In this weeks News. Mrs. Arline Winchell Moore, writes of the rise and decline of the livery business in Hood River. From Bert Stranahan, who formerly was leading stage operator here, the News secured the picture reproduced above. This picture was taken in the heyday of horse staging and shows two of the Hood River-Mount Hood stages at our railroad depot awaiting arrival of a train and passengers for the Mile-high Inn at Cloud Cap.
1909 Marion - Four cylinder, 40 horsepower. Sold for $3,500 and was called a Gentle Roadster in newspaper ads. Prominence of Firestone tires in pictures of antique cars is acceptable to manufacture the obsolete sizes required on the antiques.
Set for Expedition - The H.R. Fanchers are pictured in the speedy four-cylinder, 50 horsepower roadster that Hal built in 1910. It had 34 x 4 tires and acetylene lights, and could do about 65 miles an hour. Poised in the second machine for the two-car trip from Roseburg to Bandon is a loaded 1910 model E.M.F. five-passenger touring car boasting a four-cylinder 30 horsepower motor. People acquainted with the E.M.F.'s performance would sometimes say the three initials stood for ""Easy Mark's Favorite"". Photo was taken in the summer of 1911.
