Show THE FRUIT CROP I Promise to Be Unusually Heavy This Year Reports received from the fruit producing pro-ducing sections of the territory are to the effect that the crop of all classes of fruit will be heavier this season than for years past This will be especially gratifying on account of the dark outlook out-look in the east In many of the eastern fruit growing states the blossoms when cut open showed black hearts on account of the late frosts In many states the crops were entirely destroyed Although it would be unwise to build hopes too high the Indications are that fruit growers grow-ers will receive very good prices for both fresh and dried fruits Favorable conditions also exist in California fornia and General Freight Agent Smurr of the Southern Pacific an accepted authority au-thority recently made the following statements According to our reports and estimates we ought to easily get out of California during the current year not less than 20 000 carloads of fruit This includes green fruit both citrus and deciduous dried fruit Including prunes and raisins and canned fruits of all kinds This output will be much larger than ever before recorded re-corded In the history of the state The Southern Pacific is hopeful of being be-ing able to induce Its connections to join in making a fast time schedule for fruit from California to Chicago which city takes 75 per cent Qf the fruit sent out of this state The plan contemplates putting ventilated venti-lated cars in trains of not less than ten cars through from Sacramento to Chicago Chi-cago In 120 hours and refrigerator cars in 19J or possibly 103 hours The Southern South-ern Pacific has made arrangements to do its part in making the quick run to Ogden Og-den In order to bring about this result re-sult sultThe The rates for deciduous fruits from main line points In California to Chicago will be as follows In ventilated cars minimum of ten tons per car freight train service 125 per 100 pounds passenger pas-senger train service 225 per lOa pounds For refrigerator cars the same rate per 100 pounds will be charged subject to a minimum of twelve tons per car The refrigerator car contractors have not announced their rates for icing cars but there is no reason for the cost being higher than last season which was 6125 per car from Sacramento 510 from Va caville and higher at other California points more remote from Chicago |