The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
SENDING OUT NEWS
LETTERS TO EAST
Commercial Club Trying Expert.
ment in Advertising Through /.
Weekly Papers

Some features of the big crop ex-
pected in the Yakima valley this year,
the amounts. value, and the problems
of harvesting and marketing, form the
subject matter of letter being sent
out by the Commercial club to $50
weekly newspapers in the middle west
and east. The papers to which the
in by members of the club as their
"home papers," on the return postal
cards sent out short time ago. ~
A Newspaper Gazetteer, containing
the names, addresses, politics. time of
publication and other details about all
of the newspapers and periodicals in
the United States, has been ordered for
the use of the club and is expected
to prove invaluable in making up lists
for advertising purposes.
BY means of the clipping bureaus 1t
is the expectation Of Secretary Ware
to check up on the letters just sent
out, as an experiment, and from the
returns will decide whether further
letters will be justified Following is
the letter:
Train "a Miles Long
THE prospect for a pumper crop in
the Yakima valley is now assured. II
Is estimated that $3.50 cars will be
necessary to carry the crop to the
markets of the country. With % cars
to train, 1t will take 334 train loads
or single train Ga miles long
"The. number of boxes required tc
hold this mammoth yield is 1900, 900
Growers are now engaged in making
,requisition for the necessary boxes
and though the returns are not yet al
in it will require 20 carloads Of apples
boxes, 40 carloads of peach boxes, 16
carloads of pear boxes, IL of prune
boxes and about three of miscellan-
eous boxes for cherries. berries, etc
J hese boxes come knock down" and
the labor of mailing them together is
a task that might we'll stagger one
If q man were to nail, say 500 boxes
a day, it would take him almost eight
years to nail up the boxes necessary
for this years crop. Some of the ex-
perts, however, can nail as high as
700 a day and at cent apiece they
make good wages.
Boxes From New York to Buffalo
IF the boxes to be used this year
were placed end to end, they would
stretch from New York to Buffalo
and If there was an average of 100
apples to the box. there would be
AN apple and a half for every man
woman and child in the United states
THE harvesting of this immense
crop is already causing the growers
RESTLESS nights for it will require 49,
600 people to take care of it properly
of whom about 1000 only are avail
able. Where the other 5000 are to
come from is the important question
1t is very probable that wages will b.
as high this year as they were two
years ago, when common labor drew
$3.50 per day, and in some cases ever
higher than this. Railroads, employ.
ment agencies, growers associations
oranges and commercial bodies
Throughout the valley are preparing
for the great problem.
1.-THE most pleasing feature of THU
forecast is, of course, the contempla
ton of the money that will pour in.
to the valley as a result of this har.
vest If there Is an average market
price for the fruit this year, the re.
turns to the growers will reach the
lstupendous sum of s5,000,000.