The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-23
LARGEST PLANT IN THE WEST
Vinegar Factory of MOrtland Manu-
featuring Company Will Consume
Over 100 Tons of Fruit Daily.

With pant and presses larger
than anything of the kind west of
Chicago, the Mortland Manufacturing
company Will be ready when the fruit
is ready to begin the work of manu-
factu:e OF elders, vinegars. grape
juices, apple butter, jellies and other
such articles in North Yakima from
Yakima grown fruit. Their factory
building is rapidly approaching COM
pletion. The machinery is ready for
shipment and will be started west as
soon as the local people can telegraph
word that the siding to be constructed
by the railroad to the p ant has been
laid. Installation will take but
short time, and all will readily be
achieved in time for the first availa-
BILE fruit.
Plant Has Large Capacity.
The plant will have capacity of
100 tons daily, which can be doubled
any time it becomes necessary by
merely working a double shift eacn
day. The building, which has a
ground space of 120x60 feet, will be
of four stories. trussed and the
grounds surrounding it are four and
a half acres, all of which will be &C.
the country produces the fruit to fill
them.
The presses are to work under a
300-ton pressure, are II tons in
weight each and will use up two and
a half tons of apples at a pressing, or
five tons in all at one pressing, there
being two presses The plant vii!
have a capacity of 90 barrels of jelly
as much grape juice as the farmers
of the country enable it to make. as
the supply of grapes will be the only
limit to the production. The vinegar
product will be of two brands, the
Totem Pole. which is the brand al
ready manufactured by the Bmpany.
and the Yakima IA new brand of ex-
ira strength. Other products will be
put out from the plant, but those
named above will be the principal
Save Time of Ranchers.
In all ways the equipment will be
as thorough as it is possible to make
it. one feature will he a new dump
ing process by which wagons from
the ranches with fruit will be emptied
instantaneous y. This will save the
time of the rancherS and enable them
to get away without trouble in I'M
loading or delivery. All the fruit re-
ceived will go into watts, where it will
be thoroughly washed and cleansed
after which it will be elevated So feet
to begin the process of manufacture
After elevation all the work will be
by gravity.
For the grapes kettles of aluminium
of 200-gailon capacity, and which
by the way, are very expensive. are to
be installed. This season. because OF
the likelihood that apples will not of
fer in any special quantities an evap-
orator will not be installed. This feat
ure of the manufacture will be takcr
up another year. however.
Local People Interested.
Construction of the building and it.
equipment. including the cost of the
land, has necessitated an outlay il
excess of $4,000. Sam G. Mortlant
says that the fruit of this section i!
positively the best that can be pro
cured anywhere for the purposes o
manufacture such as the plant her,
will undertake. He says also that thi
valley is the best possible location il
other respects
Local people have taken hold o
the enterprise with great deal of en-
ergy, with the result that there is ;
splendid list of home stockhol ders
They are: Messrs. w. +. Coumbe /
II. Oils, Otter brothers, f. j. Haasze
p. b. Hasbrouck, y. Heinrich. j. II
Hileman, w. l. HuXtable. w. n. Irish
T. E. Mo. tland, S. C. Mortland. +
Mortland. G.. s. Rankin. e. Remy. NJ
n. Richards, w. l.. Stenweg, Fraul
Stockwel.. a. Van de Arde. The iii
rectols are the Messrs. Mortland l. Fl
Dills and NJ. n. Richards.
The completion of the plant mean
another outlet to the ranchers of tn
Yakima country for their o~char