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Show IEI PROCESS 10 PRESERVE FRUIT Southern Pacific to Expend $1,000,000 on Erection of Two Plants. SAX FtfANCISCO, Oct. 10. The Southern Pacific Railroad company has announced its determination to expend a million dollars in the near future in tho construction of plants for pre-cool-ing fruits and vegetables, according to the Roy Sprngne system, the object being be-ing to "permit of long hauls of perishable perish-able freight with little risk of decaj'. Two large plants, one at Rosevillo and one at Colton, will be erected, tho lirst capable of chilling twenty carloads in four hours and the latter having a capacity ca-pacity of forty carloads iu tho same time. To accomplish the same results in an ordinary ice plant would require four da3s. The company's scientists havo demonstrated demon-strated that the sudden chilling of vogetblc matter causes an absolute suspension sus-pension of the processes of decay, and the company announces that the new method practically does away with tho loss of time and consequent loss by decay de-cay in shipments of California fruits and vegetables to' Eastern markets. The Spraguc device consists of a plant equipped to force through the loaded cars under vacuum pressuro blasts of air that have been previously passed over ice. Tho vacuum removes the warm air, thereby removing the immediate im-mediate cause of delay. |