East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-08-05
BANNER APPLE CROP
OREGON WILL SHIP OUT
1000 CARS IN 1908
The Output of the Season VIII Be
400 Cars More than Last Year
Grande Ronde Valley Will Ship
Out 800 Carloads, or Double the
Number Shipped Last Year.

Number Shipped Last Year.
Oregon will have over 1000 cars
Of fine apples to ship this year, as
compared with about 600 cars last
year. Crop prospects on the whole
are favorable, though some sections
Of the state are doing better than
others. Hood river vii have its BAN
ner crop, though 1t was feared ear
lier i'm the season that some damage
had been done.
The shipments from Hood River
valley will be between 400 and 500
cars, against 200 cars in 1907. The
Grand Ronde valley is preparing to
send out 800 cars, double the number
shipped last year, while Medford
growers expect to dispatch about 200
cars, as they did last season.
In other apple sections of the state
the conditions are reported as good
or a little better than they were last
season, though 1t is known that some
varieties, Baldwins especially, will run
lighter than last year in the Will
lamette valley, and 1t is also said the
valley Newtons and Spitzenbergs will
not produce the crop thew did last
year. Prices that will be realized on
shipping stock will be governed by
conditions in the eastern states, where
the yields are reported to be compar-
atlvely light.
Apple men who are gathering in
formation in regard to crop condi-
tons in advance Of the shipping sea-
son state that late reports give ev-
idence of high prices for fancy west
ern apples again this year.
1t Is stated that so far as New York
and Missouri, which are big factors
in the apple market, only show indi-
cations of an average crop, while that
of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois is almost
a failure
At Grand Junction, Col, which is
one of the greatest competitors of
coast box apples in the west, the
falling off in the amount of fruit
shipped this year VIII, according to a
report received from John F. Moore,
manager of the Fruit Growers asso-
citation there, amount to 1000 cars.
The Grand Junction district in
cludes Fruita, Clifton, Palisades and
Grand Junction. The normal ship
ment from there is from $500 to
5000 cars, but It is stated by Mr..
Moore that 1t will be less than 500
this year. Last year 500 cars were
shipped from the district.
At Yakima, Wenatchee and other
apple growing centers in Washington
the crop is stated to be 10 per cent
greater than that of 1907. Reports
received from oregon indicate good
crops In some sections and light ones
in others. In the eastern part of the
state the recent hot weather and ap-
pie drop early in the season are re-
ported TO have done considerable
damage. News from Medford con-
veys the information that apples
there will be but 60 per cent of a
crop. It is stated, however that the
fruit is Of the finest quality ever
known in that section.
At Hood river it was feared that
the hot weather would damage the
crop, but so far none has been re-
ported. The output OF fruit here this
year will be double the amount of
that shipped last season, owing to
full crop in old orchards and the fact
that many new ones will come into
bearing. The shipment is expected to
be between 400 and 500 cars, as
against 200 cars last year
In quality the crop is said to show
Indications of being fully as good as
that of last year, If not better. Blight
is disease that is practically un.
known in the Hood river district.
1t is said that August is the hard
est month on eastern apple crops,
and that reports OF shortage there
now indicate that 1t will be still
greater, 1t is also stated that all
sections on the coast
will this year devote more attention
to packing and grading, and that the
finest shipments of apples ever sent
out of the northwest will undoubted-
ly be sent to eastern markets this |
year.