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J THE UKEUON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY, MORNING, DECEMBER 7, 1913. t SCIEN Tl METHODS IN MARKETING OREGON PRODUCTS PROPOSED State Horticultural Society Committee- , Will Present Plans at Banquet, Week's Program. O The annual meeting, of the O Oregon tate Horticultural no- ciety will be held Wednesday, O Thursday and Friday of this week. All sessions will be hold in the central library, except the 4 banquet, which will be held 4 Thursday evenings at the Port- land Commercial club. O Wednesday's sessions will deal O largely with prune production. O The speakers: W. 8. Allen, Z. I. O Chamberlain, Professor F. II. O Brown, Bruce Cunning-ham, L. B. Skinner, II. S. Jackson, Profes- sor C. I. Lewis and others. O Canneries and uses of fruit will hold attention Thursday. O Among- the speakers, G. H. Tink er, J. O. Holt, a. c. At well, Ava B. Milam, Robert E. Strahorn. The banquet speakers will be: H. B. Miller, A. H. Averlll, Ed ward Cooking-ham, R. B. Stra horn, W. F, Q win, Wilber'Sieg, C. II. Chapman. Friday's discussions will deal with drying of fruit, prospective Panama canal transportations, and some of the speakers will be V. A. Snyder, Professor C. I. j,ewlB, C. A. Malboeuf, Professor F. C. Bradford, W. D. B. Dodson, IS. H. Shepard, M. B. Miller and Fred Groner. POWERFUL LEAGUE TO FRUIT TO BE LAUNCHED "Tl EADANSANTS " HIT WASHINGTON HMD Chamber of Commer-ceWill T Undertake to Bring Grow ers Together, Designed to include every fruit grow- Society at National Capital Spends All Its Afternoons ' J :j.j:--:rDancing'Now..-- I By Barton K. Standlsh. (Written for the United Press.) Washington, D. c., Dec. 6. Well, they're here at last, after long months fruit a-rowers' organization, selling f 'T.' .. ' are the . F. C. Bradford. W. 0. B. Dodson, IS. H. Shepard, H. B. Miller and e By Marshall N. Dana, The State Horticultural society will furnish, at its meeting In Portland, this week. a. practical application of the proposition, stated In The Journal No vember 23. that the obligation in the de velopinent of Oregon rests not alone in attracting the newcomer to the soli, but also. In preventing1 speculative land prices, helping to solve problems of pro duction, facilitating transportation, and scientifically organizing to find profit able and certain markets for products The society will deal with the place Portland business men and bankers should occupy in the distributing and marketing of fruit. A committee of the society will ask endorsement of Its position that "Port land Is not fulfilling Its function In the marketing of the products of the north west. "Products going out of this country nrc not financed by Portland bankers, and not handled by Portland commission houses." Attitude Wot to Criticise. The committee Insists that Its attl tude is not of unkind nor destructive criticism. It will offer a suggestion that is more Idea than plan of proced ure, and that articulates closely wltn the plan of organization to be submit' led hv th Chamber of Commerce this week. The next step following- the valuable work of the Commercial club. Chamber of Commerce, and other organizations in attracting people to the state, should be large And effective organization to do these things; Encourage the organization of at least 100 fruit growers' associations In west ern Oregon along such lines as would warrant them credit as organizations, instead $t making individual members liable as is the present practice. This means really substantial and practical organization with equipment adequate to standardize fruits and plant and suf ficient to prepare fresh, dried and ctflned fruits for market. Make Portland the distributing cen ter and central agency of tho coopera tive local associations, with organizes tion adequate to the distributing and marketing of products in this country and abroad upon the opening of the Panama canal; For everything that grows, if of standardized grade, markets may be found and prices obtained that will pro fit all concerned, Including the pro ducer who, under present conditions, is frequently the helpless victim of hap hazard marketing methods; j Acting on the suggestion involves the same element or survey oz mings 10 do done and the defining of the place of each agency in the doing that was spoken of in the former article. Committee Does Work. J -The committee that ha done the work and prepared the recommendation con sists of H. B. Miller and Colonel Henry E. Dosch of Portland and W. K. Newell of Gaston. They constitute the banqupt committee and on Thursday night it is purposed to clearly outline the conclus ions reached after long; investigation and deliberation.-' It was at their suggestion that con suls of the United States made reports on foreign markets for American prod ucts with especial reference to the Pa ciflo coast, these showing most conclus ively that in Great Britain, Germany and other countries the market waits for the fresh, the canned and the dried fruits of Oregon, especially after tho opening of the Panama canal, when the freight rate may be reduced more than 60 per ont, More direct marketing methods must be planned in advance of the canal opening and the backing the plan gets must be substantial. Mr. Miller, who has had broad exner lence.' both abroad and in this country. says that the questions of where and how to plant and produce fruits have ueen answered. The job of the local or ganizations Is largely in standardizing proaucis ana providing equipment fo preparation for market The marketing useii muai o mrougn a larger agency mai win aeai witn many local associa tions. Folnts to Example. As an example of efficient' local or ganization, ne cans attention to the 1.' . , tn i - . . . - r run uroweri- association which began by handling fruits and hiuwcio supplies ouiy, out, responding io neeq ana aemana, nas added new de parcments rapidly until it is In posi tion io direct nearly an tho activities essential in a comprehensive organlza tlon, including the standardizing of fresh fruits, the drying and canning of rruus and tnoir Btauardizmg, For a Portland, central, organization two things are suggested, in addition to - encouraging local cooperative associa tions and financing the marketing of products.' The people have authorised the Port, of Portland to establish coal . bunkers here for the conveniens of ships coming to this port The port commis sion has deferred action until after the Panama canal opens. Why should this be? No definite provision' has- been made for cold storage facilities4 In the - public dock warehouses. - The commis sion Is investigating. Should not urg- " nt reasons be presented for providing Cold storage facilities? i The whole mater la Of the utmost in- agency, and all financial and commer ciai interests tnrougn uregon, ana tne Washington and Idaho districts within the Columbia basin, a powerful league to deal with the production and market ing of fruit will be launched in Port land this week by the Portland Cham ber of Commerce. This la the first organization of the kind proposed in the Pacific Northwest. It is based on the finding, resultant from months of investigation, that effl dent,; harmonious cooperation between all the agencies mentioned ia an abso lute essential to development of the I business and financial success. "The general object will be a prac tlcal study of all matters affecting transportation questions, orchard econ omloa, and other vital problems, and the practical working out of every ele ment necessary to the development of the fruit industry upon the broadest possible scale and soundest commercial basis," reads an announcement made yesterday. Protection of Great Enterprise "It Involves the protection of one of the northwests greatest enterprises, The orchard areas in the territory de scribed are owned by approximately 10- 000 growers, while the invested value of the lands is conservatively estimated at 1106,000,000. This is double the value of the entire wheat growing; acreage in Oregon; one third greater than the value of all livestock in Oregon and Washing ton, which official statistics state to -be $113,000,000. "Foremost In the work of the new or ganization will be a scientific construc tion arrangement of the transportation facilities, including; warehouses and cold storage plants of the most modern type ut Portland calculated to meet every re quisite need of green fruit traffic, in anticipation of the opening of the Pan ama canal, and the general revolution of marine conditions on the Pacific coast that will inevitably take place. Nothing Definite Arranged. "Wth the opening of the canal but a few months away, nothing of definita nature has thus far been arranged for by the various coast ports. "The matter of rates to the Atlantic seaport markets. Europe, South Amer ica and all other foreign countries, has I been indefinitely anticipated, but no steps taken to mold them Into con crete shape. "Portland will lead the way In those essentials, and thus provide thoroughly adequate and efficient transshipping fa cilities in ample time to take care of the movement of oversea tonnage, which it Is expected will be of large volume, even the first year of the canal's oper ation. "The Panama canal has long been looked forward to as a possible aid to the progress of the northwest fruit. Industry. Today It is admitted by a j large number of growers and business 1 men In general, as indispensable to its . expansion. To work out the problem of cooper-' ative efficiency in every form will be the basic duty of the league, and its benefits will accrue to every grower engaged In the business as well as to , all related and affiliated interests. , "The movement is the general recog-' nltion of the Panama canal as the great constructive transportation factor to In dustrial progress of the orchard. The organization on broad Unas, however, Is based upon conditions and necessities in other lines, including a multitude of es sential transportation reforms, arid or chard economics, which are equally in dispensable to the orchardist individu ally, and to the industry at large. The Chamber of Commerce has been approached by many growers urging closer cooperative relations between the commercial Interests and the growing districts. The business Interests of Portland have viewed with great rest lessness tho depressing conditions under which the apple industry struggled in 1912, with only a medium countrjfwido crop, yet the nortnwest output that season was 15,000 cars while crops In the immediate future point to greater volume, with 26,000 cars already pre dicted as the 1914 yield. With between 50.000 and 100,000 cars appearing a pos sibility before 1920, the necessity for commercial stability is regarded imper ative. All Phases Exploited. "Every phase, of the fruit industry! will be broadly exploited and system atized under the new conditions. Dried fruits, canned goods, and the develop ment of byproduct utilization will be covered, as lnseDarablv connected with the orchard and garden pursuits. I "The organization is to be wholly con structive In all its operations, and the embodiment of practical cooperative- ef ficiency. It will work tn the closest harmony with every possible interest. Its activities will be beneficial, and not inimical, to the transportation interests. The railroads will reap the advantage of new and enlarged opportunities. The use of water routes via Panama and the Pacific in general will serve as a bal ance wheel to industrial development In a form that could not possibly be ex pected under the present conditions. "The movement of great tonnage via the sea will relieve the pressure of a great output of expensively produced fruit, that today Is forced Into markets which, under the prohibited laid down costs, are inherently restricted, and in capable of greater expansion. Incident to Increased production, moving into greatly enlarged channels by sea along the lines of natural demand and con- i sumption, will follow a carefully con-1 structed basis or orchard economics that will effectually minimize the cost of nroduction. and thus offer to the'do- m.ttn mafWta 'tt MlinnlV HTlflAr PfMldf. I tions that will automatically admit of its movement in much greater volume than at nresent. The railroads will un doubtedly welcome the work as a fitting commercial sequence to the great ef-1 forts made In behalf of constructing the ' fruit Inriiiatrv tn the nnrthwent. In nrhtrh 1 they so heartily and energetically, took part." like, they have in those daahin cafes in New ; Tork and the "quartler tatln." Just Ilka Paris or Bel lln and the the np-io-caie wuuaeniai capitals, t ,ji'"'-...;VX, v v'TT: ? Ara they popular v To answer that MHABtlnn nil find hftS toV'dO IS tO take little Jaunt to the local scenes oi acuv. ity, At; the Bhoreham hotel, wher the management has inaugurated u after noon : fishwalk thing amen witn tea, cakes and an occasional highball for the daring, can be found Washington's so ciety bunch. Young and old, official and unofficial, they're ail wiggling; and wagjting merrily td tha strains of rag time ratHrte,-:iir ibelr- best afternoon clothes. - Over on Eighteenth street torn wise young real estate aaventurer remoaeiea an old colonial house, got a painter who understood what an old English: letter in active operation meant, and hung cut a sign, "Studio Hall." Ha also threw in lot of windows, some queer looking rooms and fireplaces and tho activity was on. , ' ' ,tVlthln three weeks about every va cant house and barn in the neighborhood was being transformed Into studios, and today, only, a couple of months after tha crate started, there are no less than two dozen studios, housing everything from a painter to a teacher of the new aesthetio and unaesthetlo dances. But the "tea dansant" is tha one great stunt ' The first "afternoon"- occurred early In the week, and the management sent out Very formal Invitations. Not that - Invitations are necessary, but -It made It look classier. Army folks, con gressional folks, and the usual mob of well dressbd men who decorate the em bassies were there in polite turkey trot ting droves. Nice little tea tables were scattered about the edges of the ball room, with nice little menus for each one, a( the bottoms of which were inno cent announcements that 'dinners could be had In the dining rooms. So successful have the first few after noons been that other hotels 'are sitting up taking notice, and It is rumored that two more will sjou begin the afternoon dance thing, with some novel innova tion And a New. York cafe proprietor is in Washington, eoeklng a site for a cabaret cafe, where ci,o can dance in be tween courses and the tables. , Washington seems to be entering its most feverish sea4on of waddle steps. List winter the craze appeared in a nice little , mature form, but from the an nouncements of dancing -"artists,'' who are flocking "here; if looks as if about every second person In town would be teaching dancing lessons, or taking dancing lessons pretty soon. Suffrage Makes Change. Albany, Or., Dec. . The 'precincts of the county 'are to be divided and re- arranged. ' This is the result of u adoption 'of woman suffrage, nukli . the precincts too Urge as they are ut present, Tha county court which is new In session will commence work &tot. day, when representatives from eiuH district will be present . Will Elect . Supervisor, Albany, Or .Dec . To choose road supervisor for district No, 10, Tan. gent section, an election will be he id Monday In which tha people of this dis trict will select one of five candidates. Thi 1 iri. kninr with, tha road policy plan announced some time age by the county court. ''. $10 Sends a Miniature Grand Piano to your home for Christmas, Bee Graves Music Co. removal adv.. page 8, section 2. Adv. Youth Is rartloned. r Albany, Or., Dec 6. On recommenda tion of County Attorney Gale S. Hill. Oovenor West yesterday pardoned Cur tis Sutton,' the 19-year-old lad who was sentenced to 25 days in the countv jail on a charge of larceny, The youth wag taken to his, home in (Salem : by his; father. " terest and Importance, .; It suggests the further consideration of establishing the necessary cooperation between tho growers, bankers, business men. trans. portation agencies and commercial or. ganlzatlons to systematically produce. standardize and market the whole range of Oregon agricultural products. " EVKAM. SATURDAY. DKCKMUUK NO JEWaRY AUCTECtI P IK 1 HOLMS: iAII Court Overrules Demurrer, Probably Postponing Case Until New Year. I- - It u4m Drt taUy mlt ft rttMsyhiltft wklc rlkt mill M t -ffi f pftwlpunlnf th luirtlMl mlt Jatr in ih tntwtr fltc th Oily . wmmiivni w mnv in Bvanumil mil . hSiC will K Iml-A a. 1ft ... A - .... 'm MisUMakv sir Juflua risk via' mrit U e-rvwdeMl wlTU rft. it la ,. la that thrra will rexuldarh ; 4 lay aarrw iht 4 rat hi a. aav- f ral wka r parhipa strata I mami. i ii iv arena i irtai MatrtCR ft win (tat j tftrrr laf raft Mrtkth , - ManHctta inaiv ji ftrltcfttn t?f fvambar 1 t tat City Commit Ian tmr a, ilranaa t tfttnturt ft iatMtr I, r ia swtlaft. ttw-lftrlnc that r tii ! all aut nia vtcv.nav tc iweii ftn Ih-arwtr ftl Ma WeMnfW atraal tera. Ta commiaateaaia luaail ta grant tha licana and Han rlehiaft brauchi ault for ft writ uf man 4svinua In Circuit adaja lavlj' Cfjtrl If Off Urad that aufttarta wr Vidftal ttaMhith' amplevrntitia M thai tii' OmmlMlmara had Ura notr af olk In and choostna: whn Ucntlrtr apll- vaiita. Afttr iandlnf pvar 10 rra In aual- nsaa In Portland." $ld Mr. Mnrrhst ' j ttwiay. "I am dan ltd tha rifM ta frtndutt atli leal par lad ra fy bualntai o- " rate I faat thai thla a iMf imlrtallan f tha rankaat kind "Kalthar nr nonaaty nftr ltaritr liaa utitlenaa, Ko Isvua haa t-aan ralttd that I da nat carrr a hia-n tsa of Jawdlrr and lh ftnrarant rat- ar in lp ftutacratK avarrlad af t-ar ta pratai athr daaiara wha iM awffar ay my raduflfiff tht irlca or m mi trnanoira "Jn my mind tMi attlan af taa Cam mtaalanaia riaa aat a araradant that nt facta avary boalnava' man In thla aJly. V ritptara tha action ana faal that It win work a hardanlo an ma )tiat at tha ttma whan I ahould roeaHa tha auoaart af avary nttsait wna haa tho Intartau Uui liry at htart " I" Ho ftpe Jreople o Chie GAME LAW PROSECUTION FIRST OF ITS KIND tntt tMatrtrt AttornOT 18 msft-ning- nui i AM at the crisis of my business career. ,T For over 52 years 'I have lived among you and conducted my jewelry busi ness. Founded upon absolute honesty and integrity I have built a business from practically nothing until my assets now exceed $100,000. Unfortunately I made a serious busi ness mistake this season. Basing my judgment on what we had done in seasons past. I placed orders for bigger stocks than I have ever carried before; Then two large buildings were started within one block of my store. I was delighted to see these improvements, but they kept, people from com ing to my location.. My stock has not moved and I am fac ing the most perplexing problem in my 60 years of business experience. I applied to the city commissioners for a. li cense to conduct an auction sale. This was not grant ed because the commissioners stated that such an auction would demoralize the jewelry .business in Portland! I appealed to the courts! Yesterday Judge Davis upheld the commission ers' ruling. I have no alternative but to place my entire stock on sale and realize enough on it to keep intact the business that I have built during these 52 years. My personal guarantee is behind every article sold during this sale. It is the climax of my life and intend that it shajl be successful and that the firm of L. C. Henrichsen & Co. shall survive long after I and this crisis are forgotten. 7 c i irt Oeodes A 3011 Prevented from Holding Auction We Are Forced to Raise $50,000 by January 1, 1914, In Order to Save me HenrichsenStore! Every Article in This High-Grade Stock Goes .nndfioini Price The most complete stock of Diamonds in the Northwest. Finest stones set in Rings, Brooches, LaVallieres, Pendants, Bracelets, Pins, Cuff Links and Watches. Thousands of Standard Watches; Solid Gold and Gold Filled Jewelry, Silver Novelties, Cut Glass, Shef field Silverware, etc., all goes at AUCTION PRICES. Every article in this mammoth stock reduced. We are forced to raise $50,000 by January 1, 1914. The famous firm of L. C. Henrichsen & Co., shall survive. TERMS OF SALE - CASH ONLY! This Sale Starts at 9:30 Monday Morning! Established 1861 8M c Established 1861 I- Oldest Jewelry House in the Northwest 33(8 WasMngtoinr .Sbr&sfc Between West Park and Tenth Streets. 1- )