PAGE SIX
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1924
GREEN PRUNE DEAL IN VALLEY PRACTICALLY OVER
LAST OF GREEN
The green prune deal in the
"Willametto valley 1h practically
over and will probably be coruunt
mated with the Khipmcnt of fruit
already pu relumed and picked by
the end of the week.
This Is the consensus of opinion
among both shippers and growers
here today. OperatWis have bevn
curtailed almost to a standstill,
and with the exception of one ot
the smaller operators all of the
Bhippyrs have called a halt on
picking operations. Today the
packing plants are busy preparing
the fruit that has already been
picked and delivered for ship
ment, and six cars are expected to
roll from here before night. The
total movement from central val
ley points today will not exceed
15 cars.
The real reason for the sudden
uspension of the deal remains a
mysteiy, but the largo percentage
of cracked prunes resulting from
the rain and the consequent in
crease in the price of Honing that
cuts down the margin of the opera
tors Is believed to be chiefly res
ponsible. At 0110 local packing
plant the force of aorters hand
ling a given amount of fruit had
to be trippled this morning to in
sure first quality shipments.
Not Overripe
Reports on the first cars to move
out by freight to catilern markets,
received hero this morning, stilt
ing that the buyers are disap
pointed and the fruit "too ripe,"
are being received with a grain of
salt. Growers and others Interest
ed in the deal point out that the
first prunes shipped wero so green
that some of the operators refus
ed to take them, i'runes picked
lor tests ltf days ago at Uallas are
Just getting real ripe and shewing
good color.
That Denney & Co., have pulled
completely out of the local mar
ket was pretty well established
this morning when growers who
have sold to them failed to receive
orders to resume picking. In some
sections, Dallas for instance, the
company Is still said to be buying
but only In sufficient quantities to
use up the box snooks on hand.
Further information was to the
effect that the company has di
verted further shipments of shooks
from valley points.
Young Hulls Ilujiiig
Picking was also called off hy
"Young & Wells this morning but
accor.ling to John Young, in
charge of the company's opera
tions here, the order was Issued
only lo relieve the- congestion in
the warehouse where three enr
londs had accumulated nnd enough
picked fruit was rolling in to fill
another car.
Mr. Young said that the sufspon
sloti of picking was only tempor
ary, but whether his company
would continue Its operations here
beyond the end of the week had
not been decided. Tho cost of
sorting out tho era eked prunes,
running iih hKh as 20 per cent in
some orchards, was one matter
under consideration, ho said. Jle
will maku no definite decision un
til he has received reports from
the eastern markets on the prunes
he has shipped himself.
CE CUTTERS
PULL OUT OF
While official confirmation was
not obtainable, here this morn
ing, confidential reportH from two
sources in tho New York dried
prune market mid of tho complete
Withdrawal of tho Mason-IOhrman
company from tho market, follow
ing Its price cutting activities of
earlier In tho week, and indicated
that the market there Is now firm
but rather Inactive at the opening
prices quoted by most of the op
erators. iOarller In tho week Mason
Khrmaii dealers were reported as
quoting 40s and Ms straight on the
New York market at a half a cent
under the established opening,
causing n flurry which resulted in
tho suspension ot practically all
buying.
The withdrawal movement Is
considered as a maneuver to al
low the company to later reenter
the market on Die higher schedule
quoted by tho other brokers In
tho opening lists which, so far as
can be determined, nio being main
tallied,
further activity In tho foreign
demand for prunes is Indicated tn
tho booking this morning by the
Uragor emit company of an Eng
lish order for a carload of two as
sortments at tho opening prices.
The shipment will hu made by. wat
er out of Portland,
SUGAR PRICES ADVANCE
ANOTHER TEN CENTS
San Francisco, Aug. 31 An ad-
vnnco of 10 cents a hundred
pounds In (he price of refined cane
and beet mi war to Jobbers to take
effect tomorrow was announced to
day by tho Western Hugar Refin
ing company. This Increase briiiK"
tho price of cane mmnr to $ 7.35
and that of beet sugar to 1 7 .16.
EGG ADVANCE
DUE TO SHORTAGE
BUTTER FIRM
Portland, Aug, 21 An actual1
shortage of fresh eggs is shown
in the locnl market nnd values
are maintaining a very firm un
dertone. On the exchange fresh
current receipts were forced up an
other cent to 33 16 cents net. buy
ers are offering 33 cents to coun
try shippers this morning for good
farm if lock delivered Portland.
Graded stocks are alio in de
mand with extras holding firm at
the 33 cent level on tho exchange
and firsts posted nt 37 cents.
There is a nnsK snipping ae
mand with pacific coast white ex
tras bid as high as CO cents on
the New York market. Chicago
iH also higher today at 33 cents
for firsts.
Storage eggs are good property,
according to local jobbers, who
see higher prices in sight. Eggs
coming in now show a vast im
provement in quality over two
weeks ago.
The butter market Is steady and
unchanged. Kxtras 39 cents;
standards 38 cents.
Unsettled weather put a damper
on produce trading. Fruits and
melons were especially slow with
considerable price cutting going
on in both cantaloupes and water
melons. Retailers bought only
fancy stock and then In limited
quantities,
peaches alone continue to hold
up well with Crawfords and El
herta8 bringing $1.2!. to 1.35 a
box.
Supplies of onions nre confin
ed to Washington stocks with the
Oregon crop still In the fields
drying.
N'e.v potatoes wero plentiful with
United .Slater No. 1 stock bringing
J2 per hundred. liuying price
down around $1.50.
1.22; No. 2 yellow $1.21
$1.75 to $2.
LIVESTOCK
Portland, Aug. 21 Cattle and
calves slow; receipts 62.3;
steers 1100 pounds down, good
blank; medium $6.75 7.75; com
mon $4.006.00; heifers, good 850
pounds up blank; common and
medium all weights $3.505.25;
cows, good blank; common and
medium $3.00tfi 4.75; winner and
cutters $1.50& 3.00; bulls, good,
beef yearlings excluded $3.75
4.50; common to medium, canner
and bologna $2.75 St 3.75 ; calves,
medium to choice 100 to 260 lb..
$6.5 0(Je 10; medium to choice 200
11 ik r, nn Ci fi TiO- pull and
common 100 pounds up $ 4.00 5.00
j logs weas; ivi:i-i,nn o.
heavy weight (250 to 350 lbs.!
medium, good nnd choice $9.00
10.00; medium weight (200
to 250 lbs.) medium, good nnd
choice $0-75 10. 25; light weight
(160 lo 200 lbs.) common, medium
good and choice $10.5011.00;
light lights (130 to 1C0 pounds)
common, medium, good nnd choice
$11.501' I 0.25; packing hogs smooth
$H.00tfrH.7&; packing hogs, rough
$7.00(ii8.00; slaughter pigs (130
lbs. down) medium, good and
stoeker plffo (70 to 130 pounds)
common, niciiium, k"""
$7.50 6i 8.00. (Soft or oily hogs and
nm-iiini it lira excluded in above
quotations.)
pmeep aim humum , n.-i.vim
250. Lambs, light and handy
weight Mount Adams $10.00
ii 10.75; medium to good valley
$8.50 fill 10.25; heavyweight 92 lbs.,
up medium to prime $K.00ti 3.&U;
nil weights cull and common $5.50
f8.f0: yearling wethers, medium
to prime $6.508.00; wethers two
years old nnd over 'medium to
prime $4.50ir,7.R0: ewes, common
to choice $3.00Lif5.00; canner and
cull $1.00ffi'3.00. (Above quotations
except lambs on shorn basis.)
lUlTTI'.Il AND lUJTTKHFAT
Portland, Aug 21 It utter steady
extra cubes, city 39c; stand
ards 3Rc; prime firsts 3Vic; firsts
35c; under grade nominal prints
40c; enrtons 41c.
llutterfat steady; best churning
cream 37ry 38c net shippers' track
In no no 1.
FRENCH CROP OF
PRUNES EQUAL
ir
I1L
10 LAST YEAR'S
POTATOES
Portlnnd, Ann nut 21 Potntqes
weak; $ 1.40& 1.50 for If. H. No. 1,
WHIIAT
Portland, Aug. 21 Wheat bids:
hard white LIS hnnrt $ 1.40; soft
white $l.;t4'i; western white $1.31
hard winter Jl.lM; northern spring
51.27. Today's cur receipts: wheal
92c; flour 2, oats 6, barley 6, hay
9..
POIIIiTKY ANI V.UGS
Portland. Aug. 21 Kxcs firm;
I pullets 29 c; firsts 32 4c; he n
neries 34hJ4ic delivered Port
land. Poitland, Auguit 21 Poultry
slow; springs 2 a it 23c; stags 1 3c;
heavy hen- 20fr2tc; light 12flM3c;
roosters 10c; ducks, whito pekins
19 20c.
Chicago (Jralri
Chicago. Aug. 21 Wheat No. S
red $1.73; No. 3 hard $l.27
rl.294; corn No. t mixed $1.21
1.23; No. 2y cllow $1.21 4 i
$1.22 tt; wits No. J white 52 ii
bbo; No. 3 white Mli'c;
ryo No. 2, 3Hc; barley 82tfOo;
timothy seed tfi 7T. jf 7.75 ; clovcr-
sceil $11.&O021.5O.
hop .MAitKirr
Portland, Aug. 21 Hops quiet;
contract lTtylJic; 1923 crop 15 tr
17c.
Teheran, Persia 'Dr. Joseph II.
Kornfchl, American niluleter to
Persia, who recently resigned,
planned to sail for home Septem
ber 1.
Advance estimates made by
dealers In Paris place the local
1924 prune crop ot about 450,000
Uordcaux metric quintuls, says the
New York Journal of Commerce.
Bearing in mind the fact that a
Bordeaux quintal is only 50 kilo
grams, this total corresponds to
22,500 metric tons. The figure
compares quite favorably with the
final crop total for last year, which
was 500,000 Bordeaux quintals
after having been estimated or-
iclnallv at not far from )oo,oou,
according to tne uepartmeni 01
Com met oe.
While the 1924 crop does not
meaiiu.e uu in quality to tne one
of last year, it is expected to
prove sufficient for local needs
and also to allow for at least two
thirds the volume of exports which
followed the 1923 season. Accord'
ing to estimates made by local
dealers, these exports arnomited
to somewhere between 300.000 and
400,000 cases, of 12 kilograms
each. The principal markets were
England, Belgium, Holland and
Germany, in that order. England
was by far the best customer, the
principal reason, of course, being
the depreciation of the t rencn
franc, which was Important Just
following the close of the prune
season. The British market was
apparently well satisfied with the
i'Tencn prunes, mm is expecieu 10
call for an even greater amount
this year.
Prices on certain sizes of prunes
varied in some instances us much
as 20 francs from one day to the
next. In September, when the
Krench prunes first came on the
market, prices were comparative
ly high, but at the end of Octo
ber they had fallen to the follow
ing quotations per 100 kilograms,
f. o. b. Bordeaux;
Grade-Size, Francs
60-60 375
70-75
80-S5 210
90-95 165
Prices rose again early in De
cember and continued high until
the crop was altogether disposed
of. This latter occurred early in
.March nnd thereby rendered quite
ineffective an export duty of 10
per cent wiilcn was levied on all
out-gcing shipments of prunes by
the French government in an en
deavor to keep down the cost of
living. This export duty is still in
effect, nnd will be sure to curtail
exports after the 1924 season un
less It is lifted before that time.
The probability of a good local
crop Is expected to practically close
tho French market to prunes from
California and Serbia. Imports
into France from these two regions
have been abnormally small since
tho 1923 crop came on the mar
ket due largely to the depreciation
of tho franc and tho consequent
spread between prices within
France In said not to bo disturb
ing Serbian growers this year, as
t.iniiaiiy is expected to buv prac
tically the entire crop, us it did
last year.
ALL PRUNES 10
FIND READY SALE
AT FAIR PRiGES
Suspension of the green prune
deal in the valley will have little
appreciable effect upon either the
marketability or the price of
prunes to trie growers, It was said
Malaga grapes nre sellinir at
watching the situation closely, who
predict that nil of the prunes in
the valley will find a ready sale
at picking lime nt prices equal to
or exceeding uiose now being of
fered for the ureen fruit.
Already, they point out, there
is a decided activity mining the
buyers of dried fruit, nnd durlnu
tho past few days the commercial
diiei-s have been scouring the
field for ripe fruit to be delivered
at picking time. Prices general
ly offered for the ripe fruit nre
as high, or higher than the green
fruit prices, and the ureal weight
of the fruit nt picking time wiii
increase tuts mnrgin.
At Inlls, where the buyers for
comnierrliil driers nre most nrttvn
the following prices nre being of
fered freely:
9s or 1 0s src
JOs or 12s S0c
12s or 14s 75,-
14s or IPs 7i'
Ifis or ISs - 65c
ISs or 2ts eoc
20s or 22s f,5e
22s or 24s Mle
This scale, It Is claimed, means
from $25 to $:t0 a ton to the itrtiw-
ers for the fruit as It will Average
in size mis season.
Ciisrnru Hark nml Nuts
Portland. Aug. 21 Oisenrn bark
quiet, no demand; new peal S i
9c per pound; old peel UfffUc
Oregon grape root 4c. Nuts
steady; wnlnuts. No. 1 budded
25 Ho pound; filberts 1 6t
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Take these little dark green
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Adv.
Salem Markets
Compile! from reports of Sa
leiu dealers for the guidance
of Capliul Journal readers.
(ltevlcd dally.)
Grain: No. 1 white wheat $1.20
bu.; No, 1 mixed wheat $1.18; No.
1 red wheat $1.17 (packed).
iioicsaio rriecs
Meat: Top hogs lOV&c; bows 7fi
8c; dressed hoH 14c; top steers 6
t6e; cowyi -73 hJ' ! vi o ; canner cows
IVic; bulls 3 vie; spring lambs up
to fa 4 lbs.. Sac; 84 to 90 lbs.. 7c;
90 to 100 lbs., 7c; veal 8c; dressed
veal 14 c.
Poultry: springers i:iaic;
licht hens 12c; heavy hens 17
ltic; old roosters 7c; ducks lGUe
Hutterfat 3sc; creamery butter
414Jc; epfrs 24. Safe 30c; milk
11.85 per cwt.
Vegetables: New potatoes 2c;
Oregon cabbage SV4c; celery 80&
90c per dozen; celery hearts 80c
per dozen; onions $2.75 per cwt;
sweet corn 20c per dozen; white
corn 20c per dozen; string beans
5c; green lima beans 9 & 10c;
beets 80c doz. 10C size; sweet pota
toes, fancy 14c; tomatoes, gen
erally $1.00111.25 box; peaches.
Yakima Klbertas $1.25; Crawfords
$1.15; cucumbers CZc lug; peppers
10 lb.; yellow squash 3c lb.; ice
cream melons 2 ',4c lb.; muskmel
ons, homo grown $4.75 per cwt.;
bunched carrots 40&&0c on 10c
size; sacked carrots 3c; grapes.
.Malagas $2.50; Muscat $1.75; aeed
less $1.25; egg plant 10c lb.; casa
bas SVc lb.; watermelons, honey
dews 3c lb.; Klondike 2',jc;
Klicknick eweet 2 vie.
IT GROWER
I
Enthused by the manner In
which the program for the first
day of their tour through the nut
producing sections of the Wil
lamette valley went off yesterday,
members of the Western Walnut
Growers association who spent the
first night of their Junket here are
today inspecting the Skyline Or
chards, the largest walnut grove in
the state.
Yesterday's program Included
visits to a number of Marlon coun
ty orchards in the Silverton sec
tion, luncheon in that city, and
dinner here last evening, follow
ed by a meeting nt the chamber of
commerce nt which crop, picking
and marketing conditions were
discussed by various growers, ex
perts from the agricultural college
and farm publication representa
tives who are accompanying the
rowers on their tour.
So far tho junketeers have found
the orchards visited to be in ex
cellent condition, with prospects
of a banner crop.
aside from a small percentage of
cracked ones, than had been
handled earlier.
niiniiRfinrn
DALLAS PICKING LJB
OF GREEN PRUNES "J F
COMES TO HAL! T0
Dallas, Or., Aug. 21. Shiprpitl
of green prunes lor the eastern
market will come to a sudden halt
in Dallas, today. Denney & com
pany gave urdera Wednesday
morning by telephone to the local
plant authorizing them to notify
all growers to cease picking ami
to stop packing operation Thur;
day.
Cracking of prunes Trom the re
cent raiu was assigned as the
cause for the move. The dechicn
to cease shipment came like u bolt
out of the blue for Tuesday buy
ers were at work among the grow
ers and notification was sent to
prune men to pick their prunes a&
fast us posoibie, notwithstanding
the rain.
Tho cracking nas been slight
and is of no consequence whatever
so fur as drying ig concerned, lo
cal prune men state. A continued
rain will have a bad effect, how
ever, as the fruit Is ripening tap;
idly.
Tho dropping out ot the green
prune shippers at the helghth of
their season means that a luigor
amount will "e dried here than
had been anticipated. The pack
ers shipped out between 40 and o0
cara of green frutr. from Dallas, or
approximately half ot the amount
they had slgnel up. Some grow
ers had cleaned up their crop,
while others will have a consider
able carry over of fruit to dry.
Opinions differ here as to the
time the drying will start. It i.i
probable, however, that some fruit
will have to be cared for by Sep
tember 1, or possibly a few Cays
earlier.
No brown rot has developed In
prunes taken in here, and a very
careful check was kept on tlii
during the operations of the green
fruit packers.
It is entirely possible that some
thing other than the cracking of
the prunes hac caused the cutting
off of the shipments. It was pre
dicted on the start from many
points that pt unes were belli;
taken too green nnd It Is possUth
the condtiion of the first cars at
the market Jiad something to do
with the fear of the effects of tht
rain.
The prunes handled this week
have been of much better qualiiy,
ilburn, Aug. 21 The out
loo!; for a normal cucumber crop
hire lias taken on a new aspect
with the recent rain and if no
frosty weather Is experienced
through this month and Septem
ber it is expected the crop will
come through as large as antici
pated and the Oregon Packing
company pickling plant will re
ceivo its desired tonnage. Earlier
in tho season the outlook was poor
and receipts at the new plant hero
were discouraging.
Three women are now employed
sorting the cucumbers and anoth
er man has been added to the
force. Although the deliveries are
not at their peak a few warm days
will put the plant at full running
capacity. William Bllvens is man
ager of the Woodburn plant and
he anticipates a. good season with
the encouraging weather condi
tions. In thl sdlstrict the rain
benefitted the cucumber crop per
haps more than any other one
thing.
Dill is being supplied the local
plant from a small patch east of
town owned by Leo Hayes. Some
of the crop Is also being sent to
the Albany plant where they have
run short tho past few days. 150
acres have been signed for in the
territory near here and the com
pany figures on an average yield
of between five and ten tons ot
cucumbers to tho acre. The qual
ity has held up good and sizes
have been coming in the right
proportion. This Is the first sea
son for tho plant here and with
many growers handling cucumbers
for the first time the recent rain
was a "godsend, turning discourage
ment to optimism.
PAULUS SELLS PRUNES
PACKED FOR $47 TON
Sale of about half of the prune
crop of the Paulus orchards for
green shipment to the Schobel and
Day company at a price which will
gross about $47 a ton to the grow
ers Is announced today by Robert
Paulus.
The exact prices paid for the
various sizes of prunes packed in
suitcases was not given out, some
averaging considerably above this
figure, but the returns from the
whole deal will average around
$47 Mr. Paulus said.
The prunes are to be delivered
all sorted and packed, and Mr.
Paulus contemplates letting the
packing of the fruit out on contract.
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