Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-09-04
SOME HOP NOTES
A Howell Prairie Grower Offers 50 cents
For Picking.


has been greatly hindered the pasi
week by showers but the damage t
the hops has been slight. Mold haI
appeared in some yards but not TO
very alarming extent. The price be
ing paid for picking runs from 30 to 81
cents per box, averaging possibly A
cents.
About 100 pickers are employed In
Otto Wilson's yard about three miles
east Of Salem. With continued favor
able weather, his picking will be con-
pleted in a week or ten days. The
crop is equalling the expectation OF
Mr.. Wilson but he fears considerable
damage will be done the hops by
much more rain and disagfeeable
weather.
w. ii. Holmes, of this city, has
charge of the Beardsley hop yard at
Eola this year. About IS people are
camped there and are picking. This
yard always yields an excellent crop
aud of a fine quality and this years
product is not an exception. e. NJ
Rowley of this city is conducting a
grocery store at tie yard, and has
erected a dancing platform for the
amusement of the young people.
Merry crowds of young people gather
semi-weekly and trip the light fantas-
tic until the "wee sma" hours when
after few hours rest, they renew
their labCrs in the hop yard with de-
termination to ''pick hops while the
sun shines".
A. L. Jerman, of Howell Prairie,
advertises for 100 pickers and offers so
cents per box. AT this figure an ex-
perienced picker can easily make from
50 90 to So 90 per day.
Plckers are unusually scarce this
year, but very few of the yards re-
porting full force of pi ckers. The
increased acreage may partly account
for the scarcity of pickers, but the
average picker does not fee, disposed
to pick for 80 or even 35 cents per box.
The recent rain has done great
damage to hops. The hops in the
Haley yard In Syracuse precinct were
so badly nodded as to necessiJate
abandoning the yard, and no doubt
many other yards are in the same sit
uation. The wheat can stand con-
siderable more RAIN, though not
good thing for it.-Albany Democrat.
Recent contracts for hops have
been filed, at Oregon City, as follows;
To Lilienthal Bros-D. q. Stewart
and Klindt Bros each contract 10000
pounds, lat 10 cents;4 cents in advance.
To the A. j. Luce Hop company, Al S.
Vaughn and j A. Chapman each con-
tract 5000 pounds at cents; cents
in advance.
Sheridan Sun:-Hop and fruit pick
ers are in demand now. Several men
have been in town the past week look
ing for recruits for the hop yards,
Hops are looking up and so Is the
price for pickers. Many yards will
pay 40 cents per box for picking.
Corvallis Gazette: Sorbin, the chi
naman who has the w. A. Wells hop
yard rented, threatened TO sue his
lessor for $4,000 damages. Sorbin
claims that according to the contract,
Mr.. Wells was to furnish pickers and
money to pay them. He claims also
that he asked Mr.. Wells some time
ago to engage pickers at 40 cents
box, but he refused to do it, saying
help could be secured at 30 cents when |
the time came. But the time arrived |
and pickers could not be secured.
Many of the hops are over ripe and /
Sorbin estimates his loss at over
$1,000 Mr.. Wells Is in Portland. He |
may have another version.
The Dallas Itemizer says; Almost
every family in this country, in many
Eases the whole family, Is represen-
Led in the various yards, and several
hundred from surrounding counties
nave came for an outing to earn lit
lie pocket money No yard is pay
ng less than 35 and many of them 40
,ents. How much the hops have
)een damaged by rain is yet uncertain,
As we passed along to Salem the other
lay little armies of campers were no.
iced around the Nelson yard near
Derry, and the several yards about
Cola. The roads were full of Wagons
,oing in all directions and the streets
# Salem were lined with people bent
n picking hops.
A great amount of hops of an excel
ent quality have already been cured
nd bailed, Herren Il Levy, who own
fifty acre yard about three miles
Outh of Salem, have already dried
bout $4,000 pounds. To make this
mount of the dried article, it re-
uireS 200Q boxes of green hops. One
inc bushel box will average l2