The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-07-17
Consul General Crifhths in Eng.
land Tells Things of Interest
to Yakima Growers
GOOD AMERICAN FRUIT
is ALWAYS IN DEMAND
Millions Of Dollars Are Expended
Annually in the Purchase of
the Things Which Are Pro-
duced in This Valley

american apples, carefully select
ed and well packed, are practically
always in demand in the United
Kingdom" says United States Consul
General John Grifflths of London
England, in a report to the bureau of
manufactures of the department of
commerce and labor, and then he
goes on to give some idea of the
character of the preserved and raw
fruit business of the United King
dom. AS fruits are a subject in which
Yakima has some interest, and as
markets are a problem which, sooner
or later, must be studied by the
Yakima grower, what Consul Lee
Washington at Liverpool has to say
should interest the people of this
section. He gives list of Liverpool
dealers who have asked to be placed
in communication with American eX-
porters; then a general review of the
situation, which appears to be ex-
cellent, and the following prices are
quoted:
Dried Fruit Prices
The estimated present prices of
dried fruits per hundredweight G12
pounds) are as follows: Apples,
evaporated rings (prime). $9.4S to
1913; apricots, Royal. choice, s11.7S;
extra choice, S12.04; fancy, $1S.14;
apricots, Moorpark, choice, s12.95;
extra choice, $1S.2s: fancy, s1435:
pears (halves), choice. $10.5S; extra
choice. $11.43; fancy, $12.S9; peaches,
Crawfords. choice, 1851; extra
choice, 1924; fancy st0,46; plums.
Santa Clara, 30-40, $11.19; 1880.
ss.s5: 5000, 50; 60-70, sS.27: 1880.
$7,17; so-10O, $6.6S. The average
price Of raisns would be about 1851
to 1913 per hundredweight
Liverpool, for the past two or three
years has been importing annually
dried fruit of value of 100000.
What Britain Buys
Consul General John l.. Griffiths
of London gives some figures regard
ing the British importations of fresh
fruit. The value of the apples inn
ported in 1911 was s1O.S66,9S5, OF
which there were imported from the
United States apples of the value of
$3,83S,992. Purchases from Canada
were in excess of those from this
| country by 100000, and from Aus
tralla were SZ,4ZS,OOU.
In apricots, peaches, etc, the pur-
chases from the United States were
small totaling in value about $4,000.
For pears the United Kingdom paid
$2,65O,0 900, and bought wherever she
could find them. She paid $4,000, 900
also for plums, and a million and a
half for fruits unenumerated. All
these figures, 1t will be borne in mind,
relate to fresh fruit.
Wholesale Prices
Consul General Griffiths reports as
follows
Raw apples were imported into the
United Kingdom for the four months
ending April so. 1910, to an aggregate
value Of $3.5S2,S24; for the CORES
ponding four months of 1911, $2.727,-
527; and for the same months in
1912, s4,17S,771 1t will be seen that
there has been very decided in
crease in the Importation of raw APP
Piles in 1912 as compared with the
two preceding years.
The wholesale prices for apples in
London on June 6, 1912, were as fol-
lows:
Nova Scotian, per barrel (112 lbs
Starks Cooking apples), $4.26; cook
ers, $3.16 Ribstons, selected, s2.79:
Ribstons, fine dessert. $3.04, Blen-
helms, selected. 1928; Blenheims,
extras, $3.50; Kings Choice, $4.0l.
Wenatchees Gin boxes of about 40
lbs. metz: King David, very hand
some, s3.04; Jonathan. choice red,
$32s; Jonathan, extras, 1852: Winter
Banana, choice, $3.50.
California Newtowns Gin boxes OF
about 40 lbs. metz. Fine, s2.55; choice,
$2.79.
American Baldwins. per barrel (112
lbs), finest, $4.26; fine, 1917; good,
1852; ordinary, $500.