The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-07-31
DISTRIBUTORS AT
TEND CONVENTION
LOCAL APPLES WILL BE EXHIBITED
Cleveland Meeting viii Be largest Ever
Held, Says Sieg, Who With II. +.
Davidson Left Tuesday

Wilmer Sieg, sales manager, and II.
F. Davidson, president of the N. P.
Fruit Distributors, left here Tuesday on
the 500 Spokane train over the line of
the O.-W Il. & N. Co. for Spokane,
where they attended meeting yester-
day of the officials of the Distributors
and then proceeded to Minneapolis, Chi
eago and Cleveland. at the latter of
which places the National Apple Ship
pers Convention will be held. They
will be joined at Spokane by J. H.
Robbins, general manager of the Dis
tributors.
After the convention Mr.. Davidson
will proceed to New York, where he
will set about opening and getting un-
der way an office of the Distributors.
He will also spend a portion of his
time in Boston. Mr.. Robbins will go
to the southwest where he will make a
study of crop conditions. Mr.. Sieg will
return home by way of Omaha and will
visit Colorado points 20 make a study
of the crop conditions there.
Hood River is arranging to make an
apple display at the convention. The
green fruit of different varieties will
be taken back and the dealers will be
able thus to make a prediction as to
the size of the fruit on maturity. The
apple exhibits, according to Mr.. Sieg.
will be made very prominent feature
of the convention this year. and the
gathering will be the largest ever held.
"The crop conditions throughout the
country" says MIR. Sieg, "are indefin-
ite, and in the sections where they have
the greatest quantity of apples, the
quality is poorest. 1t looks now as if
the Northwest were going to have
reasonbly good market, but it all de-
pends on the judgment in setting the
opening price. If we follow on our in
tentions as now set, the and place
reasonable. yet profitable, price on our
commodities, we will be able to create
a consumptive demand that will allow
US to advance the price from time to
time.
1.-The trouble with the northwest last
year was due to the fact that with the
price Of the past season in mind the
market men started off with values
that would not allow of wide distri-
button, and in the end all districts were
forced to consignment distribution.
"rhe Distributors now have 80 affili-
ated organizations and control 20 per
cent of the Northwest's apple crop.
Growers are already beginning to pick
Astrachans. However, it will be the
latter part of August before carloads
of Gravensteins will be shipped. These
will be followed by Kings and Jona-
| thans."
The strawberry returns of the Asso-
citation are out, and the officials of the
organization say that the averages are
the best ever received in the north
west. The prices ranged. from. .S6 to
1925 per crate.
"A great many of the smaller ship
pers Of cherries are announcing the re-
ceipt of prices greater than those re-
ceived by the Association for the
cherry crop, says Mr.. Sieg. "How-
ever, it must be remembered that the
Association handeled the entire bulk OF
the product of the valley and it was
necessary to sell it all to one concern.
These growers had only few hundred
pounds to sell. while the Association
sold by the carload, and secured more
gratifying returns than any other dist
rct AS to the high prices paid for
cherries in different cities, the pur-
chasers usually bought from fruit
stand men, and the prices must not be
taken as general.