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business but had a splendid reputation 

 with the trade people whom they 1 ep- 

 resented, giving Mr. Perham an oppor- 

 tunity to secure valuable and educa- 

 tional experience and judgment in the 

 fruit business, as this firm handled 

 many hundreds of cars of fresh fruit 

 annually. Mr. Perham was in charge 

 of the oflice of Ariss, Campbell & 

 Gault, managing their business for sev- 

 eral years, and later taking an interest 

 in the firm, remaining with them until 

 the spring of 1012, having charge of 

 their fruit department. In the spring 

 of 1912 Mr. Perham took the position 

 of sales-manager of the Yakima County 

 Valley Fruit Crowers' Association of 

 North Yakima, Washington, remaining 

 with them until the organization of the 

 North Pacific Fruit Distributors in 

 June, 1913, when he was transferred 

 to Spokane, accepting the position as 

 sales-manager of the North Pacific 

 Fruit Distributors, which position he 

 has held and is holding at the present 

 time. Mr. Perham is popular with the 

 growers and the fruit trade, lie has 

 had splendid experience and is re- 

 garded by all as a high-class salesman. 



MR. CONRAD ROSE, Wenatchee, 

 Washington. Member Shippers' 

 Council. Mr. Conrad Rose was born in 

 St. Clair County, Illinois, February (i. 

 1862, and is now 53 years old. He at- 

 tended public school until he was 14 

 years old, at which time he started out 

 for himself, working in general mer- 

 chandise stores and on farms. He ar- 

 rived in the West in 1883 at Sprague, 

 Washington, where he was employed 

 by the Northern Pacific Railroad Com- 

 pany in capacity of fireman and engi- 

 neer until 1888, at which time, after 

 severing his connection with the com- 

 pany, he crossed the mountains to 



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to as the ranchers' friend. He is an 

 unassuming man of few words. He has 

 raised a family of seven children, of 

 whom five are now living. Three of 

 his boys are married and comfortably 

 located on orchard tracts at Wenatchee. 

 The Wenatchee Produce Company, of 

 which he is president and principal 

 owner, has grown to be the largest con- 

 cern of its kind in the Northwest, and 

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 chandise business during 1914 .shipped 

 to exceed two thousand cars of fruit. 



cial training in a business college in 

 San Francisco for one year. 



At twenty years of age he entered 

 business as a hop grower in the Puyal- 

 lup Valley and followed this enterprise 

 until 1893. In connection with his 

 brother, W. L. Thompson, the Bank of 

 Sumner was incorporated in 1888. 



In this same year he purchased 160 

 acres of land in the Yakima Valley and 

 during the spring of 1889 planted the 

 fust commercial orchard in the county, 

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W'enatchee, where he has since been 

 raising fruit and vegetables on his 

 seventy-acre tract, and since 1899 has 

 been engaged in the merchandise busi- 

 ness, and in addition has been the most 

 important factor in the valley in the 

 shipping of fruit and vegetables. He 

 has served as county commissioner and 

 as a member of the school board, and 

 has taken an active part in all conmier- 

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MR. E. E. SAMPSON came to North 

 Yakima, Washington, in the year 

 1904, taking a position as bookkeeper 

 for the Horticultural Union, which he 

 filled for a year, after that becoming 

 manager. Under his postion as man- 

 ager the union prospered, doing a very 

 large and succi ssful business. In 1909 

 Mr. Sampson left the Yakima Horti- 

 cultural Union to accept a position as 

 manager foi- the Vernon I'ruit Growers' 

 Union in British Columbia, which he 

 occupied for two years, returning to 

 North Yakima in 1911 and again becom- 

 ing manager of the Yakima Horticul- 

 tural Union in 1912, which position he 

 has filled up to the present season. He 

 has recently organized the E. E. Samp- 

 son Company, of which he is president 

 and manager, Mr. C. H. Oliver being 

 vice president and Mr. C. 1). Sampson 

 secretary and treasurer. 



Mr. Sampson has an extended ac- 

 quaintance with the fruit growers in 

 the Yakima Valley and throughout the 

 Northwest in general, having been fre- 

 quently in attendance at the different 

 gatherings of fruit growers throughout 

 the Northwest. For ten years Mr. Samp- 

 son has been engaged in marketing and 

 handling fruit and during this time he 

 has formed a very extensive acquaint- 

 ance with the fruit dealers throughout 

 the United States. Mr. Sampson is rec- 

 ognized as a very conservative and able 

 man with a wide acquaintance and 

 many warm personal friends. 



MR. FRED E. THOMPSON, of the 

 Thompson Fruit Company, is justly 

 entitled to the distinction of being con- 

 sidered an early iiioneer in the fruit 

 industry of Yakima County, having 

 shipped the first carload of fruit that 

 passed the Mississippi River from the 

 Yakima Valley. He is a native of the 

 State of Washington and liis education 

 was obtained in the public schools of 

 Pierce r.ounlx. after wliicli he look spe- 



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