Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-02-22
HOOD RIVER GETS
BEST FRUIT PRICES
Averages Much Higher Net Prices
Than the Colorado
Apples Bring

APPtSS
The following from the Hood River
Glacier will be of interest to the frult
growers Of Rogue River Valley as
showing the prices for fruit that were
realized by two Of the banner fruit
districts of the West. As compared
with the prices secured by the mem
bers OF the Grants Pass Fruit
Growers Union the Rogue River fruit
stands well as TO price. For apples
T. o. b. Grants Pass the Union real
ized 81. 10 for Newtowns and 81. 65 for
Spitzenbergs and from 20 cents to
81. 10 for common kinds. Had the
grading and packing been strictly
first-elass on all the apples in this
shipments much higher price could
have been bad. Manager Meserve
received an order from one Of the
biggest firms in New York, handling
fruit for export, offering 81 box
I. 0. b. Grants Pass for large size,
strictly fancy pack Newtowns, to
equal Hood River as the letter stated,
bat the order could not be filed,
though Rogue River can grow New
tons not excelled by Hood River or
any other district, but the fruit
growers of Josephine county are just
beginners and are not up on spray
ing, pruning, thinning, cultivating,
picking, grading and packing as they
will be within year or two and
from the splendid beginning that they
are now making will do better this
year. With strictly fancy, honest
pack no section in the the United
States can secure higher prices for
fruit than can Rogue River Valley:
The report Of 1.-THE secretary Of the
Grand Junction Fruit Growers As
soeiation of Colorado, recently pub
lished, is of Importance to Hood
River growers, insofar as it shows
the nat returns for fruit in that sec
tion, where land is selling at twice
and three times as much as it is here,
and also the e1teut Of the bus mess
handled by that association.
Shipments OF fruit for the season
aggregated s67, $50 packages, or 2S, :.
sos, S2S pounds, equal to 1152 cars Of
20, 900 pounds each, 1917 cars by
freight and the balan2e by express and
local freight. The total amount paid
to growers was s5j5, S13.4
"Of this amount the apple crop
amounted to over PA, 900 boxes.
The average received for the fancy
apples was 81 OF per box, So cents FOR
choice, and As cents for half boxes
Compared with Hood River, our
average price for the entire output of
commercial apples was 81. 40, while
the average for the fancy grades.
compared with the Colorado prices, icc:
will be double.
THE actual average returns from
whole district is the best proof of
the net profits made in growing sp-
pies, and no apple growing section
has yet made returns that will ecu al
those from Hood River. The Colorado
fruit section is much older than this,
and land values have gone up there
until the price of land is much higher
than 1t Is here 1t is but an indica-
tlon of what may be expected here,
as time passes, and we continue to
make the best profits from apple rails.
ing on our land In no instance have
any ot the other apple growing sec.
tions any advantage over Hood River
in soil climate, transportation
facilities or scenic attractions. Hood
River still holds the lead. and will
continue TO hold il "