Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-07-01
.CANNERIES BUSIEST
PLACES IN THE CITY
Long Lines Of Wagons Wait
to Unload Sales $780,
900 in Two Months

A quarter of a million dollars is a
tidy sum. This is the amount of sales
made by the Salem Fruit Union in the
past two months for delivery this sea
son. All kinds of fruit raised in this
section are included and the ship
ments will 90 to every part of North
America.
For some time the union has been
shipping from fifty to 200 crates of
loganberries north every day and the
season for the berries are not yet ad-
vanced, When the fruit really begins
to come in in quantity the union ex-
poets, according to Manager Paulus,
to send out much larger quantities
Beginning Monday shipments Will
be made via fast express of carload
lots. Refrigerator ears will he used
as the berries are for the eastern
trade. Some fruit has already been
sent as far east as Pittsburg, while
Chicago has handled considerable
amount
AT present the valley seems to be
suffering from famine of logan
berry pickers. Even with the best
working conditions and as good prices
as ever have been paid, Paulus SAYS
the growers are unable to get pickers.
In the hope of relieving the situa-
tion he has been in communication
with growers and fruit association men
in the Hood River district. These men
have promised to do their best to send
down pickers after they finish work
there. The government office is also
doing what it can to remedy condi-
tions in the local field.
Paulus declares that the union has
succeeded in getting from twenty
five to forty cents a crate more for
its members than they could receive
for loganberries in the local market
Indications are that there will be
plenty of berries from now on and
those who have already got in are
reaping the benefit.
The strawberry crop is poor this
season. 1t will amount to about
thirty-five per cent of a normal yield,
and this leaves but few berries for ex-
port. There are not many raspberries
or currants at present. With this
scarcity the market for local growers
ought 10 De gooI' Inc union couIu
nave sold many thousand more erateS
Of strawberries II 1t could nave oo-
tanned them
Cherries are now monopolizing the
local market and are commanding
prices of four cents for Bing and five
for Roval AIMS at the canneries. The
crop has undoubtedly been heavily
damaned bv the recent rams and the
market is full of the fruit.
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ou'S'ue lue l''"i'tS Ul lne OIeso'l 9CN- ~,
lus coslP""l anu nun! p'otie'S' lue Il,
eonlei'es are NG'"ins W t"e clotN
urounu 10 nauuie Iiie immense quahVf
'ltS Vi Irulu uuiuPeu upon 'uel,l'
ne TWO cahheIles' huhI broIherS
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mo oalem not Tar FROM 9lu'VVU week
- 90 n -. -
ger quinn Oh the oregon rachlhg 20
ma. ms Io" 'hIee INJURED women ana
li'' men at WORK ana may Put OH
more; HIS expenses average ToVo
gay III wages alone ana Iueb power
ishiS ana o'her eAiShses make
weekly tolal OF between three ana
Ioqf thousaIu collars .,
hunt pTothers nave nearly 1Uur nun
urea people at WORK now anu thelr eA
PeHseS are wen up III the tHousahus'
no Irult Is oeing received toGay at
I3e ,3 cahieries as II "oulu spo'l peIor'
MGhIay' botn cahneries are WORKING YORK;! (
lul DiaSt taxing care Oh tue cneIrle'
Inat were % ,S received Yesterday .! anu I!a Una.
/ must pe canheu pelo'e quitting V''h'
TO-DAY e. e.
by the END OF next WeeN' II u
Inougn' tne eahnerieS VIII nave llilIsh
ed the cherrE PACK auG WIZ pe reaqy
10 Degln Ian4lIhg iue IoganoerIlos' per-. II
SIlte OF tne Iaet tnat tne IrulC JuIc'
ton' yo.! 'lallleS are uslns enormous yuan
t,ueS Vi lhe pe'I'es' sum- Vi "n!T' nc
cannery people expect to put up ,