Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-29

costing $1,000, and adjoining, another
double brick store building costing $4,000
Also under roof is large new frame vege-
table market warehouse. Besides these,
there have been recently erected several
residences, an addition to the hotel, and a
large fruit evaporator or dryer, with ca
pacity of ten tons of fresh fruit per day
The Newcastle Netrs is edited by W. B.
Thorpe in such a manner that people
know it is alive and stirring, and that its
every energy is being bent in the direction
of the best interests OF the locality it repre-
sents.
But the business-the great business
the industry that places Newcastle head
and shoulders above other towns along the
line of the road is centered in her four
FRUIT SHIPPING HOUSES.
Newcastle claims 10 be the largest shipper
OF fruits of local production of any place on
the Pacific Coast. Its Eastern shipments
are exceeded in the number of pounds for
warded by only one place-Sacramento
which is the general shipping place for
Northern and Central California, and
which is the distributing point of over
twenty counties, so that Newcastle's claim
In 1887 the shipments of green deciduous
fruits to the East from Newcastle amounted
to nearly eight million pounds, which was
over one-ffth of all the green fruit shipped
from California during that season. The
growth of the fruit industry at Newcastle
has been remarkable. A few years ago
the output was limited to few baskets of
berries; to-day it is measured by carloads
of all varieties of fruit. The success of the
first shipper induced others to venture, and
as the demand increased, more land was
added to the cultivation of fruit, hence
there was a gradual spread of the fruit area
IN all directions from town. The first
shipments We're confined to California and
Nevada but gradually, year by year, they
have been extended until now they reach
every Eastern market.
The following clipping from a recent
number of the Newcastle Neus gives the
FRUIT SHIPMENTS FOR AUGUST.
The shipments of fruit from Newcastle
for the month Of August were very large
far larger than for any previous month
OF this or any other season. During the
month Of August there were 132 full car
loads of fruit shipped to the Eastern mar
kets from this point, averaging $4,000
pounds to the carload, amounting in the
aggregate to 2,904000 pounds. This
makes total of 240 full carloads for the
season up to August 3lst. There was also
shipped as freight during August, in less
than carload lots, 609,736 pounds of fruit
consigned to ''local markets." making the
total shipments by freight for the month
of August the enormous amount of 3,513,-
736 pounds. Besides this there were
shipped by express 1858 pounds, max
ing grand total of 3,649,374 pounds for
the month.
REHABILITATION.
Pounds.
Fruit as miscellaneous freight......... 49,. 609,7S6
BY express ....... ............. 135 63S
...........S 649, ,S74
The shipments for the month of August
send the total output for the season away
up into booming figures. The figures here
presented are taken directly from the
books at the railroad and express offices,
and are perfectly accurate. They speak
eloquently of the Newcastle district as a
trult-producing section, and stand in testi-
mony of the enterprise and progress of our
people. Following is a statement of the
total shipments this year, given by
months
rem lqary 13 $40
6,565
So 1856
May and June...."...............- - ......1 692 ll6
,24S us
649 374
Total for season to August Slst st......7, 7,6S6, 81
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