. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Juhj, 1921 combination came after many years of travail, and lasted until 1917. The Oregon Growers' Co-oper- ative Association was formed at Salem, Oregon in 1919, and has done much to unify the Willamette Valley fruit and berry growers. It also operates extensively at Med- ford, The Dalles and other points within the state. There are many problems for us to solve today, and new ones will present themselves as our distribu- tion broadens, as it surely will, to take in the rich and absorbent markets of South America and the Orient and the furthermost coun- tries o
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Juhj, 1921 combination came after many years of travail, and lasted until 1917. The Oregon Growers' Co-oper- ative Association was formed at Salem, Oregon in 1919, and has done much to unify the Willamette Valley fruit and berry growers. It also operates extensively at Med- ford, The Dalles and other points within the state. There are many problems for us to solve today, and new ones will present themselves as our distribu- tion broadens, as it surely will, to take in the rich and absorbent markets of South America and the Orient and the furthermost coun- tries of Europe. The immensity of the Pacific Coast fruit industry today, with an annual production of more than 100,000 carloads, or approximately 57,000,000 boxes, is such that those in control of its movement are worthy of cultivation by our great public carriers, both rail and water. When the Panama Canal, pos- sibly the greatest monument in the world to American resourcefulness and brains, was nearing completion, our Northwest fruit growers were promised an economical and ade- quate transportation service to the Atlantic seaboard and England. Not until last year, however, was it ever even tried out commercially, when the Earl Fruit Company loaded 30,000 boxes of apples on the refrigerator ship Kinderdyck for London and Liverpool. Two other ships were loaded from the Northwest for foreign ports also. Instantly upon reports of the suc- cess of these shipments, however, it became the "big stick" raised against the railroads for the lower- ing of their rates. The railroads cannot afford to permit any consid- erable tonnage to go to the Canal, for they realize the difficulty in di- verting it to themselves another year. Already the North Pacific Coast Line has been formed, affording a joint service of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and the Holland-America Line. They of- fer a fast freight service between Pacific Coast ports and England, Holland and Germany, all their BE
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