The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-07-06

. time from d HHdHCldi StdnupoiHt, nap
pening as it did during the panic of
1907, and you no doubt are aware
that values declined very rapidly at
that time. In August, 1907, I con-
tracted for so carloads of western
box apples, packed by the Wenatchee
Fruit Growers Association, of Wenat-
chez. Washington, and before one
fifth of the apples had arrived and
been accepted in Chicago, the panic
was upon us and in very short
time it dawned upon me that all box
apples were high priced at about 33
1-3 per cent discount of the prices
| had contracted to pay. The apples
continued to arrive and | continued
to pay drafts at contract prices, simp-
ly because the shippers were giving
me just what had bought, and there
were no two ways about it; there
was not even a shadow of a loop
hole, out of which a weakened buy
er might crawl, and l don't mean to
say by this that | was looking for
such loop hole. but just
looked around to see if there
was one there. The upshot of
the whole deal was that |
very gracefully accepted these APP
pies, as they were just what | had
purchased in every respect In all
my past experience | cannot recall a
time when | had so strongly
thought the shipper would fall
down on his grading. A finer
assortment of fruit | had never
seen before in one lot; very remark
able | think when out of a lot of
$4,000 boxes Of apples you could not
find a dozen boxes that one could
reasonably complain of, either as to
packing or to quality; every apple
perfect in color and shape according
to mark, and none bruised or de-
formed in the entire lot. Even though
this lot of fruit was bought at strong
prices, and no profit in sight, l can
not tell you how thoroughly | en-
joyed selling them and admired them
each day as a person does his own
production of beautiful flowers and
plants So in our time of adversely
there was some sunshine reflected by
the extreme high quality of the fruit
we were handling; on the other hand,
take those poorly graded, high-priced
barreled apples, many of these show
ing a loss to the dealer of $3.50 to
$500 per barrel In addition to this
loss, there was a guilty knowledge
of a foolish disregard of all reason
able conditions of sensible apple deal
ing and packing. and greedy desire
on the part OF the buyers to palm off
on the consumer a lot of apples
scarcely passable for evaporation
stock No matter whether loss or
gain in our business, there Is always
a pleasure in handling fine goods.
The association from which we pur-
chased our box apples did their part
and did it nobly, and in no wise did
We ever blame them for our loss on
apples purchased from them. We
brought these apples with our eyes
wide open, and the experience We
gained that year to a great extent re-
compensed us for the small loss sus-
tanned when compared with the
| losses made that year on barreled ap-
| pies. feel sure that any dealer can
secure ZOE cars of apples at packing
time from the Wenatchee section, the
quality of which he can depend upon
as being strictly up to grade. with as
much safety as If he had ordered
100 cars of nails from the nail trust.
Isn't it a revelation in the apple bust