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the National Apple Company of Hood 

 River, thus combining the three plants 

 into one. thereby eliminating self- 

 competition. The various fruit corpo- 

 rations controlled by Mr. Davidson, in- 

 cluding his private holdings, amounted 

 to 42.'i acres of orchard, about CO per 

 cent being in bearing at the present 

 time, which i)roduced in 1914 60 cars, 

 the crop being estimated by Mr. David- 

 son at 90 cars for 191.5. Mr. Davidson 

 was one of the original incorporators 

 and the first president of the North 

 Pacific Fruit Distributors in 191,3, being 

 re-elected in 1914, at the same time 

 being one of the nine trustees repre- 

 senting the Hood River district in 

 April. After the Hood River district 

 had withdrawn from the North Pacific 

 Fruit Distributors Mr. Davidson sent in 

 his resignation as president of the 

 North Pacific Fruit Distributors, which 

 was accepted. Mr. Davidson repre- 

 sented the North Pacific Fruit Dis- 

 tributors in New York City in 1913-14, 

 looking after the Atlantic seaboard 

 apple business and the exports to 

 European countries. Mr. Davidson will 

 take charge of the marketing of the 

 Hood River strawberry crop during the 

 season of 191,5, which will amount to 

 about 80 cars. Mr. Davidson was active 

 in organizing the Fruit Growers' Coun- 

 cil and the Northwest Fruit Shippers' 

 Council. At a meeting held in Seattle 

 in .January and in Taconia in February 

 and at a meeting of the fruit shippers 

 held in Seattle, March 12, 1915, the 

 Fruit Shippers' Council was organized 

 and Mr. Davidson elected as president. 

 Mr. Davidson believes that the fruit- 

 growers in the Northwest are justified 

 in expecting the Northwest Fruit Ship- 

 per.s' Council will effect a much wider 

 and more systematic distribution of the 

 future crops of the Northwest than 



could be done in any other way. Mr. 

 Davidson was 22 years of age when he 

 came to Hood River in the year 1890, 

 and has spent 25 years as a grower and 

 marketer of apples, strawberries and 

 other fruits, devoting practically all of 

 his time to this kind of work. He has 

 hekl many positions in connection with 

 the fruit industry both in executive 

 capacity and sales capacity. He has 

 made many trips throughout the fruit- 

 producing sections of the Ihiited States, 

 visiting nearly every one of impor- 

 tance, antl has also visited practically 

 every city of importance in the United 

 States where there is jobbing trade and 

 fruit bandied in quantity. He has spent 

 two seasons in New York City in look- 

 ing after the fruit business, where a 

 greater cpiantity of fruit is consumed 

 annually than in any other city in the 

 United States. Mr. Davidson is a close 

 observer and with 25 years has accu- 

 mulated experience, gained in knowl- 

 edge and developed judgment about 

 growing, shipping and selling fruit that 

 means ability and is ably recognized 

 by the fruitgrowers honoring him with 

 positions which he has held, and he is 

 generally recognized as one of the very 

 ablest men in the fruit business of the 

 Northwest. 



MR. B. A. PERHAM, sales-manager 

 for the North Pacific Fruit Dis- 

 tributors, located at Spokane, is one of 

 the genuine, original Hood Riverites, 

 having been born at Hood River, Ore- 

 gon, April l(j, 1879, now 30 years of 

 age, being a young man still in the 

 prime of life. His father crossed the 

 plains, leaving Indiana in the spring of 

 1850, being a pioneer, arriving at Ore- 

 gon City in the fall of that year. His 

 mother left Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 

 with her folks in the si)ring of 1851, 

 traveling by boat to Panama, thence 

 across the Isthmus of Panama on the 

 backs of mules, the general mode of 

 trallic across the Isthmus at that time, 

 to the Pacilic Ocean, going straight to 



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Portland, Oregon, and from there to 

 Linn County, where her family settled. 

 In 1884, at five years of age, Mr. Per- 

 ham moved with his parents to Port- 

 land, living in and near Portland until 

 1898, attending the public schools of 

 that city and also the high school. In 

 1898 he took a position as a boy with 

 the Goodyear Rubber Company, one of 

 the largest companies in that line of 

 business in the United States, remain- 

 ing with them for some time, acting as 

 floor salesman. On account of poor 

 health he gave up this position, moving 

 in the spring of 1899 to Butte, Montana, 

 feeling that the higher altitude would 

 benefit his health. At 20 years of age 

 in the year 1899, with his brothers who 

 had already an established business, he 

 engaged in general contracting busi- 

 ness in Idaho. He was employed by 

 his brothers mostly in outdoor work 

 for a short period, afterwards return- 

 ing to Butte, taking a ijosition as travel- 

 ing salesman with \Y. S. Nott & Com- 

 pany, jobbers in rubber goods and fire 

 api)aratus. In 1901 he took a position 

 with Ryan & Newton, fruit and produce 

 merchants of Butte, as city traveling 

 salesman, remaining with them until 

 1903, when on account of a severe ill- 

 ness he decided it was advisable to re- 

 move to a lower altitude. Byan & New- 

 Ion, by the way, are one of the oldest 

 and biggest firms in the City of Butte, 

 also operating the biggest houses in 

 Spokane and Seattle, doing an immense 

 business. \Yith this company Mr. Per- 

 ham received a splendid educational 

 training in salesmanship, .\fter spend- 

 ing several months in Portland regain- 

 ing his health Mr. Perham decided to 

 remove to Seattle, which he did late in 

 the spring of 1903, taking a position 

 with the firm of Ariss, Campbell & 

 Gault, fruit and grocery merchandise 

 brokers. This firm not only did a large 



