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Show OK A Mi M 1K0M JUUMAU;, Sill I'M I.N IIADK TO TlIK C MK A'.O JIAkKl.r, Jerusalem Is now competing with Mexico Mex-ico and California for ihe orange trade ot Chit ago, I he oilier day live ca-.es appeared in South Water street, the appearance ap-pearance of w hich soon attracted the curiosity of the cmunsiion men. who h.td never biore seen any such packages. packa-ges. To the ordmat y spectator they were simp y w..u-ien boxes secured with MrijM otreeu timber, but o t!.e fx-perteticeti fx-perteticeti handlers ol prodiir they differed dif-fered entirely Irom the usual run ol Cases. As the top of the fif-t case was rein re-in j.'-d .1 id lb vellow Iruit came in view a nan Waf.r street wa,; was hMid softly linguig, ") rnsalem ihe Golden.' Light in coli.r, in o-.al shape and lit the finest cond. 11011, the fruit was packed r.uirti mo-e carefully than that from other countries The cases were first lined wit t white pip-r and sheets were plapi d between every layer ol fruit. Licli orange was separately wr.iped 111 the ordinary manner. Oranges from the holy land never have been seen in Chicago b-fore, and these nttractfd much attention. They were grown in ttie district between lerunalrm and J.ilu They ore worth from f to 54.50 a c.t:. Spam and Northern Caii'ot iii,i are abo new competitors in the Chicago market this season. "The orange situation is ! rem irkable. said Geoig W. Harnett if : the firm of Hunett brothers. He added: "Willi the 3 ooo.oco or 4,000.000 cases ol Mutidisoui of the matkci ti.is year dealers have had to seek Iresh field, lor stock. Spam, whose hint 111 ordinary yeais wouldn't pay height charges, has st nt over considerable quantities this year, which are now seding at Irom fb toff) 50 a double cute. The grader pan ol the stock has been sold in New York, because here it comes into competition com-petition wiih the California and Mexican cront. Il it had not happened that the Cthlorma fruit ripened two weeks ahead of the ordinary time we should have had to depend entirely oa the supply from Mexico, and prices, which are high enough already, would have advanced still lurther. -'The most interesting feature In con ncction with the new shipping points is that Northern California for the tirst time in its history has sought the Chicago market. Oranges In the Sacramento district ripen hilly two weeks ahead ol that m the southern part of the State and the northern crop always has been Aold in San Francisco. In former yeara it would have been useless to ship it here in competition with the Floridas, as growers would scarcely have made the ireight on it. I he car which came in ihe other day was made up ol navels, seedling and 'Parson browns, and crime from Newcastle, 4,0 miles north ol Los Angeles. Ihey were allot Ihe tinrst quality aud sold readily at Irom f to Jt .5 a case. Northern California will be beard Irom again on the orange market." mar-ket." Never before was the orange market supplied Irom such remote and diverging diverg-ing points as this seiwn. North and South California, Florida, Mexico, Jamaica, Valencia, jslla, Jerusalem, aie chief among litem Chicago Record. |