The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-06
HOP GROWERS TALK.
About 1000 Bales Of 1892 Crop
Still UnsOld.
PRICES AND RECENT SALES.
Puyallup Shipper Big Business In Lon.
don Marksts-work OF Setting Polss
and Flowing Commenced.

PurAIAur. March 5. -[Special.l Fl.
Meeker 4 Co. received \ cablegram from
London. England. on February q, which
reported dull hop market with q down.
ward tendency. A. c. Campbell on March
1 received cablegram from the same
place also stating q weakening market,
with the same report from New York,
which. of course. weakens the local mar.
ket here. Seventeen cents has been paid
here this week.
Mr.. Campbell estimates that tho hops
unsold remaining in the hands of the
growers in the state of Washington
amount to 5000 or 1900 bales, and these
hops CONSIST of small lots scattered all over
the state. About three weeks ago there
were only 500 or GOO bales left in the
Yakima country in the hands of the
growers.
rumor that Ezra NJ. Meeker had Of
fered his Kent ranches to an English
syndicate for 500, 900. and that the offer
had been accepted. reached here during
the past week. Mr.. Meeker was asked if
1t was true. He said it was not.
+. Meeker & Co. just received q remit
lance by cable from London of $4,000.
The business transacted BY this firm this
year aggregated $35o, 900, which was about
the same as last year. Year before last tho
business of the firm with London reached
over $500, 900. Considerable of this money
goes to Oregon. especially this year, but
this is the report of only one firm. A. {.
Campbell, who has bought nearly if not
all of his hops in Washington, did . larger
business than ever before. because this is
the first year that he has given his whole
attention to hop buying. and his dealings
have been mostly with the London market.
The Puyaliup Hop Company will run
ten sprayers. one to every twenty acres,
this season. This company has now forty
men employed and will increase the num-
Der to seventy as soon as the weather is
favorable. Those already employed are
blowing. setting poles, etc.
The Ross Bros. will not have the Puget
Sound Dressed Beef and Packing Com
pany's hop yard this year. but Charles II.
Ross will oversee it. Last year the ground
had been packed SO hard by stock being
turned upon it that the plants were nearly
killed, but this year it was not done and
better crop is expected. Albert Ross also
is convinced Of the practically, yes. and
the necessity. of spraying when the lice
are young. Last year he thought he could
wait bit, and when he sprayed he would
kill all the lice and thus make one spraying
do the work Of two or three, but he found
this was theory which could not be put
into practice. for the aged lice refused to
die after repeated sprayings, which cost
more in the end than if the work had been
done ut the proper time.
T. b. Linton. Of Eugene. Or. visited
Puyallup, returning on February p. Mr..
Linton has a small yard Of nine acres. but
this spring will increase his acreage.
A. C. Campbell bought forty-four bales
of Richmond. of Auburn. and shipped
them to London on February %. Five
car loads Of hop poles left Orting for thu
Campbell ranch at Yakima this week.
Eighty bales Of hops were shipped from
Whatcom to London by A. c. Campbell
Horst Bros. bought of Sorenson, of
Buckley, sixteen bales at IL cents.
A. c. and J. Harry Campbell started
last night for North Yakima: and expect
to return tomorrow evening. The latter
anticipates going there some time this
month to remain, and will oversee tho
large farm recently purchased by them.
Mr.. Bennett, a New York state grower,
is spending few days in Puyailup look
ing over the hop industry.