The west shore., November 01, 1884, Page 347, Image 9

THE WEST SHORE.
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W. C. Kinenid's hop field comprises 1(5 acres of the
finest hops in the valley. Mr. Kineaid will harvest over
IS tons hum this field thin year, lie has just completed
n dry house, with foundation of concrete. Thorn are two
kilns, 20x24 each, 25 foot from the ground to the drying
lloor. In front of .these kilns is an elevated platform,
18x72. Connected with the kilns, on the west, is a store
room, 24x50, two stories high, and to the south of this is
the baleing room, 14x50. His rluos are of brick, and the
structure is convenient, substantial and fireproof.
S. F. Burr grows six acres of hops, and has onc'kiln,
22x24, with store room 22x32. His neighbor, T. J. Leu
over, has five acres, but no kiln.
A. II. Woolery is a '53 settlor. In 1875 he planted
nine acres, and has now 1!) acres, which will yield 2,200
lbs. to the acre. He has raised, on an average, 1,700 lbs,
since the first planting. He possesses the only hexagonal
kiln in this country, which is 27x27. His btoro room is
20x00.
David Winkler planted his seven acres in 1882. They
gave him this year nearly 15,000 lbs. He has one kiln,
22x24, and a wareroom 22x40.
11. It. McCumber has four acres of hops, which are
yielding 2,000 lbs. to the acre.
A. J. Query lias seven acres. His average yield this
your is 2,000 lbs. to the acre. He has raised since 188';
1,500 lbs. per acre. He has but one kiln, which is 22x22,
and a warehouse, 22x40.
Mr. Van Ogle has 03 acres planted to hops, and lit1
estimates the yield at 1.8(H) tb.4. this year. He has throe
kilns, one 22x22, one 22x30 and one 24x3(1, His three
warehouses are 20x03, 24x40 and 22x40. The drying
capacity of these kilns is 4,500 lbs. dried hops in twenty
four lioura.
H. C. Helmbold has 30 acres, and has been raising
hops eleven years. He will harvest over 65,000 lbs. this
year. He has two kilns, one 20x20 and the other 22x22
also warehouses, 22x50 and 20x45. He has sold his crops
at an average of 20 cents.
SiHKiner & Wallace have six acres of hops, and their
estimate is five toiiB. They have one kiln, 20x20, am:
store room, 20x40.
William Lane planted three acres of hojw in 1873,
and has increased the acreage to 13 acres. 11ns yBnl
has averaged 2,200 lbs. to the acre for the eleven years,
and the crop turned out over 2,400 Mm. to the ocre this
season. Mr. Lane has been extromely fortunate in malt
ing sales, for his average price has netted him 22 cents
jMr Hi. He has one kiln, 20x20, with a store house
22x42. He has the plans for a new kiln, which is shown
iu the ciiCTavint'.
O. M. Annis eiuht years ago planted five acres. He
has now 21 acres, which are yielding 2,000 lbs. to the
acre this year. His sales have averaged him cent.
His average yield has been 1,(500 lbs. to the acre. He
has erected a new hop house, 22x08, with two kilns 22x22
each. HU store room is 20x80, with all the modern nn
lintvemnntiL
Carl Miller U located on tho table land sonth of th
alloy. Ho lias 11 acres of the fluent vines in Tiiroo
County. His crop this year is yielding him '2 (MM) II m
io acre, and ho has not failed to raise 2,000 lbs. to the
acre in any year. Ho has one small kiln, w hich he built
in 1881, and this year he him built a large hop house, with
two kilns 2!x2li cuch. Ho has a receiving room, 20x2(1,
and a storo room, 48x50.
The Riverside rami, owned by A. C. Cnmpliell, com
prises 183 acres. It was purchased by the present pro
prietor in tho fall of 1882, thcro being at that time but
five acres planted to hops. The planting has been in
creased by tho proprietor to 45 acres. , Tho farm it situ
ated on the south side of tho Puyallup lliver, and 2J
miles east from Puyallup. The land is a love! piece of
rich bottom land, liouiidod on one side by the river. The
crop oil this place is estimated at 80,000 lbs., and the
property is valued at $250 per acre planted to hops, the
remainder Isung estimated to be worth 100 sr acre.
The drying house is a two story structure, 30x112 foot,
and is situiittHl at the foot of a bank, so that the receiving
platform of the upper story is on a level with tho hod of
a wagon. This platform is 14x3(1 feet, laid with matched
flooring. Uver this platform the hops are taken into an
apartment, 1(1x2 1, on either sido of which there are four
kilns, 24 feet square, whore the hops are dried, hen
tho hops are sulhcionlly dried they are taken to a store
room on the samo lloor, 2(1x02 foot, and there allowed to
cool; then passed through the press room on the lower
tli Kir, 10x34 foot; thence to the store room on the same
th Kir, which is the same size as the one above, In the
iwer story there are also four furnaces, with brick Hues
34 foot high. At a toinerutiiro of 130 degrees those
kilns will dry 3,200 lbs. of hot in twenty-four hours.
This building was erected in 1883-4 at a cost of 14,000,
There are used on tho farm 125 Isixo for picking, which
hold alsmt 100 lbs. uudriod Imps each.
II H. More is an old settler of Washington territory,
having come hero in 1853. He commenced to rnise hops
on his present farm in 1872, and ha now seven acre of
bearing vines. This place is two miles east from ruyal
lup. His crop is estimated at 1,800 His. to the acre.
It. Nix. a 51 settlor of tho valley, commenoiHi urn
growing of hops in 1870, when ho ploiited ono acre, Ho
has now 10 acres, the averngo yield ol which will Im
lbs. He has two drying houses, with a capacity con-
jointly of 1,200 lbs. for twenty-four hour, He in located
lj miles east of Fuyallup.
One and one-half mile west from ruyallup is the hop
ranch of A. J. Miller, who commenced tho biwlmtwi in
1873, and ho now 15 acre hi plant lie estimate hi
yield js-r acre at 1,700 Hm. Him drying house has a
capacity of 2,100 tU dried Iioh for twenty-four hours,
and is 40x112 foot, in which are three kilns, one 22x22 and
two 18x18.
Ono mile and ft half west from Tayallup, and 7 J
mili from Taooina, U tho hop farm of W. . llowman,
and it i 0110 of tho most lnixrtnt in tho at!y. H
commenced planting in 1H7 1, ami. like all other in thi
district, ho has nerer failed to rah a good crop. Thi