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Show Kit BOISE, Idaho. Hot. 2. One thousand cars of Jonathan applets must be moved front the Payette section in the next ten days, and unless cars are available at tho rate of luO daily the apples will be a 1 otal loss. This is the urgent situation set out to the public Utilities commission in a telegram tele-gram this morning from the Fayette Valley Val-ley Traffic association and twenty-four prominent growers and fruit associations of Payette. The petitioners ask tho utilities commission com-mission to cla.ss the apples as soft fruit, because of their perishability. This would give them preference in the division di-vision of cars, as the cars are being divided di-vided between potatoes and fruit, with a preference for soft fruit. The utilities commission has no jurisdiction over this and will refer the matter to the United States railroad administration, it was announced. an-nounced. The shirpers' telegram was sent from the Payette depot after a survey of available avail-able cars had been made, and only seven found in the yards for Saturday's loading. load-ing. The telegram was as follows: "Thousand cars of Jonathan apples in this section must move within the next ten days via the Union Pacific lines. Two hundred cars are now ready for shipment and we must have a hundred refrigerator cars daily, otherwise tho fruit will be ruined. "We understand that special instructions instruc-tions have been given division agents to divide refrigerator cars between apples ap-ples and potatoes, giving soft fruit the preference. , In this case, as Jonathan apples are very perishable, it is very necessary that they be classed as soft fruit. Ve are willing to ship potatoes in box cars, but agents refuse to allow us to load in box cars. "Thre are only seven empty refrigerator refriger-ator cars available for Saturday's loading load-ing on this division. Can you not class Jonathans as soft fruit in order to move them promptly and avoid waste?" The telegram is signed by the following: follow-ing: Payette Valley Traffic association, Penney & Co., Idaho-Oregon Fruitgrowers' Fruitgrow-ers' association, Karl Fruit company, David I. Peterson company. T. H. McLaughlin Mc-Laughlin Produce company, P. H. B. Moultou, George Rezac, Headington Sc Hedinborgh, Apple Valley Fruitgrowers' association. Palmer Fruit company, Joseph Jo-seph Fraherty company. Ignobel & Day, Haley & Neeley. Unliable Fruit company. Crutch field & Wood folk, Weil-Brockman company, IMcCray & Hunter, Walter Bor-ton. Bor-ton. Kosaseo Bros., C. A Branch, Peppers Pep-pers & Smith, S. W. Mathis, D. V. Stewart. |