The morning call., 1894-07-04
RIVER FREIGHT ARRIVING.
Fruit Shipments Have Commenced at
Last

Freight from the river towns has at last
commenced TO pile in. Boxes marked with
the names of shippers who never before
sent consignments to San Francisco were
among the cargoes of the river steamers.
The Stockton steamers 7. C. Walker
and Dauntless. especially the latter,
brought down the largest shipments of
fruit that have been made TO this city in
years.
Purser Cameron OF the Dauntless said
that the river-banks are lined with boxes
ready for TRANSPORTATION to the front. and
that farmers for miles around are begin
ming to send in queries regarding rates
ard prospects for a market here.
The Stockton hotels are crowded, and
hundreds of people have been stranded in
that city, unable to get away.
Friday night the Dauntless brought in
about fifty commercial drummers who had
given ND trying To get about in the inte-
rior and had determined TO return to San
Francisco.
The steamers Pomona aud Coos Bay left
for Santa Cruz in the morning. and the
tug Fearless tcok out a party from Folsom
street wharf at noon.
The steamers State of California and
Walla WalIs, the first for Portland and The
second for Victoria and Puget Sound. did
not carry a very unusual crowd to the
north. as train connections are even more
limited in that sec len than in California.
Speaking of river travel Division Super
intendent White Of the Southern Pacific
said that the company's boats, the Modoc
and Apache, are carrying mbre passengers
than usual, but the profit derived from the
traffic does not begin to compensate the
road for the loss on freight.
Superintendent White declares that the
freight shipments have been exceedingly
light notwithstanding tho fact that every
way landing on the Sacramento River is
almost buried out of sight beneath piles Of
fruit boxes aud tons of produce.
The situation In the interior is becoming
critical. The inoffensive rancher is reap
ing the harvest of tares that has been
sown by the railroad company and its
battling employees.
The rancher poses as an injured inno-
cent, and b!ames the monopoly for all of
his trouble. Walter P. Stsnyan, an agent
and buyer for a Chicago packing-house,
was passenger by the DauntIess from
Stockton, and is authority for this state
ment.
"The farmers feel pretty sore against
the railroad" said he. They seem TO be
of the opinion that had the government
taken o stand in favor of good order by
declaring the Pullman cars to be the factor
that is clogging commerce, instead of the
strikers, there would have been no occa-
sion for tie-up.
"One grower at Davisyile. who has sold
his fruit to the firm which l represent, said
that he will lose everything be possesses
if the blockade is not raised very soon.
"You see. we bought his fruit with the
understanding that it would be shipped on
certain days. He cannot. of course. fill
his contract.
"Now, who is liable in this case? /
think, myself. that he has a good case
against The railroad COMPANY"
The steamer T. c. Walker for Stockton
did not leave the Washingt ton-street WHAT
until after o'clock, being delayed on ac-
count of an excess of freight and an over
dose Of passengers.
The Dauntless got away at 5 o'clock.
regular time. and took among her passen-
gers about forty members of the Bay Civ
Wheelmen's Association. en- route to the
Mill City to take part in to-day's tour
nameut.
Everything went smoothly at the ferries.
there being very few Interruptions to the
Oakland and Alameda service.