The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-21
EXCELLENT WORK
OF THE
CITRUS EXCHANGE
This Seasons Operations Laying the
Foundation for an Immense
Business

Few people in this section realize
what the establishing of the Marion
County Citrus Sub-Exchange and the
big packing house of the Ocala Citrus
Association means to this section of
the state and to Ocala in particular.
The sub-exchange, we learn by
actual figures in Manager Sandlin's
office, has handled to date $40 car
loads of citrus fruit and of these, the
Ocala packing house has received,
packed and forwarded to market sixty
carloads. At the packing house a
great deal of money has been paid
out for labor and the two Offices
maintain large Office force in the
city and several bank accounts as, it
being only proper and just, the Tam
"a or head exchange, some time ago,
distributed the deposits of the ex-
change to the local banks, especially
where sub-exchanges existed.
The Florida Citrus Exchange is
growing and improving in its work
and hundreds of carloads of fruit are
handled each year from growers who
did not patronize the exchange be
fore. But for all of this, the volume
Of fruit is sadly in the minority yet,
taking the state over, but the time is
not far distant when it will pass
"center line" and come down the home
stretch, handling the largest instead
of the smaller portion of the states
vast citrus crop.
Mr.. Sandlin is quite proud, how
ever, over the fact that he has handled
l7s per cent of the entire fruit crop
IN his territory, and this despite the
/ fact that the entire Micanopy and
! practically the entire Weirsdale sec
tions have not yet lined up with the
exchange. He feels sure by another
season. he will be handling 90 per
cent of the fruit in his territory.
/ As compared to the shipment of
/ 80 carloads of fruit up to this time,
! last year only 205 carloads were
shipped.
/ Mr.. Sandlin has settled with ship
/ tpers for 182 carloads of fruit and one
! less than carload shipment. paying
/ them net for their fruit, the neat sum
of S102, 2,31O.23. Compared with the
same time last season, he had paid the
growers SAC. 1882.
of the great quantity of fruit
shipped, only 81 carloads went thru
the auction houses and only Is of
those were billed direct to auction.
There has been a far better dis
| tribution of fruit this season than
ever before. A look over the desti-
nation points of the shipments shows
that they went from Georgia to Port
land, Maine. north and west to Can
ada, Colorado. Montana and south to
Arizona and New Mexico and Texas
getting a great many cars. There
has not been single state that did
not get one Or more cars, except
few of the extreme western states.
With the attractive line of adver-
tising that the Thomas Advertising
Agency of Jacksonville, has recently
nlaced in the north on Florida's
"Sealedsweet" oranges and grape
fruit, in many of the leading publica-
tions of national circulation. the de-
mand will be greater than ever thru
out the United States for Florida
fruit.
The Florida Citrus Exchanges
uack. grading and varieties are all
absolutely guaranteed and the dealers
and consumers are learning that this
ran be depended on and it will bring
Florida's golden fruit into demand
more and more each year.