The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-03-14
APPLE PROFITS
AT HOOD RIVER
MUCH GREATER THAN ELSEWHERE
Land Half the Price-Some Interest
ing Comparisons With Grand June.
tion, Wenatchee and Yakima

Lana Hall tne fflce-cOme lntortbt.
ing Comparisons With Grand June.
tion, wenatchee and Yakima
E. j. Dalton, manager Of the
Fruitar Fruit Growers association, Of
and j. l.. Taylor, a buyer
and shipper of Grand Junction, the
same state, stopped off at Hood River
last week. While they we're here some
very interesting in. ormation was OBJ
tanned from them in regard to CON-
parstive prices Of apples and land be-
tween Hood River and the district in
which they live. The gentlemen came
ostepsibly to see Mr.. Il. ii. Shepard
and spent most of their time while
here talking over the apple situstion
with him.
They have been making a tour OF
the coast, visiting the different apple
growing sections and are already look
ing for boxes for this years crop.
They say that last year great deal
Of difficulty was experienced In get
ting boxes in which to ship their
fruit and that the boxes all have to be
shipped in sometimes ct big ex.
pense and at a great delay. Mr.. Fay
lor told OF q grower that had Is oars
Of apples ready to ship last fall and
was expecting the boxes for the fruit
TO arrive the next day. That night
the freeze that did SO much damage
IN that section struck Grand juno
zion and out of the eighteen cars he
lost fifteen, owing to the fact that he
had no boxes to put the fruit In.
Land In bearing orchard is said by
these gentlemen to be worth from Sl,-
100 to 81, 500 an acre at Grand juno
tion and the fruit growing territory
Gear IL and the government is COM
pleting big irrigating ditch near
mere that will bring into use good
many thousand acres of fruit land. 1t
was learned from them that Hood
River enjoys the same rate for ship
Ding apples to New York and other
far eastern points that Denver does.
They were very much Interested In
the law which has just been passed In
Oregon making it misdemeanor to
label fruit grown in one section az
coming from another and said that q
measure Of this kind should be passed
in all the states, as a number OF IN
stances of the re-labeling OF fruit had
taken place In their section which
had hurt the district and individual
growers as we |. They said that they
had heard much of the big prices OBJ
tanned for Hood River fruit, but that
they had always taken the reports
with q grain Of shlt until they came
here and found that they were true
and we.e very much astonished at the
profits realized by some OF the grow
eIs here.
Fruitar is town about the size Of
Hood River and the association here
the past year shipped about zoo, 600
boxes of apples for which they obtain
ed an average price of 76 cents box,
| or figuring on the fact that 1t costs %
cents box to produce the apples the
profit was 26 cents tbox. The aver.
age price obtained at Grand junction
was So cents and at Plateau, town
also In the Grand junction section
but 72 cents was realized. In grading
the fruit what is called fancy, In
cludes four tier and larger, and
choice consists Of y and tier. In
the Colorado distrioot what are con-
sidered their five best commercial va.
rieties are Jonathans, Rome Beauty,
| Winesap, Ben Davis and Gano. In
talking over and making some com
parisons with the facts obtained from
Mr.. Dalton and Mr.. Taylor, Mr..
Shepard said later:
$50 far we have found that the five
best commercial varieties to grow at
Hood River are Spitz, Newtowns,
Arkansas Blacks, Ortleys and Wine
, saps. The Jonathan, which 10 the
highest priced apple raised at Grand
+ Junction did not bring as much Of
, our Winesap or the lowest priced ap'
!, ole raised at Hood River. The high.
, est price brought for Jonathans q
. Grand junction this year was VI. 5t
1 while the average here tor the entire
! five varieties | have enumerated Will
! be very close to 81. 10 this year. TAX
ing the average Of 50 cents at Crane
/. junction and deducting the price o.
: raising they made profit Of 30 cent
: a box while we made in the neighbor
: hood of 81. 25 or about four times thu
! profit they did.
"Good orchard land ulcleaIed II
( | Colorado is worth $500 an acre, whil'
1t can be bought at Hood River TO
n $500 an acre or Ia twice as much II
Colorado as it is here. No other sec
O tion possesses the advantages for rails
i ing apples that Hood River does. A
o Wenatohee and Yakima price OF lam
q is double what it is here and yet tn
i profits are one-half what they are here
70 In all the other sections Of the coun
| try except at Chelan water Is an abeC
W lutte necessity to the successful rail-
l. ing of apples but not so here. Som
OF the finest fruit that has ever bee
shipped out of Hood River was raise
on land that has never been irrigated
1e One of the important features to ,
Ia taken into consideration also in CON
n parinp the Colorado, Wenacthee an
r. Yakima with Hood River is the clin
ne ate. In the former place 1t Is colde
he In winter and warmer In summt
than here. Yakima aud Wenatche
ry are much warmer in summer tina
Il. Hood River and ale also up again.
the single railroad proposition Will
ts out the advantages of water tran
Is- portation. +"
- "In 1897 | had stomach diseas
- Some physicians said dyspepsia, SON
w. eonsumption, one said j would NJ
n live until spring, For tour years
- existed on boiled milk, soda biscuit
al and doctors prescriptions. l cou
W not digest anything | ate; then
picked up one Of your almanacs ar
Ii happened to be my iife-saver.
in. bought a so cent bottle Of Kodol al
nv the benefit | received from that bott
nd ali the gold in Georgia could not bu
nv In two months | went back to q
,at work, as machinist, and In thr
for months l was we'll and hearty. Nj
al. yod live long and prosper. &c.
,av CornelI. Roding, Ca, 1906. The abo