Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-05

err citrous fruits have been shipped east
| ward over the Southern Pacific railway
| All OF these cars have to be iced. The
| fruit is picked and packed in different
parts OF the state. Sometimes one OF
more full cars come from the same place
and sometimes the shipments from sew
eral places come in the same car. Otter
an entire train comes from the same
place, but everything is sent to RoSeVllle
where the cars are iced. and the trains
are broken up and rearranged according
! TO their destinations. as have described
| The fruit season practically ends with
the Goth Of October, when not more than
one or two trains a day pass through.
The freight charges on the fruit aver
age 81 p per hundredweight to Chicago.
The ice costs so a car. more or less, ac-
cording to the distance it has to travel.
and the time it is on the way.
The '"pre-cooling' plant will not be OF
much service this year because the fruit
season will be practically over before it
is finished but II can be thoroughly test
ed and everything made ready for next
season. If the expectations Of the In
ventor and the shippers are fulfilled 1t
will save an enormous sum Of money to
the latter as well as to- the railway COM
pany. During June and July, which are
the heaviest months for shipping perish
able fruit, it requires from lD to LOCO
tons of ice daily to stock the refrigerator
cars During the winter months the con-
sumption is not more than one-tenth of
that amount The bulk of California fruit
shipped eastward in the summer comes by
this route: more goes by the sunset
route in the winter.
Uses Oil for Fuel.
The Southern Pacific railway uses oil
exclusively for fuel upon the entire sys-
TEN, both in locomotives and in machine
shops There have been no coal burners
upon its tracks for several years, which
reach eastward to Ogden. northward to
Ashland Ore, and along the southern
line as far as New Orleans, with various
branches in that territory. The company
has 1900 standard locomotives and 112
switch engines in constant use. The oil
supply comes from California and Texas.
and is distributed In tank cars holding
from 5000 to 10000 gallons each. and
stored at convenient points in tanks hold
ing from 10000 to 5000 barrels Before
the discovery Of oil in California the
Southern Pacific got it's coal from Can
ada, Mexico. Australia and Japan: and
often cargoes came all the way around
the Horn, which furnished ballast for
fleets Of schooners, which came from
England and Atlantic coast ports to San
Francisco and Portland for wheat.
A good deal of coal was furnished from
Wyoming, and a small amount from
Utah, but the deposits in those states
were not developed until recently. the
fuel account of the Southern Pacific since
the introduction of oil is only about one
half what it used to be when coal was
used without considering the enormous
increase of business and the correspond
ing increase in consumption.
Three or four hundred Hindus have
been employed in the vineyards and or
ohards around Marysville and Yuba City
This summer, and 1t is said about three
thousand are scattered through the Sac
ramento valley Some of them are work
ing as 1aborers upon the Western Pa
citic railroad, which Is being constructed
hv caoree Gould and his associates from
Salt Lake City to San Francisco. Others
have been engaged in the lumber camps.
It Is said that they were brought over