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Show SEA ROUTE REALITY" It is probable that hundreds of carloads car-loads of lemons now stored in Southern Sou-thern California warehouses will begin be-gin moving to Alantic Coast by steam ship within the next few weeks, following fol-lowing the reduction of the all-water rate to the Atlantic coast from Los Angeles harbor to 70 cents per 100 pounds. The railroads now charge $1.67 per 100 pounds. The recent 1 successful shipment of oranges by wa ter to Baltimore has convinced officials offi-cials of the California Fruit Growers' Grow-ers' exchange that citrus fruit can : he handled without, refrigeration as . safely on steamships as by rail. The overhead brine system of refrigera-. refrigera-. Hon, which requires little ice, may be ; installed in the Amarican-Hawaiian i line of steamers for the handling of . citrus fruits to the Atlantic coast. |