Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-06-14
The Evaporating Prospect.

The outlook for the present season
for Delaware evaporatoTs is not bright
neither market or stock is encour-
aging. At prices of last season, peaches
can not be evapOrated with profit at
any price for the fruit; yet the mar
ket may open far better than the pres
ent prices. The following extract from
q circular relative to the dried fruit
market by H. Van Nostrand & Co., Of
New York, may be Of interest. 1t
says of The evapOrated peach market /:
The past year has been marked for extra
ordinary conditions with regard to the value
aud sale of dried and evaporated fruits.
Prices which for 'S7-'SS were considered low,
proved to be much higher than those which
prevailed in, and ended the season Of 1859.
No past data of observation or experience
seemed to account for the constant depres-
sion Of values, till the present, when they
range at an unheard-of low point This sit
uation has not been confined to domestic
fruit, but foreign has suffered even more
severely and staple articles of food, as well,
have been marked by wide and raiuous fuc-
tuations and decline.
Evaporators and shippers may find an
entire change of valuation before the new
crop natures of which the experienced ones
will avail, while novices will retire from the
field to the benefit of all.
Delaware and Maryland peeled evaporated
TaarHae ,k 10
arrivals were large and of superior quality
Buyers took them readily. The crop how
ever fell largely into speculative hands, and
prices for the green fruit went to prices
'ieh evaporators could not afford, hence
took 'culls" or fruit over ripe, which
lmost as undesirable. Eyaporators
lnguine of better prices, and 2 -
make early shipments. a.,.-ed
they beara 'oudbls..r than rIev
ABOVE 1nS'i- United the arrival
horror 10 I. IS at price one to two
blaclu larger attractive fruit, which
81 the chief reasons why Delaware
caches did not get into consumers hands
as they would otherwise have done. With
difficulty, PEELED peaches sold at Iec., then
IS, II, 10 and I5c., and finally remnants Of
shipments closed at - and I2K c, which was
considered ruinously low, yet since those
sales, Ioc. has been accepted. Unpeeled
were in great over stock and opened at Ic
and TIC, closing at 81 to SIC, with Later
sales at 4 to SC. With good fruit to eyapor
ate, and the fruit al rs to 3oc. per basket fol
pairing fruit, evaporators may retrieve the
past. The crop nowhere is yet assured. and
prospects for selling evaporated peaches may
improve.
Unpeeled peaches are too generally pro
duced at various points to permit Of cutting
'culls" as heretofore. The cost of produc
ing peeled fruit is greater elsewhere than i;
Delaware and Maryland, besides distan
freight added Unpeeled fruit can be pro
duced cheaper on Pacific coasts where the
fruit is cheap and the pittiug can be don'
by machinery, and the fruit dried in no
dry atmosphere. We still hope TO presen
inducements for evaporating peeled peaches
Fancy bright North Carolina sun-drieC
peaches opened at 10 to TIC, and were helC
with confidence, but the demand was SMALL
and prices for them fell to 7 and Sc. I'm
peeled sun-dried opened at &C., and declined
to az and &C. There is always market 70
bright and fancy peeled peaches, but the,
will probably open low this fall.
While this may, or may not, Prov
to be a correct summing up-so far a
the future is cOncerned-yet it bear
out our belief that the evaporatine
business is not destroyed; although
badly demOralized.