White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-03-19
START WORK ON COLD
STORAGE PLANT AT ONCE

The contract for the construction
of the cold storage plant in White
Bluffs will be LET in the very near
future if in fact it is not let when
this appears in print, according to the
announcement, "Wednesday of E. N
Loveland, president of the new COM
pany.
The plant will be located on the
lots just south of the White Bluffs
Warehous. company's fruit ware
house. Unless the plans are changed
before the contract is let, the con-
struction will be of concrete. The
cost will be around 100000 and its
capacity will be large enough to
house 100 oars.
The Priest Rapids Ice and Cold
Storage company is the name of the
new concern and E. N. Loveland, H.
F. Paschen, and e. I. Wright are the
incorporates.
1t will require from so to 90 days
to complete the building after work
starts but the ice nafking part of the
plant will be in operation some time
before that, as it is to be located in
the basement or lower floor and is
to be finished first, Mr.. Loveland
said.
The cold storage company has an
icing contract with the Milwaukee
railroad that runs for five years after
January /, 1927, with renewal OPP
tional clause attached.
Mr.. Paschen says there is suffi-
cient business here to make the cold
storage plant an absolutely safe pro-
position for the stockholders and it
will be both a money saving and a
money making proposition for the
growers if they will avail themselves
of the advantages and opportunities
it offers.
The need of such a plant has been
felt in this valley for some time.
The warm weather that prevails here
usually during the harvest of all Of
the soft fruit crop and the pears,
r.akes it almost essential that these
crops be preceded if they reach the
consuming markets in good condi-
ton and the fall and early winter APP
pies, such as Delicious, Jonathans,
and Romes, should be cooled, as the
weather is usually quite warm when
they are packed. Probably the
greatest benefits to growers, though,
is in being able to store their Wine
saps here. Storage rates have not
been worked out yet but even if these
rates are as high as eastern storage,
the grower will still be able to save
the interest on freight charges ad-
vanced, storage in transit charges,
switching charges and other items
that are usually taken out when the
fruit is stored in the east. And in
addition to all of these savings
the growers have. an opportunity of
seeing for themselves just what con-
dition their apples are in when they
are shipped out in the spring and will
not have to take some eastern storage
company's word for it.
Nearly all of the fruit growing
districts in the West now have their
own cold storage plants and it would
be difficult to find any grower who
will say they are not vital neces-
sity to the marketing of fruit.
The adoptions Of distinct fruit
label to cover this whole district and
the acquiring of the cold storage
plant mark an epoch in the fruit
growing industry in the Priest
Rapids valley.
Later: Since the above was set in
type, the contract for the cold storage
plant has been let to Leo S. Ross of
Yakima. The construction will be of
reinforced concrete, and work is tx
nected To start the firsf of next maak