The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-04
A Man In The State
Of Washington Refused
$50, 900 For An Apple Tree
Foesin sasn7 Net q Hitl ~ the
b-s Ss-. Worth $4,000 to
someb6u, Else, u was
Worth $4,000 to Him
Thereforel

III
Thsrsforsl ing exceptional keeping qualities
+. A box of apples it is reported
70 have kept in storage for two years
year of the Spokane and won the
first prize
whupon the exhibitor was called upon by representatives Of
syndicate which desired propagate the and offered $SoooO
fori
Which offer the exhibitor promptly turned down.
THE EXHIBITOR WILL HIMSELF DEVELOP THE FRUIT
Which, indicates the part the owner
Of the good perception and business ability
is worth $50 somebody worth more than
$4,000 present the syndicate had figure on
profit in Offering the $4,000
the syndicate opened the real possibilities the
tree give credit for marked amount OF what
known Yankee shrewdness
You have course about this Yankee shrewdnessf
Well hsenl Whisper
strongest thing the fact that is
tirsy individual
government among people seldom makes
it, appearance
For example the business Of the country
Do you know big Six" COM
panes $l250O00O0 every year3
Take the Adams express company for instance
Organized more than years ago. by had
4 70 100000
year stock dividend Of 81
according figures this company had an
investment business of only $l,l2s,ls5
according reports not cash share was
4
original stock this worth less
h apple would sell for Ave-dollar bill
al old vali carried by Alvin Adams
Magazine February Albert W. Atwood in
an article on this great monopoly only
press company that its history back humble carpet bag
express company 1855 when this country wasn't
course that hanging around
h where it had at least old valise
government Adams
of Washington who
decided that the profit from his would do him much good
n the syndicate o profits
today Express
monopoly which the Adams sixth controlling 90 of all of
this putting their pockets annually millions Of dollars
which going United States treasury.
the man who owns the prize it,
bargain would had helpless
Y and the other fellow reaping the harvest
government having parted its fruitful
doesn't idly by and this into
oo6en Of the express companies
could divert this golden stream into the pocket of the government
BY scratch Of the pen.
II could by means Of parcels post, DOESN'T
By the installation of parcels would of business
a Of the countys greatest monopoies
By installation parcels post could put postal service
how on losing basis profit making business
By the installation Of parcels post could bring country trader
B TO the city and the city to the country trader.
BY a parcels post saving every
shpp who obliged patoni the companies
N tie people millions Of dollars q year
81 But the government Is still passive
compared the
hrewnes the gentry individuals operating
press oompanesf
Where the Yankee hrewness United
have just voted again in favor Of ship Hbsidy3
the shwd individual
build up merchant marine for THEIR ENORMOUS INDIVIDUAL
PROFIT instead of building these ships ourselves and operating
q least, renting them, with profit the GOVERNMENTS
The shrewd Yankee out the Washington prize
INIT in the business Of subidizing syndcaes.
United States is