The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-09-05
HOME STORAGE
FOR APPLES
100000 BOXES THE CAPACITY
Three New Cold Storage Warehouses Are
Nearing Completion for Taking Care
Of the Big Crop.

The Hood River Apple Growers
Union has already completed the lay
ing Of the brick walls of the new three
story addition TO the its storage ware
house, and the frontage Of brick apple
storage buildings along the railroad
track is now 6l5 feet long. At the
east END of the city one of the first
sights that the passenger on the 0.-W.
X. & N. line sees is the large four
story storage house of the National
Apple Co. At Van Horn the big three
story warehouse of the Hood River
Apple & Storage Go. is nearing COM
pletion.
Within few weeks the interior
work on these new structures will be
finished and the total storage capacity
of the four large shipping concerns
will be 10000 boxes Of fruit, supply
ing one of the eommunity's great
needs, that of home storage for the
apples.
All Of the structures typify the COM
munity's predominant industry, that of
fruit growing. The long line of build
ings on railroad avenue are impressive.
But no less so is the tall building of
the National Company on State street.
The latter building is constructed of
wood. Rell q Mildman, Portland arch
tects and cold storage experts, have
had charge OF the construction work.
Many who have visited the refrigerat-
ing plants and cold storage buildings
of the other sections of the Pacific
coast declare that it has no equal in
any other district. Its cost, when
completed. will approximate $3.50, 900.
The refrigerating machinery will be
operated by electric motors. An auto
matte sprinkling system will be in
stalled, making the building fireproof.
| By the installation of this apparatus
the payment of heavy insurance rates
| is eliminated.
The National Co. has instituted the
new system of allowing the grower to
haul certain varieties of his apples TO
the warehouse, where they are packed
by the companvs expert men. Many
of the orchardists are taking advantage
of this opportunity. The new Ma
| tional building has storage capacity of
l25. 900 boxes of apples.
The new building of the Hood River
Apple & Storage Co. has three floors.
Its dimensions are 100 by 275 feet. The
following growers, all of whom live
within a radius of a mile around the
plant, which is located just this side of
Van Horn station on the Mount Hood
railroad line, form he-company M
Nj. Hill, president; II. X. Pooley, vice
PRESIDENT; Wilson Fike, treasurer; Al
E w. Peters, secretary Frank E. Deen
and G. l.. Smith. They will brinl
their fruit directly to the packing
house of the new establishment from
the orchard, and all operations of grad
ing and packing will be conducted
there. The building will be completely
equipped with refrigerating apparatus.
The capacity of the new structure for
storage will be $50. 900 boxes of fruit.
The new addition of the Davidson
Fruit Co., which gives that concern a
total capacity of l25, 900 boxes. is l25
feet long and two stories in height. 1t
has been completed and the company
is now making use of the addition.
The Davidson Fruit Co. operates its
refrigerating machinery by electrical
power. The company makes its ice
at the storage house and ices its own
cars. 1t also makes large quantity
of ice for use in the city. At its plant
is the only crystal ice machines in the
city. A different process is used fol-
making this quality of ice, which is
clear as crystal and is much more pref.
cradle for use by the housewife than
the can frozen ice. which has a whitist
look. The crystal ice is frozen OF
plates.
The Union, when its new addition is
finished. will have capacity of 200, 00(
boxes for storage. The new building
is 1870 feet long.