The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-07-03
And So Far as Reports Go Has
Done No Great Damage to
Other Crops of Yakima
CHERRY CONDITIONS
REPORTED IMPROVING
Greater Care on California Pack
Produces Better Results in the
Bidding at Chicago Than
Warrington Gets

Rain all through the Yakima val
ley and as far east as Wallula pre-.
vailed all day Sunday, starting early
In the morning and lasting, over most
of the district, well into the night. 1,
was strong in the wheat sections and
also in the grazing areas where II
did much good. Whether much harm
was done remains to be seen. The re-
port Monday was that the damage
would be a minimum. Most Of the
alfalfa Is in the stack, the greater
part of the timothy Is yet standing
and the fruit, except cherries, stood
the downpour all right. Such cher
RES as were damaged were too ripe
for much Of a sale except for local
distribution and there is not much of
"a local demand.
Cherry situation
Conditions regarding cherries seem
to be improving in the eastern mar
kets and the enforced id1eness hear
for a day or two until the trees dry
out may prove to be an immense pen
left. Yakima fruit is travelling to
many centers and the reports have
mot come in definitely through the
customary trade letters. These let
tiers indicate the difference little
care at this end makes in the price
received at the other end. Yakima
cherries in a carlot we're sold at Chi
lcago June 81 and the Royal AIMS av-
eraged IS cents and the Bings SIS
cents. Some went as low as IS cents
and some of the Bings brought rs
cents. and one box brought 81. A
second car of Yakima cherries was
sold June % and the AIMS averaged
so cents and the Bings 90 cents. We
natchee AIMS at the same time sold
at from 40 to 20 cents and Black Re
lpnblicans at IS to 80 cents. One
Chicago writer says very nice Cali
fornia Bings, nine and ten row,
brought $1.40, the balance 75c tt
$1.10, while the Royal AIMS sold for
from 65c to ST."
No Alfalfa Priced
| No price has been established or
this years Yakima alfalfa and it II
| not likely there will be for some
time. Farmers are making no effort
| to sell and have no intention Of let.
ting go at less than 50, which figure
is not probable at the present time
w. w. Robinson, Of Seattle. writes:
There are several thousand tons OF
last years crop Of alfalfa remaining
unsold. There Is not over one-fft1
as much old hay left in the Kittitas
valley as there was this time last year
and the production of timothy in the
state will be very little more than last
year although the production of al.
falfa is going to be a great deal more
However, the increase in the produc.
ton of alfalfa in the lower country
has little effect on the price of timo.
thy hay in the Kittitas valley"
Meat Market Prices
| Beef and pork conditions are i'm.
proving somewhat, according to The
statements sent out from the Port.
land stockyards. There have beer
heavy arrivals there of grass fed cat.
tie from California and from Other
sections which caused something Of q
decline earlier in the week, but re.
ceipts since have been smaller OF the
condition at the end of the week 6
Portland dispatch says:
1 prime steers today were believed
to be worth $3.50 to 1915 and bes
cows $3.50 to $5.65. Fancy yea
stock yesterday sold at So, the high
quotation for the week past. ONLY
one sale of beef material was report
ed at the yards this morning, a bunch
|of rs medium grade steers going a
Sc.
"In the hog division IS was quotet
Ioe "A 80 OF Fr,ie
ket at that figure, which is Is cent?
above the weeks opening quotation
was counted in firm tone.
1.-THE week developed a slight de
cline in mutton values, but at tn,
finish there was no great amount o.
stock on hand unsold, and the mar
ket appeared to be about steady a
the prices prevailing the past few
days
i Quiet In Yakima
North Yakima has nothing specia
to report in any of the lines of &C
tivity according to the wholesaler.
better than was expected Every
where regret is Expressed that ade
lquate> facilities have not been pro
lN1ueu lot taklng >cdre or the orchard
waste, but It is also generally admitted
that growers for the most part ar,
not prepared to get go their fruit a
a price at which a cannery can d.
business. Whether this is true re
mains for actual experience to dem
onstrate.
General Quotations
The general market Is as follows:
Kalispell hard wheat -four, sack. .$1.ei
Yakima Best, per sack ..$1.xs
Minnesota Blend. hard wheat ..$1.5t
lProsser -four. per sack. .$1.5t
Washington hard wheat flour ..S1.4l
i Kennewick Best, patent flour lila
/ Alfalfa. ton, wholesale. IS. 90 q 500
Wheat hay, per ton. $500 $500
Timothy hay. per ton $40 to 81;
| Potatoes, per ton ..........SS 10 81.
Onions, per ton. ................ SCI
Fruits. Vegetables, Groceries, Retail
Creamery butter. lb =. 35e. = for IS,
RuncA butter. pound. rs
| Eggs, per dozen 20i
Cheese, Wisconsin. pound. 40,
Brick Cheese mound ss,