Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-10-15
fruit GROWERS
WORRIED over
CAR SHORTAGE
Packing Plants of the Pay
cite Valley Now Three
Cars Ahead and Situation
Is Serious.
Storage Facilities Limited
and Heavy Losses Will Be
Caused Unless Relief Is
Provided Soon by the
Railroad.

Emmett, Oct. 15.-There is q short
age of refrigerator cars for the ship
ment Of apples from the stations in
the Payette valley between Payette and
Emmett that already amounts to fully
500 cars. The storage facilities at
some of these fruit shipping stations
is limited. The packing houses are
rapidly filling, and in some instances
there are already thousands of boxes
of Jonathan apples in the orchards
piled up In boxes. Unless relief comes
soon. some Of the packing houses will
be forced to close down. This might
prove to be a serious matter to the
growers of such early varieties as jon
athans, Delicious, etc.
FOUR PACKING HOUSES.
There are four fruit packing houses
in Emmett. Fruit Growers Union;
Fruit Growers association, Idaho Pro
ducts company and Earl Fruit com
pany of the Northwest. The shipment
of fruits from here 80 far this season
totals about 81 carloads. OF this
amount 48 cars were prunes, 1872 of
peaches and 10S of apples. The total
shipment of apples will reach about 800
ears.
Guy Dayton, manager Of the Fruit
Growers Union, stated the union has
shipped this season II cars of prunes,
P6 cars Of peaches and 20 cars of ap-
pies.
The unions packing house is equip
ped with Poice apple sizer or grader.
1t has capacity Of $50 boxes of APP
Piles a day. There are six sorters and
eight packers on this machine. In ad-
dition there are eight sorters and IA
packers who pack apples over tables.
And there are nine men in this plant,
bookkeepers. flunkies, cts.
Mr.. Dayton says this packing house
IS too small. 1t is expected to double
its present size next year.
GROWERS ASSOCIATION.
r. L. Shaw, manager OF the Fruit
Growers Association, stated the asso-
citation has shipped this season 20 cars
of prunes, 81 cars of peaches and 20
cars of apples. The total apple ship
ments are expected to be 100 cars from
this house.
A Manville grader Is beink installed
in this packing house by r. a. Reyburn
of Ustick, Idaho. The grader has a
capacity of five cars a day.
There are 1o1 employees in this pack
ing house. They have been packing
$500 to 5000 boxes Of apples per day.
AIR. Shaw says returns from fruit
shipped out show better than $50 per
ton net for prunes. and $40 per ton
net for peaches, and he said apples
ought to net the grower better than
s1.oo a box all the way through.
Mr.. Shaw stated prunes this year
yielded about seven tons per acre. and
peaches about the same tonnage. AT
tho figures Just quoted 1t would mean
that the prune growers will get a re-
turn Of about $3.50 per acre. and the
peach growers about $3.50 per acre.
T. f. Hance, manager here for the
idaho Products company, said he ship
ped from here this season SO cars OF
peaches and 20 cars of apples. He ex-
pected to ship about IS oars Of apples
Mr.. Hanoe said the peach growers re-
turns viii average at the rate OF about
S1e5 per bushel. {. Q. b. Emmett He
said 1t is too early to tell what the
returns Will be for apples.
II L. understood the Idaho Products
company will build modern packing
house here next year.