Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-09-08
POLK
COUNTY
HOPS
Thousands of PickerS Are
Employed In Yards Near
independence

were moIb pitheib AT WVih, UT en-
ployed in the hop fields Of this vicinity
ready for work, than at this time.
There are fully 5000 piekers on the
grounds, though all have not yet been
set TO work, says the Enterprise.
j. r. Cooper has 80 acres, and is en-
ploying So pickers.
Picking will begin in the Geo. Rose
yard tomorrow. Rose has $50 acres,
and about 500 pickers.
Picking is in progress in the Faber
& Neis yard, the first one across the
river opposite independence. The
Faber & Neis yard contains so acres,
and lao pickers were set to work yes
terday.
l.. Damon will not begin picking his.
15-aere yard until next Monday. He
will employ SO people.
Picking began in o. d. Riders yard
Saturday. Mr.. Rider has 20 acres, and
is working 50 to 40 people.
Picking began in C. A.. Mattison 8
yard yesterday. He has l2 acres, and
is employing 81 people.
Sam Irvine began picking yesterday.
He has 20 acres of hops and 80 people
at work.
There are 800 or more piekers lying
in wait for the Henry Ottenheimer
yard, but the hops are scarcely ripe.
Mr.. Ottenheimer has 80 acres, and about
|25O pickers will be employed.
The Percival yard, Manager Groves
estimates will be ripe enough to start
pickers on the last of the week. Mr..
Percival has 40 acres, and will use
about 1875 piiekers.
Jodie Morrison, foreman for Horst
Bros, set pickers to work in the Horst
Bros. big yard today. The Independ-
ence yard contains 800 acres, 200 acres
Of old, and 1870 acres of new hops.
Pickers are thick on the camping
grounds around their yards, and 400
were started TO work today. Foreman
Morrison has turned Off fully 400 appli-
cants. Horst Bros. have another yard
of ia acres near Salem.
+. NJ. Young has two yards, one of
20 acres near Buena Vista, and one of
Is on the Salem road az miles north.
About 100 pickers were set TO work in
the uena Vista yard yesterday and 40
in the other.
j. l.. Hanna has IS pickers at work
in his yard on the Hirschberg place.
Hanna has 361a acres, and began pick.
ing Monday.
ID. @. Dove has 90 acres, and ]. A.
Grigsby 10 on the Hirschberg place.
They are cooperating in the harvesting
Of their yards, They have six hop
houses, and are employing 200 piekers.
Chas. Moore began picking yester.
day. lie has a l6-aere yard near
Buena Vista, and is working 90 piekers.
Henderson Murphy who sold his big
hop ranch to Krebs Bros, last spring,
bought another last Friday in the same
vicinity of George Wells. The Wells
place contains 2l9 acres, 40 Of which is
already in bearing hops. The price
paid was $4,000,
James Jones has 90 piekers at work
saving the hops Of his 9O-scre yard
south Of town.
w. II. Roy came over from Dallas
Saturday with a wagon load Of pick.
ers' He has 10 acres and 30 piekers
are engaged. lie is In no hurry TO be.
gin picking.
Helmick 4 Bush will probably start
in ON their yard tomorrow. They have
10 acres and 80 piekers employed. A
number Of applicants TO pick have been
turned or.
Ntehard 4 Wolfe were in readiness
TO begin picking this morning. They
have a yard of so acres, aud about 50
piekers engaged. They have 80 acres
of baby hops that will not be picked
this year.
Picking is now on and will be on in
some NJ Henry Inns yards until the
crop is saved. Mr., Hin has six differ.
Ont yards with a total Of 100 acres. He
has u yard at the south edge OF town.
another a half mile farther south, an.
other a mile and a half south, aud three
yards four aud a half miles south. A
d'ecre yard Of FNggles was picked 10
days ago Picking 81 other yards be.
gan Saturday. Mr. hin win use ia all
about eco PekerS
w. Steele will begin picking tOmOr-
row. Mr.. Steele has 81 acres opposite
baeaa Vista On the Marion side. Hun
.dreds Of Piekers are available AZ his
yard, but about so will be used.
d. r. Taylor began picking yester-
day tie has As acres Of hops and lsO
piekers at work. 4
Mayor j. 3 Cooper has a a0asrs
yard near Albany, and win begin har.
NeStlnE tOmorFow His warA lin -.