The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-09-22
WHITE SALMON
CFrom the Enterprise)

81 udH HI IlOOu hlNGE,
After an absence of IS years. |. r
Ziegler and family. of Underwood
spent the week end in the Yakima val
ley. Mr.. Zegler, who was in towr
Wednesday says the development OF
the Yakima country in the Is years il
most surprising. The hay, grain anc
fruit crops in that section are large.
1t is reported that the Cox Lumber
Co., operating near Appleton has taker
an option OH the Swan-Hamann saw.
mill site on Burdoin and will erect a
mill and box factory. The fume is to
be rebuilt.
Last Thursday evening Mr.. and Mrs.
Ripper and MIR. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis
entertained about rs of their friends
at the Ripper home. The Ripper home
was beautifully decorated for the occa-
sion and cards and dancing were en-
joyed. Card honors fell to Mrs G. A.
Reed and DR.. K. H. Putney. The hos
tesses served their guests with very
appetizing lunch.
Ira E.. Hyde has returned from
trip to Yakima and Wenatchee where
he looked over the apple situation. He
found no high prices had yet been paid
| for fruit in that section. He SAYS
Investigation proves purchases in
the above mentioned districts have not
been made at the high prices reported.
Certain interests are said to have re.
ported these high sales without orders
at those prices, evidently hoping to
start the eastern buyer out at higher
prices than his judgment dicated. The
easterner did not bite but the growers S
idea of prices was magnitied and good
authority at Wenatchee now advises
that of the $1,000 cars soon to be har-
vested, hardly 1000 cars have been
sold, where fully half of them should |
have been definitely contracted.
Several of the most responsible |
buyers in Yakima and Wenatchee
some of them growers-are offering |
for Spitz. Newtown and Winesap, ex- |
ira fancy, Sl.75; fancy. ST. so; C grade, |
slips, and are not anxious to buy at |
that. Delicious, $2.65 to $2.75, extra
fancy; $2.25 to $3.50, fancy; and 81
for c grade. Winter Bananas, So. 55 to
S2.75, extra fancy; $2.25 for fancy
and Sl.75 for c grade and as low as
ST.. so in few instances.
j. E. Smithson, of Hood River, man
ager of Oregon-W Washington Telephone
Co., was White Salmon visitor We'd
nesday.
Paul McKercher has returned from
the east where he looked over the aD-
pie market. Everywhere, he found
little demand and buyers waiting. He
had a few propositions made him at
prices somewhat lower than any grow
ers here would be willing to take.
The truck driven by Ezra Kiser, in
hauling crushed rock on the Snowden {
highway, went over into the canyon
morning while trying to ne
gOtiate the turn at the Paradise Flat I
rock crusher, and crashed down 80 feet |
10 the bottom. Mr.. Kiser sustained [
fractured arm and the fingers of his
land are also badly hurt.
E. Weldon. of Husum, reports his c
lock of 92 White Leghorn hens, Tan
red strain, average 2ll eggs each the @
)ast year, from September ]. 1920, to s
August 81 of this year. This was e
heir first laying year and in spite of P
Ugh feed and low egg prices, each hen
made him a net profit of two dollars. t
Mr.. Weldon expects to increase his \
lock to 500 next year. f
Attorney George R. Wilbur, of Hood G
river, while in town Monday for a
conference with directors Of the White
salmon Irrigation project. reported
reliminary arrangements progressing
long as fast as could be expected. ..
'Such preliminaries are necessarily d.
low, ?" said Attorney Wilbur, 'but we N
re pegging away and should soon ai
ave water for the fertile land to be ~
lcluded within the White Salmon Irri- u
alton district. O.
The 1921 session of the legislature at W
ne request of a great many growers ~
nd shippers Of the state changed the or
w so that the horticultural division so
the State Department of Agricul- ~
ire could issue certificates of inspec- IN
on covering the grade and condition hi
fruits and vegetables, and it made me
ese certificates prima facie evidence ~
any court of the state, and provided he
lat fee sufficient TO cover the cost ls
such inspection should be charged. 10
There has been a strong demand for 90
ederal Bureau of Markets inspection
the shipping point Of fruits and nj,
and at last this year ar
ngements were completed for CO.
eration between the United States
lreau Of Markets and the State De
rtment of Agriculture so that we a.
e able to use a certificate Of inspec- ;ze
N similar in form % that used bv 81
e United States Bureau Of Markets. nj
d practically identical with that used O.
several other states including Idaho tal
d California. io,
NJ. +. 5. Kinsey. Of the United States er
reau of Markets was detailed to
lp supervise the inspection work in
is state and in Idaho in order. TO Sc
re uniformity in this service with Z
her parts Of the United states. he,