An old-fashioned way growing system in the orchard is shown here. This growing system was used when the orchard was first established in 1956. (Photo courtesy of the Evans family).

Bill's parents, Guy and Euna Lee Evans, are pictured in the first orchard in the family's first orchard in Washington in 1959. (Photo courtesy of the Evans family).

One of Evan Fruit Company's first orchards in bloom in 1956 or 1957. (Photo courtesy of the Evans family).

Dedication of the first Bisbee Spur apple tree on the Evans' orchard. The original Bisbee Spur was found in Hood River, OR, in 1957. Stark Brothers Nursery developed and patented the sport. (Photo courtesy of the Evans family).

The first auto dipper used with the first bins in Washington State is shown here in 1957. The auto dipper was used to pick and pack 200 bins of Winesaps. (Photo courtesy of the Evans Family).

Bill and his father, Guy Evans, built the family's first warehouse and CA room in Yakima, WA, in 1959. (Photo courtesy of the Evans family).

Lawrence Bralotte, Jeannette's brother, looks into a hand-dug well in Mattawa, WA. This well is now used to irrigate 150 acres homesteaded by Jeannette's father in 1915. (Photo courtesy of the Evans family).

Bill and Jeannette's son, Jon, is pictured with the first sport Red Delicious apples in 1970. (Photo courtesy of the Evans family).

The first Scarlet Spur apples produced in Yakima, WA, are pictured here. The original Scarlet Spur apple was found as a sport limb in an orchard formed by Bill Evans and Don Snipes in 1975 and developed by Van Well Nursery. (Photo courtesy of the Evans family).

The first young apples of the first commercial planting by Bill is shown in Mattawa, Columbia Basin, is shown in a photo from 1978. Bill and Jeannette were the one of the first growers to plant apple trees in the Mattawa area, about 75 miles east northeast of Yakima.(Photo courtesy of the Evans family).