Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-17
WASHINGTON FRUIT
To Be Transported East Without Dam
age to Flavor or Quality

age to Flavor or Quality
According to the Tacoma Ledger, a
new refrigerator car for the Transports
ton of fruits and vegetables has recent
ly been tested in the East and promises
to revOlutionize this kind of Transport
tation, which has already grown to be
a large business. The first car of the
new pattern has a freight capacity of
thirty tons. In each end is a galvan-
lied iron tank extending from bottom
to top of car, and occupying but two
feet of space in width. These tanks,
designed to contain the patented re-
frigerific compound in connection with
the ice, are connected by means of a
channel way or fiat pipe through the
middle of the car under the floor,
through which the cold radiates from
the solution evenly and with any de-
sired degree of intensity.
AT normal temperature of sixty-siX
degrees the car was charged with one
and half tons of ice III the tank at
each end, to which seventy-five pounds
of the compound was added to produce
the desired decrease of temperature,
which inside Of twenty hours indicated
thirty-two degrees; i'm thirty hours,
twenty-eight degrees, at which point it
remained uDdisturbed and unchanged
for period Of ten days, and did not go
above the freezing point for eighteen
days. The ice tanks remained sealed
and undisturbed for exactly twenty
five days, at which time the average
temperature was Just below forty de-
grees, and over one-quarter of the orig
inal ice remained intact in the tanks,
which alone would have continued the
temperature beyond thirty days, at "a
lower point than has hitherto been OBJ
tanned by the use Of enormous guam
titles Of ice and salt, almost daily re-
plenished, for the present transportation
of perishable articles. 1t is claimed
that this car will transport perfectly
ripe fruit from Washington to Chicago
i'm good condition. At present all fruit
for transportation for so long distance
has to be picked before it is at all ripe.
1t will also greatly reduce the cost for
ice, and so lessen the cost of transporta-
ton. The present cost of transporting
our fish to Boston is eleven cents per
pound. This car will reduce this cost
to about two cents per pound. The
cost Of transporting straw berries from
Florida to New York is about ten cents
per quart. This cost will be reduced to
one cent.
The inventor of this new process pro-
poses to carry eighteen tons of fruit,
which will require but three tons of ice
during the entire trip, and with an un-
varying temperature, for any length of
time under twenty days. If this new
process and the new car can make this
great saving in cost, and at the same
time take well ripened fruit and deliver
il In good condition, it will be difficult
to estimate its benefit TO this part of the
world. 1t will mean that we can find
an immediate market for all the fruit
we can raise at greatly increased prices
and that we probably shall not be able
to keep up with the demand until tn,
state is fully settled. The first five car
of the new pattern will be sent to TIA
coma for fish, and their first loads will
be taken to New York and Boston.
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