The Delta independent., 1915-03-19

central. Also Mr.. McCullagh, sales
and traffic manager This sub-cen-
trail was found to be the best financed
of any organization visited. Also we
found that they maintained an ento-
mologist and storage expert whose
services were free to members of
their organization.
The Hood River sub-central was
visited next. Here we found cooper
alton practiced by the growers on a
much larger scale than in any other
one district, the North Pacific Fruit
Distributors controlling practically
eighty per cent of the output and due
to this fact the growers in that local
ity were reaping the benefits of CO.
operation. At this point we were
shown through a successfully operated
apple evaporator, cider and vinegar
plant and it was in this plant that
representative of the government had
been conducting experiments in max
ing apple syrup the results of which
were very encouraging.
At North Yakima your committee
visited one of the local associations
and community packing plants and
were informed that the plant was
grading, packing and storing the
growers apples at a charge of 2sc
per box, which includes all charges
except the picking and hauling to the
packing plant from the orchard.
Portland was our next stop. At
this point the North Pacific Fruit Dis
tributors maintain sales office in
charge of Mr.. Wilmer Sieg, who han
dies the distribution of the fruits from
the western and southern Oregon sec
tions The systems in vogue at this
A conference was arranged with Mr..
C. A. Malboeuf, general manager of
the Western Oregon Fruit Distribu-
tors, a sub-central of the North Pacific
Fruit Distributors. Mr.. Malboeuf is
conceded one of the most capable men
in the employ of the Distributors on
account of his knowledge of the busi-
ness and his exceptional ability in or
ganization work.
While in Portland We also visited
the office of the Northwestern Fruit
Exchange and Mr.. Gwin, general man
ager, took especial pains to furnish
us with detailed information, espec
tally regarding the exceptional adver-
tising campaign being conducted by
creasing the consumption of apples
throughout the world.
The North Pacific Distributors is
made up of one hundred and fifty To-
cal associations, twenty sub-centrals.
a sales office at Portland and the
general offices at Spokane.
We found the men connected with
the organization in an official capac-
ity to be among the, biggest business
men, bankers and fruit men in the
whole Northwest district; in fact it
seemed that the different industries
had been thoroughly combed in order
to bring only the big men to this or
ganization.
Each of these men was informed
with regard to the existing conditions
in Colorado, which they pronounced
as being identical with those which
obtained in the Northwest and with
out one single exception these men
stated that the only solution of the
Colorado fruit problem was by honest
cooperation among the growers. sup
ported by the business men of the
state.
After finishing our investigation OF
the North Pacific Fruit Distributors
we visited the Puyallup Cooperative
Cannery, conceded to be the most sue
cessful cooperative canning plant in
the United States. Mr.. Paulhamus,
manager of this plant took us in
charge and explained first the neces-
sity which prompted the starting OF
this cannery. Also showing that
through this medium the growers in
that locality had been able to market
their product at satisfactory profit
and without which the fruit growers
would have been unable to realize
even expenses from their fruit indus
try, as sufficient markets for this
particular fruit in fresh state were not
available.
Our next stop was Sacramento. Cali
fornia, at which point we stopped for
the purpose of investigating one of
the best cooperative California de-
ciduous marketing institutions, name
IY the California Fruit Exchange.