Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-08-19
FRUIT INDUSTRY
Continued from page one)

in Oregon in the last three years. Three
ming plants in Oregon. Now the total
number of plants canning fruits is in
the neighborhood Of fifty. Those plants
are not concentrated in any particular
place, but arc scattered all over the
state, and most of them are still more
or less in the infant stage as far as out
put is concerned. This distribution of
plants is one of the indications of the
possibility of an enormous increase in
acreage, tonnage and the amount of
money brought into various communities.
1t is the foundation for large business,
and looking at the business as a whole
Fit is good thing that these plants are
more or less isolated from each other, as
lit permits each locality to plant to the
limit of the amount of harvest help it
can obtain without interfering OF. being
mterfered with by other communities.
The question of harvesting help is 60
ing to be one which will need great
deal of consideration and may in time
come to be one Of the limiting factors
in the quantity of fruit that will be
raised.
s'On account of heavy increases in
bearing acreage Of various kinds of
fruit, especially prunes, apples and nuts,
a heavy increase in the number of pack
ing houses and equipment will be re-
quired. This condition. has been fore
seen by the growers themselves through
their associations and the present Ore
gon Growers. Cooperative association is
the result of the efforts of the growers
to take care Of this condition.
Zone of the outstanding features Of
our fruit industry in Oregon is the lack
of a national individuality. Other states
have been continually packing our best
products and buyers in buying them
have been compelled to purchase our
products through San Francisco or other
outside cities. Some good work has al
ready been done towards nationalizing
Oregon fruits and vegetables by the
Phez company, the Wittenburg- King
company and one or two other concerns.
At the last meeting of the legislature,
tyour legislative committee, of which
was member did some work along this
line by introducing & bill to compel con
Germs operating in Oregon to state on
their labels that their fruit was either
Oregon Crown Oregon Packed 1t
was not feasible, however, to put these,
clauses on what is known as 'Jobber S
Labels, and in wording the bill to take
cafe of this condition an amendment
was made which was ambiguous enough
to permit outside concern operating in
the state to operate under the same con-
ditions as before. In order to organize
their fruit industry the growers have
decided that it was necessary to organ
ize themselves. The plan of the new
Oregon Growers Cooperative association
will beto individualize their industry by
InationGl advertising ,and put Oregon s
superior fruits where they belong, as
the saying is in the Sum-
"With the increase in acreage new
present themselves and by collective
marketing and modern selling methoos
growers expect to minimize the diff
ieulties attendant with the heavy in
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