The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-11-23
W. H. PAULHAMUS ADDRESSED
THE HORTICULT URAL UNION
Interesting Meeting Held Last Sat-
urday in This City-WilI Aid in
Prosecution of Suits Against
Northern Pacific.

The Yakima Horticultural Union held
an interesting and profitable meeting
last Saturday afternoon in the hall in
the Syndicate building. There was a
good attendance, although not as many
members of the association were pres
ent as the Importance of the business to
come before the meeting warranted.
President Richards presided. The
membership listened with pleasure to
an address by w. II. Paulhamus, presi-
dent of the Puyallup. and Sumner Fruit
Growers Association. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that this address cannot be given
in full, as it constituted the strongest
argument in favor of an association for
the disposal of crops that could be
made, and embodied many new ideas
and reasons for loyalty supporting the
association after it is once formed. Mr..
Paulhamus is an ex-banker, and he told
his hearers on this occasion that he was
enabled to make a success of fruit and
berry raising, as we'll as the business of
the Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Grow
ers' Association, only by applying the
same methods and rules that he did to
his banking. The object of his talk
was to set forth the advantages, as well
as the necessity, of a growers combine
as the best method of marketing their
crops for the best prices, and with the
least danger of loss.
Mr.. Paulhamus stated that in the val
ley where he lives the principal products
The association was formed several years
ago, when the annual shipments of
these berries from the valley did not ex-
coed 5000 crates. Through the increased
demand brought about by the efforts of
the association, the growers, by increas-
ing their acreage, were able to more
than supply the markets OF Seattle and
Tacoma, and began looking about for
other outlets. They next shipped linn
tied quantity to North Yakima by way
of experiment, and soon learned that
the commission men here were reship-
ping the berries to Spokane. Therefore
the next season found them shipping di-
rect to Spokane in large quantities and
getting satisfactory returns. During
this year, the first in which they tried
to supply the outside markets, their
shipments aggregated for the season
more than 100000 crates of berries, and
the markets to which they were shipped
did not appear to be any nearer over
stocked at the end of the season than
they were at the beginning. This con-
dition is true today; the more the bust
ness is extended to new cities, the
greater the demand becomes, and the
better prices the association is enabled
to get for anything it handles. Their
principal market now is in the cities of
the east. The association had dlscov-
cred that the population at one end of
the Northern Pacific road was composed
of consumers and that at the other end
of producers-the latter, of course, the
farmers of the great Northwest. The
country at this end of the line, and not
only the soil, but the climate, the water
and every other element necessary is
well adapted to the raising of fruit, and
Alaska. North and South Dakota, Brit
ish Columbia and the eastern states
will afford good markets as long as any
of the present generation is alive, to say
the least.
Speaking of the experiences of the