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pears. In the western Okanogan irriga- 

 tion district, extending from above Oro- 

 ville to Tonasket, about 500 acres of 

 summer fruit will be set out this year. 

 This new planting is being done under 

 contract with the Puyallup & Summer 

 Fruit Growers' Canning Company of 

 Puyallup. This company will establish 

 a shipping station at Oroville and Ton- 

 ask. -t from where the fruit will be sent 

 to the main cannery at Puyallup. Straw- 

 berries, tomatoes, and other small fruits 

 and vegetables will be planted between 

 the rows of trees for the first few years. 

 The total area of orchards in the We- 

 natchee district is 35,000 acres, most of 

 which is now in bearing, and divided 

 among the counties as follows: Chelan 

 county, 17,360 acres; Okanogan county, 

 8,480 acres; Douglas county, 6,350 

 acres; Grant county, 3,500 acres. Over 

 30,000 acres of this is in apples, which 

 is the staple fruit crop of this district. 

 This comparatively small area produced 

 over 12 per cent of the entire commer- 

 cial apple crop of the United States in 

 1919, and about 10 per cent of the en- 

 tire commercial apple crop in the coun- 

 try in 1920. About one-third of the 

 total amount of boxed apples grown in 

 the United States are produced and 

 shipped out of the Wenatchee district 

 annually. 



The total money value of the 1919 

 fruit crop in the district was $22,500,- 

 000, or an average yield of about $700 

 per acre, which is said to be the largest 

 financial income per acre from any simi- 

 lar area of land in the entire world. The 

 1920 fruit crop returned to the growers 

 less than $15,000,000, owing to the de- 

 creased volume and lower prices re- 

 ceived. 



For the 1921 fruit crop, 60,000,000 

 feet of lumber will be required to make 

 boxes. This is equal to the total timber 

 yield of twenty sections of eastern 



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Practically all of the land suitable 

 for growing fruit, and capable of being 

 irrigated has been taken up and put into 

 orchards, in the Wenatchee district. 

 Nearly all of the orchards are located 

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May, 1921 



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 towns and shipping points, and also 

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 ing and camping resources, which are 

 easily accessible from every part of the 

 district. 



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