The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-07-03
Want STORAGE
!. At TERMINALS
Shipper Of Fruit Agree That Sc.
attic Project Could Get
Much Business Here
STORAGE NECESSARY FOR
HANDLING OF SOME FRUITS
Pacific Terminals Propose to
Build Storage Facilities, and
May Install Pre-Coolmg Plant
Here

The absorption of freight rates from
Yakima to Puget Sound, rates to New
York for one-third to one-half the
present rates. good prices resulting
from timely shipping, and delivery of
fruit in better condition are some
benentsthat Yakima fruit growers may
expect from the building Of storage
facilities and terminals in Seattle by
the Pacific Terminals company. These
are the statements Of Charles Fem,
representing the syndicate Of New
York bankers who propose to spend
5000, 900 in the construction of
docks, warehouses and other terminal
facilities in the Sound metropolis.
Transatlantic Business
Mr.. Fem left New York 1s months
ago with instructions to find the best
location on the Pacific coast for ter
minals modelled after the Bush plan,
ana after travelling from San Diego to
Prince Rupert. B. O., selected Seattle.
The terminals will consist in the main
Of SIX 1Ao0-foot concrete piers, ware
houses. "a terminal railroad and indus
tviAl buildings for factories. No at
tounpt will DO made to divert Seattle
ttsiness but the aim will be to build
up . trans-oceanic business of the
class that would not ordinarily come
- ths Pacific coast. but that will
1Qme here a. soon as the Panama
3auaisastopened.
q Covers Wide Range
3nthss COURSE of his Investigations
8a#genn has already conferred with
omcdals of the Yakima Valley Fruit
c0ewers' association. with many other
hzes xfruit shippers of this city, ami
toaawt ~ taking a trip through por-
tionafof the lower valley in search of
3prthSr evidence of the crops that may
be~Rpscted In the future.
At an informal conferences held at
the Commercial club Friday afternoon
M q Olson, president of the Fruit
Grpwers' association, gave estimates
Of tho crops OF this year and the
average increase, the kinds of fruit
which might be stored profitably and
The attitude of the growers toward the
establishment of such plant.
At the same time an Informal dis
cusdon was held covering wide
range of subjects pertinent to the de-
velopment Of the land of the Yakima
valley. Among these were the prob
able absorption of freight rates inland
from Sound ports With the develop
ment of shipping trade after the open
ting Of the Panama canal, the problem
Of immigration which will become
Ia Al In,
Of by-products, and the building of {,
local pre-cooling plant similar to
those now in operation in California.
Prospective Storage Business
In the course OF his inquiry into the
prospective business of the Yakima
valley for a storage plant at Seattle,
proceeding on the assumption that tie
Pacifc Terminals would furnish salts
factory storage at rate which would
compete with the eastern storage
plants, a number OF estimates were
made by Mr.. Olson.
Taking up first the number OF car
loads of fruit, he estimated that this
year there would be shipped alto
gether about $500 carloads from the
Yakima valley, of which about 5000
new trees coming into bearing. said
Mr.. Olson, will probably about equal
the loss from the light yield of the off
year, and the increase by the next two
years, in the next heavy year, would
be about 80 per cent, or an average OF
Is per cent year.
The question by Mr.. Fem as y
how much of this fruit might be
stored opened up<a discussion of the
ability of the railroads to handle the
immense crops, and the desirability Of
putting them on the market as soon
as harvested. 1t was agreed that
storage facilities would become in
creasingly necessary as the annual
total shipments Of the valley In
creased. ~
Best to Store Winter Apples
The late winter apples particularly.
thought Mr.. Olson, should be stored
and placed on the market when they
are at their best. Mr.. Olson estimated
that 90 per cent of the Winesap crop
might become storage business if
proper facilities and rates were Of
fered, rs per cent of the yellow New
towns and rs per cent of the Ben
Davis.
Pre- Cooling Necessary
The matter of a proceeding plant
was also taken up, and Mr.. Fem, on
being advised that such plant would
save a large amount of icing charges
and would also be profitable. said thas
IL figures to that effect could be Sc
cured the plant would be built in ths
valley. 4e
"At present. said Mr.. Olson, at
costs from $50 to $50 icing charges on
a car of Fruit from here to New YORK.
about $40 from here to Chicago. II a
carload of warm fruit was thoroughly
proceeded before 1t was shipped, II
would stand up for week to ten days
without additional icing, and could te
shipped on test to markets OF the
middle west"
To New York, II Days
On the part OF tbs Terminal COM
pany, Mr.. Fem, In answer 10 ques-
lions, said that the lines Of steamships
which would dock there would make
he trip from Seattle to New York IN