Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-10-12
TO GET POINTERS ON
HOOD RIVER METHODS
Secretary Meserve Attends Fruit
Fair and Irrigation Convention
in Famous Apple District.

Charles Meserve, secretary and
manager of the Grants Pass Fruit
Growers Union and fruit inspector for
Josephine county, left Monday for
Hood River to spend the week in that
Valley famous for its fine fruit and
freedom from rests. to study the
methods practiced there in growing,
packing and marketing fruit and in
eradicating the pests that have so
nearly ruined the fruit industry of
this country. In gaining this in
formation Mr.. Meserve has the active
cooperation of E. H. Shepard. mana
ger of the Hood River Apple Growers
Union. and A. l. Mason, one OF the
officers of that Union and leading
apple grower of Hood River and who
was one of the principal speakers at
the fruit growers meeting held re-
Gently in this county. These gentle
ment have generously offered to as.
sist Mr.. Meserve and to give hm all
the information at their ommlnd.
Fl. E. Lounsbury of Portland, dis
trict freight agent for the Southern
Pacific, is taking an active interest on
behalf of his Company in the develop
ment of the fruit industry of Rogue
River Valley and to ASST the Grants
Pass Fruit Growers Union in their
efforts to secure better methods in
growing and marketing fruits he sup
piled transportation to Mr.. Meserve
from Grants Pass to Hood River and
return.
The Hood River Apple Growers
Union is conceded to be the best Or
ganized and most successful fruit
growers organization in the United
States The proof of this is in the
fact that Hood River orchardists get
for this years crop of apples from
81. 20 to $3. 10 box. And the cash is
paid for each car so soon as it is
loaded, and the New York firm which
bid in against number of the largest
fruit dealers in the world the entire
crop takes the apples without having
their inspector examine them before
they are loaded on the cars, conf
dence not shown in the pack of any
other union or grower in the United
States by this firm or any other firm.
And this remarkable achievement is
largely due to the ability and inde-
fatigable efforts of manager L. H.
Shepard and to the painstaking work
OF the members in growing strictly
fancy apples and delivering them to
the unions warehouse in the most
perfect condition. In keeping with
the Hood River spirit of progress and
cooperation Manager Shepard has
generously offered in letter to MIR.
Meserve TO give him all the informa-
tion at his comamnd as to the methods
and rules employed by the Hood River
Union and himself iu marketing their
fruit.
Hood River has the reputation of
having the best fruit fair conducted
solely by the fruit growers in the
United States and their fair for this
year will be in session the last three
days of this week. AS it is the pur.
pose of the Grants Pass Fruit Growers
Union to hold fruit fair in Grants
Pass next Fall Mr. Meserve will make
a note of all the features of the Hood
River fair and of the system Of con-
Quoting il for use in making the ex-
hibit Of Rogue River fruit next Fall
success.
The annual meeting of the Oregon
Irrigation Convention will be held in
Hood River on Thursday and Friday
of this week and Mr. Meserve will
attend the session as the representa-
tive of the Grants Pass Fruit Growers
Union. On the request of the Union
and of the leading business men of
oi"hNo ooo lhIs lhtbtIft VIII MAKE "a
stro' & effort to secure the meeting for
next year at Grants Pass to be held at
the same time as will be held the
fIuit and fine stock exhibit. In this
effort to secure the next meeting OF
the Oregon Irrigation Convention at
Grants Pass Mr.. Lounsbury and other
officials of the Southern Pacific will
heartily cooperate for irrigation
would double the productive capacity
Of Rogue River Valley and thus
double the freight traffic for the
Southern Pacific from this section.
Reports from Hood River are that this
will be the largest irrigation coven-
tion yet held in Oregon and as the in.
terest is steadily increasing it is Ger.
tain that the convention at Grants
Pass will have large attendance