The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-09-13
FVAPORATING PLANT MAY
Be BUILT IN THIS VALLEY
Western Fruits Products Co. Planning
to Build EyapOrating and Canning
Plant

Rufus R. Wilson representing the
Western Fruits Products Co. expects to
be in the valley within short time for
the purpose of establishing large
evaporating and distilling plant says
the Wenatchee World.
The plant will also be equipped
for handling all the auxiliary by-pro-
ducts of large canning and evapora-
ton plant, such as jellies, jams, vine
gar, wood alcohol, etc. Mr.. Wilson,
who is in the city to-day on business
matters, estimates from careful figures,
which he has had prepared by experts,
that there are in the valley this year
1000 carloads of orchard products
which by right should be handled by
an evaporation plant, and which would
bring good money to the orchardist.
He is now working in the Yakima val
ley, getting his company and its plant
started, and when he closes up opera
tions in Yakima, he proposes to come
to Wenatchee for the second plant.
THE plans Of the syndicate which
I am representing" said M. Wilson,
"and which proposes to establish a
large evaporating, distilling and can
ming plant at some central point in the
valleys of the Yakima, have, after sew
eral months of preliminary work, taken
definite shape. 1t is the purpose Of
our syndicate to establish, probably at
Kennewick, plant capable of using
up not less than eight carloads of fruit
per day. We shall have storage facili
ties for about 1000 carloads of apples
SO that the plant can be kept in opera
ton through the greater part of the
year. There are now available for our
purposes in the valleys of the Yakima,
about 1900 carloads of fruit, the bulk
of which, of course, is apples. This
product we propose to evaporate and
distill, and with the markets of the
world open to US, as they will be with
the completion of the Panama canal,
we shall be able to compete with the
evaporators of the Middle West and
the East in the markets of the world.
The most serious obstacle that we
have thus far encountered has been the
perfecting Of some flexible, and at the
same time effective plan for assuring
US the aid and cooperation of the fruit
growers. We think we have been
able to overcome this obstacle with
contract whereby the fruit grower be-
comes a subscriber to stock in our
company and receives for the product,
which he pledges US, half cash and
half stock. We are now pretty we'll
satisfied that from the Yakima valley
growers we should receive subscrip-
tions for $500, 900 worth of our stock.
Our Yakima company is capitalized for
5000, 900, and our plant, when COM
pleted, will represent an investment Of
not less than S150,000.
When we have finished our work
in the Yakima country it is our pur-
pose to organize an another company
to operate in the Wenatchee valley.
It may be the better part of year be-
fore we can begin the carrying out Of
our Wenatchee plans, but in the end
we hope to have a plant here at We
natchee with a daily capacity Of at
least six carloads of fruit, and capable
Of indefinite expansion. We have
found no difficulty in interesting East
ern capital in the utilization Of that
part OF our crop which now goes to
waste and feel that we have fairly un-
der way a movement which is sure to
prove Of great and lasting benefit to
fruit growers.