The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-07-17

allow is one of the handsomest in the
state Of Oregon. He has so acres Of
commercial trees in bearing, one of the
largest bearing orchards in the MOsier
district. DR.. David Robinson, who has
a home in Mosier, where he is a prac-
ticlng physician. is also fruit grower
and is developing a handsome proper
ty.
On the bench above the Columbia
gorge. just mile and half east of
Mosier town is perhaps the finest
country home in the state of Oregon.
Mark A. Mayer. the owner, an old
bachelor. who declares he is going to
retire and become a country gentle
man. is spending a snug fortune in de-
veloping a handsome estate. To stand
at the west end of his orchard nearly
quarters of a mile away and look
up the roadway leading between an
avenue of apple trees to the handsome
mansion, with its colonial pillars, glis-
tening white in the sunshine, one could
think himself in the far south. If the
eyes could be closed and again open on
a road way leading down between rows
of tall cotton plants, the metamor-
phosis would be complete. Mr.. Mayer,
who has spent most of his life and
made a fortune in the mercantile busi-
ness, although a native 0regonian was
for many years resident of New
York. He is now connected with Port
land business concerns but spends the
greater portion of his time in Mayer
dale, as he has christened the village
surrounding his colonial mansion, the
cottages which house his chickens, his
farm employees and his fancy horses.
Mr.. Mayer is an enthusiastic chicken
faneier and has incubated 1900 little
chicks this spring. He has large
hennery and supplies the Multnomah
hotel with the eggs. His chicken
houses are kept in the best of cOndi-
tion. They are constructed in the most
convenient fashion that carpenters can
contrive.
While Mr.. Mayors home, surrounded
by vineclad pergolas, green lawns and
old fashioned and new gardens, is a
marvel of beauty from the outside, the
eyes of his visitors also feast on a pic
ture of elegance and convenience on
the interior. 1t is complete from base
ment to ceiling. Aladdin a with his
lamp, If he had been country gentle
man could not have wished for more.
One may consider the town of Mosier
insignificant as compared with the hills
back of it yet the village itself is
growing and bids fair to become more
thriving than the ordinary station of
$50 souls. The Pacific Bridge Co. is at
the present time installing a giant rock
crushing plant at the west end of the
town. The new enterprise will employ
so men. The output is to be used by
the O-.W. r. 4 N. Co. in ballasting
its double tracks now under eonstruc-
ton and being planned.
The town has four stores. +. M.
Straus, newcomer whose former
home was in Wisconsin, has just opened
large department store. Mr.. Straus
is also an orchardst and is building a
handsome home in the town. Mosier
has its library where well filled shelves
are made use of by the residents of
town and surrounding country.
1t is proposed by Mosier people to
continue the construction of highway,
two miles of which have already been
completed, up the Columbia and thus
form link in the boulevard from
Portland. 1t is declared that for II
miles of the way the old right of way
of the o. X. an Co. can be made use
of and that the read can be built at a
slight expense.
The visitor to the town of Mosier or
to the country surrounding ii cannot
but be impressed that the citizens of
this district are a wonderful little unit
in the making of more beautiful,
prosperous and progressive Oregon.