The record-union., 1896-07-14
FRUIT RUSHING FORWARD.
Thirty Carloads on the Way East to
Tickle ParChed PalateS.
Eastern Peaches Will Not Compete
Seriously With Our Fruits
for Some Weeks.

The. outlook for big shipments of fruit
TO London this season is very promis-
Ing. Tonight the California Fruit
Transportation Company will send out
Its second export special train of five
cars destined for the transatlantic
market
The fruit in this train will be supplied
by the Earl Fruit Company, from the
Sacramento River district, A. I. Hatch
of Solano, Sol Runyon of Courtland and
the National Fruit Association of this
City.
Owing to continued requests received
from London for California fruits said
Manager Quigley yesterday, with
every assurance of its selling at salts
factory prices, and in view of the poor
prices received for pears to-day in the
Eastern cities, the Z. F. T. Company is
receiving a large demand for space in
to-morrow's train and those that are to
follow.
THE next special train for London
will be dispatched from Sacramento on
the 21st-one week from tomorrow
and from present indications it will be
q much larger one than that which goes
tomorrow"
Thirty carloads of fruit were sent
East from here yesterday. OF this
amount 934 cars were peaches, 1874
pears, 44 plums, 1 apples and IA
mixed Nine cars went to Chicago, 8
to New York, to Boston, l each to
Kansas City, Montreal and Baltimore,
and q to other points. Forty carloads
went East on Sunday.
The Bartlett pears are coming from
down the river in large quantities and
are increasing in size, which will insure
them a better market, as complaint is
made that all that have hitherto reach
ed the East have been very small.
A. J. Hechtman, Vice-PreSident of
Porter Bros. Company, said yesterday
that letter from New York stated that
good California peaches would be in
demand there for three weeks to come
1t will be that long before the Della
ware and Maryland peaches will cut
much of a figure. At present the East
ern peaches are nothing but pit and
skin.
In New York one carload of fruit sold
yesterday for 81, ,064. Bartletts brought
81 i box, plums an average of 81 %
and Tragedy prunes 81 As. Fourteen
carloads were sold in New York The
er hot. In Chicago u carloads were
sold. The weather was hot and muggy
and hard on fruit. In Philadelphia there
were very fair sales. Peaches averaged
81 04, Tragedy prunes 81 IS, plums
81 %. A carload sold for $1.424. In
Baltimore the sales We're good. Bart
lett pears in a ventilated car sold for
81 40 for whole boxes and 81 for halves
In Minneapolis there were fair sales
Bartletts in a ventilated car sold for
81 30 to 81 40, and 432 boxes sold for
$3.50.
Mr.. Earl of the Earl Fruit Company
said: This week promises to be a
very busy one with fruit growers and
fruit shippers, as the warm weather is
ripening the fruit rapidly, and large
quantities are ready for market The
prices in Eastern markets opened to-
day somewhat lower than last week,
especially for plums, prunes and peach
es, and growers who put their fruit in
on f. o. b. orders last week will undoubt-
edly net more money than fruit which
was consigned East. Hale's Early peach
es are now about all shipped, and
Crawford peaches will go forward in
liberal quantities this week.
Sweetwater grapes are ready for
shipment from the early districts, such
as Vacaville, and it will not be long be-
fore grapes are going east in carload
lots. The next shipment of fruit for
London will go forward in a special
train Tuesday evening, and will be
made up with Bartlett pears principally.
Special efforts are being made to in
sure good results on these European
shipments. and it is hoped that they will
bring satisfactory prices. and 'hus re-
lieve the American markets.