The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-10-30
MANY APPLES
BEING SHIPPED
BUSY SCENES AT THE WAREHOUSES;
Almost Train Of Fruit Daily Leaving the
Valley Distributors Show Crafty
ing Returns on Soft Fruits

seen unloaulnR apples, whlle each day
from IL to IA carloads have been routed
out to all parts of the globe.
Every box shipped has been sold at
price f. o. b. Hood River" says Will
mer Sieg. "And taking into consider
alton the fact that the Association is
finding a market for sll grades this
promises to be one of the best seasons,
financially. that Hood River has ever
met with. We are selling at good
prices cooking apples and c grade
stuff. This heretofore has been a
waste product, but the good prices re-
ceived for the large quantities of this
stuff along with the excellent values
got for the extra fancy and fancy ap-
Piles will make the returns the best for
the production per acre.
While the great preponderance uf
fruit shipped is of the higher grades,
the vast quantity of C grade and cook
ing grade product and the value re-
turned for the latter helps the orchard
ist when he begins to figure his net re-
turns.
Mr.. Sieg says that the picking in all
parts of the valley has been very near
ly completed and that packing will be-
gin in earnest now.
1--WE have had a shortage of boxes
this year." he says, "due to the early
conservative estimate of the growers.
However, the local box companies and
those of Portland started the manufac-
ture again. and the needs of the local
growers have been supplied"
The management of the local associ-
stion expresses the opinion that the
conference held in Portland last week,
when shipping agencies and marketing
concerns discussed the advisability Of
standardizing the package for straw
berry shipments. will result in much
benefit. Hereafter all northwestern
berry districts will ship their fruit in
crates containing "a government pint
boxes. The old boxes. containing
slightly less than the government reg
lulation quart, prevented the marketing
of the fruit in many states the past
year.
Hereafter" says Mr.. Sieg, ''the
berries may be sold in any part of the
United States. And we are glad tC
see the decrease in the size of the
boxes. They will stand. refrigeration
better and we have found that tn,
trade likes the smaller package. We
expect to be able to ship the fruit al
far as New York in the smaller pack
ages; for Louisiana berries packed in
this manner have been marketed in
Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B.
c." Heretofore, the greater portion
of Hood Rivers berry crop has been
sold in middle western cities.
The demand for northwestern boxed
apples is said never to have been bet
ter. Excerpts from special dispatch
from New York to the Oregonian are
as follows:
1.-The low prices of last year, heavy
European and South American demand.
general disgust with the barreled ap-
pies of the east, and a light crop In
most fruit growing sections are funda.
mental reasons for the present good
prices for northwestern apples In New
York markets. The fact that the first
shipments of Hood River Spitzenburgs
brought at auction So, 35 to 1926 box
and Wenatchee Arkansas Blacks from
So. so to SO at this crucial time, when
all the apples that are not to be put In
cold storage are being thrown on the
market, is a strong indication that the
present demand for high grade western
apples will continue throughout the
season.
Mouths which never before had
tasted boxed apples had their fill last
winter. The enormous crop produced
throughout the United States, with the
resultant low prices sent boxes of high
grade fruit into thousands of homes for
the first time. Like the peanut
butcher on the trains who gives all
the passengers a taste of his candy.
the grower is reaping direct benefit
from the generous prices of last fall.
The fruit brokers of New York place
low prices of 1912 as prime factor in
the increased demand for boxed fruit.
Five years ago Sgobel & Day sent
the first box of apples to South Amer.
lea from New York. 1t was a single
box, sent as a sample. The Vandyke,
which left recently for Buenos Ayres
and Rio .Ianerio, carried $4,000 boxes
of northwestern apples. Now that the
tariff is tosbe removed from meat, the
steamship companies are increasing
their cold storage capacities for the
purpose of bringing meat north anC
taking apples and other fruit south.
Colorado Jonathans. which were
much in evidence in the OVERLOADED
market at this time last fall, are moi
to be found. The commission house:
are lined with brightly labeled boxe!
| from Wenatchee, North Yakima, Rogue
River and Hood River valleys. Ther'
has been an immense shipment of Jon
athans from Washington to New York
There are but few Jonathans from thu
Hood River and Rogue River Valley
| in the New York market, but Spitzen
burgs are just putting in an appear
ance. Southern Oregon pears ar,
found in every high class fruit stant
in the city and are retailing at from
five to eight cents apiece, according t
quality.
Colorado is not the only fruit dist
rict that has had light crop. Califor
MAS customary supply of yellow
/ Newtown Pippins is reported to b.
greatly diminished by the fruit growing
conditions there. New York, Main
and other eastern states have but hal
the crop of 1912.
"The Chicago markets are taking al
the apples grown in the middle west
leaving the western grown fruit t
supply the needs that small crops i
the east and Europe and the liking fo
the product is causing.
"Prices given by buyers in Ne'
York for apples f. o. b. in the Wenat
chez, North Yakima, Hood River an
Rogue River valleys are as follows
RomeI Beauties, S. so; 'Spitzenbures
s1.50; to So; Yellow Newtown Pippins
sl.50 to 81; Arkansas Blacks, 81: Jor
athans. $l.40-$l.60; Winter Bananas
So 25-S3: Winesaps. 81, 1882.