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MARKETS WILL
BE STABILIZED
GROWERS COUNCIL TO BE GOVERNOR
Data Taken from Better Fruit Gives Bio
graphical Sketches of Members Of Board
Of Control and Executive Committee

fruit men has been likened to the gov
ernor of a locomotive. AS the little
governor stabiizes the movements of
powerful steam engine, so will the
Council by its very existence stabilize
the conditions of fruit marketing. At
least, such is the campaign outlined
by this new organization. Plans look
ing forward to such result will be
carried cut by the Board of Control and
the executive committee of the Council.
One of the articles of the April num-
ber of Better Fruit is devoted TO bio
graphical sketches of the members of
this new organization. From data
gathered from the local horticultural
publication brief outlines Of members
of the Board of Control and executive
committee of the organization are
given below:
John A. Westerlund, representing the
southern Oregon district of the Grow
ers Council on the Board of Control,
is 49 years of age. He was born on
farm in Henry county, Ill. After grad
uating from Bethany College, Kansas,
1891, he removed to Chicago, where he
engaged in real estate and insurance
business, identifying himself with the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific rail
road companies in immigration and
colonization business. During the years
1902 and 1903 he is said to have been
instrumental in bringing 1000 home
seekers to Oregon, Washington and Id
aho. He was appointed State Com
missioner of immigration by Governor
Chamberlain. Ten years ago Mr.. West
erlund became interested in large orch
ard holdings in Medford, where he pro-
ceeded by cooperation to develop
tract of 1000 acres. He now Leads the
big Westerlund orchards. In 1911 and
1918 MIR. Westerlund represented Jack.
son county in the state legislature.
G. Il. Chase, of Brewster, Wash,
represents the Wenatchee district on
the Board of Control. He is but 90
years of age, and is the youngest mem
ber of the Board of Control. Mr.. Chase
was born at Amboy, Neb. He removed
with his family to the Yakima valley
in 1892. After two years course in
the engineering department of the
w ashington State College at Pullman
com pleted in 1908, MIR. Chase has been
engaged in Billings, Mont, the Okan-
ogan region and the Wenatchee district
in engineering WORK. He owns two
bearing orchards in the Okanogan val
ley, and is the engineer for company
lrrigating 1900 acres near Brewster.
He is director of the Brewster Dis
trict Union, of the recently organized
Wenatchee- North Central Washington
Growers League. While still a young
man, Mr.. Chase has had the supervi-
sion of numerous large irrigation prof.
ects. He is member of the Pacific
Northwest Society of Engineers.
A. W. Simmons, of Freewater, who
represents the WaIla Walla district on
the Board of Control, is native of
Cass county, Neb. He is SO years of
age. When a youth he taught school,
afterward entering the mercantile bus
mess. For 20 years he operated drug
store at Dorchester, Neb. For l8
wears he was a member of the board of
education at Dorchester and was mayor
for a number of years. In 1906 Mr..
| Simmons retired from the drug busi-
ness and removed to Walla Walla,
where he located on an improved orch
ard tract. In 1910 he took first awards
at Spokane at the National apple show
on the best 10 boxes of Arkansas
Blacks. For two years Mr.. Simmons
was vice president of the Milton Fruit
Growers Association. He is now Sec
retary and treasurer of the State Line
Irrigation Co.
E. G. S. Brainard, of Payette, lda.,
who represents the Idaho district or
the Board of Control, is a native OF
| Onargie, H., being 81 years of age.
His boyhood days we're spent in cities
and towns of Iowa. AT the age of II
years he became a stenographer. Al
l6 years he was stationed at Clarks
vile, La. His last position in this line
of work was as chief clerk for the d
& r. G. road at Ogden, Utah. MIR
Brainard removed to Payette in l9O'
and has since been connected with vari
Gus irrigation projects. He has sever
ranches, of 40 acres each, located be
tween Payette and New Plymouth. Ht
has 200 acres of apple orchard, which
he gives his personal management. II
addition to being associated with varl
Gus civic, religious and municipal or
ganizations, he is member of the
board of directors of the First Nationa
Bank of Payette.
W. M. Sackett, of Corvallis, Mont.
and representing Montana on th'
Board of Control, was born at Meade
vile, Pa, August q. 1869. He gradu
ated with the degree of civil englnee
from Allegheny College. Meadeville, il
1888. MIR. Sackett was employed al
engineer by the United States Wa
Department until 1890. After retiring
from this service he entered the Mass
achussets Institute of Technology
graduating as an electrical enigneer il
1892. He was associated with the con
struction department of the Chicag
Worlds Fair. Later he was employed
by the Chicago Telephone Co. In 1870
, Mr.. Sackett engaged in orchardlng II
the Bitter Root valley. he owns AZ
acre orchard, and for q number o
years has been engaged in the task o
working out constructive policy TO
the marketing of northwestern fruit
He has been a member of the board O
trustees of the North Pacific Fruit Dis
ributors. At the present time he j
secretary of the Hamilton Fruit Grow
ers Association.
10 n F. Davies, of Opportunity
| Wash. land who represents the Spokan
district on the Board of Control, is a
attorney at law, with Offices at Butte
Mont, and at Spokane. His orchard
located near Opportunity.
G. 7. Haskell, of Wenatchee, men
ber of the executive committee, wa
born in Richland, S. c.. April rs, 1875
II While he was l3 years of age he bega
/ work in bank. A the time he wa
studying law, and in 1899 he complete
a law course at the University of Sout
II Carolina. He then went to HarvaI
II University, taking special work in Law
For five years he practiced his profe
Il sion in his native state. From 1905
1910 he was engaged IN civil enginee
- ing work. In 1910 MIR. Haskell locate