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Show BOISE. Idaho, Aug. 23. Approximately 2500 carloads of apples, worth to the orchard or-chard owners something like 53,750.000 in cash, will be shipped this season from the western Idaho apple belt ex ten dine from AVeisor on the west to Emmett anc( Boise on the east, including the fruit districts dis-tricts of Payette, Fruitland and New Plymouth. Never before in Idaho's history has the apple crop brought to growers so vast a sum -of money. The prune shipments from the same territory will amount to only about 12o cars, although it is the biggest prune section in the west. Late frosts damaged the prunes. Next season it is very likely that prunes will constitute the main crop of the territory. The apple crop this year will roach l,S9u,000 boxes, and will require the services serv-ices of 250' persons for eight weeks to pick, box, load and start the fruit to an excellent market. The wages that will be paid out for harvesting har-vesting the crop will be more th:m a h;ilf million dollars. There will be no labor shortage, and it is believed the. crop can be handled with dispatch. Eastern buyers already are on t ' ground and are purchasing the crops in many of the orchards outright. |