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SOUTHERN PACIFIC 



John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent 

 Portland, Oregon, 



storage space neces.sitafe.s the shipping 

 of great ([uantities of apples to Eastern 

 markets througliout the harvesting sea- 

 son, with disastrous results to prices. 

 With this state of affairs at present, 

 and apple production on the increase 

 certainly for many years to come, the 

 (|uestion of finding storage space for 

 the coming crops is one of the greatest 

 problems confronting the fruitgrower 

 of the Northwest. Cold-storage ware- 

 houses represent a large amount of 

 capital in buildings and equipment, and 

 also retiuire a large operating capital. 

 Some comnninities are justifietl in rais- 

 ing funds for a cold-storage plant, but 

 many ai'e not. It is nearly always pos- 

 sible, however, for a small comnnmity, 

 a group of growers, or even one large 

 grower to build a common or air-cooled 

 storage house that will satisfactorily 

 provide for their necessities. A com- 

 mon storage house of very large capac- 

 ity may be built for six or eight tliou- 

 sand dollars, with slight operating ex- 

 penses, as against fifty or a hundred 

 thousand dollars and large running ex- 

 penses for a cold-storage plant. Many 

 conmion storage houses have already^ 

 been built in various sections of the 

 Northwest, and the Department of Agri- 

 culture has inspected many of them, 

 held their fiuit in several of them in 

 the past, and has this season originated 

 more extensive work with this type of 

 storage. 



Some of the connnon storage houses 

 in the Northwest are well constructed 

 and efficient, while others are unsatis- 

 factory fi'om many standpoints. Two 

 essentials to be secured in the con- 

 struction of a storage house are good 

 insulation and an efl'ective system of 

 ventilation. Both of these are of ut- 

 most importance. A building must be 

 well insulated to maintain a uniform 

 temperature, and this is necessary if 

 the fruit is to keep satisfactorily for 

 any length of time. Even the briefest 

 consideration of the details of construc- 

 tion and materials necessary to secure 

 Ijroper insulation would exceed the 

 limits of my time, but it is highly im- 

 portant that the common stoiage be 

 constructed to permit the minimum 

 I)assage of heat or cold through its 

 walls. 



Ventilation is the next important 

 consideiation, and this may be achieved 

 !)>• siin|de air shafts, or more compli- 

 cated systems, employing electric fans 

 in the shafts. It is essential that out- 

 side air should not be admitted to the 

 storage house when it is warmer than 

 the air within the house. The owner 

 of one storage house visited a short 

 time ago was much distressed because 

 his fruit was sweating. Upon investi- 

 gation we found the ventilators all 

 open, the electric fans in the shafts 

 going, and the outside air, which was 

 decidedly wanner than the air in the 

 storage house, rushing in and con- 

 densing upon the cold fruit. This niay 

 serve to emphasize the necessity of 

 constant and careful attention to the 

 vcntilatoi's if the coiiunon storage is to 

 be salisfactor,\. 



Iniformily of temperaluie is a most 

 imporlant consideration in a connnon 



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