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 Rings clearly with 40 telephones on the line. Compact, dur- 

 able, light. Less wall space. Unbreakable receiver and mouth piece. 

 Lightning arrester. Secret service push button to ring Central without 

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because they are made in the largest 

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 of the te-;ts and none but a Kellogrg: 

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 Why not know real phone service. Why 

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 uncertain weak transmission of messages 

 that is maddening-. The telephone is the great- 

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 country people with the whole world, but the 

 country man of today wants the best tele- 

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 prove to you that there vj a reason for 

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 will see that you get much valuable 

 and interestine telephone informa- 

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Page 15 

 The Northwest Fruit Shippers 



On March 11th the ofTicial representa- 

 tives of nearly all of the principal mar- 

 keting concerns of the Northwest met 

 in Seattle for the purpose of effecting a 

 marketing organization. H. M. Gilbert 

 of North Yakima was appointed tem- 

 porary chairman, C. W. McCuUough of 

 North Yakima, temporary secretary. 

 The conimitte on membership organiza- 

 tion named was: C. W. Grant, chair- 

 man; G. M. McKee and Chas. Crawford 

 of North Yakima; J. H. Dengle, Conrad 

 Rose, Grant Patten of Wenatchee; J. H. 

 Bobbins, general manager of the North 

 Pacific Fruit Distributors, and W. F. 

 Gwyn, general manager of the North- 

 west F"ruit Exchange. 



The report rendered by this commit- 

 tee was accepted as a whole with a few 

 minor changes. A permanent organiza- 

 tion was effected to be known as the 

 "Northwest Fruit Shippers' Council," 

 the membership being open to shippers 

 in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and 

 Montana handling fifty cars or more 

 per year. Dues were fixed at one hun- 

 dred dollars. It was decided the gov- 

 erning board should consist of four- 

 teen members, to be selected as follows: 

 One representative from the North 

 Pacific Fruit Distributors; one from the 

 Northwest Fruit Exchange; two from 

 Wenatchee, outside of the above-named 

 organizations; two from Yakima Valley, 

 outside of the above-named organiza- 

 tions; one each from Hood River, Ore- 

 gon; Lewiston, Idaho; Clarkston, Wash- 

 ington; Southern Idaho; Montana; Spo- 

 kane, Washington; Rogue River, Ore- 

 gon; Walla Walla, Washington, and 

 Western Oregon. 



It is the intention of the Northwest 

 Fruit Shippers' Council to call a meet- 

 ing of the governing board of fourteen 

 members as often as conditions and 

 circumstances may render necessary. 

 The following officers were elected for 

 the ensuing year: H. F. Davidson, Hood 

 River, president; Conrad Rose, Wenat- 

 chee, vice-president; H. M. Gilbert, 

 North Yakima, second vice-president; 

 Worrill Wilson, Seattle, secretary and 

 treasurer. Other members of the gov- 

 erning board elected were: W. F. Gwyn, 

 Seattle; C. M. McKee, North Yakima; 

 G. W. Cnburn, Wenatchee. The bal- 

 ance of the members of the governing 

 board are to be elected later. 



Gophers 



Fruitgrowers and alfalfa growers in 

 the spring are always crowded with 

 work and too frequently do not realize 

 that it is in the spring that the gophers 

 begin their active work. When a tree 

 is lost the fruitgrower loses all the wav 

 fnim .fsl.OO to $10.flO or more, according 

 to the age. Consequently the fruit- 

 grower ])robably sufl'ers more heavily 

 from the damage done by gophers than 

 any other class of farmers, .\lfalfa 

 fields are sometimes almost entirely 

 ruined by gophers. Much of the dam- 

 age is (lone by the irrigation ditches 

 being undermined, and altogether it is 

 supposed that the damage done by go- 

 phers in one season amounts to pns- 

 sibh millions of dollars. Every etfort 

 should be made at this season of the 

 year to destroy them. 



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