, but he says what of
it, inside of fifteen years he will have
made his pile and be off, and the root S
interference will be the other fellow s
hurt, not his. You see with me its
different. bought more for the
kiddies than for myself"
Cuddle the sixty four man. Don {
let the speculator get on top. The
speculator is a useful chap-when you
need him, but he seldom gives poster
ity a square deal. Hood River doesn't {
need him. Goo has loaded Hood River
with His best VI plenty. On all sides
is evidence that the inhabitants of
Hood River appreciate this. Don't,
now that your prosperity is assured,
fiaunt your ingratitude by asking
assistance Of the speculator. Often
it is q tough job to give posterity a
square deal. Often it seems a choice
between buncoing pOsterity or starva-
tion, but at Hood River well, just
cuddle the sixty-four- to-the-acre man /:
il will be profitable enough, and when
the kiddies are gr0wn-ups and turn the
orchard over to their kiddies, their
kiddies chuckle at the wisdom Of their
grandaddy, will be sweeter music than
the chug-chug of the extra automobile,
bought from the additional ten per
cent profit of the early years.
Perfect a world wide system of dis
tribution now-noW-now. Spend your
money for this purpose freely and
now. Don't wait until the product Of
the young orchards comes down your
marvellous valley like an avalanche.
Don't neglect this.
Hood River fruit is the wonder
wherever it is known; it will sell itself
and at the best price-when it is on
sale. You may "know" it is known
everywhere. Don't fool yourself. For
every man, woman or child who knows
Hood River fruit, there are hundred
or thousand or more who actually
know no more about Hood River fruit
than about the Ummdel turnip of
Mas. This world of ours is awfully
big once you get outside the front
yard. Only last syear our best adver-
tised citizen, one Theodore Roosevelt,
was asked by one of the leading hotels
in a big European city to deposit his
watch for security for his room-not
only was he mot known. but in this
particular part of the world his
name had sort of a green goods
ring to it. When the orchards |
have seen during the lastten days
are at their flood, to say moth
ing Of those of Washington, Colo
RADIO, and elsewhere, the whole world
must not only know about Hood River
fruit, but must have the opportunity
of eyeing and lingering the actual
fruit itself orwell, must be dis
agreeable; if Hood River belonged to
me my first, very first, thought during
1911 would be how to get Hood River
apples into every nook and corner of
the world.
p. S. You know they say, the critics
of my writings, that it is impossible
for me to say anything without P. S.
and they are right, too.
They told me when left the East
tojbe mighty careful not to rile the
native Oregonian. That he was
rather savage sort of a critter. That
he would shoot and scalp on the slight
est provocation, and If his gun and
knife were Quite commission he would
bite. Perhaps the native 0regonian is
over at the Coronation for certainly |
have never met more considerate and
agreeable tribe.
| spent yesterday at the Devils
Bowl fishing. Gamped out on the
brink of that grand demonstration of
nature were three husky, stern-faced
natives. After sundown as we cleaned
up preparatory to leaving | picked up
a fine bamboo rod, absent-mndedly
thinking it was one of the three ordi-
nary ones had purchased for the
picnic. cut off the fly and packed it
away with the rest of my rubbish and
walked over to the Bowl for a last
look. When the six foot three member
of the camping party came leisurely
out of the woods and remarked on the
general fishing conditions. | returned
the compliment by calling his attention
to the grandeur of Nature, Devils
Bowl sunsets in particular. remem-
bered afterward that | was struck by
his attention. When we arrived at
the spot where had found the extra
rod he pointed to the rod case, which
had ! not noticed before. Whereupon
remarked that | had overlooked it.
but, said he, sort of earnestlike,
"there's a rod belongs in it," Even
then | did not awaken, but as | looked
up at him | noticed a queer expression,
and then forsthe first time | saw beside
the empty case double -harreled shot
gun, and the situation flashed to me,
for we had brought nothing along
which even an absent-minded tender
foot could construe into shot gun.
well. Im-darned. said |, 81 must
have pinched your rod T.
"That's sure what you did, " said he,
"because I've been watching of you
doing it"
1t should be unnecessary for me to
attempt description of the peasur-
able sensation oo2ing from the situa-
tion as walked back with him to the
automobile, or how lit increased when
both of us saw what any but an alb
sent-minded coop could have seen
before that his good rod was in
mighty bad company, and yet the
pleasant good nature with whichsthis
native of Oregon handled the affair
would have made a New York City
dude green-eyed with envy.
Must Observe Law.