The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-11-23
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H. H. HELL|ESEN'S YARD

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association of which he is president, Mr..
Paulhamus stated that instead of having
local buyers go through the crops as
they were offered or ready for market,
culling out the choicest of the fruits and
berries and leaving the rest on the grow
ers' hands to be disposed of at loss or
not disposed of at all, the growers all
went into the association and agreed to
turn in all their fruit and sell only
through the association. They had es-
tablished canneries, which had proved
a paying invest ment affording a means
of disposing OF satisfactorily and at good
prices the second grade products and
the overripe fruit. Three carloads of
the cannery products had been sold this
year in Chicago alone, and the custom
ers were all we'll pleased. A great diff
Guilty with which the association had to
contend was the inequality of freight
rates. For example, the rate per hun
dred to Chicago, New York city, Buffalo
or st. Paul was 75c, while to Butte,
Mont, it was S1.10. AS soon as the
valley became producer in consider
able quantities the brokers sent their
buyers among the members to secure
the crop from individuals, but the men,
bership was loyal to the association and
refused to sell only as agreed upon.
The members of the Yakima Horticul-
tural Union were making the mistake,
the speaker said, that his union had
avoided, and were allowing the middle
men to make all the profit that the
grower was entitled to-making more
out of the business than the grower
himself was making. These evils, he
said, were bound to exist so long as the
growers did not sell their products
through an association, and work in
harmony. 1t had been proven too often
to permit of dispute or doubt that asso-
Citations properly managed and properly
supported were the very best means of
handling and disposing of crops.
Mr.. Paulhamus advised the sending of
man to investigate the conditions,
present and probable, in all the markets
for Yakima apples, and the keeping of a
representative in the principal estab-
lished markets for the purpose of equal
izing the sale of the products among the
dealers who were consumers of our ap-
pies. He advised the establishment of
a good cannery, which could be secured
at a cost of $500 or 5000, and gave it as
his belief, founded on the experience Of
the Puyallup growers, that the best
market was for good fruit put up in the
cheapest form; that is, with the least
expense to the cannery, and incidentally
to the consumer. He gave the local as
ISOLATION much valuable advice on how
its affairs should be conducted, and said
that fifty men possessing good farms,
men of honor and integrity, banded to-
gether and remaining loyal to the or
ganization, could build up here in the
Yakima valley one of the best associa-
tons in the world, and aided by all who
would come into it when its success
had been proven, would be able to set
the price upon the products handled
and to get those prices without diff
Guilty.
Speaking about the loss and danger
occasioned by the scarcity of cars, he
stated that the association of which he
was member had learned that the only
way TO get cars from the railroads was
to go after them and keep after them.
The companies should be given notice
in time when cars are wanted, and at
the time stated the fruit should be de-
livered at the usual and proper place
ready for shipment. II the cars had
not been provided, the railroad company
was liable for the loss that would be
sustained, and the account could be
collected without difficulty. He also
strongly advocated the appointment of
a commissioner to look after the inter
ests of the growers of Washington.
President NJ. n. Richards said the
association had ample proof that some
commission meu of the Sound were
trying to "do" the association, and he
felt that there was strong necessity
for man to represent the association
in the Sound markets all the time. The
apple buyers had combined, and while
there was no low limit to the amount of
their bids, there was limit the other
way, and none of them would offer
above certain price, agreed upon by
all of them, for given grade of fruit.