March, 1914. 



THE CANADIAN HOBTTC ULTU R T ST 



parent in former days, when bottom lands 

 were sufficient for the settlers, and it was 

 natural that it was not realized that the 

 water problem was one that required tech- 

 nical training- to solve. More recently con- 

 tentions over conflictine water rights had 

 become serious and widespread and had 

 aroused public sentiment to demand legis- 

 lation. 



Prior to 1909 men believed that all they 

 had to do was to record a notice to take 

 water, and it was theirs for ever, no mat- 

 ter how little land they had to use it on or 

 whether they made due development. They 

 might even have subdivided or sold their 

 water holdings. 



Mr. Ross referred to the impossibility in 

 many cases of the individual settler bring- 

 ing water on to his land, whereas by the 

 combination of fifty or one hundred this 

 was made feasible. Education along these 

 lines was necessary in the province. They 

 had stores of experience to draw on in the 

 Tnited States. 



To form a public irrigation company a 

 petition signed by landowners representing 

 fifty per cent, of the value of the lands to 

 be incorporated would be necessary. Then 

 after careful survey and investigation the 

 whole matter would be laid be?fore the 

 people of the district affected and a vote 

 taken. 



OTMER SPEVKERS 



Other addresses were delivered on Fruit 

 Growing and Marketing in the Yakima Val- 

 ley by VV. P. Sawyer, The Methods of the 

 North Pacific Fruit Distributors, by H. C. 

 Sampson, secretary to that organization; 

 by E. Robinson, on the North-western Fruit 

 Exchange ; and by R. Robertson, of the 

 Okanagan United Growers, Ltd. 



Mr. Robertson sketched the growth of 

 the cooperative movement in the province. 



SALES METHODS 



Mr. Sampson, equipped with facts to 

 his fingertips, told of the five hundred thou- 

 sand acres planted with fruit in the North- 

 western States, which will come into bear- 

 ing in twelve years, and of the dispositions 

 they were making to market the one hun- 

 dred and twenty-five thousand carloads. 

 He laid down the principle that the indi- 

 vidual grower cannot sell his own crop. 

 Both the selling and buying of fruit whole- 

 sale are a life study, and unless the seller 

 is equipped with reports and knowledge 

 equal to those in the buyer's possession he 

 must come off second best. He told of the 

 power of his company over railways, who 

 in certain districts, where there was no com- 

 petition, put on unfair rates, and of how 

 quickly these climbed down when told that 

 retaliation would take place in Washing- 

 ton or some place where competition did 

 exist. He told of the amount recovered for 

 the growers for fruit damaged or ruined by 

 the railways, and that within a few weeks, 

 and he outlined what he believed would be 

 the future of the company's career of use- 

 ulness. 



ASIATIC EXCLUSION 



The last day's proceedings witnessed a de- 

 cision at last arrived at on the Asiatic ques- 

 tion. On such an important matter it was 

 felt that any representations made to the 

 Government should have the weight of the 

 whole association behind them. The re- 

 solution ultimately passed petitions the 

 Provincial Government to persuade the Do- 

 minion and Imperial Governments to total 

 exclusion for the future of all Orientals 

 from Canada, and that in the meantime 

 relief should be jfiven as far as possible to 



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