The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-08-15

box for all the four tier Winesaps he
could get-said he would buy 100 car
loads if he could get them. Mr.. White
was intending to visit the Wenatchee
valley, Spokane, Yakima, and the Yak
ina valley and will then go to south
ern Oregon, about Medford, and on
to California. He will also visit Hood
river on his way.
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This talk with Mr.. White shows the
wisdom of such displays of our re-
sources as were given at Portland.
remember well the visit of Mr.. White
at Portland. He was greatly pleased
with our exhibit. The next day Mr.
Duffy, from Sidney, Australia, visited
me and we had long talk over the
fruit situation in the Pacific north
| west. Mr.. Duffy, or one of his broth
ers, is now buying 10000 boxes of ap-
| pies in the Yakima valley. The day
| following Mr. Duffy's visit at Portland
an apple dealer, whose name I can
not now recall, from New Orleans,
called on me and we had a long talk
He was much impressed with the high
| grade of our apples. Thus it went on
| LII a lew udyS dlI6I lTulI u0dl0T
| from Boston called on me and we had
a long talk, and then came man from
| Georgia. 1t would be long story to
tell of all who came to me and made
| inquiry about Washington, and the
country I represented in particular
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Among those whom I met at Port
| land was Prof. Andrew Sherwood, of
Pennsylvania. He was introduced to
me by H. e. Van Deman and assisted
Van Deman in judging the fruits for
a time. Thus I became we'll acquain-
ted with him. The other day I re-
ceived a letter from Prof. Sherwood,
who is now stopping in Portland. In
this letter he makes inquiry about
| fruit lands with view to buying a
tract and planting an orchard with
his own hands. He says, upon in
quiry I find that land prices in the
| fruit-growing centers are out of my
| reach He writes me to learn about
cheaper lands. This fact illustrates
what l have before mentioned in these
columns, and that is, that our land
boomers, by trying to make so much
out of few very high-priced sales
are actually driving people away from
some sections of our country. Such
men as Prof. Sherwood, who would
| be among the most desirable immi-
grants are not looking for fruit lands
valued at $500, $1,000 and $4,000 per
acre. This idea of parading the ex-
| traordinary and exceptional to the ex-
clusion of the ordinary and the aver
age is doing more harm than good.
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| Prof Sherwood has this to say
about our exhibits: 81 remember I
was greatly captivated by the fruits
| from Yakima and Chelan counties at
| the exposition. There was nothing to
compare with them. But is there any
| ground there that man could afford
| to buy? I am a geologist by profess
sion it is true, but at the same time
I am greatly interested in fruits" This
| is high testimony to the superiority
of the fruits grown in Yakima and
Chelan counties by one of the judges
of the fruits exhibited at Portland. l
trust that this noble and scholarly
man may be able to find some land at
reasonable prices in one of these coun-
ties.
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There has been mo small stir" in
certain quarters in Seattle by attacks
on the commission men. They have
been attacked by some because prices
are too high and by others because
they are not high enough. They seem
to be in the position of certain per-
sons who were represented to be be-
tween the devil and the deep sea-
Anyone who thinks that the commission
men in Seattle arbitrarily set the
prices on the commodities they handle