The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-12-10

IN addressing at Spokane, Monday
the first national apple show ever
neld in America, President Louis w
Hill. who is also president of tn.
Great Northern railway company
predicted that within quarter % a
century the value of the apple crop
of the Pacific northwest will be
greater than the present combined
value of wheat, ore and timber.
Said he: From now on, as I I'M
derstand it, this apple show will be
an annual event. l don't think any
&C us appreciate the Importance of
it today. Before we built to We
natchee,' in 1881, a government en-
gineer was sent down the Columbia
river He wrote in the government
report: 4 found one settler who has
been raising peaches, and the settler,
Mr.. Miller tells me that there is
room here for some few people,
1--WE built there in 1898, and a.
that time the land was worth-ob
you could get it at two or three dol
lars an acre, and nobody bought it
at that, but you can not buy it for
less than a thousand dollars an acre
at present, and you can get good re
turns at that. The property brings
in return of 10 or 20 per cent at
$1,000 an acre. That shows what tie
fruit business does. for the country
when it is developed.
"Our earnings from Wenatchee
hauling apples, the freight business
four years ago were $4,000, and fol-
this year $1O7, 900, and we are still
hauling a few apples now; haven't
got them all in. 1 do not speak OF
that because it it Wenatchee. or on
our line, but it is a good indication
of what will come. That is a great
increase for any place in the .cou.i
| thy, and l know that there great
many places that we have not heard
from.
IN southern California in 1892
they shipped 4O16 ears of oranges
and lemons. In 1907 they shipped
:7,i93 cars. They received for these
an average price of 81 AZ box. The
Washington apple shipments, &C
cordlng to governme1: figures, ~
1899 were about 900 cars, against
Cali:ornia's 1000, ami this year The
shipments of apples viii probably De
3U00 to 1000 cars, o. about VIVA;
snuthe.n California Vas shipping in
DANCES in 1892.
"Ths apple business will grow
Gaitc as fast as the orange business,
and the apples should readily find q
mariei. Apples are bought by tic
box or barrel, while oranges a:e
bought ~ the case or dozen or hd:i
dozen, few people buy'ng a case or
box of oranges. 1t is important 10
know that the orange business in
southern California in that period in
creased from 1000 to $4,000 cars,
and you will do the same.
From the United States Govern
ment census reports the number OF
apple trees in 1890 was 120,000,000
and ten years later POI, 100000.
That is an increase of 6S per cent in
the nation In Washington in $50
you had about 100000 apple trees,
according to the government report.
Ten years later, 100000, or an in
crease of 76S per cent, was shown.
The apples produced in the United
States in 1890 were 143,OO0,0O0
bushels; ten years later the amount
was IT'S 100000 bushels, an increase
of % per cent This country has in
creased a little more than that. The
apple export figures are important
because the market that we will work
up will probably be in the exporting
of apples. We import everything
that we raise, even wheat. We raise
a great deal of wheat, but we i'm
port wheat.
I've have never imported apples,
and every other country does, SO we
ought to export them, but our ex.