The record-union., 1895-05-02
What the Southern Pacific Company
is Doing to Help Them-Reduced
Refrigerator Service.

Il
yesterday by 81. Weinstock of this city
Chairman OF the Committee appointed by
the California Fruit Growers Associa-
ton, to call upon the officials of the COM
pany and urge certain concessions to
growers and shippers-will be of interest:
MR.. sMURR's LETTER.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 80, 1895.
II. WelnStock, Chairman Committee on
Transportation, California FfUat- Gf0aO-
eTS' A Association, S0crdnlentO--DEAR SIR:
Referring to your recent communications
and interview of even date, L have to ad-
wise that this company has arranged to
dispatch what will be known as the
California Ventilated Fast Fruit Train"
commencing early in June. AS to an
nouncements OF specific dates you will be
advised of later.
1t Will leave Sacramento not later than
midnight, whether there be many or few
cars. Ii the latter then the train will be
filled out with other perishable freight.
This will be kept up but short time. for
unless the growers and shippers respond
to such an extent as to give us full train
loads the attempted l20-hour schedule
will be abandoned.
Barring the unavoidable, the train will
be delivered in Ogden at 9 p. NJ. the Sec
ond day after its departure from Sacra-
mento (forty-tivs hours. Ii will be
routed via the Union Pacific and Chicago
and Northwestern Railways, those COM
panies having agreed to take such Fast
Ventilated Fruit Train up AT Ogden
promptly and to land it. barring accident
and the unforeseen, in Chicago, seventy
five hours later thus making the sched-
ule time from Sacramento to Chicago one
hundred and twenty hours.
Regarding the matter of branch-line
rates. the company has concluded to
make some material notifications in
those figures, of which you will be ad-
vised as soon as the new tariffs, which
are now in hand, can be prepared. Yours
truly, G. +. SMURR.
COLONEL wEINSToCK'S REPLY.
SACRAMENTO, May l, 1895.
c. f. Sn1ugr, General Freight 4 gent
Southern Pacific Comp0ay-DEAR SIR !:
I beg herewith to ack knowledge the re-
ceipt of your favor OF the 30th of April, in
which you advise that the Southern Pa
cific Company has arranged to dispatch
what will be known as the California
Ventilated Fast Fruit Train," commenc-
ing early in June, and that announce
ments as to specific dates will follow later;
also, that in the matter of branch-line
rates your company has concluded to
make some material notifications, of
which we will be advised as soon as the
be prepared.
A copy of your ommupication con-
tanning these two important announce
ments will be promptly forwarded to,
each member of the TRANSPORTATION Com
mittee, and in order that the fruit-grow-
ers throughout the State may be ap-
prised of this news as speedily as pos
sible copy will also be furnished to the
press.
f,,l ~, 0INt tI,o
fiye-day service for ventilated cars to
Chicago, and the proposed notifications
of branch-line rates. will assuredlv be ap-
preciated by the committee and the fruit
growers of the State. 1t is not unreason-
able to assume that the efforts of your
company in This direction will be re-
warded by materially increased fruit
business, which should prove mutually
profitable to grower and carrier. Yours
truly, ID. WEINSToCK,
Chairman Transportation Committee.
THE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.
As to the extent of the benefits to be
derived by growers and shippers from
this improved service, Colonel Vein
stock said to a reporter of the RECORD
UNION yesterday, when asked for his
views on the subject:
''Well, l look for the most gratifying
results. The coming fruit season should
really prove profitable one TO the fruit
growers of this State. In the first place,
there has been reduction of from $50 to
$50 per car in the refrigerator service, ac-
cording to the points OF destination in
the East.
'But, if anyonedo not care to use re-
frigerator cars, there will be tive-day
ventilated-car service from here to
Chicago, which Will make it possible to
dispense with the former to that point.
This means saving of about Sl25 per
car as compared with last years cost.
"Then there is the promise of ma
terial reduction in local branch-l line rates
from the truit-growing sections to Sacra-
mento, which means great deal to the
growers. This, together with the fact
that the newly-organiZed Fruit Grow
ers' and Shippers Association-which
em mbraces all the hitherto conflicting ele-
ments, including the great shipping
firms, the cooperative societies and
large growers-has succeeded in harmon
izing all these different interests, cannot
but result in good 10 all.
"These various interests will now all
unite on system for disposing of our
fruits that will prevent the glutting of
the Eastern markets. There will be no
scattering of buyers in the various
auction houses, as heretofore, for they
will all be brought under one roof in
each city, to which all buyers Will be ad-
mitted.
"These things" concluded Colonel
Weinstock, have all been accomplished
by the new association and its commit
tees, and they make the outlook for the
fresh fruit business OF 1895 more hopeful
and encouraging than in many years
past"
REFRIGERATOR SERVICE.
The California Fruit Transportation
Company, which operates refrigerator
services between here and the East, has
announced considerable reduction in it's
rates. q. ii. Appel, the resident man
ager of that company, was seen yesterday
in relation to the matter, and In response
to the question as to what the rates will
be, he said:
THE c. F. T. CoMPANY's RATES.
"a brief telegram from our Chicago
office announcing our rates for the
season of 1895 Will be issued within few
DAYS, and will be effective from Sacra-
mento. as the basing point, as follows:
To Denver or Helena, $50 per car; to
Omaha and Kansas City, SS5; to Chicago
and st. Paul, $50; to Duluth and ST Louis.
Sl00; to Detroit and Indianapolis. Sll0; to
Cleveland and Cincinnati, Sl20; To Buffalo
and Pittsburg, Sl25; to New u ork and
Philadelphia, $40; to Boston, Si50; to
New Orleans, Sl60.
From Yacaville, San Jose. Napa,
Woodland and other points in this class,
the rates Will be Sl5 per car additional.
From Fresno, Chico, MarysvilIe and
other points in that class SO additional.
I'VE have no connection with any re-
frlgerator continuation said MIR. Appel.