| Show F FAIR PACKERS ARE t BUSY AT PAYETTE Nearly Neally One Hundred Girls Now a Engaged Preparing Fruit for Market I II t PRUNE CROP CRO IS THE FIRST I I Several Carloads Carload Shipped Sili Hall Dally from Idaho Fruit Gro v lu lug H Jon f w Payette I Ida a. a S Sept pt S. S The Tho Tho fruit rJ r packing houses in Pa Payette elle this weel wech resemble hoe bee hives us The Tho hum o of oC nc- nc Batty Uy ill In evidence e at nt each of or the several e c menti fruit Is being packed for shipment to the markets The prune crop is the first of or the fruits to be handled and several carloads ls of or them are me being be be- lug ing packed each day n The fruit packing ln season on opened on Tuesday when packing was commenced ed eel In he big packing house hOUS of or the Payet Fruit Packing company compan and the Individual packing house hous of N N. A A. Jacobsen win who has one of the largest est i i. prune orchards In the thc Pa Payette ette valley Bc Besides these two mentioned a force of or packers erH are at at work packing COIC for COI C. C V. V Broderson and the Payette Com Com- company making In ht all about girls who are arc engaged In packing Will e 1 Force arcs This force will b be materially Increased In- In cr creased by Tuesday as ns by hy then the Payette Fruit Packing company expeels ex- ex expects ex Cx peels to have 1 00 pack packers rs In its build build- Jug ing Both I packers and pickers are art scarce this year aJ C. C l' l F. F had to cut his force of packets packers In half to today today today to- to day be because use of his Inability to get bet enough pickers Bickers to keep them supplied I There Is one crew of Jap pickers here and nud more are arc expected The first of the tho week it is the tho Intention to send out to neighboring towns for girl packers prune crop is fairly failly large this year nn and Is of excellent quality But the season has hns not nol opened with as asgood asgood good prices as ai prevailed pre last year eal Pruned Prune are now selling for from Crom j 75 cents to 90 cents a crate in the Eastern Eastern East East- ern markets which Is equal to about DO CO cents f. f 0 o. o h b. b However the abundance abundance ance of or the crop will make this a good goodyear goodyear year rear for the growers growels r F It will twill be some time before other fruits I will be ripe for packing as the crops crolls are late this year |
