The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-05-30

New York fnancers, Chicago money
kings, and Boston intellects have all
settled there, They told a story of a
Boston intellect that came to Hood
River and determined to plant corn
rather than apples.
lie cleared half an acre of his So
lie went to a neighbor who had it,,
and bought bushel of fine seed corn.
Next day he came back for more. He
did the same thing the third and fourth
days. After the fifth bushel the neigh
Dor determined to investigate. lie
couldn't keep his bump of curiosity
from worrying just why the Boston
intellect should want five bushels of
corn Ito plant half an acre of ground.
The intellect, however, had achieved
the seeming impossible. He had dug
Ia series of holes much like postholes
and he had stuck an ear of corn in each.
The county assessor reports that
nearly l3, 600 of a possible So, 600 acres
have been planted. OF this, the COM
paratively small area of 267l acres is
IN bearing orchards.
There are 24I4 acres of year Ole
trees, l47S acres of two year old trees,
1864 of three year olds, 1856 of four
year olds and 90l acres of five year
olds that will bear next year. Five
times as many trees were planted last
year as in 1904, and this is possibly the
best demonstration of increased apple
producing popularity as well as the
best assurance that the market for the
tu F,A lea I.,a
ing usually produce large crops in al
ternate years. The leading varieties
are Spitzenburg, Newtown, Ortley,
Arkansas Black. The most profitable
varieties are Newtown, SpitZenburg,
Ortley, Winter Banana.
No one could tell how long the trees
bear The older citizens said they had
never seen "A dead tree. Neither does
one see big trees They are persist.
emily pruned back.
There was a reference to being well
in Hood River The driver of the tour
ing auto kept pointing out one illustra-
ton after another.
The man who lives in that big
white house with the bigger packing
barn, he would say, was mail
carrier He came limping into this
valley, dead broke, with only one bum
lung to breathe with. Now he can
make as loud speech as anyone ana
he isn't broke any more.
'Or, did you notice the fellow driv-
ing that fine automobile? A few years
ago he couldn't have driven the ma
chine had he possessed the money to
buy one. He was another Hunger,
but the low altitude and the dry air
cured him.
70 tell the truth, one may look in
vain for any sign of unhealthy people
or trees in Hood River and all of them
seemed to have their full complement
of lungs.
From thousand points views of dis
tlnctive attractiveness appear during
the tour. But the best one is from
Van Horns butte.
1t is IN the center of the valley. In
all directions extend the beautifully
tended orchards millions of dollars
worth at glance. South the lower
mountains rise up except the cut
whence Hood river springs forth out Of
the Parkdale country having been
formed high pp out of glacial crew
asse. The wall on the south is the
white bulk of Mount Rood. The day
we saw it brush fire sent up column
of smoke higher than the peak.
Mount Defiance borders the western
horizon; the break of the central Ore
gon table lands on the east, and north
is Mount Aadms to be seen from the
high points of Hood River valley as
from no other locality.