The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-04-20
DBCIDUOUO FRUITS.
Splendid Outlook for California Grow
ers This Year.
sacramento Vineyards Which Net
Nearly $500 an Acre-A Talk
With E. L. GoodselI.

E. l.. Goodsell of New York, who has
been making an extended tour of the
State, from Riverside in the south to
Biggs in the north, in the interest of the
National Fruit Association, was in the
city yesterday perfecting arrangements
10 open an office of the association here.
lie was seen at the Golden Eagle Hotel
last night and answered freely the ques-
lions of RECoRD-UNIoN reporter on
matters of interest to the fruit-growers of
tins and other sections of the State Re-
garding the association, he said:
W. propose to do away with the mid
dleman, the Eastern merchant coming
direct to California and taking the bust
ness Immediately from the grower. This
means yearly saving to the California
1rult-growers of thousands of dollars.
Ills has been particularly necessary be-
cause the middlemen have heretofore
supplied only few markets, say gener-
ally four or five. while the National Fruit
Association propose to supply twenty
seven this season, and to increase its
membership to fifty next year.
III this action had not been taken, ow-
ing TO Increased production there would
/ soon have been congestion and democrat
lZatlOn resulting, the supply becoming in
excess OF the market provided for it,
which covers only Il small area. OF the
40 carloads sent Last last year, 100 went
To Chicago and the remainder 10 Mime
apolis and other hear points.
THE THEORY AND POLICY
Ot general distribution is not To wait till
the supply fills the market, and then look
ior wider field, but to create demand
III advance of the supply. The best firm
IN each place Is selected 10 handle the
fruit.
The general outline of the association
plan IS this: We have opened a central of
ice here at Sacramento. From this office
VIII come all the details OF the shipping.
the cars and the diffusion of information
which Will come here in the shape of
twenty-seven kilograms daily from as
many markets, at1ording Il general idea
OF the condition of prices at all points in
the United States; also, the receiving OF
reports from the local agents, who will he
placed at all shipping points throughout
the State, with regard to cars that have
gone forward, etc. Little clerical work
Will be done i'll this State, accounts of
sales and drafts being sent direct from the
merchant to the grower.
Il sail for London on the 9th of Nav in
order to arrange for the shipment or de-
IDlS
Last year the profits were all swallowed
up by total charge of 81 ,4C0 per carload.
l desire to obtain rate not to exceed $500
per car, and the Southern Pacific COMPANY
have signitled their intention o helping by
meeting halfway any concessions that
the transatlantic lines will offer. I'm
less this reduction is obtained the promi-
nent export shippers of last year have
signitied to me their intention to ship no
more"
SACRAMENTO LEADS THEM ALL.
How does Sacramento compare with
other fruit-growing sections of the
State ?" asked the reporter.
Sacramento" said Mr.. Goodsell. land
the section adjacent to it may well be
proud of the record that its shipments
have made in the Eastern mark cts as re-
CARDS prices. The fruit lands for ten
miles around this city seem peculiarly
adapted to growing the best qualities of
the highest selling grapes. OF all varie-
ties the Tokay leads. That this is fact
can be well illustrated by giving the av-
erages made by X. ID. Stephens last year.
He received - IS gross for his seasons
shipment of single crates of twenty
pounds of Tokay grapes. For his sis
double crates of forty pounds he received
81 90 on an average.
Another of the many shippers who
was equally fortunate was 4. b. Hum
phreys of Mayhews, who shipped to me
$500 single crates, which averaged 81 Is,
and 1872 double ones, averaging 81 80.
"Other shippers along the American
River, as well as the Florin growers, OBJ
tanned nearly as good results, and led
every other section of the State in high
prices on this variety of fruit.
THE BEST VARIETIES.
both the Emperor and the Cornicbon
varieties sold at about the same prices.
so that these three varieties of cranes
should be extensively grown in your
county-in my opinion, to the exclusion
of others.
"Humphreys averaged SlS5 per acre.
net, for his grapes, with commissions.
packing and freight taken out. Stephens
received three years ago on eighteen
acres of Tokay grapes and small tree
fruits nearly $4,000. Other growers can
do the same, with proper cultivation"
HOW To PACK GRAPES.
AS to the style of packages that takes
best, Mr.. Goodsell said: 1.-THE Califor-
mia packages are the neatest that ever
came into the market. They are far
neater than either the French or Spanish
packages. in which fine fruits are put up
and the Eastern packages look rough and
mean beside them.
THE SEASONS OUTLOOK.
"As regards the crop outlook, l would
say that unless something occurs to
change the state of affairs, the peach crop.
with the exception of that along the lower
Sacramento River, where the water has