The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-04
RATES ON FRUIT.
Fruit Agents and Growers in Confer
ence at Fort Valley.

! Fort Valley, Ga, May 1.-The fruit
| growers and freight agents of all the large
railroad lines met here yesterday to con-
suit about freights, refrigeration, etc,
and it is thought now that there is sat
isfactory understanding between the
shippers and the railroads. Heretofore
the refrigerator car men who have done
business here have proved very unreliable
and have caused the fruit growers
heavy losses on account of insufficient
rcfrigeration These companies have
come in here and charged 800 for the use
of their cars and the refrigeration they
used, the latter amounting to from $50 to
SO and the balance of the 500 went for
the use of the cars. To this expense was
added the regular freight charges. Now
j. a. Sans of the Louisville and
Nashville system comes in and tenders
the fruit men a sufficient number Of the
latest improved refrigerator cars free,
they pay only for the refrigeration
necessary to- carry the fruit to
market in good condition; Mr.. Sans
promising to put in all the ice they
demand, which will not cost over $50 at
the outside, thus saving the shipper $40
per car on this item alone, to say nothing
about what they will save in the dispatch
of traffic to market. In this offer Mr..
in connection with the Evansville route
he offers the quickest line from this point
to the northern and northwestern mar
lcts. And owing to the worlds fair this
year the bulk of the fruit, to say nothing
about the melons, viii go in this direction,
and with the numerous patrons who have
patrOnzed this route in the
past for melon shipments expressing
such universal satisfaction with the way
fhag- hanI1o fngea el fFYDpptg II ic
coded that Mr. Sans will get the bulk of
shipments from here both in melons and
fruit this season.
j. j. Griffin of the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia railroad met Mr.. Sans
liberal offer to the same points, and also
rendered a line to eastern markets with
same terms and equal refTigerating facili-
ties. In Mr.. Griftin's eastern route he
was met by the Richmond and Danville
people and the Atlantic Coast Line peo-
pie who have no refrigerator cars of
their own, but offer cars of the
Tropical Refrigerator Car Company,
which they claim equal to the best, but,
for these, the fruit men will have to pay
800 in addition to the freight These
routes as to time, have given very good
satisfaction, but on account of the re-
fIigeratOr car question, they are at a dis
advantage to cope with the roads which
own refrigerator cars, and tender them to
shippers free, they paying only for the
ice it takes TO refrigerate them during
transit In addition to plenty of the
latest improved refrigerator cars, the
Louisville and Nashville people have 500
combination ventilated and re-
frigerator cars for the melon
business, which Mr. Sans guar
antees TO transport fruit to markets
in as good condition as any regular re-
fligerator car. From the promises given
il seems now that the fruit men will have
their peach crop handled in more salts
factory manner this season than ever be-
fore, which if it ic done, means a saving
of many thousands of dollars to this i'm
mediate section.