The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-05
FRUITS To
| BE RUSHED
EASTWARD
Special Fast Time to Be
Made by Rail This
Season.
ARRANGEMENTS NEAR
COMPLETION.
Ogden Will Be Reached in
Forty.Eight Hours From
Sacramento.
GOOD TIMES AHEAD FOR THE
GROWER.
Crops Promise TO Be Plentiful, Mar.
kets More Extended and
Prices Higher.
GOOD TIMES AHEAD FOR THE
GROWER.
Crops Promise to Be Plentiful, Mar.
kets More Extended and
Prices Higher.

California fruit growers and shippers
have every reason to be in happy mood
over the prospects OF the coming season.
As already stated in the columns of THE
CALL crops promise to be plentiful, and
the Eastern market, owing to damage
caused by frost in a number of States, Will
be in excellent shape to promptly absor b
shipments of California green fruits at
good prices.
On top of this comes the announcement
that the Southern Pacific Company has
made arrangements for special fast SER
vice for fruit trains into Chicago, New
York and Boston, the principal distribu-
ting centers in the East. Under the plan
proposed it will be possible to place the
shipments on the market one day earlier
than heretofore. This will present the
fruit in finer condition and materially en-
nance its value.
The season for shipping green fruits
East Is about to open, being about two
weeks late, owing to the cool spring
weather. Cherries will be the first fruits
to be shipped in any quantity. They are
expected to come into the market in about
two weeks. Apricots will follow shortly
after and then peaches.
There is every prospect that this year
there will be a splendid market for Cali
fornia fruits in the Atlantic States, be-
cause OF the fact that heavy frosts have
wiped out the greater part OF the crops OF
Georgia, Delaware and New Jersey, from
which States the large markets of the
Atlantic seaboard look for the larger part
OF their supply in normal years.
Those interested in the fruit prod uction
OF CaIlfornia-nameIy, the growers and
shippers on the one hand and the trans
portation corn panies OH the other-have
consequently been in negotiation for the
purpose OF devising plan making it pos
sible TO reach the Atlantic seaboard mar
ket in the shortest time practicable, so
that on arrival there the fruits may be in
frSt-class condition for distr button out OF
Chicago, New York and Boston to ad-
jacent cities and towns, as the demands OF
the fruit trade require.
This has brought about something OF a
new departure in the proposed handling
of trains of green fruit. The great volume
OF tonnage will undoubtedly be moved in
refrigerator cars, the same as the last and
previous season.
Heretofore the refrigerators have been
moved in regular freight trains, running
on customary freight schedules, the time
from Sacramento TO Ogden being about
tfty-five hours.
LIS COulHelu dCIlIC w" SOutcL OAhi SS
arranging a graded schedule from Sacra-
mento to Ogden, having for its purpose
the movement from Sacramento of fruit
that may offer in trainload quantities be-
tween 6 P. NJ. and midnight during the
active season OF fruit shipments, deliver
ing it at Ogden by midnight OF the second
day. For example,: A trainload of fruit
leaving Sacramento at P. NJ. would be
delivered at Ogden in fifty-t three hours,
arciviOp there at IL P NJ OF the second
day. If it left Sacramento al 10 P. NJ. it
would have to make the run in forty n inc
hours in order to arrive at Ogden at IL
P NJ If, on the other hand, the train left
Sacramento at midnight then forty-ei ht
hours must be made to land it at Ogden at
midnight.
At Ogden the fruit for the different
routes will be segregated and given to the
Southern Pacific's immediate connec-