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BETTER FRUIT 



January 



Engraved by Hicks-Chatten Co., Portland, Oregon 



SBROAT CAR OF HOOD RIVER SPITZENBERGS, NATIONAL APPLE SHOW, CHICAGO 

 Winner of the sweepstakes solid silver cup, value $500, given by the Chicago Association of Commerce, 

 consisting of sixty-two affiliated associations. This car was exhibited at the Spokane National Apple 

 Show, winning the sweepstakes prize of a check for $1,000 for the best car of apples exhibited, and also 

 winning the first prize of $250 for the best car of Spitzenbergs. 



Engraved by Hicks-Chatten Co., Portland, Oregon 



SECOND PRIZE DISTRICT DISPLAY, WON BY GRAND FORKS, B. C, BOARD OF TRADE 

 FIRST CANADIAN NATIONAL APPLE SHOW, VAXCOUVER, B. C, 1910 



Photo b\' J-niiiL Palmer, Spokane Engraving by American Engraving Company, Spokane 



MEDFORD, ROGUE RIVER VALLEY, OREGON, DISTRICT DISPLAY AT THIRD NATIONAL 

 APPLE SPIOW, SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, AND CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 1910 



"Our thanks are especially due, not 

 only to the press of Vancouver and 

 British Columbia in general, who have 

 rendered yeoman service, but to the 

 newspapers and magazines of the whole 

 Dominion, and many of those in the 

 United States, Australia and Great 

 Britain. For substantial financial assis- 

 tance we are deeply indebted to the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway, the Great 

 Northern Railway, the B. C. Electric 

 Railway, his worship the Mayor and 

 city council of Vancouver, and the 

 citizens of Vancouver, who by private 

 subscription have contributed most of 

 the money necessary to the successful 

 carrying out of this enterprise. 



"And we are glad to note that the 

 Dominion Government, while giving us 

 an example of the time-honored tradition 

 that large bodies move slowly, have not 

 failed to climb into the chariot of pro- 

 gress as it rolls swiftly by on the heels of 

 the prancing steeds of nature and science. 

 (Laughter and applause.) In the scien- 

 tific utilization of mother earth and God's 

 quickening sunlight we have in this splen- 

 did show of the King of Fruits a tri- 

 umphant exemplification of the innate 

 dignity of honest labor. Right here I 

 have a pleasant duty to perform. 



"Some time ago I received from the 

 Natural Resources Security Company, 

 Limited, of this city, a cheque for $500 

 with instructions to devote the amount 

 to any department I saw fit, on condition 

 that I did not make the announcement 

 until today. I take pleasure in asking the 

 judges to award this $500 prize to the 

 best district display. (Applause.) 



"As the successful cultivation of the 

 apple is the supreme test of soil and 

 climate, let me say to those seeking a 

 country in which conditions are all that 

 go to make human life pleasant and pro- 

 fitable, seek ye first the kingdom of the 

 apple, and other things needful in the 

 sphere of agriculture will be added unto 

 you. (Laughter.) On behalf of the 

 board of management of the greatest 

 Apple Show, held in the greatest city, in 

 the greatest province, in the greatest Do- 

 minion, in the greatest Empire that the 

 world has ever seen — (applause) — I bid 

 you welcome from south of the inter- 

 national border, from across the rolling 

 Atlantic and the broad Pacific, to this 

 fair young nation whose star of future 

 power, wealth and influence is in the as- 

 cendant, and is shining forth in the 

 northern sky with ever-increasing luster 

 and brilliancy. Our every hill and valley 

 is pregnant with a wealth of natural re- 

 sources, and on this coast, in summer, 

 the earth laughs with fatness, and in 

 winter the very heavens weep for joy. 

 (Loud laughter and applause.) 



"I hope you will take full advantage 

 of our hospitality so warmly proffered 

 by his worship the Mayor, thrice wel- 

 come to the city of the 'Lions' Gateway,' 

 Vancouver, Chaste Queen of the Golden 

 West, who holds in her right hand a har- 

 bor in which all the navies of the British 

 Empire might ride in safety, but which 

 is happily better employed in accom- 

 modating a goodly share of the com- 

 merce of the world. In her left she holds 

 the business end of the mighty Eraser 



