The daily sentinel., 1912-01-18
PREPARE PROGRAM FOR MEETING
Of FRUIT GROWERS FRIDAY AND
SATURDAY At AUDITORIUM HALL
RepoT Of Manager Moore 10 be First Item in Meeting Tomorrow
Reports Of Auditing, Finance and Box Committee
Will be Discussed Nominations and Election
Of Directors Saturday.
BIG REPRESENTATION OF STOCK is EXPECTED AT THE MEETING

With from 400 to $50 growers I'm
attendance at both gatherings. the
Grand Junction Fruit Growers asso-
citation will hold its annual meetings
tomorrow and the day after at the
Auditorium in this city.
The official meeting of the organ
ization will be held Saturday. but to-
morrow q great deal of the important
preliminary work. discussion of re-
ports, etc. will be taken care of. so
as TO leave practically all day Satur-
day TO the nomination aud election
of directors.
Tomorrow morning the first thing
tollowiu- the calling of the meeting
to order by President James 7. Smith,
will be the reading of the annual re-
port OF Manager John F. Moore.
This lis always a highly important
document and deals intimately with
the conduct Of the associations af-
tairs UuIiHg the past year, the place
the association has taken on the
markets of the season and the condi-
tion of those markets and the effect
on the fruit returns Especial in
terest will attach to the reading of
the report
The report will then be freely dis
cUssed by he stockholders present.
The auditing committee, Of which j.
j. BRIDGE Is chairman. will deliver
its rerurt, based on the findings of
Accouuslnt II +. MulniN. who has
just completed his a~dit of the as
sociafiuu's books. This also will
be discussed
The finance committees report
viii b. given by A p. johnson, and
viii deal with the financial needs of
the association fer the coming year
The box question will be discussed
by Robert \. Orr. who has been
making some careful Investigations
Of this important mater. His report
will also be open for discussion.
During the remainder Of the day
methods and means for increasing
the efficiency of the association as a
shipping organization will be gen
orally discussed and probably some
action taken in the form OF reso-
luton
The result of the contest now on,
however, will not he known until the
close of the meeting Saturday. On
this day the official action of the
stockholders will be taken. NCmi-
nations will be made for directors
and the real contest over the naming
of new members of the board will
come to climax.
For few weeks past there have
been a series of meetings held in a
number of the school houses near
Grand Junction where protests We're
made to some of the acts of the pres
eut administration of the affairs of
the association. These com
plants have been crystalized
into set of resolutions
which will be presented to the anuu-
al meeting Saturday. 1t is declared
by those who are forwarding the
movement that no candidates for di-
rectDrships will be favorably consid-
cred unless they subscribe fully to
,he sentiment of these resolutions
and agree to favor the changes advo-
Gated in them.
The vote on the passage of these
resolutions probably will forecast the
result of the dictatorship election.
4 special train will bring the grow
ers down Saturday, but no arrange
ments have been made for transpor-
tation for the meeting tomorrow.
Today number of people connect
ed with the association affairs are
meeting with the stockholders in va
rious parts of the county and secur-
ing heir proxies to be used at the
meeting
II is believed that the representa-
tion of stock will be greater than
at any previous annual meeting of
he association in many years.