The San Francisco call., 1910-10-03
WATSQNVILLEFRUIT
WOULD TEMPT EVE
Apples Galore Found in PaiarO
Valley Needing Great Space
for Shipping
Coming Show Attracts Many
Exhibitors and Will Be
Great Exposition
I Special Dispatch TO The Call

WATSoNvILLE. Oct ?. = Twelve
acres of floor space~are required to
handle the apples which are packed
and shipped out of Watsonville and
the Pajaro valley between August l
and January 1, this season. As the
orchard acreage is being yearly in
creased, SO will the packing acreage
have to be extended. The equation now
is explicit-12, 900 acres of producing
apple trees require Il acres of packing
house facilities.
Visitors to the Watsonville apple
show, the great pomological exhibi-
ton, which is to be given here from
October 10 to Is of next week, Will
find themselves in view of much of the
producing acreage and within sight or
many of the packing houses, from
Which daily between 60 and 80 carloads
of crisp. delicious apples are sent to
delight the tables of the world.
A short drive will take the stranger
into the orchard district, where New
town pippin trees may be seen which
will assay 70 boxes to the tree, and
where bearing land is held at $1,000 TO
the acre in some instances. snort
walk from the auditorium will take
the visitor into the midst of the pack
ing house acreage, where rs plants,
from the largest in the industry to
small family affair, are working over
time TO handle the product of the
teeming orchards.
GOOD ROADS HELP
One reason why the fruit can be
handled so successfully in the Pajaro
valley is on account of the excellent
roads. Supervisor ]. A. Linscott of the
Watsonville district has charge of the
county highways insthe valley and dur
ing the four terms he served he has
put into shape 100 miles of roads lead
ing into Watsonville. Over these model
highways come all the apples which
make Watsonville a place of historical
Importance.
Supervisor Linscott has computed in
teresting statistics of the daily haul
of apples and on other traffic into Wat
sonville. His careful computations
give the following totals for an aver
age day:
Apple haul-Number of wagons 414. number Of
horses 9l0. number of boxes of apples 5i.SI2,
weight 2.314. $50 pounds .157 tons.
Other traffc-Number of wagons 156, number
single ana double team bugCes 992. passengers
l,6j5; number of automobiles 163, passengers
376.
OTHER FIGURES GIVEN
Linscott. who is also manager of the
Watsonville apple annual association,
has compiled interesting figures on the
number of persons engaged in the apple
industry in and about Watsonville. to-
gether with the figures on the pay of
the employees in the industry.
In the summary the total number en-
ployed includes those working in the
orchards and packing houses. The fig
ures relative to women and oriental
Ill, fe,- TO x-fa6 I'm
the packing houses. The figures fol-
low:
White labor employed male 672 female Sos:
Japanese employed 514. Chinese employed 205;
total number employed 3,0s9.
239I meles. average pay 81. ~ per day. which
makes the pay roll for men each day S5,379. IS /;
COS females. average pay $1.S3 per day. or a
total Of 1929. 81. Total money paid per day.
6.30S.09.
GOLD MEDALS OFFERED
Cold medals have been offered by the
association for many competitions, and
other prizes and trophies will be
awarded at the coming show. The
following is the list of the apple annual
events:
Carload single variety. carload mixed varie-
single and mixed varieties. 10 boxes single and
mixed varieties. five boxes single and mixed va
rietieS. Que box single and mixed varieties. one
box exhibited s8eepstakes. plate of not less
than Ave apples of single variety plate of not
le.f than Ave apples exhibited (sweepstakes'.
boXes evsporate apples 10 35pound boxes erap.
Grated apples. dry apple cider. bottled. dry apple
cider. in bulk sweet apple cider, bottled. sweet
apple cider in bulk. apple vinegar. bottled. ap-
pie vinegar in bulk. canned apples general ex.
hihit. cold storage apples. crop Of 1902 cold
storage apples. futurity, largest apple.
Home made products: Apple cider. apple vine
gar. apple butter apple jelly. crabapple Jelly.
preserved apples. apple marmalade, picked ap-
pies. apple relish.
OTHER PRIZES HUNG UP
In addition to the medals and tro-
phies offered by the association the
following prizes are also offered:
Glass Carload exhibits. Best Newtown
| pippins S100 silver trophy donated by Nationsl
| Ice and cold storage company Of San Francisco:
100 pounds arsenate of lead. California chemical
spray company. Best car hellhowers. 500 cash.
Angeles Best mixed varieties. silver tro-
ply, California fruit distributors. Sacramento.
Best car exhibited. sweepstake prize. $3.50 cash.
contributed by commission merchants of San
Class 300 box exhibits Best 100 boxes
| fornia chemical spray company. Best 100 boxes
Newnwn Pippns one barrel red ed lime sulphur h
100 boxes White Pearmains. same prize. same
| firm Best 100 boxes mixed varieties. silver
trophy and S75 cash. Pajaro Valley national
bank. Best 100 boxes exhibited. sweepstakes.
| 900 standard pine apple boxes in snook, Him
Glass SO box exhibits. Best 10 boxes bell
flowers. $50 cash by Bank of Watsonville Best
10 boxes NewtoWn plpDlnS. 500 cash by Wat
sonvile savings bank Best 10 boxes Bsdwias.
% pounds arsenate zinc, California chemical
| spray company Best 10 boxes Langford seed
lings. % pounds Rex arsenate of lead. Rex spray
| company Benfcia. Best 10 boxes mixed vari-
eties. silver trophy. by Adriatie publishing com
pany. San Francisco. publishers of Jadran. Best
| 10 boxes exhibited. sweepstakes prize trophy by
the lawyers of Watsonvile.
Class five box exhibits Best five boxes
bellfiowers one spray pump by Bean spray pump
comnanv. san Jose. Best five boxes wtowns
silver trophy by officials of Santa Cruz county.
Best five boxes mixed silver trophy. by O. D.
Stoesser. Best five boxes exhibited. sweep
stakes. $195 silver trophy. Charles Ford com
| pany.
flowers silver trophy. George r. Martin. Wat
soagine. Best box piepins, barrel lime sulphur
solution. California spray chemical company.
| Best box Smith elders. 25 pounds Rex arsenate
| Rex spray company, Bencia. Best box single
variety sweepstakes, silver trophy, o. D.
Stoesser.
Glass 6-Plate exhibits. Best plate of five
appies one variety. barrel lime sulphur sou-
! ton California spray chemical company. Best
Newtown pippius grown outside Pajaro valley,
% mounds arsenate lead. company.
| Glass 1f-Domestic products. Best exhibit
apDle Jelly silver trophy. anonymous.
Best general display domestic byproducts BY
| snv one exhibitor trophy. anonymous
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