The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-01-11
HOOD RIVERS
EXHIBIT BEST

If numbers, enthusiasmm and the
quality on exhibits count for any
thing the session of the Oregon State
Horticultural Association, which
opened in the Marquam building at
10 O'Clock Tuesday morning, will go
into history as the most successful
meeting the society has ever held.
Never before have so many prominent
Oregon horticulturists come together
to Interchange couItesies and ideas on
fruit. growing.
Hood River, Salem, Independence
and McMinnville, Portland and East
ern Oregon were represented. Those
who are uniformly successful have
come to teach others; those who have
met with failure have come to learn.
When President J.. r. Cardwell called
the meeting to order, fully rs fruit
growers from all parts of the state oc-
cupied seats in the ball.
The pick of the apple crop Of the
respective owners was p led In pro-
fusion on long tables. Visitors we're
reminded of the days of the Lewis and
Clark exposition, when they saw so
much fine fruit that they ceased to
wonder. But in quality this exhibit
was said by the Horticultural men to
surpass the exhibit at the fair.
Competition was keen. Hood River
had by far the best display, for out
side Of this section there we're but two
other entries Of apples, both from the
Willamette Valley. Millard o. Lowns-
dale, of Dundee, has seven boxes Of
choice Braldwins, while +. W. Wal
: lace, of McMinnville, had an entry of
the same variety. Outside of one
kind of apples, it looks as II the Hood
River men we're able to retain their
long held supremacy. Southern Ore
gon seems to have forgotten entirely
| to make any entries.
Hood River also enjoyed the dis
tinction of sending the largest dele
cation to the convention, more than
Is persons going from here. The list
includes the following
X. G. Brock, A. l. Mason, +. IL.
Shepard and wife, q. X. Castner, A..
p Bateham, James A. Wilson, Edwin
Knowles, Thomas Il. Avery, j. l..
Carter, j. G. Porter, b. r. Tucker,
G. E. Markham and wife, E, L. Smith,
Peter Mohr, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Eg-
CERT, G. e. Warren, W. II. Marshall,
S. j. LaErance and n. Shelley Nor
gan.
ln the distribution of cups Hood
River secured five out of the seven
offered, and of the four honorable
mentions made, was given one. The
exhibition of apples is said to be the
finest that has ever been made In thii
state and that 1t far exceeds the one
made at st. Louis and also at the
Lewis and Clark fair.
Following is list Of the cup win
ners
Northern Spies, A. Holiday, Soap
poose.
Jonathan, A. Holiday, Scappoose.
Arkansas Black, William Ehrck
Hood River.
Baldwin, NJ. o. Lownsdale, Ia
Fayette.
Lady Apple, A. l. Mason, HooC
River.
Yellow Newtowns, Thomas E. Avery
! I1bOi INlNbls
Spitzenberg, A. p. Bateham, Mo
sier.
First best comercial exhibit, j. l.
Carter, Hood River.
Second, commercial exhibit, r. b
Tucker, God River.
Honorable mention: Ortley, Pete
Mohr, Hood River; Ben Davis, NJ. o
Lownsdale, La Fayette; Jonathan
Captain Gordon Voorhies, Medford
Baldwin, +. W. Wallace, McMinn
vile.
The judges we're j. b. Pilkington o
Portland; K. ii. Lambertson of Salem
of the state board of Horticulture, AM
Colonel Henry T.. Dosch of Portland
and the prize winning apples wer
given to the persons who donated tn
|. cups.
In speaking of the Hood River ex
hibit, the Oregonian says:
"The Hood River orchards are NO
so extensive as those of Southern Ore
gon, but when it comes to showing th
right kind of fruit and carrying ol
prizes the little valley is right ito th