The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-11-12
UNION Of
WESTERN APPLE DISTRICTS
Rogue River Association Has Already Endorsed the
Plano. w. Wimeroth Discusses the Idea - Be-
ieves it to Be Entirely Practicable Think
it Feasible Idea

c. ". Wilmeroth, manager of the
Rogue River Fruit & Produce asso-
citation and a former resident of this
city, is in Wenatchee today on his
way to the apple show at Spokane.
Mr.. Wilmeroth has been the man
ager of the association for the past
year and has been reelected for the
coming year at a greatly increased
salary.
A representative of the Daily
World. in discussing the apple situ-
alton with Mr.. Wilmeroth, asked this
question:
What do you think of a closer
organization Of the fruit districts Of
the west?''
Said Mr. Wilmeroth: THAT is the
very question that is receiving the
attention of the people of the Rogu
River valley today. and at their last
meeting the directors of the Rogue
River Fruit & Produce association
passed a resolution favoring that
very thing"
do you believe it to be feasible
to organize the growers into an eff
fective marketing association"
Said he: II believe 1t to be abso-
lutely feasible"
10000 Cars in All.
ha h1v arpIa diet fbara ~
altogether 10000 cars. Allowing 5
cents per box for association charges
would give 100000. With this
$4,000 could be used in paying
salaries to 100 men throughout every
section of the United States. Another
s150,00O could be used in advertis-
ing, a third $150,000 could be used
for railroad fare and expenses, and
then you have another $4,000 left
for any other exigencies which may
arise. 1 believe it is possible to eff
feet working organization among
the following districts: Wenatchee,
Hood River, Yakima. Grand juno
ton, Rogue River. the Willamette
valley and the Bitter Root valley.
Each district should have an organ
ization of its own as now exists, but
each district could have a represen-
tative or representatives at head
quarters at Portland, Omaha. Chica-
go or some other place where the
selling is done.
The Selling Committee.
The representatives composing the
selling committee could receive bids
and have control absolutely of the
sales and distribution department. In
this way the apples need not be
dumped into the general market to
compete against each other, neither
would there be the danger of an
oversupply in any one district. If we
could not get the price We believed
to be reasonable, We could store them
until later in the season.
Rogue River Figures.
Mr.. Wilmeroth states that Rogue
River this year sold between 500 and
500 cars of apples and 325 cars OF
pears. For their Spitzenbergs they
received $1.75 and So; 3 1-2 tier
Newtowns brought $3.50, and 81 per
box was refused for 25 cars of Ben
Davis. The California style of pack
ing was changed this year to the
style used here. A packing school
was established and several hundred
was established and several hundred
five years the growers have paid
10 1-2 cents for boxes. This year
the association secured them for 10
cents box. which still allowed IL
of a cent per box for the association.
Is Going Abroad.
After taking in the apple show Mr..
Wilmeroth expects to leave for Eu-
rope, and will later visit China. Jap
a. and Australia. He makes the trip
for the special purpose OF studying
the fruit market conditions of those
countries.
Believes Big Organization Necessary.
Mayor-Elect C. B. Halbert. who
accompanied Mr.. Wilmeroth today.
in reference to the matter, said: IT
am positively satisfied that such an
organization would be one of the
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