BETTER FRUIT 



AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF MODERN, PROGRESSIVE FRUIT GROWING AND MARKETING 



Members of Executive Committee and Board of Control 



MR. JOHN A. WESTERLUND, Medford, 

 Oregon, Member of the Board of 

 Control of Ten, Representing the 

 Southern Oregon District in the 

 Fruit Growers* Council of 107. 

 John A. Westerlund of Medford, Ore- 

 gon, was born in Henry County, Illi- 

 nois, June 10, 1805, on the farm of his 

 father, Peter Westerlund, one of the 

 early settlers of Henry County and to- 

 day one of the leading bankers and 

 farmers of that vicinity. Mr. Wester- 

 lund is 49 years of age. 



Mr. Westerlund received his early 

 training on the farm of his father, 

 where he remained until he was 

 twenty-two years of age. He attended 

 high school at Orion, Illinois, and being 

 desirous of a higher education he en- 

 tered Bethany College at Lindsborg, 

 Kansas, where he attended for six 

 years, graduating in the year 1891 in 

 the classical and scientific courses with 

 the degree of A. B., and was a member 

 of the first class graduated from this 

 institution. In the same year Mr. 

 Westerlund moved to Chicago, where 

 he engaged in the real estate, insurance 

 and colonization business, identifying 

 himself with the immigration and colo- 

 nization business, especially along the 

 lines of the Union Pacific and Southern 

 Pacific Railroads. He has been closely 

 identified with agricultural and horti- 

 cultural pursuits for the past twenty 

 years. In 1902 and 1903 he was oper- 

 ating extensively as special traveling 

 immigration agent for the Union Pacific 

 and Southern Pacific Railroads, during 

 which years over four thousand home- 

 seekers were brought to Oregon, Wash- 

 ington and Idaho by Mr. Westerlund. 

 As an appreciation of his splendid work 

 in bringing settlers to the West, Gover- 

 nor Chamberlain of Oregon appointed 

 him State Commissioner of Immigra- 

 tion. 



Ten years ago Mr. Westerlund became 

 extensively interested in fruit growing 

 near Medford, Oregon, where he now 

 resides, and proceeded by co-operation 

 to develop over one thousand acres in 

 one single block into one enormous 

 fruit orchard of apples, pears, peaches, 

 apricots and other fruits. Success was 

 met with from the start and Mr. Wester- 

 lund is today at the head of two of the 

 leading fruit-growing concerns in the 

 Rogue River Valley — the Monitor and 

 Medford Orchard Companies, known 

 commercially as the Westerlund Or- 

 chards. These orchards promise to be- 

 come excellent producers and have 

 their own packing and shipping ware- 

 houses on the line of the Southern 

 Pacific Railroad, where the fruit from 

 the orchards is brought down, tiie or- 

 chards being located from two to 



four miles from the growing City of 

 Medford. 



Ml-. Westerlund has twice been hon- 

 ored by the people of his county, 

 having been elected a member of the 

 Legislature in 1911 and 1913. Here he 

 devoted much time and energy and was 

 successful in securing better horticul- 

 tural laws for the fruitgrowers of the 

 State of Oregon. 



Mr. Westerlund, while not ij frequent 

 talker, before the convention at Tacoma 

 was regarded as a successful business 

 man, having accomplished achieve- 

 ments that are worthy of credit. His 



Features of this Issue 



KXECUTIVB COMMITTEE AND THE 



BOARD OF CONTROL, FRUIT 



GROWERS' COUNCIL OF 107 



SPRAYING ECONOMY AND INSECTI- 

 CIDE EFFICIENCY IMPORTANT 



BLACK LEAF "40" SPRAYING TO 

 CONTROL APPLE APHIS 



THE TRUTH WELL TOLD— WILL 



HELP SOLVE THE APPLE 



MARKET PROBLEM 



ORGANIZATION OP CENTRAL 

 SELLING AGENCY 



APPEAL FOR CO-OPERATION 



ability as a manager is shown by the 

 large orchard of which he is the man- 

 ager in Southern Oregon. 



As Southern Oregon sent but one 

 delegate to Tacoma and as Mr. Wester- 

 lund was the delegate selected, it seems 

 reasonable to assume that he has a 

 standing in his own community that is 

 worth having, and which is further in- 

 dicated by the fact that he was chosen 

 representative to the State Legislature, 

 having received a large vote. It is be- 

 lieved that Mr. Westerlund will render 

 services to the fruitgrowers of the 

 Northwest in his new position which 

 will be of great value, because he has 

 had a large experience in dealing with 

 big propositions. 



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MR. C. E. CHASE, Brewster, Washing- 

 ton, Member of the Board of Control 

 of Ten, Representing Wenatchee Dis- 

 trict in the Fruit Growers' Council 

 of 107. 



Mr. Chase was born at Amboy, Ne- 

 braska, March 24, 1886, and is nearly 

 twenty-nine vears of age. He came to 

 the Yakima Valley in 1892, where he 

 attended the public schools, including 

 the North Yakima High School, after- 



ward going to Billings, Montana, from 

 which high school he graduated in 

 1905. He took a two yeai's' course in 

 civil engineering at the Washington 

 State College, Pullman, Washington, 

 from 1900 to 1908. Since tha^t time he 

 has been variously located in Billings, 

 Montana, and in the Wenatchee and 

 Okanogan Valleys, engaged in engi- 

 neering construction work along canals, 

 nnnes, etc. 



Mr. Chase has two bearing orchards 

 in the Okanogan Valley and at the 

 present time is engineer and superin- 

 tendent of a company which owns and 

 irrigates about 1000 acres of orchard 

 near Brewster, Washington. He is also 

 secretary an<l member of the board of 

 directors of the Brewster District Unit 

 of the Wenalchee-North Central Wash- 

 ington Growers' League, and secretary 

 and member of the board of control of 

 the Wenatchee-North Central Washing- 

 ton Growers' League. 



Most of Mr. Chase's professional ex- 

 perience has been connected with or- 

 chards in which the following account 

 furnishes quite a complete record: 



Construction work, Wenatchee Canal 

 Co., Wenatchee, Washington; construc- 

 tion work in mines. Federal Mining 

 Co., Mullan, Idaho; engineer in charge 

 for two years of the Wenatchee Canal 

 Co., East Wenatchee Land Co. and 

 Icicle Canal Co., Wenatchee Washing- 

 ton. During the last-mentioned period 

 of two years he had active charge of 

 the construction of five tunnels, ranging 

 from 700 to 3500 feet in length, being 7 

 and 8 feet wide on the bottom and 7 

 feet in height; three continuous wood 

 stave pipe siphons GO and 72 inches 

 in diameter and from 500 to 700 feet in 

 length, across canyons which had for- 

 merly been crossed by high trestles: 

 the rebuikling of several fiumes, total- 

 ing over two miles in length, which 

 were from to 8 feet wide, 5 feet high; 

 the surveying and platting of lands for 

 the East Wenatchee Land Co.; the sur- 

 vey of the Icicle Canal Co.'s canal, 

 which is over 30 miles in length. This 

 was partially constructed under Mr. 

 Chase's supervision and charge, the 

 canal being mostly fiumes and dirt 

 ditch with three long siphons, one 

 crossing the Wenatchee Hiver. 



In his present capacity as superin- 

 tendent and engineer for the Okanogan 

 Power & Irrigation Co., Mr. Chase has 

 had the laying out and supervision of 

 construction of several large pumping 

 plants for difVerent orchard companies 

 near Brewster and Bridgeport, Wash- 

 ington. 



Mr. Chase is a member of the Pacific 

 Northwest Society of Ijigineers. 



