Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-13
THE STATES PRODUCTS.
Estfmates Made for the Year Thal
Has Just Closed.


Has Just Closed.
Our State continues rapidly in the de-
velopment of her natural resources, and
from year to year her products make new
victories victories of which not only
California but the whole country NAV
we'll be proud, and this is only the be-
ginning of the natural development of
California. 1t is difficult to estimate
what this State will be after twenty-five
years. After corresponding with our
agents in the different sections of the
State, we give our estimates, with conf
dence in their accuracy, as follows for the
year 1889, (the estimate being in
pounds: Raisins, 1S, 900 600; raisins in
bags, 1000 900; grapes, (dried), 2,O00,-
600; French prunes, 15.000,000; Ger
man and Hungarian prunes, 200, 600
blesched and evaporated apricots, 2 ,OO0,-
600; unpeeled peaches, 2, 500, 900; peel, d
peaches, 100000; sun-dried peacht @,
500 600; bleached aud evaporated nee.
tarines, 200, 900; pitted plums, 200 600
pears, $4,000; evaporated apples, AGO.
600; sun-dried apples, 100000; figs.
black and white, 100000; walnuts
l 500, 600; almonds, 100000; extracted
honey, 1000, 900; honey, in the comb.
200, 600; beeswax, 80 600.
The Fresno district has produced as
many raisins as all other districts to-
gether, as may be seen by the following
Fresno, Tulare and Hanford districts,
450, 900 boxes; Riverside and San Ber.
nardino districts, 260, 900 boxes; San
Diego county, go, 900 boxes; Los Angeles
county, 80, 900 boxes Northern California
counties, 100 600 boxes. There is great
deal of difference of opinion regarding
the amount of damage done to the
raisins, an0 while many papers exag-
gerate, others make the loss smaller than
| it really has been. We estimate the loss
through the raisins fully 250,0OO boxes,
and of these loss of fully l5O, 900 boxes
fell on the Fresno districts, where some
growers and packers loat their entire ex-
cellent second crop of raisins, and, be.
sides, large quantities of the first crop.
AS in the past year the crop of prunes
has been very large and of excellent
quality. The prices realized have again
been low, but they no doubt left a very
good profit to the producers, in conse-
quence Of the abundant yield. The
| fig has had great deal of attention
of late by California producers, and
also from the East inquiries are
coming in more frequently. So far,
mostly, the black variety has been pro-
duced here, but this year also some
larger quantities OF white figs have been
put on the market, and the first entire
carload has been sent East this season
from Fresno, where some white figs have
been raised that can favorsbly be COM
pared with the imported Adriatic and
Smyrna figs. In this line our producers
and packers have to learn still good
deal how the fig should be properly
cured, but it is more than likely that this
industry will grow as the raisin industry
has grown.
The high freight on both almonds and
walnuts is against the California pro-
ductions, and the necessary means
should be taken to try to induce the rail-
road people to reduce the freight on all
kinds of nuts, so that California can COM
pete better with the imported goods.
California can and will produce enough
almonds to supply the comsumptive
demands of the United States and drive
the imported nuts out of the markets, az
she is doing with raisins and prunes.
Lemcke & Steiner's Annual
Review for 1889.