Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-12

"a capacity OF preceding 32
--frIserator cars every four
hours.
The building will be 14Ox10O0 feet
in dimensions. 1t will have an ice
storage capacity for $4,000 tons. Re-
inforced concrete will be used
throughout the building in its con-
struction. The walls will be forty
feet high. The Santa Fe has long
oeen in need of preceding plant
If the proportions planned by En-
sineer Gay, doing an extensive ship
ling business. When this plant
,a'r '.s.iG. 9, s-cA -es .SA as's,wo load
ID cars can be taken into the building
md in less than five hours start east
ard. having undergone a perfect
ystem of preceding.
The establishment of an immense
Irecooling station by the Santa Fe
as been determined upon after a
norough investigation of all the fac
ors bearing upon transportation of
trus fruits in the best possible con-
ition.
1t is a fact that is fully understood
lat citrus fruits hold in best condi-
ion on the trees, and that after be-
proportionate to the temperature
, which they are subjected and held.
'cld storage has been utilized to a
pnsiderable extent, and with some
uccess, but when cold stored at this
nd of the line for any considerable
myth of time they cannot arrive in
istern markets in perfect condition
nd must be sold very quickly on ar
val. Even then considerable
mount of deterioration is evident.
Under the new preceding system,
le fresh packed fruit, as soon as
AIDED in cars, viii be reduced to the
ormal refrigerator temperature in
period of time not exceeding one
'ourth OF the time required under
I'D storage methods and many hours
efore the same fruit would be cool
to like temperature In regular cold
forage, will be well on its way to
astern markets. fresh from the Z
nd will arrive at destination, firm,
nd with full keeping qualities intact.
Fruit arriving in such condition at
astern destinations can be held there
{ market conditions necessitate, and
i'll always bring better figures than
ruit which has been held in storage
lere.
While prime condition of the fruit
II destination is the most important
ldvantage of preceding the saving
ice Is a considerable item. When
ruit Is shipped under icing refrigera-
ion without preceding, the first
barge of ice I'm the bunkers is large
Y melted In reducing the tempera-
ture Of the fruit. and from 40 to so
hours elapse before the fruit reaches
the normal refrigeratlng carrying
temperature.
Under proper preceding methods
the heat is extracted from the fruit
before the ice is placed in the bunk
ers, and the ice requirements are
thereby greatly reduced, fewer stops
are required for reicing en- route,
and quicker delivery at destination
made possible.
The large cost of preceding
plant coupled with the necessity for
expert handling to secure uniform
results. precludes the possibility of
like uniform or effective
work at the packing houses, while the
smaller packing houses would be en-
tirely without such fac c'lities.
The establi 'hment Of great CEN
tral preceding station with facilities
for quick concentration and uniform
Treatment at that point, places large
and small packers upon an equal foot
ing as to preceding and transporta-
ton. and will greatly reduce the num-
ber and amount Of sacrifice sales that
have heretofore been necessary.
The Santa Fe spent many thou
sands of dollars in preceding expert
ments, and have finally arrived at
results which they believe justify
adoption and establishment of pre-
cooling system on a very large scale