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Show Packing Shed Speeds Up Carrot Shipments Carrots, harvested from the Escalante Es-calante Valley region have been bringing top prices in eastern markets this week, with 85 freight car loads being shipped out, according to A. W. Gardner, Gard-ner, Cedar City, veterans advisor, advis-or, Y'oung Farmers Organization. The crop was No. 1 grade car-rots, car-rots, and topped the market in New York with $8.50 per crate. All crates brought better than $6. Top yield from the valley was 14 carloads from 16 acres. There were about 3G0 crates to each carload. Harvesting took exactly one month, starting August 29 and ending September 29. About 100 Indians and 25 Mexicans were employed In the fields for the harvesting. A big factor in the success of the project this fall was the new packing shed located near Beryl. Between five and seven carloads were processed through the packing pack-ing shed each day. The packers were brought in from Arizona, and washing and sorting was done by people from the valley. Approximately 30 were employed in the sheds. Total payroll for the entire operation was about $G,000 per week. The packing organization was set up three years ago. The group considered locating first at Beryl, then Modena or Zane, and finally settled on Beryl. Actual construction of the shed was started in the fall of 1918 by Jerome Tullis of Newcastle. The group named themselves the North Newcastle Vegetable and Produce Co. Officers are Leo Knell, Newcastle, president, and board members, A. D. Jiminez, Ray Martin and Jerome Tullis, all of Newcastle. In operation, growers In the valley pay a percentage of their crop to run the produce through the packing shed. E. O. Muir, Salt Lake City, has been handling hand-ling the selling of the carrots through his ficklman in this area, Maylin Maxfield. The company plans to Install a potato washer in the shed for handling the crop, and also has an allotment of 250 acres of cabbage, cab-bage, along with onions and let-1 let-1 tuce for processing next year. |