The herald., 1893-10-24
CARS FOR CALIFORNIA.

Freight Bound Eastward Is Double that
Comiug West.
San Francisco Examiner: Official re-
ports OF the Southern Pacific COM
pany's freight department. chow that
the movement OF California products
for eastern points is increasing steadily.
The shipments this season are unprece-
dented. The great cry OF shippers is
for cars in which to transport the out
put of the field, the orchard. the vine
yard and the shop. Old-time Caliior-
mans who familiarized themselves from
ths days of 40 with the idea that every
thing good had to be brought from "the
States" will be surprised that there are
no less than 80 staple articles raised in
California of which hundreds Of car
loads are annually sent to our eastern
peighbors. From the bills OF leding the
following list has been compiled.
Asphaltum, beans, borax, brandy, bulbs,
cabbage, canned goods, Goldfish, canned
fish, fish in barrels, dried fruit, fruit in
glass, green fruit, fruit trees, fuse, glue,
hides, honey, hops, horns, horsee, leath-
er. wine lees, live etock, lumber, malt,
nuts, cocoa oil, oleo oil, oranges, wooden
pipe, powder, prunes, quicksilver, raj
sins. garden seed, mustard Eeed, onion
seed, shingles, stearine, sugar, syrup,
sulphurets, street railway cables, vegeta-
blee, N. 0. s., onions, potatoes, wine,
wool.
There are many other products worthy
OF more than q passing notice. but the
list above given presents the moet i'm
portant articles, go far as plenitude of
production is concerned.
APPLES TO THE FRONT.
The next article to be added to the
list will be apples. The Southern Pa.
ci6c having ascertained from it's agents
throughout the apple-growing districts
OF the state that there will be surplus
of at least $50 carloads of apples after
the needs of the Pacific coast have been
supplied. have taken steps to secure q
rate that will permit of their transfer to
eastern markets. As Chicago is regard
ed as the entrepot of all points eastward,
the Southern Pacific is seeking to estab-
lish figure OF a cent pound from Cal
ifornia points to Chicago. The connect.
ing roads east OF Ogden have been
asked to consent to prorate on the basis
proposed by the Southern Pacific, and
it is believed that they will do go. The
freight charge will amount to 30 cents q
box on the ordinary varieties OF apples
produced in this stste, which would
bring the price in Chicago to about the
rate that ruled in this city last year.
The attempt to put apples on the
eastern market grew out of the success
that attended similar effort in regard
to potatoes. Three years ago shipments
of potatoes out of California cut but q
small figure in the traffic of the rail-
roads. A season of what threatened to
be overproduction induced the railroad
company to seek an outlet for the tubers
by occurring special rate eastward.
This was done, and the potatoe trade
has grown to enormous proportions.
Last week solid train of potatoes was
taken over the southern rolte to Texas.
The Lone Star state is greedy buyer Of
California potatoes. 1t seems as if they
can scarcely get enough to satisfy the
demands Of the market. Their lands
do not appear to be well adapted to the
growing of potatoes.
POTATOES BY THE CARLOAD
Thousands of carloads of potatoes
will be sent over the Central Pacific and
Union Pacific lines this year. If the
experiment with apples turns out equal
" successful, the foothill orchards of
the state will at once become more val
uable. and new source of productive
wealth will be added to the list.
A few years ago the railroad compa-
nies had hard work to fill the cars going
eastward. 1t was considered good luck
when train passed the state line half
full of freight. Now exactly the oppo-
site Ia the case. The eastbound freight,