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and their country.
THE JEBSEN LINE
Commercial and Business Men's
EXCURSION
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" MEXICO CENTRAL AMERICA
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Prom Seattle January 6th
From Victoria January 7th
From San Francisco January 11th
From Lo Angeles January 14 th
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Vancouver through Mexico.
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j placed all over the orchard. This sys
j tern has only been used of late years
j but it has been so successful that
more orchards are being continually
fitted up with heaters and the frost
alarm system. Many thousands of
j dollars have been saved to the grow
■ ers by this combination of inventive
genius and midnight activity on the
! part of the energetic horticulturst.
Professor Craig of Corneil univer
| sity while addressing a group of
| western fruit growers, complimented
\ them upon the fact that their or
; ehards were comparatively free from
insect pests. In order to impress
, upon them their enviable position, he
.stated that the fruit growers of the
1 New England states spend annually
; twenty per cent of the gross returns
from their orchards in fighting three
!of the worst insect peets. But in the
northwest a comparatively small
amount is spent in fighting the var
ious pests which infest the orchard.
Such a favorable condition would
not be possible without the most I
hearty co-operation of the various
governments in providing a large
force of inspectors who make reg
ular visits to all commercial orchards,
and in some localities, to orchards of
| any kind. British Columbia, with
scarcely more than one hundred thou
sand acres in orchard, has twenty-six
Inspectors, and partly because of this
very efficient inspection, and partly
, because it is the newest, of the new
i fruit growing districts of the west, it
is more free from insect pests than
any other section of North America.
Fruit Grower a Business Man.
Eternal vigilance is the price of
success in this, as in many other call
ings. The man who wins in modern
fruit culture is a man of technical
knowledge in his line, and a special
ist as well. A prominent eastern
fruit grower, after having visited
some of the great fruit districts of
the northwest, and having noted the
large returns compared with those of
the less fortunate growers in the east,
expressed his opinion in language
something like this:
He said that in the east, the or
chard was more or less the adjunct
ot the farm, while in the west it was
an occupation by itself. As a con
sequence, a given acreage received a
good deal more attention in the west
that it did in the east. The western
men were reaping the results of spe
cializing. They were growing a qual
ity of fruit whch could not be sur
passed anywhere, and whch was be
ing much sought after on the greal
markets of the world. The eastern
.grower was right. A specialist al
j ways succeeds.
Packing, grading and marketing
are the greatest problems which
; face the holder of a ten-acre tract.
He may grow the very finest quality
of fruit but if he does not under
, stand how to pay it properly, to grade
it accurately, or market it to sdvan
; tage. his efforts are a failure.
He overcomes these obstacle? by
practical co-operation. There is not'
a valley or a district which is pro
: ducing fruit in comercial quantties
that has not its own co-operative fruit
association. It is an absolute neces
; sity. It packs, grades and sells the
I fruit. In the larger centers cold stor
age and cooling stations are erected.
|No stone is left unturned to make
j the organization as technically per
; feet as possible.
The manager of the association is
la busy man during the shipping sea-
J son. He has to be a clever business!
; man as well as a fight class fruit
I man. During the period when the'
I shipments of small fruits are going
; forward he must keep in constant
i touch with the great consuming cen-i
: tfrs by telegraph. If the day is cool
j and cloudy, much less fruit will be
required to meet the requirements of j
the trade, while if it is warm and
sunny the demand for fruit will be;
unusually large. Some associations
spend as high as twenty-five dollars a !
day in sending telegrams in order to;
keep in touch with the changing mar
ket conditions. It is a great deal i
easier to keep their fruit in the cool
ing station for an extra day or so
than to have it in the hands of the
comrassion men at the other end.
In former years one of the great
est difficulties was in getting a suf
i ficient number of cars when needed,
j This difficulty prevails to a very large
j extent yet, but a recent law enacted
jby the Washington legislature pro-1
vides that when proper notice is
j given, the railroad company must
I furnish cars. In case they refuse to
ido so all that is necessary upon the 1
part of the fruit grower is to pile his
frs.it alongside the railway siding,
and, if through the inability of the!
railroad to furnish cars, the frut is a!
loss, the railway company is obliged
to remunerate the grower accord
ingly.
The history of the growth of the
fruit industry will show that the
growers have been engaged in one
' continuous struggle with the railroad
I and express companies. It has been
a fight for fairer classifications and
better rates. Although the present
situation leaves m"eh to be desired',
a very great deal has been accom
plished.
Social Conditions.
Life in the rural districts has. to
the average city resident, no claim
for serious attention. The mere
thought of it suggests an unbearable
1 lonesomeness. To be tied down to a
farm and away from all social inter
' course has kept many a man from the
j country who might very much better
have been there.
11 But where the quarter section of a
, few years ago is now subdivided into
sixteen lots of ten acres each the sit
uation is much different. Allowing
' j for roads we may safely say—fifteen
lots of ten acres each. This means
' sixty families on a section of land. In
the better settled districts, each home
is supplied with telephone, rural
mail delivery and all modern conven
iences. This mode of living embraces
the advantages of town life with the
i peace and quiet of the country.
! Neighbors are far enough apart to
j keep away any thought of overcrowd
' ing, and yet close enough to preserve
'. the sociability of life in the more
' crowded centers.
The fruit grower's environment
has an elevating effect upon him and
upon the life of the community as a
whole. He is constantly in touch with
all that is beautiful in nature. The
' best in him has an opportunity to
grow and develop. And thus it hap
pens that visitors to fruit growing
[ sections note at the beginning the
high moral tone pervading the life of
the various communities.
In no place has this been more dis
tinctly shown than In the Kootonay
country. In the early days whon min
ing was in full swing, fruit growing
as yet unheard of, the life of the var
ious camps w r as as wild, as free and
easy, as it could possibly be. With
the settlement of the beautiful val
leys in between the mountains stud
ded with shaft houses, a new element
is making itself felt in the commun
ity. No longer are saloon licenses
granted to every Tom, Dick and Har
ry who comes along with the where
with. In a number of instances re
cently, saloon men have made stren
uous efforts to obtain licenses in new
towns supported by fruit settlements,
but in almost every instance they
have met with large counter peti
tions and their plans have fallen to S
I
the ground.
The districts where fruit growing'
is the principal industry are known
in commercial circles as being very;
prosperous communities.
A town in a good fruit growing
section is rated number one by the
credit men of the wholesalers. There
was a time in the history of the west
when a new mining camp was the
mecca. It is different today. The
merchant, the professional man and
the investor look with more favor up
on a location in a town in a banner
fruit center, where, although the re
turns may not be so large in certain i
instances, the ultimate return is
bound to be greater.
It not infrequently happens that
the professional man becomes so en
amored of life on a fruit ranch that
he deserts his profession for the or
chard. It is astonishing the number
of former professions which are rep
resented among the fruit growers
of the northwest. You meet men
from all walks of life. Strange as
it may seem, fewer recruits come
from the wheat growers of the plains
than elsewhere. It appears too hard
to make them believe that a living
; can really be made upon ten acres.
They are inclined to treat the tales
of bumper yields with disdain, if not
absolute contempt.
The wage earner of the cities
seems to be particularly attracted. If
he desires to get out into the country
ihe is inclined to dread the arduous
toil that seems to be associated with
' mixed farming. He prefers to turn
j his eyes toward the valleys in the
mountains. Besides, it often hap
\ pens that he will buy a block of
land, arrange to have it planted, and
i then work at his ordinary occupation
until his trees commence to bear.
Success to Amateur Grower*.
Although it requires a man of
; average ability and a certain amount
lof horticultural training to make a
• successful fruit grower, there is
hardly any calling where the ama
i teur makes so much of a success.
[ The grower who won one of the $r>oo
prizes at the National Apple show in
Spokane did not know anything of
fruit growing when he came to Ya
kima from Illinois 11 years ago. A
Portland letter carrier bought a
block of fruit 'land over ten years
ago and had it planted while he was
still doing his work as letter carrier.
He has made a phenomenal success
of the venture, selling his total crop
\ for a large figure—so large that I
hesitate to name it —just nine years
after the planting of the orchard. A
station agent in one of the interior
districts had a similar experience.
IHe struggled along for a few years,
and then when the trees began to
;Come into bearing, was lifted to a
j plane of financial success where he
| did not need to care if he never again
i saw the inside of a station. A school
teacher bought some land near Day
ton, going heavily in debt to get It
planted. When the trees were seven
years old he sold the crop for $700
an acre and he refused $1,000 an
acre for his land. He never teaches
school now.
What does it mean? —this new
movement! What effect will it have
upon the life of our country? It
means that America can support in
comfort, more people than our fathers
dreamed. It marks the beginning of
an era of intense cultivation. It
demonstrates that it is not the am
ount of land but the way in which
it is worked and the amount it will
produce that counts. It is the her
ald of a new day—the forerunner of
a great back to the land movement.
It thrills the onlooker as he gazes
upon the progress of the years. And
no wonder! It furnishes a glance
The Entiat Light&Power
Company
LIGHTING and POWER
January 1 si, 1910
from their new plant equipped with the latest and best machinery
for giving uniform lighting and reliable service.
COLUMBIA VALLEY BANK BUILDING
or phone 1632
Santa Claus
is Lucky
this Year
on account of the big
CLOSING OUT
SALE
lat men and women who are doing
things. It is a great movement —a
great land—a great people. A great
people? Yes! Out there among the
: flowers and the vinos- - in the shade
of the beautiful orchards where the
red apples grow- they are laying the
foundation of a now America —an
America of force, power, refinement,
culture and wealth on the slope of
the western sea.
F. S. Steiner, a brother of Judge R.
S. Steiner, now living at Interbay, a
will furnish electricity in Wenatchee for
For rates and applications call at office in
AT THE TOGGERY
Saint Nick buys mosl:
of his presents there,
and gets nearly twice
as miich for his money
as ever before.
; suburb of Seattle, has announced for
1 , councilman from the Ninth ward.
Mr. Steiner lived in the Big Bend
( country for 22 years and is very well
known in this city. Some three years
ago he removed to Seattle and has
been very successful in business
there.
Wilbur M. Little and family left
this morning for Long Beach, Cal.,
where they will be for the next two
, months.
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