The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-08-21
H. M. Gilbert Urges Shippers to
Work Together and Hold to
That Price F. o. B.
OTHER CROPS LATE AND
UNABLE TO COMPETE
Quotes Letter From Grand juno
ton Fruitgrowers Association to
Show That Colorado Crop Was
Overestimated

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! ed for that purpose, H. M. Gilbert
urges that managers of fruit handling
agencies and dealers get together and
maintain a price of so cents box
&. o. b. on North Yakima peaches
Mr. Gilbert argues that according to
the date of maturity of peaches in
other sections, some OF which have
been delayed by cool weather. Yaki-
ma should have the advantage, and
should make the most of It,.
what shall we get for our
peaches? 1t all depends" he says,
ION whether the dealers, associations
and growers stand firm and work to-
gether to some extent.
l suggest a conference of the diff
ferent managers, and think the Com
mercial club might call one. If this
is not deemed wise, let me present
the situation briefly
Letter of August 14th, received to-
day from Grand Junction, (see pub
lished in full in this issue) states
Colorado will not start Elbertas be-
fore September / on account of a
month of cool weather
+ Letter from a well-informed party
in Utah dated August 18th, states
they will not start Elbertas until
about September 10.
Get these peach dates in your mind.
Parker Heights, Zillah, Wapato,
lower Yakima August 81.
Wenatchee August 20.
North Yakima August rs.
Colorado September 1.
Utah September 5 to 10.
Why take less than soc t. o. b. next
week? Get your customers acquaint-
ed with the facts as follows:
Others Cannot Compete. f
"a, Snake river peaches cant COM
pete except, where, the Dakota trust
prohibits, Yakimas. Wenatchee is
quoting As to soc and, not S5c as re-
ported, ~, ,,r.,
(2) No Colorados for two weeks.
CD No Utahs for about three
weeks.
Why get buffaloed?
I have just phoned Wenatchee and
parties claiming to have shipped rs
per cent of the output SO far state
they will stand by 45c, and haven't
quoted for less.
! We have lot of territory where
Wenatchee doesn't compete, and q
soc price can be maintained-We-
natchee will only have small sup
ply as compared with ours. ~. Is ~
Mote in the Grand Junction letter,
published in another column that, the
present estimate Of the Colorado crop
is only .one-half of the former ssti-
mate. Utah's. is also much lighter
1--WE
mifdew. too late to compete. 1t Is all
up to the nerve and salesm anship Ct
Yakima men whether we get fair
prices for our peaches"
Following is the letter of the Grand
Junction Fruitgrowers association:
The Richey & Gilbert Company, Top
penish, Wash.
Gentlemen: This is to acknowledge
receipt of your favor of August 10,
and ! assure you that we greatly APP
preciate hearing from you along these
lines.
We feel that there is not enough
cooperation between the deterrent as
sociations and shippers throughout
the west and anything We can do to
further a closer relationship and ex-
change of valuable information, which
is not only of interest, but is neces-
sary, we are always glad to do.
We expected to be shipping mum
Der of Bartlett pears this week but
when the growers started picking they
found that there was not sufficien,
stock matured enough to make a
picking, so we do not expect any Bart
let's until the latter part of next
week.
We have had extremely cool wealth.
er here for the past month and this
has caused our Elberta peaches to
mature very slowly. The present in
dications are that we will have nc
liberia peaches ready for shipment
until about the first of September.
Look for Advance in Bartletts
! We understand that California il
winding up on their heavy shipments
of Bartletts this week and we lool
TO see a considerable advance IN
prices. in fact, we do not expect tc
even quote any Bartletts under S1.5t
II. o. b.
Referring to Jonathan apples; W,
have an excellent crop of these both
in quality and quantity, and expec
this stock will be ready for shipmen
between the 25th of September anC
the first of October. l am inclined t.
think that conditions will justify us IL
asking 81 so per box (. o. b. for ou
extra fancy grade, and / know tina
this price can be obtained if our com
petitors here and the shippers in tn,
| Northwest will hold strong at equa
prices.
We expect to use the layer pack thi
year but will pack in the same size
as used heretofore. We have beer
! experimenting with this box for tn,
past six or seven months and notwith
standing the information received
| from packers in the Northwest, tina
only the boxes used in that distric
would do for the layer pack of apples
we believe that our box is going to b.
Just as satisfactory,
/ Urge Co-Operation of Shippers
We expect to have about 1000 car
loads of peaches in this valley. tn
maj rity of which will be Elbertas
We expect 800 carloads of pears ans
from 5000 TO $500 carloads of apples