The herald., 1898-04-07
BIG LEMON SHIPMENTS
REDUCED RATES WILL CAUSE A
BOOM IN THAT LINZ
FREIGHT INDEMNITY
Exodus Of Arizona Troops to Jefferson
Barracks Leaves the Mexican
Frontier Unprotected

| The citrus growers Of the state. particu-
| larly those whose speciality is the cultiva-
tion of lemons, are buoyant over the de-
| cision of the Transcontinental Freight
bureau, that held its meeting in Monterey
Monday, as they by the reduction of freight
rates on lemons eastbound, will enhance
their profits materially.
AS stated in The Herald yesterday, There
are eight hundred carloads of lemons
awaiting shipment. Estimating 1856 boxes,
which Is an average number to carload,
the number of boxes that will probably be
shipped from this section is 26SS0O. Ship
pers are getting $3.50 box in the east,
which will make the total sales of lemons
s4s3, $40. A railroad man, liberal in his es-
innate, says there is profit of so cents on
each box sold for the shippers. Accepting
this as a fact, the net profits on the out
put will be s1S4,4OO.
1t is worth going into detail in this mat
ter. for, firstly. the shipments would not
have been so large had not the freight
bureau reduced its rates % cents per hun
dred; and, secondly, the lemon industry Is
so extensive in this section that especial
attention is attracted to it and its progress.
FREIGHT INDEMNITY
Since the rumors of war, wholesalers
and shippers generally who do business
with the east have hes.tated to ship or
to receive goods by way of the Sunset and
Gulf route, fearing a possible war seizure
of their property near Key West, which
city the Morgan line steamers pass ell
route Recognizing this fact and the eff
feet it has had on its water route freight
business, the Southern Pacific has de-
cided to indemnify shippers for any loss
they may sustain in this way
TRANSFORMATIONS OF TROOPS
The Santa Fe is party to transaction
with the government that may have con-
siderable significance attached to it. now
that war with Spain seems imminent. Ii
is an occurrence of much apparent i'm
portance when the military department
at Washington orders nearly all the troops
stationed at Arizona frontier forts to be
transported to Jefferson barracks, admit
tedly more centrally located in case OF
war. This looks like the beginning of a
mobilization of troops for readiness and
hardness when the climax is reached. By
the middle of this month 425 men will be
transferred from duty from posts in Ari-
zona to jefferson barracks. St. Louis. This
will leave the many troublesome districts
of Arizona dangerously unprotected, as
by such a large exodus of soldiers many
cannot be left, though 100 men are to be
sent from Fort Bayard, near Silver City.
~ NJ, to Fort Apache. Arizona. The con-
tract for the transportation of these troops
has been awarded by the government 10
the Santa Fe.
NOTES AND PERSONALS
of the Union Pacific, with headquarters
at the general offices in Omaha, and T. II.
Schumacher, Pacific coast agent of the
same road, will leave this morning for San
Francisco, from which city after a few
days rest, Mr.. Monroe will proceed direct
to Omaha. Mr.. Monroe speaks enthusi-
astically of the prospects of the Omaha
exposition, which opens June 1st, pre-
dieting that it will be the most extensive
and important affair of its kind ever held
in this country, magnanimously excepting
the Worlds fair. 1t is improbable, Mr..
Monroe thinks, that the railroads will con-
sent to reduced rates from this section to
the Omaha exposition, believing that we
are too distant from the Nebraska city
and that the passenger traffic would not be
eppreciably enhanced by it.
r. A. Center. travelling freight agent of
| the Rio Grande Western, returned to San
Francisco yesterday.
| The Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern are endeavorng to get through
business from this section. There is a
rate war in progress in the northwest, the
terminus Of these roads, and the tickets
over these lines now on sale here are at
| the low rates now in vogue in the Puget
sound cities.