Record Harvest Threatened by Wet Weather
Valley fruit growers face a race against time as rain stalls the largest apple crop in local history.
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Rains during the past ten days have interfered more or less with the apple harvest and the warehouses have been compelled to shut down for a few days for lack of apples. Even with the delays, most of the varieties, with the exception of the Winesaps, will be off the trees this week and a good many growers have harvested a part of their saps. Local fruit statisticians have it figured out that this valley will market the largest tonnage in its history. According to their estimates, the fruit shipments will total around 600 cars—approximately 350 cars from White Bluffs and 250 from Hanford.
“Local fruit statisticians have it figured out that this valley will market the largest tonnage in its history.”
The orchards of White Bluffs and Hanford, once the economic engine of this region, were famously seized and cleared by the federal government during the Manhattan Project. Today, this landscape is a federally restricted zone, a ghost of its former agricultural prosperity.
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