Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-01 | Page 6 | Many Trains of Ogden Peaches

MANY TRAINS Of OGDEN PEACHES Tour Hundred Sixty-six Cars From Ogden and North of Here Have Been Shipped East in the Last Few Days Thirty, six Cars Left Yesterday. Four hundred and sixty-six cars of peaches already have been shipped from Ogden this season via the Union Pacific lines and the shipping season will not bo over for at least a week. The refrigeration of all these ears has been handled by the Pacific Fruit Express Ex-press company of this cit and over six million pounds of ice has been used to pack the fruit cars. C. S. Gunnell, manager of the Pacific Pa-cific Fruit Kxpress Co.'s office In Ogden. Og-den. states Uiat the bulk of Utah peaches has been shipped. Yesterday thirty-six cars were sent east and twenty-five ears were billed for Chi rago today. The shipments are being made from Ogden, Hot Springs, Wil-lard, Wil-lard, p.righam City and Perry. Cars are iced in this city and sent empty to the different fruit points, where they are loaded. After being loaded they are returned to this city and are re Iced before being sent east. Tho first Icing of a fruit car requires 11.000 pounds of Ice. Just before the car Is started east about 2,000 pounds mote lee is placed In the reflrgera-tors. reflrgera-tors. The cars are again iced at Evan-ston Evan-ston and at North Platte, so that In the neighborhood of 20,000 pounds of lco Is required to preserve the fruit in one car until It reaches Chicago. Most of tJie shipments from Utah L're billed through to Chicago, being diverted at that point to their various vari-ous destinations. Of the 4i0 cars moved from Ogden, 301 of them were shipped In seven days.