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MlgPFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGION, SUNDAY. JULY 33, 1910.
CO-OPERATION IN COLORADO
BRINGING SPLENDID RESULTS
lly Will I'ayiii', In (lio Hntiirduy
Hveiilng I'oiit.)
In tlii) vnlloy In tliu (Iruiiil lllvur, In
C'oloi lido, itlxiul mld-wuy biilwoon
Honviir ami Hull l.nko, thoro In now a
flno tliicliliiotm fruit rnlgon some
twiMity-fl vo mllmi hum nml from
thron to tun miles, wldu with u plant
oil nrou of nlioiit twonty thousand
neron ii liloMnoniliiK lmndbroailth on
tlm nlopnn of tint ltookloii,
All IlltO IIH till) olglltlOH tllO IllllllUIH
occupied tliu valley and tlmro twomod
no particular iimmm for begrudging
thom iiohhokhIoii of It. "Thoro wiih
nothing Intro," imyn n fruit r.rowor,
"hut a ilimolatu wanto of llRhUcolor
oil, Innlgulflcnnt looking noil that tun
ny n proapcctlvo Hottlor panned up nt
fifteen ami twenty ilollnrn an aero."
Water wan thoro hownvor -(irnnd
Junctlo" tho iiiotropollH or tho valloy
HtauiUiiK ut tliu confluence or tho
Ornnd null Gunnison rlvera,
In tliu eighties n fow fruit trcoH
wore plantoil, ntul, nH thono trees be
gan to boar, won with nn eye for
Htich innttorfl coulil boo plainly
onoiiKh Hint tho hnro valloy with Us
light-colored noil, contained tliu milk
ing of n ronmknblu fruit illntrrlct. In
deed, fifty ilollnrn Iiiih hoon picked
from n hIiikIo troo thoro, n thoiiH
and ilollnrn from ono ncro; nnil Innt
yonr thu valloy nhlppod out moro
than two million ilollnrn worth of
fruit.
apploB If Horul varieties of fruit
worn packed In tho iiaiuo car, Home
or thu fruit owlni; to Ihoiio inurkot
pioforoncoH, vould ho Hold at a Iorh.
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Tho (irnnd Valloy orcliardlittn,
however hud nn unumml proposition
to deal with Directly omit or lilui
lay tho rorinldnhlo nml sparsely bnr
ron of tho Rockies. To tho woat wiih
a Kront stretch of scnntlly pooplod
nml moro or lens barren plains.
Moroovor, tho nort or fruit thnt ho
could rnlno most succousfully ro
qulred no itpednl condlllonu or cll
niato. Apploit, ror oxnmplo, nro docldoly
tho most Importnnt product of tho
valloy, and, hroadly speaking they
grow apples ovorywhoro. Tho prob
lom wiih how to Indiico an linstorn
or Southern man to huy nn apple In
WoMorn Colorado and pay tho freight
when ho could buy thom tho next
door. Obviously, as a rule, thin
could hardly ho done by selling him
appIoH clumpor than ho could got
thom noxt door. Freight chnrgoa
alone would often prevent that: tho
but It might be done by selling him
n bettor apple. About tho only way
the Ornnd Valley groworn could hopo
to succeed on : lnrgo Hcalo, In Hhort,
wnn by limiting himself n sort of or
chnrdlst "do luxo".
Huctx-N In Hplte of Mistakes.
That ho linn succeeded on a lnrgo
cato In duo pnrtly, or course to noil
mi.i climate, but It In nlsn duo to tho
Grand Junction Fruit Orowora' Ah- association fornlHhcH
Hoclntlon. At first, n8 umial tho mar
keting problem, wan Hlmplo, for when
tho output or tho vnlloy wan nmnll.
points comparatively near took tho
fruit readily at ralr prlcon. Ah noon
nn tho output exceeded tho inont ob
vIoiih demand, trouble began. In
'1801, n linniUul of genwem met nml
ornnlzod tho Omul Junction nssocla
tlon for cooperative marketing.
For novoral yearn tho Biiccets or
tho aHnoclnllon wan vory Hinnll. Tho
greatest or Hh mlHtnkoa In described
an follews: "At rirnt wo elected a now
manager ovory year In othor wordn
Hort or panned tho honorn nround.
Thin gave tin a groon mnti ror oach
year'H business, and the renult wnH
rnthor dlHantroiiH. In 18D7 wo elect
ed John I' Monro, and ho ban boon
managing over nlnco, growing up
with tho biiHlncHn. From that tlmo
our real hiiccohq dated. Under Mr.
Mooro'H nblo contlnuoiiH mnnngomont
tho association Iiiih expanded Hteadly
nml fruitgrowing In the vnlloy linn
expanded with It."
Tho nnHoclatlon now hnndloH about
Hovonty-rivo per cont of all tho fruit
grown In tho valloy and ban over
eight hundred inemhorH, Itn capital
ntoclc In over ono hundred and thirty
thoiinnnd ilollnrn. Only fruit grow
ers or tho valloy mny Hiibiicrlho totho
ntoclc, and no ono mny hold over
flvo hn nd red Hharoii. lOnch member
sorts and packn IiIh fruit In tho or
chard according to tho InHtructloun
laid down by tho nssocliitlou; thou
hiuilfl It to tho uHHOclattou'H loading
plntfonn nt tho noaront tihlpplng point
Thoro an Iniipoctor oponn novoral of
tho packagen and exnmluoti tho fruit,
giving tho growor a receipt that
flhowH tho niiiubnr of boxen of enoh
grade and variety. Tho growor's
nuinhor, grade and varltoy nro ntamp
od on each box, Tho boxed fruit In
then Horted on tho platform and oach
variety In loaded nopanitely. Thin
Ijiih hoon found a groat advantage,
mado possible by co-oporntlon, bo
cauno cortnlu innrkotn have prQfor
onco ror cortnlu frultH. Somo vnrlo
tlen of penrn, for oxnmplo, will often
bring a hlghor price In Now York
though, In other mnrkotn tho name
pour will hardly bring enough to
covor frolght chargon , Still othor
polntn hnvo a docldod fancy for rod
, California Method In Colorado
It In only In tho lunl flvo yearn
, that the nnnoclutloii ban gone after
tho traun-MlHiiourl inurkot In u big I
way. Indeed, novoral yearn or ex
perimenting and eduction wore noc-
ennnry bo(oro groworn learned how to
pick nml pack fruit for loug-dlntnnco
Hlilpmeut, It wan Manager Mooro'n
Idea that Grand Valloy applcn, poarn
and peachoc nhould ho Hold stibHtnu-
tlnlly lu tho muno way that orangen
ami lemomi am nold by tho Califor
nia Fruit Orower'n Hxchnngo.To ac
Lompllnh that renult, careful packing
and grading and rigid Inflection
wore uocoKnary. One or tho unnocla-
tlon'n flrnt move wan to dlucard bar-i
rein. For ono thing It In vory dlf-j
ricutt to Innpoct a barrul or upplou, '
while tho contontn or a box can bo
oanlty Innpeclod by openluu tho nlilo.
Again boxen give tho grocer a Hinnll ,
unit to handle, ami experience ban
nhowu that a great many f. milled
will take a whole box of apploH whoro
they will not take a whole barrel of
thom. Tho anoclatlou Introduced
boxen Into tho Kantorn ami Southern
markets mooting, of course, a vast j
deal of oppoHltlon from coiiHorvntl-
vob who wanted tholr apploH In bnr
reln simply hocauno their fnthorH
apples had alwayn been lu barrels.
For handling trann-MlHhourt busl
iiohh the nHHoclatlou opened an office
In Omaha. Tho reputation or Itn
fruit In now no woll cstnbllHhod that
practically all applou aro sold boforo
they aro put on tho earn, by forward
contractu npocirylug that so many earn
or a given variety and grndo aro to bo
delivered at a stipulated prlco. In
the case or peachon and pears tho nn
Hoclatlon, or Itn agent at Omaha, on
donvors to rind a buyer at n satisfac
tory prlco bororo tho car renchon tho
latter point. If n sale lu not mndo
the car Is nont on to buiiio onstorn
auction market where conditions
seem to he moro favorable. In each
of tho largo innrkotn the association
ban ltn roproHentntlvo to look nflor
every car, dlnponlng of It by prlvnto
Halo or, if put up at auction neolng
thnt it rocolvoH proper treatmont.
Tho aKHoclntlon avoragen or pro
raten the prlco received of each dlf
foront grade and variety qt fruit that
It ban Hhtpped within n given number
of dnyn and p-ys tho Individual grow
or accordingly. TIiiih each mombor
who ban shipped prodtico within tho
time covered by tho prornto rocolvoH
tho snmo prlco for fruit of tho unmo
vnrloty nml grade.
In addition to mnrkottng fruit, tho
its membors
with supplied needed In tho fruit
buslnesn, nuch as boxon and nursery
stock. Also, In ordor to glvo steady
employment to Its twonty-flvo or
thirty mon, It cnrrlcH a lino of mer
chandise. Last year, for oxnmplo it
shipped In three hundred and twonty-
four earn or groworn supplies,
merchandlflo. need and so on. As it
buyH lu cnr-lotn, Itn membors gots
their HiippllcH nn lower prices. All
supplloH nro charged to tho mombor
ami deductod from hU. account from
the procoedn or Ills fruit In tho fall.
To Improve tho quality and pack or
tho fruit him been tho foremost ob
ject of tho association over nlnco It
wan formed. Karly In tho spring It
hoiuIh out circular letters to tho grow-
ors urging tho necessity of pruning '
tho orchard, nml It omployoa an ox- j
pert to Instruct now momhoro In tho
bent method of pruning. A Ilttlo Int
er tho association sends cut a letter
advlnlng orchardlstn to nprny ror cer
tain kind lr liiHocto, nml tolling thom
tho best way to do It. An export em
ployed by tho association, will visit
any momhom orchard and glvo In
struction In nprnylug. Again, after
fruit has formed, tho nssoclntlou sond
out lotters lnntructlng groworn to thin
tholr fruit, so that tho troen will do
volopo nothing but largo slz spocl
moutn. The Uoxt Pay 1-Yiilt.
"Alwuyn romombor," nald Assls.
tnat Manager Davln, nt tho last moot
ing "that a peach tree will produce
mora boxen of oxtrn poacl.os thnn It
will of plo-poachos, ami tho troo
loaded with extra poaches will bring
moro than threo times an much as
tho tiaino troo full of plo ponchos."
Thoro Is i.o danger of ovor-produc-tlon
of flno fruit Mr. Davis Inslntod,
"Whonovor thoro In an ovorloadod
mnrkot," ho tin Id "It Is alwayn tho
poor, inoJlmu or fairly good fruit
that mirrors. Hastorn markolH will
tnko uliuonl any niimbor or Klbortu
peachon, running noxty or seventy lo
a box, U lu good condition, ami pay
largo prlcon ror thom; but nmnll, ov-or-rlpo,
wormy or poorly pnokod
packed poaohes will go bogging nt
tho snmo tlmo."
Tho annual mooting hold at Ornnd
Junction, January lfith, Inst, wnn at-
tondod by about six hundred mombors
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McOII Pllcrn No. 3133 '
EXQUISITE DINNER OR EVENING
fiOWN
Mens 65c Porus
KnitUnd'wr. 50c
Ending July and Beginning August With an
Avalanche of Bargains
August Is tho last month for us to clear all stocks of spring and summer stuffs and'
he sure and bend your steps this way. No matter what day you come you'll be sure to
find some rare values awaiting you.
New Goods at Reduced Prices Not Old Goods
Infants'
Dresses
Marked at a
Saving of 1-4
$2.50 Hats
to go at 25c
men's Straw
Hats; every
thing up to
$2.50 to go now
for, rhoicc, 25c
I5c Outings
Short Length
at lOc yd.
ChildeY and
Misses Dres's
Reduced 1-4 Less
98
for $3.50 Shoes
cts
Pr.
Ml
The greatest offer
ever given to any
people, just because
the reduction is great
do not be led to think
these are not stylish
goods. We must have
room. Our loss is
your gain.
12 1-2 & 15c Ginghams 10
Pretty patterns in
new fast color Ging
hams; regular 12ic
and 15c sellers; going
now at, choice per
yard, only 10c.
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McDJJ VMtm No. 3398
DAINTY SUMMER GOWN
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Remember, all goods sold here are absolutely guaranteed. Every article must satisfy the customer or we stand ready to refund the
money. Further, we sell goods on approval and further make exchange. Can you add anything more that will make this a safer place
to trade? Pay less 'and dress better. I
BASE BALL
SUNDAY JULY. 31
Medf ord vs. Glendale
Game Called at 3 p. m. Admission 25 & 35
many comlnc on a apodal train. Tho
report showed thnt avorngo prices
realized on tho crop wore: $1.9G (or
fancy Jonathan apples ; $1.30 (or
cholco Jonathans; $1.75 (or fancy
Grimes' Golden, $1.21 ror cholco;
$1.21 (or lien Davis, (niicy, 79 conts
(or cholco; 76 conts for Hlborta
ponchos, exthn, 61 conts for cholco;
$2.9 for fancy llurtlott pears, $1.60
for cholco, and so on. As tho prlco
for each grndo and of each variety
was stated, tho growor had n powor
f ill object lesson In tho ndvnntago of
raising tho best fruit.
"This association," said ono of tho
members, "has Incrensed growers ro
turns moro than ono hundred por
cent." That seoms to bo a vory con
sorvatlvo statement. Indoed it Is dif
ficult to Imnglno what tho condition
of Graud Junction growors would bo
If oach of thom attempted to markot
his own fruit Individually, consign
ing it to glutted markets, shipping by
express or in mixed car-lots, and so
on. Tho association charges a coin-
turns after deducing freight and re
frigeration charges. It does not ask
a member to pledge themselves to
ship his fruit through it. Any mem
ber who Is not satisfied Is at liberty
to market his fruit through any other
channel, 'but as a matter of fact, few
of them try to do so, and of tho few
that do try to do so they soon re
turn to tho association.
Since tho cooperative concern be
camo throughly organized and over
came Its early mistakes, tho planting
mlKslon of flvo por cent on tho not re-1 of fruit trees In tho valloy has pro-
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Whether you havo a common suit or a fine silk chiffon or crope de chine gown
to be cleaned, we call for your work and return it in the most perfect condition.
gressed pretty steadily at tho rato
of at from five to eight hundred
thousand per year, which speaks for
Itself as to tho general state of tho
Industry.
Tho classified ads furnish class
ified (acts and a very small ad may
contain a vory big (act. Big, that Is,
in its bearing on your affairs.
Work on I. 0. 0. F. Temple.
KLAMATH FALLS, July 30.
Work has commenced on the founda
tions for tho bis; throe-story Odd.
Fellows' temple, and the two-story
brick being erected in this city by
Bankor L. F. Willits. Much of the
material is now on tho ground for
these buildings, which are to h
rushed to completion at once.
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