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12 THE STODAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. SPTEMBR 20. 1914. FORTUNES LOST IN WASTED PRODUCTS Poor Grade Stuff May Make , Large Profit for Man Who v Uses Cannery Methods. STATE RECORDS ARE CITED H. O. Sampson Says Many Orchards Are Not Paying as They Should Because Unmarketable Stock Is I Not Used in Cannery. How to procure the greatest economic Kood out of the enormous volume of fruit tonnage produced In the North West every year. That is the object of the "By-Prod-wcts" convention held In Portland re cently, ana the result probably will be the early establishment in Portland of headquarters for a series of institutions devoted to the utilization of fruit by products from the Northwest. By-Products to Save Orchard. Various speakers at the recent meet ing pointed to the urgent necessity of making full use of these by-products if the orchard and fruit-growing Indus, tries are to remain on a stable basis. H. C. Sampson presented a series of figures in which he threw some inter esting light on the subject. "Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana together on December 31 last had planted to apples 505,000 acres and to other fruits approximately 100,000 acres, making a total of 600,000 acres," he said. "We can safely allow one-half of this acreage as being non-commercial because of poor selection of loca tion, poor soil, poor cultivation and what-not. And making further allow ance of only one-half carload per acre. Instead of a full carload, as is ordinar ily considered when this fruit gets into full bearing, we have a stupendous sum of 160,000 cars of fruit confronting us in the future, as against a total of 16, 000 cars .in 1912, 8000 cars in 1913 and approximately 15,000 in 1914. Taklmi Valley tosea Fortune. "Good authorities have stated that the Takima Valley loses $400,000 a year through neglect of inferior fruit and the Wenatciiee district $200,000. If these figures be correct, the four states must lose indeed a considerable sum through inability to care for these poor grades, or culls. The question naturally arises, that should these inferior grades of fruit, during short seasons, be turned into by-products, would there he a market for the product? "A careful survey by this commit tee, shows that the state of Montana does not have a single cannery or evaporator within its territory. Dur ing 1913 Montana imported 60,000 cases of canned fruit, 70 per cent of which was peaches and pears. It Imported 40 cars of apple cider vinegar and 20 carloads of sweet cider, 125,000 cases tomatoes, 75,000 cases corn, 60,000 cases peas, 25,000 cases of beans, or a. total of 285,000 cases of canned vegetables. No figures are obtainable as to the Im portations of dried and evaporated fruits and vegetables. Idaho Product Shipped. The state of Idaho Bhipped in 1913 175 tons dried apples, 60 tons dried prunes, 75 tons other dried fruits, 25 tons canned berries, 100 tons canned peaches, 25 tons canned rhubarb and 50 tons beans, but during that same year 1913 the state of Idaho imported 185 tons dried apples, 75 tons dried prunes, 150 tons dried peaches, 100 tons other dried fruits, 950 tons canned fruits and vegetables, making a total of 960 tons of imports greater than her exports. "In the little village of Rollins, on Spirit Lake, Flathead reservation, Montana, with only a combined country store and postoffice, I found a few weeks ago that a carload and a half of cherries, in and around the village, had gone to waste a year ago for lack of suitable marketing machinery or by product plant, yet canned cherries from California were on this grower's shelves and he ali he had a brim load. Exporters Import Fruits. "Mr. Olds, member of our committee from . Wenatchee, reports that 10 pounds of dried peaches and apricots are' consumed annually by each fam ily in Wenatchee, yet there is not a solitary drying or evaporating plant in the entire district. Yet Wenatchee is a heavy exporter of both green peaches and apricots. "This present season we And that California has bought heavily of our Washington, Oregon and Idaho Royal Ann cherries for Maraschino purposes. nas Dougnt more than 500 tons of Ore ron pears for canning. Washlneton Co lumbia River Basin grapes for grape juice, and has shipped these things to California for manufacture, and no doubt ships the manufactured product uacK to our own territory for con sumption. . "The statement has been made that canned corn from Eugene, Or., is sent to mo mast, labeled with an Eastern laDei ana returned to the Northwest that Yakima vinegar is shlDned Kant in barrels, comes back in cases under a wen-Known label and is sold to our own people at a largely advanced price. California Awake to Needs. . "Mr. Corbaley, manager of the Spo kane Chamber of Commerce, saw three . cars of dried prunes and dried mnin loaded a few days ago on the steamer Lrovernor at San Francisco for ship . ment to Alberta points. ; "Associated Press disDatchea show an carloads of Northwest boxed apples sold from storage in Chicago (season oi aid, wttn its reasonably fair prices) to a Shelby. Mich., cannerv. t "News items show several hundred . tons of peach stones near Los Angeles to be shipped to that point, there to be cracked and the nuts taken out and a portion of them to be used u th w.ii. known 'bitter almond,' the other por- won to oe snipped to Germany to be used in the manufacture of prussic no siate or California Is cer tainly alive to the situation on by. products. "A crape Juice mnnnf!uttir the State of New York who looked over the Columbia River Basin In Washing ton a few weeks ago said that one small grape Juice plant in the State of New xor uses 15,000 tons of Concord grapes annually. He said that tha State of New York had less than 40,000 oi oncoras, mat the New York grape juice manufacturers must look i me rsortnwest for their further sup ply and that at present the four Nnrih west states have but 350 acres planted wi uni;uiu grapes. Problem Vital to Industry. "The problem of dustry is a problem which Jointly con- to Dusiness man, the banker, the commercial club and th o-rm,- "Through the co-operation of our own railroads, wholesalers, retailers and uuying-ai-nomo leagues, and through the stimulation of lumber mills and their lumber camps, and with our nat ural home and Alaskan trade, surely we can Increase our 'consumption of by products materially here in our own home territory.". ' The plan of the Northwestern Fruit Growers provides for thorough co-operation among all orchard men In the four Northwestern states to secure the full economic advantage of their by products. A definite plan of action has been outlined by the committee and will be reported to the annual apple show at Spokane in November. The plan will provide as follows: "Encouragement for establishing by products plants for manufacturing fruit and .vegetables which should not be marketed in the fresh state. Such plants as now are In existence will be taken In if they desire. Others will be located where they will best serve , the growers. "Arrangements for financing these plants through merging the credit of all. Standard of Good Demand. "Standardization of all manufactured goods, so that a can of peaches or to matoes from any part of Oregon will be exactly like a can of peaches or to matoes from any other Northwest state. "Supplying skilled processers to guarantee such a pack. "Distribution and marketing of these goods over the world at the least ex pense to the grower and manufacturer." W. H. Paulhamus, the pioneer of suc cessful co-operative canning- in the Northwest, advocated the establishment of three great central canneries, at Portland, at Spokane and at Seattle, EXTENSION OF OAK STREET SOON READY Week to Mark Completion of Project for Which Efforts Began 7 Years Ago. GREAT BENEFITS ARE SEEN Property Owners Believe Thorough fare Will Gain Popularity as Part of Retail District, After Long Delay. This week will mark the completion of the extension of Oak street from Tenth to Burnside street, an improve- built up parallel with it, because they were made to carry through travel. If Stark, Oak. Pine, Ash and Ankeny streets had been pushed through years ago, they say, the center of Portland would now be between Burnside and Washington streets, about where the recently-built Pacific Telegraph & Telephone Company's building stands. They say further that Burnside street, having been made for the cen tral east-and-west street of the city, would have come close to being such if conditions had made it possible and the people had not been drawn away and diverted to Washington street, much as salmon follow the net line until they Jlnd the opening in the trap. The Stark-street property owners realized their bottled-up situation some years ago, and benefited their street Immensely by cutting it through from Twelfth to Burnside streets, and the Oak-street people, as well as the others, believe newly opened Oak street, with the concentration of Stark and Bum side streets, will be effective in re turning, to a large district much of the value untoward conditions have taken from it. They also believe the extension of Stark street from Thirteenth and Burnside streets to the Cornell road at the head of Lovejoy street will add greatly to quick transit east and west through Oak, Pine, Ankeny and Bum side streets, as well as thrdugh tftark. Washington, Alder, Morrison and the other east and west streets, and feel that though late In working up to action, they can yet get what they MAPS SHOWING CHANGES IN RETAIL DISTRICT BROUGHT ABOUT ' STARK AND OAK STREETS. BY EXTENSION OF their product to be marketed as out lined by Mr. Sampson. Other authori ties favored a larger number of smaller district plants. EXEMPT FIREMEN ELECT Association of Veteran Volunteers Rapidly Increasing. Members of the Exempt Firemen's Association, composed of the surviving members of the old volunteer fire de partments in Portland, held their an nual election of officers a few days ago with the following result: President, Thomas H. Jordan; vice-president, Blaise Lab be; secretary, R. M. Donovan; treasurer, Ladd & Tllton; trustees. Joseph Simon and Vincent Cook. Of the original 300 members only 17 are left in Portland. Most of them have died, while several others have left the city. The organization recently moved its headquarters from the City Hall to the Courthouse. . VAwH i i r 'nnir ii 1 1 i r-llSr COMPLETION OK WORK DUE THIS WEEK, Elma Investigates Gas Offer. CENTRALIA, Wash., Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) The Elma Town Council has ap pointed a committee of three to in vestigate what chances L. H. Burnett, rfho has applied for a franchise in Elma to furnish natural and artificial gas, has of procuring the former com modity. The committee will report at next week's meeting. Mr. Burnttt offers to give the town 2 per cent of his gross receipts in return for the franchise. He also has franchises pending in Cen tralis, Chehalis, Montesano and Ho-quiam. ment which has been the cause of trouble since proceedings were begun seven years ago. It has taken a full seven years, because of legal com plications, to get the proceedings com pleted and the street opened up so as to give a clear way -from the river along Oak street to Burnside street. The way will be open and the pave ment completed this week by the War ren Construction Company. Property owners on the street will contract at once for cluster lights to be constructed along the entire street and possibly on cross streets. It Is the opinion of the property owners that the streets will gain rapid popularity as part of the retail business district of the West Side. Great Benefits Expected. The property . owners , believe Oak street will become a popular thorough fare, and that they are about to reap great benefits from it. They say . the center of Portland's business life years ago was about Pine and First streets, and that the increase in values would have been due west out Pine. Ash, Ankeny, Oak and Stark streets, if these streets had made It possible, but Oak and Ankeny streets stopped at Park street and Stark street stopped at Twelfth street, compelling people to go either to Burnside or Washington streets to find a clear way through. What Should Have Been la Told. As the tendency was south, the peo ple went that way to Washington street, where they could get through the quickest and pass on west un hindered. Then, as travel increased on Washington street it naturally got streetcars, and as conditions remained unchanged elsewhere, the importance of Washington street ' increased and Alder and Morrison streets gradually might have had years ago, had they then appreciated the actual situation. PARIS DRESSES CHEAPER WAR REDUCES PRICE OF" GOODS TO COST OF PRODUCTION. PEOPLE'S THEATER WILL SHOW JACK LONDON FILM THIS WEEK. 4 v7 . 7, fff f,' S t - , o, ? v , 5 " : $&a- ; if vj i r ! ! ' i f ' "J 2 it ? 7 ' - r i t $ s f t A X I ' 1 '' 'i .1iT'-...v.-. ..x-aafe,.. -"tm'"nrv I- " I nmXTXG DAYLIGHT." BOSWORTH X Salea to Amerlea Have Dwindled With Advent of War and All Storks Lie on Shelvea. "Normally, the last -two weeks of August represent the height of the shipment of Paris dress models to the United States, says an article in the Paris edition of the New York Herald of August 25, "but this year It has dwindled to about 25 per cent or what it has been in other years. At this time last year the number of invoices which passed through the American Consul-General's office was sometimes as high as 400 or 500 a day." The Herald says that Paris presents a unique opportunity to get bargains in dresses and that creations that would ordinarily cost from 4200 to $350 have been . purchased from leading dress makers for as little as (50 or $75. "There is reason to believe that an improvement is at hand" the article continues, "partly because of the growth of the movement to sell goods at cost price, which the American Chamber of Commerce is trying to fos ter, and partly because French com mercial Interests are waking up to a realization of the opportunities offered to capture trade in the United States which was formerly held by Germany." French business men have been con ferring with the American Consul-General, and have asked for Information as to what goods Germany had been send ing to the United States before her export trade was stopped, the Herald says. Among the most important of these products are named the following: Chemicals of all kinds, leather goods, including hides and skins, 'as well as manufactured goods: textiles, including woolens and velvets; glove leather and gloves; celluloid goods, artificial flow ers, feathers and ball bearings. Lack of transportation Is mentioned as one of the immediate difficulties in the way of trade relations between the United States and France, as the de parture of vessels was interfered with at the outbreak of the war and the locks at Havre were congested with goods awaiting shipment. However, this difficulty will soon be obviated, says the Herald. NEWLYWEDS ARE ISOLATED Couple Married Here Reported Ex posed to Smallpox in Tacoma. A quarantine honeymoon will be that of Albert W. Helliwell . and Mabel Smith, who arrived here from Tacoma early in the week and procured a mar riage license Wednesday. Their mar riage followed and yesterday they were placed In quarantine, upon advices from th Sound, that the house where they stayed with friends in Tacoma had been quarantined because of smallpox. The couple apparently was In Ignorance of any possible infection, because the required medical certifi cate, executed by Dr. Stanley Lamb, was filed with the application for a license. The home of the bridegroom is Bellingham and the bride lived in Tacoma. MUSICAL ACTS AWAITED Advent of Madam Frernstad In Portland Opera Now Near. The rich variety of tha musical offer ing by Steers tt Coman thla season is being commented upon by their sub scribers, who are eagerly awaiting tha WE ARE GOING TO GIVE AWAY v FIVE FREE TRIPS One Each Month TO THE Panama Ex position VOTING CONTEST r All Expenses Paid Railroad Faxes, Hotel Bills. 10 Admissions to the Fair Grounds. Excursion trips in San Francisco and around San Francisco Bay Mt. Tamalpais Trip, Del Monte and Monterey, Key Route Trolley Trip of 68 Miles, Chinatown, Etc. Vallejo and Mare Island Navy Yard. You May Be One of the Lucky Five to Go ! Descriptive Folder of the Plan Upon Application. This is to be a voting contest and each guest who eats in our Cafeteria receives a coupon entitling he or she to vote. Contest Begins Thursday, September 24th BROADWAY CAFETERIA 153 Broadway, Cor. Morrison St. OPEN ALL DAY UNTIL 8 P. M. Breakfast Table Service 6 to 11 A. M. Restroom, Free Phones, Late Magazines and Daily Papers. Special Club Breakfast. Bread and Butter Free With 20c Order and Upwards opening event the first week In Octo ber, when Madame Frernstad will be heard for the first time in Portland. This great dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company. New York, has a beautiful voice of su perb power and emotional utterance. and Is admirably adapted for the great roles In grand -opera which are so close ly Wlentln&d wttn her name. George Barrere, the French flute so loist, with eight other artists, has de veloped a wood-wind ensemble that af fords rare delight, and this organiza tion, the Barrere Ensemble, will visit Portland this "Winter. A voice that is destined to take a place In musical history alongside Melba and Sembrich is the lovely col oratura soprano of Alma Gluck. Her visit to Portland will be in company with the wonderful new star in the violin world, the young Russian, Efrm Zlmbalist. the Below property on Main street and will begin the construction of a hall. On October 3 an election will be held for the purpose of voting on a munic ipal electric light plant. The Council Is advertising for bids for an extensive system of sewers. STATE LAW KNOCKED OUT Judge Morrow Says Butter Package Requirement Fanciful. Holding that the state law requiring the packing and sale of butter in pack ages of certain size only is unreason able and fanciful and in restraint of legitimate business Judge Morrow yes terday sustained the demurrer to the complaint charging a violation of this act In the case of the state against J. C. - Schallinger, manager of the Hazelwood Creamery Company. The District Attorney's office, which prosecuted the case, will bring the matter to the attention of the Supreme Court in the hope of having an opin ion rendered prior to the next session of the Legislature, so that the neces sary steps may be taken to amend the law, if found necessary. Cnthlamet Oddfellows Build. CATHLAMET, Wash., Sept. 19. (Spe cial.) The Oddfellows have purchased Free Music Lessons For Boys Under 16 Tears. Our Boys' Band Rehearses every "Wednesday aft ernoon at 4 o'clock. All boys un der 16 years of age are invited to join. Ve teach you FREE Come in and see us about it. Graves Music Co. 151 Fourth St. Between Alder and Morrison. $250 Ludwlg. What will you give for it? Read page 5, this Willamette "XJ" Library Grows. WILLAMBTTB TTNrVBRSITY. Salem, Or.. Sept. 19. (Special.) Under the direction of Miss Fannie J. Klliott. the new librarian at Willamette Universitv. many improvements and additions are being made to the university library. A large number of books are being added, including many sets of reference works and encyclopedias. About GO volumes of the work of eminent German writers printed In German have been pur-chaned. Retail Merchants, Attention ! Bids on the Holtz Store Stock and Fixtures Will Close Sept. 22d Bids will be accepted on any separate department or on the stock as a whole also on any fixture or group of fixtures or on the entire stock and fixtures. As the store has been in business only two and one-half years the mer chandise is all new and in good condi tion and presents a most exceptional opportunity. The stock is divided into 25 departments and has a total retail value of $72,000. The store will be open for inspection tomorrow and Tuesday. All bids must be in by Tuesday, September 22, at 3 P. M. and each bid must be accompa nied by a certified check for 10 per cent of the amount bid. The committee re serves the right to reject any or all bids. The Holtz Store Fifth and Washington Streets A V