The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-09-06
Shipments From the Yakima Val
ley Now Aggregating That
Total and Increasing
NORTHERN PACIFIC SENDS
FIFTEEN FROM THIS CITY
Pears From This Valley Will Ar
rive on the New York Market
Next Week When 1t Is Expect
ed Receipts Will Be Smaller

Fruit cars are now going out of the
Yakima valley at the rate of about
thirty a day. The Northern Pacidc
railway loaded fifteen cars out from
North Yakima alone on Wednesday
and duplicated the trick on Thursday
while ON "Wednesday the OW. Il. e
\. railway carried eight cars of fruit
from the valley. In addition to these
were the cars which the Northern
Pacific railway took out from the ter
ritory below the gap This means that
the shipments are steady and fairly
large. II is not probable that this
year will produce any single record
day. as the peach yield is not suif-
GENTLY large for the fruit to crowd
itself into a record shipment. The
yield. however is good and the ship
ments are averaging a good total
The fruit shipments from the valley
to date, in freight car lots. aggregate
about $50 cars.
Heavy Express Business
There is a heavy express business in
progress at this time, much heavier
than the average citizen would i'm
aginc as it is practically all a night
trade and consequently does not come
under the eye of the public. A great
many thousands of pounds of fruit
are being handled daily by the men
at the Northern express office here
and the aggregate from the valley at
large. Just at the present time. Is
about four express cars daily. This,
Of course. includes tomatoes, canta-
loupes and such things in addition
to peaches. pears, apples and plums
and all that sort OF thing.
Record for One Day
One record was made in the fruit
business Wednesday, however and
that was when the CIV. r. & y. rail-
way constructed a siding track as far
AS the Horticultural Union building.
then placed refrigerator car there
which the Union boys loaded with
fruit and which was nauled away OF
It's journey to it's destination. Build
ing track and loading and taking
out a carload of fruit on it all in one
day. Is going some. While not MAX
ing any claims to record Bert Stew
art went to the front Thursday when
he delivered a number of boxes Of
40 pack Elbertas at the Horticultural
Union and told Of a Crawford he had
which was fourteen and a half iuch-
es In diameter. Mrs. Jesse Thornton
had Crawfords which weighed three
quarters of a pound apiece The first
carload OF peaches out Of this valley
this summer was a shipment made by
the Horticultural Union, over the o.
W. r. a. \. and It has since sent out.
up to Thursday. two other straight
carloads The straight carloaus -
now n daily occurrence from each OF
tho warehouses
Pears In New York
The first carload of Yakima pears
to reach the New York market this
season. that Is the first carload uf
fruit from this section to go out for
market sale. was disposed of Wednes-
day The figures have not been made
public here but they are nothing 10
boast of as is obvious when it is
stated that New York. the first three
DAYS OF this week, received. from
somewhere, 16S cars Of pears. The
bulk or the North Yakima pears sent
to New York will arrive on that mar
ket next week and it Is expected that
the price Will he considerably im-
proved as the supply can not be main
tanned as it has been