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the thoLisands of acres of available fruit land will be converted 

 into orchards between now and the spring- of 1911. 



The principal fruit producing sections in this district remain 

 much as formerly, namely: Hood River, Mosier, and The 

 Dalles, with Dufur knocking loudly at the door of the hall of 

 fame, where she is dulj' entitled to admission. Considerable 

 fruit is already being shipped from this point, and with the 

 many young orchards recently set out, once in bearing, many 

 carloads of apples and pears will be shipped to eastern markets. 

 While Wasco and Hood River counties are admittedly the 

 greatest fruit producers of the Fourth Horticultural District, 

 there are many sections in all the other counties comorising 

 this district where splendid fruit can be grown. This fact 

 was fully demonstrated, especially by Gilliam and Wheeler 

 counties at their district fair recently held at Mayville, where 

 large quantities of apples, pears, prunes, plums, and grapes 

 were shown, and among them were some sDlendid sDecimens, 

 indeed as fine as could be found anywhere. In this section 

 little or no SDraying is done, and yet the fruit was remarkably 

 clean, showing neither signs of scale nor codling moth, and 

 while there are at this time few if any commercial orchards 

 in these counties, principally due to lack of transportation, it 

 would not be a far guess to say that with the advent of rail- 

 roads many new orchards would be started. 



Hood River, as usual, is again in the lead with quantity and 

 value of crop, being far in the lead of all competing sections 

 in this district, due to the energy of her progressive Citizens, 

 who early recognized the advantages of fruit growing in the 

 northwest, and are therefore now reaping the just rewards due 

 them as pace-makers for the rest of this part of Oregon in 

 the fruit industry. 



That the fruit industry in the fourth district is in a pros- 

 perous and healthy condition will be readily gleaned from the 

 following crop report, which for convenience sake is given in 

 districts, showing exact quantity produced. A comparison of 

 these figures with those of previous reports will easily con- 

 vince all who take the pains to read them that the industry 

 is not dead ; that it is not even asleep, but very much alive 

 and g-rowing like — well — as fast as could be expected under 

 the circumstances ; but not as fast as we would if we had a 

 few millions of people of the surplus from eastern states, for 

 whom we could find plenty of room and work with insured 

 prosperity : 



HOOD RIVER. 



Apples, boxes 650,000 



Pears, boxes 10,000 



Cherries, boxes 5,000 



Strawberries, crates 65,000 



