The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-03-28
IFS CARLOADS PEACHES
THIS YEAR
Young Orchards VIII Pro-
duce Their First Crop
This Season

One hundred and seventy i've
carloads of peaches is the estimat
ed yield of Emmett's peach or
chards this year While this lus-
cious fruit has been produced here
since the memory of the oldest in
kabitant can recall, this year is
the first time they have been grown
monumental quantities. In flavor,
coloring, size and texture, there are
no peaches grown quite the equal
of the Emmett peach. In every
contest for supremacy, it has come
off victor. And now that the out
side world IS to be given an op-
bortunity to sample the Emmett
reaches it will wonder how it ever
got along without them. The Cap
ital News a few days ago co.,
tanned the following splendid write
UP of the peach section OF this end
of the valley:
There are now 1900 acres OF
peach trees in the vicinity of En-
nett most of them being planted
on the famous Emmett slope VIII
skirts the foothills to the east
and south of Emmett. OF these
1900 acres there are 500 acres OF
reach trees, mostly three year old,
that will this year bear for the
first time. 1t is estimated that the
Emmett peach crop this year will
aggrebate $50 to IT'S carloads. And
it is now estimated, on conser-
yative basis, that there will be 25|
cars of apples and IS cars of prunes
shipped from Emmett this year, max
ing the 1912 shipment of fruit the
largest in the history of the upper
Payette valley.
One of the recognized fruit au-
thorities of Emmett made the state
ment to a Capital News man that
III two years from now the 500
acres of peach trees that this year
Will yield an estimate of 175 car
loads of peaches, in two years
fromm now will produce fully
SEQ carloads. This is equivalent to
saying that an acre of five-year-old |
peach trees will produce car of
peaches. This being true, it is seen
that the 1900 acres now in peach |
trees at Emmett, some of which .
were planted last year, in four
years from now will be producing
more than 1900 cars of peaches.
What does this mean? It means
that in four years Emmett'S peach
alone will amount to full
ss much as all the
prunes, peaches and
in 1910, Idaho's ban
ner fruit, year, from the counties
of Ada, Canyon, Washington and
which comprise Idaho's
greatest fruit belt. 1t should be
in this connection that
the fruit shipments in four years
from now from the four foregoing
will amount to many
of carloads more than
in any year UP to the present time, /,
due Of course to the many thou
sands of acres of additional fruit
trees planted during the past three
years. 1t should be borne in mind
hat there are now 10000 acres
If fruit trees planted in southern
IDAHO.
In short interview with c.
Hartley of Emmett, Idaho's great r
,st nurseryman, who has 80 acres Y
n nursery stock at the southeast p
,dge of Emmett, he said there will $
,e set out this spring in the L q
nett vicinity about 1000 acres to G
ruit trees, which is about half
# last years fruit tree planting r
It Emmett. Of the 1000 acres, \
hree-fourths will be planted to ap ;.
les, one-eighth to prunes, and
to peaches. And about
% acres will be planted to grapes
his spring, all on the Emm ,.
lope.
Mr. Hartley stated he has sold
90, 900 nursery stock for this q
pring's planting OF this amount "
0, 200 are apple trees, $4,000 prune a.
'ees, $4,000 peach trees, and 2OO,- y
90 in pears, grapes, cherries, goose p
erries, currants and other berries p
OF including strawberry plants This +"
.ock is being shipped to many
arts of Idaho and eastern Oregon. 3
II. Hartley says he now has Is mel
. work at his nursery, and that 1
) men will be working there with
another week. An examination
the fruit trees at Emmett, Fl
caches, prunes, pears and apples RI
lows them to be in excellent con- bi