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10 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APMT. 21, 1010. I 1 1 " I PROFESSOR WARREN A. MALTBIE, MUSICAL DIRECOR; MISS FAITH ROSE WILLIAMS, PIANIST; REV. G. M. BEELER, ASSISTANT. 1 Don't Fail to Listen to Dr. French E. Oliver's Opening Sermon Oliver Union Meetings Open Today, 11 O'clock Fine Singing PROF. MALTBIE conies to Medford witha record as a singer and Christian work er and is considered the most able director of the present day. "With the material avail able in Medford for a chorus choir, Prof. Maltbie certain ly will give you good sing ing. Prof. Maltbie is a solo ist as well as f irector, and will favor 'lis ".adiences with many delightful solos. At The Big Tabernacle North Bartlett, Near Jackson St. Sweet Music A FEW WORDS ABOUT DR. OLIVER For over eight years Dr. Oliver has been holding evangelistic revivals in Kansas and other parts of the country. Almost in every instance he has met with the most marked success, converting hundreds of peo ple in every locality. Standing 8 feet 4 inches in stocking feet, Dr. Oliver towers like a giant over his fellow men, and speaks with a burning eloquence equaled only by a fow of the greatest evangelists. lie strikes sin in every form, both in and out of the church, and in the most fearless manner. Ho will tell the people of Medford about their sins and none will escape. Material has been collected and you can expect the very first sermon to be one that will split the echoes, and you are certain of an exceptionally fine address. You should come the first day and night don't miss the opening numbers. If you fail to hear Or. Oliver's first sermon in this meeting you will regret it. Come and hear what he says and you'll know from actual expe rience and no one will have to tell you anything. . LARGE TABERNACLE, SEATING 3000 PEOPLE. CHOIR LOFT THAT WILL SEAT SOME 400 SING 1.SJ&&ERS. COME EXPECTING TO RECEIVE A BLESSING. MISS FAITH ROSE WILLIAMS will control the musical part of the meetings and exceptionally fine music is promised. No music is' quite as sweet as church mu sic, and when a master hand controls the instrument the sweet strains are richer, full er and cvun more entrancing tha nanything elso. Como ex pecting to enjoy the music and singing. CO-OPERATION THE SMALL MAN'S SALVATION (Continued from Page 9.) the oranges are poured into a broad, cloth-bottomed trough and rolled down to a 6et of revolving brushes, -which clean and burnish them. Then u little elevator conveys them up to another broad trough, where a cou ple of inspectors throw out any un fit fruit. Rolling past the xnspeet ors, the oranges come to a pair of carriers that gradually widen. When an orange reaches that point where the carrier is wider than itself, it drops through into a bin. This is for the purpose of grading them as to size. Before the bins stand young women, who deftly seize the orange in one band and a square of stamp ed tissue paper in the other, and thus, with a single swipe, as one might say, wrap the fruit and deposit it in the shipping box which you are familiar with as it stands in front of your grocery, bearing a bright label with the name of the brand and a picture of an orange tree or an Indian maiden, or a dis tant mountain, as the case may be. All the fruit brought to the packing-house in n fortnight or a month is pooled, or sometimes the pool comprises a certain portion of the crop sny 10 per cent to bo delivered within n certain period. Whnteyor the pool period may be, every mem ber of the association gets the same price for fruit of the same grade delivered within the period this price being, of course, the average prico received by the association for that grade of fruit. Next, there are 14 district or sub oxchanges, the directors of which arc elected by the locnl associations in tho territory that the district ex change covers. Finally, there is the big or central concern the Califor nia Fruitgrowers' Exchange man aged by a board of 14 directors, one of whom is elected by each of tho district exchanges. The big exchange practically does tho marketing for the whole associa tion, yet tho relations between it and MV UWV VAVUUilUO 14 tilt LWblTbUJ I the district exchanges and the local) associations are very elastic both, tha liafrirtfr. nvMtnnnA nrwl Ihn nnn association retaining a large zneas-i uro of independence. Tho agreement between the big exchange nnd tho district exchanges is expressed in a contract running ten years. The contract provides that during this period the district thing of nn unsatisfactory sort that happened." As a matter of fact, this compara tive independence on the part of the exchanges and all associations, cor- ( component members is not so de porntions or individuals connected 'structivo of the co-operative prin with them shall ship all their citrus 1 ciple as it might appear to be. The fruit through the big exchange, con- associations might, if the chose, signing all shipments to it at some j send too much fruit to a given mnr point where it has a selling repre-, ket, overstocking it and demoralizing sentntive. And each district ex-! prices; or ono association might cut change agrees that if it shall at any ' under another in prico. But in pruc time fail to ship all its citrus fruit, tico they do nothing of the kind. Tho almost I find wise, it will forfeit and pay ns liqui- it mentioned in the contracts that dated damages to the big exchange the exchange is engaged in inter an amount equal to 25 cents a box state commerco and 'must notyio on all such fruit. lato tho law, I suppose the con- The contract also provides, how- tracts were drawn in rear ot the nb over, that any party to it may with- 8urd Sherman anti-trust net as provided in the contract, or dis pose of any of it elsewhere or other- marketing is really left wholly to the big exchange. draw on the first of September iniw"cn seems to navo just power any year, bv Eivine ten days notice. "'ku'u uu-ujiauuK in writinir. nnd thnt "each shinner farmers, though promoters of renl reserves to itself tho right to regu-it Ro cheerfully ahead in spite late and control its own shipments;!01 to use its own judgment, nnd decide for itself when and in what amounts it shall ship; to what market; where its product shall be sold and, ex cept at auction points, tho prico it is willing to receive." Substantially tho same provisions appear in the relations between the district ex changes nnd the local associations that compose them, and in those be-1 In some large markets, as Boston nnd St. Louis, citrus fruit is sold at auction. In those markets the ex change, of course, follows the cus tom. Thus, about 30 per cent of the fruit it handles is sold at auction. Tho remainder is sold by its own agents nnd by j'obbcrs, nnd so on. Tho exchange has its own salaried agents at important distributing tw6en the local associations and the, points cast of California. Thoso individual members that belong to agents give their time exclusively to them. Everybody concerned reserves ! the exchange and each of them looks the right to withdraw at tho end of i after a certain territory. The idea the year and, meanwhile, to do a; is thnt among them they shall cover tirr i ilnnl nn tin nlnneAD I inn ArlflM AAiintmr nml miali 4 It s antn "That is our greatest weakness," of California oranges, lemons nnd said Mr. Woolford, manager of, the big exchange; "but it is our greatest strength, too. The individual grow er can pick and deliver his fruit when he chooses. His local associa tion may wish to market, say, 10 per cent of the crop within a certain period, and notify him to deliver his quota. But if ho thinks the associ ation is mistaken and that he would get a better price by holding, he is under no compulsion to comply with the notice. Every association can, if it wishes, say to what mnrket ev ery car of its product shall be shipped and the prico at which it shall be sold except, of courso, when the fruit goes to a point where it is sold at auction, in which case they must take the auction price. A more rigid control of the fruit by the exchange might give us some ad vantage in marketing, but it would bo pretty suro to bring us in for a good deal of criticism which we now escape. If our word were law wo would naturally be. blamed for every- grapefruit with all the unflagging cnthusinsm of men whose jobs de pend upon their pushing ability, As sort of field marshals there are three general agents. Tho oxchango also spends about $50,000 a year in ad vertising. It claims, with good rea son, to have broadened very materi ally tho market for California citrus fruit. As n mattor of fact, since it was formed tbo state's citrus output has risen from 4000 to '40,000 cars. Of course, an extensive and expens ive drumming-up scheme of this sort would not be possiblo excopt with u big organization to back it. The exchange is a great citrus news agency as well. In addition to its agents in this country it has one in London to keep watch of Euro pean conditions especially of tho Moditorranean citrus crops, which, particularly as to lemons, are in competition with the California. prod uct. Through the telegraphic re ports of its agents, and by other moans, it is constantly informed concerning orange nnd lemon mnr- kots everywhere. During a brisk season it often pays out $G000 to $7000 a month in tolls on cipher telegrams. Every day each district agent tel cgraphs either to headquarters at Los Angeles or to tho general agency at Chicago, reporting sales of fruit, offers, bids, and whatever else seems essential, Tho telegrams begin to como into tho Los Angeles office about 8 o clock in tho morning. Any thing of very particular interest to a sub-cxebango is telephoned out At 1 o'clock a forco of clerks begins making up a daily bulletin, and this continues until midnight. Tho btil letiti then goes to press, nnd tho snmo trains that enrry the early morning editions of tho newspaper out of Los Angeles also carry a copy of tho bulletin to each local as sociation. "Every association," snys Mr. Woodford, "enn havo undor its eye at any timo a complcto viow of the orango nnd lemon market. You cni seo wha,t a protection to tho grower thnt would bo. A buyer cannot well take ndvantflgo of n seller who has full and accurato market knowledge. This gnthcring nnd distributing of information is ono of tho most valu able things tho oxchango docs. I'vo no doubt it helps very much to bind tho members together." luo big exchange, tho district ex changes and tho locnl associations are practically without capital stock, but, to incorporate in lecal form, ono shnro of stock is issued for each di rector. Thoro is, howovor, nn allied concern, tho Fruitgrowers' Supply company, which has $500,000 of capital stock. Each locnl associa tion that so elects subscribes to tho capital of tho Supply company in proportion to tho number of boxes of fruit that it handles. AH but threo or four of tho local associations arc stockholders in and morabors of tho bupply company. To them tho Sun. ply company soils boxes, nailB, wrap.' ping paper, and liKo supplier, doing a business that runs botwoon $1, 000,000 nnd $2,000,000 a voar. Ah its profits nro distributed among the BiooKUolding associations in propor tion io ino amount of fruit handled, this is strictly a co-oporativo enter prise. Tho rr.ombors of tho locnl association, in effect, get thoir boxes nnd so on at cost. Tho Supply com pany, buying in largo quantities, gets low prices. For this year's uso it has purchased 0,000,000 boxes, equal to 1800 carloads of lumber; 120 cars of tissuo paper wrappers for ornngos nnd lemons, nnd 20 ok:a of nails. In 1803, when materials nnd labor wore much cheaper titan nt proHeut. it cost tho growers about 15 cents a box to pack their orange, l.a-t yenr tho cost of packing to ex change mcmbors was 30 couth a box, and tho total selling coot only nbout C conts. Formerly tho commission houses charged growers 5 per cent for guaranteeing collections that i, to cover bad debts. In the lat thivo years tho exchange's loss from bad debts hns boon less than $500. In short, tho exchange's total packing, selling nnd collecting cost in about 30 conts a box for oranges, and Uu j is only nbout half what tho same service cost tho growers before tho oxchango was fanned. To pack lomons cost nbout twice ns much, or 00 cents a box, but the saving is relatively tho same. It is claimed, also, with reason, that tho stablo conditions established by tho ox chango lossen tho risks of jobbers and retail distributors, and thnt thoy consequently now handlo tho fruit on a smaller profit margin than for merly. Tho saving in this respect has boon estimated at 30 to 35 conts a box. As tho oxchango shipped last year 8,500,000 boxes of fruit, n saving of 35 cents a box in packing atid soiling cost alone would mean a net gain of ubout $3,000,000 to tho growers. But with tho groatly increased output oranges of Into years have become a Btapla commodity almost ovory whero in tho Unilod States and Canada, ,,'fho country grocer, who formorly bought n box only oocas ionallv, now donln in ornngos nltnost as regularly na in sugar. Naturally ho doesn't oxpoot so much profit por box. In fuct, taking tho country over, tho rotail prico of ornngos por dozon to tho final consumer is much less than it used to bo, while tho grower gets more not monoy for his fruit. For this rosult, naturally, the oxchango claims its full share of credit. This big market wouldn't have been possible without system atic pushing and advertising," says Manngor Woodford. In its first yoar 1895tho ox chango mnrkoted 1800 cars of fruit. Last year it marketed 23,000 cars,. which was practically 00 per cont of tho stnto' output. That tho ox chango is-growing both positively and rolativoly that is, handling n gradually increasing proportion of tho total crop ovorybody admits. "Wo aro closing down horo on cit rus fruit," said tho local manngor nt I. O. HANSEN ' TOM MOKKAT "Wo make any kind and stylo of Windows. We carry Glass of any size on hand. MEDFORD SASH & DOOE CO., Medford, Oregon. For Sale 640 acres of Good Farming Lund at $35.00 per acre. 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