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fHB RUR.A.L NEW - YORKER 
F’ebruary 24, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Harry E. Wilson, the attorney who was 
appointed receiver of the Washington Or¬ 
chard, Irrigation and Fruit Company Thurs¬ 
day. was appointed receiver yesterday of the 
first named company and the Columbia 
River Orchards Company, the parent of the 
first named company. 
The Columbia River Orchards Company 
is alleged to have sold bonds of the face 
value of $4,250,000 to investors all over 
thb United States. The Washington Or¬ 
chard, Irrigation and Fruit Company guar¬ 
anteed the bonds and the Oregon-Washing¬ 
ton Trust Company of Portland, Ore., was 
trustee for the bondholders. 
When Receiver Wilson entered upon his 
duties he forced his way into the offices 
supposed to be occupied by the fruit com¬ 
panies. He found two of the five rooms 
vacant. There were desks in the other 
three, and these, on being opened, were 
found to contain only stationery. 
The above comes from a Seattle, 
Wash., local paper. It is stated further 
that when the receiver took charge his 
office was besieged with bondholders de¬ 
manding their money back. Interest was 
due also, but even this was denied them. 
The receiver was unable to locate any 
assets, it is reported, and the bondhold¬ 
ers will probably get nothing. Some 
time back when we advised our people 
against this proposition we were called 
Oil by some young man who had become 
enamored of the prospects and wanted 
to argue the question of its soundness 
with us. Of course we did not argue. 
It is not our function to enforce any 
investment decrees. We simply try to 
give the facts to those who want to 
know. Anyone who wants to back his 
own sentiment or prejudices by hard 
cash is, of course, at liberty to do so. 
It is, however, only a matter of infor¬ 
mation. With all the facts your judg¬ 
ment would be as good as ours, but no 
man’s judgment can be better than his 
information. In this case, we hope our 
young friend took our advice. 
At the investigation of express com¬ 
panies by the Interstate Commerce Com¬ 
mission in Washington last week it de¬ 
veloped that Adams Express Company 
has now in its treasury $67,000 from 
overcharges and $29,000 from double 
charges. This last amount is from ac¬ 
cumulation of collections on delivery for 
charges that were prepaid by the ship¬ 
per. In other words, charges at both 
ends. Hon. Franklin K. Lane, the com¬ 
missioner presiding, announced that 
criminal prosecutions would be insti¬ 
tuted by the government for this prac¬ 
tice of overcharging the public. The 
commission has 3,000 complaints and 
tens of thousands of letters have been 
received by the commission about the 
practice. If prosecutions were institut¬ 
ed in all the complaints which have been 
tiled with the commission, all the ex¬ 
press companies would be bankrupt and 
driven out of business. It begins to 
look as if the express companies may 
yet admit that shippers have some rights 
which they are bound to respect. 
The Corry Hide and Fur Company, 
Corry, Pa., writes a New Jersey farmer 
thus: 
Not only is the editor a vile thing but 
he is a malicious vilifier and slanderous 
vulture, beneath the respect of any gentle¬ 
man. For your information, we will in¬ 
form you that we would have had those 
editors sued long ago only best advices say 
they have nothing to collect on, so what’s 
the use? 
This company sent a New York State 
shipper a $34 check for a shipment of 
skins. The shipper returned the check 
and demanded the return of his skins. 
It cost him $3 for transportation, but he 
sold the skins to a Syracuse house foi 
$64.10. Now if the editor be a vile thing 
and not able to pay for his supper, how 
would the vileness and the poyerty 
change the record of that transaction 
and of other reported transactions of 
similar nature? 
Is the Cycle Hatcher Co., Elmira, N. Y., 
an honest and reliable house? I sent for 
one cycle hatcher at $G and paid 75 cents 
charges on same but I found it worthless to 
me as a hatcher. A variation of one degree 
outside affects the heat in the egg chamber 
with me. I have asked them to take it 
back, but they will not answer my letters 
any more. e. j. w. 
Connecticut. 
Some years back this company used 
to send out a guarantee with their in¬ 
cubators, but we understand they do not 
guarantee them now at all. Under the 
guarantee w r e had a complaint. The 
farmer failed to get a hatch, but they 
contended it was his fault, and they re¬ 
fused to take back the machine unless 
he proved absolutely that the fault was 
with the incubator. The farmer under¬ 
stood when he bought the machine that 
the guarantee entitled him to the return 
of his money if it failed to produce re¬ 
sults with him. We thought he was 
justified in thinking so; and for that 
reason have refused their advertising 
since. We believe they do not guaran¬ 
tee the machine now, and if you buy 
one, it is yours. We have had other 
complaints, and no adjustments were 
made. As we understand it, the pur¬ 
chaser of one of these incubators which 
fails to do as promised has no redress 
short of a lawsuit, and we would never 
advise a suit on a $6 purchase. Better 
charge it to experience. 
Can you vouch for the veracity of the 
“Visio Remedy Assn.” of 2476 Calumet Ave., 
Chicago? 1 have a horse afflicted with 
opthalmia and found “Visio” advertised in 
other farm papers but not in The It. N. Y., 
which makes me seek your advice before 
investing. m. b. 
Iowa. 
This advertising was refused because 
the best veterinary advisers we consult 
tell us that ophthalmia in horses is in¬ 
curable, and the information is con¬ 
firmed by our own experience and the 
experience of farmers generally. Some¬ 
times the sight may be preserved for 
a time by treatment, but this is expen¬ 
sive, and sooner or later blindness fol¬ 
lows. The advertising is found in live 
stock and farm papers generally, and so 
far as we know The R. N.-Y. is the 
only paper to refuse on the ground 
stated. 
I inclose some pictures taken from Vick’s 
retail catalogue of 1907, and a catalogue of 
the Florida Land Development Co., Clarinda, 
Iowa, containing four plates including the 
front cover picture which you will see are 
duplicates of the cuts in the Vick catalogue. 
The plates were made originally by Nathan 
It. Graves of Rochester, N. Y. These pic¬ 
tures are now used to illustrate the “east 
coast” productions. Roseland Park may not 
be much of a place for gardening, but I 
think it can safely be recommended for 
people of weak nerves. 
New York. farm superintendent. 
Really this is about the limit. Here 
is a beautifully printed catalogue in 
many colors, describing the beauties and 
products of Roseland Park on the east 
coast of Florida. Pictures are shown 
to show the products of these lands, 
one of a field of lettuce, another of cel¬ 
ery, and a third of a box of potatoes. 
The picture of a field of lettuce on 
page 40 is made for and used as an il¬ 
lustration for front cover, and all used 
to show you the profits to be made in 
Florida gardening. But our observant 
correspondent has identified these illus¬ 
trations as taken from a New York 
seed catalogue of five years ago, and all 
representing crops grown at Albion, 
New York. 
More than a page of the Florida cat¬ 
alogue is devoted to pictures and char¬ 
acter sketches of the promoters by them¬ 
selves. We admit the pictures have 
some elements of beauty, and the pro¬ 
moters may be farm bred as they tell 
us, but at the conclusion of their pro¬ 
testations of virtue they give us this: 
Now don’t you think you can have enough 
confidence in us to know that with such 
a combination you will get actual facts and 
the truth as to the land we are offering, and 
that you will get a square deal from first 
to last. 
Now isn't that convincing—actual 
facts, and truth, and square deal ? “Har¬ 
vesting lettuce on an east coast truck 
farm,” they tell you of a picture taken 
five or six years ago from the New 
York seed farm. Facts, truth, and 
square deal forsooth! 
Then listen to this: 
And don’t you know that the United 
States Government protects you in dealings 
with us through the mails as our adver¬ 
tisements must bear inspection and the 
closest inspection will be made as to all 
our statements. 
We wish this bluff were true, but un¬ 
fortunately it is not. The United States 
Government does not protect you at all 
in such a case. Florida land boomers 
have been selling lands for $50 an acre 
that cost the promoters only $2 per 
acre. If you can prove that the promot¬ 
ers swindled you and intended to swin¬ 
dle you when they got your money, and 
if you can get a jury of 12 men to be¬ 
lieve it, and who are willing to send 
rogues to prison, the government may 
help you put the promoters in jail for 
a year or so, but the Government cannot 
get back a dollar of your money, and if 
there be one man among the 12 who 
sympathizes with rogues, the thief goes 
free. The promoters anticipate your at¬ 
tempt to bring them to justice. They have 
skilled lawyers to steer them safely 
through the intricacies of the law. Some¬ 
times their avarice and egotism take 
them too far, and they go to jail; but 
even this is no protection to the man 
who puts the savings of a lifetime into 
the schemes. j. j. d. 
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