The record-union., 1892-03-19
SACRAMEETO'S GROWING TRADE.
Heavy Shipments of Produce Daily TO
Distant Points.
The 'Garden Sass'' of This Section
Gets There in the Best Condition
and Greatest Quantity.

The produce merchants of this city
seem to be reaping veritable harvest in
the shipment of vegetables, for there is
apparently an unusual activity in that
line. a RECoRD-U UNION reporter, in
conversation with several dealers yester-
day, found that the many advantages
possessed by Sacramento County over
other localities is being appreciated by
the trade to the extent that this city is
now furnishing the bulk of the output.
Heretofore San Francisco had exclusively
supplied the demand in the States of
Washington and Oregon, and also con-
trolled large portion of the Montana
Idaho and Utah trade. Now the situa-
ton is reversed, and the superiority and
freshness of Sacramento produce is being
appreciated.
Frank Gregory, of Gregory Bros. & Co.
of this city, in an interview yesterday,
said: 1.-THE time has at last arrived when
the Importance of Sacramento County as
vegetable-producing section is being
appreciated by the northern and eastern
trade. Until recently San Francisco has
been considered the Legitimate source OF
supply in the immense traffic in the ar
tlcles Of table vegetables, asparagus, cab
bage, ETC., occasioned by the trade re-
quirements of Washington, Oregon and
other portions of the coast. That prefer
ence has existed to the extent that every
steamer leaving San Francisco for the
north has been laden with very large
quantities of small vegetables.
Latterly the advantages in our favor
have become known; and, as the result,
our merchants are getting the bulk of the
business. San Francisco stock is, as a
rule, one or two days old before being
not taken out of the ground until a few
hours prior to leaving this city by either
express or freight. Besides that, the cost
OF handling and packing has been min
lmized TO the least extent. This, added
to the fact that there is no charge for
drayage or wharfage here, reduces the
cost to such an extent that other sections
cannot compete against us.
There is no question:" said Mr.. Greg
DRY, las to the fact that the quality OF
vegetables grown in and around this city
is superior TO the product OF any other
portion of the State. Then, again, its
treshness-it being cut, packed and
shipped on the same day-insures it's ar
rival at destination in the most perfect
shape possible. When it is considered
that, in addition TO Washington and Ore
gon, the trade of Utah, Colorado, Illinois,
Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, Mime
sofa and Missouri also draw daily sup
plies of Sacramento-grown vegetables, it
IS easy to realize the estimation in which
the people of the various States men
toned hold our products.
This fact, coupled with the record of
superiority attained in the fruit-growing
line, adds materially to the reputation
already secured by Sacramento as being
the center of the greatest and most pros
porous fruit and produce-growing sec
tions in the State"
The foregoing facts readily demonstrate
the superior advantages possessed by
Sacramento as the distributing point of
the largest and most successful producing
section of the State. The earliest and
best shipping varieties of table vege-
tables, asparagus, cherries, Strawberries,
ETC., are grown In the immediate vicinity
Of this city. The widely-eXtended and
rapidly-increasing demand for our pro-
ducts has assumed such magnitude that
the entire trade of America is, therefore,
more or less tributary to our resources.