The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-11-19
REVENUE OVER HALF MILLION
DOLLARS
Shipments of Apples from Valley
Will Aggregate Over 600 Car Loads
Fancy Prices Have Been Obtained
and Wenatchee and the Surrounding
Country Is Prosperous

The harvest home season is always
the most glorious time of all the year.
In Iowa it is the husking time; in
the Palouse country it is the thresh-
ing time; in the south it is the cotton
picking period and in the Wenatchee
valley it is the season of picking and
packing the apples. There were
pessimists in the valley last spring
who averred that there would be but
a light crop in the valley this fall.
For the first time in the history of
the Wenatchee valley the frost
worked an injury to the peach crop
and also curtailed the apple output.
This crop, however, was not injured
nearly as bad as was at first thought.
The marketing season has shown
that while some varieties were al
most entirely short, yet the Winesap
which has made this valley famous
has given it's normal yield. The
Rome Beauty, the Jonathan and the
Ben Davis have been under the aver
age while the Winesaps, the Black
Ben and Stayman Winesap and other
standard varieties have been nor
NAL In fact the Winesap is a little
heavier this year than last year.
Shipments This Year.
During the month of August there
were shipped out of here rs cars OF
summer apples and other fruit; in
September there were 73 cars of ap-
Piles shipped out and in October 1873
cars were shipped. So far this month
the average daily shipments have
been seven cars, making a total of
about 100 cars in November. There
will be shipped out fully SO cars
more before the cold weather sets in
and it is estimated that about 70
cars will be held over until next
spring. Besides the shipments from
this station, Cashmere and Peshas-
tin have already shipped 100 cars,
making the total output of this val
ley $50 cars. This estimate Is con-
sentative.
Figuring 600 boxes to the car,
which is the average, this makes
$4,000 boxes. Ben Davis is the
lowest priced apple grown in this
valley and this sold for $3.50 this
year. At $3.50 a box the net rev.
enue of the valley this year from the
apple crop alone would amount to
100000. The major portion, how
ever, of the valley crop this year
sold at 81 per box, which would give
a revenue close to 100000.
Estimate of Banks.
The Columbia Valley bank,
through F. D. Case, estimated the
revenue of the apple crop this year
to the Daily World at between $780,
coo and 100000.
George R. Fisher, of the First
National bank, made an estimate of
from 100000 to s750,O00.
W. A. Thompson, of the Farmers
& Merchants bank, stated that he be-
lieved that the valley would profit to
the amount of $4,000 from the ap-
pie crop.
Instances of Big Revenue.
Every grower in the valley does
not have a phenomenal crop, but
every grower in the valley with a
bearing orchard with good care, good
varieties and with the use of the
same business judgment that is en-
ployed in other pursuits, reaps re-
turns far greater than any other
business occupation in the west with
the same money invested.
Hundreds of illustrations of the
ordinary yield could be cited In proof
of this.
H. F. Hubbard, with about 80
Winesap trees on his place along the
Columbia river just below Entiat,
took of about 700 boxes, which sold
for $3.50 per box. The crop of this
year and last year more than made
the original cost of the place.
u. X. Lail, from Winesap trees,
picked $40 boxes of apples, and all
but about % boxes graded extra
fancy.
l.. W. Smith, from 4 acres, had a
net revenue of $3,02S.
O. G. France, from one acre, of
solid Winesaps, had a gross revenue
of $4,000.
H. A. Chaplin, from Z acres Of 5
year old trees, packed close to 1900
boxes of apples which brought him
81 per box.
Is an Ideal Life.