The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-11

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point had an inning at the CONNER
ciaI club last night. After the rOu-
tine business had been transacted
President King brought up this i'm
portant subject before the club, re-
marking that in his judgment it was
one which vitality concerned not only
Wenatchee but the entire region. His
remarks Immediately created the
deepest interest and brought forth
stirring speeches from many MEM
bers of the club. In fact, the sug-
gestion of the idea of a discontinu-
ance of the inspection of fruit at the
shipping point by the county COM
missioners caused CONSERVATION
among the fruit growers and the busi-
ness and professional men present.
Inspector Darlington was called upon
first. He stated that he believed that
great mistake would be made by
the elimination of the fruit inspec-
ton. Said he:
There are three main objects in
the inspection of the fruit. The first
and original object of the law was
the prevention of the spread Of the
pests. The second and more import
ant object is the protection of our
reputation for clean and first class
fruit in every market that it enters.
Let us make few shipments of
wormy and otherwise infected stuff
and see where our reputation goes.
Shall we follow Walla Walla's ex-
ample-let everything go and then
go begging for a market? The re-
ports from Walla Walla last fall
were that they were shoveling their
apples into box cars because they
could not get enough for them to
pay to pack them. The third, and
possibly the most important object
of the inspection of the fruit, is the
reaction it has upon the grower when
he has lot of fruit condemned
When he finds that he cannot market
infected stuff he Immediately gets
busy, cleans up, and tries to raise
something that he can market. 1t
is a fact that we probably do not
open more than one-tenth the num-
ber of boxes, but it is our aim to
open a few boxes of every growers
shipment. We have notes on about
every orchard in the county, and be-
sides this every grower soon estab-
fishes his own reputation with us.
so that we know who to watch most
closely. Cutting out the inspection
of the fruit is killing the goose that
lays the golden egg. Why not do
away with the inspection service en-
tirely? That would save $4,000 in
stead of $1,000"
J. F. Webber spoke against the
curtailment of the service and en-
phasiZed the idea of using especial
care in the matter, taking the care
full practice of inspection in vogue
in great factories as to the finished
product as the basis for his remarks.
Mike Koran spoke very earnestly
in favor of continuing the inspec-
ton. I'VE have never overshot the
mark" said he. 81 am in favor of
fruit inspection at the shipping point
and We never can get too much in
spection to suit me-
DR.. W. A. Stevenson spoke on the
subject from moral standpoint of
view, contending that Wenatchee was
in duty bound to maintain the repu-
tation she had already acquired in
the markets of the world through the
careful methods heretofore used.
H. C. Littlefield, F. w. Arnold,
VIM. Edmund, L. NJ Hull and others
also spoke feelingly on the subject.
A motion was then made request
ing the president to appoint COM
mittee to formally prepare a set of
resolutions which would express the
feelings of the commercial body.
This was carried and the following
set of resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas. The world wide reputa-
tion of the Wenatchee valley for per-