Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1917-03-23
THREE CREWS START
BOT1L|NG MONDAY
NORTHWEST FRUIT PRODUCTS
CO.'S PLANT TO RUN STEAD
lily NOW.

Work will start Monday at the
new bottlehouse of the Northwest
Fruit Products company. between
Olympia and Tumwater, bottling at
the rate of 90 bottles per minute the
million gallons of apple juice pressed
at the company's big plant last fall.
Present plans are to run three eight
hour shifts, operating the plant day
and night with some IS employees per
shift, for .at least six months, when
the plant will be turned over again
to pressing the next apple crop.
Quite a number of new features
have been added to the bottling
works since it was moved from its
former location near the Northern
Pacific depot in this city. Chief
among these is the new labelling ma
chine, capable of labelling 12O bottles
per minute, three times the work of
the old machines. Another feature
Is bottle sterilizer, designed and
built by the company because it
adequate for the purpose.
Perhaps the most unique feature,
however, Of the new equipment Of the
plant is the newly patented case and
packing system, designed by Frank
and Frederick w. Schmidt, in which
the filled bottles will be packed for
shipment to the East. The company
has installed it's own box factory to
build these cases and will soon be
turning them out at the rate Of 1000
to 5000 per day for use here and at
Salem, Ore.
To Operate Plant Continuously.
The company expects to be oper-
ating the plant continuously from
now on. It has had under way for
some months an energetic sales cam
paign covering all the territory west
OF the Mississippi river. the state II
Wisconsin and the city of Chicago.
It has II statesmen on the road at the
present time and contracts with more
than 800 jobbers in all parts of this
territory, to handle Applju.
Supplementing this, 1t will shortly
start national advertising campaifn,
advertising its products "Applju"
and LOU" and the city of Olympia
throughout the United States. on
'cials of the company report them
selves as highly pleased by the sue
cess Of their sales campaign and are
planning to operate the plant the year
round and to press a considerably
larger quantity of apples next year,
because results to date indicate that
~'Applju" will sell in volume in all
seasons.
They are telling an interesting
story about how they happened to
invent new style wooden case in
which to ship their product, a style
which they say will revolutionize the
methods used in shipping glass. Their
frst plans were to make shipments
I'm tute hber cases. but they soon dis
covered they would not be able to
obtain the number they needed. some
$4,000. so they began to investigate
wood boxes. previously rejected be-
cause Of their weight and cost.
Lighter, Stronger. Cheaper.
The first thing they learned was
that the lumber manufacturers of the
Northwest were not making boxes
suitable to their needs. They asked
the Lumbermen's Association to de-
wise something. but they got no re-
sponse from 1t and they set out to
develop something themselves. The
result is wooden box lighter, strong
er and cheaper than the jute fiber
boxes. the four sides of it dovetailing
tightly and compactly into each other
In locked corner, without the use of
nails or glue.
To finish the job. they also invent
ed new packing system for the in
terror of the case and this is the
chiefly revolutionary feature of it,
though the box itself is an entirely
original design. BY this packing
method. the bottles are held firmly in
position and prevented from humping
against each other or the outside of
the box by a layer Of light wood