The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-08-29
THE YAKIMA PEACH
RULES THE MARKET
At PRESENT PROMINENT FEATURE
Pear season Is About over, Melons are
Plentiful and Demand
Holds Up Well.

The fact that a presidential cam
paign is brewing in the east, and the
! further fact that local campaign will
soon be upon us, are alike forgotten
in the stir of the commercial world
caused by the advent upon the markets
of Yakima's famous fruit. It's in ev-
| erybodys mouth, and the papers are
full of it. This is the way the subject
is featured up in the Post-Intelli-
gencer's market report Of Tuesday
morning:
This is going to be a week of UNI
usually heavy receipts on Western
avenue. A good start was made this
| morning in the arrival of a car Of
Gravenstein apples from eastern
Washington. A car of Wenatchee
peaches, a car of Wenatchee mixed
fruits, a car of sweet potatoes, two
cars of Yakima watermelons a car Of
Wenatchee watermelons and various
other smaller shipments of Washing.
ton fruits.
"This Is spoken of by the commission
men as the best week for canning
peaches. The price is possibly as low
as it will get on good stock, and the
quality is now of the highest. The
Crawfords are about finished. The
Westerns are now at their best, and
the Albertas will be at their best next
week. Crawfords are selling at IS to
SIS cents, Fosters at so cents to 81, and
Albertas at so to 90 cents, though a
! few boxes have brought more.
California melons are being gen.
orally sold at $1.25 today, though fresh
v-s1 a1u - "a.
ure. The new Yakima melons are
spoken of as equal to any other melons
now coming into market. Western
avenue asserts that it gives preference
| to Washington produce every time, and
the only reason why so many Cali.
fornia melons were used this season
is that their carrying qualities up to
| this time have been better than those
of the Yakima melons"
In the local market peaches lead at
this time. More boxes of peaches are
being shipped than of all other fruits
together. Albertas, Crawfords and
FOSTERS are being brought in, and some
OF them are as fine as were ever seen
in the valley. The Herald market re-
porter saw at the warehouse of ]. M.
Perry & Co. Tuesday evening some
Crawfords brought in by John Gibson
of Fruitvale. of which thirty made a
box as full as it could be crowded. At
the same place were some choice AL.
bertas that ran forty to the box, Mr..
Gibson has led in the matter of prize
fruit in other years, and they say that
over in Seattle the ladies who want the
finest and best fruit for their tables
look for his name on the baxes. Tues
day afternoon the dealers were paying
30 cents box. regardless OF variety.
Tor good peaches. Pears, so far as the
shipper is concerned, are about off the |
market. The wholesalers are buyjng !
them now in bulk and paying $2s a |
ton. There are very few plums passing
through the commission houses.
grapes are just beginning to come in
in quantities and the price varies
greatly.
Watermelons are approaching the
height OF the season. Dealers are TAX
ing all that come and paying dollar
crate The same price Is given for
eahtaloipes, and these are, If anything,
in better demand than watermelons. |
Shipments of fruit have been largo
during the last half.week. c. r. Off,
ner Yesterday sent out eight cars, al
most all for the eastern markets.
There is an evident disposition on
the part OF the local dealers 10 take all /
the wheat offered. or course, in this
immediate vicinity there is very li.t,e |
"hesar but that grown in Horse |
Heaven and the lower part of the val |
ley is bringing 60 cents for club and |
81 cents for bluestem. These quota |
lions are o1s cents above the Tacoma |
quotations.
LIVE STOCK.