The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-05-31
or 80 cars. The average price to the
grower was close to So per crate.

May Is, 1913-Manager F. j. o.
Brlen OF the Horn Rapids Irrigation
district came down from Richland
Monday with the first crate of ripe
Strawberries this season and claimed
the $l5 offered by the Kennewick
Commercial club. In celebration of
the ripening of the first crate of ber-
rles the Commercial club members
with their ladies and out of town
friends will make merry with ban
quet at the Hotel Kennewick tonight.
May 22-The warm weather of the
past few days has brought the straw
berries on at pace and by the mid
die OF next week the shipping season
will be on in full blast. Local buyers
started the market at 81 per crate
and quotations today ar e$4.25.
May 29-With present indications
an estimate of from So to 60 thousand
is not high. In spite of the decrease
IN price the growers who have taken
care of their patches will be reward
ded. The cold weather on the coast
for the past few days tended to de-
crease the price which has been down
to $3.50 but quotations are now back
to 1915.
June 5-The unusual hot weather
the first of the week definitely set
tied the question as to whether or not
Kennewick would have strawberry
festival this year. Kennewick had a
strawberry festival but the people did
not dress in their best bibs and tuck
ers and eat Strawberries and cream.
altho they are still accepting the can
and spent the day picking strawber-
ries out in the burning sun which be-
haved like August in an effort to help
the growers save their rapidly ripen-
ing crop. Owing to the overripe con-
dition of the berries the association
has advised the growers to d;scon-
tinue shipping the canning berries
and take care of the better berries
altho they ar estill accepting the cam
ners at .$1.75 per crate. The extra
fancy are selling for 1925.
| April %, 1914 = When Tuesday
morning dawned with the smoke of
many smudge pots overhanging the
valley, gloom Of much density per-
vaded the town and valley, but as the
sum came out, the day wore on and
the week progressed the world began
to look brighter until it is now APP
parent that the damage done by the
frost was not as heavy as was at first
thought. According to County Agri-
cultiuralist Lee M. Lampson the dam
age to the fruit will amount to very
little, and the damage to the straw
berries will range from fifty per cent
in some patches to none at all in
others.
May THE first full crate Of the
strawberry crop went out Monday be-
ing shipped by the Commercial club
of Richland and one by j. E. Hamp-
ton of Hover. The shipping season
however really opened Monday when
20 crates were sent out. The starting
price was SIS and quotations today
range around $3.50 f. o. b. Kenne-
wick. But when one considers that
the crates are much smaller in size
this price is about the same as $40
in previous years.
Everything is loaded, cooked and
primed for the strawberry Jubilee to
be given by the Commercial club Fri
day evening at the Commercial Hotel.
The weather man las co-operated
splendidly and there will be all kinds
of berries, all kinds of cream and all
kinds of fun for everybody.
| May 14-Estimates received today
from transportations companies and
individual shippers place the total
shipments which have moved out to
market to date at 5000 crates. The
shipping season is only fairly begun
and this is more than one-third Of the
total sent out last year and the av-
erage price is $275 per crate f. o. b..
Kennewick, which compares with 81
for the old size.
NOTICE OF ELECTION-HORSE
HEAVEN WATER DIST.