The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-09-11
DR.. Kloeber Gets Out Six Carloads
Of an Order for the Aus
tralian Market
MANY OF THE BUYERS
HAVE QUIT ON PEACHES
Yakima Hop Growers Report the
Conditions Excellent as Re-
CARDS That Crop With Remark
able Yield Most Probable

DR.. Kloeber has shipped out from
his Selah ranch six carloads of Jona-
than apples for an Australian order
and expects to get out eight or nine
additional carloads. The price is not
made public but it is understood that
it is highly satisfactory and one at
which the doctor is willing to con-
tinue doing business at. The fruit
goes to San Francisco by water from
Seattle and is there transhipped to
the Australian steamer.
Most Of the buyers have ceased to
take peaches though some of them
will come back into the buying game
a little later when the fruit from the
higher orchards of the Naches and
the Selah valleys is offered. The
trouble with the colored fruit at this
time is that it is too soft to ship to
any great distance and those of the
peaches that are green ripe, owing
to the cloudy weather are not wanted
at all. But few reflections have been
heard of, to date, but the shippers are
very particular as to what they are
sending out and are eliminating the
likelihood of refusal at the other end
as much as possible.
Big Proportion Shipped
Manager Samson Of the Horticul-
tural Union, when asked Monday ex-
pressed it as his belief that probably
three-quarters of the peaches have al
ready been shipped Some fruit, of
course, remains in almost all the or
chards, but the bulk has been ship
ped, so far as the peaches are con-
cerned, that is so far as this imme-
date valley is concerned. The fruit
from the higher lands is yet to go
forward In several orchards work
was pushed all day Sunday in order
to get rid Of the crop in season.
Pickers and packers were busy
throughout the day. Most of the
shippers, however, gave a most rigid
inspection to everything they re-
ceived on Sunday and made it meas
ure up or else rejected it.
Buerre d'Anjou Pears
Buerre dAnjou pears are now be-
ing picked and packed. The crop of
the valley will aggregate less than ten
cars. Some have already been ship
ped from the famous Sawyer and Wise
orchard of the lower valley and car
lots are now being put UP by the
horticultural Union and the Fruit
Growers associations. The Thomp-
son Fruit company, which has been
one Of the heavy handlers of ANXIOUS
in past seasons is again in that bust
ness heavily this year.
ff- TWxo VIor, C;@nots0r,
Regarding hops the report on the
streets Of Yakima Monday was that
the crop is coming down in fine
shape. The work. approximately, is
a third completed but it is the ex-
pectation Of the greater number of
the owners that they will be through
by state fair date which is September
20 The work was begun somewhat
earlier than usual this year and while
it was delayed a little is again in
full swing, with labor plentiful and
more workers coming in daily. In
addition the hop yards are getting
the laborers who were released by
the peach orchards. The yield, per
acre, will be the heaviest, perhaps
that Yakima has ever known. At any
rate it will be surprisingly heavy,
running in some instances very close
to two tons to the acre. This COM
pared with New York, where the
yield is heavy at half a ton to
the acre is most surprising. Henry
Schott. who is harvesting 100 acres of
hops in the Selah said Monday that
if he got all his gathered the crop
would constitute. an average per acre
that would take considerable colnpe-
ton. 1t is reported that the Mckee is
the champion producing district this
year and that some of the returns
from that district will be an eye OPP
ener even to the yard owners them
selves.
Oregon and California
Regarding Oregon and California
the latest report to reach Yakima is
as follows:
"In the hopyards of this state, and
in California as well, the weather is