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Mail Tribune 100, June 3, 1922 continued By Alissa Corman Jun 04, 2022 12:00 AM A A News from 100 years ago The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago June 3, 1922 continued OREGON GROWERS GETTING READY FOR BUSY SEASON With a corps of able packing house superintendents engaged and box makers and other workmen busy at all its plants the Oregon Growers Cooperative Association, Rogue River district, is rapidly making ready to handle its share of the predicted pear and apple tonnage now being made ready by old “Pop” Nature. Under the leadership of W. B. Biddle, former president of the Frisco railroad, the local association anticipates that 1922 will be its most successful shipping season. Biddle is chairman of the directors for the Rogue River district. H. T. Pankey, former state inspector of fruit and orchards, until a year ago a deputy under County Agent C. C. Cate, has been named superintendent of the Medford cold storage and packing plant of the association to succeed H. C. Stoltze, resigned. Bert Stancliff succeeds Dee Hendrickson as superintendent at the Bardwell Fruit company’s big plant and Raymond Fish will have charge of the association’s Phoenix plant. Noel Davis is retained as packing superintendent at the association’s Grants Pass house. Heads of the Talent and Gold Hill houses are yet to be chosen. 3 NEW PACKING PLANTS PUT UP IN THE VALLEY Despite the unusually heavy drop in pears in the past ten days, confidence of commission men in the future of the fruit industry in the Rogue River valley is unshaken. Three new packing houses are either under construction or about to be built in Medford. The independent Packing company with Raymond Reter as president, has a large house under construction on “Fruit Row” below Mason Ehrman and company’s warehouse. Sgobel and Day of New York are having plans drawn for a shed to be built here and G. A. Knight is planning to remodel and enlarge his packing house with a view toward providing adequate storage facilities for his own fruit and packing space for commercial packing. County Agent Cate and his deputies, Elmer Oatman and Howard Warner, are busy preparing estimates of the pear and apple crop at this time. Generally they sum up the crop as well above that of 1921 but below a “full” crop. Bartletts are fair but below 100 percent production; Anjous are very light; Howells light; Comice good; Bosc very good, and Winter Nells good. Indications are that all pears will be of good quality this year, Cate says. Applies are light generally throughout the valley. About fifty percent of the 1921 production is predicted. — Alissa Corman; [email protected]