Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-19


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Reviewing this table, let it be noted that
in 1880 We shipped 500 900 pounds Of dried
| fruit, and that the shipments of 1889 reach
| over 50 coo 900 pounds, or sixty.tive times
| the volume of the shipment of 1880 Thus
We supplied 10 the markets of the East IN
| 1889 Sky five times the annual volume
supplied eight years previous. OF green
| fruit, the amount OF shipments in 1880 was
| 5,1S0000 pounds. and this had risen in 1889
to over $4,000 Geo pounds, or ten TINES the
amount shipped nine years before. OF Cit
rus fruits, IN 1882 we shipped 9lT000
| pounds, aud in 1889. seven years later, the
amount had arisen to fully 20 600 600
| pounds. In 1850 the shipment of raisins
| was less tGan 500 600 pounds, and in 1889 il
| hsd reached Is 100000 pounds The ship.
ment of vegetables in 1880 was 2 $50. 900
| pounds, while in 1887 il reached the enor-
nous quantity OF 80 000. 900 pounds. The
| commercial forces and the industrial con-
! ditions which have conferred upon us this
vast increment of expectation are still &C.
| lively in existence. The analogies all
| point toward 4 still greater increase. Upon
| this subject of the future of the fruit indus.
| try OF California, | take the liberty of intro
| ducing the testimony of an experienced
| fruit-grower and fruit-shipper in California
| Under date of July 25th H. Weinstock, a
well-known merchant and fruit-grower of
Sacramento, says: You say, suppose the
| fruit product of California double within
| the next five years, will the marke. be as
| good as at present, due allowance being
made for the growth of population and the
| growth of market, no unusual cause
| favoring the market being considered ??
| Taking the past as guide for the future
my answer to this question would be that
! double the quantity of California fruit can
be as protitably and advantageously han
| died five years hence as at present Though
our market, compared with what it was
! five years ago, IS wonderfully widened it
is limited as yet compared with the posi-
bilities. There are many towns aud cities
and places that have not yet seen Califor-
mia green fruits and who can use quantities
of It. The next five years will see won
derful progress made in connection with
! fruit culture in many directions. We will
| have quicker railroad time on freight ship
ments. We will have more scientifically
constructed freight cars. We will have
| much lower transportation rates. We will
have larger quantities of finer fruits. We
will know still better how to pick and pack
them. There will be still greater competi-
| ton among fruit buyers in the East, and
this keener competition will force these
| buyers to send out laierally so to speak
| for trade into every nook and corner east
| OF the Rocky mountains until California
| fruits will become as thoroughly distrib-
| uted in the East as are the oranges of
Florida and the grapes of Spain. Our
markets for green fruits are being increased
with remarkable rapiditv. Let me illus
trate this last statement. In the fall of
1886, while in Chicago for the purpose of
looking into the serious situation ton the
fruit question existing al that time, Wash
ington Porter, who was regarded as one of
the highest authorities on the marketing
of California fruits in the East, and
who, on being asked why so many car
loads of fruit that were then rot
ting in Chicago for the want of
buyers were not shipped East, said in re-
ply, that experience had shown that the
Atlantic markets could not handle car
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successfully marketed east of Chicago, or
even in such great cities as New York and
Boston, were daily express lots from Chi
cago. He said that California was already
raising too much fruit, and that we could
never hope to successfully market the vast
acreage at that time already planted and
that must come into bearing the following
several years. Fortunately for California,
time has shown that the gentleman was a
false prophet, that the trouble was not with
the market, but the manner in which the
market was handled. a change in our
method of selling California fruits in the
East has brought about q wondrous change
in results. Aside from the express lots
that were sent on daily from Chicago, but
one carload of green fruit was shipped east
of that point in 1886 and was sold at loss
In 1887 the method of selling California
fruit by auction in the Atlantic cities was
first introduced, and that year 100 carloads
were sold in Boston and New York at very
satisfactory prices. In 1888 200 carloads
were sold in Boston and New York at still
more satisfactory pricts. In 1889 400 car
loads were sold in these markets at
higher average of prices than ever before
reached in the scale of California fruits,
and this year, l am told 800 carloads can
be disposed of at equally satisfactory
prices.
The facts are then that the importation
of the products of California have con-
stantly augmented, that the shipments of
our products have increased year by year,
and the increase has been attended by
constant decrease of rates. Recurring to
Mr.. Weinstock's testimony, we find in 1856
one carload of California fruit went to the
markets east of Chicago and was sold at
loss. We find that up to this time in the
year 1890, and only four years from the
former date, 500 carloads were sold in the
markets of Boston and New York at the
highest prices ever realized. There is not
single statemenf of fact which may be
quoted in justification of any apprehension
that any of our industries are in danger of
being overdone. On the contrary, we are
contributing to human necessities, pro-
ducing the legitimate objects of human
desire, and we are producing these under
conditions so favorable to their production
as in themselves to afford a guarantee
against successful competition.
While the foregoing relates chiefly to the
production of fruit, the conditions inhuenc-
ing other products, and having direct
bearing upon their future, are completely
analogous. 1t certainly cannot be said of our
State that its industries are overcrowded,
when its products are imported into the
United States in vast volume 1t cannot
be said that the industries of our State are
overcrowded, when it is remembered that
during the year 1889 we imported into
California for the consumption of our own
DpOnle $500 0fl0 worth nf eCos and from