The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-08-14
EIIS FRUIT IN OMAHA.
[....,, Transferring Her Trade to
the Gulf Coast.
lr,uruy PEACHES ARE IN DEMAND
,. NJ Texas Fruit Sold In
Tho Ammunition ana
Hardware BUSINESS
n.ann Of The Post.

uors.on. Thursday. August ID.
,-,,,, 10 RAPIDLY acquiring a repu-
IN in the largest cites Oh .n's oono
~ addition to a big bus ness aon'
ns,s city and st. Louis reNas s'ow.
/ s,ve placed forty-two car loans VI
p"' III. chicago market this sea-
nes W ,ones the Omaha Bee with an
=. shaving that Nebraska Is trans
r.. her fruit trade from the fac.nc
~ cal, coast. California fruit mas
ue w. hcen considered superior to
eoV' ether state. but Texas glow
~ ,apldly SCATTERING this De'lei' ne
lac, sunday contains the ioiio"-
heading "From Cal fornia 10
aozen wears ago Omaha whole-
49,. dealer looked to Michigan iot
Nv large share of their snrp'y VI
s.cecially peaches. Then came 'a"-
,rr,, hut it was a struggle TO get
.aucsa consumers saying that Inc
[.,r.r fruit was superior in the mater
n,yor and color. But Michigan peaoh
~.s lost a great many of their trees
.syere frosts and new orchards were
santed very freely, at the same time
L,s,s were opened up nearer home .ui-
y, 10 consume the crop. mus tai- .
IA gradually came into possrSs'oll VI
market and for a number of years
MI has been a California market
large consumer of AL Kinds oil
20, f,.,,its shippcd from hat state.
nv raliforniaus have reduced the snip
N fruit to a science and are ahlc
s,re, Tho growers of "vWy other local.
In no section ut the CointlT IL the
hacked so well a. III such ATTRACTIVE
~ The California fr'iit also sur
y. The fruit OF every otl,cr section or
Sountry in It's keeping ulal tics ana
Il one feature which makes II very
MAJ with dealers OF al classes. as the
i much smaller on Sucn trult,
|, begins 70 look, aowrNSr. rs y the
when California 'ould claim II monop-
on the fru trade II tins marN"t WAS
nj past. During The last Two or three
N the Souiherners have peen slNinS
h attention to shipping fruit. and some
the most enterprlsiug growers nave
|, 80 far as TO employ expert packers
California To teach them how to put
fruit in the hes, shane for market
bdually Texas. Arkansas and Missouri
u been working theii peaches INTO IN
,ket nn;N this year the fruit from
~ specially na" non' fr,,i ~ v.,,h Inc
\. si ,sss , G%~ has AS b,"n n dei!ded fall.
III in the demand for the fruit from
faele coast. ,hos h,vo beop vcr,
n ,his season. he color being rich and
rsctiye VIII IN has given them some
aMage n lhe mars IN "'i,'i,'p,' ~,
rbs,ner rJ freIeht rates II costs 81 cent.
ho1 inrlidinp ibo icing charges. to
csilfornla frtl, down m this market
NJ he rharees from Missouri arc only
mi il 10 Is Cents for the same amount
frut and from Texas ~ cents. This
Ma the sou,hcrner. 10 sell at lower
M and In tines Ike the present, pric,
A great hlv tt-ii,,
Whis n ,s stiU entIv in tho season
M have bcon sold I'm this marlet ter
: n, Teyas neaches aud Two from MIS-
:, When a Is takan mo ror.idcratlot
cav co,tnins Go1 crataa of fo,ll
lets each some ,doa may he formed
iha e,tent Of ,be b,sinsse
aNNl'NITION AND uARpWARE.
'"e ''ea can ne E'i''" Oh ''lo aiil"""
tcsness done by Houston's wholesale
rs when II * known that ono hard
s..
'.m hoie hau"''u zen StrH' SNt q"
Is Of loaded shells last year This wa
IS. Dunlav Unr1Uslro c,r,r,nv nh,
mas recently moved into their new
.as on travis street, and now taN