The herald., 1898-10-11
ORANGE CROP OUTLOOK
RIVERSIDE WILL PROBABLY
SHIP 5000 CARLOADS
The Season Will Be Several Weeks
Behind That Of Last
Year

RIVERSIDE, Oct. 10.-The city Is full
OF fruit buyers, even at this early stage of
the game. They have been dropping in
from the northern fruit shipping points
ana from the west for some days, and as
usual they are active in looking over the
orange groves. The indications are that
the demand for Riverside oranges will be
larger the coming winter than for some
time past. Orange buyers realize that the
crop Is to be short and that 1t will be the
man who is early on the ground who will
get the choice of groves.
1t will be in order for these fruit buyers
to now begin to give out estimates for the
coming crop, and as is usual with them, it
Will be made to appear that the crop Is to
be large one, to the end that prices may
be Kept down to the lowest notch.
Last year there was shipped from this
city 400 cars of oranges, but the very best
OF Judges OF the young crop do not place 1t
higher than 5000 cars. The estimates range.
however all the way from $500 to 5000 cars,
Dut this last figure is certainly too high.
The first shipments of oranges last year
were made from this city by the firm of
FATTY u Lett on November I'd, and at tina
time the fruit was pretty we'll colored,
even II sour and far from ripe. The or
anges look to be fully three weeks behind
last year this season, for there is no sign
OF color1ng on the fruit as yet, even In the
most favorable locations
Instead of sending fruit forward by the
carload for the Thanksgiving holiday, as
was done last season, 1t Is more than
likely that 1t will be nearer Christmas
before much fruit Is shipped
Riverside shippers are still sending out
quite number of cars weekly of last years. s
oranges of late varieties. Some of this
fruit will be shipped even late enough to
supply the Thanksgiving trade, from the
way things look at the present time. The
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season Of the year Is a new departure In
the business for this section. Usually the
crop Is all out of the way by the middle of
the summer at latest, but this year ship
ments of greater or less quantities have
been made almost every day throughout
the entire summer.
The case of j. NJ. Smith vs. the Stearns
Rancho company. which has been on trial
in the superior court here for more than
a week past, Is still occupying the time of
Judge Ballard of Orange county who is
sitting for Judge Noyes, and some half a
dozen attorneys, as well as a score of
witnesses. Upon the decision of this suit
depend interests of considerable mo-
ment and for this reason the case Is being
fought with great vigor by both sides
Water rights is the issue.
The citizens of this city are making great
preparations for the proper reception of
Company M of the Seventh regiment, which
is expected to reach this city about Satur-
day next. Letters were received here to-
day giving that day as the probable date
upon which the boys would get home, and
1t is the purpose to give them every bit
as grand a reception on their arrival as
was given the company when 1t left for the
front.
Second Lieutenant c.. B. Bayley of Com
pany NJ who received the fusion nominal
ton for the office of county auditor, has
written a letter to the executive commit
tee of the party declining the proffered
honor. AS yet nobody has been named for
the vacant place.
Secretary C. W. James of the local So
ciety of Y NJ. c. A, who has been In Den
Yer for a couple of months engaged In. spe-
cial work for the society there, has arrived
home and will at once take charge of the
work here. Mr.. James was accompanied
gagged to take special charge of the phys
ical culture department of the association
Mrs. Grace Franklin and Mrs William
Carr were summoned to Pasadena today by
word of the serious Illness of their father.
A number of candidates on the fusion
ticket went to Banning this morning for the
purpose of holding a big political meeting
there. The prospects of the success of the
fusion ticket mathis county grow with ev-
cry day. and the managers of the campaign
say they expect to elect about the whole
Of the ticket The state ticket, headed by
the Little Giant" Judge Mcguire, will as
tonish the natives with the big run 1t will
make in this county, usually called Repub-
lican.