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Profits Without Worry 



Are you one of the many people who know the Hood 

 River apples, their quality, and the profits to be derived 

 from producing them? 



Are you unable to share in the profits of this wonder- 

 ful business because you have not enough capital to own 

 an orchard or cannot leave your present pursuits to 

 engage actively in apple culture? If you are, write at 

 once for the prospectus of the Oregon Apple Company 

 of Hood River. 



This company has been organized for the purpose of 

 producing a profit from the growing of apples. To this 

 end 300 acres of the best apple land in Hood River 

 Valley has been purchased, and the services of the well- 

 known horticulturist, George I. Sargent, as manager, 

 have been secured. Mr. Sargent will have charge of 'the 

 planting and care of the tract, which insures from the 

 outset a high-class orchard. 



The capital stock of the Oregon Apple Company of 

 Hood River is $300,000, of which .$60,000 is preferred. 

 The common stock has been subscribed, with which 300 

 acres of the best land in the upper Hood River Valley 

 has been secured, together with the larger part of the 

 necessary additional operating capital to be supplied by 

 profits derived from the use of the land between the 

 trees. In order to further assist in the development of 

 the tract, this issue of preferred stock is being made. 

 This stock is preferred in dividends to the extent of the 

 first 10 per cent earned, and shares with the common 

 stock on profits from the sale of apple's greater than 

 the first 10 per cent. 



This stock is issued in $10.00 shares and is sold at 

 par. Should the investor wish to pay for it in monthly 

 installments through a period of five years, he may do 

 so by paying 20 cents per share per month for fifty 

 months. 



A discount of S per cent, simple interest, will be 

 allowed for cash. 



This stock is non-cumulative and non-assessable. 



This proposition lets you have orchard profits with- 

 out the care, worry and work of operating. 



It lets you have orchard profits without the usual 

 large cash purchase price of a high grade orchard. 



It gives you a. high rate of interest on your savings. 



The operating expenses of this large tract will be 

 much less per acre than the operating expense on a 

 small tract of ten or twenty acres. 



The equipment needed will be much less than that 

 needed on P.OO acres subdivided in the usual ten-acre 

 tracts. 



Consequently the profits will be greater. 



The assurance to the preferred stockholder rests in 

 the fact that the common stockholders are so confident 

 of the profits to be accumulated from these orchards 

 that they are delivering the land, part of the running 

 capital and services for five years, having no share in 

 the profits from the sale of these apples until the pre- 

 ferred stockholders have been paid their 10 per cent 

 dividend, and are then willing to share equally with the 

 preferred stock in all amounts greater than this 10 per 

 cent. This acts as an insurance to the preferred stock 

 that high class care will be given in order to accumulate 

 profits sufficient to pay dividends on the common stock. 



Write for further information today. 



THE OREGON APPLE COMPANY 



21 Heilbronner Building 

 HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



OF HOOD RIVER 



337 Railway Exchange Building 

 PORTLAND, OREGON 



THE 



Sunnyside 

 Nursery 

 Company 



Capital paid up, $100,000 



WE HAVE NO AGENTS 

 SELL DIRECT 



GET our prices and save 

 money. Trees first-class. 

 We lead, others follow. Have 

 several hundred thousand fin- 

 est peach trees ever grown in 

 the West. Cherry, pear and 

 apple in numbers that foot up 

 millions. If planted in a line 

 would make over three rows, 

 the usual distance of planting, 

 from Seattle to New York city. 



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 THIS PAPER 



Main Office 



SUNNYSIDE, WASHINGTON 



Editorial — Continued from page 48 



be built upon these associations, with 

 the dififerent districts as units for a base, 

 with greater rapidity than if an exchange 

 endeavored to organize on individual 

 memberships. 



It was also the idea of the delegates 

 present that such an association should 

 be owned and cc«itrolled by the fruit 

 growers. The idea will probably prevail 

 at the Walla Walla meeting to form a 

 directorate consisting of one or more 

 directors of associations that join the 

 central exchange. It is to be presumed 

 that some plan will be formulated 

 whereby individual growers in districts 

 where no association exists may be taken 

 care of. 



The meeting at Portland was a very 

 enthusiastic one from every point of 

 view, and everyone present felt that he 

 had profited by attending it. The gen- 

 eral impression was that good would 

 come out of this meeting, and it is 

 expected that the meeting at Walla Walla 

 will develop a definite plan for organiza- 

 tion. Fruit growers generallj' are invited 

 to attend the Walla Walla meeting Feb- 

 ruary 28th. 



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YAKIMA VALLEY ASSOCIA- 

 TION. — For some time past promi- 

 nent fruit growers in the Yakima Valley 

 have been working on a plan to organize 

 the district associations of the Yakima 

 Valley under a central head. The com- 

 mittee in charge has done some very 

 thorough and painstaking work, and has 

 drawn up a plan for organization which 



Spring 

 Shipping 



Is nearly here, and if you have 

 not already ordered you should 

 do so without further delay. 



By waiting till the last minute 

 you may not get what you want, 

 while by ordering now you will. 



Send us a list of what you will 

 need and we will gladly quote 

 you on same. 



Small or large orders quickly 

 and easily taken care of. 



Remember, our stock is guar- 

 anteed true to name, is thor- 

 oughly matured, absolutely free 

 from pest or disease, is perfectly 

 hardy and has a splendid root 

 system, which insures rapid and 

 vigorous growth. 



It must please you or we both 

 lose money. 



Do not wait another minute, 

 but drop us a postal now asking 

 for our large catalog. It's free. 



YAKIMA VALLEY 

 NURSERY COMPANY 

 TOPPENISH, WASHINGTON 



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