Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-27
ADVERTISING RATES.
CALIFORNIA FRUITS AT THE EAST.
Our CrystaDized Fruits in Highest De-
mand. in Preference to Foreign.
from lhe NeW York Mail.


California is now acknowledged to be
the fruit garden of the United States. In
this productive State can be grown all the
fruits of which France and Spain have
heretofore had the monopoly. Finer grapes
are now produced in California than Eu-
rope has ever sent TO this market, and at
prices much lower The great abundance
of the product in the California vineyards
has encouraged growers to make, for the
American market, not only wines, but a
class of raisins that even excel some of the
finest imported. From samples sent to
this city it appears almost certain that the
California raisin will drive out the Euro
pean in very short time. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that they have to be transport
ed entirely across the continent, the ex-
pense of transportation does not so much
increase the cost but that the dried fruit
can be laid down in this city at a much
cheaper rate than the French raisin, and
tar superior in quality. California also
grows a very large-sized prune, which III
flavor EQUALS even if it does not excel the
French Imperial" These can be brought
to New York alta cheaper first cost than the
foreign. Already the principal cities of the
West, such as Chicago, st. Louis, and so
forth, have given up purchasing the for
eign prunes and now deal entirely with
could be mentioned but these serve to
illustrate the fact that home productions
are making great Roadway against the for
-eign. But the newest industry arising from
the California productions has been in the
way of crystallizing fruits. About Christ
mas it has been the custom among the rich
to present to their lady friends box or
basket of choice candied or crystallized
fruits, but as these were imported from Eu-
rope the cost was so great as to be beyond
the means OF the masses. Many young
man would have been pleased to have
made such q present to his ladv-loYe had
his purse been plethoric enough for the
purpose. Crystallized fruits were too high
in price, and he had to confine his expen-
ditures to candies of less aristocratic char
acter. This, however, is now likely 10 be
remedied by home industry. j. NJ. Chap
man of this city has just returned from Cal
ifornia and told a reporter for the Mail and
Express that within sixty miles of San Fran
cisco can be produced as fine crystallized
fruit as ever was imported from France.
He has had an opportunity while travelling
through the State of visiting the fruit orch
ards. and there saw some fine specimens of
Crystallized apricots, plums, oranges, cher
ries and other fruit grown in that State.
Although the enterprise is yet in its in
fancy, he saw enough to warrant him in
believing that these candied fruits would
ultimately drive out the French. In point
of excellence in taste they are, in his opin-
ion not only equal, but superior, TO the
imported goods. And with regard to price
they can even now be laid down in New
York twenty-five per cent. cheaper, and, in
course of time, at one-half the cost of the
French. Besides which, the supply of the
fruits in California is so abundant that the
crYstallizers can have the pick of produc-
ton without materially enhancing the cost.
Many dealers here have ordered the crys-
tallized fruit from California in bulk, and
by putting them up in homemade fancy
boxes, form as tasty present to q lady as
anything yet brought to New York from
the other side of the Atlantic And, what
is more pleasing, this can be done at a price
which will bring the articles within the
reach of persons of even moderate means
without being heavy tax on their re-
sources. Many of the uptown retail dealers
in these fancy candied fruits said TO the
HdH and Express reporter that the preju-
dice against American productions in favor
of foreign is dying out. The excellence of
the article is now more sought after than
the mere fact that they have been imported
from abroad. Purchasers had found out,
in many instances. that native productions
hnd been passed off as foreign, and charged
for accordingly. Preference is, therefore,
now given 10 the home productions, if
equal in quality to the imported, and, as a
natural result, the dealer sells his goods for
what they are.