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Railway & Navigation to Hood river. Here one can agreeably stop for a few days, for there is a romanticism in its very air. Lifting my eyes aloft, I viewed the encircling hills that nature has placed there to make this valley a paradise. Fruit is grown here on an extensive scale. Strawberries, cherries, apples and prunes are nature's favorites, and she bestows a lavish care on them. I had the pleasure of meeting a friend of my girlhood days, whose home is here, and he made it very pleasant for me, taking me for a drive around the block, a distance of eight miles, through the fruit section. The strawberries are renowned on account of their being so delicious and hardy. The same may be said of their other fruits, which consequently stand shipment to foreign ports, as well as all over the continent. This makes the town a busy market