The record-union., 1897-11-17

The foregoing report shows that there
was shipped out of the State 1,220 more
cars of green fruit up to November 18th
| than was shipped during the entire sea-
son of 1886, and that up to date the ship
ments this year are 80 per cent. greater
| than the total shipments last year
An analysis of this years shipments in
dicates that the following markets re-
ceived more than their proportion of this
80 per cent: New York, 80 per cent. in
crease; Philadelphia, l3o per cent: Balti-
more, 300 per cent: Cincinnati, 1000 per
cent; St. Paul. 80 per cent; Omaha, 100
per cent; Cleveland, $40 per cent: Pitts
and Milwaukee, GO per cent. These fig
ures would indicate that the foregoing
cities proved to be the preferred markets,
and hence received an increase proper
tion of the shipments
The following markets received less
than 80 per cent. Increase: Chicago q per
| cent; Boston, % per cent; Minneapolis,
22 per cent: Montreal, 8 per cent, and
samS quantities, or less than last year:
Kansas City, New Orleans, Denver and
St. Louis.
The California Fruit Growers and Ship
pers' Association was organized, as will
be remembered, for the purpose:
/. OF establishing a Bureau of Infor-
nation and publishing bulletins. showing
daily the number of cars leaving Cali
fornia and their destination
2. To establish consolidated auction
salesrooms in the large Eastern cities
one roof all the auction buyers and sell
ers so that the fruit might not be brought
into needless competition with itself.
s. To keep such consolidated salesrooms
free and open to all the buyers in order
to prevent possible combinations among
bidders. The association has been emf
nently successful in achieving all the
foregoing ends. The daily bulletins this
year have been more nearly perfect than
ever before and next year the association
+, hopes to make them stu more perfect.
The consolidated auction rooms have
been operated apparently TO the satiSfac-
ton of ali concerned. Thus far this sea-
son no complaints have reached the asso-
citation concerning them from any source.
in previous seasons the opponents Of
the consolidated auction sales contended
that such sales could not be successful
in the city of New York. They maintained
that owing to the large auction sales of
foreign lemons in that city IT would be
inexpedient to hold prolonged California
fruit sales 1t was held that if more
than ten or twelve cars of California fruit
was offered on any one morning the re-
suit would be disastrous for the reason
that when the hour would arrive for the
lemon sales TO begin the buyers would
leave the California auction sales and
the prices would slump to the injury
of the California growers. ThiS season s
experience has shown the error of such
contention. As many as thirty-four car
loads of California fruit have been sold
by auction in New York In one day, and
the sale of twenty-five cars a day be-
came matter of frequent occurrence
The fruit on such days brought. as a
rule. satisfactory prices. indicating plain
" the strength of the New York mar
kef, as well as the further fact that the
handling of California fruit is regarded
of sufficient Importance to the New
York buyers to hold them in the auction
rooms throughout the sales.
Some of the abnormal conditions in the
East this year, which have had depress-
ing effect on the prices Of California fruit,