The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-15
YAKIMA FRUIT man TELLS
WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING

and probably no point on the Pacific
coast offers a better panorama. There
are planted in these gardens over
5000 different special of evergreen
trees and shrubs, and Mr.. Smiley
offers $1,000 reward for any ever
green plant or shrub of variety diff
ferent from what he possesses.
About Naval Oranges
Our train continued to Riverside
from Redlands, the second best
orange district in California, for a
stop of four hours and we were quar-
tered at the Glenwood Mission Inn
one of the famous resorts of south
ern California. Thirty-six years ago
the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, D. c., received from the
Brazilian government six naval
orange trees; two of them were al
loted to California and all the naval
orange trees sprang from these
original two trees. One of these
trees was transplanted by President
Roosevelt in the park of the Glen
wood Mission Inn and now stands
there as a monument to this great
industry.
Doubling back from Riverside 10
Los Angeles we passed through Col
ton. This is where the Southern Pa
cific company have one of their great
preceding stations, which has cap
acty of "A cars at a time.
Likes Los Angeles
Now we are in Los Angeles and I
must admit it is absolutely the best
81 De-
provement is seen on every hand;
suburbs by the score, springing up in
every direction. Such places as Pas
adena, Long Beach, Hollywood and
Ocean Park are all contiguous to the
city and are growing like magic. I
was here four years ago and a lot of
these suburbs l have mentioned did
not have 500 people and today there
are over 10000 in some of. them.
There is hardly vacant building in
the City of Los Angeles and the busi-
ness men tell me that business is very
good indeed.
estimated at 10000 cars; lemon 5000,
and about one-third of the whole has
been shipped up to date. Whereve,
your eyes fall you see trees loaded
with the golden fruit. Prices are no,
very satisfactory and the best Navals
can be bought for $3.50 a case f. O..
b. loading station. When picking and
packing charges are taken into ac-
count, this is a very low price, and I
cannot figure very much margin in
it for the grower; when you take
into consideration that a case of
oranges weighs ~ lbs.
About Good Roads
I would like to have bunch O,
representative men from Yakima
come to this state and investigate the
California system of road building
and 1 believe it would do Yakima
some good. There are hundreds and
thousands of miles of roads here Just
as smooth as Naches avenue. They
are not only contiguous to the large
towns, but all through the country
districts. 1t is true they have cheap
oil here, sbut in the San Jose dis
trict the roads are not oiled-they
are thoroughly macadamized and are
sprinkled twice a week all through
the summer months and it is not an
uncommon sight to see an automobile
pull up by the side of Southern
Pacific passenger train and keep pace
with the train for distance of five
miles. The good roads here are one
of the factors that is attracting i'm
migration to this state. People come
here for pleasure and a good road is
what they want.
Looking up Packing Machinery
I have been looking up packing
house machinery and something that
we might be able to adopt in our
business at Yakima, but SO far the
general line of appliances used in the
citrus belt could not be used on our
fruits up north, with the exception Of
some conveyors, fruit pressers, etc.
On my way home shall make "A
stop at jacksonville, the great apple
district of this state and two or three
stops in the Sacramento valley and
look over a number of packing houses
in that district, and will be home
along about the goth; after the West
ern Fruit Jobbers meeting at Sac
ramento.