The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-12
For the Railroads on Ac-
count Of the Increased
Production.

president OF the Northern Paetdc'
also president OF the National apple
show. which viii be held for the
third time in Spokane, Wash. No
yember II to 40, in his opening adj
dress will discuss the question from
various standpoInts-
Despite the fact that Thousands of
new trees have been planted and
the 1910 crop of apples in the
Yakima valley, WASH, the Bitter
Root Valley, Mont. the Wenatchee
district on the Great Northern in
oregon and the various apple dis
triets in Idaho IS the largest for
several years, the demand for ap-
pies and the new markets opened
in all parts Of the world will take
every apple raised
1t is the getting of these apples to
market with which the railroads
are concerned. American apples
are always at premium in Europe
Far away Egyptians have taken to
the fruit and want all they can get
Of it. Australia on the other side
Of the globe has a growing appetite
for this country's apples. In our
own country where the apple Is re-
garded as the most health-giYing of
fruits the demand is increasing and
thus the railroads find themselves
facing the problem of transporting
the fruit.
one of the new ideas to be sug-
gested by President Elliott Is the
erection in the great producing dis
tricts OF apple storage houses. He
| will recommend that the apples. iu-
stead of being picked from the trees
and rushed to the cars, be placed in
1.-The storage houses where they will
| he preceded. 1t has been found
that preceded apples keep better
and taste better than those that are
cooled in refrigerators cars in trans
1t.
There are other advantages in this
plan OF storing the apples near the
orchards in which they are grown.
1t is believed, for one thing, that
1.-The grower Willie able to get a bet
ter price for his product by holding
iit and shipping when market condi-
lions are improved. The grower
also will have more time for hand
ling his crop and will not have to
Erush it to the trains.
The apple production in the YaIki-
ma valley this year will amount to
tS,9OO cars and it has beer esEi-
mated that the establishment OF
new orchards In this district alone
will mean the production OF $4,000
cars at the end OF Ave years. The
output of the other districts will be
proportionately large.
The Northern Pacific railway has
found II necessary to run solid re-
frIgerator trains OF 35 cars each on
| a 91-hour schedule from points in
the Yakima valley to st. Paul, which
IS almost passenger train speed. 1t
| is doubtful IL any railroad in the
country has 5000 refrigerator
cars that can be used for the haul
ing of a single commodity at GER
Itain time in the year. 1t is to avoid
meeting such an emergency that MI.
Elliott will recommend that the ap-
pie grower hold his fruit in storage
houses and ship it as the demand
comes instead of rushing the whola
/ crop to the East where It is placed
! IN storage and held to the adj
vantage OF the iohber.
The United States Reclamation
service now has under way the re-
clamation OF hundreds of thOas-
ands of acres of land, much of which
will be devoted 10 orchards in the
next few years. Pears, grapes and
other fruits of course. viii be grown
but the apple viii remain King and
II is to get the fruit into the mouth
OF the people that the railroads aim
The work OF the government Is sup
elementary to that of many private
individuals and corporate irrigation
enterprises that aggregate other
enormous acreages and expendi-
lures. in Montana, 1t was recently
estimated. about / 100000 acres
were under irrigation by private
companies and iRdividaals. In
idaho, washington and oregon, in
1.-THE Lewiston-clarkston Columbia
River, Walla Walla, Spokane,
! Yakima and other valleys tho same
\ story is true. Consequently It may
readily be seen what the railroads
\ viii have to contend with when
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