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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.
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SUCCESSORS TO
G. Y. EDWARDS & CO.
Phone 3111 Hotel Oregon Bldg.
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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.
A Home Company
Phone 1171 Third and Oak
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Electric Irons Frying Pans Disc Stoves Toaster Stoves
Always in Stock at Moderate Price. Let Us Show You.
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Bartmess Bldg.
ELECTRICAL. CONTRACTORS
I7AD C A I 171 A Completely Equipped Sawmill
T Illy JlLlS; 20 to 25 Thousand Daily Capacity
This mill is strictly modern and up-to-date, and is as
good as new. Have just completed the cut for the
Northwestern Electric Co.'s construction work on the
White Salmon River and will dispose of this mill at
an attractive figure.
L. G. 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
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