The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-11-16

of General Manager Walter n. Granger,
formerly a successful manager of irriga-
ton enterprises in Montana. One OF his
irrigated land Is the most profitable in
the west, which fact is now firmly estab
lished.
One of the record fruit yields of Sun
nyside this year was that of +. Chenaur,
whose orchard of Missouri pippin apple
trees yielded at the rate of 500 boxes per
acre, selling at 81 per box. The same
farmer marketed $425 worth of Salway
peaches from thirty-fve trees occupying
less than one-third of an acre. From a
ten-acre prune orchard bearing this year
for the first time, F. L. Rowland shipped
four carloads Of prunes 10 Chicago, Min
neapois and Cincinnati. receiving gross
proceeds of $ll0O per car. Old orchards
in full bearing produce at the rate of a
carload per acre.
f. E. Thompson's ten-acre orchard of
Bartlett pears produced 1900 boxes, which
sold in Minneapolis at $l.40 to 81 80 per
box.
Similar results have followed the grow
ing OF corn, alfalfa and sugar bees on
irrigated lands. j. A Moody who
raised corn in Randolph county, Mo-. for
twenty-five years, has corn field near
Zillah that produced seventy-fve bushels
of shelled corn per acre this year.
Throughout the valley, three cuttings of
alfalfa were obtained, averaging eight
tons per acre for the season. Alfalfa is
now selling at $4 80 per ton. d. H. Cor
rell pastured twelve head of cattle and
twenty-five sheep all summer on four
acre alfalfa field and turned them off fat
this fall. Elder S. J. Harrison, of the
Dunkard church, who moved out last
spring FROM Lanark, Ill.,, where he was
engaged in business Tor many years,
is going into stock raising on large
scale.
Still another class of settlers is repre-
sented by Capt. Whippey, once master
of the Tiffany yacht at New York and
Newport, who has moved to Sunnyside
to grow up with the country, accom-
panied by his bride, who was formerly a
governess in the Tiffany family. While
engaging in horticulture with some mis-
glvings, Capt. Whlppey has learned that
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the irrigated section were men of no
more experience than himself when they
started.
The new settlers now coming into the
Sunnyside country, and for that matter
the entire Yakima valley, are people of
means, who have money with which to
improve their land and erect good build.
ings. While these settlers are coming
from all parts of the country, the ma
jority are from Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
New York, Massachusetts and other New
England states. When the enterprise
was first started, many of the settlers
came from the Sound country. 1t seems
likely that this experience is to be re-
peated, for many inquiries from western
Washington have lately been received.
Some of the fruit raisers originally sup.
posed that the great influx of horticultur-
lists would limit their own market. They
find that the result is just the opposite,
for the Sunnyside district is now produc-
ing enough fruit to bring in buyers from
many of the best markets in the country,
including the large eastern cities. This
competition has strong tendency TO
advance prices, and, further, gives the
fruit raiser the opportunity of selling bis
entire fruit crop in his orchard if he so
desires.
Buyers were so numerous this year
that the fruit growers could cell their
apples, peaches, pears, etc., on the trees,
or picked. packed and delivered at the
station. Where buyers purchase the
fruit on the trees they bring in their own
pickers and packers, and the grower has
only to receive his money and 20 on with
his other farm work.