The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-09-27
GAMER PLANT
PLEASES CLINE
Yakima Banker Points Out Ad-
vantage of Way Wenatchee
People Handle Waste

Cup at Wenatchee," said A. r.
has but recently returned to this city
from the Chelan county town where
the state bankers were in convention,
they have inaugurated an enterprise
which the fruit growers here could
profitably initiate. They are operat-
ing cannery which has an annual
output of twenty-five to thirty thou
sand cases. If you figure those cases
at about $3.50 each you get some
where in excess of $4,000 brought
into the district which otherwise it
would not have. The fruit used in
the cannery is for the most part fruit
which would not otherwise be sold
Market for Wind Falls
IT saw another thing done there
which is good business The ranch
ers go into their orchards, pick up
the wind falls. wrap and box them
as carefully as they would any other
fruit, label them as cookers and
sell them at from 60 to rs cents a
box in Seattle and Tacoma and such
markets. This gives another money
return which would otherwise be lost
to them. They make no false pre-
fences as to the character of the fruit
but sell it for what it is at fair
price and they reap a considerable
harvest They have large apple
crop this year; the largest in proper
ton, I am told of any irrigated Sec
ton in the country and they are max
ing the most of it.
Cannery Owned by Growers
THE Wenatchee cannery Is the
property of 175 of the fruit growers
and business men of the district. They
have manager and they turn the
business over to him. They get rid
of their surplus fruit to the cannery
and if it is good year in the can
merry business they get their profit on
the canned article. Peaches, pears,
apples. pums are the principal fruits
handled. The point | make is that
those men are organized and are TAX
ing care of that end of the fruit in
dustry and / think that right now is
the time for the fruit producers here
to organize and prepare to take care
Of the surplus fruit of 1912. The
Wenatchee men have a cold storage
and shipping house in connection
with their cannery and in that they
are able to take care of some of the
legitimate side issues.
The most modern machinery has
been installed in the Wenatchee plant
as for instance a crimper instead Of
soldering outfit for closing the
cans
Care of the Roadways
There is another field in which the
farmers and ranchers of that coun-
try are showing the way to our peo-
pie and that Is the manner in which
they are taking care of their road
ways They recognize the financial
advantage of good highways and have
organized to have the best The
manner in which they proceed shows
an individual recognition of the ex-
ways and there is also admitted an
individual responsibility in connection
Herewith. They have their scrap
ers and water wagons and the ditch
companies supply free water. The tax
on the farmer is the time given to
attending to the particular piece OF
roadway allotted TO him. OF course
do not admit that Wenatchee Is in
any way superior to Yakima. as there
is no place superior to this. but those
fellows have good ways of doing some
things that it will not hurt us bit
to initiate"