Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-19
HOME AND ABROAD.
ANOTHER HEAVY FAILURE At
BOSTON.
California Fruit-MiniDg Case De
cided-CoaI Troublc-For-
eiSn Items.
ESPECIAL D1srArcHw TO THE REcokD-UMoN.I
DOMESTIC NEWS.

California fruit at the East.
CHICAGO, August 1Sth.--There will be
two train-loads of California fruits in to-
morrow from Sacram ento. One train is
for Butts & Frye, Earle Bros. and Thacker
Bros, and the other is consigned to Porter
Bros. Prices are lower all around, espe-
cially for grapes. The last sales of grapes
has been at 81 for foIty-pound crates OF
Muscats. Tokays have been arriving in
bad order, and bring little if any more
than the Muscats. 1t is expected that the
receipts of grapes will Increase from now,
and prices will undoubtedly continue to
decline Pears bring from g to s. per box
if in good condition, and it is thought they
would not have brought these prices had it
not been that the low figures for Bartletts
so discouraged shippers that very few have
been received Of late, and with increased
receipts prices will decline. Plums and
prunes are selling mostly at 81
to 81 25 per box. Very few peaches
are being received, which is prob
ably just as well, as Michigan and
Delaware peaches are supplying nearly all
markets. Shippers Of fruit should be very
careful to use good packer next year
Muscat grapes were received to-day from
Orange, Cal, which had been packed in
such fragile boxes that much of the fruit
was in bad condition. The cross pieces
which support the upper tier of baskets
should be half an inch in thickness, and
should have mOrtises. or inches, cut to
keep them from moving, as, if thin, they
will bend, and if put in Loose will work
together, thus allowing the top baskets to
partially upset and injure the fruit be-
meath. 1t is not necessary to have the
cross pieces over three quarters to an inch
in width, but they should be half an inch
in thickness and securely fastened.
Our Water supplies-Destruction Of Cali
fornia's Forests.
New York, August 1Sth-The Sun de-
votes its first column to an editorial on the
future of California, in which it says the
discussions upon certain questions of ripa-
rian rights which have lately occupied the
press and people of California, and so
stirred the inhabitants of the Pacific slope,
have not yet reached the point of real in
terest in any serious treatment of the river
problems of western America. Whether
the water which flows through California
rivers shall be appropriated by the mining
interest, or shall be used to develop the ag-
ricultural resources of the State is of little
moment to Californians themselves or to
the world at large, in comparison with the
infinitely more important question Of what
is to be the future condition of these rivers
themselves. Their very existence is
seriously threatened. Two classes of Cali
fornians are hotly disputing the right to
use water, while the third is silently and
slowly destroying the capacity of the rivers
to furnish any water at all during the
months when the use of water is really es-
sential. The topography of no other part
of the world is so adapted to develop dan
gerous floods and subsequent periods OF
water famine as that of California Cali
fornians, in the meantime, go on in their
vain and short-sighted efforts TO divert into
one or another industrial channel the water
that flows from their mountain reservoirs
without any heed to the reservoirs them
selves. California, without a permanent
summer supply of water, a supply unre-
plenished by summer rains, will perish
with its forests. The fact is as immutable
ne the laws of nature