Strangely  the  same  mistake  occurred  again,  and  again  Lewelling
brought  out  the  Green  Newtown  Pippin,  and  it  was  not  for  some
years  that  the  real  Yellow  Newtown  Pippin  was  introduced  into
Oregon.  The  first  box  of  apples  placed  upon  the  sidewalk  in
Portland  by  Mr.  Lewelling  was  eagerly  purchased  by  the  admir-
ing, fruit-hungry  crowd,  that  gathered  about,  at  one  dollar  per
apple,  and  returned  the  neat  little  profit  of  seventy-five  dollars.
The  home  market  now  showed  many  of  the  above-mentioned
fruits,  which  were  eagerly  sought  at  fabulous  prices.  Apples
brought  as  high  as  one  dollar  per  pound  by  the  box,  and  in


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Portland  retailed  at  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents  per  pound  readily,
and  all  other  fruits  nearly  as  much.
Californians,  fruit  hungry,  with  plethoric  purses,  bid  high  for
the  surplus,  and  in  1853,  a  few  boxes,  securely  bound  with  strap
iron  ( as  was  the  custom  in  those  days  to  protect  against  fruit
thieves),  were  shipped  to  San  Francisco  and  sold  for  two  dollars
per  pound.
In  1854  five  hundred  bushels  of  apples  were  shipped  and  re-
turned a  net  profit  of  from  one  dollar  and  fifty  cents  to  two  dol-
lars per  pound.  In  1855  six  thousand  bushels  were  shipped,  and
returned  twenty  to  thirty  dollars  per  bushel.  Youn^  trees  were
now  in  full  bearing,  and  the  export  of  1856  was  twenty  thousand
boxes.  This  year  one  box  of  Esopus  Spitzenberg  paid  the  shipper
a  net  profit  of  sixty  dollars,  and  three  boxes  of  Winesap  were  sold
in  Portland  at  one  hundred  and  two  dollars.  From  this  time  to
1869  the  fall  and  winter  shipments  bimonthly  to  San  Francisco,
per  steamer,  were  from  three  thousand  to  six  thousand  boxes.
