The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-25
GOLDEN.
AN INTERESTING LETTER FRO NJ
THE REGION OF MANY
FRUITS.


-BoxEs FURNISHED ny THE CAIRO box
AND BASKET COMPANY AND v. BsALE
| AND BRO, OF CoBDEN--THE CAIRO AMI
ST. LOUIS RAILRoAD-coBDES A FUTURE
SUBURB OF cAIRo--sUBURBAN VILLAS
FRUITS AND FLOWERS MILK AND HONEY,
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.
To the Editor Of the BuLLrrrs.
1t would do you city people great desl
of good to spend day in our quiet little
town and observe in how unostentatious a
manner the fruit business Is carried on
here. 1t would give you some apprecis.
ton of the magnitude Of the business too,
and explain, in some degree, why the
great wheels and sharp knives and noisy
saws Of the
CAIRO BOX AND BASKET COMPANY.
are kept so constantly employed. Early
in the morning you might see loaded
wagons approaching in every direction.
| At distance you would think them the
vans of some itinersnt show, but as they
approach you perceive that each one car
ries about eighty boxes of peaches,
that they are covered with painted cloth
or tarpaulin TO keep them from the dust,
the sun, and maybe the rain. These first
corners 1.-Two not over a mile away, and are
thus early because they intend to deliver
two or three loads before
THE FRUIT TRAIN
leaves at 942 The next teams come six or
eight miles, having taken an early start;
they are followed by those living some
what nearer who have only one load to
bring and are not hurried. Then come
those who live twelve miles away 10 the
direction Of Murphysboro, and then the
second and third loads of those living near,
till at eight o'clock in the morning you
may count in one procession, advancing in
line to the cars, at least
sEvESTY-FIvE VEHICLES,
all heavily laden. All kinds of wagons
are brought into requisition. The heavy
lumber wagon without springs and with
half.springs, all patterns and shapes and
sizes OF market and express wagons, and
buggies both new and old. Occasionally,
to vary the monotony, horse unused to
so much hustle and so many cars, becomes
manageable and tries to disprove the
physical principal of impenetrability, but
only succeeds In running his own wagon
half way across that Of his next neighbor.
Or buggy
WORN WITH AGE
and tired Of the burdens Of this feeting
world, ends its days by tumbling from q
bank and scattering driver and boxes in
unrecoverable confusion. These are only
occasional occurrences, and we do not
warrant you a sight il you only spend a
single day with US.
When the train is ready to depart it Is
found that
FOURTEEN CARS
have been loaded During the afternoon
this procession is repeated and car load
is sent by express, and eight car loads by
the night freight. Yesterday
TWENTY-FIVE CAR LOADS
were shipped, averaging 800 boxes each, oil
1900 boxes in all When it is considered
that the average load Of the vehicles bring.
ing in fruit is not over 80 boxes, it will be
seen that over $50 teams must arrive at oui
depot daily, for the fruit business alone
Then it must not be forgotten that the
people who raise fruit are quite as
| likely to buy goods as are less fortunate
people, and that as a consequence of thii
fruit business there has grown up great
| r T. ,,a -. ,ubinh add n tho
THRIFT AND vIGoR
of our town. OF the 1900 boxes usec
daily. the Cairo Box and Basket compan!
is furnishing about one half, and the re
mainder are supplied by v. Beale & Bro
Of our own town, and by various smalle
concerns in the vicinity. The aggregst
of the fruit crop this year will be i'm
mense. Not less than 100000 will
be divided among our fruit-growers, ant
the Illinois Central Railroad Ccmpan
will get about 100000 besides.
Speaking of railroads, we are quite AMI
mated here at the prospect of the earl
building of the
CAIRO AND ST. LOUIS RAILROAD.
Nature has provided so complete an open
ing in the hills here that we feel sure ths
, the famous South Pass will be chosen u
the route for the lnew road, in whic
i case wo shall have two lines to your city
:, or what we think will in the future b
of much more Importance, you will baV
TWO LINES TO coBDES;
for it must be admitted that proud =
" we are Of our own village, We really re
gard it as an
ADJUNCT TO CAIRO,
u and expect, when Cairo has fairly con
" menced its march to the proud future thi
Z surely awaits It, that the business men
Cairo will seek pleasant
HOMES FOR THEIR FAMILIES
- on our healthy hills and among our
cal people. Even now we see Mess
PEBBLES and Fisher, Of the box compan
" retiring from the business Of I
week to spend the Sabbath wi
7" there families here, and 1t will not
~ long before accommodation trains will
run out Of Cairo as out of Chicago to give