The record-union., 1896-08-01
FINE PRICES In ENGLAND.
How California Fruit Sold There
Yesterday.
Pears Melted About Twice as Much as
Those Sold in New York
Citv.

Thus far this season the fruit ship
ments to London have been a marked
success, and there is at present no rea-
son to suppose they will not continue to
| be, provided choice fruit be sent and
| that 1t arrives there in proper condi-
ton.
| This is a great thing for California
growers, dnasmuch as the East Is SO
easily supplied, especially when the At
lantic seaboard fruit is on the market.
The California Fruit Transportation
| Company yesterday received a cable
gram showing the sale in London of the
second export trainload of fruit which
| left Sacramento on July 14th. The re-
suits were more than satisfactory to the
shippers interested and fruit people IN
general. The prices realized were as
follows:
Washington plums (half crates)...~.sl 1922 81
PruneS (half crates l 70
z. d. plums (half crates. )............. 2l0l ~
Bartlett pears (half boxes) )........... l 60
AS has been stated before, the railroad
and ocean freight and refrigeration is
So per hundred pounds to London, and
as will be readily seen the above prices
leave very handsome profit to the en-
terprising shippers.
In this connection one fact that must
be borne in mind is that every car sent
to London is just so much relief to the
(this years. sensitive Eastern markets.
A comparison of the New York and Lon
don pear markets yesterday is very in
teresting.
A. T. Hatch's fancy Suisun pears CO.
pound boxes) sold in New York at 81 20
per box. Deducting rs cents for freight,
80 cents for refrigeration-a total ex-
pense Of 81 07-this would leave 63
cents per box (full size).
In London pears sold yesterday at
81 60 for half Cor 25-pound) boxes. De-
Quoting freight and refrigeration TO
London rs cents, this leaves a net Of
So cents. In other words, in London
yesterday % pounds of pears netted %
cents per package more than did 90
pounds Of pears in New York.
Most Of the plums and prunes sold in
London yesterday will net more per
package than the gross amount received
for the same varieties of fruit in New
York.
Another special train with fruit des-
next Tuesday, August 4th. under the au-
L
tation Company.
The receipts Of fruit from orchards
down the river continue heavy, and it
is believed will remain so for the next
ten days. Yesterday morning the
steamers Modoc and Acme landed
$3.50 boxes at the Southern Pacific
freight sheds, or enough to load nine
teen cars.
The number of cars of fruit dispatch
ed from here for Eastern markets dur
ing the twenty-four hours preceding 3
a. m. yesterday exceeded the number
shipped on the corresponding day last
year by ten cars. Fffty-one cars started
over the mountains. as against forty
one for the same date last year.
OF the shipments 13a4 cars were load
ed with peaches, 6A with plums, n
with grapes, Bon with pears and y with
mixed varieties. The fruit will be dis
tributed by carloads throughout the
East in the following order: Chicago,
peaches 5$4, plums IA, grapes Il, pears
7A-15. New York, peaches /, plums g.
pears 15-19. Boston. peaches "a,
plums 1%, pears 2-6. Philadelphia,
pears /. Denver, peaches 1, pears 1-2
Minneapolis, peaches j, pears Il. ST
Paul, peaches 1. Other points, peaches
~, plums "a, pears 21a, mixed varieties
2-5.
The following table, furnished by the
California Fruit Growers and Shippers
Association, shows comparison of the
fruit shipped from the State to Eastern
points for the month of July, 1895, and
1896 The falling off in shipments for
the month this season is due entirely to
the short crops throughout the State: