The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-02-01
Noted London and New York
Market Organizer Invited
West by WincssOck
On February 2. and Conference of
HortieultUralists Set - California,
Too. Seeks Solution of Mar
keting Problem.

i. L. Goodsel. Of New York. for
merry Of London. will be ri the Idaho
State Horticultural Convention sched-
uled TO be held at Twin Falls on Feb
ruary >. and g. He comes West at
the invitation of Harris Winestock
director Of the Department of Markets
Of California, who desires his help in
solving some of the marketing prob
lens of California
Just twenty-five years ago. Mr.
Goodsell made his last trip to the
Pacific Coast AT that time the orange
industry was in the same chaotic con
dition that the Northwestern box
apple business is now The big job
bers and the growers were crying
over-production Through conferences
with Mr. Goodsell. the California grow
ers were persuaded to discard the pri-
vate sale system in the largest cities
and to adopt the English and German
method of operating through great
clearing house auctions
Today the California shippers mar
ket $4,000 cars OF citrus fruit with
greater ease than they disposed Of a
few thousand cars under the private
sale system. G. Harold Powell, gen
eral manager Of the California Fruit
Growers Exchange. has lust an
nounced that prices which are now
being received for oranges will net
more to the growers than they have
received during number of past
years. The return of prosperity o.
the country is quickly reflected through
| the auction in a greater demand for
| fruits that come in the semi-luNury
class.
Mr. Goodsell is veteran fruit
auctioneer himself He officiated at
the auction of New York State apples
held in the orchards at Red Hook and
! Gardner by he Department of Mar
lIets of New York State. While two
dollars was the price that the iobbers
we're offering the growers before the
open market was established. the auc-
ti0n sales Immediately established the
price Of So ~ to $3.50. John J. Dill
Ions right hand man in the fight that
he hae been making as the director OF
the Department of Markets has been
+. l.. Goodsell.
The battle between the Department
| OF Markers and the organized iobhers
will be carried TO Albany during the
next session of the legislature. 'Phe
convention Of the New York Apple
| Growers Association has pettloncd
the legislature that they give con
tinued financial support to the auc
lions established by Mr.. Dillon.
Some Of the iobbers have made the
cry that Mr. Dillon is raising the price
for The consumer; but il is his conien
ton that if the auction system is firm
ly established in the apple business
as it is now in the marketing Of the
citrus fruit that the Specializing Job
Der will be the loser and not the con
sumner.
One OF the purposes of Mr. Good
sell in coming through Southcr.
Idaho is TO discuss the marketing sit
uation with Mr. w. G. Scholtz, direc
tor of the Department of Farm Mar
: kets for the state.
F. Either on the way to California o
= upon the return trip Mr.. Goodsell viii
2 make tour of the applegrowing sec
5 ions OF Washington and Oregon.
Mr. Goodsell was born in Americi
I but has spent large share Of his lif
: in London. He sold out his interest
2 in Convent Garden during the pas
/ summer, returning to America {.
1 make his permanent home in Nev
l York