July, 1920 



BETTER FRUIT 



Northwest Fruit Notes from Here and There 



OREGON 

 Owing to the shortage of tumher and box 

 materials, H. F. Davidson, who owns a large 

 fruit ranch at Hood River and also a farm 

 near Lebanon, Oregon, will construct a saw- 

 mill near the latter place with a capacity of 

 20,000 feet daily to work up a tract of flr 

 trees on his Lebanon property. 



The first full carload of strawberries to be 

 shipped out of the Hood River Valley this 

 year brought .$4.00 per crate. This is said to 

 be a record price for a carload shipment. The 

 berries were shipped by the Hood River Apple 

 Growers' Association. Strawberry pickers in 

 the Hood River Valley are reported to have 

 earned as high as $7.50 per day this year. 

 Canning berries from this district brought high 

 prices and in addition to the fruit that was 

 taken by the local cannery a considerable 

 quantity of berries were shipped to canneries 

 in Portland by motor truck. The cherry crop 

 at Hood River is reported to be light with 

 prices ruling high. Most of the Royal Annes 

 and other light colored cherries were taken 

 by the canners while the black varieties were 

 shipped out fresh. 



The Phez Company at Salem, which has cre- 

 ated a big demand for its various berry and 

 other fruit products through a wide campaign 

 of advertising has increased its capital stock 

 from $1, 000,000 to $1,500,000. Expansion of 

 the company's business is given as the reason 

 for the need for larger capitalization. The 

 company recently sold 15,000 cases of jellies 

 and jams to one firm. The shipment went to 

 South Carolina. Up to the present time the 

 Phez company which has made a specialty of 

 manufacturing loganberry juice has not de- 

 termined how much juice it will put up this 

 year, owing to the high price of the berries 

 and the light crop. The demand for the juice 

 had been so great up to the middle of June 

 that the company's stock of this beverage was 

 reported to have been exhausted. 



The announcement is made that Dufur will 

 have a box factory. It was expected to have 

 the factory in operation the latter part of 

 June. The box factory will be operated in 

 connection with two saw mills which will be 

 erected at that place by the Phillips Lumber 

 Company. 



According to the program outlined by the 

 Kings Products Company, its output of dried 

 fruits and vegetables for the 1920 season will 

 total $2,000,000. Officers of the company re- 

 port an advance sale of this amount of its 

 products for the coming season. 



The Suncrest orchard at Medford, consisting 

 of 461 acres, and planted to good commercial 

 varieties of apples and pears, has been sold 

 to Jones Brothers, canners and packers. The 

 orchard was formerly the property of Dr. C. F. 

 Page, but at the time of its sale was owned by 

 the Mutual Life Insurance Company. It is 

 said that the new owners who operate packing 

 plants at Boston, Massachusetts, and at various 

 points in the Northwest will erect a plant at 

 Medford. The price paid for the orchard was 

 $275,000. 



A good deal of hesitancy is reported to be 

 shown by Oregon prune packing corporations 

 in announcing an opening price for prunes. 

 This condition is said to be due to a number 

 of conditions including the labor situation, 

 which is causing prune handlers to be careful 

 in sizing up the market for prunes and in 

 announcing prices that they feel will handle 

 all the crop to an advantage. Growers be- 

 lieve that the situation warrants a high price 

 while buyers are anxious to get more informa- 

 tion about local and foreign markets before 

 fixing the first quotations. 



Polk County cherry growers who pooled 

 their product, amounting to about 200 tons, 

 are announced to have sold their cherry ton- 

 nage to an outside buyer. Although the grow- 

 ers state that the prices received were satis- 

 factory they have refused to announce them to 

 the public. At the time of selling their crop 

 growers fixed the picking prices for cherries 

 which was placed at two cents a pound, with 

 a bonus of a quarter of a cent per pound to 

 pickers who remained until the crop was har- 

 vested. Cherry picking in this section com- 

 menced about the latter part of June. 



The average price for loganberries and cher- 

 ries at the end of the contract season in Marion 

 County is stated to have been about 12 cents, 

 although it has been difficult to obtain figures 

 giving the exact amount. In referring to the 

 loganberry price situation the Salem States- 



man says: "Several pools have recently been 

 sold at good prices according to reports. The 

 Bruce Cunningham holding of about 200 tons 

 has been disposed of at 13 cents. Other par- 

 cels of 75 and 100 tons have been disposed of, 

 according to reliable reports, for the price of 

 13% cents. Mr. Cunningham stated recently 

 that the formation of the Marion berry pool 

 was instrumental in raising the present price 

 of berries. This is favorable to the small 

 grower. He further asserts that he had per- 

 sonally offered 14 cents for his crop of berries 

 but that he ignored the offer because it did 

 not consider the interest of the small growers 

 who are members of the pool. However, Mr. 

 Cunningham claims that the members of the 

 pool were forced to accept a price less than 

 the 14 cents because of the sugar situation 

 which he claims was utilized by buyers in 

 breaking the lower figure. Regardless of this 

 fall in price, some local buyers claim that the 

 prices of 12 and 13 cents are the highest aver- 

 age scales ever attained in Oregon." 



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In organizing its marketing force for the 

 coming season the Oregon Growers' Cooper- 

 ative Association has secured the services of 

 three men well known in the fruit industry of 

 the Northwest. To manage the Medford and 

 Grants Pass branches of the association, one 

 of the most important, C. C. Lemmon, for- 

 merly of Hood River and later of Yakima, has 

 been chosen. Mr. Lemmon has had a wide ex- 

 perience with various fruit shipping arganiza- 

 tions in Oregon and Washington and comes to 

 the association from the Perham Fruit Com- 

 pany at Yakima. The local affairs of the 

 association in the Dallas-Monmouth district 



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