The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-10-26
UNION COMPLETES
STORAGE PLANT
SALES MADE DIRECT WITH GERMANS
SEASONS Output Of Pears largest in His
tory Shunkage in Certain Varieties
viii Cause Cancellations of Sales.

A number of experts. who have in
speeted the new machinery of the
storage department of the Hood River
Apple Growers Urion say that no cold
storage plant on the coast has a finer
equipment The new so horse power
storage machine, which was installed
by Bell, Wildman q Co, of Portland,
runs smoothly and without a bobble. 1t
is driven by so horse power peiton
water wheel The water Is furnished
by Joseph A. Wilson, who operates
power system in the city. Water
driven machinery is much more easily
controlled than that driven bv any
other power, especially so when com
pared with electrically driven ma
chinery. The Union plant is in charge
of ID. c. Kautz.
The energy furnished the apple
growers organization by Mr.. Wilson
now amounts to 65 horse power, the
capacity of the old machine being Is
horsepower. The Union now ices its
own cars, its ice storage tanks are
always full Of crystal blocks Its daily
ice capacity is 20 tons.
The height of the busy season is now
on at the Unon. The storage rooms
are piled high with boxes Of packed
fruit and carload after carload is being
sent out daily.
The Hood River Apple Growers
Union, because of its cooperation and
strict methods of packing and grading
has had much to do with the success Of
the apple industry in the valley. As
the valley has forged ahead. the or
ganization has increased the scope of
| its operations.
The fifst cooperative organization in
the valley was the Fruit Growers
Union. organized in 1893. II had
Offices and a small warehouse north of
the railroad tracks on spot very
nearly opposite the new passenger
station.
The box apple CROP in the northwest
will be decidedly shorter than the fig
ures of estimates gwen out before the
| picking season began. The eastern
apple crop was somewhat damaged
during the past few weeks because of
storms in the different sections. Still
because of the large local product.
extra fancy western apples are finding
but slight demand in the eastern
markets.
Several gratifying sales were made
by the Apple Growers Union within
the past week. A number Of carloads
Of extra fancy apples were sold direct
l 70 German buyers, The sales having
been made entirely on the reputation
of the Unions honesty in pack and
business dealings. The sales were
made by cables direct from the dealers
| 80. IIpt "a H., fact
such procedure has taken place in the
history of the Union, the European
dealers having always secured their
| apples on consignment.
The eastern market, says G. II.
Sproat, manager of the Union. is still
| full of the local product and there is
but a sleight demand for western extra
fancy goods at prices satisfactory to
the Union. However. we have sold
car load lots of extra fancy Spltzen-
bergs, Newtowns and Ortleys to points
lin Texas, British Columbia ard Cal
ifornia and to Boston and Chicago.
Carload lots of fancy product have
been shipped 20 Texas, Tennessee,
Nebraska, Iowa and California.
The Union has shipped twelve car
loads Of pears this season. consisting
Of Anious, Bartletts, Winter Nellies
and Beurre Easter varieties All ship
ments have been sold f. 0. b. Hood
River and have brought satisfactory
prices. This is the greatest amount of
pears. that has ever been shipped out
of the Valley in any one season hereto
fore.
''The Union has been greatly embar-
rassed in filling some of its orders, es-
pecially in Jonathans, because Of the
shrinkage Of the pack as compared
with the earlier estimates of the
seasons crop. We have been obliged
to cancel a number of orders on this
account There is also a great short
age IN the pack of Baldwins and Black
Twigs, and we will not be able to fill
all of our orders for these varieties,
the sales having been made early in
the season on the growers estimates.
1.-The great bulk Of the Union out
put, except for extra fancy Spitzen-
bergs, Newtowns and 0rtleys, will be
sold west of the Rocky Mountains, be-
cause of the fact that the heavy crop
of earlier local product prevents us
from securing satisfactory prices for
the average varieties of apples.