The Daily Missoulian., 1909-11-08
INTEREST IS TAKEN
BY LUMBERMEN
NATIONAL APPLE SAOWsA AT SPO-
KANE ATTRACTING GREAT
DEAL OF ATTENTION..

Spokane. Wash. Nov. Lumber
men all over the northwest and in
states east of the Rocky mountains
ara manifesting keen interest in the
second national apple show in Spokane.
beginning November Is and continu-
ing throughout the week Outside of
the display of 100000 apples from all
parts of the country, exhibited under
the largest tent ever constructed in
America. The enterprise contains two
items of direct interest and benefit to
the trade.
One is the fight against the Lafean
bill. pending in congress- to make rad
ical changes in packing and grading
apples; also using a different size box.
The substitution of another package
would mean big loss to the mills
carrying this stock in knocked down
form. J. l.. Dumas of Dayton. presi-
dent of the Washington State Horti-
cultural association. will preside at
n convention of lumbermen. growers
and handlers on November 16 and Il.
under the direction of f. F. Cartier
Van Dissel, president of the Phoenix
Lumber company. who is second vice
president and chairman of the board
of trustees of the National Apple
Show. inc. 1t is expected the result
of the convention will be memorial
to congress-; also that n committee
viii be appointed to fight the measure
at Washington. d. C..
The apple show is also of import lnce
to lumbermen in that it is designed to
encourage the growing of apples all
tl,a ~.
boxes and barrels and other packages
of wood. The management offers
prize Of 500 to the inventor of
package that is better adapted for the
purpose than those now in use. The
need for consistent boosting becomes
apparent when 1t is known that fewer
packages We're used in the last two
and a half years than in 1896. This
is not only detrimental to the con-
sumers, but also to the trade. The
figures showing the production in bar
rels during the last Is years follow:
-""'. 60.453.0O0; 1896. 69.O70,00O: 1897.
41.536.00O: 1898. 2S,57O.OO0: 1899. 53.-
100000: 1900. 56.S2O.000; 1901. 26.97O,-
900: 1902, 46.6a5,OOO; 1904, 45,36O. 900;
1906. 24.sl0.oO0: 1906. 3S.2s0. 900: 1907.
2s.690.0O0: 1905. 23,025,OO0: 1909, e.
600. .O00
From the foregoing it would appear
that il ii had not been for the new
orchards coming into bearing in the
northwest, there would have been a
famine in apples. Hence. it can be seen
there is no danger of overproduction.
even though several million trees are
being planted in the Pacific states
yearly. On the latter question Mr..
Van Dissel said
Fifty years ago the passimistic
wall was going up that the apple busi-
ness would soon be overdone. and
would cease to be profitable. At that
time not more than one tenth as many
apples were raised for commercial pur-
poses in the United States as are
raised today. and yet money has been
made in growing apples during the
past decade than in any like period
since the Mayflower landed on the New
England coast.
"One hundred years ago apples were
but little raised for commercial pur-
poses. No great commercial orchards
were In existence. Now, trainloatis and
shiploads move from American Or
chards to our great centers of trade
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other parts of Europe. Asia is call
ing for our apples and getting some,
but not tithe of what will go there
in the near future. Even Australia
is taking thousands of boxes of our
best apples and is calling for more.
Our highest grade of American ap-
pies cannot be duplicated on the face
of the earth. so we have the world
for a market for our best apples. Our
railroads and steamship lines are
ready and glad to take our fruits To
the ends of the earth. The person.
then. who looks for this business to
speedily become Improbable does not
understand the situation. The .calam-
ity bowler may scare some people. but
not the intelligent grower who under
stands the situation