The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-31
SEVENTEEN HUNDRED CARS
FULL CARS OF PEACHES HANDLED
BY GEORGIA ROADS.

With Peaches Alrendy shipped and
to De shipped by Express and with
the Five or Six Cars That Are BE-
ing Shipped Daily Now by Freight,
the Georgia Crop Is Likely to
Reach 1000 Cars-Even This Num-
Der Is Much Less Than Was Pre-
dicted-Hnn dsOme Photographs of
Scenes in Peach Sections in Possess
sion of the Central.
Up to the present about 100 cars of
peaches have been handled by The three
systems of railways entering Savannah,
the Central, the Plant System and the
Seaboard Air Line. OF the cars handled
1920 are to the credit of the Central
along whose lines are situated the big
orchards of the state.
Only the Centra' has yet compiled ac-
curate statistics of the number of cars
of peaches it had handled. Up TO Saturday
night the number of cars shipped by 1t
amounted to 100, the officials of the
Plant System estimate the shipments over
its lines a between $50 and 200 cars. while
the Seaboard people say they have han
died about 10 cars. This would make a
tota lof about 100 cars. or possibly a
slightly larger number, that have been
handled by Georgia lines since the season
began.
President Egan, of the Central, said
yesterday that a few cars of peaches,
possibly five or six, are being shipped over
the Central every day. The estimate al
ready given does not cover the very large
shipments that were made by ex-
press during the early part of
the season, and il IS probable that
from all sources the Georgia crop will
have reached 1900 cars by the time the
last carrier leaves the state. There is a
considerable proportion of the North Geor-
gia crop still to be shipped and with the
shipment of small quantities of the fruit
from the orchards in the central and
southern sections of the state, added TO
the shipments already made by freight
ana express, it is believed that the esti-
mate of 1000 cars is not exaggerated.
This. however, is considerably less than
was anticipated and predicted during the
early spring, before the peaches had
reached their maturity. Then it was con-
fidently stated that the Central alone
would handle $500 cars, and it was ex-
pected that the shipments over the other
lines would be proportionately large. The
incessant rains that followed the predic-
tons with their resultant fruit pests and
evils, are responsible for the falling off
in the extent of the crop.
President Egan has had taken for use
in some of the Centrars publicat tons. a
series of handsome and accurate photo
graphs, representing the peach industry
at every stage, including the fruit on
the trees, the method of gathering it,
the packers at work preparing it for ship
ment and the carriers of peaches in the
cars, ready for transportation 10 the
markets of the North and East
The photographs include also number
of scenes from the peach sections, repre-
senting the larger orchards. with their
packing houses, canning factories and
other appliances to make the crop profit
able, even under circumstances that
might seem unfavorable The photo
graphs will be used in some of the many
handsome publications issued by the Cen
trail and distributed for the purpose of
advertising fruit growing in this state
The Elbertas have about vanished from
the Georgia orchards, but other varieties
are on the trees and will be shipped in
sufficient quantities to supply the home
markets for a month or more to come.
While few of these late peaches are as
handsome as the Elbertas, they are yet
of a deliciousness that fully equals that
of the more brilliantly colored fruit and
are fully capable of gratifying the cpl
cures sense of taste, even though they do
not fully satisfy his sense of the beauti-
full