Mr. Chase, while still a young man,
has made a record for himself that any
man can justly feel proud of. Those
who met him at the Tacoma convention
felt very much impressed with his sin-
cerity and ability and feel, without ex-
ception, that he will render valuable
services in his position on the board of
control.
While not so well acquainted with
the fruitgrowers at large as the other
members of the board, he has an inti-
mate acquaintance with the fruitgrow-
ers of his own district, who showed
their confidence in his ability and
judgment by placing him as the repre-
sentative of the Wenatchee district on
the Board of Control of Ten.

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MR. A. W. SIMMONS, Freewater, Ore-
gon, Member of the Board of Control
of Ten, Representing Walla Walla
District in the Fruit Growers' Coun-
cil of 107.
Mr. A. W. Simmons was born in Cass
County, Nebraska, February 1, 1856,
and is now 59 years of age. He at-
tended the public schools in Nebraska
and afterward the State University of
Nebraska.
During his early life be was a school
teacher, afterward going into the mer-
cantile business, and still later on en-
gaging for twenty years in the drug
business in Dorchester, Nebraska. In

MR. E. C. S. BRAINARD, Payette, Idaho,
Member of the Board of Control of
Ten, Representing Idaho District
in the Fruit Growers' Council of 107.
Mr. Brainard was born at Onargie,
Illinois, October 13, 1863, and is now
51 years of age. His boyhood days
were spent in various towns in Iowa,
principally at Cedar Rapids, where he
attended the public schools, taking up
telegraphy under the direction of his
older brother. Al the age of eleven, it
is stated, he became a good operator,
being among the first telegraphers who could
read by sound; most of the work
at that time, particularly in the West
and Middle West, being done by
the old paper machines. At sixteen years
of age be was station agent at Clarks-
ville, Iowa, a town of about 2500 in-
habitants. Since that time he has filled
numerous positions with the railroads
in the Middle West and Northern
States in the station department and
operating department. His last posi-
tion in that line of work was chief
clerk for the Rio Grande Railroad at
Ogden, Utah, which position he re-
signed in 1902 to engage in dairying
and fruit growing.
In 1904 Mr. Brainard moved lo the
Payette Valley and since that time has
been connected with various irrigation
projects, land development and pro-
motion projects, at one time being over-
seer of seven ranches of forty acres