Show LOSS SEEN ON APPLE CROP r Utah Association Seeks Emergency Rate to Prevent Prevent Pre Pre- vent Deficit Unless the interstate commerce commission commis I sion slon can cOon bo be induced to grant Stant an emergency rate on apples shipped in bulk to Ol Oklahoma Okla la- la homa and Texas points the fruit growers of oC Utah will not only bo be compelled to dispose die dis ls- ls pose of or their crop at a loss 1055 but much of ot it will remain of or and will wUl simply simply sim elm ply rot on the ground and arid on the trees for Cor- want of storage according to W. W H. H Gar Car yin manager of oC the Utah Fruit Growers Growers' association In behalf of oC the fruit growers growers grow grow- ers of ot the thc state Senator Reed Smoot and the rest of ot the states state's delc delegation Ution in congress con con- gress gres has hns been appealed to In th the hopu hope that an art acuto acute situation may bo be alleviated and the loss staring fruit growers in the state lessened as much as at possible The crop of ot Utah apples IE Is three times Umes greater this year car than last Jast and under t normal nor nor- mat mal conditions at l least st 1500 cars cra of oX the th fruit should be he marketed this year Last year ear a total of oC about cars was shipped The Tho markets for tor Utah apples as developed to this time are arc South Dakota Wyoming Nebraska Colorado Kansas Kansa Oklahoma and Texas A considerable market has also aleo been developed in southwestern southwestern southwestern south south- western Missouri There has been t some bonie demand In Iowa but us as Utah cannot compete com corn pete Peto with freight rates from tho tim Eastern markets marketa to tho Mississippi river The apple crop all over the country has been immense said Mr Garvin to to- to day In fact much greater than the local demand This of course has had hail much to 10 do with lowering the price on this class chars of fruit The war In Europe has reduced importations to an extent that makes them in comparison with preceding preceding pre pre- ceding years almost nothing Jn Iru the tho South where herc under tinder normal conditions we wo should ship several hundred cars on a cash rosh basis the planters cannot market their cotton In cnn account of the war and andare are aro confining their purchases to needs need from da day to da day Customers who have been rated as ns high as by Dun Dunand Dunand Dunand and Bradstreets Bradstreet's ore are asking asking- us for for- credit Little towns in Texas with a t population or of about 1500 people have ha taken a a. car from us of or No Xo 1 apples Now they buy but hut a n. few boxes and arid thero is a. a demand for the tho poorer poorer grades Wo We f want ant to ship In bulk baBe and have hav been trying to get a rate through but we have havo been held bed up Ut by bV the tha interstate c commerce commission The lobe bulk rate Is he even higher than the box rato rate which to Texas Is 79 9 cents a hundredweight The situation th that t confronts u ug ua is a a. very hard one I admit It If wo we could only make mako a n profit of 10 or 15 cents a box it will bo be better than not moving this tints Immense crop at alL Another thins thing against us is the tine news having been spread that the crop this year car was unusually large lars on high grade stu stuff Such is not the case base case althou although h It Jt Itis itis is bigger er in the high grade ado stuff than ever Evor before Jonathans and Romo Beauties Beauties Beauties Beau Beau- ties are selling for Sf 85 cents a box Wine Saps 90 cents to 1 Sl a box and Ganos for 75 cents a box When you OU figure that it costs 35 33 5 cents a box to pick and pack the fruit and 10 cents to handle with freight charges to be added whore where does the tine grower get getoff off oft at In the tho lower lower- grades the price averages nyer 15 to 25 5 5 cents a n box less Here is a letter Jetter from Crom noun R n. Chicago commission com cern mission house said Mr Garvin Gain This house is securing apples from New Ne York state and Penns Pennsylvania of ot a high grade at from Cram L S to a barrel They are really getting apples In Chicago o from the East at a S gure less than what tho the freight charges would t be on our crop You see the tine market Is glutted California is up against the sauna Fame proposition and so flO is Florida in the citrus fruit lines JInes Spain which has a 0 crop this year vear of oC cars of citrus fruit and which usually has hils the European countries I now at war as its market wants to place Its crop in the tho Eastern markets of oC the United States This great crop or part of oC it it at l least can bo be shipped to our Eastern seaboard at a less figure than California can reach these markets what is California going Ing to do In spite of oC tins this Immense apple crop growers would ouId have received a a. fair price for foT their product had it not bc been n for tor on- on the tho war It U has turned everything upside down |