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This association is now completing the fourth year of its existence. 

 We have grown steadily from the beginning. At the end of the first 

 season the manager reported ninety-four stockholders and a paid up 

 working capital of $756. At present we have 250 members and a paid 

 in capital of nearly twenty thousand dollars. It is our policy to add 

 any Department or handle any article needed by the membsrship just 

 as soon as it appears to be good business to do so. It is our rule that 

 each department must not only pay its own running expenses, but a 

 share of the overhead expenses as well. Our association is the manu- 

 facturing and sales end of some 250 fruit and vegetable farms. Not 

 only this but each member is entitled to buy any article handled or 

 manufactured here at wholesale prices. Perhaps one of the most 

 important phases of our work is to discourage indiscriminate planting 

 of varieties, many of which are unsuited to our soil and climatic con- 

 ditions, and for which there appears to be no substantial market. We 

 have the hearty co-operation of our members, are sound financially, and 

 are doing our best to keep pace with the wonderful growth of the upper 

 Willamette Valley. 



Sincerely yours, 



J. O. Holt, Manager, 

 Eugene Fruit Growers Association. 



As requested, I append hereto the by-laws of the Forest Grove 

 association. They embody the principles I have attempted to set forth 

 in this article. Aside from the merely formal provisions incident to 

 all organizations of this character, they contain, it is believed, the most 

 useful features from the most successful association on the Pacific Coast. 



ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION, FOREST GROYE FRUIT GROWERS ASSOCIATION. 



Know AU Mein, by These Presents: 



That we, H. C. Atwell, A. B. Craft and Robert Alexander, each being 

 a Citizen of Washington County, in the State of Oregon, and being 

 desirous of forming a corporation under the laws of Oregon, for the 

 purposes hereinafter set forth, do hereby associate ourselves together as 

 a corporation under said laws, and to that end do hereby make, subscribe 

 and adopt these Articles of Incorporation, in triplicate, as follows, to-wit: 



Article 1. The name assumed by this corporation, and by which it 

 shall be known, is "Forest Grove Fruit Growers Association". 



Article 2. The duration of the corpoi-ation shall be fifty years from 

 the date hereof. 



Article 3. The object and purpose of this corporation, and the 

 business in v/hich it proposes to engage, are to encourage and promote 

 fruit and vegetable growing and farming; to buy, seil, ship, handle, 

 störe, pack, process, eure, preserve and can fruit, vegetables and other 

 farm produets, and any articles manufactured therefrom, and to manu- 

 facture food produets from the same; to buy, seil, manufacture, ship 

 and deal in orchard and farm supplies, and all articles and materials 

 necessary or proper to be used in or about, or in connection with, its 

 business; and to do all things necessary or pertinent to the conduet of 

 its business, in any and all its departments. 



Article 4. The prineipal office and place of business of this corpora- 

 tion shall be at Forest Grove, Oregon. 



