The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-10-24
On Every Hand the Crops
Are Exceeding Expecta
tons of Growers.

| among the fruit growers. Cashmere
| orchardists are just really coming
into their own, and beginning to
| realize princely incomes from their
orchards. In this comparatively new
apple district there is distinct ad-
vantage inasmuch as most of the or
chards are planted to the very best
| commercial varieties, growers hav-
| ing profited by the mistakes of 9TH
ers in the older districts. The fact
| that in this immediate vicinity there
| is about half a million boxes of APP
pies is startling news and attracting
good deal of attention from rival
fruit districts, who credited Cash
mere as a little hole in the noun
tains. Every day stories of big yields
come to our notice that sound almost
like fiction, but they are facts.
Joel NJ. Treadwell has picked his
crop from Is acres and states he
will have 1000 packed boxes. The
trees are eight, seven and six years
old and are Winesap, Spitzenberg
Delicious, Stayman Winesap, Jona-
than, Black Ben Davis, Apple of
Commerce and Grimes Golden. Mr..
Treadwell has so Delicious trees in
his orchard, from which the crop
sold for $1,000, or $24 tree.
From seven acres A. S. Huffmas-
ter will have 1000 boxes. In the
spring Mr.. Huffmaster paid $4,000
for ten acres and his crop this year
will net him more than 80 per cent
on his investment. On six six-year-
old trees taken at random in his Or
chard he picked 12O boxes of Ben
Davis.
julius Volck picked % boxes of
from a seven year old Rome Beauty
tree. From 1-2 acres he will mar
ket $4,000 boxes of apples.
E. J. Broderick has a crop of 1000
boxes on Is acres, which will sell
for $500. Mr.. Broderick's apple
orchard is eight years old, and al
told his place contains % acres. Tht
income this year valuing the place
at $4,000 will be 20 per cent.
F. A. Schaefer will harvest 1000
boxes off from eight acres of bear
ing orchard, which was formerly par
of the Tibbits tract. The crop i:
easily worth $4,000. In the win
ter when the snow was on the
ground Schaefer, Burns and Hey
brook paid $4,000 for 20 acres
Only eight acres were in bearing bu
at this the place in single veal
produced a revenue of % per CEN
on the entire investment.
In town w. H Willard has IL
trees six and seven years old tina
produced over 500 packed boxes o
apples. These will easily sell at
price that will net more than $40 t.
tree.
On six acres Dewitt Graves ha
about 1000 boxes of apples. Thes'
are on 10 year old trees. Last win
ter Mr.. Graves purchased 20 acre
for $4,000. The crop off the 81,
acres alone will pay 20 per cent OF
the entire investment. The rest o
the tract is set out to young orchard
J. H. French Is picking crop o
about 1900 boxes of apples off from
young trees They are Spitzenberg
and Yellow Newtowns and practical
ly the first apples his orchard ha
produced.
At Glenwood Orchards, owned b.
Mrs. l.. G. Patterson, there is sew
en- acres that produced 1000 boxes
These are all Winesaps, Spitzenberg
and Jonathans with few Arkansa
Blacks. Mrs. Patterson will ne
more than $4,000 on these sever
acres. Nineteen hundred boxes were
shipped to Nome, Alaska, and TO
Jonathans they received $1.75, TO
Winesaps 1925, and for Spitzenber'
S275. These prices were f. o. b
Seattle. Mrs. Patterson also picked
large crop off from her young or
chard which is four years old