GEO. W. DIMMICK AGENCY

Roeeberg, Oregon
July 28th, 1951

Friend Arlene:

     I read your article in the Hood River News yesterday and was very much pleased to know that you have taken so much interest in the old timers of the upper Hood River Valley, I have had some correspondence with the State Park Commission in regards to the Dimmick Park it seems as they have had some pressure put on them to change the name of the park, but I have a letter this morning to the effect that they are going to leave it as is.
     Arlene I want to put straight on some of your dates.
     My father came to Oregon in the year 1853 when he was 11 years, and landed in the Umpqua Valley. My mother came to Oregon in the year of 1858 sailed around the Horn and landed in Gardiner, Oregon. They were married 1860, and moved to The Dalles in the year 1862 where the family was born, all but one girl who was born on the Umpqua River at a little place called Kellogg; she died in infancy, then in 1865 my sister Belle was born, another boy was born in The Dalles and died with smallpox, then Ziba, Jim, Russel who died on Xmas day 1883, then John, George, Joe and Cynthia. Cynthia was drowned in Hood River just where the park is now located in July 15, 1899.
     My father in company with David Cooper and 2 other men went from The Dalles to the upper Hood River in the fall of 1882 and located the homesteads, then in the spring of 1883 Father and. Mother took John and Cynthia (who was just a baby) and went to Hood River and they built the little log house on the place, then in the spring of 1884 we all moved to Hood River, where as you know some of the family has been ever since.
     In the year of '84 there was the Wells family, the Grahams, the Fredenburgs, and the Langilles besides some single men who settled in the upper valley, and as you know Joe Divers, and Baldwin & Tieman were already there, and I don't know when they settled there.
     Do you remember the time you pulled the chair away from me as I was going to sit down to the table, I was helping your father do some work on the middle fork irrigating ditch fixing up papers for right of ways.
     Well, I guess this is about all that I will write at this time if you want any more information let me know and I will do my best to help you out.

Your old friend,
Geo.

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