The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-31
GIVE SEATTLE
APPLE SHOW

Demand of Growers That Next
Show Be Featured at the
Sound Metropolis
6TRAGETTC POINT
BECAUSE OF SHIPPING
With Panama Canal Opened Nat
Wal Gateway Of Fruit Ship
ments Will Be From Sound to
European and Oriental Ports
SEATTLE, Jan. 24.-That the APP
pie show out Of which has grown the
great Apple Land Shows now held in
the large cities Of the East has been
one Of the very best advertising
mediums for the Northwest, there is
not any doubt. 1t is proposed to
hold a monster-a Worlds Apple
Show at Seattle the coming fall. At
once the question arises. what will
Spokane say? The answer is that
the Apple Show which originated in
Spokane has outgrown that particu-
lar locality. Vancouver has had her
Apple Show. Last year there was a
Denver Apple Show and California
and Portland had theirs. Our state
fair is held at Yakima. 1t has been
proposed to move it to Spokane or
to Seattle, where there is greater
population, and Yakima has resisted
this and held the state concession.
But Spokane has had not the State
Fair" but an Interstate fair in the
Inland Empire and Seattle saw the
benefit, so we have another state
fair In the west, either of which Is
possibly more largely attended than
the Yakima fair. To hold an Apple
Show at Seattle will not interfere with
big show at Spokane.
Seattle Strategic Point
But Seattle is the strategic point,
and 1912 is the strategic year to hold
a Worlds Apple Show. Here are SIX
reasons why:
LIST. In about eighteen months the
Panama canal will be open to traf-
fic. Then we can ship a box of APP
Piles for twenty-five cents to London.
Now 1t costs seventy-five cents. The
great apple buyers of New York,
through whom we have sold our
fruit, will shift to the coast, and Sc
attic Is the point. The show will
show these dealers that they had
better get their warehouse grounds,
make Seattle connection with present
apple traffic at once.
Q. The trade in apples in the ORR
ent has wonderfully increased even in
the last three years. These apple
buyers and those from the Islands
and Europe can be drawn to this
Worlds Apple market, and Worlds
Apple Show will help do it.
Many Land Boosters.
g. In Seattle are many boosters,
many real estate men talking the
fruit land OF the entire northwest.
There are red apple window displays
in which are featured Yakima, Sunny
side, Grandview, Richland, Kenne-
wick, Wenatchee, Chelan, Hood River,
Medford and Arcadia, Greenacres,
etc, at Spokane. Behind these VIM
dows are generally men and often
giants in real estate who have landed
interests in these various sections.
Among these can be named Calhoun,
w. w. Robinson and Denny Blaine of
Yakima, Virtue of Moses Coulee,
Perkins and Bale of Moses Lake, De
Graft and Powell Of the Columbia etc.
These men are able and know how to
put up show. They have proved it
in the A. Y. p.
Growers Favor Seattle
4. This question had been reviewed
by many of the fruit growers who for
several years have shown a tendency
to call for a Seattle Apple Show. To
find out to what an extent this de-
sire exists, the proposition has been
put up to such men as A. p Wright
of Chelan, who says, IT would like
to show in attic. NJ. Koran of
Wenatchee, 81 am favorable to Sc
attic for a Worlds Apple Show, and
think l can speak for our Commercial
club. Let Seattle take the initiative
and she will find unusual support
from the apple show people," H. M.
Gilbert of North Yakima says, s. ia
vor it, and believe that Spokane's CO.
operation could be secured for such
a show" Mr.. James, secretary of
the Yakima Commercial club, "The
apple show people of Yakima would
surely support such a Seattle move
ment."
5. Much has been said for and
against the question as to whether
the fancy colored apples of the North
west are equal to or superior to the
eastern apples. The East and Eu-
rope and Australia should be chal-
lenged to bring on their fruit and
the merits should be passed on by
competent, impartial judges who will
score flavor as well as appearance.
We can well afford to have this mat
ter settled, and impartially SO on the
m erits Of the fruit.
8. The people of the entire North
west more and more realize that 'all
roads lead to Seattle They have
friends and business In Seattle and
are looking for special rates and
special events to visit the metropolis
Many who left their eastern homes
for the Yakima, Wenatchee, Hood
River and bought their tickets to the
coast found on their arrival that they
were severai hundred miles from
their intended destination and never
yet saw the frai. land they read
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