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Board of Trustees 
The Board of Trustees, with as many 
members as there are districts, generally 
speaking are in control of the central’s 
affairs. Regular monthly meetings are 
held, unless formally postponed, and spe- 
cial meetings are held from time to time 
as business demands Hach trustee has 
equal voice and vote in these meetings 
regardless of the tonnage he represents. 
The board of trustees determines all pol- 
icies, elects all officers, determines all 
salaries, determines all changes, and all 
increases or decreases in sub-central mem- 
bership, and has general control of all 
property and other interests of the com- 
pany. 
Council of Representatives 
The Council of Representatives, with 
twice as many members as there are dis- 
tricts, meets only when called by the 
trustees on the demand of two trustees or 
on the demand of eight members of the 
council itself, and then considers only 
those special matters which are specified 
in the call. The voting strength of each 
member is on a tonnage basis, namely, 
each member shall be entitled to one vote 
for each 100 cars or major fraction there- 
of marketed by his district through the 
central. Action taken on any matter prop- 
erly considered by the council is binding 
on the board of trustees and all officers of 
the corporation. 
Modus Operandi 
The North Pacific Fruit Distributors is 
a large assembling, distributing and sell- 
ing agency. In the orchards of Oregon, 
Washington, Idaho and Montana, its ma- 
chinery is the 6,000 growers, 94 local as- 
sociations, and its nine sub-centrals. In 
the markets its machinery is its central, 
branch and district offices, and its more 
than 100 exclusive agency connections 
through which it covers every portion of 
the civilized world. Through its North- 
west growers, locals and sub-centrals it 
makes a survey of the crop situation, 
gathers the information of available ton- 
nage of its various districts as to variety, 
grade and sizes, tabulates this data in its 
stock book at the central office, each week 
checking in order to keep a correct up- 
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to-date record of the stock available. 
From its salaried representatives it gath- 
ers a knowledge of the crop and market 
conditions throughout the entire world, 
and this information through many thous- 
and telegraphic and telephonic reports 
keeps the central office thoroughly inform- 
ed on matters concerning the world’s 
markets. 
From this world-wide machinery the 
central receives orders for fruit, which 
orders it transmits through the sub-cen- 
tral and local organizations to the grow- 
er. These growers and locals assemble 
and load their fruit, assemble the neces- 
sary manifests and other data, and this 
data through locals and sub-centrals by 
telephone and telegraph finds its way to 
the central. Many hundred copies of a 
pulletin or “tramp sheet,” plus many per- 
sonal telegrams transmits daily the knowl- 
edge and data of this fruit available to 
the exclusive agency connections and to 
possible customers in the markets of the 
world. Back from these world’s agencies 
come the orders for fruit, some to be load- 
ed to order and others for fruit already 
loaded. These orders are then trans- 
mitted through the sub-centrals and locals. 
From the agency connections of the mar- 
kets of the world comes the money for 
the cars sold. All this via the central, 
reaches the growers through the sub-cen- 
tral and local associations. 
From the growers, locals and sub-cen- 
trals, come the reports of the condition 
and nature of the fruit when loaded. And 
as the cars pass through the cities where 
the agents are established, and likewise 
when they reach their destination, back to 
the central from the world agencies come 
similar reports of inspection with condi- 
tion of fruit, and the central again is in 
position to collect the necessary damages, 
make necessary allowances and otherwise 
intelligently handle the situation. 
METHODS EMPLOYED BY A FRUIT- 
MARKETING AGENCY 
There are approximately 10,000 dealers 
in fruits and vegetables in carload lots 
in the United States and Canada, not to 
mention those in foreign countries. Un- 
der the most favorable conditions it is 
