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BETTER FRUIT 



TOWNS OF OVER 3.000 



Iowa — Continued 



Population 



Council Bluffs 30,778 



Davenport 46,340 



Dubuque «.g« 



Ottumwa So'SnS 



Waterloo „?•,'■•, 



Des Moines 96.fi;" 



Sioux City 



Kansas 



54.098 



3,350 

 4,000 

 3,064 

 3,214 



Rcloit 



Clay Centre 



Columbus 



Dodge City '•fij 



El Dorado f'Z* 



Great Bend \'\i.iL 



Herrington g'gjg 



".'.'. 7 '.508 



'. . . . 5,000 



Manhattan . 6,500 



Ottawa nV87 



Coffeyville lasSo 



Fort Scott Va%iq 



McPherson 

 Arkansas City 

 Concordia 



Hutchinson 



Indepence 



Lawrence 



13,296 

 13,018 

 14.500 



^■^vl :::::::: 17:700 



Pittsburg 



11,354 



94,271 

 67,000 



38,819 



.579,590 



Salina -iqVui 



Tnpeka 



Kansas City 



Wichita 



Kentucky 



Lexington 



Louisville isa,ii* 



Louisiana ,,.„, 



PV&Oto "'.481 



Lake Charles io qnfi 



Shreveport »ri S-H 



New Orleans 3bl,-/!i 



Maine 



Rockland g'Jgf 



Bangor gj'VSJ 



Portland 62 ' 16t 



Mart/land 



Baltimore 



Massachusetts 



Fitchburg 7«"sn2 



Boston 7 |i'i34 



Lawrence llllool 



s^ri^eid- :::::::::.. i«o,375 



Worcester Ib0.il/ 



Michigan 



Detroit 650,000 



Minnesota 



Alexandria f""' 



Willmar *•"» 



Moorhead -J'2 



Albert Lea 10.00° 



Brainerd »'»'" 



Crookston '>™° 



Fergus Falls 6,887 



Thief River Falls 5,500 



St. Cloud il'rZi 



Winona .35 'Ibr 



Minneapolis 343 ,466 



St. Paul 236, /bb 



Mississippi ..-,, 



Hattiesburg W ; - 



Jackson o, »i 



Meridian 21,80b 



Missouri 



Hannibal 21-760 



.loplin 32 ,84 8 



Kansas City 281,9 1 



St. Joseph 7 SiR K = 



St. Louis 734,667 



Montana 



Red Lodge |.860 



Roundup 3,000 



Rozeman 5-J"' 



Havre S.O00 



Lewiston 6.000 



' Livingston 5'«5« 



Miles City 7.000 



Anaconda 10.424 



Billings 13,020 



POPULATION. SOLD APPLES IN 



Mon tana — Contin ued 



Population 



Helena 13,258 



Missoula 16,492 



Butte 41,781 



Great Falls 20,000 



Nebraska 



HoUlredge 3,030 



McCook 3,765 



Columbus 5'2 i 



Fremont 9,345 



Grand Island 11,505 



Hastings 10 '2 52 . 



Lincoln 45,643 



Omaha 133,274 



Nevada 



Reno 13,579 



New Hampshire 



Manchester 75,635 



New Jersey 



Jersey City 270,903 



New Mexico 



Albuquerque 13,058 



New York 



Lyons 4,742 



LeRoy 4,084 



Medina 6,0/9 



Ithaca 16./50 



Elmira 40,073 



Albany 107 '2I 9 



Buffalo 461,887 



New York 4,012,821 



Syracuse 145 » 2 2Z 



Utica 80,589 



North Dakota 



Valley City 4,606 



Bismarck i'iti 



Devil's Lake 5,157 



F'argo 16,351 



Grand Forks 14,827 



Minot 10,112 



Ohio 



Bellefontaine 8,915 



Marietta 12,924 



Newark 28,271 



Akron 80,291 



Cincinnati 402,175 



Cleveland 639,431 



Columbus 204,567 



Davton 123,794 



Toiedo 200,000 



Youngstow n 93,341 



Oklahoma 



Alva 3,688 



Duncan 3,000 



Hobart 3,845 



Ardmore 9,8b8 



Durant 7,200 



El Beno 7,8/2 



Hugo ..., 6,000 



Lawton 7,788 



Miami 5,000 



Chickasha 13873 



Enid 18.209 



Guthrie 11,911 



McAlester 16,716 



Sapulpa 11,431 



Shawnee lo.olZ 



Muskogee 38.309 



Tulsa 27,634 



Oklahoma City 83,559 



Oregon 



The Dalles 4,880 



Baker 6,742 



Astoria 10,11/ 



Salem 18,286 



Portland 260,601 



Pennsylvania 



Altoona 56,553 



Philadelphia 1,657,810 



Pittsburg 564,878 



Scranton 141,353 



Wilkes-Barre 73,660 



Rhode Island 



Providence 247,660 



South Dakota 



Deadwood 3,113 



Rapid City 4,268 



Redfleld 3,000 



CARLOTS— Continued 



South Dakota — Continued 



Population 



Huron 5,791 



Mitchell 7,785 



Watertown 8,313 



Aberdeen 11,846 



Sioux Falls 20,000 



Tennessee 



Knoxville 37,924 



Chattanooga 57,057 



Memphis 143,231 



Nashville 114,899 



Texas 



Bal linger 3,536 



Big Spring 4,102 



Cameron ,i,^bj 



Crockett 3,947 



Cuero 3,109 



Nacogdoches 3.309 



Navasota 3,284 



San Marcos 4,071 



Sweetwater 4,176 



Bonham 6,000 



Brownwood 6,967 



Corsicana 9,934 



Gainesville 7,624 



Greenville 9,696 



Hillsboro 6,115 



Sulphur Springs 5,151 



Tavlor 5,314 



Wexahachie 6,205 



Abilene 12,806 



Amarillo 13,585 



Brownsville 12,310 



Cleburne 11,587 



Corpus Christi 15,000 



Denison 14,409 



Marshall 12,984 



Palestine 11,412 



Paris 12,081 



San Angelo 10,321 



Sherman 13,157 



Temple 12,704 



Tvler 11,393 



Wichita Falls 10,760 



Austin 23,218 



Beaumont 25,433 



El Paso 49,505 



Galveston 40,289 



Waco 28,707 



Dallas 111,986 



Fort Worth 94,494 



Houston 98,122 



San Antonio 115,063 



Utah 



Brigham 3,685 



Logan 7,522 



Ogaen 29,528 



Salt Lake 109,530 



Vermont 



Portsmouth 37,569 



Norfolk 86,540 



Bichmond 150,000 



Washington 



Chehalis 4,507 



Puvallup 4,544 



Centralia 7,311 



Olvmnia 6,996 



Ho'quiam 10,540 



Bellingham 29,937 



Everett 32,048 



Seattle 313,029 



Snokane 135,657 



Tacoma 103,418 



West Virginia 



Hinton 3,656 



Clarksburg 11,394 



Charleston 27,703 



Wisconsin 



Rice Lake 4,500 



Beloit 17,122 



LaCrosse 31,367 



Oshkosh 35,097 



Racine 44,528 



Superior 44,344 



Milwaukee 417,054 



Wyoming 



Casper 4,040 



Laramie 4,962 



Chevenne 9,661 



Rock Springs 5,699 



Sheridan 8,906 



1TST OF TOWNS UNDER 3,000 POPULATION IN EACH STATE, SOLD CARLOTS, 

 ^ ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY 



California— Dunsmuir, Montague, Stanford, San Pedro, Weed. 



Colorado— Haxtun, LaMar, Brush, East Morgan, Fort Morgan. 



Iowa— Cumberland, Cambria, Dike, Fairfield, Malvern, Strawberry Point, Walcott. 



Idaho— American Falls. Arimo, Arco, Blackfoot, Buhl, Emmett, Genesee, Gooding, Hazelton, 

 Mi, 'oka, Middleton, Mt. Pelier, McCammon, Michland, Malad, Payette, P"rcell Parma, Picabo, 

 Rupert Bexburg, St. Maries, St. Anthony, Smiths Ferry, Shoshone, W eiser, Wendell. 



Kansas— Almena, Arlington, Altamont, Anthony. Brownell, Clifton Condon Eureka Ells- 

 wort] Graindeld, Gorham. Herndon, Hoisington, Hoxie, Jamestown KingsleyLuray, Marion 

 Morganvil e, Morgan, Neodesha, Ness City. Oakley, Olpe, Osbnrn Ph.ll.psburg Protection, Scott 

 City Sterling, Wakefield, Long Island, McDonald, Norton, Norfolk, Simpson, St. Francis, Traer, 

 Vulcan, Whitewater, Woodruff. 



I.irn isiana — DeRidder. 



Minnesota— Breckenridge, Dilworth, Gleiiwood, Graceville, Henning, Mankato. North Redwood, 

 Redwood Falls, Wadena Avon, Black Duck, Brewster, Cass Lake, Dalton, Detroit, Eagle Bend, 

 Horton? Lake Park, Minnesota Transfer, Morris, Red Lake Falls, Twin Valley, Raymond, 



Wh Mon!ana Bainville, Baker, Big Sandy, Bouer, Bryan, Buffalo, Cascade. Conrad, Cutbank, 

 Fai rv" w Gilford. Clendive, Glasgow, Hinsdale, Homestead, Medicine Lake, Plentywood, Poplar, 

 Sidney Westhv Whitetall, Winifred, Wold Point, Brady, Bridger, Belgrade, Bowman, Browning, 

 Chinook Coffee (reek. Dee, Lodge, Dillon, Drummond, Forsythe, Franklin, Geraldme, Laurel, 



July 



N. W. Ayer & Son, and from this have 

 compiled the table presented in con- 

 nection with this article, statistically 

 arranged, showing the number of towns 

 with a population of from 3,000 to 5,000 

 in each state, "sold" and "not sold"; 

 the number of towns from 5,000 to 

 10,000, "sold" and "not sold"; the num- 

 ber of towns from 10,000 to 20,000, 

 "sold" and "not sold"; the number of 

 towns from 20,000 to 50,000, "sold" and 

 "not sold," and the number of towns 

 50,000 and upward, "sold" and "not 

 sold," in carlots direct. 



In referring to the statistical list in 

 connection with this article, please 

 note there are 2,086 towns of over 

 3,000 population— 295 of them were 

 sold 1,791 were not sold; 14 per cent 

 have been sold and 86 per cent not 

 sold. There are 9,609 towns in the 

 United States sufficiently large to main- 

 tain a newspaper, of which 311 have 

 been sold and 9,298 have not been 

 sold — 3 per cent sold, 97 per cent not 

 sold. Of the total towns in the United 

 States large enough to maintain a news- 

 paper there are 11,695, of which 611 

 have been sold and 11,089 not sold. 



There are approximately 35,085 towns 

 in the United States, of which 611 have 

 been sold and 34,474 not sold, or .01 7 An 

 per cent sold and 98.3 unsold — a most 

 remarkable showing. I really believe 

 in a great measure that I am justified in 

 making the statement that there are 

 comparatively few, if any, who realize 

 that a careful checking up of the towns 

 sold in complete lists of the entire 

 towns in the United States would show 

 such wonderful contrasts, or, in other 

 words, show that but .01 7 /m towns of 

 the United States had been sold North- 

 western apples in carload lots, or 611 

 towns, and that 34,474 towns, or 98.3 

 per cent had not been sold. 



Now, it may be claimed and un- 

 doubtedly is true, that a great many of 

 these towns do not have commission 

 merchants or fruit jobbers. On the 

 other hand, it must be recognized, ac- 

 cording to an approximate estimated 

 list, that some 35,000 towns have deal- 

 ers who handle fruit or farm produce 

 of one kind or another. I do not main- 

 tain for a moment that every town in 

 the United States, or that every town 

 over 3,000 population can be sold 

 Northwestern apples direct in carlots, 

 but it does seem, and undoubtedly is 

 true, there are hundreds, yes thousands, 

 of towns that have not been sold in 

 carlots which can be sold. I realize 

 fully there are many towns of over 

 3,000 population in the list which are 

 close to some big city, like Chicago for 

 instance, where they obtain their sup- 

 ply of box apples in 25, 50 or 100-box 

 lots, but there are many towns of less 

 than 3,000 population sufficiently re- 

 mote from the large distributing cen- 

 ters which can be supplied direct, 

 saving considerable extra freight and 

 frequently unnecessary handling and 

 extra profit. It must be admitted that 

 occasionally the credit of some mer- 

 chant in some small town might not be 

 sufficiently good to sell on credit, but 

 as the apple business should be done 

 f.o.b., subject to sight draft, if the car 

 is not accepted and paid for it could 



