1915 



BETTER FRUIT 



Page ip 



Fruit Distributors Perfecting 



Organization 



The North Pacific Fruit Distributors 

 have made some marked clianges and 

 improvements, whicli are fully out- 

 lined in the plan of re-organization, 

 which was explained quite fully in the 

 May edition of "Better Fruit." Since 

 then the officials have been very ac- 

 tive in perfecting their organization 

 and laying the plans for the coming 

 season. Some important changes have 

 been made in the officials, Mr. H. F. 

 Davidson resigned as President, and 

 Mr. F. A. Reeves of Wcnatchee, has 

 been elected President. Mr. Reeves is 

 one of the prominent fruit growers of 

 the Wenatchee Valley. He has the 

 reputation of being one of the ablest 

 attorneys in the State of Washington, 

 a splendid business man and very 

 progressive. With his able advice and 

 counsel,, not only as an attorney but 

 as a successful business man, it is 

 only just and fair to assume that the 

 North Pacific Fruit Distributors will 

 render efficient service. 



The Hood River district in with- 

 drawing from the North Pacific Fruit 

 Distributors expressed no dissatisfac- 

 tion with the Distributors, but on the 

 other hand commended the Distribu- 

 tors for the excellent work they had 

 done, saying, "In the past two years 

 that better results had been obtained 

 by marketing through the North Pa- 

 cific Fruit Distributors than would 

 have been obtained without their as- 

 sistance." It is believed by Hood 

 River, owing to the fact that its apple 

 output is confined principally and 

 almost entirely to two varieties, the 

 Newtowns and Spitzenburgs, that by 

 special concentration on these two 

 varieties, which Hood River can give 

 through sales agents of its own, that 

 better results can be secured than in 

 any other way. However, it is the gen- 

 eral impression that the Distributors 

 will not suffer from the withdrawal of 

 Hood River. On the contrary, it is be- 

 lieved that other districts will increase 

 their tonnage with the Distributors, 

 and it therefore looks as if they would 

 handle as great if not a greater per- 

 centage of the crop this year than last 

 year. 



The following is a list of the new 

 Board of Trustees for the North Pa- 

 cific Fruit Distributors for 1915: Ya- 

 kima — C. H. Hinman, South Nob Hill; 

 P. L. Porter, Donald; Austin Wood- 

 yard, Sunnyside; W. B. Armstrong, 

 Lower Nachez, and C. H. Stein, Selah. 

 Wenatchee — D. W. Roderick, West 

 Wcnatchee; Frank A. Reeves, North 

 and East Wenatchee, and H. E. Tibbits, 

 Cashmere. Idaho-Oregon — W. N. Yost, 

 Meridian, and J. H. Lowell, Parma- 

 Roswell. Walla Walla — Harry Huber, 

 Milton, Ore. Central Idaho-Washing- 

 ton — F. M. Slagle, Pullman. Montana 

 — Ward M. Sackett, Corvallis. West- 

 ern Oregon — C. A. Park, Salem. Spo- 

 kane and Hood River — Unrepresented. 



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The Hood River Apple Growers' 

 Association, which is a continuation 

 of the Hood River Apple Growers' 

 Union, having associated with it the 

 Davidson Fruit Company and the Na- 

 tional Apple Company, has had a num- 

 ber of managers. The first manager 

 was Mr. Joe Wilson in 1903. The next 

 manager was Mr. E. H. Shepard, Edi- 

 tor of "Better Fruit," who served for 

 several years. He was followed by 

 Mr. Huxley, who is now connected 

 with the Hood River Exchange. Mr. 

 Huxley was followed by Mr. C. H. 

 Sproat, an apple grower of Hood 

 River. Then came the upheaval, when 

 Hood River was sjjlit seven ways for 

 Sunday, and several new organizations 

 were formed, the Directors of the 

 Hood River Apple Growers' Associa- 

 tion decided to get someone outside of 



the district, appointing a committee 

 for this purpose. This committee 

 made a very thorough search through- 

 out United States and finally decided 

 upon Mr. Wilmer Sieg of Milwaukee, 

 Wis. Mr. Sieg came west and accepted 

 the position in 1912. In 1913 the 

 Hood River Apple Growers' Union was 

 merged into the Hood River Apple 

 Growers' Association, which marketed 

 through the North Pacific Fruit Dis- 

 tributors. Mr. Sieg was taken over by 

 the Distributors as one of the Sales- 

 managers with an office in Hood 

 River. In 1914 the Hood River Apple 

 Growers' .Association marketed 

 through the Distributors and Mr. Sieg 

 was moved to Portland, maintaining 

 an office in that city under the em- 

 ploy of the Distributors, and in Jan- 

 uary, 1915, Mr. Sieg went East to look 

 after the export business to Europe, 

 to succeed Mr. Davidson, who had to 



