Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-05
CALIFORNIA AND COAST.
Yolo Youths Form Protective Labor
Association.
THE CITY OF PEKING,s FAST TINE.
Fifteen Days, Two Hours and Forty
Minutes from Yokohama to
San Francisco.
ESPECIAL DssrArcHra TO THE aroozD-us1os.l
FRUIT PROSPECTS.
California Fruit Appears to Decay on its
Way to the East.

California Fruit Appears to Decay on its
Way to the East.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4th.-The daily
dispatches seem to indicate that California
fruit in the Eastern markets has thus far
been failure. The fruit season proper
can hardly be said to be open, only cher
ries, apricots and peaches being shipped at
the present time. Recent dispatches say
that these fruits have arrived East in a
poor condition. With view to learn the
cause of the depreciation of the fruits, q
Post reporter called on a number of promi-
nent fruit dealers this morning and learned
that it was owing entirely to an overplus
of rain. AS every one knows, the past
winter has been one of the severest ever
experienced in California, and the excess
of moisture in the ground has had an un-
healthy effect ON the fruit.
Isidore Jacobs. of the well known firm
of A. Lusk & Co.. and one of the best
posted men in the city in the fruit market,
said to reporter this morning:
at became evident to me that our East
ern shipments would be failures some time
ago, WREN the first carload of green apri.
cots was sent East. They arrived at their
destination in q very poor condition, not
being able to withstand the trip. If green
fruit will become unfit for use, what is to
become OF the ripe fruit? The trouble is,
we have had too much moisture this sea-
son. The fruit which remains here, how
ever, will be all right, and 80 far it has
been very good"
In response to question as TO whether
this unfortunate state of affairs would not
tend to depreciate the value OF fruit, Mr..
Jacobs said:
There will be big demand for fruit in
our own market, as the Eastern crop this
year is going to be very short. The de.
msnd for dried fruits is now lively. and
there is none to be had. A great mistake
the fruit-growers make is placing their
dried fruits on the marker in the opening
OF the season at too fancy prices When
the article is scarce, as with everything
else, up goes the price, and at the close Of
the season there is naturally fictitious
value placed on the fruit. When the next
season opens the growers hold out for these
fictitious prices. and never get them The
result is that toward the end the prices are
ridiculously low, as they were ridiculously
high at the opening. The canning men
are getting rather tired of this sort of
business, as the fluctuations ruin the mar
ket for canned goods"
Speaking of the California Fruit Union,
which has its headquarters at Sacramento,
and which has been doing most of the
shipping of fruits East lately, Mr.. Jacobs
said that he was in favor of the system !;
but unfortunately, he thought, for the
shippers, there had been split some time
ago, and the heaviest producers were now
sending their own fruit East, selling it
through independent auctioneers, the re-
suit being to force down prices. The cause
OF the split was that the big shippers OBJ
jected to the small producer. who was get
ting as much per box for his fruit as was
the man who shipped carload.