Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-09-24
HOP-PICkING.
A Reporter who Visited Pnvallup tell
" All ne Knows.

l!rcc one with ahuu, 100 lndIau iIicIl.
WON n and children br1v pa'hefin.'
, the ,n.ld,u blossoms
To- commence with, in the fields
there is employed ON an average one
man to every twenty ri"k"rs whose
business l. to cu' the vines near the
bottom and take down the poles. which
are then placed across the boxes, the
/ bat end un the ground and the upper
end resting on n fOrked stick.
THE PICKERs
then gather around the pole thus
placed and proceed to transfer The hops
| from the vine TO he boa, which HOLDS
about nineteen bushels, and the hops
in which weigh, on an average, one
hundred pounds. There was noticed
in many instances an entire Indian
family gathered around box hard at
il. There would be the old bent and
aged patriarch who had seen the SHOWS
OF many winters, and along side Of
him the child, and variOuslv disposed,
children of larger growth, all picking
hops. Some squaws worked with their
papposes strapped to their backs, while
others let the little urchins play around
them. The Indians, many of them, pick
the hops on mats md hl"nkets instead
ri directly into the box, emptyin5
them into the box when they hay.
gathered all that tn; II mats or
blankets will hold. Thy will perhaps
have other members OF the family
picking into the box at the same time
and all OF them hurrying to get it full
quick, so that the hops will not have
ime to settle.
The boxes when full are carried by
two men to roads always near at han |
and are taken thence in wagons to
the dry houses.
THE INDIAN ENCAMPMENTS
Are found alongside the fields in
which they work, and their white
tents dot the valley in every direction.
The Indians work from sunrise to
shutdown, taking their lunch into the
fields with them, and not losing much
time over it. They make at present
price, ($l per box) all the way from
dollar to three dollars day apiece.
A general paymaster and superin-
tendent is kept constantly in the field,
to pay for and receives the boxes.
The superintendent, whenever a box
is full, issues ticket which entities
the bearer to one dollar when pre-
scented to the owner of the yard.
About all that has been said OF the
Indian pickers applies to the whites
az well; whole families OF whom are
encamped in the valley, making good
wages in light, easy work. 1t is esti-
mated that about one-half the pickers
in the Puyallup valley this year are
whites, there being many more Of
them than ever before.
TIE DRY HOUSES
Are Two story buildings, having on the
| first floor furnaces and pipe arrange
non.s which distribute the heated air
equally throughout the room which
they occupy. Above the heated air
chamber is 4 lattice floor on which
the hops are spread and up through
which the heated air passes until they
are thoroughly dried There are gen
orally elevated roadways reaching
these second floors so that the wagons
bringing in the hop boxes from the
fields drive right up to the doors Of
the drying rooms; the boxes are then
emptied on to the floors and spread
with forks evenly over the same to the
depth of from eighteen to twenty
inches. The temperature being then
kept in the kiln al about 100 degrees.
A flooring is dried in from twenty to
twenty-four hours.
SULPHUR Is BURNED
Under the hops to accelerate the dry
ing. After the hops are thoroughly
dried they are forked down into the
hop press and compressed into bales
which weigh from $50 to 200 pounds
each. The hops are then stored ready
for shipment. Thus, in brief, readers
who do not understand the operations
of hop harvest, will see how the work
is done.
SUNDAY IN PUYALLUP.
Yesterday was great day for Puy-
allup. There never were so many
people in this town before, said Pete
Bells as he looked on the surging
throng which fairly packed the streets,
crowded into the open stores buying
goods, swarmed around peanut stands,
traded and sold horses, sat together in
groups conversing or rode horseback
ana in carriages up and down the
streets. me throng was motley
one. There walked the bandy-legged,
squatty Indian who lives in the canoe,
while beyond him stood the manly
Klickitat from over the mountains in
his gaudy
DRESS OF BCCKsKIN
j With flashing shawl drawn around his
erect form, his head-dress resplendent
in eagle feathers and his long hair
plated and hanging down over his
shoulders. But here comes the supe-
rior Indian Of them all. A carriage
drives down the street in which is
seated a family Of educated, intelli-
gent looking we'll to do Puyallup Indi-,
ans, who with smile view the red
brother who has not yet assembled to
that height of civilization which they
have attained. The squaws from east
OF the mountains, many Of them, had
their faces painted in glaring red; all
of them wore the brightest of colors
and as much cheap jewclry as could
be loaded upon them. Some of the
KLICKITAT MAIDENs
wore short dresses and buckskin leg
gings and looked something like the
Indian girl which is pictured in TO-
nance
The view in the streets presented
white and red mixed in about equal
quantities. OF the whites there were
the hop pickers, men women, and
children, and the visitors from Ia
coma who had come by carriage, and
on the excursion train, which it is
estimated brought up the valley about
300 persons.
In the afternoon the great attrac-
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