The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-05-07
BOHlKE FRUIT
WAREHOUSE CO. ADD
TO HOLDINGS
TAKE OVER TWO WAREHOUSES;
AND REAL ESTATE CON.
TRACTS OF CASHMERE APPLE
COMPANY FOR S1S5. 900.

deal was conSummated on Thurs
day of last week for the purchase of
all the assets of the Cashmere Apple
Company, by H G. Bohlke, organizer
and principal owner of the Bohlke
Fruit Warehouse company of Dryden.
BY this transaction Mr. Bohlke takes
over the two modern warehouses
owned by the Cashmere Apple com
pany at Cashmere and Wenatchee.
also real estate contracts covering
some of the most productive and
highly improved bearing orchards in
the Wenatchee valley The considera-
ton was $1S5,000, or which 100000
represents the value of the warehouse
property, and good will of the com
pany, and SS5 900 is the value of the
real estate contracts Included in the
deal is the right to the use of the
Casco Brand under which the Cash
mere Apple company has put up and
marketed all of its fruit
BY this deal, the Bohlke Fruit
Warehouse obtains possession of two
of the finest warehouses in the Pa
cifc northwest, and gives that COM
pany three modern shipping plants,
strategically located on the Great
Northern railroad track, at three of
the principal shipping stations in the
district-Wenatchee Cashmere and
Dryen
The Wenatchee warehouse secured
by Mr. Bohlke is 95x11O feet in size.
three stories high, located at the cor
ner of Wenatchee avenue and Spo-
kane street. 1t is constructed of
brick and fully equipped with all
modern appliances for packing, hand
ling and shipping fruit.
The Cashmere warehouse secured
by Mr. Bohlke, from the Cashmere
Apple company, is 40x1S5 feet, three
stories high, built of concrete, and is
also fully equipped in every respect
being located along the Great North
eIn track
The Dryden warehouse owned by
Mr.. Bohlke is built of tile and is also
three stories high, and is S0x13O feet
in size
At the three warehouses the Bohlke
Fruit Warehouse company, is equip
ped to handle one thousand cars of
apples each season In addition to
these warehouses, they own 80 acre;
of bearing orchard which should pro-
duce this year 1875 900 boxes of apple
and 10000 boxes of pears; 210 acres
of this orchard is located in the vi
cinity of Dryden and Cashmere and
100 acres is near Trinidad.
Mr.. H. G. Bohlke, located in the
Wenatchee valley little over lO
years ago and entered the fruit rails
ing business, setting out so acres OF
winter apples in Olalla Canyon neal
Dryden. Later he took over the Dry
den warehouse and has since extend
ed his holdings until the business
which he has recently incorporated
ranks among the most extensive frui,
growing and shipping concerns in tbs
Pacific Northwest.
One of his notable achievements
was the opening of branch commits
sion house in Seattle, last winter
through which he sold 50 carloads o1
winter apples, by advertising to tn,
public in that city. These were solo
through dealers. This commission
house is still being maintained, am
all kinds of fruit and vegetables arr
handled.
The Cashmere Apple Company was
organized over five years ago witt
G. A. Loudenbeck and w. H. Mills
both of whom have extensive orchard
holdings. They had built up an eX
tensive trade in the Wenatchee valley
fruits, under the name of the Cascc
brand.
Mr.. Loudenbeck is president of The
Farmers and Merchants Bank o
Cashmere, having recently been elect
Cd to that position, and he will re
main as resident of Cashmere
where he has lived for the past q
years
". H. Mills has been a resident o
the Cashmere vicinity for the past Il
years. and will continue to resid
there, looking after his orchard inter
csts and other affairs.
In addition TO taking over the hold
ings of the Cashmere Apple company
the Bohlke Fruit Warehouse compan,
are now making very strong easter
connections. whereby they will b
able to market all the fruit that the,
can secure to the best possible ad
vantage.
Associated with H G. Bohlke in tn