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BETTER FRUIT 



October 



Ridley, Houlding & Co. 



COVENT GARDEN, LONDON 



Points to remember when consigning 

 apples to the London Market 



1— We Specialize in Apples 



2— All Consignments Receive our 

 Personal Attention 



3-The Fruit is Sold by 

 Private Treaty 



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LESLIE BUTLER, President 

 TRUMAN BUTLER, Vice President 

 C. H. VAUGHAN, Cashier 



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Butler Banking Company 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



Capital . . . $100,000.00 



4% Interest Paid in our Savings Department 



WE GIVE SPECIAL ATTENTION TO GOOD FARM LOANS 



If you have money to loan we will find you good real estate security, or If you 

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Printers • Binders 



Unexcelled facilities for the production of Catalogues, Book- 

 lets, Stationery, Posters and Advertising Matter. Write us 

 for prices and specifications. Out-of-town orders executed 

 promptly and accurately. We print BETTER FRUIT. 



CORNER FIRST AND OAK STREETS 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



meal. Don't limit the plain food of 

 growing children. Watch out for the 

 wastes in the community. Full garb- 

 age pails in America mean empty din- 

 ner pails in America and Europe. If the 

 more fortunate of our people will avoid 

 waste and eat no more than they need, 

 the high cost of living problem of the 

 less fortunate will be solved. 



Heavier Car Loading 



The problem of car efficiency is right 

 now engaging the attention of all rail- 

 road men. With the co-operation of 

 shippers much can be done to improve 

 the situation and secure better use of 

 present equipment. 



Bulletin No. 12, issued by the Special 

 Committee on National Defense of the 

 American Railway Association, points 

 out that increased car efficieny can be 

 secured by: (a) Quicker terminal 

 handling, and prompter loading and un- 

 loading, (b) Better loading — more tons 

 per car. 



R. J. Clancy, assistant to General 

 Manager W. R. Scott, points out that 

 the present problem is not so much a 

 shortage of cars as of loading and un- 

 loading promptly and fully. He says: 

 "There are about 2,575,000 freight cars 

 in this country. Of these 167,000, or 6.5 

 per cent, are normally under repairs. 

 Close watching and prompt repair 

 work can reduce this number and re- 

 lease thousands of cars for active serv- 

 ice. Figures for the fiscal year of 1916 

 make the situation as to the cause of 

 congestion very clear: The aggregate 

 volume of traffic was about 2,093,225,000 

 tons. The average permissible car 

 capacity was 45.1 tons, and the actual 

 average carload per loaded car was 22 

 tons. At the same time the average 

 loaded cars per train amounted to 25 

 and the average haul 162.37. As actu- 

 ally loaded the movement of this traffic 

 took 95,146,591 cars, 3,805,864 trains, 

 and 617,958,137 train miles. Had cars 

 been loaded to their full allowed 

 capacity the same traffic would have 

 needed' but 46,412,971 cars, 1,856,515 

 trains and 301,442,340 train miles. In 

 other words, loading to such capacity 

 would have reduced the number of cars 

 by 48,733,620, the number of trains by 

 1,949,349, and the number of train miles 

 by 316,515,797." 



Delays, whether in loading, unload- 

 ing or for other reasons, also mean less 

 cars moving. There are something like 

 250,000 or 300,000 points where freight 

 is received and delivered. A slight 

 detention at each of these, in the long 

 run, means a great deal of time lost. 

 To the extent that cars are tied up and 

 not in motion carrying goods the serv- 

 ice to the shipper is impaired. Freight 

 cars are built to transport shipments 

 from place to place. When they are 

 stationary they are useless as vehicles. 

 Railroad men should impress on ship- 

 pers that it is their business that is ulti- 

 mately affected by carelessness in re- 

 leasing cars. It is, to be sure, the rail- 

 road's interest, too, to use its cars effi- 

 icently. 



WHEN WRITING ADVERTISERS MENTION BETTER FRUIT 



