San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-10

really indicates the reason why the
packers are restricting output"
j. ID. Howard, head of the jams.
preserves and jellies department Of
Libby, Mcneil & Libby of Chicago,
said:
"All our fruits are packed on the
west coast and We therefore have not
complete figures here at this time.
While data here shows We are running
along almost rs usual, nevertheless we
expect the pack this season to be Just
little short of normal. Unquestion
ably higher sugar and fruit prices are
partly to blame"
/ Representatives Of the Sprague
Warner Company of Chicago, declared
they were being reasonably conserva
tive as to the volume of their pack.
| 1T is true that some concerns are
packing light" one executive added.
Business has not been any too good
and there has been considerable price
cutting and Reorganization and lack
of the get-together spirit among jelly,
fruit. preserve and jam Gamers. I'm
questionably some of the small con
Germs are feeling the conditions strong
ly."
Other big Chicago packers said
prices would undoubtedly be higher
due chiefly to the higher cost of fruit
and sugar with labor costs also con
tributing factor.
Plants Curtail Output.
| Various California fruit canneiies
have curtailed their activities from IL
to 80 per cent in several different
lines. Refusal of jobbers and retailer:
to place advance orders. over; roduc-
| ton last year and surplus sto'ks IN
the hands of wholesalers are held re-
sponsible.
A canvass of California canneries
however, shows that the I..creasej
price of sugar is having litG, effect
on canning activities as the advances
in sugar have been more than offset
by the slashes in fruit prizes. LAS
year apricots cost Gamers SlU0 tor
while the fruit this year can be hat
at $25 a ton. Prices nail growers ioi
nearly every variety of fruit have beer
cut % to 80 per cent, the crops being
the largest in the history of the state
Gamers also point ont while man,
bought sugar before thc recent sky
rocketing of prices. those prices hav'
again receded to within hall cent q
pound of those paid last year.
1 Vernon Campbe'i. general manager
of the California Canneries Company
declared that his conrc:n would oacE
about as much fruit rs last year. bn;
that it would move at much l"wtl
prices to distributors and consumers
Lack of orders Is cur5ai,lns trnl
canning to some :xtcrr. he .said
There are no futures orders. Jobber:
and retailers are buying only in small
lots as needed"
Some Goods Canned.
Gamers are putting up about thu
same fruit pack as last year in thu
face of lessened demand both at hom'
and abroad, according TO i. Less
manager of the San Francisco Pack
ing Company. Foreign demand, he as
serted. had fallen to one-third OF nor
NAL. He added that sugar prices were
not factor. Officials of the Califor
MIA Canneries Company said its pacr
this year would be cut somewhat be
cause of surplus stocks in the hand
Of wholesalers and retailers.
The pack of small fruits in the Pa
cific Northwest has already been made
and will be % per cent ahead of las
years pack. according TO Seattle oil
ficials Of the American Can Company
Tree fruits. they said, probably vii
show less of an increase over ~
than berries. Jobbers in that section
are hesitating in making firm commit
ments fearing an over-production II
California.
The pack of fruit in Michigan will
not equal that of last year as the frul
crops are only 20 TO so per cent al
large.