The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-03-01
GROWERS SEEK
FAIR DEALING
Demand Better Service From Rail
roads in the Future.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
VIII Appeal to Interstate Commerce
Commission Requiring Refrigerator
Cars and Accessories.

The convention of the Georgia
Peach Growers Association held in
Atlanta the past week was generally
conceded to be one of the most inl-
portant in the history of the associa-
ton. The action taken by the con-
yention in the matter of the follow
lug resolution, unanimously passed, it
is believed will lead to very beneficial
results. These resolutions are as fol
lows:
"4iesolyed by the fruit growers Of
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee
and South Carolina Assem- bled in At
lanta, Ca,
That, whereas, in all lines of trade
except refrigeration the seller is re-
uuired to measure or weigh out to the
buyer the product sold, While in re-
frigeration the shipper pays whatever
price is asked without knowing either
how much ice is used, how often it is
placed in cars, nor, which is more I'M
poltant than ALL how much refrigera-
ton is secure
"Now, therefore, be it resolved, That
the committee on transportation be in
structed to secure an order from the
Interstate Commerce Commission, or
an act OF congress, if that be found
to be necessary, requiring that all re-
frigerator cars used by interstate COM
mon carriers in transporting products
under refrigeration from one state into
another state be equipped with record
ing thermometers OF such type as may
be approved by the Interstate Com
merce Commission, which shall record
in duplicate the temperature Of the
car at all times from the time the
product to be shipped under refrigera-
ton is loaded until it reaches its des-
tination, and that the consignee shall
hare the privilege of examining such
thermometer, and taking therefrom
one of the duplicate records the 9th
er duplicate record being retained by
the carrier or the refrigerator COM
pany.
And that this action be taken in
time for the equipment of cars with
thermometers that are to be used in
transporting the 1907 fruit crop from
Georgia.
Resolved, further, That the order or
act so secured shall provide that the
Interstate Commerce Commission shall
as soon as practicable ascertain and
adopt a certain standard or maximum
degree of refrigeration suitable for the
proper and safe transportation Of
fruits and other perishable products
shipped under ice, and shall require
all refrigerator companies to main
tain and furnish such degree OF TEN.
perature as may be so adopted as the
standard"
The facts, figures and suggestions
made in the report of w. H. Harris of
Fort Valley also made a great i'm.
preston on the fruit growers pres
ent.
Not only fruit growers, but all ship
pers Of produce will be certain to
share in the benefits in the carrying
out of these same suggestions by Mr..
Harris For this and other reasons,
there are very great many Georglans
VINO are vitality interested in the pass
Ing OF the legislation proposed by this
delegate from Fort Valley. With the
installation of the registering Their
lnometers, according to the testimony
of the fruit growers and shippers at
the convention, there would be sure
and certain way of holding the trans
portation companies responsible, and
in this way thousands of dollars
would be saved to the Georgia fruit
and produce shippers every year be-
cause Of the exact records Of the reg
istering Thermometers.