. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. -fP^5 BETTER FRUIT Page ?p Executive Committee, Etc. Coiitimied from i>age 7. came cashier. Later this bank was converted into tlic First National Bnnii of Wapato, of which Mr. Jones at the present time is vice-president and manager. Mr. Jones lias developed an orcliaid of forty acres near Wapato, consisting of peaches, pears and apples, which is now seven and eight years old. Mr. Jones is also secretary of the Yakima Reservation Water Users' Asso- ciation. Mr. Jones was a very earnest worker in the Growers' Council, being a man of many years' exi)erience in c


. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. -fP^5 BETTER FRUIT Page ?p Executive Committee, Etc. Coiitimied from i>age 7. came cashier. Later this bank was converted into tlic First National Bnnii of Wapato, of which Mr. Jones at the present time is vice-president and manager. Mr. Jones lias developed an orcliaid of forty acres near Wapato, consisting of peaches, pears and apples, which is now seven and eight years old. Mr. Jones is also secretary of the Yakima Reservation Water Users' Asso- ciation. Mr. Jones was a very earnest worker in the Growers' Council, being a man of many years' exi)erience in connec- tion with large selling agencies, in merchandizing, and many years' expe- rience in the hanking business. Mr. Jones is a man exceedingly popular in his own district and has the confidence of the fruitgrowers of the Yakima Valley. * * * MR. W. H. PAULHAMUS, Puyallup, Washington, Chairman of the Execu- tive Committee of Three of the Fruit Growers' Council of 107. Mr. W. H. Paulhamus was born on the 4lh day of March, 1805, and is ,")0 years of age. His early days were spent at Altoona and Shaion, Pennsyl- vania, and Youngstown, Ohio, at which places he attended the public schools. At 18 years of age he left Youngstown, Ohio, for Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he entered the banking business, and later at Sumner, Washington. He followed the banking business up to December, 1894. Mr. Paulhamus has engaged in farm- ing outside of Puyallup, Washington, and has been manager of the Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers' Association since 1902. Commencing with a capital stock of .'?2500, Mr. Paulhamus has cre- ated a capital and surplus of -$102,- Appreciation of his value to this association is shown in a very forcible way by the fact that the asso- ciation has his life insured for $25,000 in case of death and $75,000 in case of accident. The importance of this asso- ciation to the State of Washington is shown in many ways. Its value as an industry is shown (|uite clearly


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