The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-03-02
AUCTION MAN
SCORES GROWERS
TOO SUSPICIOUS, SAYS GOODSELL
Present Condition, II is Declared, Would
Make Auction Sales Of Boxed
Apples Improbable

At meeting Of orchardists ad.
dressed by him, under the auspices of
the county oranges at the Commercial
club Saturday afternoon, +. L. Good
sell, representative of New York
fruit auction interests, characterized
the failure of northwestern boxed ap-
pie growers to receive profitable re-
turns from sales of their crops as
due unqualifedly to their own actions.
"You have condemned your sales
agencies and everyone else in connec-
tion with the trade, he said, "when it
is yourselves that you should condemn.
My advice to you is to affiliate with
some cooperative agency. and these
agencies should secure some neutral
marketing expert who is not grower
to act as hub or clearing house for
them"
The fruit industry of the Northwest,
the auction man declared, has been op-
Grated like railway system without a
train dispatcher.
MIR. Goodsellll voiced an approval of
the plan proposed by the Office of Mar
kets of the United States Department
of Agriculture and declared that he
would 60 further and advertise the
Northwestern apples as California
has advertised its oranges. He de-
clared that apples from all districts
should be marketed under one brand
for the porpose of reaching the con-
sumer. but that individual brands, be-
cause of their value in dealings with
jobbers and retailmen, should be re-
tained. Before making this statement,
Mr.. Goodsell, who characterized the
Hood River growers as the 400 of the
apple world, asked that nobody shoot
him.
"You growers here no doubt think
that your brands are of the greatest
value" he said, "and they are for the
purposes mentioned. Bot the consum-
er is very impersonsl proposition,
and some such brand name as Snow
Crisp for all fruits would reach
them."
While Mr.. Goodsell cited arguments
for auction sales of boxed apples, he
declared that under existing circum-
stances his concerns would not accept
box apples for auction. With north
west sales agencies for the most part
centered in handling the fruit through
other channels of trade. he said that
auction sales would in all probability
leave growers dissatisfied with returns.
During past years catalogs of auc-
tion sales have merely designated
brands of carloads of fruit sold by
them at certain dates with the price,
instead of describing the grade. quality
and condition of the apples. This
| practice has aroused antagonism of
boxed apple sales agencies, and at the
suggestion Of some of them" declared
Mr.. Goodsell, We will publish all infor-
nation pertaining to sales in the fu-
ture."
The auction man declared that law
| should be passed to prevent growers
from attempting to sell their crops
themselves. He said agriculturists
should pay more attention to politics.
and elect men who would adopt meas
ures that would be beneficial to the
farming population.
On Monday Mr.. Goodsell held con-
ference with Governor Withycombe
relative to the proposed chartering Of
ship to carry cargo of apples to
England. He has met with the COVER
nors of Idaho and Washington, both of
whom, he says, are in favor of the
proposition. Next week MIR. Goodsell
will see Governor johnson. of Cslifor-
MIA. He says that saving of &c 2-3
cents per box can be made in shipping
apples direct to Europe by steamship
lines as compared with the rates
charged for shipments through New
York city.
MIR. Goodsell. who is en- route to Cali
fornia to confer with fruit interests
relative to the distribution of by-prod-
ucts, was accompanied here by Arthur
M. Geary, of Portland, who has been
engaged for the past two years in the
interest of the auction system of mar
keting boxed apples.