The daily sentinel., 1909-12-18
THIS ASSOCIATION
HAD A GREAT
YEAR
Manager Younger of the Palisade As
sociation Issues Most Interest
ing Statement.-0utput and
Prices Record Breakers.
MORE THAN s15o,OoO PAID OUT

f. The Palisade Frui Growers /.
+ Association was organized in l.
+ 1904 and its members are all +
+ Palisade people; therefore. it is +
+ an all-Palisade company +
The stock has never been sold +
+ to any other than fruit growers +
+ who own land and grow fruit in +
+ the district: therefore. il is +
+ company owned and controlled +
+ by the growers themselves =
1. mutual organization for the ben 4.
= eft of the fruit grower. +
!. = + + f. + ..f-i.t+.s
The association has prominent
part in the fruit industry and a great
deal of money has been spent by our
company along lines conducive to bet
ter fruit. Men have been employed
to instruct and help in many ways in
preparing and making the fruits mar
ketable, and by the mutual co-opera-
tion of the company with its members
each grower is at liberty to advise
with his association on matters of in
terest, and by this system the best
methods and ideas of the most prac-
teal growers are soon adopted in all
the general work in orcharding.
That the company has been sue
cessful il is needless to say, and its
growers have so managed its affairs
that in point of service they are today
among the leaders as marketing in
stitution, and with the steady growth
they are making it will soon become
necessary for expensive improvements
in their shipping facilities. for in the
near future they must have more
room. The company already has a
large shipping station at Bridges
Crossing, three miles west of Pali-
sade. From this station our asso-
citation shipped fifty carloads of
peaches the past season, and, from
the fact that the orchards are all
young in this district, 1t is safe to
predict that the year of 1910 will see
the receipts double from this ship
ping station.
The same can be said of our home
district. With an average crop our
present buildings and shipping sheds
are very much Inadequate.
The past season the volume of bust
ness has exceeded that of any prev
ious year in the history of our com
pany by at least 2 per cent, and our
freight and express shipments of
fruit will aggregate two hundred and
thirty-five carloads. divided as fol-
lows:
ta'ut> -OO cars
Pears ... IL cars
Apples ......... 20 cars
Plums, grapes, cherries, etc. 3 cars
Total ............... 2:s5 cars
The prices the past season, with
few exceptions, have been good. Pears
and peaches brought most satisfac-
tory prices, and n goodly number of
the early cars of Elbertas brought ex-
traordinary prices, ranging from 80
to 90 cents per box for the extras and
fancies.
While we do not know at this time
Just what the averages will be. yet It !
is our opinion that the general aver
ages on the entire output will be very
much in excess of the season of 1908. /
We find that we have paid our
growers, in net returns, to date for
the past season, S13f ,.S5S.32, and to
this amount before the final settle
ment is made with our growers we
shall have an addition 100000 to
$4,000 to distribute, or II total dis
burscment of not less than S15O,OOO. |
The grower who is fortunate
enough to own n tract of Palisade |
fruit land in bearing and set to good 1
commercial varieties is to be con-
graduated.
An income of $500 per acre is a |
very common occurrence this past |
season, while in a number of instances /
we have known of much larger re- |
turns.-H. H. Younger. manager of /
the Palisade Fruit Growers associa- |
ion.