The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-26
NAY CLUT THE MARKET.
Heavy Shipments Of Oranges From
Savannah Last Week.

Over 200, 900 Boxes Taken Out in Six
Days by Rail and Steamer-Heav-
lest Shipment Of the Fruit Known
in Years-More Have Gone by the
Fast Freights Than by Steamer.
The Southern Express Company Get
ting It's Share - Thirty-one Million
Oranges Thrown on the Eastern Mar
kets in One Week.
The immensely Of the orange trade this
season can be somewhat understood when
it is known that something over 200, 900
boxes Of oranges have left Savannah for
Baltimore, New York, and other northern
points by rail and steamer, during the
week that has Just passed.
This is daily average of about 5000
boxes, and the average has been fully up
to that number, if not larger. That is to
say, that during the week about one
twenty-ffth Of the entire estimated crop
of 5000, 900 boxes, has passed through Sa-
vannah, en- route for northern and eastern
points.
SHIPMENTS BY STEAMER.
The shipments have been pretty evenly
divided, perhaps a slightly larger amount
tire amount was, of course, brought to
Savannah by rail, and a large share of
them turned over to the steamship COM
panies here. The Kansas City led of
Monday with a shipment of q, 257 crates,
the largest cargo of oranges that has ever
been carried out of this port by steamer.
The City of Birmingham followed Wednes-
day, and wanted to beat the record, put
with her other cargo 1894 crates was all
she could take aboard. The Gate City
carried 9,727 crates to Boston. the Ma
coochee took 6,1l0 crates to New York,
and the Tallahassee LETT yesterday with
1875 crates. The Dessoug carried 3,24l
to Philadelphia, and the Allegheny, of the
Merchants and Miners Transportation
line, took 1904 to Baltimore, making a
grand total of S6,7S9 crates that have
gone out during the week by steamer.
SHIPMENTS BY RAIL
The shipments by rail can only be esti-
mated as the exact figures were not ac-
| cessible yesterday. The Southern Ex-
| press Company is getting its full share of
| the crop, and is carrying two or three
| cars north on the fast express trains
| every day, loaded with Florida oranges
! and fish. The express company puts them
! through from Savannah to New York in
a little over twenty-four hours time, and
while this is more expensive, many of the
| SulpD6TS prefer 10 nave bL6iF 10
| this way in order to get it into the mar
ket at once. The Southern Express Com
| pany is handling, in this way, from one
| to two thousand crates of the fruit day,
and during the week, took north about
| 10000 crates in all.
| The fast freights by the Charleston and
| Savannah road are doing the big bust
ness. In fact, they bring up so many from
| the Florida peninsula that they are una
! BILE to take them on through, and they
| have to turn them over to
! the steamship companies in cases
| where shippers would as soon
| have them go by rail. The Charleston
| and Savannah road has taken north daily
an average of 35 to 40 cars day, of about
500 crates to the car, or total of some
| thing like 100000 crates. This brings the
| shipments through Savannah to some
thing over 200, 900 crates. Quantities of
| the fruit have gone to other points and
! in other directions, but in nothing like
| the amount that has been carried through
here.
FEARS OF GLUT.
These enormous shipments of oranges
| to northern points, most of them going to
New York, have brought about fears that
| the market there as well as elsewhere,
may be glutted before the season is well
under way. The enormous crop has al
ready reduced the price considerably, and
they can be bought now way down. If
the shipments keep up every week at the
rate they have been going on during the
one just passed, the fears of a glutted
market may soon be realized.
Averaging $50 oranges to the box. which
is small estimate the weeks shipments
will throw over 100000 oranges into
| the Eastern markets. The Christmas
trade may keep up the sales for some
| time, but at that rate there will be a
heavier excess of the fruit above the de-
mand than has been created by the glut-
ting of the watermelon market in past