Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-11-16
COAST HOP GROWERS
TO MEET IN SALEM
WEDNESDAY, NEXT
Washington, California and
Oregon to Join in Forming
Association
OREGON HAS 1000
GROWERS OF HOPS
Crop in State Worth $6,OOO,-
OOO---GrOwers Say II Is a
Case Of Unite or Die"


Wednesday morning Of this week
delegates from the hop growers asso-
Citations of Washington, California and
Oregon will meet in this city to organ
ize rne Pacific Coast Hop Growers as
sociation aud to adopt plans for the
government Of same 1t is expected
that the business of this convention win
continue over for a week or 10 days.
On next Saturday morning the Ore
gon Hop Growers association, perma-
nent organization of which was effect
ed 1T the last meeting here two weeks
ago, will hold another meeting for the
purpose Of adopting bylaws and per-
manent rules Of government, and it is
expected that hop growers from all over
the state will De in attendance upon
this meeting
Will Hold Joint Meeting.
On account Of the Oregon growers
meeting being scheduled for Saturday
Of this week, II is expected that the
tri.state convention will adjourn over
Saturday in order that the delegates
from Washington, California and Ore
gon may attend the Oregon association
meeting and gddfess the growers as
semDled upon the Importance Of organ
i2ation and instruct Them in the details
of the several plans of business proceed
urc aud consolidation which will be pre-
sented by the several delegations for
consideration. President l.. II. Me-
Mahan, Of the Oregon association, has
sent out notices Of the tri-state conven-
tion and Of the Oregon growers meet
ing to all of the growers in the state
and is being assured from all sections
of the state OF big representation,
All Growers Are Enthusiastic.
Immediately upon receipt Of the teIe-
gram from Presidents z. h. Blalack, of
the Mendocina County Hop Growers
association, Blit2 Paxton, Of the So
mona County association and w. h.
Beardslee, of the Sacramento Valley
association, as published in The Cap
ital journal of Friday last, announcing
that California delegation would come
to Salem to confer with the Oregon and
Washington delegation next Wednes-
day President McMahan, Of the Ore
gon association, Immediately notified
the members Of the Oregon delegation,
selected at the last growers meeting,
and has received replies from all TO the
effect that they will be ON hand and
ready for business, This same delega-
tion Of Oregon growers comprises tho
committee on bylaws for the Oregon
association, and when they meet here
on Wednesday for the tri.state confer
ence II is expected they will proceed
to draft the bylaws and have them
ready for the Saturday meeting of the
growers
vital TO Oregon Growers.
"Therc are about 1000 growers OF
hops in Oregon, 256 in California and
several hundred in Washington, said
President McMahan, Of the Oregon as
sociOtion, in discussing the business to
be transacted by the two meetings OF
this week, and particularly the meet
ing Of the tri,state delegations, which
meets Wednesday. "The industry rep
resents an annual income Of about $6,-
100000 TO the Oregon producers, which
is distributed over the state generally,
and principally to labor, and this meet
ing Of Wednesday IN form The Pacific
Coast association, Is Of such vital inn
portance to the aop growers Of the
coast and, to the industry Of Oregon
especially, that the business Of this con.
vention of delegates cannot be consum-
mated In a hurry and hapha2ard man
ner,
Case Of Survive or Perish.
"Each delegation from California,
Washington aud Oregon, no doubt, will
have some plan Of organization for a
central or business corporation TO sub
init to the convention, and each one will
be taken up in the order In which taey
are submitted and gone over thoroughly
and in detail until some system that Is
fair satisfactory and agreeable TO all
is worked out and finally adopted. The
question Of the future Of the hop in
dustry Of the Pacific coast Is weighing
in the balance, we are now launched
upon a campaign 20 organize for ouI
J own protection, and the perpetuation Of
the industry an 10 forever throw of
the yoke Of speculative oppression, OF
20 out Of the business altogether
earnestly hope that every grower OF
hops In this state will take o personal
e interest In tho movement and make II
e special point to be at both meetings
II possible, but at the Saturday meet
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