THE DISTRIBUTION OF NORTHWESTERN BOXED APPLES. 3 
Milton-Freewater district, Rogue River Valley, Western Oregon, 
and the Bitter Root Valley of Montana. 
The Wenatchee Valley in 1919-20 shipped approximately 33 per 
cent of the total movement from the Pacific Northwest, Yakima 
Valley about 30 per cent, and Hood River district and Southern 
Idaho about 10 per cent each. Spokane contributed about 8 per cent, 
and the Walla Walla-Milton-Freewater district about half of the 
number of cars shipped from the Spokane Valley. Montana, with 
an increased production over preceding years, is credited with a 
little less than 2 per cent of the total Northwest shipments. 
The first commercial shipments of apples from the Northwest were 
made in 1900. With the extension of irrigation work the develop- 
ment of the industry was steady and rapid and land values advanced 
with increased production. 
The Bureau of Crop Estimates placed the 1914 total production 
in the Pacific Northwest at about one-sixteenth of the total produc- 
tion of the United States. By 1916 the proportion had increased to 
almost one-sixth, and in 1919 more than one-third of the apple crop 
of the country was credited to the four States of Washington, Oregon, 
Idaho, and Montana. 
Commercial production, estimated by Bureau of Crop Estimates. 
United 
States. 
32 barrel 
States. 
9boxi 
States. 
4 Pacific 
Northwest 
box i 
States. 
1916 
Barrels. 
25,059,000 
22,467,000 
24,743,000 
26,174,000 
34,281,000 
Barrels. 
19,102,000 
13,914,000 
17,640,000 
14,353,000 
26,593,000 
Barrels. 
5,957,000 
8,563,000 
7,103,000 
11,821,000 
7,688,000 
Barrels. 
4,301,000 
6,313,000 
5,154,000 
9,121,000 
6,568,000 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1 Three boxes per barrel. 
Carlot shipments 3 from the Pacific Northwest increased steadily, 
and during the 1916-17 season were somewhat less than one-third 
of the total for the country. Reports of shipments during the 1919-20 
season show that more than 40 per cent moved from the Pacific 
Northwest. 
Reports of sales indicate that more than 100 varieties are produced 
in and sold from this section, but each year sees an increasingly large 
percentage of a few of the more popular types, as shown in the 
following table : 
See Exhibit No. 3, p. 16. 
