Show BACK ROM PORTLAND egr mgr E il tyson returned monday afternoon from portland oregon ahl bi ther he went ten days previous to attend the convention of the pacific coast and national Nursery mens association cia tion the convention was held each day from the to the and topics vital to the nursery interests were discussed at each session by reason of 0 his coming from this section sir air tyson was interrogated on all sides as to conditions prevailing here this season everybody knew of utah and brigham city through her ter famous peaches the representatives from all other sections of the united states declared that this is a banner year for peach pach prices inasmuch as so many 0 of the peach sections were froze out during the winter and early spring they were all complaining of last year also and practically all had the same experience as did this section in marketing their fruit mr tyson states that the oregon growers are organizing along the same lines as the california citrus growers and they are determined to make the matter of distributing their fruit a science which aia not fail them in a time when it is hard to move fruit as s it was last year A noticeable thing between this cit city and portland land which nf tyson could not help recognizing was the absence of fruit stands from ill all the stations even in fit the great fruit districts in tho the hood river valley and payette valley not a bit of any kind of fruit could be purchased at tile the vadious stops coming home th the e passengers who had bad been over the line before consoled those who were asking for fruit by stating that it if they could just wait until brilliant brigham city was reached they would be able to get all the fruit they wanted and when the train stopped at the depot here there was an avalanche of humanity pouring out of the cars until all who wanted some had been supplied with fruit brigham has a reputation all along the line and that reputation is worth keeping untarnished along with the work of the convention the delegates were entertained royally by the commercial bodies of portland so that the outing was a grand pleasure front from beginning to end |