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Show GREAT LOSS TO GROWERS Cold Wave May Cause Orange amd Lemon Famine Chicago. Jan- 6. Reports of rr.w-' inn weai her in the California orange growing belt and the prediction that irost might destroy a large part of 1 this j esr's crop were dH cussed hei j with Interest today. Chicago receives about 2400 cars ol oranges and lemons from California annually, and. next to New ork. is the largest wholesale distributer foi j ' ,.itrnU unit in this country , citrus Unit in tins BOUBVT It is estimoted tbat aboui 90 per cent-ol the ornugos and lemons re: ceived In Chicago are shipped from 1 California , . Frank Cuneo, one of the largest, i dealers In citrus fruit In this city, in dlsi isslng tbe report said today: j -Leas than 10 per cent ol this year i orange crop has been marketed, and If the damage to the fruit. Is anything near as great as reported there , certain to be an orange and lemon .amine In this count rj which will cause the price of the fruit to rise to ;, prohibitive flguro In the ..car future. |