The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-08-28
FIRST CAR OF
APPLES BRINGS
Big PRICES
Wenatchee Sells Delicious for
Alaska Trade at $3.S5 a Box
f. o. b. Kennewick
PEACH RUSH IS OVER
Six Shipping Houses Report Total
Tonnage of 124 Cars-No Car
Shortage as Yet.

The first car of Kennewick's 191.
apple crop is now rolling toward Seat
tie and is due to be loaded aboard {
ship Monday for Alaska trade. The
shipment is a straight car of Delici-
GUS loaded out by the Wenatchee Fruit
Exchange and sold at 1885 box f
o. b. Kennewick. This price will mel
the grower, above selling and handl-
ing charges 1928 a box. The Ex-
change will also ship this week a
straight car of Winter Bananas at
the same big figures and a mixed car
Of Jonathans, Winter Bananas and
Delicious which will net the grower
from $3.50 to 1925 box. All these
shipments are for export trade and
are the advance guard of the Valleys
big apple crop. Z
This week will bring to close the
peach shipping season with the ex-
ception of few scattering shipments
i of some of the latest varieties. The
Elberta crop ran pretty close to pre-
season estimates and although prices
did not hold up to the predictions of
q few weeks ago the growers will
realize fairly good returns from the
crop as whole. Some of the cash
buyers who contracted crops at rs.
and 80 cents a box were forced to
pocket loss but they are still opti-
mistic and are confident that the year
will prove one Of the best the Valley.
has ever had from the standpoint
both Of the grower and the shipper.
70 date 124 carloads of peaches have
been shipped. The six local shipping
organizations repore their tonnage as
follows: Davis. Fruit Co. 35 cars;
Yakima Valley Association, 80 cars;
Wenatchee Valley Fruit Exchange, %
cars; Pacific Fruit & Produce Co., 13
cars; Kennewick- -Richland Fruit
Growers Co. II cars; Pennington &
Co. II cars. This tonnage comes very
close to Luke Powells estimate of 130 !
cars based upon a tree census of the
Valley, as the figures given are for
full cars only.
Working crews at the several ware
houses are enjoying breathing spell
as the peach rush is over and the
apple harvest has not really started. !
As yet marketing operations have
not been crippled because of car short
age which is becoming rather acute
up the valley. For the most part local
ear deliveries have been prompt and
the service very satisfactory
In this connection the Yakima Re- !
public says:
With the peach crop and other soft. :
fruits demanding $50 cars a day for
the next ten days, shippers in the
lakima valley today are experiencing
sheir first real shortage of REFERS. 1t
presages disaster unless immediate re-
nef is found. According to p. D.
Barry, N. P. Yardmaster, there were
orders for 33 cars for o'clock spot
ing this morning, with but 18 cars
available. By noon he expected to in
uess the supply by 10. Cars in the
valley today were estimated to be /,
equal to but so per cent of the actual
needs.
~ Z. officials said today that SO /
1fs from the Great Northern had
peen turned over to the N. p. at Spo-
zane though the G. N. was supposed
- furnish 200 for Northern Pacific
'0ads Of the cars which were receiv-
y many were in bad order and will I,
~. be available until necessary re-
pAils are made. There are so to 60 j
'se.ers in sight for tomorrow, which
.nl not materially change the short ,
ye existing today. !
Indications that the supply of reef /
- IS practically exhausted, with no j
i Sulce to draw from, is seen in tie
s. lacter of the cars now being rolled
- VI 53 cars received last night
'ae y. w. R. & NJ all but seven i
= 20 be sent to the repair tracks
= M.ieanlng or patching up.
r.@ rager W. J. Urquhart of the {
ls.u a.ne association estimates that the $
osa ss' mat the valley can get by on is /
'ars a day for the next ten days. Il