The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-05-31
FIRST KENNEWICK
BERRIES LONG AGO
CONTINUED from Pape S;x,

DLNnlES LUNG AGO
Continued from Page SKI
May 29-Berry shipments last week
totaled between 1000 and $500 crates
the price ranging between 81 and s5
per crate.
June 5-The Grand Strawberry
Festival was held in the Finley denot
Saturday night. The depot was filled
to Its utmost capacity and the affair
went off with vim and swish char
acteristic of the Finleyites.
June 19-The berry season closed
last week and the few berries. left are
being sold in the local markets. The
average price for the years crop was
between $3.40 and $3.50 per crate
and the total number of crates was
about 10000 with about 1000 shipped
from Finley. From $4,000 to $685.
900 will be realized from this crop.
When the unfavorable season is con-
sidered this is much better than was
ISApCSCCu dt OilS tlIIl6.
May 5, 19O9-There will be a good
crop of strawberries tho not as early
as they would have been if Jack Frost
had stayed away the first of April.
June 14-In the neighborhood of
$3.50 per acre was realized by straw
berry growers of this valley this year
in spite of the crop shortage. Accord
| ing to figures compiled by the Col
Inns company an average Of $3.43 per
crate.
May Z, 1909-Rev. E. l. Paul brot
| in the first box of berries Tuesday,
May 6 The first box brought in last
year was on May l. So that the talk
about the late season amounts to lit
| tie more than week in actual time.
May 14-Strawberry shipments are
approximately one-third what they
were year ago and total about $500
crates.
May Is, 1910-Frost season is now
safely past and picking is now in full
blast. Last Saturday there were 100
crates shipped out and since then the
shipments have almost doubled daily.
The price averages about $3.50 with
CALIFORNIA; quoted at $1.5O and $500.
May This week saw the end of
Kennewick staple product Of straw
berries for this season and shipped
out close to $4,000 crates. The av-
erage season price was trifle over
$3.50 per crate. The biggest day of
the season was Monday of last week,
when HOO crates were handled. The
berries being consigned to markets as
Y far as Alaska and prices were asked
for as far east as Bismark, North
| Dakota.
! May 5, 1911-A. deRegt, manager of
the Yakima Valley Fruit Growers as
| ISOLATION is inclined to look more ia
vorably upon the result of the frost
than many. He says there will be a
good crop Of apples while the melon
and strawberry shipments will exceed
those of former years.
/ May 19-The first crate of North
| western grown strawberries reached
! the markets Saturday. in Spokane.
/ The crate brought the shipper $15.
From SO to 100 crates are now being
brought to the warehouses daily and
the price ranges from S. down to 81.
June 2-This is the height of the
strawberry season in Kennewick and
Monday night was the big night with
over 1000 crates brought into the city
for shipment There has been little
fluctuation in price and the growers
are rushing their berries to the mar
/; kets while the price is still steady.
Nav II, 1912 Richland on the Co.
lumbia carried off the honors this
year for shipping the first crate of
Strawberries to Spokane, which was
sent last Friday, May 10 and the price
was $40. Some disappointment is be-
| ing felt by the growers in the valley
because of the ravages of the red
spider.
Tuesday, May % is set for the day
of the Kennewick Strawberry Fes-
tival which will probably become an
annual affair. Mayor Lockerby has
declared a holiday for Tuesday after
noon between three and five o'clock
and has asked that the business houses
assist the ladies in making this affair