The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-08-10

and dollars is being expended to i'm
prove the water system and a dozen
blocks of streets are being paved. The
Methodist church is to construct a
100000 edifice and the Church of
Christ one costing around $40, 900 next
year. All these public and private i'm
provements. together with others be-
ing planned for, will increase the price
of property there and the desirability
of Corvallis as place to live and en-
gage in business.
Provided the local motorist travels
by way of the Base Line road, Gresh-
am .and Powell Valley and thence to
Oregon City, Corvallis is less than $50
miles from Hood River. A jaunt down
to this seat of learning is a journey
worth while for any Hood River motor
ist. Except for about a mile and
| half on the Base Line road and the IL
mile distance from Albany to Corval-
lis, the entire $50 miles are now paved.
These macadam stretches, little
rough, especially after the fine driving
over paved highways, will soon be
improved.
A journey to Corvallis, which will
carry one across the finest section of
the Willamette valley, extensive berry
tracts near Salem, hopyards, where
the trellised vines will soon be filling
with blossoms, wheat, oat and barley
fields and dairy farms on scale i'm
possible in the mountainous valleys,
such a trip, by its very contrast with
the wild grandeur of our own high
ways, is soothing and restful to the
local resident. Just as the Willamette
valley resident, although he may know
of the superb quality of the Hood
River apple, will never have a compre-
hensive idea of our intense methods of
cultivation. until he comes here to
feel the real appeal of our charming
small valleys and the closeness of our
mountains; just so will we never sense
the magnitude of the Willamette val |
ley or the greatness of its actual or
potential wealth until we tour there
among its residents. Instead of hieing
off to seacoast or mountains for the
entire time, it will profit US to spend
at least a part of the vacation period
studying the states biggest valley.
The general idea seems to be that
the Willamette valley grows hotter
than our local summertime climate.
In reality it is cooler. During the
week of the editorial association con-
vention, when it was almost too hot
for comfort here, it was cool enough
at Corvallis and Salem for an overcoat
when motoring after dark.
Oregon's great system of motor
it is true, have been built
as a lure for the motor tourist from
other states. and they are finding these
paved boulevards, too. If you do not
believe it, get out and count the for
eign cars. You will run out of figures
On the California visitors alone. But
we of the home state have not bene-
tied by them as we should unless we
)ut them to full use, visiting around
lmong ourselves. Such journeys are
eavening. They take the conceit out
# us. We learn that ours is not the
'nly hospitality, that our industries
nay be dwarfed by those of citizens of
ONE other counties. We shuttle out
rom under the cloak of sectionialism
nd learn how to consider state prob
ems from a broader statewide view
oint. The Corvallis convention of the
)regon State Editorial Association in
large measure exerted just such an
1fluence. And besides. the members
I no state organization ever had a
lore enjoyable time, for the Corvallis
itizens and members of the faculty of II
! A. G. seem to know how to make
leir guests fill to overnowing each II
loment of their stay. They were II
lietly and unobtrusively busy all the II
me supplying entertainment features, II
nd that Oregon city, at future con- II
entions, that allows the states edi-
'rs to depart for their homes after
reater pleasures than were theirs at
orvallis is going to merit a special II