Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-13

in fourteen days after the ships leave
Valparaiso. and with proper fruit
steamers we can send such varieties as
will bring the highest prices at time
when there is no other fruit to COM
pete with them. At present you get
some winter fruits from Australia and
Cape Colony, but they are twenty-six
days or more from New York. and you
have to pay a freight upon them that
is several times as much as the freight
from Chile would cost. Tasmania and
New Zealand have to pay from $1.2
to $3.50 freight on box of fifty
pounds on d bushel to the United States
If We could ship our fruit at half that
price we would have an advantage of
rs cents per bushel. We expect TO do
a great deal better than that.
The difference in distance would We
n difference of thousands of miles. The
Tasmanians, for instance. are now
shipping fruit to Europe. They sold
a million boxes of apples there last
year and received therefrom something
like S5,O00.0U0. Chile can raise good
apples a any part of the world, and
we shall send our fruit north through
the canal 20 Europe as we'll IL is said
that we ought to b. able to ship
apples there at a freight rate OF 80
or so Genus a box or from Sl2 to Sl4
a ton"
Mention some kinds of fruit that
Chile could send us and the months
when we could receive them" said |.
Our fruit season lasts from No
yember until May. During those
months we could give you the best OF
fresh fruits. Here are some of them.
We could furnish green almonds from
December to June and ripe chestnuts
in March and April. Green almonds
are deIicacy which you do MOI have
in America, but they bring enormous
prices in France. We could supply YOU
with peaches during the months OF
December, January, February, March
and April ard ripe plums in January.
February ard starci,- Ne can give you
April. May, June. July and August, and
paIayas in March, April. HAY and June.
As to or grapes. tney re equal II not
superior IL any al your markets. ana are
ripe duriug January. February. March.
April ana May. ard we maze rears the
same mont. We have ripe figs from
December 10 April, and APPLES in
your early summer, long before your
own apples come on. We have also
many fruits that you do rot have for
which l ain sure market wlil DC
created. Among these are the nisperos.
frutillas, l:cunas and chirimolias, ali
of which come on in the winter. We
shall also have oranges. lemons and
grapefruit for your summer consump-
and WlteflneloHS anu
for winter. The Chilean muskmelon is
as big as a pumpkin and as delicious
as a Rocllyford canteloupe. We raise
them in great quantities and could
send shiploads to New York in the
heart of your winter. They would sell
there at a dollar and upward apiece,
for their size is such that one of them
would furnish dessert for a dinner
party of a dozen more"
Has Chile fruit plantations large
enough to supply the American de-
mand?" / asked.
I'VE have the plantations in bearing
to start the business. and we have so
much soil adapted to these fruits that
we can furnish enough orchards to
feed nearly every American city. All
kinds of fruit produce abundantiy
here. A single acre Will yield from
ten to twenty thousand pounds and
we have millions of acres yet to be
planted"
How about tho nursery stock"
That could be supplied right here
in Chile. am ready to put my lands
and nurseries AT the disposal of amy
with large enough capt
tai and ships to go into this business.
would do all that l could do TO
help and that not only for the sake
of profit hut for the good of my coun-
try"
FRANK C. CARPENTER.