The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1906-11-01
APPLE CR( , MAY
BE 100000 BOXES
LARGER THAN ESTIMATES so FAR
GrOwe-s Having Some Difficulty In
Getting Fruit lIauled-More Teams
Necessary In the Future.

Since apple growers have commenc-
ed to ship apples and are finding out
that their crops are much larger than
at first estimated those who ought to
know say that the number of boxes of
apples this year will be far Ia excess
OF the figures as first given out for
this years crop.
Altogether the number of boxes that
have or will be made for Hocd Riy-
er's big crop Of fruit will foot up in
the neighborhood of 200, 900. This il
between 81, 600 and 10, 900 more than
It was at first thought would be the
figures. A 2OO,0O box crop win call
for about 400 cars and will be almost
double the amount of apples ever
shipped from Hood River before.
One of the obstacles that has had to
be overcome this year and that will
become moIe important each year as
more orchards come into bearing is
TO provide means of transportation
from the orchard to the railroad. At
preseut every available team and wag-
on that can be secured is engaged In
hauling apples and even with all the
facilities that the valley now possesses
the fruit Is not coming In as fast as IL
should. In order to haul the crop
this year 1t Is thought that it will re-
quire at least 1900 team loads.
Ranchers have found that they:are un-
able to cope with the situation and
have engaged the transfer companies
to haul their apples for them. On
man who has $1,000 boxes of apples
figures that it will cost him some
thing like S60C to have them brought
in. The ordinary rancher's apple
wagon will not hold more then 40 or
30 boxes of apples, but the big wagons
being used by the transfer companies
which have four horse teams can haul
about 100 boxes.
1t is pointed out that before next
year something will have to be done
to render 1t possible TO bring the APP
Piles in more rapidly. Some growers
who have but 5000 or 1900 boxes
this year expect next year TO have
twice that many and even more.
With 1900 wagon loads this year 1t is
possible that the number will be
double next year and lmeans that IL
will furnish work for many teams and
men for several weeks.
The shipment Of apples during the
past week has averaged from four to
tive CARS day. A number of cars
have been shipped from the east side
over the Mount Hood railroad to the
warehouses here, where they have
been repacked and. shipped to their
destination. The union has received
an order for between 20 and 30 cars of
Newtowns from large commission
firm in New York in addition to the
large consignment to Loomis Il Co.,
but as yet 1t is not known whether
they can te supplied.
While many growers have enormous
yields OF Newtowns, the banner
crop, so far, has been reported by l..
Struck, who will average 81, 400 an
acre from 3 acres Of these prolific and
high priced appes. Probably the larg-
est yield of apples on any one tree In
the valley Is one reported by j. l..
Carter, who took 43 boxes OF apples
from tree of Rhode Island Green
ings.
The banner wagon load of apples SO
far this season was brought In Satur-
day by Lou Morse from the Chris.
Dethman orchard, consisting of 134
boxes of Spitzenbergs, which brought
1894.