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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APMT. 21, 1010.
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PROFESSOR WARREN A. MALTBIE, MUSICAL DIRECOR; MISS FAITH ROSE WILLIAMS, PIANIST; REV. G. M. BEELER, ASSISTANT.
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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
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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
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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.
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222 SOUTH HOLLY STREET.
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