The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-03-16
ASSN PRIMARY
HELD SATURDAY
HARMONY A FEATURE OF MEETING
Reports Made by Stone and Sieg Show
Excellent Results Accomplished
Despite Market Conditions

Despite Market Conditions
The two significant features Of the
meeting of the Apple Growers Associa-
tion called Saturday for the nomina-
tion Of candidates for the board Of di-
rectors who will be elected at the an
nual meeting of stockholders on April
| /. were the evidences of harmony and
the appeals made by Sales Manager
Sieg and Executive manager Stone TO
growers to exert every effort toward
better spraying and securing higher
per entage of high grade fruit.
The meeting was the most harmoni-
Gus ever held among fruit growers in
Hood River. Not grower lifted his
voice in an expression of dissatisfac-
ton. Despite the fact tnat the crop of
the past season was over 100, 900 boxes
smaller than those of 1918 and 1914,
Mr.. Stone 8 report showed that han
ding costs had been reduced by the
| Association this year to the lowest in
the history of the northwest. The av-
erage cost of handling apples the past
season, when 373, 200 boxes formed the
organization total tonnage, reached
but 3 cents and Al mills per box.
Mr.. Sieg in discussing the success of
the organization in securing top prices
for Its product, declared that the re-
suits were due to decision on the part
Of local growers to withdraw from col
lectlve agencies and conduct the sale
and distribution of their fruits through
their own channels. He pointed out
| that at present the organization has
four personal representatives: S. b.
Moomaw, of London; II. F. Davidson
in New York: W. M. Dickerson, San
francisco, and c. W. Hooker, Los An
geles.
"lhere never will be a collective
agency" said MIR. Sieg, that can
serve separate fruit growing districts
and do justice to all. -
Mr.. Sieg stated that Hood River:sba
received better prices for its pears the
past season than any other district,
local fancy d'Anjous having brought
an average of $2.2l cents per box.
God grant that the war may stop"
said Mr.. Sieg, when discussing the
outlook the coming season for local
NeWtwons. The inability of barrel
growers as we'll as northwestern ship
pers to secure space for expectations OF
truit he char acteriZed as cause OF much
OF the disastrous condition of the close
of the present marketing season.
England will take our Newtowns,
he asld, ''for they are considered
necessary adjunct to anaEEglish table.
Mr.. Sieg voiced the most optimistic
expressions as to the coming seasons
straw berry sales, when kennewick the
first northwestern district to make
commercial shipments of the fruit, Un-
derwood and White Salmon and the
| local associations would work toward
kee ping the market stable at all times.
A novel system of aiding the grower
members of the Association was pro-
posed by Mr.. Stone, who suggested
tnat tax of cent per package on all
products be levied to form an auxiliary
loan fund. This matter will be voted
on at the annual meeting.
Following is list Of average returns
per box received on all fruit for the
season of 1915. including the respective
grades, extra fancy, fancy and G grade,
IN all sizes up to 1853: Spitzenburgs.
$1.S6. $l.55 and $l.l4: Newtowns,
81. .6S, $l.27 ana 81. OF; Arkansas Black,
81. So, S.. go aad 81. .l9; Jonathans, 81. 81,
81. IL and 81; Ortleys, Sl.49. S1.28 and
81. OF; Winter Bananas. $l.92, $l.55 and
$S8; Delicious, $l.83, $l.38 and SLOT
baldwins, $l.32, SILL and $76; Reu
Cheek, $1.58. $1.18 and $.94; Miscel'
aneous, fancies, $1.0l and G grade,
SIC. In the cellaneous stock, con
sisting of some so varieties, no extra
| fancy pack was made.
Nominations for the board of direc
tors were as follows: P. 5. Davidson.
h. F. Davidson, J. c. Porter, .. B.
Nye, X. II. Wallace, Oscar Vanderbilt,
A. G. Lewis, w. b. Dlckerson, C. A.
Reed, Walter kimball, E. h. Shepard,
4. W. Birge, j. E. Hall, j. r. Nuna-
maker, A. F. Bickford. A. c. Staten,
Z. r. Moller, A. ID. Ramsey and G. E.
Copple. The entire old board, of which
the first 10 men are members, was
nominated. l.. E. Clark, however, who
has been on boards of shipping agen-
ces since the days of the old Apple
Growers Union, withdrew his name.
The by laws require at least six old
members to be elected, but not more
than nine.
MIR. Clark was given unanimous
vote of thanks for his long service in
the interest of Hood River fruit grow
ers.
The prices on fruits given above are
not net to growers. From the figures
given the charges of advertising, two
cents per box, handling charges of 10
cents and the one eighth of cent per
box to go to the Northwestern Fruit
Growers Council, must be deducted.
The storage cost, ranging from zero to
a maximum of eight cents, must also
| be deducted.
As shown from the report of MIR.
| Stone, the grower members of the AS
sociation are S7.398. 16 better off from
the 1914 pools than they thought at the
/ time the same were closed last year.
A number of carloads of fruit being
shipped to Copenhagen we're seized by
the British government, who considered
that the ultimate destination of the
product was Germany. The apples were
diverted to other points and sold by the
British government. The sum given
above is the amount returned from the
sales. Ii is being held in local banks
10 the credit of the Association, who
however, have given bond that it will
be repaid, in case claims now in the
hands of consular departments Of the
government are not settled satisfac-
torily. 1t is possible that claims of the
Association, because the British gov
ernment's sales did not return an
amount as large as that expected from
the price originally sent on the fruit,
may result in an even larger surplus
than 81, 1876.
Mr.. Sieg reports that carload of
Winter Nelis pears shipped to England
last fall were detained by the British
government for 30 days and we're finally
docked in a poor condition. Because of
this the pools of the Association on
Winter Nellis we're closed at 81 per