The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1903-05-14

bbe loaded at once.
Ice men and railroad men are in evil
dence almost every day. 1t is expected
this year that the shipments will run up
| to II or more cars day. This means
lots OF work for the mu who will have
to ice the refrigerator cars. These cars
must also be kept moving by the rail-
road company.
The Portland Journal of Tuesday,
May l2, says: "Som, small shipments
of Oregon stock arrived from the South
ern portion of the state this morning
and brought quotations slightly in adj
vance of Callfornia's. Shipments #
stock from Florin' are on the increase
and quotations are not so stiff.
Joe Wilson has a stitching machine
and a crate mailer ut work In his ware
house on the railroad track making hall
locks designed especially for shipping
raspberries, or for use in sending straw
berries to Alaskan markets. The crates
are wider and longer but not SO deep as
| the ordinary berry crate. They con.
tain "a cups of about quart each. These
cups, or hallocks are 51S Ia inches, in
side measurements shelf is arranged to
separate the two layers of boxes, This
allows the air to circulate freely and
thus prevent the fruit from mildewing,
SO common to raspberries expressed any
distance.
The first Oregon strawberries, four
crates, reached the Portland market
Monday. They came from Douglas
county and were of superior flavor and
size and OF a fine color The shipments
we're received by Bell & Co., and w. B.
GIafke & Co The former received their
lot from the Seebring Fruit and Produce
company of billiard, the latter from H.
S. Coon Of the same town. Mr. Coon
has enjoyed the distinction of making
the first shipment of strawberries to
Portland for a number of years. The
berries received yesterday were in "a
pound crates and offered at 80 cents a
pound. Receipts OF California berries
were large and the demand for them
was improved by the warmer weather.
the price remained unchanged at $I.75
per 15-pound crate.-Oregonian market
report, May II.
According to news item in the Ore
gonian Of Tuesday, May IL, on Monday,
''five cases of Hood River berries were
displayed in Fourth street market, and
shipment Of the same kind Of berries,
but scarcely 80 large, was seen at a
Third street market. They will keep
coming in daily now, for the strawberry
season has opened, about the same time
as the rose season, ,and in week or two
both will be plentiful" Continuing the
same article says: California straw
berries, fairly good, were being pedded
by hawkers last evening at 10 cents a
basket. They will also disappear from
the street in day or two. The amount
Of money which has been sent to Cali
fornia Of late for vegetables and fruits
is something startling, and the amount
of poor. worthless stuff that has come
in from that state has been disgusting y
CONDITIONS IN THE EAST.
Strawberries at Tyler, Texas sold last
week for 81 crate ON board the cars.
1t was expected that the crop would be
moved by May 10.
The first car of Van, Buren, Ark, ber-
ries was received in Minneapolis April
81, by the Gamble Robinson commission
company, and $40 cases sold for 81, 1898.
II the officials OF the express compa-
MES are to be believed the crop of straw
in Colorado this year will be the largest
ever raised, says the Chicago Packer.
Canon City is the center of the berry
crop. Last year there was but half a
crop, but this year the weather has been
perfect Cold weather has held bios
sons back until now there is little pros.
poets of damage by frost.
Reports as to frost damage in the
Mississippi valley states on April 80 and
May |, show that all fruit was severely
injured, apples having apparently
escaped with the least damage. A spe-
cial telegraphic report to the Chicago
Inter Ocean from Missouri saws:
Frost on the lst killed corn, potatoes,
tender vegetables, grapes, some cotton
and young clover; strawberries greatly
damaged; damage to tree fruits not
ascertainable, but very great, especially
to apples" Similar reports are printed
from neighboring states. The mini
mum temperature on this date is r..
ported by the weather bureau as being
the lowest on record for the past 90
years. There were heavy SHOWS in Min
nesota and the ground was frozen in
North Dakota.
A special report to the Saint Louis
Republic from Columbia, Mo-, says
"Snow fell in nearly all the northern,
central and western counties on April
29-30, and in few localities in the
northwest section the ground was cov-
cred to depth of two inches. The full
extent OF the damage done by the frost
of the 1st cannot yet be ascertained. In
the southern counties considerable
corn was up and much of it was killed
to the ground. Potatoes, beans and all
tender vegetables were killed. Grapes
we're generally killed, and in most sec
tions strawberries were entirely killed
or very greatly damaged. Reports re-
gaTding the damage to apples, peaches
and other tree fruits are very conflicting,
but it is generally believed that
they have suffered severely, and
many correspondents report them en-
tirely killed. In portions of the Ozark
region the leaves on forest trees we're
killed.
A Chicago dispatch under date of
May 2 says one car of Texas strawber-
ries came to Chicago Tuesday and one
from Van Buren, Ark. Wednesday. The
Texas car was the Lady Thompson, a
light colored variety that is poor car
rier. The car, it is said, was bought at
Sl.S0 Texas, which would bring it about
S225 Chicago, per 24qt case. The ber-
ries sold from 81 80 to $2.75. They were
not in tirst-class condition, many OF them
being green. The Van Buren car was
the Early Mitchell berry. The berries
were rather small but otherwise all
right, being dry, bright and ripe and in
good condition. This car is said to have
been bought at $3.50 loading station.
The freight is about 81 cents to Chicago,
making the cost s. per crate laid down
there. The berries sold for 1915 and SO.
Neither one OF the cars let the BUYERS
out whole. Dealers say the Early
Mitchell variety is not desirable for
shipping. The dry weather is affecting
Louisiana and Mississippi crops. A
prominent house had word from its man
in Louisiana early in the week that if