The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-04-07
BERRY Men FORM
CANNING co.
NORTHWEST BERRY GROW
ERS AND GAMERS IN.
CORPORATE TO
HANDLE CROPS
CORPORATION to Be Capitalized at
100000 as Result of
Portland Conference.

The Oregon Washington Canning and
Preserving company, a giant cOrpo-
ration with capitalization of $780,
600 900, for the purpose of develop
ing and stabilizing the canning in
dnstrv of Oregon and Washington
was authorized at a meeting of 20
financiers and business men of the
two states at the Benson Hotel in
Portland.
Every effort consistent with con-
sentative financing and stable organ
i7ation will be pushed in order to
handle the 1921 bush berry and fruit
crop. which promises to be the big
gest on record, with the greatest eff
ficiency and the largest returns to
p growers and producers.
= Articles Incorporating the giant
concern were ordered by telegraph
filed under the laws of the state of
Delaware. so that no time would be
lost in getting the organization I'M
der way.
\ board of directors of sixteen
men. eight from each state, will be
chosen to manage the corporation.
These men will elect the officers
and select the canneries to be taken
in.
Such an organization was first
considered at a recent meeting in
Seattle. Yesterdays meeting in
Portland was presided over by w.
H. Paulhamus, president of the Puy-
aIlup and Sumner Fruit Growers
Canning co.
The conference yesterday was the
elimination of series held in the
Two states in the hope of putting the
fruit industries on solid founda-
ZION. Twenty thousand growers in
the belt from the southern Oregon
line TO the northern boundary OF
Washington will be benefited by the
Capitalization and the fruit industry
of the Two states receive big I'M
petus, it was declared.
In a statement given out yester-
day. it was announced that:
The purpose of the new company
is TO develop the fruit growing and
packing industries of the two states
as unit, to stimulate berry growing
!. and to facilitate the manufacture and
! marketing of berry and other fruits
Of Oro6o+-~a1d Washington.
Prominent men attending the Or
ganization meeting from Washington
were H. C. Henry. president OF the
Henry Investment company OF seat
lie; j. w. Spangler, president OF the
Seattle National bank of Seattle'
Gordon C. Corbaley of the Meinrath-
Corbaley corporation OF Seattle; Hen
ny Rhodes of Tacoma; w. r. Rust OF
Tacoma; Chester Thorne OF Taco-
ma: G. H. Raleigh, manager OF the
Tacoma branch of the Bank OF Cal
ifornia; w. H. Paulhamus, president
of the Puyallup & Sumner Fruit
Growers Canning company or Puyai
lup, and Will l.. Finch OF New YORK.
Attending the meeting from Ore
gon were F.. p. Kendall of the Amer
lean Can company, Portland; r. "A.
Douty, president of the Muitnomah
Lumber & Box company or Fort
land; ]. C. Ainsworth, president OF
the United States National bank
Portland: S. l.. Eddy, vice president
of the Laid & TiltOn bank, Port
land; William A. MacRae, manager
of the Portland branch OF the BANK
of California; Fraik c. Stettler' pres
ident of the Settler Manufacturing
company Of Portland; Albert "
Schmitt, president of the FIRST wa
tional bank of Albany, Ore; Eaear
b. Piper, editor of The Oregonian OF
Portland: j. e. Wheeler, puDllsher
of the Evening Telegram OF fort
land: Donald ]. Sterling. managing
editor of the Oregon Journal OF ror',
land; Will C. Allen of Hunt Bros
Canning company Of Salem.
Through reduction OF overhead en-
penses and making possible the WIZ
est distribution of products by all
aggressive and nationwide seiiihs
campaign the new concern, IL Is eA-
planned will be enabled to peheii'
the growers even though their Der
riees bring a smaller price as ra"
material than in boom years.
The merger of the canning anu
preserving industries OF the
states, into this concern, to be known
as the gon-Washington Cahhine
and Preserving company, IL was ~.
clared, will insure machinery SUI
cient to market the products Oh the
company all over the world. Farmers
and growers will be insured ieau'
outlet for their fruit, it was iur'he'
declared.
Washington not only has large
acreage in berries now, but has al
immensely greater area OF potential
fruit property and the assurance "
powerful business backing ana the
most capable manufacturing '
marketing talent that can DC w
tanned, it was declared, heraids
new period of substantial progress
and a more stable prosperity through
an all.year industry such as cohte"