The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-03-31
Directors of Growers Coop.
erative Organization Pre-.
sents Proposal to Owners
of Local Plant.

Proposal to operate the OrOville
cannery this year under an option and
lease was made to the cannery com.
pany by the board of directors OF the
lOkanogan Valley Growers Cooperative
association at meeting Wednesday.
This proposal was being considered
at a meeting of the canery company
directors at the time the Gazette went
to press.
Following the meeting Wednesday
the directors of the association gave
out the following statement to grow
ers of the Oroville-Tonasket district
over the signatures of G. A. Sham
berger, w. f. Ramsey. H. M. Roth.
rock, o. C. Erickson, N. l.. Thrasher.
w. B. Sexson. E. G. Kendall, w. C..
Arnold and F. J. May:
THE marketing contracts and men,
bership applications are now ready
for signature of the growers who
have pledged themselves to join the
association.
These blanks can be secured and
, filled out at the office of the secre.
tary, w. B. Sexson, at the Sexson
| drug store until the association estab-
fishes an office which will be done in
the near future.
1T is necessary that the growers
get this matter attended, to at once,
as it is very important that we know
| the acreage to go out of tomatoes,
peppers, etc, so as to provide for
plants to carry the total acreage de-
sired Time is short and this must be
done at once.
Our sales department will not be
able to estimate the number of lug
boxes necessary for the seasons op-
Grafton until this information Is fur
nished.
The growers must furnish q COM
plete list of acreage of berries and
soft fruits to be handled; orders will
have to be placed for berry crates.
and as this must be taken care of
early enough to give the Cup or Hal
lock people time to get them made,
we have no time to lose.
All growers desiring plants must
get word to the secretary at once.
Arrangements will be made to take
care of them through the association.
1t may be necessary to get out addi-
tional plants to take care of the acre
age and if this is true the sooner It
is done the better it will be for all
concerned.
"Wednesday the board of directors
made a proposal to the Oroville cam
ming company with view to giving
growers a canning outlet. This is very
important There will be large tom
mage of tomatoes that will not be fit
to ship for fresh consumption, and
by putting that tonnage into cans
will save this stock to the growers.
The Oroville Canning company
have established a reputation for put
ting out good pack, we want to es-
tablish the same kind of a reputation
| for fresh fruits and vegetables, and
can, by putting up standard pack.
THE canning stock that will accu-
| mulate at down river points will be
| taken care Of by shipments from To-
nasket and Ellisforde arriving here
on evening passenger train and set
in at the cannery in case the lease
deal is put through which we think
will be done.
ITO take care Of large tonnage Of
first class tomatoes it will be neces-
sary to get out large acreage, and
If the growers can grow a fair per-
centage of good shipping stock we
will be able to market large number
OF cars of mixed vegetables and soft
fruits. 1t will take twenty tons per
day or more of tomatoes to operate
the cannery at capacity which is the
thing to do
III we, as growers, operate the can
ming plant under the association It
will mean that the growers will get
operating expenses.
I'm operating the canning plant we
as growers are writing an insurance
policy on the tomato crop that will
not be fit to ship as fresh stock in
competition with the tomato growers
of the Walla Walla district and the
Lower Yakima valley. This Is where
we will have the advantage over these
growers.
Eacn ana every fruit and vegetable
lgrower under the ditch is interested
IN this organization, and you as
growers owe it to yourselves and the
community to get in with the asso-
ciation workers and make this a big
lsuccess.
I'm setting out vegetables and
fruits bear in mind that as growers
quality counts first, so do not take
on more acreage than you can prop
erly care for.
Make up list of all soft fruits you
will have bearing this year, and an
other list giving acreage that will
come in bearing during the next five
Years"
pecting there has not gone forward