The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-28
CALIFORNIA; FRUITS.
The Glorious Horn of Plenty Which
She HcIds up to All the World.

The California orange crop for the
season now closing was the largest in the
history Of orange growing in that state
amounting to between $1,000 and II, COO
carloads Of about 800 boxes to the car.
There was time, and that not so very
many years ago, when southern California
chuckled little over the shipment of
oranges in carload lots; now train load
shipments of oranges are common. New
York received OF this seasons crop, up to
July 10, 1859 car loads.
The California orange season is at it's
best from December to May; it actually
begins in November and lasts until July,
so that California oranges can now be
had nine months in the year. Cold
storage ILLS the gap and makes oranges a
year round fruit.
Some oranges are imported from ia
maica and Mexico, but IS per cent. or
more Of the oranges eaten in this country
are now grown here, and Of this percent
age by far the larger proportion comes
from California.
Considerable quantities of lemons are
now shipped from California, some of
this fruit coming as far East as New
York, but most Of it being distributed
between California and Chicago. The
bulk of the lemons consumed in this
country still come from Mediterranean
ports, whence they are imported in
steamer loads. At the New York fruit
auctions lemons are sold to the extent of
from 100, COO to 200 0J0 and more boxes a
month for local consumption and TO" dis
brlbutlOn throughout the country, but
n q
here is still imported the California out
put is constantly increasing.
This season S crop Of California prunes
will amount TO from 100, 00), 0O0 to 125, 600,
600 pounds; last season the crop was
about 65, 900, 900 pounds Ninety per
cent. of the prunes eaten in this country
nowadays are American prunes, grown
in California. Formerly pPunes were i'm
ported in great quantities from Turkey
and other European countries in enor-
nous casks and in bags, and from France
in smaller fancy packages; now such i'm
portabions of prunes have almost ceased,
and on the other hand large quantities of
American prunes are now exported. Of
last years crop of California prunes
hundreds of carloads were sold in Ger
many and France, competing there with
native products in both price and quality
California puts up enormous quantities
of dried peaches, in boxes and bags Of
various sizes and styles. and California
| dried peaches are sold all over 5he country
everywhere This is the only country in
which apricOts are dried in any consider
able quantities, and it is in California
that they are grown and dried. Cali
fornia sent out last year 1900 carloads
of dried apricots, of which 400 carloads
were exported
OF almonds California shipped last
season $50 carloads; and of English wal
nuts like quantity.
California ra1Sins are now sold every
where throughout the country; 90 per
cent or whereabouts of the raisins con-
summed here are now produced in Cali
fornia,
OF dried vegetables, as, for example,
lima beans, California ,ships quantities.
as it does also of canned vegetables, as
for instance asparagus; while it ships as
we'll quantities of fresh vegetables cauli-
flower, celery, new potatoes and so on.
CALIFORNIA; caulihOwer comes east as far
as New York, The bulk of it's other fresh
vegetables that are shipped out of the
state are sold In the western tWO-thirds
of the country, say of and to the west
of the longitude of Chicago's California
canned fruits, peaches pears, pIums.
aprlcOts, cherries, nectarines and grapes
are sold all over the world.
CALIFORNIA; green fruits, it's cherries
| and apr1cOts and peaches, and pIums and
prunes and pears, and nectarines and
grapes are now sold all over this country
and in Canada, and some are exported !:
in the United States they are an increas-
ing factor in every market. The first car
load shipment of green fruit from Cali
fOrnia was one sent to Chicago in 1868
California shipped in 1899 of green fruits