Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-23
FRUIT BELT PRODUCES ,
26,536,941 POUNDS
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the Gettysburg and Harrisburg and the
Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pitts
burSh branches of that system
! "A comprehensive tabulation of ship
ments and fruit still held in storage
shows that for the year ending Decem-
!. Der 81, 1914, there was shipped out
of the territory tributary to the lines
mentioned or held in storage for early
shipment total of &c, 1868 941 pounds
of fruit and fruit products. This re-
duced to carloads, using a basis of
25 900 pounds as a car unit, gives a
total of 1,O61 carloads of fruit either
shipped out during the year or due for
shipment within the next month or
two. few carloads of this repre-
sents fruit grown in 1913 and held i'm
storage until the early months OF 1914
but the large bulk of it is made up of
fruit grown last year.
Ililleary Is Optimistic
E. ID. Elilleary, division freight agent
of the Reading, under whose direction
the statistics have been compiled, is
very optimistic as to the future of the
district. The fruit grown in the Ad-
ans county territory" he said to-day,
has increased almost fiVe-fold in the
past ten years, and it is only now
reaching a point where rapid increases
may be anticipated. Not only is more
fresh fruit being shipped, but the
canned and otherwise preserved pro-
ducts are on the increase. During the
past year Adams county apples were
shipped in carload lots to fourteen
States outside of PENNSYLVANIA and to
England Scotland and Argentine. and
boxed fruit has been exported to
France, Germany, Denmark and Rus
sia, although recently the war has in
terfered with foreign shipments. Even
California has been invaded with much
success, for the PENNSYLVANIA appIe ia
pf tt-f %
when properly grown and packed.
look forward to rapid growth for
this district in the immediate future"
Apples Far in Lead
n summary of the shipments for the
year and fruit still in storage shows
that 13,SlS,607 pounds of green apples
have been sent out and that 3.04SSOO
pounds were still in storage when the
report was formulated. Canned ap-
pies shipped amounted to 5,292655
pounds. with 1,995,000 still in storage
Evaporated apples shipped totaied
$1,000 pounds, with 16S, 900 pounds
stored. Other apple products, includ-
ing cider, brings the total of 1884,
162 pounds shipped, with 24,S3O,9 ,962
| still in storage.
In addition, the district shipped out
1,527,709 pounds of peaches and l.
705,979 pounds of pears. The peach
shipments are growing yearly with
many new ofcnafdS planied and still
others coming into bearing.
The growth of this traffic may be
judged from the fact that for 1912 the
shipments show total of 1S,O2S.25S
pounds, as compared with 26,536S941
last year.
These shipments were confined to
points on the Harrisburg and Gettys-
burg branch exclusively. and in addi-
ton the Philadelphia, Harrisburg and
Pittsburgh, produced from the stations
ton, Boiling Springs, Longsdorf. HAYS
Grove, Greythorne, Lees Cross Roads,
and Shippensburg SO carloads of ap-
pies, while Brandtsvile sent out eight
carloads of peaches and Bowmans-
! dale reports 5000 bushels of apples
! still in storage.