The herald., 1895-02-13
NOTHING LEFT IN Florida
Jack Frost Has Made a Clean
Sweep
FRUIT NiPPED IN THE BUD
There Will Be No Spring Orange Crop
Next Year.
FRUIT NiPPED IN THE BUD
The Disastrous Freeze in Valencia-Bright
Prospects for Local Orange
Growers.
OcALA, Fla, Feb. IL.

ocALA, Fla, Feb. 10.
Thomas Morehouse, Los Angeles, Cal:
Trees in bad shape. No fruit this crop
Truck all killed. See letter and paper.
D. C. CUTLER.
The foregoing telegram was received in this
city in response to a telegraphed inquiry as to
he actual state of affairs in Florida as the re-
ult OF the severe frost of last Friday night.
Mr. Cutler is heavy orange grower and
fruit shipper of that state, and his frank &C.
Acknowledgement of the damage wrought by the
cold snap may be taken as perfectly reliab e.
+ the question had been asked by Southern
California orange grower or fruit shipper it
might not have been so frankly answered.
But Mr.. Morehouse is himself a Florida fruit
shipper, and is now here to secure fruit to fill
orders he bod received previous to the Florida
freeze With the information coming from
such source, it is readily seen that the dam
age sustained by Florida can hardly be exag-
gerated.
NO FRUIT THIS YEAR.
When Mr.. Cutler says mo fruit this crop"
been destroyed and that there will be no
orange crop this year-that is, next fall, The
oPinion 10 Vehtureu Wy iocat orange sharps,
from information at hand, that the entire
Florida orange crop will not amount to 1OO,-
600 boxes this season, and the possibilities are
49,. 49,
-. w ~ W. '"o9o rs u'o'
for several seasons to come. Local orange
,
good prices for all this years crop, but are also
IN hieb bone for. bandsoma remunerotio, l.,
NV iu'uie ...
treat importance must attach TO the destruc
tion Of the Florida vegetable crop, as it will
give Southern California truck farmers an nm.
.,n;. q. 5;snoa os al, a., ...,, A.,
,.' o'
can fA'se I'm ~" oh " 'le ISL Vi May OF
'une o.uei' ~. o%ooase "no o'her uueA are
no" ooihihs III u. iiNeiy re'e' anu goou prices
"ie oeihs oheieu'
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house nus pui y, s eienv VI We" oaiioaus Vi
oia"ses iion, VIC ilu.V sinoe MS ar
- ~ 10 ~ p'esoi.' ' az wv
9inNe 'ie A''' 'ee uii w oueia'o az
no rus "o'lsi, nus oe0,i iesuneu aiions iooai
a.. ~ pout Ia
asain, as 'ney NY peioie ,he eoiu snap ou'
ne p'o'enO iA'n WIZ oauso iui 'he' uetas III
.ihhs .uoni. ~ 'una.eis 'neie was sooo
ueai VI u Wv III 'no paoAne iou'oS oeioio 'iie
run pes@n' anu enls 10 icing ios w"iueu as ias'
% po's,ui.' ~ my II Wv ."n De pi.Aeu, nov"
e'ei' VII 'h' ram Sease' anu 'no oiohafus ury
AN ENCOURAGING SIGN
An encouraging sign noteu is tnat orderSare
ave carloads at a time. whereas few week 3
500 tho ordars ,vara ,,ostIy to- si,ora 40 rload
70. 1.ha 49,. no,si;.io., ss $500,
io's' All 'he iharAe' coiultioiis are oeciueoly
encouraging at present The fruit is in prime
condition, orders are coming in satisfactorily
and prices have a tendency to go up rather
than down
THE COLD WAVE.
Speaking of the cold weather, a New York
correspondent of the fruit exchanges says, I'M
der date OF February 8 says:
"Fruit men are catching it rough Nearly
5000 cases of valencias on the docks are frozen
harder than rocks The mercury is s degrees
below"
The Valencias referred to were shipped be-
fore the recent freeze in Spain and were frozen
after being unloaded 1t was conditions like
this at the East that caused the dull demand
for week or two past. 1t is not to be wondered
at that dealers were not anxious to place or
ders when there was danger of the fruit freez-
ing in characterization or in the warehouses
and Furthermore when If ia remembered that
neople do NOT crave oranges when tba mercurr
hugs the zero mark.
THE FROST IN SPAIN
The following Associated Prose disn.tch ;s
anfrmatorv of the reported treezi,p of oranoa.
IN spain.
LoSpos Feb. 12.-W. N. White g. Co tho
London fruit brokers and handlers OF Sicilian
and Spanish oranges, have received dispatch
iiom spain ssying nan a millon poxes OF or
stroved hu the ;ntansslx cnId rvaaahe, VILE de
g. Co., however, have no news OF any damage
being done to the orange crop in the Island OF
SICILY
THE siclLlAN CROP.
Notwitns'anding "hite cos lack OF
knowieose OF damage 10 'ne siehinn orange
crop osouei Day report 10 lhe irult eA-
Se- =, - :. -, - Ivy
M doubt would nrsfer IN pear tho naon1a -;
ous damage has resulted for reasons tbat 70
obvious But wbether the unshinned norttop
oftbe sicilisn croo has heen ;niuraa or not
tba fsct remains that the Florida and valanc n
IRONS have been eliminated from the martet
for tho rest of the season and that rayoovss
anouob rom tion To give california oil III %
onnortunitv she wants Tor markating ber nro.
duct
FOREIGN ORDERS.
So far this season no orders have been re-
ceived from abroad for California oranges, but