Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-06-05

meeting with representatives of The
various Districts at Hood Riyei
and reported the final launching Of
the new organization, all the dis
tricts joining except Wenatchee and
Rogue River.
] Mr.. H. F. Davidson of Hood River
is President of this organization
which is continued on exactly the
same lines as at first proposed. Mr..
w. N. Yost is Vice President, Mr..
H. C. Sampson of Spokane, Secretary
and Mr.. ]. H. Robbins of North Yak
ina is General Manager. Mr.. Rob
bins has already gone to Spokane
and the North Pacific Fruit Distrib-
utors is in full swing and already
handling early fruit. The basis for
the 1918 crop is $500 per car which
will comprise the entire selling ex-
pense. Each car will be sold on its
merits and the proceeds Of each car
RENTED at once to the proper sub
central for distribution to the grow
err. The Association will control at
the start seventy per cent of the
output of their Districts. The active
heads of the organization, like Mr..
Davidson, Mr. Robbins and Mr.. Samp-
son, are among the largest growers
and most experienced shippers of
fruit in the Northwest and their ex-
perience has taught them not only
the ms and outs of the fruit Sc ling
business but also the imperative need
of such cooperation as will do away
with ruinous and haphazard compe-
tition of one District with anctaer.
Mr.. Smith, the General Manager OF
the Idaho-Oregon Fruit Growers AS
sociation will also be an important
factor in the selling end, it being
conceded that he has made the best
selling record the past year of any
manager in the Northwest with the
possible exception of Mr.. Robbins
of North Yakima, who has succeeded
in uniting twenty six local associa-
lions in that valley and who has
been made General Manager of the
Central Agency.
A study of the market conditions
proves beyond doubt that the great
est cause for the demoralizing OF
prices the past season has been the
haphazard shipping and consigning
of fruit, the ruinous competition of
one shipper with another, the over
loading of certain markets aLd the
dumping of quantities of fruit on
already overloaded markets by COM
mission men who had no adequate
method of disposing of the fruit they
had solicited on consignment and
who were actuated by frantic de-
sire to sell the fruit for enough to
pay the commission regardless of
or not the grower had to
pay the freight. AT the same time
it has been demonstrated that when
the fruit is sold under skilled man
agement that has primarily the in
.ereSCS OF the grower at HedrI ldli
results can be obtained even this
year, when through the ordinary
channels of commission houses, the
grower pays the freight"
When it is considered that in spite
If the lack of returns to the grow
#, that Idaho apples have been re-
ailing in Iowa and other states at
200 to $3.50 per box there certainly
GEMS to be some reason for sys-
ematic effort on the part of the
rover to place his product in the
ands of the consumer at reasona-
lie price and in a way that wall
ring reasonable returns to himself.
his is the object of the North Pacif-
, Fruit Distributors and OF the Idaho
regon Fruit Growers Association
nd the District Associations which
ompose its membership.