La Grande evening observer., August 21, 1913, Image 6

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LA GKAN J IE EVEN UNO OBSERVED,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1913.
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it and remember it will draw 4 per cent from the date
it is deposited. This bank is owned and controlled
by local people. ,
(Continue irom rage X.)
freeze in California this spring, the
demand for cherries naturally settled
upon those localities where the frost
had not affected them.
If people understood the great law
oi oaiance a little better, they would
of producing will be more spec-1 ,l"ut'on "u committing them
than ever? and it then becomes ', Z thB lUTf-T'
estion of how much of a man's ? n 8 8ny certltude th
ness
ulative
a question
assets in land, time and money can
be wagered on the roulette wheel of
fortune. If cherries were of the same
staple value as wheat, oats, cattle,
sheep, etc., then the balance on the
side of demand would be greater and
the speculative side of supply would
be less, as far as prices are concerned.
We will therefore, settle down to a
cool consideration of this big topic and
endeavor to draw conclusions that are
safe, sane and conservative,
Oregon Packing company, or a com'
peting company would offer the same
prices year after -year, regardless of
distance and abundance, then there
would be but one conclusion to draw.
But there is no such -certitude, and
hence any radical departure from the
condition which exists at the present
time is like taking a 100 to 1 shot at
a horse race.- -.- -' ?
The writer is mindful of an experi
ence gained in a section of Illinois,
In the first place one factor which 8 section close to both Chicago and St
N. K. WEST. President.
T. J. SCROGGIN,
' Cashier. ;
WM.MILLER, V.-Pres.
C. E. HARDING,
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than now. As you know, the
lumber fit for milling is getting
scarcer every year. Then, why
not begin building now and take
Advantage of the present mr
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aids Greatly in determining the price
of cherries is their quality. Where rail
roads and other means or transporta
tion must be relied upon to ship fruit
to those centers, where they can he
canned and Utilized In other ways, the
Question of the cherry s ability to
stand the jars and jolts' is a big factor.
This year's crop was juicy. This con
dition was due to abundant rains in
the spring., Nobody was responsible
for that. It just rained and rained.
When it came to shipping this fruit to
Portland the Oregon Packing company
was compelled to dump thousands of
pounds of mushy, "leaky" fruit on the
garbage neap, ine loss in iewiaion,
Idaho, alone ran in the neighborhood
of 50.000 pounds. But the cherries
were weighed in and the producer
drew his check for the pounds indicat
ed on the weight check. Who lost?
The company. The company played
big and lost, not because of a situa
tion they could not handle, but be
cause the cherry didn t nave enougn
sinew, got sick on tne road ana col
lapsed. This entry naturally goes in
to the expense column of the com
pany and will lie dormant until the
time comes to make new cherry con
tracts. Then what? By that time
the reports from California might in
dicate that the great fruit state has
a 98 per cent crop of 100 per cent
cherries. How about the Gande
Ronde valley? A little figring will
advise the company that the distance
from California points to ban rran
pi is considerably less than from
i.b firnnde to Portland, hence less
nf liiRS through shipping,
It should be borne in mind that this
possibility is not a prognostication of
a real happening in 1904. It may hap
pen and it may not, but it -can hap
pen and does happen. The experience
to be gained from this year's crop, as
far as thj condition of the cherry js
concerned, and its effect on the price
must be this: Whenever the rainfall
during the blossoming and growing
period of the cherry is abundant, the
fruit will contain much water,, less su
gnr and will have a delicate skin and
fibre. Hence, as soon as the cherry is
bruised it begins to decy. une sen
pherry in a box .will form a cluster ot
niniiM nnri rtfistrov me coniema ui
ti... v.v a nnrnllarv to ihis will mean
to the company: greater risk in ship
ping, bigger margin and closer con-
The older the cherry tree becomes,
the less vigorous is the fruit, and the
less jarring and bruising it will stand,.
ito,.oii,t fruit from voung, healthy
trees can readily be distinguished from
that of older trees Dy tne nrmne
the cherry and the thickness of the
m who difference will this make?.
ti..'i - ;Qtrin-. with many old trees
has to compete with a ditsrict just
coming into bearing the younger fruit
is given tne preierence.
it QhrnilH nnd will not be forgotten
that a company of the proportion of
the Oregon Packing company, with its
experts, pigennoies an tne aam rel
ative to as big an undertaking as the
one in this valley. Nor should it be
supposed that they are waiting for
this article to inform them about
fruit. The enormous losses have cre
ated much activity and have set every
conceivable agency in motion to fore
stall a similar loss. The. company is
constantly doing a Tot of thinking.
Every large concern has paid experts
to balance conditions. They are look
ing after their end of the-business. If
they had undisputed control of the
field conditions would be different.
Where the potential loss is so great I
ns in nerishable fruit, the margin be
tween the purchasing "price of. the
green fruit, and the sale of the fin
ished product must of necessity be
great. i
The object of this article is not to
discourage a paying industry, but to
benefit the man, who by reason of a
bounteous crop and good returns, sees
no profit in apples or other fruit and
is laboring under the delusion of forty
acres of cherrytrees laden with gold
nuggets.
Many have concluded that the Spit
zenburgs. the Newtowns and Pippins,
the Jona an and Romons are unpro
grossive, stand-patters, miserable
company, free traders and less. ; It's
just like last year's election, the cher
ries happened to be the democrats and
won hands down.
Apples were so widely and evenly
distributed all 'over the country, that
they were despised. Even the voung
boy didn't feel like putting any in the
hay, because there was such an abun
dnnce. No step ladders were requir
ed to get into the apple bin and the
price weights representing demand
could not raise them off the low com
mon level. This naturally gave rise
to the idea that the Spitzenburgs and
Jonathans had lost their generalship
aa pi-isn fighters in the market and
are doomed ns hns beens. It s a hasty
conclusion. By reason of thp general
Louis. Cherries were a mainstay for
about seven years ir that locality as
long as the cherries were young and
vigorous. But lack of care of the
trees, ignorance in shipping, soon
made those farmers a sorry lot of
men. Jn two years' time nine-tenths
of all trees were cut down.
If there are men who purpose set
ting out .their -total acreage in cher-1
ries, without the determination to
make their cherries the best to be had,
then they are defeating their own pur
pose. Acreage or number of trees are
not the biggest factor. One man in
La Grande's immediate vicinity has
four-fifths of an acre in cherry trees.
This year's crop ammounted to over
13 tons. But to that statement there
is this tale: - careful pruning, intelli
gent spraying, cultivation of the soil-1
and last, but not least, honest picking. J
It is, moreover, a dishonest demand :
on the part of any man to expect asj
miirh for inferior fruit as for number j
. one stock. " Some will not admit an
honest comparison. If they have aslj
many pounds, as their neighbors, but
oi interior size, they expect the same
price regardless of the fact that, job
bers, wholesalers and consumers pay
topnotcb- prices only for the best.
The question now presents itself:
Should a man gamble his entire acre
age or. a greater portion in cherries?
Or is it better to strive to get rich
quickly, or lose all in one venture and
feel better, for having ventured and
lost, than for not having ventured at
all, that's the question ? If a grower
in - a small way has ten -acres of
ground he might wager one on cher-.
ries. If he staked all on the reds and
lost he would be dependent, for cher
ries grow but once a year and most
of us eat three meals a day for S65
days. ... ...
If a farmer owning many acres
wagered all. feeling that he could af
ford to wait five years for a real har
vest, his net gam in the fifth year,
divided by five wouldn't be such a
startling profit after after figuring
pruning, irrigating, spraying, (provid
ing he does it) and taxes, which he
cannot dodge. In the last analysis the
average gain per acre is about the
same on ..cherries as on other things,
the difference being the amount of
worki Now for ihe figures in this
year's crop. -
Ihe total amount or cherries handl
ed by the Oregon I'ttcking company in
the entire Grande Ronde valley '.his
year hovers in- the vicinity of 1,010,
150 pounds..Of these 800,000 are Roy
al Anns and the remainder blacks.
Twelve cars - representing 274,415
pounds wee shipped from Cove andl
La Grande to Portland, but. a goodly If
portion of these shipments spoiled in
transit. J '
transit. 2254 barrels or approximate- j
ly608,580 po.unds are still in storage l
in the Grande Ronde Cash company's j
warehouse. ' ' - ' '
These, figures do not include the J
Dounds of black cherries handled by j
Stackland Brothers, of Cove. Anoth- l
er 200,000 pounds added to the .total
already given for the Oregon Packing '
company, would -give a grand total ' ,
for the valley of approximately 1,- J
210,150 pounds. In money this would i
represent nearly 337.000, divided j
among lome 350 growr-rs. I
A word .bout the Oregon Packing J
company und we have finished. It .
must he sn'd to the credit of that com-.
pany that the fair treatment accord- J
el the prowers of this section, the
promptness with which they paid all J
weight checks end tht business they J '
cre&leii in La Grand", has been tho
t-j; ic t ; much satisfactory comment
aiiont; formers. Uave Clark coiilnc-l;
u:j1 to sall share to this general'
snli.s-.act!oi by his efftci.-nf liontst
a-id Ywpctic handli.i. of the com
pany' hupiness at this end. All told
it was a, gold medal year in cherries
for the growers. But be cautions.
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