The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-05-04

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they had fine trade and would like TO
get few cars from us next year.
Colorado raises some very nice apples,
among which may be particularly men
toned Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Sutton's
beauty and the Colorado favorite.
shall have to tell you what a Colorado
Favorite is, because know you would
never guess. 1t is Mason's favorte |
shall have to explain again, because
don't believe you know what | mean by
that. ! mean Ben Davis.
"The Colorado people put up two
grades OF apples-fancy and choice. A
fancy is an ordinary perfect apple that
is p inches in diameter. A choice is
anything under q inches. All apples
over p no matter how large, are packed
in one box. The apples poured in until
they get near the top, when they begin
to place them and pack the top layer the
same as we do Strawberries. So in box
OF Colorados there is no color line and
you get all from four-tier up to three
tier.
"The Grand junction district associa-
tion averaged 60l cents for their crop of
apples, while ours averaged about 81 OF,
including 5-tiers and some seconds.
saw car of Ben Davis which was held
until April. being sold for a Washington
firm, which after being kept this long
would net the commission men who
marketed 1t 55c, and the grower would
receive SOC for the Ben Davis less the
commission mans profit.
Missouri apples, Arkansas apples and
the various other middle west and also
New York apples are generally packed
in barrels and sell for about $3.50 a
barrel down to dollar, and a barrel
contains about three boxes.
Gan Colorado apples are packed in
pine boxes, which impart distinctly
disagreeable pitch flavor to apple, and
they seems to be wood flavor in nearly
all the barrel apples which | tasted. |
might say that the only apple that !
tasted while away that seemed good to
me was Sutton Beauty grown in Col
orado and although | punished my
stomach with great many Strawberries
from the different districts to see what
they tasted like, | didn't get single
dish of strawberries fit to eat, and |
would rather eat strawberries from Hood
River culls, after they have laid in the
packing honse for a week, than any |
had since | have been away,
81 probably have called on about 300
commission men, and the Lord know.
how many retailers. When | was in
Boise, attending the fruit growers con-
vention in January, | heard two growers
talking between themselves and one
said to the other: THE reason that
Hood River gets better prices for their
apples is not because they raise better
fruit than we do, but because they are
better blowers. Consequently | wanted
to be provided with something besides
hot air to show the people that | called
on, so took along book of views.
"In this book were 90 views from
Hood River, arranged in the following
order: First were a number of views
showing the way we packed apples
which were taken from our fair last fall,
Next came views of the apple orchards
in blossom; then views showing the
trees as they were loaded and prOpped
up with stakes to keep the limbs from
breaking; next came the famous picture
showing G. r. Castner's load of 80 boxes
that brought $lS2 so, which attracted
more attention than any other single
view. Strawberries were shown in the
photograph, crate views and halIock
views, showing the pack, and view OF
the ruler and half dollar to show the
comparative size. Next came views OF
strawberry fields aud wagon loads. In
addition to this were number of views
showing our valley, Mount Hood, Mount
Adams, the Columbia River, MultnOmah
Falls, and various other views of our
grand and interesting scenery,
81 carried this book with me every
where, and showed it to every commits
sion man, bookkeeper, clerk and sales
man, and when | got on the train, At
soon as | would get III conversation with
someone would get out the book and
show him, and frequently have had ten
or Is people looking at it in single car.
Everybody seemed interested
and marveled at our wonder
full fruit. Even in South Water street,
where everybody was as busy as bees,
the street so crowded that it is impossl-
Bile to get through and the wagons
backed up against the sidewalk so closely
that they looked like sardines, packed
in box, found the proprietor would
take time and look at every picture in
the book and exclaim: Wonderfully
after seeing these views and hearing
about our ideal climate, our beautiful
valley, its grand scenery aud 81 the
money to be made here in Tai-iug truIty
many man would say i hope SOM
day to be able to make my home with
you
"Abont the first man whom | met in
Grand Forks was cur dear friend, Mr..
Moe, the proprietor of our highly es-
teemed Glacier. You can imagine the
surprise to both of us Of such an uneX-
pected meeting. However, | take pleas
ure in saying that he was perfectly sober,
and behaving himself as any gentleman
should. Incdrnlly, not that it has any
connection with the above remark, |
want to say that Grand Forks is a dry
town.
"After telling them that we not only
grew the reddest and finest SPitzenbergs
in the world; the finest Newtowns; the
most luscious and best strawberries, |
would say: we are also celebrated for
our extremely handsome girls. | would
then show them photograph OF
Of our opular telephone manager, with
which | had the honor to he favored,
and want to say right here that my
claim about Spitzenherg apples, New
town pippins, straw berries and girls
have never been questioned or disputed
on my entire trip.
81 have travelled over great deal Of
country, visited great many cities and
il ever had any doubt about it am
now convinced that we have the best
fruit country in the world, and that
Hood River is the best spot on Code
green earth.
al sincerely hope my trip will be Of
value to every fruitgrOwer, property
holder and inhabitant of our valley.
With better understanding of the N
litions whi h We have Ia meet with, 1t
seems TO me that better results can be
secured. shall he pleased any and all
times to give anyone any Information
desired, so that we all may get as much
good and benefit out Of the trip as posi-.
Bile, for it has been one business and not