Capitalizing on Native American images to sell fruit, Skookum and Yum-Yum labels were developed in competing regions of Washington State. After large-scale irrigation systems and a railroad network became operational in the Pacific Northwest, there was an exponential growth in the amount of fruit being harvested and marketed. This put an enormous stress on the systems that had been put into place when the annual output was much smaller. By 1910 the movement of apples, peaches, pears, and other fruits to the market was a mess. There were no organizations larger than local districts dedicated to the movement of the […]