Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-12-27
WHAT IS AHEAD.
Return Of Mr.. ]. E. Hollenbeck from the East
What BE Cleaned from Protractsd Tour
The Railway and Fruit situstiou.

Yesterday we had the pleasure of
meeting Mr.. J. E. Hollenbeck,
who has been absent from Los An
geles for nearly four months, hav.
ing left this city for the East on
the 18th Of September. We are
glad to be able to note that our
fellow townsman Is looking ex-
ceedingly well, and that he appears
to have benefited, physically and
otherwise, by his Eastern trip.
During his absence Mr.. Hollen-
beck has pretty fully boxed the
geographical compass, having Wis.
tied most of the principal Eastern
cities. including Washington, and
having swung from Portland,
Maine, 10 New Orleans. In addi.
ton to travelling for pleasure, Mr..
Hellenbeck had undertaken o
quasi-official mission, by promls-
ing our leading citizens that he
would Interview the leading East
ern railway men as to what their
plans for the development Of this
section were.
We have already given the re-
suit of his interviews at Boston
with the managers Of the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa F6 and the
California Southern Railways.
While in tho East Mr.. Hollen-
beck had q number of conferences
with Mr.. G. P. Huntington, of the
Central Pacific, who informed him
that, by the middle Of January,
the Southern Pacific would be
hauling wheat from San Francisco
to New Orleans for 55 shillings a
ton. 1t is generally understood
that so low y rate as that would
put out Of joint the noses Of the
shipmasters around the Horn. To
question addressed by him to
Mr.. Huntington as to what treat
ment the orange growers OF Los
Angeles might expect, the Califor-
mia and Chesapeake Bay magnate
replied that they were determined
to concede such rates as would
admit OF bringing our fruits to the
Mississippi river.
1t may, perhaps, be thought that
sending oranges to New Orleans Is
something like dispatching GOALS
to New Castle. Not SO. The
fact sis, as ascertained by
Mr.. Hollenteck, that the
orange groves of Louisiana are
In most dilapidated condition.
Mr.. Bradshaw johnson, who is an
authority on everything relating
to the oranges in the Mississippi
valley, informed Mr.. Hollenbeck
that, from his fifteen thousand
trees this year, he does not expect
to realize $4,000. The frost is
slowly but surely getting away
with all the orange groves of that
State. Oranges are selling in the
Crescent city to-day at twelve dol
lars barrel, which would be equiv
alent to four dollars box here.
We have the authority of Mr.. l.. J.
Rose for the statement that 81 \
box net would amply remunerate
the orchardists of the San Gabriel
valley. In view OF Mr.. Johnson's
statement that it won't pay to
raise oranges hereafter in Louisi-
ana, that State opens a most at.
attrac i've market for our fruits.
But THE, of course, is nothing to
the whole sweep of the Mississippi
valley. This market, with proper
transportation charges, will prove
all the more attractive because the
louisiana and Florida oranges be-
gin TO come into the market early
in November; aud, by the time the
Los Angeles orange is thoroughly
ripe, sweet and luscious, say Feb.
ruary, March and April, it will
find no competitor in the field.
With regard to the prospective
wheat shipments overland, via
New Orleans, Mr.. HOllenbeck in
forms us that the Southern Pacific
Railway is building enormous
grain elevators at Algiers, opposite
that city, for the storage of the ce-
reals at that point, preparatory to
their being loaded q bulk on ships
for Europa