The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1925-09-24
GRAPE JUICE
OUTPUT BIGGER
THAN in YEARS
Local Plant Filling 800 Five
Gallon Bottles of Grape
-. Juice Daily
SHIPMENTS GO TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Church Mfg. Co. has Sixty
on Payroll - Spend $75,-
600 Freight Annually

The Church Manufacturing COM
pany's plant is one of the bus
lest place in town these days while
the grapes are being converted into
the juice that has made their trade
mark known over the country. They
are operating to the limit of their
capacity, and grapes are coming in
from all directions facter than it is
possible to press them. They expect
to make more grape juice this year
than ever before, and at the same
time they have large force packing
grapes in baskets and boxes for car
load and express shipments.
The grapes in the Kennewick dis
trict are of good quality and the
average yield per acre is larger than
ever before; the better vineyards
yielding from eight to more than ten
tons per acre. The Church Mfg. Co.
has upwards of forty acres of grapes
in bearing and they expect the yield
in their four-year-old vineyards to
exceed seven tons to the acre, and
in the older vineyards from nine to
ten tons per acre.
The journey from bulk grapes to
bottled juice is a sight worth seeing.
The grapes, as they come from the
fields, are dumped into revolving
sieve which carries them thru bath
of warm running water; after which
they fall into the stemmer, ma
chine almost human in the way it
pulls off the stems, throws them to
one side and sends the grapes into
the cooking watts, three large alum
inum kettles.
The cooked grapes are poured into
cloth-covered trays, nine deep, and
placed under the presser, power ap-
piled, and the juice, as it comes out,
is pumped into an aluminium tank.
The refuse left on the traps is run
into silo and later used for ferti-
lizer. From this tank the juice is run
into another set of aluminium ket-
ties, reheated and poured into five
gallon glass bottles, cooled and then
stored.
The store room is a large well-ven-
tilated room, containing tier upon
tier of bottles. These will remain IN
storage until after the first of the
year, then the juice syphoned off and
bottled for shipment.
When you consider that nearly 800
of these five gallon bottles are being
filled every day during the run, the
record so far was S53, and that the
run will last three weeks or more,
you can form some idea of the sup
ply of Church's Grape Juice consum-
ed in the course of year.
Nearly thirty carloads of juice
were shipped from Kennewick this
year and their sales the coming year
will exceed those of any one year
since they began the manufacture Of
juice
They shipped considerable guam
tity to California and Texas and are
doing quite large business in the
southern states east of the Rockies.
Washington and adjacent states have
always been heavy buyers.
The company has also sent grape
juice to the PHILIPPINE Islands, Hawaii
Java, China and other foreign coun-
tries.
The juice made by the Church Mfg.
Co. is absolutely pure, while most of
the eastern-made grape juice has
sugar added. Several samples Of
Church's grape juice were analyzed
by the department of chemistry at
u. of w. this year and it was found
that they tested higher in specific
gravity, solids and natural fruit sug-
ar content and much less in acid,
than the Concord grape juice manu-
factured in the east.
We We're shown proposals dated
September 18th sent out by the Gov
ernment on which to submit bids for
hospital supplies, which ask for bids
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