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of the l.'ike shore towns iit $200,000, and of the town of Ganges alone at 

 $50,000 to .$70,000, and no one qnestions this; wliile from two wareliouses in 

 Douglas 147,593 packages of peaches were this season shipped, and from 

 Fennville 137,500 baskets. One firm has shipped from Allegan to Milwaukee 

 over 000,000 pounds of fruit. And now comes from Ganges a report in some 

 respects the most remarkable of all — that a man recently sent 150 bushels of 

 peaches of the Smock variety, to Chicago, and received a net return of §500 

 or $3.33 J per bushel. Probably this is the highest price paid for peaches this 

 year to any Allegan county grower. If anyone has received more the Journal 

 would like to know of it. The difference in price between the early and late 

 Crawfords, this year, clearly showed that the late varieties were the most 

 profitable, but this sale of Smocks gives still greater proof of it. 



A correspondent of the same paper gives the following statistics of the peach 

 trade from the village of Fennville, in same county : 



I have just received the figures from the agent of the C. & W. M. railway 

 company at Fennville, of the total number of baskets of peaches shipped from 

 this station this season. It is in round numbers, 137,500. I have been able 

 to get but a few names of shippers in the immediate vicinity of Fennville, but 

 a few have their amounts summed up. Jas. Goodrich shipped 6,055 baskets 

 of peaches and 500 baskets of grapes. The peaches netted 32c. per fifth-bushel 

 basket. Mortimer Rogers shipped 5,000 baskets of peaches; M. C. Wilson, 

 1,482; Chas. Abbott, 2,100; S. Atwater, 2,500; John Whitbeck & Co., 3,- 

 600. I send you also the amounts deposited and paid by Chicago commission 

 men. lleber Walsh, of Holland, paid out $5,027.10 for wheat. The other 

 sums given were paid for peaches during three months of the season : 



ir. Walsh $5,027 10 



G. Lasher & Son 2.065 00 



E.Todd &Co 1,775 00 



Linn&Evans 1,400 00 



Beek Brothers 2,195 00 



F.Nickerson & Son 400 00 



Mather & Wheelock -. 4,300 00 



B. H. Powers 470 00 



Stewart & Wolcott 1,300 00 



M. Baker & Co 700 00 



J. H. Phillips & Co 200 00 



Wm. Ermeling 900 00 



C. H. AVeaver & Co 725 00 



J. W. Holliday & Co 400 00 



F. A. Thomas 1,050 00 



E.R. Nichols & Co - - GOO 00 



Total $23,507 10 



The above sum was paid out by Andrews & Rouse. J. G. Lamoreux paid, 

 during the same time, the following amounts, from the parties named, for 

 peaches : 



Campbell & Perch $500 00 



Watts & Wagoner 200 00 



A.L.McClurg 400 00 



Shultesifc Snyder 1,200 00 



Aaron & Birmingham 3,154 65 



Elwokls & Caldvvell 950 00 



A.L.Tucker 4,477 13 



B.F. Baker & Co 1,450 00 



P. C. Sears 1,300 Oa 



