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Show I HORTICULTURE NATIONAL APPLE SHOW IS SUCCESS. Michael Horan, orchardist, stock-grower stock-grower and banker at Wcnatchee, Wash., is the apple king of America, having gained that distinction by capturing the chief prize of $iooo for the best carload exhibit at the National Na-tional Apple Show in Spokane, December De-cember 7 to 12, when $35,000 in premiums prem-iums was awarded to competitions from various parts of the United States. Washington growers took 58 first prizes, Canada captured 15, 11 went to Idaho, one to Montana and the rest were scattered. Much to the disappointment of the management and the thousands of visitors, representing repre-senting every state and province on the -continent, practically all the fruit sent from the states cast and south of the Rocky Mountains was spoiled in transit. The apples had been taken out of cold storage and were sent to Spokane in liotcd cars, thus making them unpresentable. To show the displays would have been manifestly unjust to the districts, so Harry J. Nocly, secretary and manager, decided de-cided not to place them in competition competi-tion or on exhibition, though prize moneys, medals and diplomas will be forwarded to the growers from every state entered in tine district contests. Oregon had 70 boxes of fruit on exhibition. ex-hibition. These apples had been btthown at the Hood River fair and the Suit fair of the Oregon Horticultural Association at Portland where some of them won first and second prizes. Nine orchards were represented in the display, in charge of E. H. Shcp-ard Shcp-ard of Hood River. The exhibit included in-cluded Ortky, Spitzeniburg, Yellow-Niswtowns, Yellow-Niswtowns, a favorite of the Hood River valley; the Red Check, and several sev-eral others of the favorite varieties. The display was awarded a silver cup from the management, although .t was not entered in -competition. A! special prize and diploma were awarded award-ed to Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa, Cal., for a display of thornless cactus, passion fruit and rhubarb. Records at the stiles showed 102,-762 102,-762 paid admission tickets, 4000 season tickets and several hundred press and complimentary tickets, bringing the total attendance to 107,000 for the weekJThc statement offht daily vpaitl admissions follows: December 7, 14,-352; 14,-352; 8, 14,070; 9, 18,000; io, 20,070; xx, 19,270; 12, 17,000; total, 102,72. The first exhibition of its kind and scope was so successful that it will be made an annual affair. It is likelythat the prize-winning displays in 1900 will be sent to Chicago or some eastcrncky for exhibition purposes. The show was formally opened when President Roosevelt pressed the button in the White House at 10:30 o'clock, (Pacific time) the morning morn-ing of December 7. This was the signal sig-nal for the blowing of factory and locomotive whistles and ringing of church, school and fire bells, other noise producing apparatus taking up the strain till the air trembled with vibrating sounds from Cannon Hill to the timbered bluffs on the north. Following Fol-lowing the parade, led toy the National Apple Show Band of 40 pieces under the direction of A. G. Rccmcr, there was a program of speeches at the sta'tc armory, which formed .part of festival hall embracing 85,000 square feet of floor space. E. F. Carticr Van Disscl, second vice-president and " chairman of the board of directors, presided, introducing as the first speaker Louis W. Hill, president of the show and head of the Great Northern Railway Company. After congratulating the people of Spokane on their enterprise and the growers on their exhibits, Mr. Hill said in part: "In Southern California in 1892 the growers shipped 4,016 cars of oranges and lemons. In 1907 they shipped 27,493 cars. They received for these an average price of $1.42 a box. The . Washington apple shipments, according- to government figures, in 1890 were about 600 cars, against California's Cali-fornia's 4,000, and' this year the shipments ship-ments of apples will probably be 3000 to' 4000 cars, or about what Southern California was shipping in oranges in 1892. "The apple business will grow quite as fast as the orange business, and the apples should readily find a market. Apples are bought by the box or barrel, bar-rel, while oranges are bought by the 3e or dozen or half dozen, few peo-,pl peo-,pl ;bttying a case or box of oranges. HIt is important to know that the orange business in Southern GSliftr- nia in that period increased from 4000 cars to 27,000, and you willdo the same. "From the United States government govern-ment census reports I take it that the number of apple trees in 189JL wa 120,000,000 and 10 years late"r2oi,o6o,-000. late"r2oi,o6o,-000. That is an increase of 68 per oent in the nation. In Washington in 1890 you had about 300,000 apple trees, according ac-cording to the government report. Jen years later 2,700,000, or an increase in-crease of 768 per cnt) was shown. Thcv apples produced in the United j Staffs in 1890 were 143,000,000 bushels. Six years later the5 amount was 17s,- j 000,000'bushcls, tan increase of 22 per ccntl This country has increased more, than that The apple export figures are important because thej- j market that we will work up will- L Jj work up) will probably be in the ex- :5tR porting ofapplcs. t , m "We raise a great deal of wheat, but we import wheat. We have ncv- cr imported apples, and every other I country docs, so we ought to export "' a them, but our exports of apples so far ..jj have been small. The apple export in - f&j 1902 amounted to 2,800,000, in 1900,' f 5,800,000, and in 1907, 7,800,000. This is a good business and a good market, and we want to keep it up. The apple industry of the country was, in 1899, 58,000,000 barrels and the export was less than 1 per cent, so it shows that we are not doing as much as yc might. The American apple sells higher in Berlin, or any place in Germany, Ger-many, than the American oranges. Apples take better in Europe than oranges' do, and there is no reason why we sjiould not reach that majfe kct." ' . Tom Richardson, secretary of the Oregon Development league and mlanagcr of the Poland Commercial Club, said in pafw ' "The apple is thc5reajcst fruit that the temperate zone produces. Ouf fruit will in a generation exceed in value the combined output of the """ lumber mills, the dairy and all the other industries and resources, because be-cause I want to say to you that the real fruit land of the world for the apple is here. It is in Washington, .Oregon, British Columbia, Idaho and Montana in this great northwest of ours. "And where should a celebration of the apple be held but in Spokane, aa . a city the active center of the grea est immigration movwnt on this- I continent? You can 'alk all you I k please of the rivalry of Seattle and I Portland and San Francisco and Los F Angeles, but here is the ideal, the L farmer's center, the home building Sentcra magnificent railroad center, the tremendous hub around which will grow a community that will corrcs- i " pond with the apple, a community that will-gnnkc every county seat, every count?Jtevcry township n garden I of Eden, arulthcy won't need any I cxplusions. i. f M' "You have appldS here, and pcToplc a here from every plJce, fronii the'bend- I ing palmctto)Wtnc sunny south to I the frozen lakcsof the northjfcfrom J the turbid waters of the Atlantic on ji ."tjvc cast to the waters of the peaces it fitl Pacific on the west. ThcyMiSvc , - come here to bow down to the grcat- f J est country on earth, -and rown the apple king, queen and tairfhc rest of the royal family." Jr Governor Albert E. Mlad, delivered the address of welcome in behalf ol the people of the State of Washington, Washing-ton, Mayor C. Herbert Moore made ' tlic address for tlje people of Spokane and Frederick E. GoodalfS president of the Spokane Ghambcr of Commerce, Com-merce, spoke for that organization. Apples , of all sizes and varieties were exhibited in the highest state of perfection and with all the advantages whih expert packing can produce. i There was one carload of fruit cov- j ring 1500 squarefect of space, in which 70,000 da'rlcred npplcs of uni- ! form size and shade spread out in an expansive slope. On another was I seen the bizarre effects of brilliant j ycltajvs and! bright reds alternating in jj 'five-box lots, while in othcrdplaces the ) ' rich Arkansas Blacks burned with a dull purple fire againstwa background of lighter shades. p There were statcdistrict, county and individual exhibits' by the hun- j dreds, and it is likely that never be- fore has man's genius contrived so I ' 'many ways of utilizing a single fruit k in such a diversity of designs. There I was the Stars and Stripes in three I colors of apples, a white salmon of true form and almost natural color I jLf,gurcs and teviccs, jars, baskets, barrels and boxes of apples, and pust . , heaps of apples piled up in plentiful a9tniusion There were 940 plate x- hibits. The show was one of surprises and clfarui. It was" laot'c that! an 'enlr4- ' ! tainment; it was more than educational; educa-tional; it was inspirational. As an observant visitor remarked. "It comes with clearness and force to the mind that apple growing is a delightful and profitable industry, capable of manj fold and speedy development. Here -dp"" is thciproduct from orcliards already in bearing, but young orchards many times larger than the -hearing orchards arc now jn the soil and under cultiva-tionWc cultiva-tionWc know that the product will Ue greater next year than this year, and greater every year thereafter for the next decade, even though not an-otficr an-otficr apple tree should be planted. But more of them will be planted every year, and the expectations held out in their addresses by the speakers at the opening exercises of a coming product that will exceed in value the present returns from wheat-growing, mining and lumbering arc not fanciful fanci-ful or improbable." o |