The San Francisco call., 1905-05-18
MIsFoRTUNEs OF FRUIT GROWERS.

II
the Interstate Commerce Commission we said that the issue
would be that such lines under the interstate com
But insisted that they under the law OF com
give equal service equal price to ALL
Another investigation being by committee OF the
United which Mr. Robins president the Armour
lines He has made the issue that we toresaW and
private subject the interstate commerce
has exclusive with railroads, and hereunder the
power charge shipper any tariff please He admitted fur
this exclusive contract
thereby forbidden carry their OF the merchandise
that the Armour carry.
It will be seen once plea of noniabliy under the
good If private line make
carry ten classes of
freight can carry whole classification
freight Then Mr. Robins claims the private line is not
amenabe law charge what peases give rebates no
pool with other private lines and with mpuny do and every
that pnazed the interstate law and the law
Of common carriers Such claim pepoeous and we are con-
WINGED that the courts will sustain it
shippers everywhere complaint against these pr
lines While is denied that they have exclusive contract
the California business admitted that they have been
equality of California fruit growers not the
only people who suffer and complain of morunes
shipment grapes Spanish province of Amera
1904 growers will interested in the many familiar
barrels OF those fine which in our Eastern
about holiday time The fruit packed in cork waste The
dry but the berries plump and sound 1t
the Cenondncia declares that # was misfortune and re-
the grower paid for the barrels cork
packing IS pesetas 81 90 hauling
freight Amera seaport loading the ship bring
up S. a. The fruit shipped London and sold in Pud
ding Lane and the average price of the crop OF sngs
opened samplng
brings which makes the whole shipment bring
Out OF this be taken the S. accrued before the
left Ameria, and the balance embakation dues
dock charges unloading wharfage warehousing sellers
commission brokers fee all amounting S. g. Add this the
S. and have the total of the shipment the producer
SII 50 for property that brings him only SII So
We think California producer will brethren
distress these Amera vneyardists The Correspondence
that Ameas grapes shipped the United States paid
profit and the results favorable but for
this the fact that the California crops failure
American markets. and the fact that the freight saved by
such contingency gives idea OF the instability of the
principal Almerian industry
If il will comfort n vineyards
the slopes of the Spanish Sierra Nevada let them be
the California did fail last above
This of the Amerans interesting 1t that the
the final market apparently made by the of pack
shipping brokng and everything the of produc
The producer debt those who handled
property after left his hands Everybody who
profit the producer All
ducon followed and paid by the
tell why this proposition? Some
that Amera luxury But uxures their character
such by their rarity and high price The
share misfortune with the Ameria grapes The of their
duon does follow them the freight
intermediate charges do
few the raisers of Nebraska finding
their hands, demanded reduction freight
cago The railroads granted producers
Chicago fell the the freight and the
producers just where they before.
We have students among producers Cali
fona the railroads have experts account
for exclusion of the of production any
article and the inclusion of