The record-union., 1897-11-18
thing is to promote the advertising OF
our fruits by means of exhibits.
RATCH OE RESOLUTIONS

our fruits by means of exhibits.
A BATCH OF RESOLUTIONS.
But these things take money and
money basis is the only one on which
cooperation can be successfully car
ried on If we want benefits We must
expect to pay for it. He would offer
| the following resolutions, therefore:
Resolved, That it is the sense OF
| this convention that the essential pre-
| requisite to any effective cooperative
work in marketing fresh fruit covering
| the State is an income with which TO
pay expenses and that the first subject
| of discussion should be the method OF
| regularly producing such income.
| Resolved. That the only method by
which such income could be produced
| is a fiat tax on each package shipped.
20 be collected by the shipping firm and
paid over to an organization of growers.
| Resolved. That this convention IA
vors the levying of such tax and that
| special committee of five be appointed
| to report on the feasibility of levying
and collecting such tax, those voting
| for this resolution to express their Will
! ingness to pay such tax.
| Mr.. Berwick opposed paying any tax
|
| the crop reports of the United States
Government could afford all the infor-
nation needed and that the State Board
of Horticulture could also gather nee
essary facts.
| The first two resolutions We're adopted
and the latter defeated, Mr.. Adams say
ing that was what he had expected.
He then offered a resolution that the
| {
in the opinion of the convention, should
proceed at once to comply with the law
| by establishing upon the water front
| of San Francisco a free pubic mark
| ct, devoting thereto, as the law re-
quires, sufficient contiguous space 10
accommodate all the traffic in perlsna-
bic products and connected by tram
| ways with all transportation lines de-
liverng produce in San Francisco. me
resolution was unanimously adopted.
Mr.. Ehrhorn, for the convention OF
County Horticultural Commissioners
presented the resolution adopted oy
them in the morning, requesting the
Secretary Of Agriculture TO ask the
Postmaster General to allow rnspectloh
of packa ges of plants sent through the
Postoffice, in order to prevent lntroduc-
ton of insect pests. The resolution
was adopted by the convention.
J. Rutter of Florin introduced res
olution that in order to secure quAch
| TRANSPORTATION of fruit, the convention
demand of the Southern Pacific COM
pany regular passenger time LOT an
fast fruit trains.
He also offered a resolution that as
under existing conditions the present
method of charging commissions on the
gross amount of sale is an injustice 10
the grower the convention demands
that the present rate of commission be
reduced and based upon the net re-
turns of fruit, and exclusive OF rail-
road and refrigerator rates.
Mr.. Rutter spoke in support OF Doth
his resolutions, and they were referred
to the Committee on Resolutions.
M. J. Daniels of Riverside favored
using more of our fruit at home, ana
said that when in Washington last
| winter he saw more fruit used ON the
hotel tables than he ever saw on a
California hotel table. Our people, also
had rather pay 81 bottle on wine with
a foreign label, made from refuse rrult
and alcohol, than to pay 20 to ~ cents
a gallon for our own pure wine. Inc
action of this convention and its re-
quests have more weight than it thinks
as he found out in Washington, and
the Southern Pacific would pay atten-
ton to it's requests on fruit rates.
r. D. Stephens said it had struck
him and doubtless struck others tha'
the gentlemen who have had almost
absolute control of the marketing and
transportation Of the fruit were absent
from this convention, and We're al
most always so, He was sorry Mr.
Earl was not here to tell the growers
what he had done in handling their
fruit. He thought that Mr.. Vein
stocks explanation was worse than his
original statement He admitted that
there is no State organization.
The speaker thought, however, that
there should be some State organiza-
ton to attend to the transportation and
marketing Of fruit He called attention
to some figures published by him in
one of the daily papers yesterday and
said it showed some startling results
The amount estimated Of cost of pro-
duction, he was satisfied, fell short ,.
per cent of the actual cost to most OF
the growers. The figures presented by
| MIN SnONeu pidlily tie iSouilS OA q
weeks shipments, and of ninety cars
only two or three showed any margin
of returns, the rest being a loss to the
growers.
He went into details of the various
expenses attending the shipments. He
said that when the business grew toe
large for them to run it on the +. o. b
plan, the commission men got up tbs
scheme of forming associations by
which the growers could ship theil
own fruit, but they bobbed up serenely
in the middle of it, 1t costs $50 more
he said, to refrigerate car of fruit
from Sacramento than ii does from
Oregon or Washington. 1t costs sd
more fer refrigeration en- car of Cali
fornia fruit from Chicago to New York
than it does for a car of Oregon OF
Washington fruit. Why is this? Does
it cost any more to ice one car than
another? These men are not doing
business on their own capital, but on
the money of the grower, and they
manage to keep the Eastern buyer
from buying the fruit of the growers
here except through them.
He read a circular sent out in New