The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-02
IN Washington Hop Growers
0Dsr Seveaty-Five Cents.
ADVANTAGE OVER YAKIMA.
IIa1Ss seeking Employment Have
rxdros Expense for Transportation
19et sosnd Hop Fields Cooled
~ - Breeses--Acrenge Reduced
- year, but Product IL of En-
u1ent QsaIity--HeIp II Needed.

S1cs Of Is cents box TO hop pick
80 been determined upon BY the
iu116 81 Western Washington, and this,
x rla1on Of the hop men of Puyallup
~ Green and White river valleys. is
~ asneation. considering the quaint
~ inality Of this years yield.
5aay.fvS cents a box, II is said, has
~ maximum price paid piclSers
~ reason OF 1faz. with the single
11ns u last year. when the 81 rate
ohfnn. OF Kent. one OF the larg-
5s1ls5ds,al hop growers In Western
11rtrYs. was in Seattle yesterday.
= a interview took issue with the
n the situation THIS side of the
-. expressed by Labor Commission
oot. of this city, published In yes
- post-Tnteilieencer.
2r0vers OF his neighbnrhood, Mr.
~. fully appreciate the work OF
Gf(1e employment bureau in secur-
~ for the hop fields; but do not
under the circumstances as they
.1kn4 comparisons should be drawn
6ftantnge OF the Yakima growers.
any persons intending TO sock
Sould be DISCOURAGED from apply
6s'fE4 growers Of Kent and Puyailnp
WIN "a tftt ftthft@- VI eAAAsfD
~ ~ price to pickera at n cents
RI not an experiment" said Mr.
Yesterday, ''and the growers Of
n Warrington have no fear that IL
~ q disaster. As a matter Of fact
~ been the highest price paid since
011h the exception Of last season.
~ acreage in hops this side the
(1Inn was almost twice as great as
&z1&n year.
81 { ~ for this year was first de-
- ~ the Puyaiiup Hop Growers
MN II Meeting held early In
y The growers n the White and
nlsntlon, have generally agreed
o6Sion Of the Puvallup association.
II ~ not ~ all probable that AIRY OF
S7u ofer 4 higher price
~ AZ fhe pickers required for this sea-
lork have already been engaged and
I'M satisfied with the terms. There
~ however. opportunity for many
- secure work. We DO not expect
q euf help to come from distance:
wi All be people whose homes are
H11Rl sound. and viii therefore be
~ little expense in reaching the
Ihen. agsin. considering the diff
h the climate between the Sound
~ en- work much faster and make
W meney here ut 70 cents than they
~ Il Il. II Il ntlli very YARN east
~ Moantains. while the fields on this
= sswsys cooled BY the breezes
4 d ~ year's crop IN the Puyallup. White
y 01o10 river valleys is OF the best quail
p(041e4d since tha fields were de-
1@1(1 " lice IN 1881 The bud is large
11. condition which Will also
= The advantage OF the picker In
W Ulln& the boxes. Last year IN
y ma and Green river valleys we had
~ ~ arrss Ia hops This year we have
1oegt m The yield win thus be
1olVely small, but viii make up IN
@nality for tho shortage In guam
~ " the growers have already con-
1oo4 ~ the sale OF their crops this
~ ~ prices running from . TO II
- 4 layo heard of a few contracts at
~ u cents. 1t " hard to predict
49, these prices viii DO maintained.
- time last year prices were the
- now, but later along in the year
W4A considerable alumping. the
- uo2nG down 10 as low Ha 6ik and 7
~ ouch = slump IL hardly likely to
IN year M the decreased acreage
~ superior quality Of the product
\ nd 70 maintain a good price