The herald., 1896-04-18
MARKETS Of THE WORLD
Local, Eastern and Foreign
Commercial Dealings
WALL STREET SPECULATION
Importance of the Fruit Crops of the
State
Orange Peel and Orange Juice in Demand.
How to Pack Fruit for Market-Inter-
esting Fruit Statistics

The fruit industry is the life-blood of
California, and it's Importance will grow
from year to year. 1t is the custom to
speak of the 5000 or 1000 cars of oranges
shipped, or the. annual prune crop of 50,-
100000 pounds or the raisin crop of So
100000 pounds, etc, etc. as IT the in
dustries We're fully developed, and no
new branches to set on foot But there
is room to supply the country with
olives and olive oil. There Is an opening
to do in lemons what has been done in
oranges. The United States consumes
about 500,000.00O lemons Al year. Then
the people of the state, up to this time,
have been content to produce fruit and
sell it in one shape and another, and
have done but little towards supplying
the country with the multitudinous
fruit preparations and products that
come from Europe. A Herald represen-
tative this week met a Mr.. William
Carl, a fruit merchant of New York,
at the Chamber of Commerce, who was
in the act of examining a sample of
dried orange peel made by Mr. James H.
Garrison of Redlands. Said Mr.. Carl:
That is the first lot of California
dried orange peel I ever saw which
comes up to the requirements of the
trade. and that is as good as the very
best I ever saw from italy. The peel is
cut properly from point to stem, SO that
they are about an inch wide at the mid
die. The white is all carefully removed
from the outer peel, and the goods are
nicely dried. They are of a high, rich
color, and perfect in all respects In
New York that peel is worth Is cents
pound. wholesale price. A great deal
OF 1t is used in making elixirs, cordals.
bitters, etc.. etc. The refuse oranges of
southern California ought to be put
through proper press to express the
juice. which will sell in large quantities
In Eastern cites. Phosphates are all
the go now, and orange phosphate is
pne OF the most popular. California
fruit men ought to take more pains to
rake for instance prunes This fruit
ought to be carefully graded. All the
very large, perfect prunes should be
carefully treated. and then packed in
artistic boxes. half pound to pound
in each. Such fruit from Europe sells
for 55 cents a pound in the East. Re-
tailers get So cents for it. AS the sizes
grow smaller less costly packing NAV
be resorted to, and the small fruit 9O's
to 120's, should be put up in barrels,
Sacks look cheap. and they get soiIed, to
the prejudice of the fruit. All good fruit,
running from sos to 70s, pay for pack
ing in boxes instead OF sacks
Some few weeks ago Gen NJ p. Chin
man read report before the Fruit
Growers association of California, i'm
which he said about the fruit trade of
1895:
''The tables show that we sent out Of
the state during the year of fruit, nuts,
wine, brandy and vegetables 4S,S711
carloads of ten tons each. This is gain
over 1894 of 5346.4 carloads, and a gain
over 1893 of SO426 carloads. The ship
ments of fruit alone have increased
form 18,1957 carloads in 1890 to 81. 100. 7
carloads in 1895 Compared with 1894
fresh deciduous fruits by rail fell off
1858 carloads in 1895. Dried fruits by
rail gained 1907 carloads; citrus fruits
gained $3.50 carloads, the total being II, =
446 carloads-the largest output in any
year. Raisins have increased steadily
although there was slight falling of
in 1895 and 1894. The raisin crop now
averages about 1900 or 400 carloads
Wine and brandy shipments have in
creased each year, and in 1895 were
nearly double those of 1891 The canned
fruit shipments fell off about 40 per cent
Since 1 began to report shipments of
vegetables in 1898, the exports have
fallen off nearly so per cent The gain
in 1895 over 1894 Of fruit shipments is
fully accounted for in the gain of citrus
fruits alone. The gain and loss of other
fruits about eQualize each other The
orange crop of 1894 was cut short by
frost, and hence the apparent large in
crease in 1895. The crop of deciduous
fruits was shortened by frost in 1895,
which accounts for the lack of normal
increase over 1884. My belief is that
with full output of all kinds of fruit
trees now in bearing we would have
fully $4,000 carlaods for export. Our
vegetables, wine and brandy would add
10000 carloads. I now make the pre-
diction that we shall export over 75-
900 carloads in the year 1900 of the prod
ucts of our orchards, vineyards and
gardens"
B. N. Rowley, publisher of the Cali
fornia Fruit Grower, read a paper at
Sacramento before the state fruit grow
ers' convention, in which he showed
that for the season of 1895, from June |
to the end Of the season, fresh deciduous
fruit was shipped from the state as fol-
lows:
Kind. Cars