The daily gazette., 1879-07-29
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THE DELAWARE FREIGHT RATE on
PEACHES.


PEACHES.
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city as politics does, and the hope that
the supply will be large, and the prices
low, b Vell nigh universal. But there Is
thing connected with the peach crop Of
your State, which Is hard for our citi-
zens TO comprehend, that u why the
freights sllOuld be 90 much greater from
Delaw are, than from other fruit grow
ing sections of our county. The Ameri-
can Express Company, which runs over
the Foads managed by the Vauderblitsy
and Me United ,Stsfes Express which
runs over tie Erie Railway and ]its
connections, krine most OF the peFish-
able fr,lfs to thi9 m9rk2 Which comes
here by the rAflsOad 4xcepsing what
which Is brought here by the Pennsyl-
vania Company. The charges by these
express companies is nothing like as
high as those charged the fruit growers
Of your Stats Tor The transportation of
their products. These companies not
only bring the fruit TO our market, but
delivers 1t to the commission merchants
thus avoiding the charge Of carriage
wlich isY ~ 6aeAt having the growers
Strawberries were brought by the ex-
press companies upwards of four hun
dred miles for one cent per quart. The
Pennsylvania railroad charges more than
that for Leo thAatwO hundred mllea md
carries them OAiy u oJesey City, leaving
an additional tax of at least One-third
Of q cent frequently TO get them over
the river to the market.
Another matter Of, wOpderpept is.
why the charges ON = GStA Of straw I
berries, weighing fifty-five pounds, and
taking up the room Of almost or quite
two crates of peaches should be sent here
by the railroad companies for thirty
three Dehf, while the charges on crate
Of peaches, which weigh but few
pounds more than crate of berries is
fixed at forty-five cents per crate? How
q crate of peaches can be shipped by ex-
press over Florida from near Cedar
Keys to Jacksonville, aud from there to
this city by steamer for fifty-fiye cents,
at profit to the transportation compa-
MES, while the companies operating the
roads between the fruit-growing sections
Of your State and here, cannot offer to
carry a like crate for less than forty five
cents, is q problem, the solution Of which
it is difficult for our people to arrive
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There is matter, however, which the
railroad companies can and should
remedy. Ever since the peach season
began the cars coming from Laurel and
below have been brought in here, early
In tho morning, oftentisDes as early as
l o'clock. But those from all points
above that town have been brought in
at'very irregular times, and most gen.
orally too late for the early and best
market.
The result of this Is, that shippers from
poini on the "Extension" have constant
ly an advantage OF at least thirty cents
per crate on peaches over these growers
whose shipping stations are on the line
Of the Delaware Railroad and its side
connections. On Friday last, the peaches
from Seaford and all points above did
not arrive here until It was too to
resllip to Boston and the principal East
ern cities, which deprecated the value
of peaches nearly fifty cents per crate
and cost the shipping not far short Of one
hundred dollars per car load. This de-
Law was caused by the management OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad OBTAINING the
Delaware peach tram to take in few
car loads Of pig iron, thus losing the
right of way for that train and brought the
peaches into our market six or more
hours behind time. Now, If the Phila.,
VII. u Bait. Railroad Company pays
the Pennsylvania Railroad upwards of
fifty dollars per car to have have peaches
run on quick line to our city from their
road, they should see to it that these cars
get here on time, and certainly they
should not be detained for few csf
loads Of pig iron, the freight on which
was not more than one-thlrd of that on
peaches. The loss to the Peninsula
growers on Friday, by this detention,
would have paid for all the pig iron that
was brought to New York by that train.
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