The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-12-30
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NAIChEE APPLES
EDITOR OF WHITES CLASS ADJ
VERTISING MALIGNS FRUIT
COUNTRIES OF THE WEST.

There is every reason to believe
that the writer of the article never
tasted a Washington APPLE" said L.
G. Monroe, secretary of the Washing
ton Horticultural Association. in the
rooms of the Spokane Chamber of
Commerce, of which he is also secre-
tary, after reading the appended
clipping from the current issue of
Whites Glass Advertising, published
in Chicago:
"Out in Washington two towns are
quarreling for the privilege of using
exclusively the title The Home of the
Big Red Apple The Yakima Com
mercial Club had started to adver-
tise it's locality under the name,
when Wenatchee jumped up and
cried, I saw it first Both sections
are known far and wide for their
big red apples, and it would seem to
us not a question for dispute, but
for settlement in favor Of the one
with the most money to spend IN adj
vertising.
"This is the country, all tourists
will remember, where the townspeo-
pie, whenever a through train stops,
bring apples about the size of pump
kins down to the station to sell to
travellers. They are wonderful ap-
Piles, in point of size and appearance.
but when you bite into one of them,
you never bite again. They are
made to sell; not to eat"
II need only point to the fact that
the two districts mentioned carried
off the chief prizes at the National
Apple Show in Spokane, December I
to 49," Mr.. Monroe added, "to COM
pletely refute the charge that OVr
apples are grown to sell and not to
eat. If further proof we're required
I could refer to the English buyers
4 for European trade, who have Sc
cured almost 100000 boxes of Wash
| ington apples this season for the
London market, and l add that the
exhibit sent to London recently by
growers in the Wenatchee and Col
umbia valleys in charge of William
Edmund, of Orondo, Wash, brought
the highest price ever paid for ap-
pies shown in Covent Garden, after
being sampled Fruit journals from
London just to hand quote the top
price at 81 shillings, or $5.04 box
paid for Washington apples, declar-
| ing also they were the best fruit ever
seen in London.
1--WE know also that apples grow.'
in the Yakima district are unexcelled
for color, size and flavor Buyers for
the largest commission houses in this
country and Europe say this and the
fact that they are buying literally of
the fruit in the valley proves they are
hacking their Judgment for choice
products.
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the hoard of the Great Northern Rail
way company, and others pay SO a
box for Washington apples to send
| to their friends in this country and
abroad and President Roosevelt finds
them good enough to include "a tie
Christmas dinner at the White House,
| it must be apparent they have other
merit than size and color.
81 do not know where the writer
in Whites Glass Advertising obtained
his information regarding the quality
of our apples, but it would appear to
me, in the absence of other evidence,
that he has yet to eat of our luscious
fruit. If he had, the editorial never
would have been written; as he has
not, there is pleasant treat in store
for him.
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