The record-union., 1892-06-09
FRUIT TRADE PROSPECTS.
Advantages of the New Southern
Pacific Arrangements.
The Position of the San Francisco
ssBuIIetino on Railroad
Matters.

UnQer the DeaQ OF II rulIt lTdu0 L TOS-
pects," the Bulletin of the 1st instant re-
marks editorially: reports from New
York regarding the prospects of the Cali
fornia fruit trade are most promising.
Heretofore the average time in transit
across the continent has been fourteen
days. This season it will be reduced to
seven days. This will not only result in
delivery in better condition, but will en-
large the market. Already the expert
ment has been tried of shipping our green
fruit to England in refrigerating boxes.
Under the new arrangement, by con-
Meeting with the fast Atlantic liners,
California fruit can be landed in England
in the same time in which it was landed
last year in New York, and undoubtedly
in as good, if not better, condition. The
fear voiced a few years ago that our fruit
would soon outgrow the demand has
been dissipated by the extension of the
Eastern market. This new opening
gives us still wider field. Quicker de-
livery in the East will also be money in
the pockets of our growers, by the better
condition in which their shipments will
arrive and consequent higher prices OBJ
tained."
On the 18th of April the Bulletin pub
lished the following from an interview
with Vice President Stubbs of the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company:
I'VE have planned-and think it will
go into etfect-an expedited freight train
service for fruit especially to run daily
from Sacramento and to reach Ogden in
forty hours. Details are yet to be ar
ranged. / have no doubt the Union Pa
cific and other lines will make connection
so as to get the cars to Chicago in ITO
hours or about four days and a half. The
average time now is about ten days. Ar
rangements will have to be made for the
train TO leave Sacramento after the ar
rival of local freights from various fruit
producing centerS. The train will be for
fruit especially, but if there are not
enough cars of fruit to make UP a train
other freight will have to be added.'
In confirmation of this report, and with
the proper acknowledgment Of the credit
due the Southern Pacific in this matter,
the Chronicle OF April 10Th published the
following:
''The Southern Pacific Company made
important concessions to the deciduous
fruit men yesterday. E. L. Goodsell,
who attended the meeting of the Trans
Continental Association at Coronado, has
the assurance from j. G. StubbS and Z. +.
Smurr that daily train will be run
through from Sacramento to Ogden in
forty hourS-a very material gain-as
soon as the deciduous fruit season opens.
More than this, the rate on deciduous
fruits, which has hitherto been 81 so per
hundred for expedited service, will only
be 81 50.''
In reviewing this situation, the Bulletin
| commented on the prospects of the fruit
! trade Of California as most promising, and
added:
Heretofore the average time in transit
across the continent has been fourteen
days. This season it will be reduced
to seven. This will not only result in
delivery in better condition, but will en-
large the market. By connecting with
the fast Atlantic steamers, California
fruit can be landed in England in the
same time in which it was landed last
| year in New York"
This, as far as it goes, is a fair statement
of the case, butthe Bulletin would stultify
itself if it told the whole truth. If it
should acknowledge and give credit to
the factor by which the happy results
quoted are to be obtained, the falsity of
| its position would be exposed at once.
But what can be expected of q journal
| where sole claim to present recognition
rests upon the memory of former respect
ability? Distanced by its competitors,
dead to all legitimate enterprise, its sec
ond childhood to misunderstanding, no
longer able TO do good, it prefers to do
harm rather than go out of business. An
enemy to everything in the line of pro-
gress, it seeks to influence thoughtless
or prejudiced persons against agencies
that are at work developing the country.
For instance. day in and day out, in the
most tiresome strain, its piping voice
may be heard in detraction of the South
ern Pacific Railroad. With the cunning
and assurance of old age, it studies to
adapt itself to those elements in the COM
munity which flourish most when disor-
der prevails. But the senile croaker
either does not realize that consistency is
valuable even in vicious course or else
is to malicious to entertain magnani-
nous idea; if this were not so, he would
strengthen his falsehoods by occasionally
telling the truth.