The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-30
CALIFORNIA FRUITS.
Soon to Supplant the Foreign
ImpOrtatiOns.
TROUBLES IN AFGHANlsTAN.
Heavy Storms Around the World
Cholera = Drained His WIFE
Resigned-Appointm
California Fruits.

CHICAGO June 2s.-The wonderful in
crease in the quantity of California fruit
now being shipped to Chicago, and the
probable chances of the Golden State
furnishing the country east of the
Rocky Mountains with early fruits, etc.,
as well as aiding in supplanting foreign
oranges, lemon. plums, figs, raisins,
nuts, ETC.. is attracting q great deal OF
attention. remarked the senior mem
Der of one of the Oldest fruit houses on
the Pacific coast. Not many years
ago." he continued, California and
the Pacific States were looked on as g
mining country only. A few of those,
however. who emigrated thither and
failed to discover the Ell Dorado they
were in search of, and we're forced to
remain, were prompted mainly from
the nature of the climate to plant some
small orchards. The result was so salts
| factory that others were induced to
embark in similar enterprises. The out
come was that the supply of green fruits
ton. To absorb the surplus, the can
| ming business was started and is to-day
one of the leading industries of the
coast. The prices canneries were ena-
bled TO pay yielded for time such enor-
nous profits on fruit ranches that
thousands of new orchards were
planted. The result was that the rapid
increase of production soon Overtaxed
the capacity of the canneries and mar
ket for the excess became serious
question. Chicago was very naturally
selected as the most central point for
distribution this side of the Rocky
Mountains, and there IS nothing to pre-
vent its being made the leading fruit
depot of the world. California can GER
family raise enough for all of US, and
when Chicagoans can get peaches, pears,
plums, apricots ana cherries luscious
and ripe, weeks before their own are
fit to gather, these early luxuries ale
sure to be appreciated. Besides; they
are placed on this market for sale at
the same prices as those grown at near
by points. California raisins have al
ready established their reputation by
beating back the foreign product as far
as the Mississippi, and it will not be
long before the same thing is achieved
throughout the United States, in re-
gard to oranges and lemons by the
joint efforts of Florida and California"
Can these two fruits be shipped from
the latter State and sold as cheaply as
those from the south?"
Certainly, and cheaper for that mat
ter, and they do not conflict with each |
other. Florida fruit begins to come TO |
this market in November, and lasts |
until April, and the first shipments from |
the Pacific Coast reach here about the |
end of March and continue until June. |
The interim between June and Noveni- !
Der is filled in with Mediterranean fruit. |
The varieties of California products now |
on sale here, are plums, aprcots, |
peaches and pears. Grapes will soon be |
coming in. All fruits are as cheap as
like varieties from any adjacent point
and so far as oranges and lemons are |
concerned California cultivators have |
for some time past been propagating the
best kinds known in the countries adj |
jacent to the Mediterranean Sea and |
home grown fruit will equal if it does |
not surpass the foreign"