The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-04
LOCAL. FIELD Of COMMERCE
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Plenty Of Demand but Few Ripe
Oranges
ARE SHIPPING GREEN FRUIT
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Lots Of Petroleum but Only Small
Demand
The Near Approach Of Winter Rains De-
manda q Clean Up Of Oil
Stored In Puddles

Tho orange market is in satisfactory
condition SO far as prices and demand are
concerned, but there is very little ruit
which may fairly be considered ripe
enoueh for the market. Tho exchange
management believes that about 100 cars
under exchange control can be sent out
between this time and Christmas, and
care will be taken That the fruit shall DC
up to the standard.
Orders have been taken by outside deal
ers to an extent altogether unwarranted
by the state of the crop, aud word comes
from Azusa and ono or two other places
tnat oranges are being packed which are
, only beginning to color, and sour enough
to pickle pigs feet. 1t is also reported
that many OF these orders have been re-
pudiated. and the dealers who accepted
thrm have withdrawn quotations from
the eastern markets. Ths reputation of
California oranges will, PROFESSIONALLY.
suffer from tho shipment OF unripe fruit.
and more from oranges fairly well col
ored but lacking in sweetness. Forum
otely for the growers the time-honored
custom Of shipping under false brands
has been practically done away with, the
trade marking OF exchange labels, and to
some exiant the sale OF poor qnaiity fruit
will result in increasing the reputation OF
the exchanges, so long as they supply
fruit which is really ripe enough to be
oatcn for fun aud not as medicine. The
east IN consumer will soon come to re-
gard the exchanges as controlling all the
merchantabls fruit, leaving only culls for
dispusal by sh ppers who load down the
market with UNBEATABLE fruit.
Growers seem rapidly to be coming to
the opinion tnat the exchange system is
their only commercial salvation, and the
unripe fruit DOW sent to the market is
likely to crystalline that opinion into
solid fact.
The Oil Situation
The local product of oil steadily in
creases and moro rapidly than the market
extends. New wells are going down
daily. and the usual amount of oil is
pumped from the old ones. In the face of
these facts the management OF the oil ex.
change seems to be in pretty hard lines
when they are subjected to criticism for
not bringing about a reign Of high prices.
espec ally when some OF the less wealthy
well owners are willing and anxious to
sell oil in any quantity at any price they
can obtain.
The problem, however, will solve itself
in time Cheap fuel means the ultimate
extens on OF the market and the es,ab-
lishment of industries in which fuel is
an item involving comparatively heavy
outlay. Though tae immediate profit
may not be so great, the foundation for
q permanent business will be more Sc
curely laid.
The approach OF tho rainy season sug-
gests one feature which has heretofore
been commented on. All through the
oil district are puddles and pools full of
oil, some o. il waste and some of it
stored in holes in Inc ground, to rave the
expen'e of tankscc.z NTH the first heavy
rain that oil will feat off down the Ar
Yovo de los Reyes, and tier, will go up
from + sueroa street residents such
roar as has not been heard anent the de-
vclopmsnt of oil, and which v i'll m AXE the
kicks to which the oifmen have been
subjected seem i com ison very triv
ial objections. Tho oil men may 5. con-
sdered to have won the fight for the
right to drill oil wells; but they should
recopnize the right of ners of non. pro-
ducing lands to be protected against
overflow from the oil regions.