The record-union., 1897-11-18
TRANSPORTATION
AND MARKETING.

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York, he said, by the Earl Fruit Com
pany, stating prices for different kinds
of fruit that were lower than the prices
that growers We're getting at the time,
and thereby diminishing the growers
profits very largely. They offered 10
lay down pears in New York Clty, ne
said, at 81 90, when they We're bring
ing from 81 to 81 60 box, and then
sent their agents around here 10 pay
00 cents a box TO the growers, instead
of the price they would have received
II other buyers had bought their crops
Consignment, he said, placed the fruit
in the hands of the men who control
refrigeration, and growers have to pay
the price Mr. Weinstock, he said,
spoke of the Bureau of Information be-
ing organized to prevent glut in East
eqn markets, but there Is more concen-
tration of fruit in few places now
than before it was Instituted. lie
claimed that there was a falling off In
shipments to Western points and in
creased shipments to Eastern points
because the profit on refrigeration east
of Chicago was larger than west Oh
that point, and the f. o. b. purchasers
could avoid competition by sending
their fruit to points where other fruit
was not sent.
1t is necessary, therefore. for the
growers to organize and ship their own
fruit and market it. They could save
largely in all the items Of expense which
at present wipe out their profits. II
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these. commission men come to the con-
~entions and tell the growers what they
are doing for their welfare and pros
perity. Organize, therefore, choose
your cars and your own agents and
sell your fruit yourselves, that is the
Idea and 1T is not difficult thing to do
There is no capital invested by these
commission men except Office rent and
clerk hire and all the expenses come out
of the grower. There are plenty OF
firms in Eastern business centers who
would be glad to take hold of the busi-
ness and who would deal as honestly
and sQuarely with the grower as any
banker or business man would. They
are anxious to get into the business
here, but cannot under present condl-
aions
If there were enough growers organ
iZed to send ten to fifteen cars day
10 the East, these men, instead OF
freezing out individual shippers, would
have to divide the field or retire and
ieave it to the growers. The growers
must organize and protect themselves
or they are lost.
BUY THEIR OWN FRUIT.
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fact seemed TO be overlooked that the
Eiastern men are dependent on two men
In Chicago, who alone know what fruit
as on the road and where it is going
SO it is in Minneapolis and the jobbers
are in the dark, and bid blindly. AS
"a consequence, many Eastern jobbers
have withdrawn their travellers from
the road and will not have anything
more to do with California fruit. Have
the growers thought why it is that with
twenty packers in a car, good, bad and
sndifferent fruit, it all fetches the same
price? 1t is because the very men who
are handling the fruit slip in and bic
in the whole carload for themselves. He
had proof Of this, having had a cal
sold and on investigation found that the
receiver had put it UP at auction and
bid it in himself. He made kick and
when they found out what he knew he
received a check for the difference and
had it yet. The Eastern jobbers, he
said, are as sick Of the big shippers as
the fruit growers are.
MIR. WEINSTOCK SPEAKS.
Mr.. Weinstock said Mr.. Francis ha6
brought out very important point ant
the convention should deal with it. He
narrated his experience in Chicago
three years ago, at a conference with
the receivers and jobbers. The jobber:
told him that they labored under dis
advantage, as the receivers could af
ford to sell the fruit lower than they
could, as they get their commissions
aie asked the receivers present if thi.
was so, and they answered that it was
for the reason that they had to stant
back OF their own fruit and not let tn,
buyers run the price down. They
owned that It was not done so in New
York and the East.
He told them that the jobbers wer,
right and they agreed that the receiver
would no more buy their own fruit. Fol
Eome reason they have not done SO anc
1t is evident from what Mr.. Franci.
says that they have gone back to thei
old practices. This convention should
sit down on the practice most thor
Dughly.
He did not understand Mr.. Stephens
action. He had indorsed the repor
made by Mr.. Stephens. which was ;
good one. The latter has stood for or
eaniZation for the past year. but wher
abe opportunity was afforded him to for
muIate a plan Of organization, he say
he does not wish to assume the respon
Sibility and reports on the marketing o
dried fruit in foreign markets. HI
did not feel that Mr.. Stephens hat
been perfectly fair toward the Califor
mia Fruit growers and Shippers Asso
citation. In conveying the idea that it
president admitted 1t was a failure.
IS NOT A FAILURE.
It Is not a failure, as it has In th'
face Of all obstacles, succeeded In car
rying out the three objects for which
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