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Show LOSSES TO SHIPPERS California Fruits and Vegetables Veg-etables Rotting in Railroad Rail-road Cars. LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 17. Serious financial loss to shippers and the prospect of a partial famine in Los Angeles In some lines of foodstuffs are the principal development of yesterday In the demoralization of railroad traffic to and from this city by reason of the storm of Sunday and Monday, says the Times. Hundreds of cars of oranges, lemons. Vegetables, and other perishable freight destined from southern California to points east and north are practically rotting on side tracks, while similar tralnloads of supplies for this territory terri-tory are tied p at various points on the Santa Fe east of here, and on the Southern Pacific to the north. Already the local market is feeling the effect of the restriction in receipts and the prices on some commodities have risen appreciably. At the same time the growers of oranges and vegetables, whose products are decaying along the way or In packing pack-ing houses because of the Inability of the railroads to move them, are facing heavy losses. To add to the distress, . there is a growing scarcity of cars because of the large number of empties that are held at outside points, beyond the blockades on the paralyzed railroad lines. |