Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-11-23
will the San Francisco market re-

will the San Francisco market re-
quire one-tenth of the crop.
Moreover, the estimate Of 800
oranges and lemons per tree is only
half the usual estimate for trees Is
years old and upwards, when prop
erly cared for, while 20 year old
trees often bear 5000 to 5000 each,
aud many persons believe that
the number of trees reported by
the County Assessor Is far below
the truth; that tho actual number
is nearer 100000 than the number
officially reported.
Take now the grape crop, $1,000
tons. Doubtless the acreage in
grapes will in three years reach
Is 900 to 10000 acres, instead Of the
6,235 acres reported in 1879; for
every one who can 10 now plant
ing vineyards with reference to
wine and brandy making. But
$50 per ton is the average price
payable for grapes for these pur-
poses, or for making raisins; equal
to one cent per pound. Yet these
grapes sell for table use at the East
for 20 cents to ST. per pound, &C
cording to place and season. If
they could be sold all over the
East at 10 cents per pound, the de-
mand for them would be universal
and practically limitless. If they
could be transported by express
trains at 2 cents instead of the
cents charged by the monopoly to
a favored few, and the retailer be
satisfied with a profit of cents,
the grower could realize 3 cents, or
three times their present value for
wine making. What an impetus
this additional price would give to
the business! It would Increase
the product of An acre from 500 to
$500 Oh ell table grapes that went
East. And if the export were no
greater than the present yield,
the tonnage movement would re-
quire 3, 100 cars from Los Angeles
county alone between August 1st
aud December 1st and before the
orange and lemon crop would be
ready for picking.
The same facts exist as to plums,
pears, 1.-THE celebrated California
Bartlett pears are in demand
everywhere, and they now bring
% cents apiece in Eastern cities),
apricots, figs, peaches, LINES ponce
granates, ounces, and perhaps
melons, loquOts, japanese persim-
mons, and other fruits, whose per-
fiction with us is In such contrast
to tae possibilities of any Eastern
climate that all such fruits would
sail anywhere at good prices, IL
only quick aud cheap Transporter
tion could be secured.
AS to the future growth possible
to this business, consider that the
area of Los Angeles county (Which
Ia q sort of oasis amid vast deserts)
is l, 22l ,625 acres, of which only g.
5l5 acres, or about AZ per cent, is
yet under irrigation aud conse.
quent cultivation in orchards and
that the best advertise
ment of such u region, as a field for |
is the placing of its |
products upon the tables of those
who may desire to i'm 10 igrste; and
that every new cultivator, 81 In.
troiuced, would, with his family,
add to the demand for transporter
ton OF produce, besides increasing
the general business of the road.
Compare the magnificent field
for railroad business now . IF ring
TO the Atlantic and Pacific and
roads with the result Of
the niggardly policy and mopopo-
lizing practices OF the present
roads. The appended table shows
that during ten months of the
twelve ending Aug. 81, 1881, the
total hipmenC OF green fruits from
the whole State was only 9.089, 5S8
pounds, or an average of but II Car
loads per day ! These furnished to
each of the 10000 OF our con-
sumers east OF the Rocky Noun
tains about couple of bites Of our
fruit for years rations! What
wonder that our grapes retail in
Chicago and Boston at 40 cents per
pound, pears at 25 cents each, and
three plums for quarter? Aud
this year the shipment was three
times the usual average-the fruit
crsp East having been failure.
Can any one DOUBT that 20 car loads |
a day, properly distributed, would |
not have supplied the demand I? |
Moreover, the fruit crop with Us
has been so abundant that half the |
orange crop was not gathered the |
psst year, and large proportion
OF other kinds would have perisbe ed |
on the ground for want of u mar |
ket had not numerous canperies |
and dryers been established, which
buy the fruit at prices just suff1-
cient to save the trees from being |
cut down, but not sufficient to en-
increased acreage in ORCH
ards or TO promote immigration |
into the State for the purpose of
In that business.
Now as the route of the Attain |
tic and Pacific and Atchison Il To- |
peka Railroads is the shortest pos
sible between Southern California
and the central points of dist.ibu.
ton in the Northern States, as its |
elevation along the Southern
slopes of the Rocky Mountains
gives it cooler climate in summer
than the Southern or Texas Paci-
fic, while it IL below the line of the
SHOWS which In winter make the
Central and Union lines impracti-
cable for fruit carriage, the view l
wish to impress upon you 10, that
you can, il so disposed, create "a
much greater tonnage movement
in fresh fruits than in anything
else, and do a much larger busi-
ness in that speciality than any
other railroad can; while at the
same time you can populate South
ern California with the right kind
of people, and 60 on increasing the