Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-10-18
SELL 1000 CARS
APPLES $1,000, 900
Organization Officials Elated Over
Results in Getting Big Prices
Crop Shrinking.

One thousand cars of apples for fu
ture delivery were sold through tn,
North Pacific Fruit Distributors il
the last week for total price O
approximately $1,OOO.OOO, the carr
averaging about $1,000 each. One
Car of Wenatchee apples in New
York brought $4,000. It consisted o.
Winter Bananas, Jonathans, Kine
Davids and Grimes Goldens. All the
$1,000 cars averaged from $1.35 tt
50 box, +. O. b. shipping point
This averages about 25 cents a boz
higher than apples shipped by In.
dependent dealers.
"The presence of the North Pacific
Fruit Distributors in the northwest
box apple industry this season will
mean just about $2,225,0O0 extra to
the growers" said H. F. Davidson
of Hood River, president of the or.
ganization, last night. about Au-
gust l, the very best price we hoped
for was 81 to $125 a box, and today
the price is at least SO cents a box
higher. TIE northwest apple crop
for 1913 is estimated at 1900 cars, or
about 100000 boxes.
Shrinks 10 Per Cent In 30 Days.
'The apple crop is shrinking in a
manner that is almost startling. 1t
has been very greatly over-estimated.
There has been shrinkage in the
last 80 days of 10 per cent on preyi-
Gus conservative estimates. 1t has
been our custom to have the growers
in our districts give an estimate at
each monthly meeting of the pro-
able tonnage, and at each monthly
meeting the reports have shown a
decrease in the total northwest ton
mage. Still the reports show an in
creased membership in the distribu-
tors, and within the last month %
new locals have joined.
sThe organization has been able
to maintain the regular prices, but
last week quotat.ors were withdrawn
on account of the heavy bookings.
The crop shrinkage made this neces-
sary, and for several days we refus-
ed to accept orders. However, pri-
ces will be quoted again Immediately
in harmony with the rapidly-impro-
wing conditions.
Potato Sales Good.
cat today's meeting the trustees
were so well pleased with the admin
istration of the head office that the
board decided to leave entirely with
J. H. Robbins, the general manager,
the matter of prices and the distri-
button Of orders to the subcentrals,
and these assignments will be made
by Mr.. Robbins and the prices will
be distributed on pro rata basis. !"
w. N. Yost, southern Idaho trus-
tee, brought encouraging reports on
the work of signing up potatoes in
the potato subcentrals. There are
now Is potato district associations af-
filiated with the subcentrals. He re-
ported that the potato organization
had obtained fine new building, with
eight rooms on the ground floor, for
its office quarters at Pocatello. Fif-
teen hundred cars are actually signed
up and 800 are in prospect. A re-
cent telegram from j. U. Mcpherson,
potato superintendent, is to the ef-
feet that 130 cars were signed up at
one meeting and so at another.
''The organization already has had
a marked effect on the price Of po-
tatoes," said Mr.. Yost, last night.
Before we got under way local buy
ers were paying 65 and rs cents hun
dred pounds. Now they are paying
80 and IS cents. Two carcads sold
by our organization brought 81. and
$1.10."
Those in attendance at the monthly
meeting include: Mr.. Davidson, Mr..
Yost, Mr.. Robbins, H. c. Sampson;
N. c. Richards, general counsel, North
Yakima; Harry Huber, Walla Walla;
w. M. Sacket, Corvallis, Mont; F.
Dow, Wenatchee, and F. H. Michel
son, Garfield.-Spokesman Review.