HOOD RIVER-extracted from Hood River Glacier, June 8, 1889 The first settlement at this place was made by _____ MCLAUGHLIN in 1852. The following winter being a very severe one and Mr. MCLAUGHLIN losing all his cattle, he moved to The Dalles. The next settler was Nathaniel COE and wife Mary W. and four children, all boys of whom the eldest L. W. was one of the founders of the O. S. N. Co., having built with Mr. THOMPSON the "Umatilla" which went over the Cascade rapids by accident; Charles who died in 1872; E. F. who is at present living here with his brother, the youngest of the family, Captain H. C. COE. With the Coe family came William JENKINS who was drowned in the Columbia at the mouth of Hood river, together with his son and James LAUGHLIN in 1865, and James BENSON (now of The Dalles) and wife, and A. C. PHELPS, also of The Dalles settled here. During early days when the trail along the river was about the only route from Portland to Walla Walla, it was a welcome stopping place. The COE donation land claim on which the town is built is one of the oldest this side of the mountains. Just now the town is becoming justly famous as a summer resort. The heat is pleasantly moderated by the cool breezes which sweep up the Columbia from the ocean, and the surrounding mountains with the big peaks of Hood and Adams crowned with everlasting snows. The building of a commodious hotel near the Mt. Hood glaciers which is now progressing rapidly will furnish the only thing needed to make the Hood river country a paradise for tourists and sportsmen--good accommodations. The scenery cannot be equaled in the northwest, and in accessibility the Hood river glaciers discount all others. Three hours ride by rail from Portland to Hood River, and from four to five hours staging over a magnificent mountain road bring the traveler from the heat of the city to the region of perpetual snow. The trip is a delightful one, the ride up the Columbia being through its magnificent canyon whose basaltic cliffs tower thousands of feet above the river, with beetling crag, and terraced bluffs; with gloomy gorge and laughing water fall; with the graceful spire of Rooster rock and the magnificent dome of Castle rock, the tiny drippings of thread-like streams down the dizzy heights, and the magnificent rush of the grand Columbia at the Cascades--with these and hundreds of other of the master pieces of nature's handiwork swiftly gliding by the car windows a living panorama, the trip is one never to be forgotten. The time occupied is less than it takes to get to the seaside, and surely the mountains are incomparably preferable to the monotonous beach. Messrs. LADD & WOOD are performing a labor of love in making known the beauties of Mt. Hood, and will receive the gratitude of those who come, and see, and realize the lavish magnificence of nature in this favored region. submitted by Kathy Evinger