Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-02
FLOUR AND wHEA'

average Tor 1SSU was L 45. Average PfiCC Loi
barley, 1881, LIZ HIP. Average price for
barley, 1880, 81. Less barley was raised IN
the Sacramento section than ever before.
county, essentially q barley rails
ing county, had the poorest crop for 20 years.
Little wheat was grown and much OF 1t was
foul. tt e formers, however, were nearly all
fortified ~ vine and frrlit-tree proancts and
were thus saved from heavy loss. For 1857
the outlook is very promising. The later
thus far has been all that could ha desired.
The wheat acreage in all this seC-inn viii be
greatly enlarged-pr b1bly d ubie .sat of any
former year. Barley growirg win be resumed
and promi-es tn exceed that of any previous
season. Summer following is the rule, and
wipter p,owing will nearly ali be sown to
barley.
The Touring mills of the city are worked up
to their full capacity. They feel the influence
of food, as well as the enlarged trade of this
market. The volume of the business was
greater by IL per cent. The millers all report
the trade influence of the city much en-
HANGED. We place the volume of mill produce
as follows: S2,915, $780, The product and
trade were as follows: Flour, 1914 900 barrels
ground barley, and for mailing, 49, 0O0 tons
oat and cornmeal, SO tons bran ], $50, 900
lbs; cracked wheat, middlines, graham -four,
buckwheat. rye for -four and meal, 715 tons
superfine -four, %. 800 barrels.
FRUITS, PRODUCE, NUTS AND sEEDs.
Sacramento is the largest fruit exporting
mar ket of the State. A number of houses are
engaged wholly in produce shipments to the
Pacific States and Territories and as far east
ward as the Missouri river. Others are ship
ping both produce and fruit, and others fruit
alone. TIE advantages of this market it is
needless to set forth. They are thoroughly
we'll known. The outlook is that Sacramento
will become the largest fruit market west of
the Mississippi, if indeed it is not so already,
and that the shipments Of the past year from
this point only indicate the contiausd su-
premacy of this market. In this considera-
lion we are speaking of green and dried fruits,
ssmi-tropical fruits and seeds. 1t may seem
a startling statement, but it is supported by
the figures, that this market alone shipped in
1881, twenty-five per cent. more OF green
fruit than was shipped from all of California
during the previous year. The Southern
Pacific Railroad has opened up new field
for our market, and our dealers have moved
forward and occupied it. The productions
for 1881 were better in all lines.
The lateness of the season the year before
operated materially against the fruit interest
of the coast. Comparative showings then
with that season would not be just to tie
market. Insect pests also injured the mar
ket. During the past year there has been
a remarkable revival of uit interests. Hor-
ticulture promises to become the leading in
dustry of the State. Attention has been
given to the introduction of the best methods
of protecting the orchards from the destruc-
tive pests, and these efforts promise TO be
effectusl under the present organized forces
working in connection with Matthew Cooke,
Chief Executive Horticultural Officer Whose
are at Sacranento) and the State
Horticultural Board. The horticulturists
are now awake to the importance
of the industry. Fruit-canning and
drying is largely increasing, and there
has been est blished in thi. city in the year a
large canning establishment. which will begin
putting up canned goods with the appearance
of asparagus in the market this spripg, and
follow with the canning of salmon prior to
the receipt tf the early fruits The erection of
this establishment has already caused an out
lay of between $50 600 and $4,000. ard will
give employment to q large Lumb OF hands.
It is estimated that during the coming fruit
season this csnnery will dssire 500 tons of
apricuts, 5000 boxes of Bartlett pears. 1900
baskets of peaches, 800 tons Of plums, large
qusrtity of tomatoes, Charles and other
small fruits. The demand for apIieots has
largely increased, and aprfcot-growing has
kept pace with il. O.chardists are. bring-
ing here from the East by the cssiaads
apricot trees TO be planted. This is to
introduce change in stock, and TO get a
harder growth of wood by bringing from a
colder climate, and to avoid tie propagation
of insect pests. Apricots bring large price
for canning and drying, and the planting. of
plum and Bartlett pear trees, from one to Two
IL 8, Io,1 al lac
basis, the stock being shipped from the East,
especially from the vicinity of Rochester, n.
Y. The demand for seeds is much larger than
that of the previous year. Instead of Cali
fornia now drawing from the East for seed
supplies the situation has been reversed, ard
the demand is now from the East fer sesds
produced here, which are being fur.
nished Eastern houses in large quanti-
ties. This change is significant, and shows
the desire of the Eastern country to
introduce new stock from a distsut fi5ld
While leading houses in fruit shipping busi-
ness report phenomenal increase in their mar
ket dealing and shipping busiaess, an impair
tial average obtained from all the statements
would place the actual increase OF the busi-
ness for 1881 at twenty-eight per cent. over
that of 1880, including all KINDS of fruits,
garden produce and Seeds making 81 AIS, 2S0.
UNDERTAKES SUPPLIES, CABINET
MAKING.
Business in these lines was good, without
any marked advances. Competition WAS
active, but Sacramento dealers have in no
case been crowded from the market Some
of them have sold directly in the local market
of San Francisco and succe essfplly competed
for coast country trade. The increased ia area
was great. Local manufacturers feel that
a., trg hat he
precarious period has been passed. They chip
cottage furniture most largely, but send even
walnut and finer goods down the Southern
railway, over the Sierras, and as far north as
Oregon. Average advance of the business,
eight per cent. Aggregate, S449. 800.
GROCERIES.
The wholesale grocery trade, after com.
parison of all the figures submitted by deal
ers, shows an advance OF eight per cent.
With liquors i. is the Chi, f jobbing business
of the city, and its Importance is rapidly aug
menting, Some of the dealers suffered loss
of trade in the mining sections because OF
cessation of labor in some portions, but not
because of any loss of influence 70 the city.
Including coffee and spice mills, the aggregate
is S4 6SS S70 Family erocers report their
business very much increased, and the local
consumption nearly twenty per cent. more,
but no inclusion is made of any figures that
would be repetitive of those credited to the
wholesale trade.
HATS AND cAPs-HAIR GOODS.
In these lines business has been advanced,
outside trade increased, and the volume
raised to S95, 600. The local patronage has
been divided more in boots aud shoes. The
interior trade has much improved, and the
city market is answering to larger demands
and sending TO more distant points. In hair
goods more activity has prevailed, and or6ers
from abroad are more frequent.
HAY AND GRAIN.
The establishing of the stock corrals here
has not only made this central stock mar
ket, where nearly all the stock moving to.
wards the coast is brought, but has largely
increased the hay and grain business, besides
throwing into the city much local trade by
reason of the money disbursed by drovers.
The dealings were $1,000.
HOPS.
In the vicinity of Sacramento abont 250
bales of hops were produced in 1880, being
an increase of some 250 bales. The number
of acres in hops was considerably greater
than last year, but the yield per acre was lesp.
On an average, the yield was about 1,50C
pounds to the acre, and the largest yield com.
ing to our notice was at the rate Of 2, 40O
pounds per acre for field of twenty acres.
The quality proved to be quite good, and our
hops were more in demand from Eastern buy.
cry than ever before. and it was quite notics-
able that the Western States. to which ship
ments were only commenced few years