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Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, and Oregon also contributed in lesser 
quantities. Auction sales prevail to a remarkable extent. Perhaps 
95 per cent of the total receipts are disposed of in this way. 
HOUSTON 
Houston, Tex., is a boxed-apple market with practically no barreled 
or home-grown supply. The receipts are about half northwestern 
boxed Winesap. ext in importance are the Arkansas Black and 
Ben Davis from various sources, then the Jonathan and Rome 
Beauty from Idaho. Extra Fancy and C grade are popular. There 
are early supplies from California, New Mexico, northern Texas, and 
Oklahoma. . 
WESTERN 
OMAHA 
Practically all of the apples handled by wholesalers in Omaha are 
bought outright from growers or from distributing organizations or 
their local representatives. Boxed apples are especially preferred in 
this market. Most of the supply comes from Washington. In 
1923-24 that State contributed 328 cars of a total supply of 725. 
Oregon shipped 115 and Idaho 124. 
DENVER 
Boxed apples from California, Washington, Oregon, and New 
Mexico, as well as from the nearer apple sections of Colorado, Idaho, 
and Utah, are received in Denver Golo. The summer supply com- 
pe basket stock from Colorado and boxed apples from California. 
ractically no barreled apples are received. Other varieties, such as 
Wealthy, Jonathan, and Grimes Golden are marketed in boxes and 
baskets about equally. The winter kinds are in boxes. Denver is 
distinctly a red-apple market. Delicious and large well-colored 
Rome Beauty are especially popular. The trade is handled by 
receivers, who do also a Jobbing, wholesaling, and commission 
business. 
PORTLAND, OREG. 
In proportion to its population, Portland, Oreg., is a large con- 
sumer of apples. Residents bring them from near-by orchards for 
themselves and friends; many have rural connections and get a few 
boxes in by truck; hawkers buy job lots of off-grade stock from the 
packing houses and canvass the city with them; out-of-town men 
often come in for the winter and open a store exclusively for pies 
and there is the regular trade handling mostly off-grade or off-pack 
stuff sent them on consignment. : 
During July and August a few cars of Gravensteins are brought in 
from California, but the main sources of supply are Willamette Valley 
and the mid-Columbia sections of Hood River, Oreg., and White 
Salmon, Wash. Supplies move into the city mostly by truck or 
boat. The wholesalers have some trade in nonorchard sections, 
but do not get a large part of the city business, for every groceryman 
has producers ready to supply him, sometimes among his own cus- 
tomers. 
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