The record-union., 1892-07-11
FRUIT FOR LONDON.
A Irain-Load 10 Leave Sacramento
On the 18th.
Promising Market for Pears, Peaches
and Grapes In the English
Metropolis.

E. r. Hutchins of Chicago, Vice-Presi-
dent OF the California Fruit Transporta-
ton Company, and George II. Appel,
Western agent Of the company, are at
the Palace, says the San Francisco Exam
lne1' of yesterday. Both gentlemen are
IN the city perfecting arrangements for
the first shipment of California fresh
fruits that is to go to London on a special
train Of five cars, from Sacramento at 10
P. NJ. on July 10Th.
Mr.. Hutchins has just returned from
London in connection with this very
matter, and while there also attended to
the shipments OF tomatoes, pineapples
and strawberries that his company has
been sending from Florida to London.
London sales of tomatoes and pineapples
were very successful, he says, the former
selling for 81 case, or at 4 rate Of SO a
bushel OF sixty pounds. Strawberries
sold bat slowly, because of the excellent
quality and quantity OF the English va
riety.
Mr.. Appel, who has made a minute
study of the proposed London market
for California fruits, said last night:
WILL GO TO LONDON.
"Mr. Hutchins intends going with the
train to London. We expect good
market for Bartlett pears, peaches and
grapes, and especially Tor the two former
this year, because the English crop is
poor. The pears will bring - % a box,
the peaches s. so box and grapes not
less than 30 cents pound. The English
have nothing that can rival Bartlett
pears. Concerning peaches, the price OF
81 80 a box will be cheap for that market,
where the large African peach brings %
cents each and where Mr.. Parnell, the
brother of Charles Stewart Parnell, has
taken peaches from his Georgia orchard
and sold them for Is cents apiece. One
Of our boxes Of peaches will contain on
an average thirty-siX, or twenty pounds.
The demand for grapes will be very large.
president Ismah, Of the White Star
Steamship Company, and Mayor Adam
OF Liverpool are giving us all the en-
enlargement possible, and believe that
California fresh fruits will beyond doubt
find a large and permanent English
market. We will land the fruit in Liver
pool inside of thirteen days after leaving
Sacramento, and in London in fourteen
days. In both London and Liverpool
the fruit will be Immediately sold at
auction at per cent basis, a much
more favorable figure than attains in
AN EXPERIMENT..
"Of course the shipments this year are
in the nature of an experiment, but the
indications of it being a successful one
are deemed by US as most promising. We
will ship five carloads from Sacramento
every week in refrigerator cars, and with
perfect refrigeration while crossing the
Atlantic, so there will be no doubt of the
fruit arriving i'll London in a good and
attractive condition. This season we will
probably have l25 carloads of fresh fruits
| sold in that city and IiVarDOOl
Il might state in this connection that
since arranging for the London sales we
have received some very fattering offers
| from Sweden to furnish them with Cali
! fornla fruit. We cannot do anything in
that connection this year, and probably
not for several seasons to come; but the
subject should interest the fruit-growers
out here because it, together with the in
vasion Of the English market this season,
| opens new field that should in the
course of very few years consume
hundreds of carloads of the fresh fruits
| of this State"