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illustration of the amount of fruit which is consumed in the city 

 of Chicago and shipped from that center to outlying points, I 

 may say that on one day during my short stay in Chicago 23 car- 

 loads of California grapes were sold at public auction. The peo- 

 ple must be taught to eat any fruit before there will be unlimited 

 markets for it. This has been demonstrated over and over again 

 in the case of bananas, pomelos, and many other fruits. 



One of the first difficulties which I found confronting the Ha- 

 waiian fruit shippers was the high freight rate. This matter 

 was taken up with the freight department of the Southern Pacific 

 railroad and a rate was secured on tropical fruits the same as pre- 

 vails in the case of deciduous fruits. The Southern Pacific 

 Company took up the problem with the Inter-State Commerce 

 Commission, asking for the privilege of advertising a rate on 

 tropical fruits. The rate sheet now reads, ''Deciduous and 

 Tropical Fruits." The freight rate to Chicago is $1.15 per 

 hundred weight. To this must be added $85 for icing charges 

 from San Francisco to Chicago. This opens the way for com- 

 mercial shipments to all points East. 



The Bureau of Agriculture of the Philippines is importing sisal 

 plants from Hawaii with a view to establishing the industry there. 

 This is remarkable in view of the fact that the Philippines are 

 already the center of the production of Manila hemp. 



H. Rosenberg. N. Yamakami, H. T. Moore, C. J. McCarthy 

 and C. G. Bartlett have organized a corporation to engage in the 

 manufacture of soy sauce and vinegar. 



The Waialua Agricultural Co. has applied for the purchase of 

 about 400 acres of remnants of land in the Kaukonahua gulch. 



In the Chicago Post of September 3, Secretary Straus in giv- 

 ing his impressions of Hawaii says : "Well-to-do American 

 laborers, I think, would find it to their advantage to go there, as 

 the Territorial government is desirous of giving them every 

 facility to establish themselves, especially those who follow agri- 

 cultural nursuits." 



