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DISTRIBUTORS 



Dealers in Fruit Picliing and Packing Supplies 



SPOKANE, WASH. 



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 WrHe "M. J. M." care Better Fruit. Portland. Oregon 



Established 1882 



^Company 



Printers 



WE print anything 

 from the smallest 

 to the largest and always 

 welcome orders of any 

 size or quantity, giving 

 prompt, personal and 

 efficient service. 

 Mail or phone inquiries 

 are solicited. We do not 

 specialize — experience 

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 us to print everything 

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 service in preparing 

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 and furnish plans and 

 estimates for catalogs, 

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 billboard and any other 

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First and Oak Streets 

 Phones: Main 165 and A 1165 



Portland, Oregon 



BETTER FRUIT 



Conservative estimators are now placing the 

 apple crop to be shipped out of Oniak, Wash., 

 this fall and winter at 600,000 packed boxes. 

 This is the basis taken for ordering boxes by 

 the two large shipping organizations. 



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A market for between 4,000 and 5,000 tons 

 of cull apples will be provided this season by 

 the California Packing Corporation of Yakima, 

 involving a payment of at least 5> 10,000 to 

 Yakima farmers, according to an announce- 

 ment made bv T. L. Tennant, superintendent. 



.\Ileging that recent advances in wholesale 

 lumber prices have necessitated the move, 

 fruit box manufacturers have advanced prices 

 four cents per box, making the ruling quota- 

 tion 24 cents each. This is double the figure 

 charged three years ago and ten cents over 

 last year's prices. 



At Y'akima when the rush of the fruit har- 

 vest is under way, a thousand men, women 

 and voung people are at work on Produce 

 Row, "handling the flood of fruits. Fully 100 

 cars of pears, soft fruits and mixed produce 

 are rolled out daily during the season and the 

 weeklv payrolls totals $30,000. The row is a 

 mile long "and a paved highway, bordered on 

 either side by warehouses, packing plants, 

 evaporators, canneries and cold storage plants. 



More than 25 firms have entered the Wenat- 

 chce field to handle the 1919 apple crop. The 

 following average prices have been offered 

 for extra fancy grades and are about 50 per 

 cent higher than last year's early quotations: 

 Winesap, ?2; Spitzenberg, $2.50; Delicious and 

 Winter Banana. .?3 to $3.25; .lonathan and 

 Rome Bcautv, $2.25; Black Ben, $2; Ben Davis, 

 $1.85, and summer apples, $1.75 a box. Some 

 contracts have been made at $2.50 for the en- 

 tire production of the grower on the orchard 

 run basis. 



J. C. Lillv, president of the Farmers and 

 Merchants' Bank of Cashmere, reports that a 

 big apple crop in that district is assured and 

 that prices, from present indications will 

 break all records. 



Luke Powell, former district horticultural 

 inspector, is reported to have sold his crop of 

 Winter Bananas at S3 a box, orchard run. 

 The crop is estimated at 4,000 hexes. From 

 his home ranch near Prosser, J. A. Anthon 

 of Grandview is said to have sold his crop of 

 Winter Bananas from 10 acres at the same 

 price. 



Ten years ago the Spokane Valley section 

 immediately adjacent to the city of Spokane 

 was a barren waste. Irrigation was intro- 

 duced and this season the apple production of 

 Spokane Valley is estimated at 600 to 900 cars. 

 Spokane Valley Fruitgrowers' I'nion, with 225 

 growers and a fine modern packing plant at 

 Opportunity, employing 125 persons, will ship 

 more than" 200,000 boxes. Two-thirds of the 

 crop, 140 cars, has already been sold and in 

 many instances partly paid for. On Septem- 

 ber 15 the union commenced picking winter 

 Bananas of which 5.000 boxes will be shipped. 

 Pickers started on Wageners on the 22nd inst. 



Apples ripened a week to ten days earlier 

 than usual in the Wenatchee district. Winter 

 Bananas and Jonathans have been picked and 

 by September 22 the apple harvest on late 

 varieties was in full swing. The district will 

 ship a solid trainload of fifty refrigerator 

 cars daily if cars are forlhcoming. By Oc- 

 tober 1 tills output was doubled. It is esti- 

 mated Ihat 5,000 persons will be employed in 

 the W'enatchce apple orchards. 



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At the apple exhibit of the International 

 Shippers' Association at Milwaukee, the 

 Boston-Okanogan Apple Company was award- 

 ed a silver cup for the sweepstakes prize for 

 plate exhibits. 



Spokane Valley apple growers and shippers 

 seem convinced that they should sell no cull 

 apples this year under $20 a ton. It is ex- 

 pected that "the market will open here at 

 about that figure. 



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 strong, well-established in 

 the community? 



If not, we wish to call to 

 your attention the facilities 

 and resources of this sixty- 

 year old bank, the pioneer 

 of the Pacific Northwest. 



Correspondence or calls 

 invited. 



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Portland, Oregon 



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Apple Profits 

 Are Increased 



One of the largest land deals ever consum- 

 mated in the Okanogan Valley was closed 

 when Charles Simpson, an apple grower of 

 Cashmere, purchased for $60,000 from Ceorgc 

 H. Ellis and .lames E. Forde of Spokane 180 

 acres under the irrigation system. KiKlily 

 acres are in six-year-old apple trees and 100 

 acres in alfalfa and corn. The orchard is one 

 of the finest in the county. II will yield nearly 

 10,000 boxes of apples this year, and with 

 UTiything like a favorable season will produce 

 from 18,000 to 20,000 boxes next year. 



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