The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-09-21
SHOWS
WANT FRUIT
Cooperation of Growers Needed
In Heavy Task Commercial
Club Has Undertaken.
ARE ACTING FOR COUNTY
AT STATE FAIR EXHIBIT
Will Also Send Products of Yaki-
ma East and West to the Big
gest Displays of the Country
This Season.

Gathering fruit for three exhibit
tions is the monumental task in which
the Commercial club is now en-
gagged. These shows are the state
fair of Washington, which will open
in North Yakima on Monday next;
the Spokane show and the show at
Chicago. This takes an enormous
quantity of fruit and fruit of a quail
ity which only the growers know of.
Therefore the club is sending out al
appeal to all who have fruit of ex-
hibition character to preserve it. The
cold storage plant will gladly care for
any fruit set aside for exhibition pur-
poses and as much of this is of
character which cannot be exhibited
in three places there is this year a
demand for a greater quantity than
ever before
Now Is Harvest Time.
Now is the time to harvest and pre-
serve a great proportion of the orna-
mental stuff. 1t must be "cornered"
at once. This duty is really up to the
growers, in whose interest the Com
mercial club is working. They are
the ones who know what they have
and who are best prepared to protect
the interests of the district by seeing
that the fruit at once goes into cold
storage. What has been said about
fruit applies equally strongly to
grains and vegetables.
Gathering County Exhibit.
Messrs. Kinyon, Nelson, Peck and
others are working hard to get to-
gether a general county exhibit for
the state fair. The entire expense Of
getting together the county fruit ex-
hibit for the Washington State Fair
has been assumed by the CONNER
cial club, and by the foresight of the
club practically every big fruit ex-
hibit in the county this year has
been covered and the interests of
Yakima will be set forth at ALL In
addition to the fairs named there are
the Western Washington and Puy-
allup fairs, the big show at Council
Bluffs, and, as stated, the Interstate
at Spokane, the National Apple Show
at Spokane and the Chicago Land and
Irrigation congress. But to do good
work it is the voluntary cooperation
of the growers that is needed.
Trip to Walia Walla.
Messrs. James, Henry, Whitson and
Romans are to go out this morning
into the highways and byways of the
city and get together a carfull of
earnest yakima enthusiasts who will
go to Walla Walla Thursday night to
attend the Walla Walla fair Friday.
They will be back in North Yakima
again by Saturday morning. The
fare, including Pullman berth both
ways, will be less than $40 and a car
can be had if IS men are got to make
the trip. While. as matter of fact. it
should be easy 20 get 100 under the
circumstances. which is one OF frater-
nal good fellowship. the necessity has
arisen OF making canvass for a
mere carload Walla Walla is to make
a return visit here at the time of the
State Fair.
Other Club Activities.
The matter of making an exhibit
at the Puyallup fair has been placed
up to the publicity committee with
instructions 10 ascertain dl once lIOIl
w L. Wright whether it will be pos
sible to remove his exhibit from the
Seattle fair this week and store it I'M
til the first week in october for the
Puyallup fair.
In addition to bearing the entire
expense of the fruit exhibit of the
State Fair here the club is also bear
ing the entire cost of the canvass OF
the city for rooms TO house the fair
guests during their sojourn here.
Secretary James was last night au-
thorized to procure two men to han
die the exhibit at Spokane. One is
to go ahead on Thursday night week
and prepare the booth and the other
to follow on Saturday night week TO
accompany the exhibit. The COM
mittee now at work gathering fruit
for the fair has been instructed TO
gather fruit also for the Chicago eX-
4 hibit. At the show at Chicago a part
of the Yakima space will be occupied
| by Kennewick, provided the people
of the Columbia river town agree &c
pay their proportion of the expense
and send a man to have charge OF