Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-12 | Page 64 | Peach Harvest in Box Elder is Big

PEACH HARVEST II BOX ELDER IS Bit ireat Crop Is Being Dis posed of With Dispatch at Brigham City. SHORT LINE ASSISTS Hundreds of Straight Car loads of Elberta Variety. Shipped Out. Special to Tho Tribune. BRTGFTAM CITY. Sept. 11. The peach rush in this city and vicinity it now at its height. Today will undoubtedly undoubt-edly be the biggest day of the Reason. Rea-son. The crop is being moved with dispatch and up to this time everything has moved along iD good order." The fruit-shipping facilities of tho Oregon fcnnrt Line have been placed at the disposal dis-posal of the fruit growers and before the rush is over the latter part of the present, week, or perhaps extending into next week, it is safe to sav that fullv 350 carloads of pearlies will have been sent out ovor the Oregon Short Line. To handle this large amount of extra business all the local railroad men are working night and day in order to keep things moving. One prominent fruit, man of the city estimated that between 25il and 300 carloads would he shipped out thie sea son in straight cars. This estimate covers practically just the Elberta variety, the shipments that are being made during these two weeks. Some of these cars tjo direct to buyers who have bargained for them, while many go to eastern commission firms and in many cases are sent out at the growers' risk. Plan to Avoid Loss. The Fruit Growers' association, it is estimated, will handle about one-third , . of the peach crop this year. The as-Bociatjoji as-Bociatjoji has bargained with Denny & tec. of Chicago to handle all the surplus sur-plus fruit this year, and (hat firm is receiving a good manv carloads. The surplus fruit of the association is that which is not already bargained for and for which the association receives a given price upon receipt of the fruit by the consignee. It is stated that a great ileal less fruit is being sent out to commission men this year than usual. This is due to the experience of last year, when the association lost profit on upward of fifty ears of fruit after it had reached St. Louis. Local markets are receiving more at I tent ion as a result, that is, northern L'tah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming markets. Scores of cars of fruit are being shipped into southern and central cen-tral Idaho, where the fruit is sold at moderate prices and is being eagerly bought by the farmers, For the growers in general the sea son is a very poor one. This is due to the fact that the whole country has a large peach crop and some of the larger market centers of the country are filled up with peaches. Reports from Chicago to local shippers yesterday stated that things were considerably" relieved the beginning of this week and shi ppers are hopeful of getting rid of the remainder re-mainder of the huge crop without loss. The fact that some of the biggest buyers buy-ers in the country are not represented here this vear is taken as evidence that the country has a surplus of peaches. The Stacy & Sons company of Minneapolis Minne-apolis is buying light; Gamble & "Robinson, "Rob-inson, also of Minneapolis. usually heavy buyers of Brigham peaches, are "not represented here this year, nor is the John Russell company, usually heavy eastern buyers. Most of the fruit delivered to the Fruit Growers' association by the growers grow-ers is shipped on commission. The growers grow-ers later on will receive pay for the same according to what the fruit brings when sold, less the expenses of the association as-sociation in packing. Quality Is Excellent. Not in many years have peaches been in bo good condition as this year. The extremely dry and hot summer has kept the fruit cleaD and made it highly colored col-ored and pleasing in appearance. The recent heavy rains, which came since harvesting was begun, helped wonderfully wonder-fully in putting the finishing touches to the peaches aud also in making working work-ing conditions much better and cleaner. The fact that there is an abundance of help this year has resulted in the quick despatch of the crop up to date. Hundreds of outside men and women are here from all parts of the country, helping to gather in t he harvest, and the drawback of shortage of help experienced ex-perienced in former years is looked upon as being a thing of the past-Barring past-Barring all mishaps in t he successful success-ful marketing of the crop, the growers will receive a fair compensation for their fruit this year. Those who are selling now are receiving as high as 40 cents a bushel, which is generally regarded as satisfactory under present conditions.