Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-03
Trade Now Carried On Here in This
Line Mounts Into Mil
lions Annually.
EXTENT OF BUSINESS IMMENSE
Tsainloads of All Sorts Of Fruit Come
Daily.
NORTHWEST TERRITORY SOUGHT
Rich Region Of Idaho, Oregon and
Washington Next.
WHERE FINEST APPLES GROW
Great OF snake, Head and
Yakima valleys ShOuld Send
Their output TO the
Gnte CITY.
WHERE FINEST APPLES GROW

Omaha is a great fruit market. More
than that, Omaha Is one of the greatest
fruit markets in the world.
What Is more to the point, Omaha in
tends TO be a still greater fruit market.
These statements are promises, not
threats. 1t may seem just a little singular
TO one who is not familiar with the daily
doings along Commission Row" that
Omaha is a fruit market at all. Folks who
have never visited the market in the
neighborhood Of Twelfth and Howard, or
looked into the warehouses in that vicinity,
and several blocks Of big buildings are
given over to this purpose, do not know
that such a thing as a fruit market exists
here. But it does, and day in and day out,
from one years end to another, 1t Is a
busy place. A walk through the section
will impress the visitor with some idea Of
the hustle and hustle. but will give no
concrete conception of the extent of the
trade. In the memory will always linger
en- impression Of q lot Of wagons, of a
confusion OF odors, of boxes and barrels
and strange looking packages. a tangle Of
wagons and trucks, skids and %jostling men
end boys, and some boNcRrs that have APP
psrently wandered a long way from the
railroad yards where they are supposed
10 be impounded. But this impression will
he the exterior evidence Of the activity in
Omahs's fruit market.
Amounts 10 MilIions Annually.
1t present through Omaha pass thou
sands of carloads annually OF fruit from
the orchards and gardens of all the west
and southwest. The growers from Louis
lara and Texas, New Mexico. Arizona, Cali
fornia, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa,
even the states east of the mississippi
contribute to the greatness OF the Omeha
market. Big lfiult growers associations
have their headquarters here, and without
making any unnecessary noise about II,
they carry on a trade that amounts into
me millions each year. Fruit comes in and
goes out by the trainload; long strings OF
refrigerator cars whirl across the wide ex-
panse Of mountain and desert waste. hurry
irg to reach Omaha, where their loads may
be broken up and distributed among the
various communities Of the territory trihu-
tary to Che Gate City. other long trains
come from the east, for Omaha Is literally
the Gate city. the market town" for a
wide region, wherein reside the ultimate
consumer" Of the fruit that now finds its
way to the eater through the Omaha fruit
market. Omaha profits several million
dollars each year by this trade, and 1t is
still growing rapidly.
Northwest Now
Just now a most attractive region is
open. almost at Omaha's doors, at lest
within a territory that is tributary to
Omaha in other lines, and the Omaha fruit
men are alive to the Importance of the
situation. In the great northwest the
raising of fruit is coming to be a major
industry. Idaho, oregon and Washington
are increasing the orchard output each
year. Omaha men have investigated the
business and know its extent. Omaha men
are vitality interested In It, too; one Omaha
firm manufactures much II NOT most of the
sprays that are used to keep the trees
OF these vast orchards free from pests
that harm or destroy fruit, and in other
ways Omaha men are in touch with the
growers Of the Snake, the Hood and the
Yakima valleys,
But Omaha does not get that business,
the railroads have not as yet seen the I'M
portance of allowing the fruit from this
wonderful apple country. the most wonder
ful In the world. to come to its natural
market at Omaha. Some is shipped here
and some is shipped through here, but al
yet the bulk of II is taken out over the
northern route; the Northern Pacific ana
the Great Northern carrying 1t away t'
markets that are along those lines. Tit
Union Pacific gets into the great frui
growing region OF Idaho and oregon, and il
also reaching into the great orchard sec
ton Of Washington, and from these states
Omaha. is going to get in the future al
immense addition to its fruit trade. II 1
a rich country; its citizens buy largel!
from Omaha dealers I'm all lines Of goods
and its products ought to find a marke
here.
Probably 10000 cars OF oranges, lemons
peaches, pears and small fruit. 1900 car
Of apples and 1000 cars OF bananas arr
sold in Omaha and distributed from tht