The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-08-02
FALL APPLES
FOR EUROPE
NEW DEPARTURE FOR HOOD RIVER
Hood River Apple Growers Union Ex-
tend the Field for Market.
ing Apples.

Negotiations we're closed between a
large eastern commission firm and
the Hood River Apple Growers I'm
ion for a large shipment of early fall
| apples which will be sent to England.
This shipment will consist of eight
cars of apples and marks new era in
the history of apple shipments from
the far west, as heretofore the market
for early apples has been supplied
from the eastern states. The fruit
will be shipped some time between
the last of August and September 10th
and will be rushed through by extra
fast service. When asked for infOr-
nation on this new feature of the ap-
pie business Manger Shepard, of the
Fruit Growers Union, said:
"Hheso apples will CONSIST of the
varieties known rs Wealthies, Kings
and Gravensteins, and are early fail
apples, which have heretofore been
considered too perishable to be sent
abroad. We have been induced to try
this experiment of shipping early ap-
pies to England by estern apple deal
ers who are familiar with the Hood
River product and its excellent keep
ing qualities who think the shipment
can be accomplished successfully.
"The demand for early apples
abroad has in former years been sup
piled from the orchards in New York,
New England and Eastern Canada.
Hhe fruit from these sections has not
the keeping quBltities of the Hood
River article and is far interior in ev-
cry way to the fancy western apples.
Shipments of early eastern apples to
England and other points across the
Atlantic have not been altogether sue
aessful during the past few years, and
as there is an excellent market for
them there, apple dealers have been
looking elsewhere to supply the de
mand. This shipment will, of course,
be somewhat in the nature of an eX-
pertinent, but we think by exercising
extra care aud picking the apples
slightly earlier than usual they VIII
arrive in first-class condition.
''lf we can market these early ap,
pies on the continent successfully We
will at once create demand for them
that we now have for our Newtowns,
Spitzenbergs and other high grade
but later apples. Gravensteins, Kings
and Wealthies do not, of course,
bring the price that the latter and
longer keeping varieties, and hereto
fore they have been sold mostly TO
the local trade. We have, however,
secured very good price for this
shipment with an agreement that we
shall receive all profits above a Ger
tain pmount of commission.
'Our effoIts to market our New
towns in Europe, in the face of the
competition from the Hudson River
valley having been successful, we now
hope to meet with the same success
in this new venture. If we do we will
have placed the apple buGiness in
Hood River valley on more prolitble
basis than 1T even now is and will
have created market for Hood River
fruit that will be practically unfail-
ing"
Other apple men say that these ear
Iy fall apples from here are even ear
Tier than those from the far eastern
states and can be marketed in advance
of them and command better prices
They say also that in view of the fact
that reports from the various other
apple growing sections in the United
States are to the effect that there will
be large apple crop this year, the
demand for western apples so early
in the saeson proves their superiority.