The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-11
JJPTHE RIVER.
ca,.tsnued from Eighth Page.


=. sliced condition of the local fruit market
caused by the tying up of the railroads
ard. fle methods which the frult-growers
Rave been compelled to accept in order to
Eecyhe31 products to market.
+ Fruit is continuing 10 come in in goodly
oa5niities. but the sales Of the same are as
unsatisfactory to the commission merchant
as 10 The grower.
1T is Just this way" said a commission
msrshapt TO a CALL reporter yesterday
sHW hen the communication with the fruit
district, was regular consignments were
shipped 10 US at stated intervals, when we
could handle Them to the best advantage
ahd.ths market would net become Glutted,
except on rare occasions As it is now,
the growers send their fruit off by any and
q Il means they can, with the result that it
arrives here at all sorts of inopportune
hours. Fake, for instance, last Saturday
afternoon, when the steamer Coos Bay
came in with 400 chests of berries. Some
of them, in fact, the greater part, would
not keep until Monday. All that the con-
.sigaees could do was to get what they
could cut Of the fruit. The result was that
late. Saturday afternoon chests of straw
berries and blackberrles, with twenty
drawers TO the chest, were sold at 81 70 and
$3.50 a chest After expenses are pald
hat-is there in that in the way Of proht
for :eiiher the grower or the commission
man,? So it happens every day. FRUIT
keeps coming in a all hours and we are al
Ourwt's end how TO handle it.
"Within the past few days, though. some
Of the fruit growers have slackened up IN
their shipments for the reason that they
- don't see any fun in losing their fruit alto
gether.. This is more noticeable among the
growers Of apricots ana peaches. These
fruits the growers can dry and keep either
for their own use or for future sale.
k}t'As regards berries and the last of the
cherry. crop, though, shipments will still
Coniinue. and we must do the best we can
90 until this railroad business has been set
tied, and shipments are made once more
on regular time"
=. Iu.speakipg of the possibility Of a scare
=. -Ity Of meat if the railroad blockade con-
.lin6es much longer, several wholesale
dealers In beef, mutton and pork expressed
:: themselves as having felt some concern
:: during the latter part Of last week, as the
2: outlook then for a speedy starting Of rail-
: r0ad. traffic was not good by any means.
Meat has already gone up" said one
dealer, especially beef, and if trains don't
gst-Fnnnllg so that supplies may come in
the city is liable to suffer from high prices,
but not from a famine. There Is plenty
Of stock that could be driven in from dis
triets,tbat are not remote, but such sup
o. DLy~would, of course, be limited, and ad-
Vintage would be taken of that fact to
e. Gh 5rge. exorbitant prices. Stock is now
bang driven up from the ranges in the
: soutEern counties, but we are cut off from
p. olir.uain source Of supply-Nrvada. Still
: theEe IS no need for any apprehension now,
E. asIC seems TO me the worst is over, and
:tkaL,trains will soon be moving.
1--WE have all the stock we will need for
:. a I5:w daysTght at hand, and with traffic
! 0qce' more renewed the butchers have no
fear Of a scarcity Of meat"