The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-06-25
FOREIGN APPLE MAR
KET is AIMED AT.

Al " ILH tNDOIlb Vi Buillp6I apple
from nearly all sections of the country,
fruit factors and representatives of the
northwestern cooperative associations
are doubling their efforts to extend
markets abroad and into all sections of
this country and America, says a dis
patch from New York to the Oregon
ian.
"Forewarned is forearmed," SAYS
Arthur Rule, general manager of the
North American Fruit Exchange.
when people expect a year Of bad
prices, frequently their expectations
are not realized. The apple crop of the
northwest will get wider distribution
throughout this country and the world
than ever before.
Through the year round office estab-
lished by MIR. Gwinn, of the Northwest
Fruit Exchange in London, few years
| ago, and through special representa-
tives that we are sending to open new
markets. greater percentage of the
fruit will go abroad than in previous
years. George c. Gaede, for many
years manager of the cabin department
of the Hamburg American line, and
now manager of the foreign department
of the Northwest Fruit Exchange.
sailed on the VanDyke (the same ship
that took Colonel Roosevelt on his ex-
ploring trip, May 80. for South Amer.
lea, where he will visit the principal
cities of Brazil, River Plate and the
West Coast of South America. MIR. |
Gaade's trip is one of a number of per-
sonal Investigations that will be unss
dertaken.
''The work of the Exchange will in
clude study of the possibilities of
more beneficial reciprocal tariff rela.
tlons, where duties are unnecessarily |
heavy; economical rates of transporta-
tion. and the methods of financing ship
ments.
The SPECTATORS alone are interested |
in buying at this season of the year.
The consumers prefer to wait until
they know more about the crop condi-
tions and the quality of the fruit.
X. F. Kelly, member of the firm of
Steinhart & Kelly, who are the largest
buyers, f. o. b., of northwestern fruit
IN New York, says: "The spectators
who have hung onto their fruit have
lost as much as $500 car on some of
of their apples. However, this is an
occurrence to be expected. My part
ner, Mr.. Steinhart. will be on the
scene as usual, to buy apples.
1t is true that large crop is re-
ported from many sections, but if the
prices are made reasonable and the
markets properly extended, there is
no reason why all the fancy fruit can.
not be sold at paying figures"
Horace W. Day, of the firm of SgoheI
" DAY, who has just returned from an
extensive trip through the west has
this to say of the crop prospects:
In the Rogue River valley, where
they put out 100 cars of apples and
pears last season, they will probably
not have over 800 or 900 cars this sea
SON.
"At Hood River they will have about
1000 cars, as against 500 last year
practically all apples. About is per
cent of these will be Newtowns and
Spit2enburgs.
"ln Yakima section a heavy crop is
promised, about 10000 cars. Of this
1000 cars will be peaches and 700
pears, most of the latter Bartets.
Coming east | found confirmation
OF the very serious damage done to the ,
growing peach crop IN Connecticut |
New York, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas
They were frozen out. The weather
was warm in December and January. !
and became bitterly cold in February,
zero to 30 degrees below. in some sec.
tons. Many of the trees were badly {
hurt. Michigan will have 50 to GO per 7
cent of full crop, most of which is
always marketed in the middle west "
A small panic has seized the holders
OF apples along Washington street.
Wlnesaps and Newtowns from the Pa.
clhe northwest are much in evidence Y
and are selling at the lowest price of {
the season, from 81 to $2.75 a box 1
Ihe explanation that is given for an |
pies being at present a glut on the v
market is that prices have been held q
too high by the spectators. \
The result has been that people have |
refused to buy, and the Spectators
with the arrival of apricots, cherries
and plums from Florida and California
have awakened to the realization thai
they must unload at any sacrifice |