The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-12-22
APPLE MONEY
COMING IN
$2Ol, 900 DISBURSED BY UNION
Hood River Apples this Year Sold in "a
States by the Apple Growers
Ud!On.

The Hood River Apple Growers
Union has paid $20l, 900 20 the apple
growers of the valley since the first of
September. This amount is mostly for
the early sales, and includes the pro-
ceeds of l24 cars which were sold out
side the city of New York.
Realizing early in the season that it
would be necessary to find outlet outside
New York for part of this years apple
crop. Manager Sproat carried on an
extensive correspondence and succeed
ed in placing good many orders.
| There were but few cities in the
United States where Hood River APP
pies were unknown. The work of Mr..
Shepard along this line in small way,
owing to the small supply, in former
years, also helped where efforts had
been made to place Hood River apples,
and especially those few places where
Hood River apples had been formerly
sold. This year Manager Sproat
placed carloads in twenty-four states
and in fifty cities outside of New York.
The heavy crop of apples this year
in the Pacific Northwest, not only at
Hood River but elsewhere, followed by
the indiscriminate dumping of the
whole crop on the New York market
in haphazard manner, without organ
ization, outside of Hood River, as to
market conditions, has resulted in a
glutted market which has been disas-
trous to the trade up to this time. As
soon as the condition was apparent,
the bulk of the Hood River crop unsold
which was shipped to New York were
put in cold storage and will be held
there until the market is in better
shape. The are now in storage in New
York 1000 boxes of Newtowns be-
longing to the Union. which will be
exported only so fast as the market is
in condition to receive them. OF the
other varieties, they are being grad
ually worked off, and returns are com
ing in to the Union at the rate of$3, 900
to $5, 600 a day. This is rapidly re-
lieving the growers who anticipated
earlier returns and have been disap-
pointed. Yet so far as we are able to
learn, the Hood River Apple Growers
Union have made quicker and larger
returns for this years crop than any
other district, agency or individual
concern, and are holding apples now
in storage to avoid sacrificing on price,
until the surplus stock is worked off
and the market is ready for the good
apples at their market value. They
have shipped 454 cars so far, or 326. $50
boxes, and have $4,000 in storage in
Hood River. Besides this there are a
good many apples in the growers
hands in the valley. The shipments by
the Union this year will amount to
fully 400, 900 boxes, and the estimated
crop for the valley is $4,000 boxes.
Before the end of the season the
Union will have placed 200 cars of
apples outside Of New York City, most |
of them in entirely new markets, and |
will have opened up a future demand |
for a rapidly increasing crop of Hood
River apples. All the new buyers
have been we'll pleased this year, sew,
eral of them having wired for in
creased orders as soon as they re-
ceived the first car and saw the high |
grade fruit. 1t will make it easier
next year, and points out the work
which must be systematically done by
the Union in the near future to market
the crop. 1t has been said that it is
one business to raise the apples, and
another business to sell them. This
latter business cannot be handled sue
cessfully by individuals, but by an as
sociation such as the Union is perfect
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