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Show COMES WITH BOOST FOR THEGEM STATEj Boise Commercial Club Presi-i dent Talks of Fruit in Idaho. C. J. Sinsel of Boise, TdR., is in tbis city, toe guest of J. A. Reeves, general freight agent of the Oregon Short Line. Mr. Sinsel ifl president oE the Commercial club at Boise, where ho has" been in the wholesale fruit business for nineteen' years. He is also fruit inspector for the Oregon Short Lino and is now on his way to Watsonville, Cal., where for the third successive year ho will act as a judge of the fruit exhibited there. In discussing the fruit situation in Idaho yesterda', Mr. Sinsel Sin-sel said: The early fruit crop of Idaho, especially along the Snake river between "Wciscr and Mountain Home, has been the best on record. rec-ord. Just from the little section of the state mentioned, there has boon shippod 777 carloads of Italian Ital-ian prunes, 10'1 carloads of Jonathan Jona-than apples, twenty carloads of Elberta peaches, eleven carloads of pears and twelve carloads of honey. These shipments were mado in" September Sep-tember and all of the cars mentioned men-tioned are refrigorator cars. There was a lot of expense connected con-nected with tho shipping of this amount of fruit and an idea of this may be gained from one item of expense. ex-pense. 'St cost about 7,000 to hae tho fruit picked, most of the work bc'ing dono by boys and girls. The heavy winter apple crop will amount to much more than all the rest. Wo will begin to ship the winter apples such as the Rome Beant.y, Arkansas Black, Wincsaps, Delicious and Winter Bananas, next week, and it is estimated that thoro will be not less than 2000 carloads leave that immediate vicinity. |