The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-12-07

f. Church, Apple Growers Union
warehouse. Mark Cameron. box face
tory, l.. D. Boyed, o. NJ. Dewitt. Cut
Ter Bros, several new barns and annie
houses. more than one mile of side
walk. two drilled wells, barber shop.
electric lights in homes and street.
three acres bought by school district
for play ground.
Relative 10 improvements in the
Summit district, Geo. T. Prather
writes:
In reply TO yours Of Nov. % in re-
gard to improvements for the Summit
district for this year is as follows: J.
c. Forman one half mile north of Sum-
NIT has built a new bungalow costing
over $1,000, has cleared and set TO apple
trees about p acres. James English
lssnow building a new bungalow cost.
ing about $500; Edward Wheeler has
built a samll bungalow and finished
clearing the 20 acre tract he bought of
Geo. 7. Prather. II. Heft bought a
three acre tract of Geo. I. Prather
south of Summit and has built a small
bungalow. j. j. krumenacher bought
the Gregory 20 acres one half mile
north of Summit and has repaired the
house and built several out buildings,
and is now clearing land. Geo. 7.
Prather has built a new barn costing
about $500. ID. p Emery has cleared
and set to apple trees about 10 acres.
II. X. Davenport has cleared about 20
acres south of Summit in clearing the
land he cut the timber into cord wood
and is shipping it from Summit; hav-
ing about 1900 cords now at Summit
ready for shipping. There has been
considerable other improvements but
in so short notice | have not had time
to ascertain what they are and who
they are.
The following data from Parkdale
and Upper Valley vicinity was fur
nished by h. J. McIsaac:
Mrs. Geo. W. Allen about SO 600
house completed in March: W. l..
Mason; Joe Melquist; l.. V. Rose; S.
Green; Arthur Putnam; John Putnam;
j. S. HARRISON; II. S. Burpee; Louis
Schell +. S. Hay Houses, Jim Mod
difre and K. J Mclsaac cottages in
Parkdale Townsite also an addition to
the Parkdale school and a new church
at Parkdale Ingram Mere. Go. have
a new store building half way between
Parkdale and Mt Hood p. o. w. S.
Gribble, a new store building at Mt.
Hood p. O.
" Development in the Middle Valley
this Summer has been marked, says
j. X. Steele. Homes have been built
as follows:
w. F. McIlwaith and family, of New
York, have cleared twelve acres, put
three more into Strawberries and built
a house and barn on tie place. George
Barr and family, Of Greenfield, lndi-
ana, has cleared about fifteen acres
and has built house and barn on the
place. Mr.. Root, of New York, has
cleared about twenty acres and expects
to put a hundred acres in trees in the
spring; he also expects to build early
IN the spring.
The following clearing has been done
in Middle Valley the past year:
j. K. Steele has cleared twelve acres
for q. 5. Davis. of Mexico. and three
acres for Mr. Ireland, of Portland he
has also cleared six acres for hi self
and has five acres ready to put into
strawberries G. f. Barnes has
cleared ten acres. Robert Walstrom
has cleared five acres which he has
added TO his orchard. o. l.. Warden
cleared twelve acres. c. j. Calkins
cleared twenty acres. Middle Crest
Orchard Company, which is composed
of several Minneapolis Bankers have
cleared eighty acres. AL crt Rust has
cleared fifteen acres and put fifteen
into trees j. r. Putnam has built a
fine house in Middle Valley also
slashed twenty acres and put thirty
acres into trees.
A number of beautiful homes have
been erected in the city this summer.
One of the most handsome and costly
of the city residences is that of N. w.
Bone on Oak street. The following
list of city homes designed by R. K.
Bartlett has been submitted by him
E. A. Franz, C. n. Beltz, L. c.
Sinlms, A. +. Howes and f. h. Newly.
Other city homes recently erected are
those of A. j. Derby and Fred Lar
wood
The homes Of the following citizens
completed this Summer were designed
by Albert Sutton: A. W. Peters, f.
L. McLain, Homer Rogers, II. F..
Gleason and c. p McCan. Mr.. Sutton
also completed a very beautiful bunga-
low Tor himself on his ranch beyond
the Oak Grove region. Two other
beautiful homes that have arisen this
Summer are those Of August P8asch
and Frank b. Cram, the former, a
pioneer orchardist and the latter a new
conner, who recently bought part of
the Allen place in the Oak Grove dis
trict.