The San Francisco call., 1904-04-07
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ORANGES.

w Northern California a e'ra. belt and the prodas
ton of citrus fruits north of the Tehachap. This
made necessary by the comments OF the Los An
geles Times the year book of the State Board of
Trade which the fitness of the Northern citrus belt
had been referred TO-
Now comes the Pacific Fruit World, published in Los
Angeles, with further reference the subject:
There is peculiar idea existing in the minds OF
very intelligent people that oranges cannot be
raised in Northern California. and when you tell them
that 2346 carloads of the possible 10000 output were
raised and shipped from Central and Northern Cafor-
MIA, they look you they thought was Russian
war dispatch sent by the way of Paris And again when
you tell them that the oranges month earlier than
those from Southern California they seem inclined to
say, You're another Nevertheless the fact remains,
and while they consumed in the State yet the success
so marked the planting of orange not merely
fad in the counties north of the Tehachapi but
une business because there has been gain OF sos car
loads compared with two years previous
This may be regarded as settling the matter and
an admission of the capacity of the Northern citrus
belt and of the fact also that its product the earliest
ripen These things being adjusted it remains for
all the citrus growers Orovle San Diego, to go
forward and the States output from its present
10000 carloads year the 10000 carloads which
soon produced, and by studying markets and trans
portation get such facility handling the to
make every tree yield profit. The California orange
can be made as common and much sought in the
American market the apple fifty years ago. The
growers recently had conference with the rail
road companies the question of rates and routing
The asked for the rate on oranges that
on lemons. which is 81 per hundred pounds
railroad officer in the conference said that he under
stood that the lower had not furnished any
relief and that lemon orchards being grubbed out
To this Mr. Naftzger replied that the lemon business
profitable only on large scale. Lemons in the same
orchard rpen every month and day in the
California and are profitable only when raised in blocks
large enough the employment of continuous
labor in every department of the business He declared
that large lemon plantations in most prosperous
financial condition, and if any being taken
is the of small plantations But he added that
the growers small scale, when associated in the
same region adopting the plan of associated employ
ment of labor, which enables them to make the same
profit the large single orchards.
These are important revelations. Most of the agrcul
tural industries of the United States employ labor fit
fully needed in seed time and harvest, and be-
tween times the demand slackens An industry that
qures continuous and unbroken of the volume
of labor desirable and the transportation rate
result the expansion of that industry the
railroads. by concedng that rate, have made mpor
ant contribution the welfare of the State in giving
stability and continuity the employment OF labor.
Citrus fruits less perishable than decduous fruits
he demands of the market and the supply reach
a more distant demand. When the isthman canal is
finished there is why California citrus fruits
may not seek a market in Europe. Before produc
ton apprecabe quantity in the market, fruit
loaded with the oranges and lemons of Sicily
passed through the Mediterranean and crossed the
Atlantic supply the American demand Fast steamers
can load with these fruits San Francisco and South
ern California ports for the British Isles and Continental
ports and reach the market when is bare
of the European product. study of markets and
methods will probably finally utilize proftaby every
of the California citrus BELTS and give the State
the full benefit of its longest orange in the world
There is no why there should not be trans
ferred this industry its interests and its products the
same zeal that to gold mining in this State and
then stock raising and after that wheat farming
Each of those industries organized and took hold
upon finance and credits. and felt by the bankers
and business of all kinds. Having the climate the
water for irrigation and the skill to produce an indus
try that had standing twenty-five years ago and
exports 10000 carloads year has in it the i'm
pressve possibilities.
Neither the Republicans the Democrats have made
provision for representation from the Philippines or
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