The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-08-01
But THEY'RE NOT
ALL DEAD YET
R. s. Scott, Secretary of Hood River
Commercial Club in August
Everybody's.

This is 10 say that Hood River very
much appreciates the nice things said
about her in the recent article by Car
/ lyle Ellis, entitled "Out in the Orch
ard.
This article gives US the chance to
say something that is on our mind
about your attitude toward accepting
Land Advertisements" "
All kinds of people visit this beauti-
fu valley. looking for what they may
| find. Many of these people are IN
earnest, looking for what we really
have to offer-a beautiful location for
home, and a place that at the same
/ time gives them an opportunity to
make handsome living, and do II out
Of doors among d very fine class OF
people. These are welcome, and we
! like to show them what we have.
Then there is another kind, two OF
whom recently visited this office. They
we're glad they came to Hood River,
they said, because they knew it was
headquarters for apples, and as they
were looking for an investment, they
felt here was the place TO learn what
apple culture was and what the science
of it amounted to.
So they bought 1000 acres of land in
another part of Oregon wheat land,
to be explicit; not land adapted to ap-
pie raising and are going back to
form company. and offer the tract in
small parcels Of ten and twenty acres
to future orchardists. at a small pay
ment down, and little per month
"your own orchard in four years, !"
ETC., etc. If they plant this stuff to
orchards and try to sell it, it is a sure
shot it will never be sprayed, because
water is so hard to get to this place
that it would be necessary to haul it
ten miles.
It is wrong that they should try to
sell this land foI this purpose, and it
is to Everybody's credit that they can
not offer it through your pages.
Another instance: A New Hamp-
shire corporation sends inquiry to Ore
gon, saying they are in the market
for 1000 acres of logged off land suit
able for fruit raising. Investigation
proves that they do want the 1000
acres, but at price near 81 per acre.
Their proposition includes back to
the farm" movement in Oregon, Cali
fornia, Florida, New York and Texas,
if they can find lands cheap enough to
afford to pay for the advertising nee
essary to sell them. They offer these
lands at 81 down and So per month util
paid for
1t is impossible for them to find any
thing in Hood River valley anywhere
near either in size or price what they
must have, so they will get something
that is lust as good as Hood River"
il is presumed.
The point of the apple business is
this: Apples are one of the hardest
things OIL earth to raise. Apples are
raised where it has been proven they
can be raised. Promoters have taken
the success of Hood River, which has
made Oregon famous for apples, to
mean that any place in Oregon can
raise the same kind, and these suckers
will in the end be awful sore on Ore
gon. This will do Oregon no good.
We have invited people to come and
make Hood River their homes, for we
have much to offer them, but our invi-
tation is "eome and see it with your
own eyes; investigate personally; go
look at the other places that can
raise apples, make your comparison !;
BUT DON'T buy land by mail; or
without seeing it. =
| read ''The Porcupine Trap" last
winter and wished at the time that you
might present an article that would
reach the c'ass of developers" spoken
of above.