The altimeter on John Kloeber’s label at right shows an altitude of 1,500 feet, a suggestion that fruit grown in orchards at high altitudes is of high quality. Upper right: The Green River Hot Springs and Sanitarium Hotel pictured in 1908. Yakima Valley apple and pear rancher Dr. John S. Kloeber, unlike many of his contemporaries in the early fruit ­ranching enterprises, initially had absolutely no interest in a career in agriculture. Born in 1865 in Baltimore, Maryland, he was a member of a family that had immigrated to the United States from the Alsace region on the border of […]