The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-10-11

pleasant experience. Peaches, apples
and pears are grown in an orchard
that is the pride of the genial doctor.
| who has owned the property several
years. but who is spending his first
year in active, personal work on It.
He is an enthusiastic orchardist. and
| can not say enough about the good
points Of the Selah region. He stated
that above everything else, the dis
trict was a winter apple country. and
most of 1t being above frost line, his
house standing at an elevation OF
1475 feet, there was no danger from
frost. While peaches of excellent
quality are raised successfully in the
Selah. they were too late to be of
much commercial value except in an
off year when everything else has
failed in that line, as was the expert
ence pretty generally this year
throughout the Yakima valley. The
greatest acreage in the Selah is in
Winesaps, which with the Spitzenberg.
Jonathan and Yellow Newton Pip
pins, grow to the greatest perfection.
Bartlett pears also reach perfection
| there.
| Land no better than DR. Kloeber's in
the vicinity has sold for $1,000 an
acre, but the doctor says he will not
put a price on his although he has
been asked to do SO several times. He
has 147 acres in fruit trees, mostly
apples, with peach and pear filters.
So far this year DR.. Kloeber has ship
| ped 2S cars of straight fruit from
Selah.
Electric Line from Yakima
The doctor stated that the Yakima
Valley Transportation company had
| applied for right of way on the I'M
conditional promise to begin work on
the extension from North Yakima the
minute the right of way from the
bridge through the Selah district was
obtained. All the necessary right of
| way, except three or four pieces. has
been signed up and the deeds are in
the Selah State bank The extension,
when finished, will tap the whole Sc
lah country, so that it may be reached
by any rancher over a distance of not
more than one mile. The coming in
of the road will increase values from
ten to fifteen per cent for contigu-
Gus ranch property and from % to
SO. per cent for property in Selah,
was the opinion of Dr. Kloeber
Fruit Situation
| Speaking of the fruit situation this
year, DIR. Kloeber said The Yakima
Valley Fruit Growers association, with
c. C. Waite as sales manager, has de-
veloped the distribution of Yakima
fnr ~, a ,f
system that any one in the valley
could guess His grasp of the fruit
situation this year was almost pro-
phetic. Wenatchee sold peaches even
| cheaper than we did; I understand
that great majority Of the fruit
did not net the growers more than %
cents. When Mr.. Waite was through
shipping peaches, the market was still
declining. Spectators who bought
fruit for cold storage lost money. 1t
should be remembered that Waite had
to sell assembled cars of peaches, of
every variety and kind Of pack, good
or bad, and succeeded in developing
big average price for the whole lot.
VIII Be Success
II predict that next year, under
Fruit Growers association will make
big success. This year has been
an unprecedentedly hard one, so every
buyer from the east admits. 1t is
their unanimous opinion that it has
been the hardest since 1897; that the
fruit market never showed such de-
moralization, and that there never
had been a year when fruit shippers
lost as much money as this year.
Taking everything into consideration,
the Fruit Growers association was the
victim of circumstances. That organ
iZation did well considering the fact
that local buyers, astute men, lost
| from $500 to $500 a shipment. 1t was
an especially disastrous year for pear
buyers. A concensus of opinion of
the fruit men of the east with whom
I have come in contact is that it was
so because of a series of causes, first
of which was that California ship
pers bid successfully against the can
merry association for pears, which
were put on the market at high
price, and remained at 50 until the
slump.
| Pears Thrown on Market
This fruit was shipped to New
York with the expectation of a contin-
uous good market. The pears were
mostly for European shipment, but
because Of steamship troubles and
stevedore strikes on the other side the
pears had to be thrown on the local
market, In the east there had never
been a year when there was so much
early local grown stuff as this year.
Early apples and other fruits came in
the greatest profustion onto the local
market at the time when our western
pears were thrown on and the result
was that the cheaper stuff had the
preference. Throughout the country
this has been a year when the lack of
employment for the workmen pre-
vailed and his pocketbook suffered.
with the result that the cheaper local
grown fruit naturally had the prefer
| ence with him.
| Peach Situation
"In respect to the peach PROPOSE
| ton, the production throughout the
United States had increased so that
even in a slim year it was sufficient
| IN sunnlv the demand The croD frouo