The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-12-15

A notable improvement along Western
Avenue is the new building of the Pa
cifc Warehouse Company, between Mad1-
son and Spring Streets, This building
is being erected expressly for number
of commission men and the stores under
construction are all taken on i've year
leases. The rooms are 3OX134 feet and
designed especially for the produce bust
ness, having an open arcade IA feet in
width along the front. They are we'll
lighted and will be supplied with gas
and electricity, steam heat, elevators
and all modern improvements, In tbs
rear is an unloading track, which will
facilitate getting the produce to the
dealers. The building is rat proof
lower story will be under way. shortly
and it is expected that the building will
be ready for occupancy by February 1.
Western Avenue dealers ,spi;a have beer, been
have had. good trade. The principal
products in evidence along the street are
fruits, from the South, along with Gran,
other articles of produce that are in
special demand around the holidays.
The busiest men on the Street have
been the poultry dealers. The shipments
Of chickens, geese and ducks were heavy
with a good demand all around. Several
dealers expressed some trouble in get
and they lay the blame for this condition
against the daily papers of Seattle,
which have had much to- say about the
low prices at which nrKeys you'd on be
dealer had definite information that
many Eastern Washington farmers were
shipping their poultry to the Portland
market. having read in the papers that
prices would be low here. AS a matter
of fact they received no more in Port
land than they would have been paid in
Seattle. Seattle with it's rapidly grow
ing population and it's outlet to the
North, always has been and always will
be able to take care of the bulk OF the
farm produce in this territory, and the
farmer can demand just as good prices
here as in any other market in the
Northwest. 1t will be we'll for the farm
erS to take the market reports OF the
daily papers with grain or two of salt
hereafter.
There is a good demand for good me-
dunn veal, but the local dealers are hav-
ing considerable trouble in dispos1ng OF
the large calves which are being shipped
here in great numbers. The big calves
bring very low prices, to the great dis
satisfaction of the shippers, who usually
This is an injustice to the dealers, for
they find it impossible to dispose of this
VEAL much of which comes nearer being
young beef than anything else, at good
prices. 1t is being handled on a very
low commission in an effort to give the
shippers every possible advantage, but
they must remember that this article is
hard to dispose of at any price.
Poultry dealers have also had some
trouble with shippers east Of the noun
tains and long distances from the city,
who have shipped poultry which would
be on the road fully "a hours and
sometimes longer without feed and wa
ter, and have failed to take into account
the shrinkage in weight:
The dealers say that it is impossible
to get poultry here from long distances
in the same condition that it leaves the
shipper, and they have had considerable
trouble in explaining the difference.
TALKS WITH DEALERS.
A Wrong Impression.-H. S. Emerson