The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-02-11
GROWERS WILL
MEET TOMORROW
TACOMA DELEGATES TOBE ELECTED
Plans Proposed Call for a Representation
from Every Interest in the Hood
River Valley

CGEUS anu w ~
held tomorrow at the rooms OF the
Commercial club, seven delegates Will
be elected to attend the meeting to be
called at Tacoma, Wash, next Monday.
when the first steps will be taken to-
ward forming an advisory board to
have supervision of the sales Of north
western apples. The date Of tomor-
row s meeting was set last Thursday
afternoon, when the Hood River dele
gates to the Seattle conference meet
and appointed the following organiza-
tion committee: DIR. G. A. Macrum,
of Mosier, w. W. Rodwell, A. D. Moe,
f. W. Sweaney, o. b. Nye, Z. II.
Shepard and Oscar Vanderbilt.
The members of this commit tee
adopted the following resolution:
A call for meetings of the fruit grow
ers of the Mosier, White Salmon Under
wood and Hood River districts for the
purpose of electing at least nine dele
gates to the Tacoma meeting TO be
held on Feb. 10, 1915.
Ii is the unanimous opinion of this
committee that Mosier be entitled to
one delegate to be elected by the grow
ers of the Mosier district at their own
meeting.
1t is the unanimous opinion Of this
committee that White Salmon and Un-
derwood combined be entitled to one
delegate to be elected by the growers
of the White Salmon Underwood dis
! trict at their own meeting.
! 1t is the unanimous opinion of this
committee that the Apple Growers As
sociation, the Fruit Growers Exchange
and the Hood River Apple 4 Storage
Co. of Hood River be each entitled to
one delegate to be nominated by them
and elected at the general meeting OF
the Hood River growers.
Ii is the unanimous opinion OF this
committee that the remaining four or
five delegates to which the Hood River
district will be entitled should be nOm-
mated aud elected by all the growers
of the Hood River valley at general
growers mass meeting to be held at
the Hood River Commercial club rooms
on Friday, February IL, 1915, at l.3C
p. m.
THE organization committee respect
fully urges all Hood River growers tt
be present at the meeting on the l2tf
inst. ana 10 De Oh Time.
The purpose of the growers meeting
at Tacoma is to bring all existing sales
agencies togeter in an understanding
that will prevent price cutting and pro
tect the fruit market from demorallZa
tion.
i The ideal solution of the marketing
situation would be for the growers tC
all get together in one organization ant
build a selling machine that would pu
H northwestern boxed fruit into every
market of the world.
J Because of the many difference OF in
dividual opinions such complete or
| ganization is not now possible.
But all growers and all the leading
marketing organizations can agree OF
one general principal-no one is bene
fted by price cutting and fierce compe
tition, Dumping our fruit on the cen
tral auction markets breaks the price
and sending great quantities OF frul
| out on open consignment contributes Il
the same end.
On this point of agreement 1T ough
to be possible to bring about unitet
movement of all the growers in all tn
II districts and that is what will be dom
at the organization meeting at Tacoma
In order to have smooth working
Il together and TO prevent the mlsunder
Il standings that enable the eastern com
Il mission house to play one sales agenc
against another, it will be necessary I
| have a central board of control tina
| will call meetings to establish price
/ and that will act as peace agent l
H Strengthening out misunderstandlngs
II The Tacoma meeting emphatlcall
II does not mean the organization of al
II other sales agency. We already hav
II far too many agencies representing ou
II fruit in the market. That is why the
II get mixed up among themselves an
II prices go to pieces.
II If we are to successfully market OF
II box apples at living prices, we mus
II concentrate their selling into as fe
II competitive agencies as possible. III
II fewer and the bigger and better thei
II agencies are the greater will be the
II ability to push our fruit into ne
IL markets and to adopt methods that wi
II increase consumption in the old ma
Hi kets.
III The successful organization Of Il
II central board will protect the mark
y and will cut out some of the Wor
n abuses. 1t will then be up to Il
III growers affiliated with each organic
tion to see that their particular assoc
HI alton puts forth every effort
iii strengthen its marketing and to, e
ii pand the field in which it sells.
There is no use maintaining {
price unless we can sell the fruit a
Ill 10 sell the fruit at profitable pric
Ill means good salesmanship we'll Orga
III lied. The central board, by stabilizi
III the market will open the way to mo
iii effective selling and it will be up
Ill the growers to insist that the agenci
Ill handling their fruit display that salt
iii manship. The central board will
II able, with fair degree of accuracy,
VI report upon the effectiveness of
=, work done.
III The danger in this movement will
iii the tendency of individual growers
HI 90 it alone and to try to market tn
iii own fruit. Some men will be so sho
Hi sighted as to think that they can sne
iii off by themselves and take advanta
Hi of the situation. IL one man attemI
Hi that SO will many others and no cent
III agency will be able to keep track
III the price and the nearby markets v
II be flooded with fruit competing "
Hi itself.
iii The independent shippers of
iii Yakima valley are doing the sensi
MI thing. They realize that the individ
III trying to sell his few cars is the fell
III who frequently breaks the market
II everybody and they are tying all
HI independents together in order to hi
II enough tonnage to employ statesmen 1
II really 90 out and market the fruit.
III Independence everywhere must
II that or must affiliate with exist
selling machinery or no power on ca
can protect the market from demo