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Show Sixteen Carloads of Cauliflower Shipped Cauliflower shipments from the fields at Westview and Clarion are increasing almost daily and soon the peak of the harvest will be reached. Two carloads of the luscious vegetable were sent out yesterday, bringing the total car shipments ship-ments to date up to sixteen.. The peak of the harvest will be reached about September 6th, at which time extra forces will be added to handle the big crop. Ample provisions have also been made to have sufficient refrigerated re-frigerated cars at the station to receive the shipments and delays encountered last season through a shortage of cars will be overcome. L. E. Hancock, of Smith & Hancock, distributors of the cauliflower, stated yesterday that the recent rains had materially increased the quality of the product, and that the plants were filling fill-ing splendidly and were becoming solid and firm, With a good leaf covering, thus making the cauliflower slightly better tnan tnat ot last year. Evidence that the Gunnison Valley product is fast gaining favor over caul-flower caul-flower raised in other sections, is shown by the new markets being lined up. Cauliflower from the Gunnison Valley fields is being distributed in New Orleans, Or-leans, Philadephia, Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City and points in the east. Next year Mr. Hancock stated, New York City and other large eastern and northeastern centers will be lined up and the elite of the east will be able to enjoy some of the finest and best cauliflower grown in the United States Some forty men are now employed at the packing house alone, caring for the shipments now going out. With the peak of the harvest near at hand, additional ad-ditional men wil be necessary to pack the thousands of crates yet to be shipped. ship-ped. Together with the packing house crews the gatherers and the haulers much money will be distributed through payrolls. Gunnison Valley News. |