The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-31


One thousand dollars in lgold will
be awarded as q special prize to
the grower of the best single APP
pie exhibited at the National apple
show in the Spokane state armory
Dec. to IA The competition Is
open to the world. In addition,
prizes aggregatlng $4,000 and
numerous trophies, medals, ban
ners and ribbons will be hun & up
for exhibits din other classes.
Officers OF the Spokane County
horticultural association. healed by
Ii. w. Greenburg, under whose
auspices the exposition will be
held, have completed preliminary
arrangements for the incorporation
of the National Apple Show soceity
under the laws OF Washington,
with a capitalization of 100000,
which will be Immediately sub
scribed by local people.
The committee on Incorporation
land plans is to be composed of
Louis w. Hill of st. Paul. president
of the Great Nortern Railway com
pany; ID. G. Corbin OF Spokane.
president of the Spokane Interna-
tional Railway company: Floyd
h. Daggett, formerly mayor of
spokane; I4achlan Maclean, presl-
dent of the Spokane Canal COM
pany; David Brown, president of
the Hazelwood company; w. ID.
Vincent, president of the Washinls-
ton state Bankers association, and
Philip T. Beecher, local capitalist
l.. +. Williams is chairman of the
finance committee, and A. Van
Holderbeke. formerly state fruit
commissioner of Washington, Is at
the head of the prize list COM
mittee,
Growers in all parts OF the Unit
| ed States and Canada, as well as
Europe, will be invited to send ex-
hihts for competition, and there
| will be displays in contests between
the Pacific and Northwestern
states and provinces and the var
ious districts in Washington. Ore
gon Idaho, California. Montana
anu bTlUlSH tOluHUld.
Advices already at hand are that
growers in the provinces of Nova
Scotia, Ontario. Quebec. Alberta
and British Columbia, and New
York, Maine, California, Ohio,
Michigan. Missouri. Iowa. Nebraska
Massachusetts and several other
eastern and middlewegtern ates
will enter as contestants and II Is
known that practically every rec
ognized district in the Northwest
ern and Pacific states Will be rep
resented The chief judges of the
show will be exporters from Eng
land or Germany and experts
from eastern and middlewestern
states.
The prize hist will be the largest
ever offered in competition for
growers OF apples. The purpose is
to encourage the industry, not
alone in the Pacific Northwest, but
all over the continent and through
out the world.
The primary object of the oiIynni-
zation is to popnlarize the arple
as the great national fruit, by
creating greater demand for high
grade fruit at prices which will
leave profit TO the grower with
out working hardship upon the
consumer. The plan is to educate
the people to the knowledge that
dhere Is nothing more healthful
/ m
end the day Thus will the apple
come into Its own as the king OF
fruits.
L To lgive an idea of the ran!d
| growth of the apple industry In
the Northwest 1t may be mentioned
that official reports submitted to
Gcv. Albert y. Mead show Wash
ington had 3,772,105 producing
trees last year, and that SOC, 900
more will come into bearing this
year, when also l,000,000 one and
two year old trees will beNset ont
in various parts of the state. The
value of the 1907 crop in this
state was $1O.OOOOOO, Expert horti-
culturists say the yield will bring
\ from $l5,OOO,OOO to $2O,OOO,OO0 this
year II they are able to secure suf
iicient help to harvest the crop and
adequate transportation facilities
to send 1t to the markets.
Levi Grant Monroe, secretar!
OF the Washington Horticulture
association. which will hold 1T
fourth annual convention in Spo
kane Dec. TO II, said in refer
ence to the national show:
Apple growing is one OF tn
greatest industries and the bielges
resources OF Washington and
believe that In time VI will b
of far greater Importance than tn