Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-01

the shipment season, are the busiest places
on the city front. This house has during
the recent season furnished the RECORD
UNION with the market quotations OF fruits
at Sacramento. These quotations have
been accepted throughout the interior as
standard. In addition to the business al
ready cited, the firm engages largely
in the purchase and sale of tropical
and semi tropical fruits, oranges, lemons
lines, bananas, not only from the
islands of the sea, but from our own
groves in Southern California and from
the foothills, where orange culture prom
Uses in the near future to be most extern
sive and profitable industry. 1t has now
been demonstrated that Sacramento has
great advantages over other points as
market for tropical fruits of the lower val
leys. 1t is twenty-four miles nearer Los
Angeles than the coast market, and goods
are sent from there to Brewer & Co. for the
express purpose of reshipment and repack-
ing here, and safe transit under the au-
spices of that firm. In exchange, apples and
the products of our northern valleys are
sent into the semi-tropical valleys of the
southern part of the State, and thus large
and profitable exchange business in the
fruit line is rapidly growing up, and prom
Uses to be of great magnitude in the near
future.
W. R. STRONG AND CO., J, FRONT AND SEC
0ND STREETS, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
FRUIT, PRODUCE, NUTS, AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCTS, ETC.
Frequently in these reviews we have had
occasion to make note of the rapid ad-
vancement of the business of this firm, and
the record of 1879 shows no exception to
that of its predecessors. 1t is one of the
largest fruit and produce houses in the
State, and its business successfully rivals
that of any. The senior partner, Mr..
Strong, a pioneer of 1850, has been mer-
chandising in Sacramento since July, 1852.
He has seen Sacramento at its worst and at
its best-in tribulation and in prosperity,
in trial and in triumph. He never lost
faith in its commercial future, and his far
seeing wisdom is now being justified. His
property has been covered by flood, his
buildings destroyed by fire, but to-day the
firm of which he is the head is better
housed than ever, and enjoys bust
ness which excites the admiration
and surprise of all who have witnessed it
or inquired into its details. Despite losses
and discouragements, it has risen to the
front rank among the commercial houses
of the country In 1873 Robert William
son became member CT the house, and
in 1878 the former head clerk, P. L. Platt,
was also received into the firm. With this
combination the establishment has enlarged
its business with most wonderful rapidlty,
both in area and volume, and there has
been no year during the last seven in which
it has not increased its general business
from twenty-five to thirty per cent. over It's
former year. Within a recent period two
large store-rooms have been thrown into
one, and the establishment now has street
frontage of 60 feet by a depth of 100 feet
as its main floor, and fine basement of
the same size, thus making 1t the most
convenient and spacious store-room of its
character in California. The long ex-
perience and established reputation OF
the firm give it an almost unrivaled stand
ing, and its extensive business operations
reach throughout the Pacific coast and in
terror territories, as well as the Eastern
cities. This house was the pioneer IN send
ingcentral and northern California fruits into
the southern Territories, where it now has
an extended trade, to the eastern terminus
of the Southern Pacific Railroad and the
sections contiguous thereto, taking then
shipments past and through the great
southern fruit fields Of the State. The
I unrivaled facilities of Sacramento for re-
ceiving and shipping fruit andproducts with
promptitude, and at lower rates than Sar
Francisco, makes this firm one of the most
prominent in the country and brings it tC
the notice of nearly every citizen, and Is
in itself the strongest advertisement that
could be made, inviting the patronage ant
confidence of the public.
| The specialties of the house are seeds
! fruits-green and dried, California anC
! foreign-vegetables nuts of all kinds
honey, canned goods and genera
farm products, all of which ar
shipped in season by this hous
with the utmost expedition and security
! Strong & Co. sell more fruits and products
and send out of Sacramento and California
more than any other firm. There are house
which do extended business through con
signments. but this house deals onl
through actual sales, thereby avoiding til
| frequent and ever occurring heavy losse
upon consigned goods, and enabling Their
to sell at far lower rates. Fruit packin
and shipping ana produce forwarding is a
once one of the most delicate and Difficult
of vocations, requiring the incest discrim
nation and most accurate business Judg
ment. To such business this firm bring
long and varied experience, and ripe judg
ment, backed by a reputation for integrit
and straightforward dealing which Is III
blemished. Such business houses canno
be dispensed with they are the conserve
tive balance of communities they are e2
amples for emulation, and their success re
fleets honor upon the community whic
fosters them. Sacramento has reason t
be proud of many such houses, and of non
more so than the one under notice.
R. LEVY, Us STREET, WHOLESALE DEALE
IN FRUITS AND NUTS.
Mr.. Levy IS one Of the largest dealer
on the Pacific coast in green and drie
fruits, semi-tropical fruits, nuts, etc. Th
business in dried fruits conducted by til
house is very extensive. Mr.. Levy has bee
eighteen years in the business, and deal
as far south as Los Angeles and ships
the Atlantic seaboard. He ships for som
of the largest fruit-growers in the Stat'
does a large commission business also, an
handles vast quantity of general produce
He does no retailing devoting his after
ton exclusively to the wholesale bushes
The house, for the accommodation of tt
interior purchasers, keeps good supply
tobaccos and cigars, but does not make
a matter of special attention. The fru
business, Mr.. Levy says, has steadily an
greatly increased in Sacramento. NJ
Levy has recently engaged more largely
the dried fruit trade which he says prom
ises to be one OF most important industri'
. of Sacramento.