The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-14
RUSH OF THE PEACHES.
rHE EARLY CROP THE GREATEST
KNOWN IN GEORGIA.

he Market Glutted and the Fruit
Selling at Almost Any Prices-Grow.
ers Being Advised to Stop Shipping
What Savannah Fruit Men Say
About the Crop.
The market is glutted with peaches. A
rear ago seventy-fve packages day was
m average shipment to receive. Yesterday
pne firm received over 500 packages, and
500 packages are the average Of one house
sor the last week.
A. H. Champion, in reply 10 an inquiry
oy MORNING NEWS reporter yesterday,
aid: 1--WE are overstocked and don't know
what to do with the fruit. We have been
chipping it to try to get something for it,
but the fruit rots in two days and it reaches
the market in bad order. The fruit coming
now is the Alexander variety, which
will not keep, and we can get no refrigera-
or accommodations for shipping"
A dispatch from Richmond, Va, shows
that shipment there arrived in bad order.
and sold at only 80 cents basket. which
basket included, was at the rate of 40 cents
per bushel, and the freight had TO come out
Of that.
Mr.. Champion said that he has not
solicited consignments The peaches are
pouring in, and the fruit won't pay freight.
Il am set down by the fruit association as
unsatisfactory he said, "when l am doing
the best can. The Alexander peach won't
keep, and the demand exceeds the supply
THE GLUT sPon4s PRICES.
"Last year the packages were smaller, and
our average daily receipts were seventy
Eve crates. Now they are over 500. Last
season the fruit sold at from so cents to
81 25 a basket. This year we cannot get
more than 25 cents at wholesale, and the
finest fruit will not command over 60 to 65
sents per basket
William d. Champion said: SCI have not
been in bed since o'clock Wednesday
morning. We have had to work day and
night, trying to do something with
the fruit and getting nothing for it. We
are sending out notices now to stop ship
ments. There is no sale for the peaches
and they won't keep. The crop is a heavy
one and shipments are being made in every
direction from the orchards. We got off
some along the Savannah, Florida and
Western road, but the towns along that
rood are supplied and we can't handle the
fruit. 1t is melting right down in the
baskets and crates"
"Where does the fruit come fromp
road from Tennille TO Gordon. 1t is the
Georgia peach of the early variety, and
while 1t keeps better than last year, it won't
stand three days in the market 1t is the
greatest peach year known to this section,
FRUIT MEN RUSHED.
Mr.. L. Putzsl was almost too busy to
talk. He was handling the Alexander
peach, which he was wholesaling at from
IS cents to go cents per basket and from Is
cents to % cents per crate. He had a force
of boys going over the fruit and sorting it,
The Georgia peaches, he said, are far
superior to the Florida peaches He has
sold some of the Georgia fruit to go north,
be said, but is not shipping north.
The Alexander is an early cling, but as a
keeper it has proved to be an unreliable
fruit Peck crates were offered yesterday
as low as 121S cents, and half-bushel
baskets only two days in market were re-
fused by the street peddlers at 10 cents.
There is no uniformity of price. 1t is any
thing to avoid a total loss