The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-08-25
ORGANIZE new
FRUIT COMPANY

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FRUIT COMPANY
Burt Van Horn, president OF the
Hood River Fruit Co., is in Hood River
looking after his orchard interests here.
While Mr.. Van Horn refuses to give
anything out for publication, several
things have transpired to indicate that
he has nun erOf projects under way.
Mr.. Van Horn is the gentleman from
Burt, New York, who last spring bonght
I'D large tract OF land in the Pine
Grove district OF the East Side, and
organized the Hood River FIuit Co.
Since the first Of May, Mr. Van Horn
has been absent in the East His re-
turn last week naturally aroused inter
est and spec"latio as to his plans
In answer to an inquiry from a Gla-
cier reporter, Mr.. Van Horn replied he
was not here to buy more land. 1t
later developed that cousin of his,
William g. Parmelee of Buffalo, who
had accompanied Mr.. Van Horn to
Hood River, had purchased AL Stauffer's
40 acres, adjoining the lands OF thu
Fruit Co. The price paid is not to be-
made known, though some Of the wise
ones say it was in the neighborhood OF
$4,000.
Tuesday, it developed that articles OF
incorporation for a new fruit company
had been filed with the county clerk al
The Dalles. This company is to be
known as the Crescent Fruit Co, with
William q. Parmelee, L. A. Decker and
A. A. Jayne. the incorporators, The
capital stock is placed at Sl5, ,OOO, divided
into shares OF 800 each. The corpora
tion shall be perpetual. It's place OF
business shall be Hood River, and the
incorporation papers state that the
purpose of the organization shall be I"
sell fruit lands, erect Warehouse, ship
and sell peaches, apples, etc.
I'VE are here Tor business, remarked
Mr.. Van Horn, "and propose to learn
all we can OF appe growing from the
methods employed by the successful
orchardists OF Hood River. The Hood
River Fruit 90. has now % acres planted
to apple trees, but by next spring the
company expects to have 100 acres in
apple orchards" F."
Mr.. Van Horn said that he was not
buying apples in the West, having all
he needed at home. Within sight OF
his home place in New York state he
says there are 50O, 600 barrels OF apples
this fall. On his own orchards in the
East he expects to gather 5000 barre 8.
The crop is very good in New York
state says Mr.. Van Horn, and in
Europe the crop is a great deal larger
than il was last year. While the Euro
pean markets took large quantity o
American apples last year, this yeal
he says there are sufficient apples il
Europe to last until the first OF January
The crop as q whole throughout the
United States, he says, will be gener
ally larger than last year, with The
exception of the Mississippi valley
states
When asked about the price the HooC
River apples should bring, Mr.. Var
Horn said it all depended upon thu
quality of the fruit, and the standard o
the pack to be maintained. Hood Rive
will have the Pacific coast markets ant
the markets OF the Middle states, T
maintain the good prices Hood Rive
must continue to put strictly high grad
fruit on the market, Mr.. Van Horl
believed the outlook for Hood Rive
to be very encouraging.
The principal business transacted a
the annual meeting of the stakeholder
of the Hood River ruit Co. was th
reelection of the former officers. Bur
Van Horn is president with T. A
Decker secretary and treasurer,
In conversation with NJ. l.. Thorn
whose lands lie near by, Mr.. Van Hon
made the statement that he expected il
the near future to erect large col,
storage plant in the city of Hood River
and would either buy nDnles from tht