Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-10
PROPOSED FRUIT UNION.
Circular Issued by the Recently APP
pointed Committee upon Plan,

pointed Committee upon Plan.
The committee appointed at the recent
Fruit-Growers Convention held in San
Francisco has issued circular and sent it
to each orchardist and vineyardist in the
State.
The resolutions under which the COM
mittee was appointed were as follows:
Resolred, That it is the opinion of the major
ity OF your committee that the huit-growers
should organize corporation, confiding the
management of their fruit, for Eastern ship
ment, TO duly qualified Board of Directors of
said corporation for the protection of their
mutual interests and the disposal of their pro-
duets.
Resolred, That the capital stock of said cor
poration shall be SoO, 600, represented by 250000
shares OF 81 each, and the fruit-growers shall
have the privilege of subscribing at the rate of
one share of stock for each acre of bearing or
chard and vineyard of shipping grapes the
same to be an operative capital fund for mutual
protective purposes.
After quoting the above resolutions the
committee in its circular says:
After an exhaustive discussion of said plan
and resolutions, the Convention voted its rati-
ication and approval, and appointed commit
tee to perfect the details of the organization
provided in aforesaid resolutions, and, in pur-
suance of such duty they have to request the
special attention of each individual producer Of
shipping fruit and grapes throughout Califor-
mia to this subject to the end that the much de-
to be secured.
There needs no argument to convince any
one at all familiar with the subject that a con-
tinuance of the condition of things now exist
ing in the fruit and grape shipping trade seri-
ously lmperlls the future of those interests On
the other hand, well-considered Cooperative
Union of all producers such is within rea-
scnable, easy and certain attainment, if only
the subject be handled in season, and with q
wise spirit of mutual consideration and for
bearance), will put stop to the losses now be-
ing incurred, from the indiscriminate ship
ments heretofore made under the diSorganiza-
ton which now rules.
Under such Cooperative Union an organiza-
ton can be perfected that viii reap profits, in
stead of losses, viii furnish assured markets for
all of the fruit product of the State {where much
of the same has this year gone to waste) and
will place the orchard interest of California on
its deserved basis of assured and permanent
profit, and make possible continuous health
tul growth OF the interest," to the great benefit of
the State at large.
All that is needed to secure these results and
TO make the frult-prOducing business perma-
nently satisfactory one i'll every respect is that
the producers come together and organize so as
to control the handling of their own products.
AS there Is no question of the capacity of Cali
fornia to produce fruit ofthe choicest quality in
almost boundless quantity, so also is ii unques-
tionable that the fifty millions of people in the
United States east of the Rocky mountains are
able and willing to consume such fruit if placed
before them seasonably, in good condition and
at moderate prices.
Your committee feels confident that well-se-
lected, good-conditioned fruit and grapes placed
seasonably on the Eastern markets at rates of
freight materially less than those now charged
costing sufficiently low to popularize the con-
sumption of the same, would sell readily to an
extent ten times as large as the present sales
There is no way to obtain this result except
by thorough organization and control of the
business by and in the interests of the pro-
ducers.
There will be a meeting of the Convention
and subscribers to the capital stock in the
rooms of the Chamber of Commerce in San
Francisco on November 10th