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as? VOL. XXIV IIOOD RIVER, OREGON', THURSDAY, MARCH 27, U)13 No 43 M. . OFFICE OF Hood River Apple Growers Union Hood River, Oregon, March 24, 1913 NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS The regular Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Hood River Apple Growers Union will be held on Saturday, April 5th, A. D. 1913 at 10:30 o'clock A.M., in Heilbronner Hall in the City of Hood River, Oregon, for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors and for such other business as may come before said meeting. Said meeting is hereby called ami will be held, also for the purpose of leasing, assigning and transfering the busi ness and property of the said Union as a whole, or any part thereof, upon such terms and conditions as may he deemed fit, proper or expedient to a corporation to be hereafter cre ated and organized under the laws of the State of Oregon for the purpose of selling and marketing fruits and produce and the doing of all things necessary, convenient or incidental thereto; and also for the purpose of purchasing, possessing, controling, using and disposing of the capital stock of such corporation to be hereafter organized as aforesaid, and the Toting power thereof, in the manner and upon such terms and conditions as may be deemed fit, proper or expedient; and for . the purpose of ratifying all action taken at the Special Meet ing of said stockholders held on March 19, 1913. Your pres ence is earnestly requested. ALBERT SUTTON. Approved: Secretary. W. B. DICK.ERSON, President. REAL ESTATE BULLETIN 5 Acres located 2 miks out in Barrett District, 2 nt ti eai s old, 2 acres 2 years old. Spit and Newtown, good 3-rooin bouse, and all tools. I'rice $3300. Will exchange for town property of enval or nm!i. r value. 160 Acres in Trout Lake. Washington District, 80 acr, f in ,. tivation, SO acres ia timber with 2,ou0,000 feet tine saw timber, ymhe from saw mill. Modern 7-room buugaiow, barn and other out buildup. All irrigable with free water. Price juOiH). Will exchange for Hood Kiver ranch up to $1500; long time on balance. 25 Acres near Tucker's bridge, 10 acres tearing orchard, balance partially cleared, located on main county road, strictly high class property in every rev pec U Price $105 xj; terms to suit or will exchange. HI. at Have You? 35 Acres very high class in Oak Grove District, 20 acre in om:i. men ial orchard from 4 to Id years old, 5 acres alfalfa, balance unclear,,) but fine apple land, fine spring piped to buildings. Price IS0O0. Will exchai ge for (food cheap raw land or other property which does not rr iiire owners attention. The time to insure, is BEFORE THE EIRE. We are writing an v tremely liberal policy iu the BEST old line compauies and the cost it sur prisingly low. lletter sue about it today. ROBERTS & SIMMS SUCCESSORS TO G. Y. EDWARDS & CO. Phone 3111 Hotel Oregon Bldg. w Every effort that can be made to make a store a thoroughly sat . isf actory place to deal is be ing made here. We want your shoe thoughts to be pleasant and to be of WALK-OVER SHOES J- G. VOGT Lights at Reasonable Prices The Hydro-Electric Co., does not want the consumers of electrical energy for light ing or power purposes to pay for the plant monthly, yearly or bi-annually, they only want a fair, reasonable price on a live and let live basis; and are not asking its custom ers to buy our competitor's plant, nor any one to pay them a price with which to buy our plant; all we have to sell is electrical energy. Hydro Electric Co. 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WESTFALL, raO0D- AM PREPARED TO FURNISH ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER AND BOXES Delivered to any part of City or Valley Mill Located Southwest of Oak Grove School ACTION TAKEN ONCOMBINE DISTRIBUTORS MEET AT YAKIMA Stops Taken Toward Amalgamating Soiling Interests of All the Fruit Districts. E. S. HAY, Hood River, Oregon 1 Will the combination of the apple I si lling interests take a step further I th.n local amalgamation and result in I a materialization of the plans of ! t he Northwestern Kiuit Distributors? Many think that this is inevitable, while others declare that it will be very foolish for a district with the standing that Hood River has to go into such an organization, that is, on the basis that the central agency shall sell the local apples. Numerous sug gestions have been made. It has even been proposed that the different dis tricts be permitted to sell the brands for which they are most famous. For instance, under this scheme, Hood Kiver would be permitted to sell the Newtowns and Spitzenburgs and Wen atchee would sell the Winesaps. H. F. Davidson, accompanied by Winner Sieg, attended the meeting of the trustees of the Northwestern Dis tributiors at North Yakima last week. On Saturday the organization seems to have gotten together, according to re ports taken from the Republic of the Washington city. The Kepublic'a e port of the meeting is as follows : This important announcement was made by Secretary H. C. Sampson, on behalf of the board, at noon. Mr. Sampson further said : "Absolute harmony prevails ; every step taken was by the unanimous vote of the nine trustees. We will be ready in a few days to sign contracts with the sub-central organization ' in the nine districts as designated at the meeting in Spokane last December. These sub-central organizations must, in turn, make their own contracts with local organizations or individual ship pers. "It has been decided that the dis tributors wiil Handle all fruits that are shipped in carload lots, strawberries, cherries, peaches, pears, prunes, plums and apples. From 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the trustees went into executive session, until 11 o'clock last night, the nine men, with the responsibility for the continued success of the fruit industry of the northwest resting upon their shoulders, wrestled with the problems before them. At that time they had agreed on all the essentials of the organization. This morning they met again and at noon adjourn ment expected to be able during the afternoon to open the ooors and admit to the deliberations the representatives and growers assembled in this city anxiously awaiting the results. After the informal session of yester day morning, when doubt and fear struggled with conliuenee tor the mas tery, Messrs. Davidson and Sieg of Hood River, in a few words, turned the scale. Mr. Davidson said: "We have listened to these talks and have profit ed by them. Hut the time has come to get down to business. Our people sent me here to accomplish results. If we can do it this afternoon, all right, if it is necessary to stay tomorrow or for a week or more, 1 am going to stay. Let's get down to business." 11. C. Sampson heartily seconded the sentiment and the visitors retired. ' The. trustees are in session again this afternoon working out further details of the organization plans. They are proceeding on the assumption that the tonnage of the nine districts is coming into the combination. The representa tives present and participating have pledged their utmost efforts to this end and, while the actual signing up must be done by the sub-central organiza tions, they have been fully apprised ol the purpose of the meeting here and their representatives having consented to the plau and given it their whole approval, it is scarcely possible that any material portion of the tonnage of 10,000 cars will not be marketed through the central office of the dis tributors, which will probably be the principal place of business. While no announcement has been made as to methods of marketing, the idea prevailing is that the Distributors should employ their own salaried sales agents, so far as it ia practicable to do so, eventually marketing entirely through their own representatives. Everyjavenue of reaching the customer which has bt en successfully employed by the affiliated organizations will be utilized to the fullest extent, where a reliable market has been secured fur a particular variety from a certain dis trict that market will be protected. Until salaried representatives are em ployed to cover the entire territory, present means of disposing of the crop, either organized selling agencies or brokers will be utilized, generally or in certain territory. Actual management will probably be placed in the hands of three men, one eachrfrom the three principal districts, Wenatchea, Yakima and Hood Kiver. The districts represented are: Wen atchee, Spokane valley, Yakima valley; Hood Kiver, White Salmon and Mosier; Walla Walla, Milton and tree water; Boise and Payette; Lewiston and Clarkston; Kogue Kiver; Montana. Friday evening the officers chosen at temporary organization in Spokane in D-'cember were made pein.anent. The different trustees will submit the action of the Yakima meeting to their respective bodies of growers and the question of signing up with the Dis tributors will then be taken up. Some definite action will probably be taken by local growers atjthe annual meeting of the Hood River Apple Growers' Union stockholders here on Saturday, April 5. masonTriticises new organization March 26, 1913. Editor Glacier: The'organization of the new associa tion, which was endorsed by the grow ers last at week's mass meeting, ia so glaringly open to criticism that I can not refrain from pointing out some of the defects. First, the double delegated powers of the board of control ia unjust and unAmericaii. Nor ia it just that the National Apple Co. should he paid $15,000 excess money for a business that has been a losing proposition. In the'forniation of a central selling asso citaion, all other associations should be killed. The Davidson Fruit Co. and the 'Union should be purchased out right. Representation should come di rect from the growers. I want to ask the growers of the valley a few pointed questions: If the Davidson Fruit Co. offers an option to sell its plant to the new cen tral organization, and it should lie de cided to buy, would the Davidson Co. representation of three on the board be sold with the plant? If the new organ ization decides to buy both the plants of the Union and of the Davidson Fruit Co. would the representation' still re main six to three? If this ia done and after all of the indebtedness of the new organization ia cleaned up who will be the owners of all the property pur chased from the proceeds of a charge per box on all the apples of the valley? Would not a third of the income de rived from the handling of the apples of the whole valley be turned over to a private corporation composed of about a dozenjstockholdcrs? The Hood River Apple & Storage Company's members own more acres of bearing orchard than any other organization in the Valley with the exception of the Union, and would they not help to pay for all of the property to be bought by the new cuncem and yet not own a penny's worth of it? Would it not be well to organize one good concern with its ownership in the hands of the growers, giving all con cerned equal control and representa tion? Under the proposed plan at the rates of 12 J and 15 per cent on leased property, is it not a fact that the growers of the Valley, for every dollar now invested in the Davidson Fruit Co. and AppleJGrowers' Union Jwould pay every seven years and still owe trie en tire deht of $224,000? Add to this the $15,000 bonus of the the National Ad- pie Company, and does it not appear to you that we are getting a bear.by the taiir Is it not a fact that the Davidson Fruit Co. will have presented it one third of the National Apple Co., and that it will also receive the entire cost of its own bulding and property every seven years and still own it? this is a neat little sum wihout anv apparent effort, is it not? Don't you think it is about time to do some figuring and thinking? Respecfully, A. I. Mason. OGDEN PAPER HAS . PRAISE FOR ORCHARDS Below are given some extracts from a recent editorial appearing in the Og den, Utah, Examiner, on fruit culture and in praise of the Hood River valley. EeRoy Armstrong, who formerly re sided here, is now managing editor of the Ogden paper : There is a little valley, its orchard area at present probably 20 miles square. There is a saventeen-n.ile road, macadameo and oiled, from Hood River around through the valley and back to the town. You will pass orchards for the most part, all the way. Take one man- and he is typical of all. He couldn't parse a sentence of five words. Hut he will show you an orchard anytime in the summer with not a twig growing where it takes needless strength from the tree; with not a scale of dry, dead bark on the bolo or limbs; with lye wash assuring againfet attacks of insects ; with soil that is cultivated in all the care and thoroughness that your mother's gar den used to know. lie may not parse a sentence, but he will tell you exactly the chemical com ponents of the soil in his orchard, pointing out that there is a little more of one ingredient here, and little more of another there, and telling you what is his treatment for the various na tures. He will tell you the Latin names of tha pests he has to fight and you better believe he has to watch and tight them. He will tell you how long they live, a period which varies with the nature and name of the various creatures. He will tell you how the arrive at life, and how he seeks to eon duct them to a decent; but certain death. He will discuss the relative proportions of arsenate of lead and blue vitriol and other poisons, and in just what sorts of weather each should lie applied in the form of spray. He will talk botany to you as far aa it re lates to upple trees, and his word as to the stage of development in leaf and blossom at which treatment must be made will impress you. These men go through their orchards at all seasons. They know every tree. They know how much'irrigation water each tree needs, and give it drink ac cording to its demands. They keep water gauges at the apple house door, and measure the rainfall. They give their orchards just what irrigation is needed, and not a drop'more. They go into their orchards in grow ing time, and pick off fine-looking ap ples for no reason other than that this one apple may touch another, resulting in abrasion of the skin. He gets just as many apples on a tree as it can fully and perfectly developed, and not an apple more. He picks them in canvas pails, and the man who bruises one goes iout of the valley with nothing that looks like a return ticket. The apples are not sorted in electrical ma chines that can separate ten bushels of fruit a minute into four or live sizes re quired for packing. When a man fills. a box he marks on it the variety and brand, the name of the grower, the number of apples in the box, with the grade extra fancy, fancy or choice ; And that box is just as good as a certified check for its market value. Not a man in the world will question it. Hood River name and honor and care and training and unity of interest and of action are behind it. You can borrow money on those ap ples, put them in cold storage, and keep them indefinitely. On a visit to Hood River by this writer on Novem ber the Commercial club of that town opened a box of apples that had been packed just one year before. Two ap ples in the box bore blemishes. One had a bruise, so light that it left no mark at the time of packing, but which had developed into a red spot perhaps the size of a silver dime. The other had been pressed a trifle too tighlty against its neighbor, and there was a little shallow depression, but not the suggestion of a rot. Can we du it? No. Why? Because we haven't the organization. We have not the compact territory. We have not the recognition of the neiesiity for high grade and uniformity and above all, of organization. We have not yet learned how to stick together. CITY AWARDS PAVINGCONTRACT RELIANCE COMPANY WILL DO WORK Ordinance Passed, Calls for the Hard surfacing of AH the Principal Streets of City. At the Monday night meeting of the city council, the contract of paving tl business district streets of the city with five inch concrete Hassam pavement was awarded to the Reliance Construc tion Co., of Portland, at a price of $2?,t)l'J.yo. The Reliance Construction Co. is at present engaged in the task of laying the distributing system and water mains of the new municipal sys tem. The actual ct of the paving will be $25.r:.0. The extra cost will go toward ecxavation and grading. The date of the flection when the people will vote on the amendment to the city charter, making it possible for the council to expend money to the ex tent of $7,0i0 for a city park and li brary purposes, was set for Thursday, April 10. The officers for the election have been appointed as follows: Judges, John A. W ilson, J. H. Gill and Mrs. J. P, Lucas; and clerks, Mrs. Chas. Castner and Chris D. Nickelsen. An ordinance providing for the lay ing of Bsphalt.ic oil bound macadam passed the first reading. The streets included in the orders of this ordinance are: Cascanc avenue, from the west line of Fifth itreet to a point 200 feet west of the west line of Fourteenth street; Oak street from the west line of F'ifth street to the east line of Ninth street; State street from the west approach of the Hood river bridge to the east line of Ninth t-treet; Fourth street from the south line of Oak street to the north line of State; Fifth street from south line of Cascade avenue to north line of Oak; Ninth from south line of Oak street to north line of Eu gene street and Eugene from the west line of Ninth to the east line of Twelfth street. Outfall Sewer is Being Replaced Among the many improvements that the city is making this year is that of the replacing the outfall sewer, leading off across the flats north of the O.-W. R. & N. passenger station to the Col umbia. The crew of men who have been improving the East Side grade, are now engaged in digging a trench for the new pipe. The Reliance Construction Co., which ia laying the pipes of the disributing system of the new municipal water plant, have almost finished their work in the city. POWER COMPANIES ASK RATE INCREASE Local residents were perturbed last week when a dispatch from Salem brought the news to this city that the the local power rompaniea, the Hood River Gas & Electric Co. and the Hydro-Electric Co., had asked the Public Utilities Commission that they be permitted to raise their rates here. By the recently enacted public utilities bill, the companies have been in structed by the commission to install meters. The Gas & Electric Co. have already installed some of the meters, and the Hydro Co. will soon begin the work. Both companies are frank in admit ting heavy losses because of the com petition they have entered into and because of the flat rale basis on which they have been operating. The Hood Kiver Gas & Electric Co. declares that its net loss since it began operation in competition with the Hydro Co. has been $:I8,(:!3 .5(5, while it is unable to collect $3,500 from bud customers. Both companies aver that they need the meters to prevent disciminations, since the majority of their patrons have taken advantage of the flat rate to in stall more lights than they would have been entitled to under the meter rate. The petition of the Hood River Gas & Electric Co, shows a low rate for ir rigation pumps and an exceedingly low rate for refrigerating and milling sys tems. The Hydro Company shows that its total collections have been $8,749.85, while it is capitalized for $250,000 with $180,000 paid up. A meeting of a number of represen tative citizens was held at the rooms of the Commercial club Monday even ing, when it was decided to take some concerted actionjto prevent an unreas onable increase in the rates here. The sentiment prevailed that the rates of the Hydro-Elctric Co. were not too high at the present time. At a meeting of the board of directors of the club Tues day night a communication was sent to tho Railroad Commission asking that the date for the hearing set for March 31 be postponed, in order that the citi zens might have more time to prepare a case. CREWS RUSH POWER PROJECT The crews of the Pacific Tower & Light Co. are showing great activity fur over a mile along the banks of the Hood river and tne line oi tne Mount lliiml Riiilrnurl Cn lost ftnlith if th city. A coffer dam to divert the stream of the Hood river 'just east of the Mount Hood railroad bridge is nearing completion. Cables have been rigged in the pine trees near the old power house and have been slung across the river just above the island in Uie stream at this point. Electric hoisting machinery has been installed and the channel of the Hood river west of the island is being Ueepend, tne rockB and boulders being hauled out by the elec tric power. A huge steam derrick, transported by its own power over the Mount Hood railroad line, is being used in clearing the way of the pipeline that will run frum tho liam in 1 hp flitp (if tho now powerhouse, which will rise just north . - . a. i ! ., r: .- oi tne raciory or ine iioou niver spray Manufacturing Co. You (-houUl protect yourself against burglars. We insure your jewelry ami silver against burglary for $10 to $13 per fl.CHIO Keel A Henderson. Inc., Agents U. S. Fidelity 4 Guaranty Co. m'tl