The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-06-26
INNOVATION IN
FRUIT RETURNS
ASSOCIATION ADOPTS NEW POLICY
Monthly Returns will be Made Apple &
Storage Co. Joins Association Which
Now Controls 95f6 of Tonnage

A new policy, an innovation in the
methods of fruit selling associations.
will be instituted here by the Annie
Growers Association Hood Rivers
amlalgatmated selling agencies which
VIII handle the local fruit crops
through the North Pacific Fruit Dis
tributors, and by the tenth of every
month prorata returns will be made on
all of the fruits sold during the previ-
Gus month. For instance, If the Asso-
clatlon makes the sale of 5000 boxes
OF Spltzenburg apples out of 100, 600
winch It is handling. the growers who
form this pool will receive pro rata
amounts of the months sale, and SO on
each month until the entire pool is dis
posed of. Heretofore the growers have
been forced to wait until late in the
spring months after the entire pool wa
cleaned up, and often the retarded set
Elements have caused the orchardists
to be pinched for want of funds.
With each monthly return, the grower
will be also furnished with an itemized
statement of the sales of the fruit.
The local association, since the afiili-
alton OF the Hood River Apple & Stor-
age Co., which has just been an
nounced, now controls a tonnage of 50
per cent Of the total output of the val
ley. The Apple & Storage CO., which
is owned by a number of the larger
growers of the Van Horn district,
Will take charge of all shipments
of fruit of that neighborhood in one of
the valleys most thickly settled and
productive district, storing and for
warding all fruit that will be sent out
from there. This" said II. f. Da-
wilson and Wilmer Sieg yesterday
morning, Shows the unanimity of To-
cal fruit growers and should work out
for the good of all"
Mn Sieg spent Sunday in Spokane,
where he had gone to attend meeting
OF the sales managers of the North Pa
elfic Distributors. At the present time,
he says, it is proposed to open offices
OF the Distributors at Omaha, Mime
apolis, Chicago and New York. Thus
the big central agency will have sole
representatives within a nights ride of
all of the principal markets of the
country. "Ihis will act as moral
lzer, says Mr.. Sieg, "for these rep
resentatives can be on the ground to
take care of all complaints as to fruits
that have been shipped and to settle
any differences. They will also be in
way superlntendents of other agents
throughout the district and will form
clearing house for their respective dis
trets.
According to statements of MIR. Da-
wilson and Mr.. Sieg. the former presi-
nanf n e. 49,
ana the latter sales manager for the
Hood River subcentral, new subcen-
tral is being formed at Moscow and in
the Lewiston district of Idaho. About
700 cars of fruit have been secured
from this territory. The apples that
have formerly gone from there have
been shipped without any head and
have interferred badly with the good
grades of other districts, while they
have brought in no gratifying returns
to the growers there. They will be
graded properly next season and will
90 out under appropriate brands.
Associations are also being formed in
the Rogue River valley and in the Will
annette valley asking affiliation with
the North Pacific Distributors. These
western Oregon associations will ship
through the Hood River association as
a subcentral of the main Office of the
Distributors at Spokane. Despite the
fact that the. .Wenatchee association has
refused to Join the North Pacific Fruit
Distributors, large number of the
prominent growers there are forming
a new association and are seeking an
aftiliation with the central selling
agency.
A special accounting department will
be established here by the Apple Grow
ers' Association to make ready the
monthly statements and prepare the
monthly returns to growers.