The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-04-19

The reporter Of The HsRAID has beer
endeavoring TO ascertain the damage don't
by the heavy frost Of Sunday night, and
the succeeding but lighter one Of Monday
night. Numerous growers 10 this vicin'
ity have been questioned but all had the
same answer OF there being no perceptibls
injury as yet, with prospects favorable for
an immense yield. In the Homework
and sunnyside districts the reports we're
satisfactory in every way excepting a. Ia
peaches. The frost Of Sunday night told
heavily on the peach orchards, but. II DIR.
Curtis statement is true that about two
buds out Of seven are alive. the crop will
be as heavy AZ the trees will bear. Fred
Thompson is Of the opinion that the
blighted blossoms will average fifteen 10
one but says It will take few days more
before the damage can be ascertained
definitely. There are about forty bios.
SONS to the foot and about six inches ID
required for the development Of large
and perfect peach, 80 II q small fraction
OF the number OF buds are saved the crop
will still be large one. Cherries, pears,
plums. prunes and apples are uninjured
and no damage is anticipated for them.
d. E. Lesh, when spoken to on the sub
ject, said that the fruit in this neighbcr-
hood was uninjured and that il the frost
would thin out the blossoms and buds it
would prove beneficial. As to the re.
ported damage to the peach crop In Kon.
newock and Sunnyside, he had his
doubts, for il there were any buds left
which showed signs Of life, his own expe.
rience taught him that the crop would
prove full one. for he had gone through
orchards after nipping frost when there
was hardly discernable sign OF life and
yet the crop had turned out q good one.
A. B. Weed said that his orchard had not
been injured, and that even the apricots,
which are the most tender Of all fruits,
gave no indication Of being blighted in the
least.
Jas. NJ. Gilbert, secretary OF the Com
mercial club, has received letter from
P. Presley & Co., Of st. Paul, commission
merchants and wholesale dealers in fruits,
in which they solicit the Yakima business
and give the following interesting report
/ Of the late eastern "freeze :" Our long
experience has taught us how unreliable
these reports are as guide to go by, con-
sequently, as soon as It occurred, we at
once set about q personal investigation,
through our travelling agents and the Sec
retaries and managers Of southern ship
ping associations for which We are the
agents. The results could not be reached
in a day, as it required personal visits to
orchards and vineyards in many cases,
hence we have only just finished compil-
ing the reports. We summarize briefly
The damage has certainly been very great
to fruit. In some localities the destruc.
ton Is almost complete, while in others 1t
runs from 20 down to rs per cent-the
latter most any orchard can stand with
benefit. We would estimate the total
average loss at about so per cent, except
apples and grapes. The heaviest loss is
on peaches, which is pretty general. fol-
lowed by pears, cherries, plums and
other small fruits. Apples and grapes
are not hurt yet, except in few unim-
portant localities. The early Strawberries
are killed and late varieties set back
which will bring them in, with California
cherries, in rather limited supply. All
early vegetables are killed.
The date of the amateur minstrel per-
Torrance for the benefit of the armory
fund has been set for May 4th. The COM
plete list Of those who are to take part is
as follows: Minstrels-Messrs. White,
Hiscock, Geo. Vance, Swindelhurst, Nc
Arthur, Hsmacher, SCHNEIDER, Dudley,
Donovan and Teal. Amazons-Messrs
Brown, Chandler, Morrison, Frum, Wal
lace, scudder, McDermid, Rodman, Lem
on, Leach and Schanno. Orchestra
Messrs. Mills, Andrews, Nagler, Merwin,
Francis and Faltemeyer. The boys will
give street parade ut 4 o'clock MAY 4th.
Whatever John Mcnamara wanted with
pillow no one knows, as be is not OF that
class OF bipeds who take kindly to work,
but that he wanted it, and wanted it
badly, was shown by his attempting to
carry it away from Pennington's hard.
ware store, on Friday night last, when he
supposed no one was looking. He was
overhauled by Special Officer Grant and
is now doing time in the county Jail in
lieu Of fine of $50 and costs.
W. Read and three daughters arrived
here Tuesday morning direct from Lon
don. Eng, and propose to make their
home in Yakima. Mr.. Reads son, r. D.
Read. has had some experience in this
northwestern country and after investi-
eating the advantages offered by Yaki ma,
he concluded that this was the best place
to locate aud 80 advised his family.
Mr.. Buzzard, Of Everett, after carefully
looking over the Yakima country, con.
cluded that this was a desirable point al
which to locate, and on Tuesday pur
chased one Of II. B. Scudder's ten acre
tracts on the Mckee, and is now busily
engaged in building 3 residence and max
ing other improvements.
F. d. Haun and d. d. Weddle, of the
Cowychee, paid their respects to THE HER
AID on Wednesday and report that The
farmers in that district are busy sowing
their crops in pleasant anticipation Of 9
big yield owing to 4 greater amount o.