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THE ' MORNING OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1910. 14 J CO-OPERATIDNWINS IN BERRY GHOWING Puyalfup and Sumner Associa tion Increases Profit of Production. CARLOAD SHIPMENTS MADE Study of Market Conditions and Change of Routing in Transit Proves Advantage Ever green Berries Pay. What intelligent co-operation will do for fruitgrowers was told yesterday by W. H. Faulhamus, president of the Fuyal lup and Sumner Fruitgrowers' Associa tion, composed of BOO growers of red raspberries and blackberries in the val ley lying- between Seattle and Tacoma. Mr. Paulhamus is now in Portland for the purpose of placing an order for 600,000 cans for use in the cannery which is one of the enterprises of the association. The Puyallup and Sumner Fruitgrowers' Association is reputed to be the largest organization in the world composed ex clusively of berrygTowers. The associa tion is 12 years old, and since the begin ning of its efforts has seen the product of the members Increase from 7000 crates annually to 150,000 crates. Its markets ex tend from a merely local field to an' area as far south as Kansas City, as far east as Chicago and as far north as Winnipeg, and lias seen the net returns per crate almost treble". Business Is Increasing. President Paulhamus predicts, that the output of the association will have Increased within five years to 500,000 crates annually and within 10 years to 1.000,000 crates. "Our primary object in forming the organization," said Mr. Paulhamus yes terday, "was to enable the growers to consolidate their products and ship in carload lots under refrigeration. . No grower produced sufficient fruit to fill a car with berries in good condition. I am probably the largest grower in the-. association, and my maximum pro duction Is about 150 crates a day, while it requires an average of 504 crates to fill a car. "There are now 500 active shipping members of the Puyallup and Summer Fruitgrowers' Association. The berries are brought to the warehouses and are there sorted into four grades. The dead ripe berries are classified as "A" and go at once to the cannery. Fruit that should be consumed within 24 hours is market "H" and Is shipped to such, nearby markets as Spokaneort land, Seattle, and intermediate points. Berries that will remain in good con dition for 48 hours are marked "M" and are shipped to points that can be reached in two days. The green ber i ries are classified as "P." signifying that they are extra good shippers and may be routed to points 2000 miles dis tant. Routes Changed in Transit. "During the shipping season we have representatives in all our principal markets. If. say 50 crates over the demands of one market are shipped to that point, the effect is to reduce the price at which all the fruit is disposed of. Weather conditions are also a fac tor. The consumption of berries in cool, rainy weather is not so great as in warm, bright weather. These agents make telegraphic reports to us daily on the conditions of the. markets in which they are located. If one market Is overstocked and another undersup plied, we can change the routing of cars in transit to meet the conditions. "Of all the varieties of berries that we handle, we have obtained the most . successful results from the Evergreen blackberry, the cultivated form of the wild blackberry that is so common all over Oregon and Washington. The earlier berry shipments are of Marl borough red raspberries, which are fol lowed by the Antwerp and Cuthbert reds. The raspberries last until about August 10. Blackberry shipments be gin about July 20 with the Lawtons, following with the Snyder and Kitta tinny, all bush berries. The bush blackberries last until about August 20, when the evergreens come in and produce in shipping quantities until October 15. Cannery Has Surplus. "The cannery has been operated by the association for two seasons. Last year we paid the growers more per pound than other canneries had been paying them and cleared upwards cf $16,000. The authorized capital stock of the cannery company is $2000 in shares of $1 each. No person is per mitted to acquire more than 15 shares, thus preventing a few individuals from acquiring control of the stock. Our dividends are limited to 10 per cent, and we now have a surplus of $16, 659.99. "Last year we shipped our first car load of blackberries into Chicago, with frood results. Within a year or two we shall be shipping as far east as Boston and New York. I have ar ranged for G. Harold Powell, the Gov ernment pomologist. to visit the dis trict and establish pre-cooling plants. Without pre-cooling the fruit retains the temperature at which it is picked for some time after it is loaded. The Ice in the refrigerator cars causes the warm air generated by the higher tem perature of the berries to rise to the top. resulting in the formation of fun gus on the fruit in the top crates and In decay. Pre-cooling is accomplished by putting the fruit in warehouses where a refrigerating system cools it uniformly before It is loaded In the cars. Fruit pre-cooled can be shipped much longer distances. "Last year our association brought $207,000 into the state of Washington for berries. This may not seem a largo sum in comparison with lumbering figures, but it should be remembered that it doesn't represent Inroads on our ' resources, but will increase in amount is years go by. Net Returns Much Larger. "When the association was first or ganized 12 years ago the average net return to the grower after paying transportation charges and commis sions was 83 cents a crate. Fro,m this pric5 it was necessary to deduct the cost of picking at AO cents a crate and the cost of the crates at 16 cents each. Last year the growers realized $1.50 a crate and the cost of picking and of crates was the same as 12 years ago. Zj In these 12 years our output has in creased from 700 crates annually to 150,000 crates. In five years we shall be marketing 500,000 crates and in 10 years 1,000,000 crates annually." -u : 111 ' ii l Dairies Also Co-operate. Mr. Paulhamus is also engaged ex tensively in dairying under modern methods. Twenty-five dairies in the Puyallup Valley are now under his supervision and 16.000 gallons of milk are disposed of each month. The milk in not pasteurized or sterilized, but Is Fraternal Prescription For Nervous Wrecks (From "Medical Reports.") Thousands of men, nervous wrecks, have found the following "fraternal prescription" a bless ing and a boon. Such men lack aggressiveness, they are timid, nervous, easily discouraged, lack ing in self esteem and confidence. They suffer from cold extremi ties, thin watery blood, nervous ness, sleeplessness, fri'ght ful dreams, trembling hands and limbs, unsteady gait and an Ab solute Inability to perform the ordinary natural and rational acts or duties such as any healthy normal man can. A vigorous man works, plays, eats and sleeps always with the keenest enjoyment. The greater his exertions are, the stronger becomes his appetite and slum bers. The nervous man seems always tired and worn out. Retiring brings no relief. Sleep brings no refreshment, all because of an abnormal condition of the nerv ous system, brought about by well, no matter what the de sire Is. for relief and freedom with rich, red blood surging through the body supplying the sensitive nerves with all. the power of sensation, so that sleep is refreshing, food Is delicious, work is play and play is pleas ure. This treatment is thorough, simple and correct. The Ingredi ents are used in filling various prescriptions' and can be obtained of any well-stocked druggist and mixed at home without embar rassment or questions. Obtain three ounces of syrup sarsaparllla compound in a six ounce bottle. To this, add one ounce of compound fluid balm wort and let stand two hours. Then add one ounce of tincture cadomene compound (not earda mom), and one ounce o4 com pound essence cardiol. Mix, shake well and take a teaspoonful after each meal and one when retiring until a vigorous, bounding new health takes hold of the fifed, ex hausted nerves. Only a few weeks' treatment will astonish and re juvenate, because the treatment is the right thing at the right time, and contains no deceptive opiates. cooled immediately after milking and a low temperature maintained until delivery. All bottles and milking uten sils are sterilized daily in a cement furnace filled with live steam. - The udders of the cows are washed before each milking and the most approved sanitary regulations are enforced in the milking sheds and stables. ' The cows are tested for tuberculosis and there is a bacteria test of the milk each month. Thirty thousand bacteria to the cubic centimeter is the outside limit In the tests, which commonly run from 700 to 5000. Records of the amount of feed consumed by each animal and the number of. pounds of butter fat produced are kept. When a cow falls below a certain standard it Is disposed of. "Pasteurizing and sterilizing are methods of killing the bacteria In milk," said Mr. Paulhamus. "Cooling prevents their multiplication. In pas teurization, the milk is heated to a temperature of 165 degrees and In sterilizing it is heated to 212 degrees. Milk so treated will not sour, but it will decompose and the danger in the two methods Ms In the use of decom posed milk by persons unknowingly." The dairying association goes under the name of Maple Falls Farm and markets its product in Seattle and Ta coma. Mr. Paulhamus says that the demand exceeds the supply. SHEEP AND CATTLE LOST HEAVY SNOWS IN MOUNTAIN RANGES CAUSE ALARM. Range Stock Has Been Unable to Reach Short Grass and Heavy Loss Results to Owners. Unusually heavy snows along the mountain ranges of Eastern and South ern Oregon are causing the sheep and cattle-growers of the state the great est alarm. Information arriving in the city yesterday morning is to the ef fect that losses have already grown to enormous proportions and that bodies of, the animals dot the ranges in great numbers. The snows have been so deep that the range stock has been unable to reach the short grass, and has slowly starved. Cattle-owners in the vicinity of Paisley, Bend and Prineville are reported at the Port land headquarters of the Forest Serv ice to have sustained losses in some instances amounting to 50 per cent of their herds. In an effort to relieve the situation to some extent District Forester Chap man yesterday ordered all National forests, where grass may be reached, opened to the free use of the cattle- owners and f lockmasters. In the vi cinity of the Paulina Mountains it is expected that 50,000 sheep and 8000 cattle may be cared for. Peculiarly enough, that particular area becomes available because' of the heavy snows. The area is composed of 15 town ships of lava land, which have never been utilized for grazing purposes be cause of the lack of, water. Bunch grass has grown to enormous heights and in places it is reported to be so matted together that it is standing up against the weight of the snowfall. The grass is nurtured by the heavy rains of the Summer and Fall, which Immediately run off through the porous rock beneath. So long as the snow lasts that district will be available to stock from Umatilla, Deschutes and the Prineville districts. It is reported that the losses of the Chewaucan Cattle . Company will prob ably be two-thirds of their entire bunch of cattle, last year amounting to 14,000 head. Most - of the ranchers in the district affected were unable to secure a suf ficient amount of hay in 1909 to Winter their animals , in their fields, and in many instances no preparation of any kind was made, the owners depending upon the ability of the cattle and sheep to find sufficient forage to carry them through until Spring. During the coming Summer the For est Service will endeavor to develop water in the Paulina lava district by boring for an artesian flow. If un able to secure a flowing well, wind mills will be placed on such wells as will pump. HERE IS SOMETHING. Ladles' black percallne petticoats, great big ones; look as well and wear as well as any garment made. Price 69 cents. Other grades at 98 cents, etc. For sale In suit department. McAUen & McDonnell. Tacoma Buslnes Men to Travel. TACOMA, Wash.. Feb. 16. One hun dred and fifty members of the Tacoma Commercial Club are going in a spe cial train excursion over the state on May 1, covering a trip of four days, going on the Northern Pacific and re turning on the Great Northern, visit ing all the principal cities along the Una ON PAC FC IFE INSURANCE C Has $87,916.18 Paid in Only Needs $12,083 to Obtain License in Oregon PROFIT On account ef the high percentage of success, and because the profits are greater than in any other business, there is no better investment than that in a flourishing life insurance company. Life insurance companies have, therefore, been practically financed, with the result that the enormous profits which they have made, and are making, remain in a few hands. The plan of the Union Pacific Life Insurance Company in distributing its capital stock in a way by which it not only offers a remarkable opportunity for investment, but, at the same time, puts into effect a successful method of securing the co-operation of its stock holders, in- the upbuilding of the com pany, affords an opportunity which will be quickly seen and accepted. SAFETY In every investment there are two considerations safety and profit. The most important is safety; no one is justified in putting money into any enterprise unless it can le shown that the money so invested is prac tically insured against loss. ; . To place funds in a concern of any character is speculation. The capital stock of the UNION PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COM PANY is an absolutely safe invest ment. In considering this investment offer, therefore, the following should be borne in mind: That immense fortunes have been and are being made in life insurance the most profitable of all forms of legiti mate business. That there is a growing sentiment towards the upbuilding of home insti tutions of every kind, and especially in regard to life insurance. That the UNION PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY stock is ab solutely safe under the legal reserve laws, and will grow more rapidly in value than any stock available. That by securing stock in the UNION PACIFIC LIFE INSUR ANCE COMPANY you have the op portunity of personally and effectively promoting the business of a company .in which you are interested, and thus adding to your profits, and the value of your holdings. Don't wait until the Stock is either Advanced in price or Withdrawn from the Market. BUY NOW! For further information, address Union Pacific Life Insurance Company Oregonian Building, . Portland, Oregon. The Enormous Profits in Life insurance The Prudential's Profits Extract from the Forty-eighth Annual Report of the Insurance Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: "The amount paid into the Prudential Company in cash for stock was $91,000. "All the rest of its $2,000,000 of capital has come from stock dividends, besides which there has been paid 10 per cent in cash dividends annually since 1893. In other words, for every $1000 paid in the stockholders hold $22,000 of stock, upon which they received $2200 annually, that is each year for ten years they have received in cash dividends more than twice the original invest ment. Indeed, the Secretary of the Prudential made affidavit, in case hereafter reviewed, to the effect that one of the complainant stockholders, had he sold his present holdings of Prudential stock for $600 of $100 par value, as he could have done, he would have received the sum of $329,363.63 altogether, including dividends, stock sold, etc., for an investment of-$2200 made since October, 1875. "The stockholders have already received enrichment beyond what avarice could have. dreamed of when the Company started, and are yearly receiving an amount more than twice the original investment." EXTRACT FROM COLLIER'S WEEKLY: Senator Dryden's son, Forrest F. Dryden, Vice-President of the Prudential, in an affidavit in a lawsuit in which it was to his interest to prove that the Company had been a very profitable enterprise for the stockholders, stated (the legal technicalities of the affadivit have been eliminated; the quotation is otherwise correct): "William Robotham, a stockholder in the Prudential Company, on October 13, 1875, paid into that Company in cash "$2200. For that investment he has received in cash dividends, and for the sale of part of his holdings, $149,363.60; the remainder of his holdings are now worth, in cash, $180,000; so that he has received altogether for an investment of $2200, a return of $329,363.60." This profit is 15,000 per cent. FILL OUT THIS SUBSCRIPTION BLANK, SIGN AND MAIL US SUBSCRIPTION FOR CAPITAL STOCK TO Union Pacific Life Insurance Company Incorporated. 604 AND 605 OREGONIAN BUILDING, PORTLAND, OREGON. I, of .hereby subscribe for shares of fully paid and non-assessable stock of the Union Pacific Life Insurance Company, of Portland, Oresron, of the par value of $10.00 each, for which I agree to pay at. the rate of ifviO.OO per share, it being understood and agreed that the excess amount. over and above the par thereof is paid for the creation of surplus and organization expenses. Dated 19. Signature Will Have Capital Stock $200,000, Surplus $400,000 Will Be Superior to Many, and as Good as the Best GRUBER BAGK FROM TRIP OFFICIAL DENIES HE CONSID ERED RAILROAD EXTENSION. Private Land Purchase, Not Pacific and Eastern Business, He Gives as His Errand. J. M. Gruber, of St. Paul, general man ager of the Great Northern Railroad, ar rived In Portland yesterday morning In a private car from a quick trip to Med ford, where it was reported that he had gone to look after plans for extending the Pacific & Eastern Railroad, a portion of which is now being constructed between Medford and the Crater Lake district in the Cascade Mountains. Mr. Gruber denied yesterday that he had been In Southern Oregon on official business. He said that the purpose of his visit was simply to make a private pur chase of land for himself. "The reports of the purpose of my visit to Medford are all bosh," said Mr. Gruber. "I did not know until I arrived here that the Hill interests had such a line as the Oregon Trunk." By those who know him. Br. Gruber is described as being one of the busiest men in the world. He never takes a vacation, sleeps little and finds no time to spare for anything but business. The Pacific & Eastern road was orig inally begun by local investors to run a branch line from Medford to the timber belt in the Cascade Mountains. When it passed into, new hands and changed its name, there was no announcement of its being used for any other purpose, al though the same men who were employed to construct the Oregon Trunk, the Porter Brothers, constructed the' line as far as It was laid out. Little doubt Is expressed of the report that the Hill interests own the Pacific & Eastern Road, and if so the road, it is believed by those who . are familiar with the situation, eventually will extend from some point on the. Pacific Ocean, probably Coos Bay, across the Cascades, where It will connect with the Oregon Trunk Line near Klamath Falls, and then take some eastward route. Railroad Notes. Heads of freight departments of the various .Jocal roads will hold a meeting In Tacoma today to consider matters rel ative to weighing and inspection. Copies of the new freight tariffs de cided upon by the Transcontinental Freight Bureau have been issued and copies were received yesterday at the lo cal offices of the Harriman lines. C. M. Clark, chairman of the executive board of thePortland Rail was-. Light & Power Company, who recently arrived from Philadelphia to inspect the plant, will be the guest of honor at a dinner to be given at the Commercial Club tomor row night by B. S. Josselyn, the manager of the company. The heads of thev vari ous departments of the company will be guests at the dinner which will begin at 6 o'clock. Eugene. Oregon. I have sold Hall's Texas Wonder for kidney, bladder and rheumatic trouble for the lat five years, and have guaranteed it in many cases, but have never had a complaint. 60 days' treatment in each bottle. O. J. Hull. $162,086.65 IS PAID OREGON TRUST'S OBLIGATIONS DWINDLING FAST. nd I cation with all of the claimants a have the books cleared of all, obliga tions. Many Out-of-Tonn Depositors Are Tardy in Collecting Mr. Devlin's Return Uncertain. - No further news has been received here concerning the return of Thomas C. Devlin to resume hl duties as re ceiver for the defunct Oregon Trust & Savings Bank, the old claims against which are at present being liquidated by the German-American Bank. While it is understood that Mr. Devlin Is anxious to return at an early date, his physician and friends have urged him to remain away until his recovery is complete. At the German-American Bank yes terday 102 claims aggregating 921, 328.77, -were settled. This makes a total, down to date of 361 claims paid In full, amounting to $162,086.65. The remainder of the $300,000 In claims is held for the most part by Portland persons, who were not excited about getting their money in the first rush of the settlement and were willing to wai t. A few of the claims are held by per sons living out of the city and letters from these are arriving daily. 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