The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-16
LOCAL FIELD Of COMMERCE,
Some Gossip About Orange
Shipments.
Will Prices Go Up or Must They
Come Down?
Fruit EXCHANGES Making Capital Of the
Labor Cues ion-Eas.ePn Guy-
srs Arriving.

Los ANGELES, Jan. IS.
The rain. as WAS stat I'd yesterday, has had tn >
effect of almost entirely suspending orange
shipments. Some fruit tina. WAS in the packing
hou scs when tn rlil comm need is being sent
forward, but tn, so.tneas Of the ground mikes
it impossible to go IN o the orcharls with teams
10 gather mo-e fruit. Even should the weather
clear up imn-dlto'y, nothing could be done
the rest of the week. F,ays ere entcrtain ID
should the wet spell be pro'olsei, that iome
damage migat result. The frui: does not n>et
a particle more waite. to bring it to perfection
TJomuch waite: will have the ersc, of making
tspongy. Warm sunshine is VIVA. Is wanted
to assist in the ripenlng process
WILL PRICES GO UP or Down.
Orders ar, still com az for fruit a tn sea d
uled to.b. price, So far no complaint hes
been hea on this score except that some OF
the growers who have colto Ide that better
prc IS could be demanded and the fruit move
off jast MS rlpidIy. This con alton, ho@eve',
/, pen to grave doubt One Of the hes; poi.ei
men in the trade takes the portion that prices
are now too hiyh to iusnre rapid move1snt OF
| the crop He prelicts that they VII com
i down, rather than go ur, e'peci4l'y ii TO eign
/ fruit continues to arrive in con siderable q IAN
| tit es. While it is hop,d that the prediction
wal! not prove tue, it Il noticeab that the
fruit exchanges al wei as the o!d-llne pIcieTs
are very 10th to yield to the clamor to raise the
prices.
meet ng of til directors OF The Sem -rropic
Fruit exchange was held yesterday, at which II
! goodly numbsr of representative local orange
| growers were present Tho subjess CT prices
wa discussed and 1t was unanimous agreed
to adhere to the fGinal scale OF prices adopt
by the e1chaug2.
tITnMENTs IL BULK.
! Some attention was ais> given to the Santa
Fe kxpleis company system of tran porting
fruit TO mRrset d sc Upton of. which WAS
! giyel in these columns soma time Il %. The
$ heme IL f4vo-ab regard ID by som OF the
growers. rs is claimed that it VIII result in Il
saving of about $50 per car in packing ex-
penseS. The object IN urged sgainst the plan
is that fruit shippei in bulk mu t be packed in
boxes iisdsst!net on in ord to make it cln'
veaient for handling, and even though i can
BE- packed cheaper ut the cas-: than re- it will
70 . local box manufacturers of basin SIS and
no. few OF the 10 al population of their nccus
toned emp 5ment during the Orange shipping
season.
THE IABoR QUESTION.
Speaking of the labo: aspect of the orange
/ shipping industry, it may b, here stated that
! one OF the strong arguments advanced in ftvor
CT ihe f-utt eX ,hangs by The advocates of that
system OF marketing the orange crop, is hat no
Oh nsse .aD is EN- ployed in packing the ftu
handed By the exchanges. They point out
that tn exchanges re ldering a great SER
vice to the GO cmunity by furnishing remuuera-
tive emp oymeut 10 the families of the orange
srowets aud the white lahoring classes of the
towns n The orange growing district. 1t has
been the Gu tom of most of the old line packing
com ,snies TO employ Chinese lab " almost ex-
C lively in the King houses. The Chinese
pauKors have b-come vary ex, erE i'll the bust
ness, but ii is contended by the advocates OF the
exchange that The ls Dor can be as well per-
formed by whites, who should b, given the
preference.
SOME FLORIDA FRUIT.
secre.ary Kimbal at exchange headquarters
has receiveda box of frozen Indian river or
apges. This is some OF the fruit that was
shi oped trom. Flo ida to Chicago last week. An
agent of III, exchange Procured some of the
best specimens in Chicago and forwarded them
TO Los Angeles: The fruit which must hav
been perfect before the fros has turned very
dark IN color, is bit er to the taste and rapidly
decayiny. II these are fair samples OF the
f.ozen stuff, 1t is practically worthless for mar
ketins.
Ciice,s OF the exchanges who were requested
to talk about Mondays auction sale IN San
Francisco said they were satisfied with the AS
ISOLATED Ptess report OF II, which was all that
need be said. The associated Press gave the
following report.
SAN FRANclsco, Jan. 14.-The best grade of
oranges was not offered ut the auction of the
association t. day, and the prices are not lair
criterion of the market Altogether one CAL
load of fruit was 50 d ut the following prices:
Nav-ls. fancy, -. l5@2 %: second grade,
| II 35Gl.SO; culls. $L300l.4O.
The further explanation was made that the
! fruit auctioued was f-om OntaiiO and was
what is called "a.ean-uL" lot, that the
remnant OF the fru t picked to make up OBJ
! c0usignmeuts to the east, amounting to aOou
J 80 carloads.
| Further auction sales will be held Wednes-
dav aad Friday of this week. ana next Monday.
The 5emi-Tropic exchange, including all the
orange RrowerSs a. soc atlonS in the immediate
| neigh borhood Of Los Angeles is accepting none
| but fob. orders, aud is shipping no fruit to
San Francisco TO be sold at auction.
The exchanges say the accepted orders ag-
gregated about 100 car Dads last week, and
they are coming in at alb )ut the same rate This
| week.
Mr.. EARLs POLICY.
The Earl Fruit company is making no con-
! signments to be sold on Commission or at nc
ton. 1t is doing strictly fob business Mr..
| Earl says tn policy of his com pany IL to main
| tain steady market and get the bsst prices
| possib for the producers, He claims auction
sales and consignments on com mission are the
two greRt d. m1 rslizing elements III the trade.
II all parties would agree TO sell fruit only de-
livered free on board the cars the mara ct could
be 4ept steady and good prices maintained.
EASTERN BUYERS.
Mr.. Edwards OF Barnard, Edwards & Co., a
prominent fruit house in Chicago, is in the C .ty
looking into the condition of the market. Mr.
Edwards ia here thus ea'ly as n result of this
| Flolid4 freeze, and Is only one of many buyer;
| that will MAKE Los AngeieS his mecca this sea
| Francisco S,iO