The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-09-24
UNION SELLS 80
CARS OF APPLES
GO TO NEW YORK AT GOOD PRICES
Terms Are +. D. B. Net at Hood River
and Sale is the First Big One in
the Northwest This Year.

the NOTtnNest Inls lear.
An apple sale involving in the
neighborhood OF 800, 600 took place
here Friday when j. Ii. SteinhaIt. of
the firm of Steinhart & Kelley. of
New York City, contracted for SO cars
of Winter varieties with the Hood
River Applegrowers' Union.
The sale is said by MIR. Steinbart
and officers of the union to be the
biggest and most important sale that
has taken place on the Coast this year
and also to be the first outright sale
of Winter fruit that has been made in
the Northwest for 1908. So far what
few sales have been made were on the
consignment basis, and the shipments
have been small ones.
The terms of the Hood River un-
ion 8 sale are I. o. b. net at Hood
River and includes all the Newtown
Pippins, Arkansss Blacks, Northern
Spies, 41s-tier Baldwins, five cars of
i-tier Baldwins two cars of JOnathans
and the 4 = tier Spitzen hergs.
Contrary to the procedure by which
the union has sold its apples for the
past three years, when they we're dis
posed Of by the sealed bid system, a
plan which originated with the Hood
River organiaz' ion, the apples have
not been advertised for sale this year.
After sizing up the situation the Of
Ulcers OF the union stated that they
found the crop was getting too big to
be disposed OF to one firm and that
changing conditions also required a
different plan of marketing. For
these reasons they are erecting big
cold storage plant at Hood River and
a big receiving wal ehouse In the val
ley to provide against having to dis
pose OF the fruit as soon as it was
packed. In this way it was expected
If necessary to keep it until late In
the winter, when the apples from
other districts we're practically off
the market.
The sale made Friday, however, in
dioates that the fruit will move early,
and while no prices will as yet be
given out by the managers of the un-
ion, they state that they are highly
satisfactory. They give as reason
fol not giving out the prices that they
have many more cars of apples to
market and that until they are dis
posed of they do not consider 1t good
business policy to make actual prices
received for each variety public.
News of the sale to the Steinhart &
Kelly company comes somewhat as a
surprise, for although this firm has
been handling Hood River apples for
several years, they have heretofore
bought themifrom the firms who pur-
chased the whole crop. Mr.. Stein
hart said, however, that his firm de-
cided this year that they would buy
their Hood River apples direct and
that he made special trip here to
get them. In regard to the sale he
stated:
81 am very much pleased at the sue
cess of my efforts In obtaining this
large purchase of Hood River apples.
Our firm has been handling your
fancy apples for several years and
they have created market that can
not be filed by the fruit from any
other apple district. Hood River is
the pivitol point around which buyers
revolve for the finest grade OF apple
stock that is put upon the market
anywhere In the world, and we and
other firms know it. There is no
section where the apple crop and
prices for 1t are so carefully watched
as Hood River.
ut seems surprising that such q
comparatively small crop OF apples as
are grown here cuts such big figure
In the apple world, but IL Is account
ed for by the fact that dealers every
where recognize that Hood River ap-
pies are the absolute standard of
excellence in quality and pack. AS
long as Hood River continues to ship
the fine quality of apples for which
she Is noted, there will always be q
good market for them at high prices.
"No," concluded Mr.. Steinhart, "I
can't tell you the prices we paid for
the apples, but | don't mind saying
that 1t was a good figure, highly sat-
isfaotory tosboth the union and our
firm"
In round numbers the purchase of
Steinhart & Kelly will amount to
about 50, 900 boxes OF apples, and now
that the Ice is broken, it is expected
that other sales will soon follow. In
addition to the sale made to this firm
the union will have $50, 900 boxes of
apples to dispose of. This will con-
stitute the biggest shipment ever
handled by the union and although
arrangements have been made to take
care OF it, the announcement of the
big sale allays considerable uneasiness
as to the status Of Western apples in
Estern markets this yeal. This was
causd to some extent by the fact that,
initiating Hood Rivers procedure in
the past, several apple growing dis
triots on the coast have attempted to
sell their apples by the bid system
this year aud have been unsuccessful
in doing so.
The announcement Of the sale at
Hood River is expected to stimulate
apple buying throughout the coast
and to be the signal for the trade to
close up their contracts for fancy box