Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-09-26
LOGANBERRY JUICE
TO GO ON THE MARKET
F. A. Breck who Made Grape Juice
Popular, Buys Stock of Logsnberry
Juice to Tickle Eastern Palates.

+. A. Breck. who for 2s years has
been manufacturing grape juice at
Vineland, New Jersey, aud who eX-
plotted the unfcrmented Juice of grape
commercially, together with o. Il. Fer
riS, real estate dealer of Portland, |
Oregon, has bought up the entire logan, T
berry inice output of the Salem Fruit
Union and is manufacturing it into a
commercial article and placing il on
sale throughout the state in small bot
ties similar to those in which grape
Juice is sold.
During his 2S years of work in the
grape Juice business Mr.. Breck has
travelled over the eastern half of the
United States selling his own product
and making it his main stock in trade.
He has conducted the business individu-
ally and during fruit harvesting time
is he most "Stuck up man around.
He is not the only noted member OF
the family for his wife is the author
of that wcll.knOwu hymn "Face to
Face and "Wheu Love Shines Tn,
and "Help Somebody Today, and
thousand or more. Her songs are sung
in nearly all the churches of the United
States. Wednesday he returned to his
hotel in the evening tired from his days
work and was about to 90 to bed early
when he happened to open song book
and found some of his wife's songs
lie likes to sing her songs and Is hap
pv when he is talking about her. Dur
ing his business career ho has furnished
grape Juice to many hundreds of
churches to be used in the communion
service.
When it was learned that N was
coming west Fer his health anI was
going to stop in pMtlqnd. N:. Ferris
was notified and The two tc''H,d a
business lnai % Iromrtr the saIr of
Loganbclry lL,"e. lie was brought here
and wort; was ucyuu IN July and uE
August the Bro n Fruit juice company
was incorporated under the Oregon
laws. The new company took over the
supply of iocanbcrlv im"c that mad
been stored ut 'la >al"-l Fruit lriOi
and is now engaged in bottling it fo'
commercial purposes.
Beginning with July he started {
campaign to dispose of the juice Il
dealers in Portland and now has l3O
! customers in addition to the leading
l department stores and cOnfectioners o
the Rose City He believes the logan
berry Juice can be made Just as popula
and profitable as the grape juice. Tn
bottled product will be placed on eX
hibition at the Oregon state fair an,
also at the Panama Iidcfic exposition
| at San Francisco next year.
The proposition of handling tn
loganberry juice appealed to Mr.. Brec
and he went into the exploitation o
this product with the same busines
energy with which he promoted tn
growth of his grape juice business II
does not promise wonders in the way o
development of the demand for tn
uice but believes that by proper ad
vertising and distribution it can b
made profitable for both the grower o
the berry and the manufacturer. II
will work with the apparatus at tn
Salem Fruit Union in making and bot
tling the product.
The Salem Fruit Union. under tn
direction of the Oregon agricultural go
lege, pressed something like 23OO ga
Ions of juice this summer and sold thi
quantity to Mr.. Breck. As a result O
this weeks work he expects to hav
about 200 eases, or about 800 dOze
bottles put up for market. Some of tn
iuice will be stored and the rest Shippe
Il ont