The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-06-25
new AGnNCY
is FORMED
WESTERN OREGON JOINS HANDS
New Sub-central Of Distributors Will In
clude willamette and Rogue Valleys
Hood River Remains Irtact

the Western Oregon Fruit Distributors
were organized to handle the crops of
the Willamette, Rogue and Columbia
river valleys. The combination was
made TO provide FOR future cooperation
cultivation, harvesting, packing, ship
ping and marketing the orchard product
OF the territories entering the combine.
Wilmer Sieg and II. F. Davidson, of
this city, were present at the meeting
together with other directors and off,
cials, representing the North Pacific
Distributors, the new Portland office Of
which will be managed by MIR. SieR.
The Western Oregon Organiztion will
confine its efforts only to the prepara-
tion of the fruit for market. The ac-
tual marketing will be done by the
North Pacific Distributors.
The principal objects Of the new or
ganization, as outlined at the meeting,
are
To procure stability and uniformity
Of pack and grade.
To provide the ability to market in
carload lots sndsto pool cars.
To create a world wide market by
placing salaried agents for northwest
ern fruit in the principal cities of the
world
As soon as the Secretary of State
grants charter the new organization
will be placed on permanent basis.
Temporary officers elected are: Pres
ident, Charles E. Brand, of Roseburg:
secretary, J. j. Conger, of White Salm-
on, Wash.
Membership Of the organization will
Of NJ hn
ers' unions in the territory that it is
designed to serve. There will be no
individual memberships. A grower
must join through his local union or not
at all. II his local union does not elect
to join the Distributors, the grower
must join through the affiliated union
nearest him.
1t will not be permissible for the or
ganization to make q profit. A fixed
charge will be levied against each unit
of fruit shipped. II any surplus re-
mains at the end of the season IL will
be pro rated among the growers In
proportion to their respective tonnage.
In forming the organization the local
growers followed plan previously out
lined by the North Pacific Fruit Dis
tributors.
Nearly two score fruitgrowers we're
represented at the meeting. Seven
pledged their respective organizations
gon association. The others were not
authorized to act. The following or
ganizations agreed to join: Fargo,
Sutherlin, Eugene, Corvallis, Newberg,
Salem and Forest Grove.
1t is expected that western Oregon
and the Columbia river territory will
enter rs a unit. Underwood and White
Salmon are the principal communities
on the Washington side ready to comesin.
"The Western Oregon Frnit Distrib-
utors, said MIR. Sieg Monday, takes
in the Willamette and its affiliated as
sociations, as far as Grants Pass. and
Medford and Ashland are included. But
as the south of the state below Rose
burg develops sufficient tonnage we
will establish another sub-central at
Medford.
"Hood River will continue a sub-cen-
tra to itself. Its tonnage will be large
enough to demand this. The purpose
of the sub-central is to keep each dis
trict to itself that it may develop the
best interests of that district by the
assimilation of organizations that are
working under equal advantages and
equal crop conditions. Thus each dis
trct will attend to its own affairs.
"The directors Of the Apple Growers
| Association now have under considera-
tion very comprehensive plan Of ad-
vertising the Hood River product. A
brand will be established that will rep
resent all of the valley in so far as 1t
is handled by the Association. 1t is
time that somebody appreciated the
value of printers ink when properly
applied"
II. Wood, of Grants Pass, and d. X.
Hill and Geo. Kaufman. of Medford.
growers of their districts, spent Monday
here with officials of the Association.
visiting the warehouses, orchardists
and talking to local growers, to learn
the method of handling apples az sold
through the Association and the Dis
tributors. After their trip around the
valley the visitors declared that they
thought they had beautiful country.
but that they would have to take their
hats off to Hood River.
At the presnet time So, 900 acres have
been planted to orchard tributary to
Medford, mostly pears and Yellow
Newtowns.
"If Medford affiIiates with the Dis
tributors," said Mr.. Sieg, "as it now
looks, then we have the assurance of
handling so per cent of the Newtowns.
the export apples of the northwest.
And all of this fruit will then be sold
on an +. O. b. basis. shipping point.
This is Of tremendous Importance to
Hood River, for Hood River is now the
principal producer of Newtowns in the
Northwest, but with the big acreage
coming into bearing in the Rogue River
valley, that district will undoubtedly
lead in the future. The affiliation at
this time of the two disticts will put
under orderly control the output of the
two big interests. and it will mean the
utmost benefits to both"