Payette County ID Archives News.....New Fruit Company February 5, 1903
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Idaho Daily Statesman February 5, 1903
Idaho Daily Statesman
Boise, Idaho
February 5, 1903

NEW FRUIT COMPANY

ORGANIZATION THAT IS TO BE LAUNCHED IN PAYETTE.

Will Pack and Ship the following of That Section—Advantages to Be Derived from 
the Plan—Pack Will Be Uniform.

Arrangements are being made at Payette for the organization of what is to be 
called the Payette Fruit company.  The purpose for which the company is formed 
is to handle fruit, particularly that of the stockholders.  It has been 
demonstrated that the cooperative plan of handling the crop isnot satisfactory 
and the marketing branch of the business is to be placed upon a straight-out 
business foundation.

The company will take over the fruit and pack it for market.  This will insure 
a uniform pack.  Care will be exercised to keep the standard up, so that fruit 
bearing the stencil of the company will always be of uniform grade.  When the 
packing is done by individual growers there is much variation, and when the 
fruit is thus marketed under the co-operative plan the result is that 
complaints are common.  This will be obviated under the new plan.

The company will make a proper charge for packing the crop and will dispose of 
it on commission.  It will be able to take advantage of the condition of the 
eastern markets always; it will be in a position to make favorable contracts 
for boxes and can secure enough to supply the local demand; it will get the 
best possible railway rates, and, generally, it will have it in its power to 
take advantage of every point that will redound to the benefit of the growers.  
As the latter will be the stockholders, they will derive the benefit.  The 
company will also handle the fruit of persons who may not be stockholders, and 
will thus add to the revenues of those who are interested in the organization.

The capital of the company is to be $25,000, and it is expected the stock will 
be scattered among the great number of growers.  

As the fruit will be shipped under the name of the company, there is some fear 
that the provision of the proposed new horticultural law to the effect that all 
fruit must be marked showing from what orchard it came will prove onerous, and 
an effort will be made to have that point covered in the law.  B. P. Shawhan 
came up Tuesday to look into the matter.


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