The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-24
T r UT CROP
OF I HE
WEST
WHAT A CLOSE EASTERN O8-
SERVER HAS NOTED.
Great Market for Apples, With an In
creasing Demand and a Oecreas-
ing SuppIy-Favoritc Varieties.

The following letter on the fruit
crop Of the West is written by Horace
w. Day of New York to H. l.. Griffin
of Ogden. 1t contains much valuable
information for fruit growers:
THE H. l.. Griffin Company, Ogden,
Utah: l was In California between
April first and 18th. and then went TO
Oregon When left California, they
had promise of good crops, apricot
crop not large and rather late:
peaches. good sized crop; Tokay
grapes large crop; plums and prunes
fair crop: Bartlett pears good crop.
The government people checked the
blight on the Bartlett pears.
Then / went to southern Oregon in
the Rogue River Valley district. They
have pretty good crop OF pears com
ing on there, the Comice, Bartlett and
Winter Nellis. They have about IS
per cent OF an apple crop and are not
putting in any more Spltzenberg, as
they find they do not color up as
highly as those from other sections,
and they are going in for Newtowns.
Eat Hood River they sold their
crop of Spitzenberg and Newtown. the
finest ever, 12S size and larger. at
s2,25 per box (. o. b., magnificent
sale. At Hood River also they will
apples. They will nave also about
$4,000 crates OF strawberries. virtual
ly the same as they had last year. but
they are a little late On the Snake
River, near Riparia and Lewiston, [
found that Messrs. White Bros e
Crum had purchased the LaFollete
orchard at Wawawai, and virtually
they control all of the fruit In that
section. This is the only section /
found in all the northwest where they
Will have any peaches at all, so t1ey
stand TO make good money at Seattle.
THE crop of cherries at Charleston
was very badly hurt by the frost, aad
one party told me that they would
only have 10 per cent of tho yield. but
another party said they might have
25 per cent
"At Wenatchee they sent out 500
carloads OF apples last year, and they
expect to have about the same this
season owing to the new orchards
coming into bearing. Last year they
had about $50 cars Of Winesaps. and
they expect large increase in the
production OF that variety, possibly
$50 carloads this season. They have
very few Spitzenberg and Newtown
apples, probably 10 to 20 cars In all
They will have many less Ben Davis
and Jonathans this season. and are
going ahead largely TO Winesaps.
They have about twelve cars of Ital-
10 L.,
quality and very small in size and will
be marketed near home
in the Yakima section they had
last year about rs carloads OF Italian
pruneS and this season expect about
ninety cars. Last season they had
about seventy~6ve cars Of Bartlett
pears and this season expect about
100 cars. They had about 1,40O cars
Of apples last season and will have
about the same quantity this year on
account Of the new acreage They are
going in for Winesaps largely and Will
not push the Spitzenberg and New
town apples. There will be absolute
ly no peaches either in Yakima or
Wenatchee section.
"The Dalles will have about TWEEN.
| ty-five cars of italian prunes, virtual
ly the same as they had last season
| No peaches there.
AT Walla Walla, which includes
Milton. last season they had about
| los cars Of Italian prunes and this
season they will have 70 cars. The big
Blaxlock ranch will have more than
| 1t had last year owing to the new
acreage. but they are cutting I'D this
| huge tract OF 1900 acres to sell in
small lots of 40. so, 100 acres. AT
Milton, near walla Walla. they had
| seventy cars last season and will have
only about twenty-five cars this sea
SON No peaches or pears and few